| Show I r r NOTES I IThe The En n te Is In the tho lItt hallit of each eRch month a train Cram Shako Shalto for the best quotation FT re to an any reVieW revlow or th name ot of 1111 tiny author or book appear In ins U n jt months Issue of the mag ag S pt the book was Thu Tho Jungle The was WOO won by b the tho following say Eay sweet I love oe what h a t th thou 0 U d to eat Bottom I had rather have handful a or Dr to tw 0 of at dried peas MIdsummer Nights Night s The Jungle suggested man many quota tic i For Insl nce Ad A l now about the cauldron sing Eu hanting all that you put In And Sir I will en eat t no men meat t Anthony Anthon and Cleopatra Also Dy m troth I cannot ab abide I de th the e smell me II of meat Wives of oC Inti for lor Perhaps more than any writer Of oC to far more than most Hobert makes a point of oC and for n a long time the tho enes where he Is to locate his stories London for tor his hI earlier work vork the Sa Sahar hal har for his Garden ot of Allah and at afterwards SicilY In preparation for tOl what hM ha proved tu to be his greatest sue em SS 55 The Call ot of the Blood were In turn lengthily studied In their every everyAl t tAll All Al or of which made It ver very amusing i to 10 hIm to meet In an Italian railway J ar re It a man who having no not t suspIcion of oC l identity began r with admIration ot of his 1115 Sicil Jail lall bUt then said But Dut YOU knows know thIs never ser places ho he writes about He lust Just stays at homo home and Imagines It alt altS S a aArthur Arthur E Ph D chief or of orthe the circulation department of oC lie New NewYork NewYork York public library writes for one of oC the tho perIodicals on the subject of oC th bet beat novels ot of the year and Ind among the very ver tow tew which h he admits to thu he places promInently The AwakenIng of Helena and The Call of the Blood Speaking ot of thIs latter ho he refers r f ra to the Intimate skill of Robert I In th the drawing of oC native and ot of liu bu buman ran man passIon Mrs Irs he compares with nn an OthOr author of the Harpers Mrs rS Humphrey Ward and declares that I display sanity of purpose lucidity and delin cation ot of character a a a MacGrath whose now new atory half 1 a nou Is Ia heire belr very generally lead gives the following or of the Iy w he wrItes his 1 I map out the first two or three In my mind and then the end Ing of the story I dont donl bother bothe wIth I what Is In between until I 1 to work on tO Itself J write It out first In frd pencIl fl cheap nr old say Ray While I am at work on th the story I male make notes about It on backs of oC on en elopes that thai I happen to have In m my r I triM tried carrying a round around a 0 note book once hut but found that 11 f th the time I got that out and ready to tie La my precious thought of oC the mo I meat had been away awny Afterward I typewrite t the e manuscript Cal d correct It some somo moro more I find can call not do as well by letting some ne e eIe ebo epy py It on the machine as by g It myself because so 90 many new Ideas como to me In that part or of t ie e work WIh Half a fl gue It was y for tor II a time to do any and some somo of oC my man mU I t have given Illen the tho printers a I a d quarter oC o an hour hourI hourAn u I An at oC much Interest Is Isi i Mark Twains hook book on Christian I Ic to II I b by the lIar e ter L UI r early lii In lie HI has be been n 1 durl g the past mouth In thor thorre Ug re j thIs great work worl which I tho a result or of years ears ot of labor t has baa often br that Don Ben Hur a among tho books which found a at as s er r 1111 liter t great and anet only led tej to t e had been heen submit U houses housos this ly fiLet fuet has hns frequently heen us used cd In proof of oC the fallibility ot of pub In III fact however as Is told In Gen erli Walla es the book was promptly prompt nc accepted by the first hou o to which the author submitted It that of oC Harpers As n a ml lC if curiosity too the origInal records were recently looked up at the tho ot of the th and md It found that all or of their literary staff who read the manuscript were vere unanimous In advising that tt it b be ac accepted cup ted It was hI his first of the pyra Pyramids ml lI on It a trIp to Egypt for tor his health tome years ago ngo that In Inspired Robert rtobert rith that profound love loe for fOI forthe the of th the Mediterranean that tran him from the clever wrIt or of tales talc or of London Into till novelist who after locating one really great tory In the tho African nn lt has haa recently located It a still greater one The Call CAli of oC time the In the in environment of Sicily Without of oC time tho Pyramids with Its 1 Ion of oC the It Is that Hichens would never have attained ouch uch greatness but would have con continued tinned to write lines In which there would have been less develop mont ment of what was really b st In him hima a a a aThe The Story of the Other Wise WIRe Man was t published moro more than thon 10 yeaTs ago but so HO far from hoin It Is In recurrent deman t with every even season seaMOn and It has been Into many n a for forcin cin Inn language IJ e even the Ar the tho Turkish So unique was the idea ot of the story ns as to puzzle even the tho author himself Dr Henry nil Dyke Dylle Dyker r I do not know whore where It came from out of the nil air ho he writes The entire story came to him In the course of at tL n lon and lonely night or I had bad stu lM nod loved the tho curious tales of the Three Thrle WIM Men or of the BaRt as they are aro told In the Golden ot of and other lither medieval hooks but of oC the tho Fourth Wise IRe Man I had never neer heard until that Thon I Saw hIm die moving the shadows In a 11 little circle of light His counte nanco woe was clear The ot of hi his trials and dl disappoint nonte ment ran mu wIthout II a break brenk Even certain came tome to me complete and unforgettable IWo ri PI cameo All that J I had to do 10 was to follow tollow Artaban step by step liS as the tole wont went on from the tho beginning to the end onel of his pilgrimage |
