Show I Author o of tl the Di Divine n Fire le Is to Visit isil AO America I IOUI I nOUli OUI LONDON LITERARY c Special 1 O ONDON DO Oct Oot n Considering the theL I L LONDON ot of that uncommonly tine lice nod The Divine Fire In the I Visited United SUItes States surprisingly little has hat found toun Its 1111 way Into print regarding lie Its Author Mite Miss U I May Ia Sinclair This matter ho however Is Ie hike likely lilt to ho died lied shortly for or Miss Sinclair ID Is to sailon tall sail tallon all on Oct Cot 14 H far lor or 1 n a short visit to America where she dee will spend sonIc some time lime In New NewYork NewYork w I York A III as the gu gUl st t of or her American publisher and then theme go to sta stay stat with her friend Kate Douglas Wiggin at th the lettler place In Maine To fo MIss Mien Sinclair A ncr ner nervous I VOLtS little woman Iho whose e accumulated summers Bummer cannot Iannot total mote mar I than linn an I agreeable figure hr approaching visit I to the United states State I It fraught with witha a tI special Interest fur or while ties the novel I which has bins mide hor her name round found mercy many reader tired admirers In iii her o 0 own n a I country It ha has had hall by tar far II ltd its r t vogue In the States where it Ita qualities were rh first t And nd I cannot say nay a said Mlis Mius Sin Slee chair In talking to me ace r yesterday lerda how holl I ct the tIme discrimination or of American render readers In liking that one of or m my novels nOIel Ehe li less haH n published four which I 1 personally kno know knots to contain my best besl work This Thin story tor I Is thee the old ono one of or titter lifter years of or plucky pluCk In hog Ing None of or h her r former books book l Au All Audray Audrey LIra dray drey Craven Mr Mi 11 and lid Mr lIra Tyson and Two of or a Ii Question I though th time last n tuned was waR I praised ell b by sonic cones re reviewers invent In this thin hi coun country try h leer her In lie enough ti to live IIvo on and beroll th the flue of or The Divine Divino jrr th the a aspect peet of or things she alec eked out her Income b by reviewing other othor peoples books anti and translating Now Noll however hawer Miss Mies fI Sinclair says OIK Bh elce elcel ahtI i l Kind glad that IhRl success did not nt at first If It It hind done so 10 o she ri said ald with characteristic seriousness H I do not think that UIRt afterward I should h hats v been beau able to 0 write without b being Influenced cnN to 10 annie extent b by of or salabilIty Hut But when lK book ok After ACter ter l hool hook ook of or mine malice JA tailed I 1 I saId to Not Kot enough nough but html th the next will I be until now I feel fed pure sure that I can do whatever I III set net out to 10 tb do without teeing lIn e h by n its I to what whitt th thO the tidiLy may think of or the matter In ha hand med h hilI bce r next book Miss Sin Bin lair will aay av little except that thaI she nho he will whIm start 1 It shortly after her return to 10 this country which I ohe Ie will h b v soon CIon after Arter It 11 may be fits fin h by hy th the end find of ot nummer r Ma May 11 b lii HH no tea mi nets who wImp realized what an 8 amount of ot hid boon been lal lavished on ore The Time Divine Fire will need mired to be told the author U Is un aim con writer who Vito II linde II II no 10 one elm JI hess Ues ea easy IIII y to idease tItan than h r lr When Whon homi writing it a hook book Miss lI Sinclair commonly lIght hours n II d dee da y but hut Imor output Is comparatively somali she gasped ut cut then tho mare lucre of or 1 n p words OI A n day u I mil muy do 1100 sha sho Mid Fetid and I do sic nix alx M s Sinclair ron remarked arke however hOlev r that tient she hid hll never been hen able to her rc n I by numbers of ot words III In that rt sho hmo said inures figures IB not the flee significance to 10 tomi mi Int and It If It li lei absolutely n necessary cM ary my hey h he counted I 1 t turn tum the work ork of ot computation over oer to ilai 1111 li liOn On nil in the other hand leand title thin authoress hiss Ima hissa a n curious faculty of ot beIng boing able to tell within a It few el pages page at lit any rate rat how big I a hook book the story she Is III at It work upon Jn will make I she ho saul eald In thee Ilia Clue case of ot The Time Divine Fire tn my nib publisher here hert not got ot frightened at lIt atthe atthe the length U It was wan n IIII mid demand demanded fid ed to know knoll how bout long Ionic It U would be III I suggested that th tIle they heed hall bitti r allow for or a II thousand and ten pages Ingol amId and thou thought h at the tune time I J halt only a 11 general Idea of or what t I wn Wf wise S going loin to make e of or the thee story the number ut of pages page tn within half halt a Ii dozen ut of that IhRl which I J hud heal l I Ml Miss 1188 also lit Is Inclined to lay hay claim to 10 a sort of or r other r matters mutters In connection with lu r work ork I For Kor or Instance she h said ald AI 1 I Ml rl sure cure though I knew noticing nothing cr Ir stimuli about American tastes that In say iny least lait hook book would woul make thee thu strongest at appeal to th the UnIted Statue Contrary to what actually I l It would b be a n long time before I found an Am An American I publisher but Jut sooner or 01 later Inter I J felt sure of or UK its success across acO the thee At Atlantic Atlantic Ian lantic tic With diss Sinclair It Is III n never Ir a que of fin finding a rt plot for n a prospective I novel but a II matter metter of ot selecting nm ow I from rota the tho many ate aie pug MIK i themselves to 10 her mind min At Au present she shu hl said to III me I hivo heu th tb of ot no l Ie ieee s than six 1111 honks cots com completely Oll I thought out and sued the vogue vague out outline line lints of or I should say 2 more Ill am ait c clamoring for tor attention Ordinarily that thaI would b bo be rather an alarming state statement ment macat but In tIde this author n cano nile ise this the IU survival 1 I of or the fi fittest tel 1 hI awaited with wih confidence With the IhL exception of ot occasional vis uie visIts 18 It Its to Ireland all Miss l rather quiet I It life Ile lists lifts hl been bOll spent In n and MIH Mu William WilliamM M time tha if f t the great ureal novelist sri are among mon h her r friends friend In th tIme the United ilie thie he l is IR looking forward to meeting Mrs t Edith Wharton who tuho wrote to 10 leer her a itS UI Miss MIRK Sinclair soya most about The rho ho Dl Dh lice Fire Unknown Unknown to 10 Ino most l of ht his friends RIder lder whose whole sequel to She he will wili willlie lie ho here hir s these then Ibell lines are ar printed has hl b won been un suffering for th the past few rel st k an un Illel Illness made II an tie op nulon nl tl y html but h he In Is Isnow now on Ote the high road rOld to 10 recovers Un Unfortunately fortunately orl HH nit much mooch cannot be e saId Ild of ot Henry who lieu has b been n In the tho th health for tor man many months it He HI r re returned returned turned turne to tn his bin hil hor home I In Wimbledon near nr London a is few hw days ago ao after a n holiday on old the thee continent th the ot of which were rather tl However Judging from a letter letor which hn lee hl wrote to tn an In acquaintance the thu hI other day Mr I lr flatlands characteristic cheer tUII iii hens hns but bit little froth from hit his hll At t Wimbledon lu lie hf takes lakes a 1 dull dally ii iring in that t I British h pen pa paolI olI oles of o which In is II known a aa see 11 a n and hl hU his description of or hl Ida his pt progress the moles main thorough fares fareH Is la 1 amusing U Irl s we tC 1 rend mend without I compunction h he lee sats young inSetS mens spotless we 1 with wih Ito I mud Aa As 1 for forthe or tIme the peoples people Loe tON toes lh thee of or m my toy chair crunch over oset I tot Ih theta them 1 II un not nol singly but bitt hit In And the worst I of or It II nil all ni Is lawe we Hive give no warning of ot our 11 Thee Thu motorist at lt least blows I hl his imis horn 1 I hIl blow nothing but In my ny 10 now wil who wrote that I lr slut tty study of ot life In I Join Ihl hf hens hax Just flee fl i which will I b ii nt new lieu r romance 11 called A Aim tip 11 elili In Inn n IL I I UM Liti I I m Town 01 YD l |