| Show Smart S mart Helped This Author F to Fame Our London Literary Letter Special Correspondence ODON ODO Feb 1 lIar Jar Barres L res the novelist of or re rc renown flown who has hall just been elected to membership In III the thc Academy Is lii I probably a 1 linn firm believer In III the necea city ally of ot Judicious on the part of any all author who vito wants to achieve n II really big popular lie He undoubtedly would bo be III In hearty agreement with the eminent English literary authority who recently do dared with reluctance that the practise tise tiso of ot what he termed charlatan charlatanIsm Ism was wale essential nowadays to the tho winning of ot fame and fortune In lit the tha crowded profession of ot letters It la Is true that JI M I Harres who him has been elected to the Academy to title cecil the tho late Jose do the In now not eminently and entirely dignified In Intact fact tact Harres no an longer oven even deigns to provide his romances with plots but tills them up liP with discus anti and theorizing about bout the tha of contemporary France The fhe pursued by b the tho new lie academician wco vastly different however when sheri nt Itt the tho age uge of at he lie started Marled out to tomake make a n name for In the litera literary ry hP world Having attracted some Homo attention by means of M ri laudatory article on nut An Au tt gusto KUste Vacquerie the youthful hanes brought out a n mag of his lis IO called lAd Ies Spots of ot Ink which was Willi perhaps chiefly re remarkable reo for fuir tho iii audacity with which It was WIS Tor For a IL certain named hud been n nn n s under sensational circum circumstances stances nil all Purl wits talking of or ortho the tho rIme crime Harres Batres sent lent nut out an army of this legend uri on n theIr boards S No l f Longer Ion el Ioa Ies DI However there thone must mUll have IJ ell Horn Mm promIse In the tho periodical for JUles JUie the tho director of If the tho Kr National theater wrote rote to 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hIli falling is III 11 Into Inlo thin tho story but when the von son of ot a n lawyer or nr of 1 an nn engineer or of or a 1 member of or ally other profession himself In ill u a 1 sImilar way city III no hilt Is taken of the lie t relationship 1 rela P And A thus tho thu th lute Idea guns gulus general acceptance lI that clergy clona mens SOIlS cons usually dont amount to much However that thai unity may 1111 be he Ishol Welldon hut IIII proved the thu popular notion to be a In mi all II article which ho hn lies has jUHt I eb hl l in the Fort Fortnightly ort nightly Jt Ivle he lit that tho tito JW and Ind t of lawyers and r re respectively I who hivo haa hl won 01 eminence In history ii 1 9 Hona on of or tilt the lutt ha fame fa cute III The rite list lIt Includes IIII alibi a Hartley Mobbed Held Heli Du flu Raid gold Stewart Hill Groan and tutu Henry Honn III In art Sir Joshua JO und Wr Christopher Wren WIm WImA A 1111 11 I tile the poets Hen Hell Jt hn Murvell Cowper ami among the tho his hili I orl ruM Alison A I on hr I In I lain toh Itoh Cu It t a it nun rug the thI novel lets IMI June Jane Austn t lot if nn h her r lster Mr lire nn k end and herbs Charlos knows that th Ih of Jn S Sl sa M heroes horo s Lord Nelson was born horn In lit a 1 clerical horn home and ifo to o nl also o were wen Sir H hiye He io Parker and Viscount Hood As AH th lh the bishop bill hop figures It out jilt 1 rI sons lIOns stand n It better chanco chenco of nt coming out on tot top in lit the battle nf of Ufa 10 than the sons HOIU of ot tiny other clAss clasa Though f abe hi h will lit her rf pe sev birthday In March Sam flIer who suite lio In lii private life lire Is Mrs Mies Henrietta is IA stIll turning ou novels She m mAY y well ell delia to ho hI the thedo doyenne do of fiction lI writers Her lIer latest novel M he I entitled The Th aural Is I quite up tsp to till the level of her 11 II ua works work For lh the last laMI fourteen years she he has hall lived hyatt In Iii Ox Oxford 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