| Show Do Writers Like Their Own Books I I LONDON LITERARY LETTER LETER I I I Special Correspondence V ONDON ONDO Nov ov 11 How do au auB al L B thors feel feol with reference to toj j their thell own books bools Is the ques question queston tion ton asked recently at 01 a gath gathering lh ering of oC prominent writers In London Various answers were forthcoming and an the discussion brought out some somo Interesting facts bearing bearing on 01 the tho psych psychology olo of oe authorship Tho same sub subject ul jeet Is further elaborated d b uy a well wel known French FencH writer Pierre do Coule C vain who has hat Just published a of articles dealing with it I Among m n for for Pierre Is woman L bhe he says saB that Ant lo France whoso who Q works rk both liEU Iud i 1 u aro A t widely Irely appreciated thinks that au authors aUthar thors do not like 11 to read their thell own books bOlks In II a recent Interview France said saidI I have ha U jio 10 modern modell books boaks En In my bouso not even my m own What a man has hl built buit himself oven It to tobo tobo bo a palace ho knows knos so Il well that be cannot endure the tN sight of it I could coull bear to havo Looks books In not my II my 1 hands Why Vh should 1 look at them themOn themOn On the other oth 1 hand ninny authors de delight e light in poring over Ocr their own n books again and again Hazlitt In II a I famous Calou R a compared the arr joys of oC au authorship with wil those of o painting For Fora a person per on to read rea his own On worl over with delight te he ought first to t forget that lio Iw cv r wrt Many any authors III hi those thee days keep on hand presentation copies of oC their thell books which they thoy hand out to friends with wih much gusto u to thereby tho Iho risk Ilak of o converting friends Into enemies In II this connection an ton Is told toI against himself by Anthony HopI The he author sent sont senta a IL set of his books bools to tl ono une ot his hll friends and In reply received an ef of effusive o note ending with Ith tho wons What have I dono to deserve d ole this a question queston which certainly might be in interpreted Interpreted in two tO ways DRUBBING FOR FOI SKIMMERS Hope administered a I seer drubbing to the snobbish literary critic and In condemned of o every OVel kind In an address u ress at It Liverpool he drew the tho distinction between the tho truly learned booklover und and the mero skim skimmer mer or UI Skipper He HI deprecated the th fact that them thero many mal people who pretended to a knowledge of boos books when they the only acquainted In a and amI superficial way with their contents To say a you familiar with wih a IL great book bo said Anthony Hope when you have niver read It Itis Itis is not much nu h belter bele than saying J fi 2 t 3 I you yau know mow a duchess when you y U Udo do not not In 1 both ca CS cs you know on only Hf ly I the title tle Let Lt us tell the th truth 7 about our OUI little It bit of of knowledge ell ho continued d and of our am Immense tract tn 1 Of ignorance Let us not to t f have have lead what we hay havo not not mated q nr ir to o bo profound l students of what we ve have hao merely I r know l o v It needs a I great glent deal dIal ot courage to stand standup up in a cultivated audience and Ind 3 that we have havI never lend 1001 through Ii Paradise LoM Lo t Lot Iet us lS tn to bo sin sincere sincere cere and nUl unaffected on thit subject et Let l t none pose as lS being cing more bookish or 01 of ofa o a Is 1 mote 1010 turn thai hp he i COMING COING TO AGAIN AGAN i ilheS These aro IU merely I 0 rI words olds of wisdom which many Inn may ITI take to heart It I j might be said In hi passing that lu Anthony Hopun popularity to 1 navo In InCI CI within the tie lat last year i in was n n I time I 1 I quite Iulo r e ut when tha tl author of I flip hl Prisoner i of C wan wa almost foi gotten hut his many el Will 11 bo IJU glad to learn that he hll in hi i again in hi the tw Im Anthony Hone HOI i ic deserves c lIe success s and 1111 this Iw stO of oC lie he won WOI should encourage cn the lit literary It erlY aspirant of o these the days when it I f 1 recalled that his hll first 1111 book A Man of of Mark a failure Jle Jo brought It out at hit hil own 01 expense e and nearly lealY 1 everyone predicted that he would never be bc honl of Lf In the of letters 1 It I is said that Anthony Anton is I ISil sine Sil of in an Income ot of nearly I In 11 1600 a L awl and tho lm his book hoo 1 aie tO In Pp HS Ij IjA A daughter oC Thackeray Lady hie has hi ought ht out a IL book of 1 I J 1 I Indel I tin tl title I lalI Papers is II the great 1 Itt eldest lle t and has hl Inherited much ut uther f her hll has bus been a aMiter I Miter lel nil 11 h hI i life If tind has produced fully Cul u II dozen o I J Ing II h biographies and to t say nothing nf of her hel famous biographical edition of hoi her fathers Lady J II is now wel advanced In it Is that Who ho ol 1 nut not give gin the thc date of r her hll birth am hns hll a n and alil a 11 laughter I 11 lor published h 11 r photographs hear a IL marked resemblance 1 blance to her father fa and ano say In Intha that tha t hoi hOl hb sty lo II Is 1 I i llo e Imitation ot othis f fhi his hi work 1011 It scorns sC nuI strange Unit living of nf great 10 Dickens Dicken Thackeray and lud should bo lIe bringing out books names nUle on ul tho backs or If novels certainly corIa in call Up hosts 10 ts of vivid recollections IHS MUS POPULARITY Another nother lady lad novelist t of the salary day work wol is IH much mich attention just jl t now is I Mrs 11 l nu au uC Ir the widely 1 I I I road Cranford Several editions ot of this famous book bool hau recently been published and Ind Iho tl author Is achieving a I fame which was certainly denied during her hel life Mrs I youngest daughter died I I I 1 in n Manchester lal hest r There aro two to Miss Mela Ieta and daughters Iss IH Julia who live in Manchester at Plymouth the hi II which Cranford was WIS written For Fol many during their mothers life Ifo Plymouth Groc was wal tho of uno ono of the tho must most brilliant brilant salons in Eng England Eng land where leading I lights in all al walks of oC artistic endeavor were wont t to gath guth gather er m periodically and enjoy tile le society of Mis Gaskell Gakel and Hll her husband POI S FRENCH I POPULARITY Edgar Allan loeB European fame Is If greatly lellY on un the Increase e In TI addi addition addition tion lo tn the English of oC Ilia works being eln no nn loss leBs than thal Fix Ix excellent editions on the France has recently paid him thu tribute of ro 11 his poems und and short stories In Franco Poo stands easily ely first ris ns Americas greatest writer ago 11 1 Victor Hugo sair of oC him POI Poo Is of u American litera literature ture turo A recent in an In speaking oC tf Po s continental fame said salt In many a man lau or Italian lulan bookshop lie he ah Uk thy sole sule representative of Iho tho literature of his native lutle lund land Considering all tl this U I seems peculiar that Pun Pou should have been bell denied i L place In his hi own HIn Hull Hal o ur urI Farno I The wilier evidently forgets the Iho allusion to I in their own country gD The London Academy under I Ider Ilia tho new editorship of T 1 W H 1 Crosland author of tho ll Sut and othor tiling bool distinguishes by hy attacking everything ec and 1111 evel boll It I is following tho in instruction or tho Irishman at tho thu political gathering It II you yuU sel see a ahead head hend hit it i In 11 a I number in il loss I I than thul four fUl l pages a s Cropland sayi sau mean thing about tiro tho United Max ax IIII Maud au Allan Frank Harris Victor M il P G B Shaw tho Poets Club 0 1 ana an about seven Hoven London publications Is a I good Mart considering that Tho Academy Is described os 0 a lL WI HesKeth hunter novelist and cricketer H 1 on his way WiY hack III from flom another trip in Canada hero ho he is said ald to tu have havo shot some 1010 re r fine specimens of big garn Iam He Is at work WUll on hunting In Labrador Newfoundland and Ind the tle Canadian lan West fur for which Lady Lad Helen o 1 h 1 who did tho pictures for Sir James JUle J famous to Is 1 mak making lal ing InG the CHARLES illustrations |
