Show 4 4 I I Intimate Interviews I I Io o 4 By Dr JAMES TRUE Copyright 1923 New York Evening World by Press Publishing Co Although hi his present series of lectures lectures lec lec- lec- lec tures deals with world politics it is not as a British statesman that the RIght night Honorable Sir Gilbert Parker Bart is best known to millions o OL of Americans but as the writer Wrner of vivIdly viv- viv idly characteristic novels That is why he ho discussed hI his early work and methods before he left lett the New York University club for tor his tour The motive of ot my nty writing he said is is to prove that in the depiction depiction tion of life as well as in actual livIng living living liv liv- ing character Is everything And I r have havo studied life to determine the phases and results of character Every Even book of ot mine Is founded on tact fact The Right of Way Va was my most popular stor story in this countr country It is still selling a and d It Illustrates my statement u Up to the point or of Charley Steele Steeles Steele's s supposed death In the river the stor story in main Is absolutely true In ta fact t in the courtroom scene It was a woman not a d man who Wason was wason wason on trial for her life lite When Steele got her off on the argument Ent that tho the law Jaw should prove pro e to the last shred of evidence its right to to take human life she went up to him and said 0 O sir I thank you you You have hav saved In my rny life His reply w was s Get out of my sight You Youre You're re as guilty as as hell That I r saw and heard when I was 12 years ol old A few months later the real Steele was drowned In the river as I have described in the theS book And for a I long time e he be was S l aaI aa r fk ea In my mind as a striking a and Im Impressive impressive im- im character but I could not see what perfect uses of fiction he sP One day in hi 1899 I went Into a tailor tai tal- tal- tal lor br shop in London The foreman was such a perfect caricature of or Charley Steele that I said to him So yoU jou didn't die You became a atal tal tailor br That t was the Uie origin of ot th the book The Te plot and action are arf the result of my observation of or tars and tho Incidents and they create dIrt Ip merely mere arranged the tho mater matei It was the same with Charley Steele Is Imp the story because he does dOe only those things e AS MI conforming to toil t I Many people have sald knew him They did I It was not Montreal but a 0 smaller place H Ills s sCharley Charley but not Steels lIS So So the expression o 0 of ct cb cba cba a book is the chief thing is the last thing that makes plot If the worth while If It th character It Is when character makes thereal thereal the thi real drama He lIe spoke then of oJ hIsle said Faid that traveling t wearle hair and pointed gray but his figure is letic and it was him Intimate that his str sr not as great areat as his appear appeal cates When asked It If heija hel hei turing turing- fatiguing also r I I with a twinkle in his 1 That depends on what ja say |