| Show I ra o 1 1 A L Young Yoi Poet Whose t tC Career C leel is Mindful of or o J cl ens t LONDON LI ii 1 I II J I I Sept in There w WI wise s LiNnoN L I front from Oxford Une J Kit II about n ii month ago II a man retarding regarding whose future KnI I Bug IIII I I II folk oik ar or are exceedingly furl curl our mimI They rimey rhe are ams al anxious to Ness left If Kd Bd d Curtla that la Is his hla hi name will wilt fulfill tIme the promise given In III his hla hi when he tie produced IId poetry which xo iso an authority as R Andrew Andre l ang angl l better than balm Iha the tho early ef efforts forts forte of or Kir Walter Scott kott M oU Curtis career thus thua far lar recalls In III many nays that of oC Chari Dickens though the au an author anthor thor hor I of David received no no such luh encouragement In III his hla youth H IM as that ha hiss haM been time the portion of ot Curti Dickens planned stories while nailing label labell on boxes nf or Curtis composed l poetry while making ball In an factory foil Ills I lie 1111 parents were Mere poor folk living III In Inthe IIII the I hI East of ot London near the Iho Al AI Albert Albert bert Dock Decks a R district given U Ut tn in factorIes plant er works and similar Indus Bolos t I not time the sort Hort ot of surrounding most moot likely to lo foster the Ue C he na was Ill ten till Edmund Curtla Curtis entered one of or these factories mimI anO there for nearly three yeara years he worked II 11 hours a alIa day sia Hut In such leisure as he hI could Ret get el he hue read trul the classics Homer Cervantes lI Ion Moore and Thorns Hums and amid nIl when he hue was 1 U 13 la ho began to 10 write rill poetry setting getting his hili Inspiration however hOV V r from lie tha misery lit lie saw Mal around him In III lUG HUG a 8 London lollIon magic sine nine published a 1 poem IlO m of oC lila hla called Time The Factory hail Dell which at once called attention to 10 time the he young writer witter Andrew AndreI I lAng saw raw quite H us lot of ot Curtis work T m and i hl MID hll hi words concerning U A these h The 1 h early 1 of nf n t I T MID U A these h The 1 h early 1 of nf n t It fl I wei wi Scott are or riot not so III good food HS Mil hose hoseit of lit Curtis Curti Such Huch praise prINe led hed to 10 ton n ml local Interest being taken In III Curt Is with lIh the time result that Ihal four men n of or together to 10 give him a R thor thorough ough education They 11 sent him first to 10 ton n R 1111 V II school In Devonshire then thell tn to toa a I High School In smith and emlU RII nhI ally to lo lipids College Oxford From l the he fleet first CurlU tune has him self and justified the nf of his hili barker backers and ani In III the thC lulY examina examinations at RI Oxford he hll gained ul a mm with lIh honors Promptly upon leaving the time university he lie plunged Into Inlo literary work III In I and la Is I at met prel ml on oil the staff tl of or a R dally newspaper to so It II hould not hot b hi be long hong before he lie shows Iho what whal there Ii Is In him a a a aSir Sir Gilbert Parker left heft I london ondon a I day or Iwo two ago for where the he king Is staying and whore Sit Sir Gilbert nile means to 10 take lake the lie cure The Time novelist lies haa been detained In London later than usual this summer by hy the III tusk of correcting time the I he of or lila hla new novel The IThe I adder of 01 Swords IM Is to In t i be nn ott both bolh utIca aides ot or the time water early arl In iii September The young Duchess 1 11 I hell of or Is III celebrated for Cor two IWO timings things lur y uncommon literary I I ability a b I I It y Ii mid her Interest terest In III I a chat liable I umble work worl These two avo IIVO lIolIS of or tiers hern the talus IH is combining at mit present by hy editing H It hook book of ii poetry from distinguished pens helmS which will be sold l for time the bone bene benefit fit of oC charity In Newcastle It will eon con contain on lain tain contributions from rein the time Ui en of C Sylva the Ihl duel duch per herself I Lath lad Mile lIle helene Helena Fiona Iriona 1 loll Macleod Mrs Mey Iy nell Hardy the It of or Crl Sharpe Moreover the rover design will be his II by II Walter Salter Crane rune Queen mermen n Kyl Syla by II time the Ih way 11 In rs IM us an In n rt it n it nt 11 us I lx ha ok making In time the literary II sense nf of II J T k Shim 1111 1 Accompanied th the king kin of nf i t ion 1 on mm II his hili trip 01 n the Ihl I he Danube and i mid DOW allis a 1 from hem hp pen lien Is III lII t ready neatly 1111 entitled The haughtIer Daughter 1 au of or t I v c I will mill h h on that tho This ThU i Illustrated with taken by bv bythe h the queen herself stud drawings dra nm l by hy the Crown of ot i a a Kipling 11 hiss has ha no tOI nf ef n t than moat author for tor the lite au sum autograph loud fiend hut but there Is III tim one uny IIA In hum which he h can In always be drawn and that la is by hy addressing him nn some sub Nub ill connected with wll the h army or tit navy Ila hay In both hot im services Is I ao in genuine lI mind u nd he h hues has cc M many Ideas for their t Improvement I III II I that i iII II it Is III seldom Idom Indeed that a n letter ad Bd addressed addressed dressed drell In to him about aboul Tommy Tummy Atkins or nr orthe orthe the Ih Handyman l Is II unanswered The Theother Theother II other day 1 some on wrote tn In him ask Ilk asking IlkIn asking ing In what he thought the hue best means of elf t creating the public a areal 1 ii real Interest and sympathy towards the Ihn navy tIM apposite reply was Mas not nit long bug delayed Hy ihy n making the public liable to lo serve In the navy he hll wrote tolt Nothing quickens quicken ones otiss on sym sympathy pathy with another nouns work nark II a si I much as the tho possibility of or having tn to do ilo that work a a a ahi In hi something that was said Id In these letters last week regarding the Ihl recent trouble between the Ih of he isle and H O 11 1 Wei IB user cier Ir the Introduction written by b the latter for posthumous the h Im tin n may ma have hai hR I been hn given that I hR I thus the I executors w ver n 1 entirely In the wrong wron J It 11 may be UP recalled that refusal t tallow to III allow Well contribution III to be hI Included i II In volume and that time the pub i Usher declined on that account to 10 pay the price stipulated for thi Ihn j work The Introduction has huas linen hwn j published In the Monthly v nn soil j after aCI resoling reading It II one line feels feel that lIln M i representatives hall hail reason for em their thir It It IL as one niu or ci two Iwo brief extracts f will show how Wells who hO was IV of nr course nun nf nr if closest friends says PMs S IC that bitt the hidden element clement clementIn In him was wms WR practical Incapacity a 1 cu mui curious u rious Inability V tn to ito to time the III timing thing He lip did 1111 tint not know what suet would offend and nd he hI dill did not hot know what WhAI would He III I he and amid thwarted himself He lie had no social nerve In Lila bill novels Wells II continue there Ih rp tare HIT great groat fIal uninspired Interval unconvincing characters character rl mend and l gray 11 tired places There Thore U I much mitch more of or thin tho saine kind of or timing thing Hy Ity the ha way mi as A mo utmost t people hen hems were sore lr surprised to in n learn what Wells 1111 says nay Is III the case emuse his sing dug was Will for tOI a short time thus a 1 tutor In lit Hilt lull later sine near to 10 absolute starvation In III where his imis literary career began with newspaper fiction now noi no ot lost track Irack of lit entirely hAYDEN |
