| Show ft RIDER HAGGARD something nettling about the author of she Sli elland and allen alien 1 I if ruler rider ilag girard ard N who has become a I 1 suddenly famous mail has 3 auth anil and energy still lill to che credit sid side c of his account for lie ha will not lie bo thirty two until the of next june julie and it at last accounts lie was healthy and hearty as a man needs to bo be to turn out pure and unadulterated romance it at the rate rale i which lie he effects lie lic began writing 0 books in 1882 with a little volume of a political character relating regaling rel aling to events then recent in south A africa 1 7 ile he spoke by the book on oil that subject for when lie ho was nineteen lie ho had bad gono gone to natal with sir henry and during alio two succeeding ye arshad served on oil alio staff of sir Theoph Tho ophilus iltis shep tono ae tile 1 special to the transvaal Trana vial 1 ile he remained in the colonial service uni until unlit til lit 1879 antl then returned t london to only daughter tall lite v of the luo tte major marginson Mar gitson itson of diachin haibi house home norfolk Noi NoL folk fulk because heiau io of his wife or r for some other rea ion lie nei j 1 and adopted the pro profesa profession fesi oil of the law becoming a practicing har rister of Lincol ns lu ID n it was while ii hile sill ill lit in active practice at the bar that lie he began to N waito lite and t it stuck to it altholz although 01 the llie political pamphlet with which lie first courted fallia attracted a little alton tion ilia is not book was wai dawn ll 11 published in 1884 and it acar later cattle came tile the witcha head neither of which was much heard of until they were dished lish cdon oil tile the st tan ali of the fame faille that the author bad gained ined by subsequent su bicili aleut leut works boric s real success was with I 1 kill king 0 solomons Solon lolli mines published in ill 1885 hichi attracted tile inin mingled aled coil deni nation and aal praise of tho the catica clinics and won von k great popularity abroad and to a less brnt in till country of tins this story mr haggard ila ard lias has written vi itten liong kine solom solomons mines was n as an experiment in boys books it would be impossible tor for mo e t to 0 define where tact fact ends and action begins berinti in n the he t x ork as the two are very much mixed up together I 1 may odd add that its success was quite unexpected by me as the tha work undertaken at haphazard ll 11 was as carried out at odd hours for the most part after a ions 1 ong day at chambers mr laggards Hag gards fune faine was confirmed abroad and made lit in this country by his next work she that followed and allan that is now currents current have lave maintained american interest iii in the theauthor author IV Y 1 suit |
