| Show Now Nov Novian N ow v ian Ian Maclaren Abandons tile the Our London Literary Letter I Special Correspondence I ONDO Nov 2 Dr John Wilt Vat Wiltson Watson LONDON son or Ian han has titis lost lone L no time tinie utter litter giving up hla church churchIn II In Liverpool last week In seeking much needed rest and 10 creation rea Tl 11 author Luthor of ne nelda the Bonnie Donnie liner Bush und and Kate CarnegIe Is now In Pat Palla Is on his way 1 III hore here ho lie 1 is IR planning to remain for tor a II mutter matter of ot I I lIve ilva months or more mote I I Ian mu Maclaren Intends to return to shortly and Judging tram from fromn n a private letter which an un acquaintance of oC mine received from tram him tOe lne day the of oC his hlA new romances will viii lifter differ com considerably from rain his imis previously published l H Religion will Wili play no part Inn In my m new story Dr writes nor will there thero be he any dialect worth orth mentioning My 1 Idea Is 18 n it historical his In lii which the central lie uro uru will vIll be of at who sho was wall as used by us as n a public contro but who never nevel hat haa been beell portrayed In hh lila romantic r private character char acter Ian Inn Maclaren l Is III also planning a series of ot short stories but the they will not be written for Cot some cools time to como collie The Time announcement that tho author of ot th tho Bush U Is to tu literal y vork hue hus aroused uncommon Interest h rs ami aunt I happen to 10 that sonic tempting propositions wore were m de to Dr lIlt prior flor to hid imis departure departureS S So fur tur B as can cun un be he learned no ar an havo yet ben been tom for In America an atm exceptionally noy l Inch Is to lu on oil this side of it the water In a afew trw few duys Tho The nod fled haugh Is IA It IU Its rather striking title and the Is III ohe of oC the mot most of at tho time younger oun cr nu RussIan writ writer several of ot And Anti er era In 1 France rance where romances have hoe been Imen The lied Laugh Is 18 r as RK not tar behind Tolstoi nt at lila blIt be t It Ills is a of or till the plo etiology of ot war and In is mudo up UI of ot from Crom the diary of 1 a it ayoung young yoting who is home from tho the trout front with Ith his hili UK leK shot eliot ore off his hiM mind h by th horrors he linx Od 11 lit IP describes It I It said uld with realism the sufferings anH the thu sights ot of th time campaign Ono Otto of ot the tIme most horrible In Is when hell h lie ho i to u it comrade and anil asks hint him he lie is II tile the other with an on effort and at that moment In Is struck In tim the tare fac lire II by 1 n a shah hell anti and tho thu smile h Ps st n a n red ml moist mist t henon the time title of or the story The unfortunate writer of the thc diary liar dies dle and the tho Journal IH Is continued by br his hue brother who IH Is also allO driven to madness s perth partly porth b by lila his broth brothern ors ern partly partir by hy tIme HIP news neis that reaches him troll from the front Often Orten In Incoherent incoherent coherent like thc th words of oC n a r l brain the hook book I Is Hal said catch I to 1 b be one of Jf the Uie most mORt moving things thinKS In Imi recent HUH clan Ian fiction I I S Apropos of oC the time now going on In America merleR for tor or making nicking football pain patti painless less ices on an I I 11 me Inc I I I I the time rather surprIsing Information that so io o long igo is the reIgn of ot t U nid lit III lita I l la a statute wall wag enacted tin titi game on timi account of or its Hen Itoh Henry r ry VIII und and both hoth legislated 1 against It the latter punishIng punching Indulgence gence gemmee In It by Imprisonment nut But the game nourished ae time fact filet that t It II was under the bun of the l law That Shakespeare was WAI aH familiar with It Is III shown by b u it passage In In King Lear In lit IIII which Kent ea to lo Oswald nor norI stripped 1 neither you base bale football play player er or I Ken en stronger Is the time fur tur furnished b by f a passage In The rime Comedy of oC Errors Error where hero the lun Dromo Ill pays farS 35 And I so no O round with ou an itS you Yet QU with me Ine That like ilkI a football you do me You spurn me Ins hence anti and ho hmo will 11 spurn m me hither If It I last lut In this service you Hunt case me In leather It wall sas owing tI to the tho of ot Purl Puri Puritan tan Influence more potent titan than legis legislation let lation i that limit i the lie game giulie began begAII to limo n bo nt the middle of oC th seventeenth century Toe Tae revival of ot football Milt and It Its II modern development In imi England Ingland oa na naIl ri Il game lit for Cor or civilized herson came cumo through the public schools chool which 1 kept It alive alle until time the athletic frenzy of ot the thu nineteenth century took tool possession lo or of orthe the time country C t O George rge Merediths readers have special tint cial leason to feel teel regret over Ovel hl lila hll re me recent cent severe fall as ilK during time the lut last few Cew I weeks the author of ot lUchard has been Iteen engaged In 10 fresh literary work which he lie has hAB now nOl had hac to 11 lay aside en Oil entirely I timely Decidedly the luck stems seems to 10 b ba he against Mr Mm II Meredith Greatly enfeebled bled hied by his hili severe leere illness of nf last year rear the veteran author only recently began begun to 10 enjoy something like tile bin usual health and now h he I Is its laid up In Indefinitely indefinitely definitely Getting about In the time brac bracing ling ing it ir of Surrey make all nit tIme the differ difference ence to tl time the hem he mutt of Box Hill and f for 11 revere months Mr t has hita out every Ivery ry morning In a un aim undid till did oman being In attendant I Friday In the tIme lI aft act t of at getting Into Ills his lima small 11 vehicle Mr Ir Meredith iipp I 1 anti and fell with his hili right toot foot t 1 i under him In such 1 n mm way that hone bones of oC the lie tag leg vere fre re broken Th The I wn was lei et a as liS soon A as a II could be summoned on and 1 Mr Ir Meredith bore bate the Ih operation well but at t his aB condition necessarily rOU seine ii n I let lety IJA hAYDEN to |
