Show Tom F Hopkinson Smiths clever story has had says Hays the nook man loan during the last two tWI months a 11 sweeping Indication In real life lite The story It will be remembered told ot of the between a woman who wished to carry on the business of tier her bus hus band to win bread for her children and the tho labor unions At the time ot its lle publication the English critics tell fell I upon It savagely contending not only I that Its plot W aj JI Impossible under ex cx I conditions but that the machi machination nations nation of the rest agaInst the tho were toW totally Incompatible with nil na nature ture Now com the actual ease caso or of 1011 case which has lia at a great deal of newspaper at atS S With n a which is III little short ot of amazing real life lito is IR unfold ing IncIdent by br detail b by tie dp tall the story which Mr Smith tOll several years ago In Torn Tom Grogan The recently as n a final coincidence that PolI Polly after aCter receiving n a visit from a walk Ing delegate whom she dismissed sum manly and Vigorously was the rollo follow lag Ing flight knocked on the head The seawall ot of Tom WM was bUilt by Mr WIlD who d despite hIs success a Md and writer gives much of at his time lime and energy to the business In which ho be Is known as al Francis II H Smith When once asked all as to which or of his I gave ve hUn him the most Mr Smith answered od The Race Rock Bock Lighthouse Ills taste tor or art Willi In at he began to paint when oa a ho bo hut but its literary effort Well Wei Worn Roads WILl was not written critten until he was fortY ve ot of otare are age It was Colonel Carter arter ot of Car however that first made mado him Prominent In American literature literatures s a in inI I Ii York rl recently Her health Is re her errand to America Is one oneo o of recreation chiefly to pay n a visit to I old ohl friends In California She expects to r return to In the Spring and I Igo go to and begin work upon I her new novel noel which has hns been alread I begun beun but which she sho will allow tier her herselt self two or three e years ears to finish The Tho serIal rIghts of the story have been sold In advance Miss lIss Harraden has written a play a comedy with a back background background ground ot of The Fowler Is now In Its sIxteenth thousand In this country countr and has sold about ns as welt well as In England notwithstanding standing the popularity ot of other books It was as current newspaper report n a afew te few months ago ngo that lark Twain Thain was writing an autobiography and that It would not be pUblished for tor years This idea If IC It over ever existed In the mind ot of the author has been given up lIPi but buthe buttie tie he did some sOllie work on an autobiography and some seine chapters from It entitled My Debut as 08 n a Literary Person have been secured scoured by the tho pUblishers ot of the Cen Century Century tury Prince Is 19 now living quIet quietly l ly In Bromley Bromle a town He eel In public but lie can be seen Geen eer every afternoon waiting for his hili daughter outside the High He Is described as n a typical Rusian subdued In m mAnner rather and ond shriveled with ci 0 beArd and looking every Inch inc n a lighter ter Rudyard Kipling Is running Into nil kind or of hard luck these days das The Tho critics are flaying hint him alive ho has been ruled out of pUblic and Ii 11 and ond now the womans clubs are giving him touch a ot of high lire life Where Whereas OR as n a short hort time ago It was the tho fashion to laud Kipling to tho th skies It now seems quite the thing to denounce him himas os as n a brutal coarse couse Immoral etc etc Even the tho Imperialistic newspapers seem to have little to say In defense ot of their great greut jingo poet An American friend of Drowning Browning has hns prepared prepare for the Century mo lively re of the poet and will In Include elude clude In the contributions a number ot of othis his letters I |