Show AND AND PORTRAITS OF THREE SUCCESSFUL FU NOVELISTS NO Most Moat readers r of ot poet past or NO 80 have ha ve nt at r Ibe t he another tone gone wild Willi over oer nn on one I t sir or f of It the or er a ai this novelist portraits an and appear In the th unok uro a it would be 1 chill ti toll which has line the tho t 0 Crockett Hardy or Wl W Iah fr r tar made his reputation h t r by jy superlative work worl in ads ils lIs special pt lino IIno and 1 the only ono one of ot tho the i throe who hUH huS reached middle age n Is III Thomas Thomaa r rt t r o Hardy Ho Ito was born horn i In 1840 was educated for tor nn an architect be became como came a n novelist thirty six lib years ago ngo and had hod his Isla first hook book published In U Ile t k b same mine famous through h n i From I ron t tho the hint C s k Crowd tut tl 1 in iri y l n lit Ilves quietly at nl Max Mat tale OaK tInt Uri and Ind owing to 10 delicate health It I i a 1 retired life lito it his hla J many lunny aimi would let lot hInt him dd so Samuel Rutherford Crockett i ts I brawny brawn brawn Scotsman 0 o feet 4 t e in mr Inoh I q 1 and years old who wit f nI Gated for tor the ministry cater d the tb Fro lr h Kirk l In 1880 and turn lura lurad cd Nt d novelist when he lie found that thai writing paid better than lhnn preaching This Thin woe was In 1893 when his Ids Minister save gave Ia 0 him Immediate fume Ho llo line has continued to 10 write over ocr since lInce until Ids his books booS now number more than a 11 do dot dOl en on Ho 10 risen early does his Mint 1111 a i II t about aboul words before noon nuon and a i votes the tho rest test of ot tho the day da to r nation his favorite being mountain coring cering cycling and amt golf golt It If character can bo be shown ahem by air su au graphs It certainly Is to t in thi of ot Crockett Hardy and aM Wells WellA as ns gir SI herewith for tor tho the signature of at the tr Is la big biff and sprawling that of ot th lh tho c el cond I Iona eland and ond as aR well welt nu as of at the third fine and ft t Icky Doth Both lardy Hardy and Wells are aro delicate and sickly men dainty In their mode modo of at lite life and writing U n 0 G Wells r IfA ti F j Is the tho tho youngest of ot the tho t 1 trio being only thirty I five years old The Tho t t son eon of ot a professional cricketer and proud proof of ot It lie he certainly dIll did not nol Inherit from his father th the thA Imag lm Ima temperament that has gh birth to so no many quaint concept conceits m ss 8 shown shall In his hIli Time Machine War vat of 01 f the Worlds etc ce With a n of scientific knowledge a 1 la is Jain hJ Verne ho to manages to give a 1 tang of r re allem to tho the most unreal j and Ud fascinates tilts liln readers render by sheer aria ariu once ance lilt Ills book look was publish only six years ago nga and lIKe lardy Hardy a tJ I Crockett he Iso Is 18 still Mill wish Whit fy IiO sign of at diminished power panor i vr IC c fecundity |