| Show Churchill Got a Record Price For His Life of His Father Our London Literary Letter Special A Correspondence Corre t ONDON Jan Tan IS Winston Chur ChurI LONDON L I chill the English onu who ulrea I t dy y hues liDH one or two performances to lo his hIe account which are nrc n records III in their way must now bo Ito credited with another It seems that tor for his recently published life of ot his father Lord Han Hall dolph ChurchIll the tite young oung mcm er ot of pal received from tram time the he lans hans the biggest prIce ever paid for Cor It u work worl of oC the kind df with the additional agreement that taU halt tho the profits on tho tue book hook should como come to t thim thim him after the publishers have kayo pocketed ns nil their share In lit other words Churchill hat has been bellI paid at the rate rute of 01 o 12 a II line or III about 12 VI cents a word anc I the tho hook sells as us well us on It Is ex cx expected to do his hili words word are oro to produce twice that sum suit each As AR It Is It however Lord brilliant son lion has got ahead of or the tue great John dorIc hOse honorarium Lou for writing weltIng his life lito of ot Gladstone tone was sup tho time highest over ever paid for al nl although though Mr Ir Morley got ot OOOO for tor hu work vork It contained l iI pages pilgeR while biography of ot his hl father I s composed of ot only ony Other biographers hers are nowhere As All for Cor historians time thu record l does not nol teem seem to be hell held by hy h tiny any writer wilIer of oC f late hate years hut but must b t credited to Lord lortt Macauley whose fee Cee of or for fat writing his History of ot Eng England England land has 18 never neer bean beun approached Of t netlon writers writer Marie probably still thil tops the tho list lI t for tor a II book from her lIer herpen pen brines or more moore nowadays lUll Hall hail Caine Calno Is III not nol far tar behind Mrs Mra St Leger Leller Harrison who Irot Sir Richard Is Just on rn ill thi point ot or finishing a new noel muo ol on which he hun has been nt lit work under especially Inspiring circumstances She Hue has hums beet been living at sit Eversley where her famous Luther father Charles did dIll so HO much of or his hit best huest work with which ho lie Is it almost associated This now nov hook book of or Lucas Luell Mulcts was actually begun soOt soon after tho thin publication of or Sir In 1 99 but Its ItA au authoress Is III a 1 slow anti consecution worker at heat best and besides suffered from poor Joor health for tor almost n a whole year during I whIch her manuscript wu wt laid lahl neile n entirely She Site expects how however ever Per to have hu 0 her hook book ready for tor pub pith publication early In lit the spring Its theme Is 18 n it 1 secret even eon from h her r best friends That literary warhorse Fergus Hume who over Ier since th the ap appearance of at The Time Mystery of oC the Han Hansom sam som Cab has bien b n writing ably U it another novelist who Is taking up UI a I new line of at work Time The succors success I of ot Mr Ir Humes Lady Jim of ot Curzon Street a it 1 novel entirely out of ot tho the tholine tholine theline line ot of f his Ills usual detective style has almost Induced him to 10 devote lilt his time altogether to moro more serious work worle In iii this re ird It Is of ot Interest to 10 Know that Humes detective stories are nr tin tn nt lit a it 1 prodigious lIro rate sometimes at nt atthe atthe the rats rat ro 1 of Ot one a month Ho tin has pro produced over oer 70 jO O books book In iii the l heat st 18 15 years not half halt of ot which he has ha on lilt hit hito hl I Ion o own on n shelves Lady L Jim Jima on out the theother theother other othar hand blInd took hIm over n a year ear to ti tov I v rile Mr Ir Hume Humo Is now hu down In lii Corn On watt wall putting the finishing touches on I another lot of ot detectives stories Ho promises himself a II short shied rest after they are aro completed when whon he may another really serious hook book Apropos of ot the thu piracy of or Important books In lii tho the United States just now It may hOtLy be said that hint Mr Humes Mystery of ot the thc Cab sold Inlet over In III America as aR many man ns as n seven urine firms Issuing It at the time same time On not ono of or these th books hooks did he lie receive a it 1 penny royalty Mr J thither Burkes Hurkes Important work on Tho Origin of or Lite Life Is now near nearIng lug Ing completion amid will probably bo ho Is sued in III within al six K we WC ks kR I r 1 f understand i that Mr II BurKes notable discovery III of ot thought to ho ha I j ii 1 connecting link between n animate timid and I Inanimate i life II has hns since been h n lI 1 by bl other ont a ml almost l as lill Im pl work vork fome have felt tell that tho tha laps of ot time Is I discredit t lug Mr III theory theor but bUl a n number of ot scientific men u who have ha carefully studied 1 hIs hll latest latent it results tell tel me ins thru flint thur value lIlue cannot ho Ira que lIu In this its re me regard gard It Is it of ot to 10 note noto that two I other scientific men have como come for tor forward h ward walI one olle In III France I I and one omme In iti tho thin United States claiming dl Ver hut butt there them little doubt that 1 no will be b experienced In es cs J Mr Ir Burkes Hurkes priority t If It those ami olId theo then logical hairsplitters who constituted 1 time the various Sessions of ot Scotland In III tho LImo good gool old oil days Ilay had not fallen follen tout foul J Ii of ot Alexander Selkirk he lie might never li havu hao gone goue to pelt FOIL Ami 1111 If It ho he had never r gone genii to semi feu ell h hO he j would never have met those tIles which Inspired Daniel Dufoe to write the tho Immortal Crusoe And AnI consequently wo we should have Kid hinI no Crusoe Such In IA tIle the conclusion renche by b an ull anti antiquarian 1 who chio had boon examining eX the tho m church records of lit tho the parish ot of Lar Largo go the Iho little 1 It village vIII where Alexander Selkirk was born lie ha hn has discovered from rein thieve these records that Ibm Kirk Firk Session Se lIln twice reprimanded Selkirk p surmises 3 It Wilt was he lie hint had the thi displeasure of ot that august body bod that he lie wan wis lM Impelled to go roving on 01 the deep det JI There Is no ill proving It to of ot ih course but hut It Is quito po that wo we may flu owe OIVI ono OtiC of at tho greatest muster monster masterpieces pieces of ot literature to the tact fact that fiat a n man Ina II In an obscure Scottish vill viii village nile age wax was n it bit wild In Iii lila his youth ant anil hum his spiritual masters dealt a R bit too harshly with him butt llA YOH CHURCH un |
