| Show Masters of r Christmas Fiction and Their Work The Pioneer Genius of This Kind Was an American e W In many man a well in tn informal u I 2 formed formal household that thit Charlea wu war fits v the he Inventor o of that th t t d l literary va vt varlan the tho story tor Matter r of this of 0 that ho wn the rr or ot or Pickwick w Will waa by b no nil drat or In the field Like m so many outer good Ui the J earliest dl written tit ory otine eune ll Ite troas row brain of pit in 1110 T th D ok of or entry O ren Gent 0 nt oi appeared p itt 1 New Now York oik a few tew month later lut i It Il waa In london lx by b John Murray the thed d or Of publisher It Il went HIt Into roue mid nud Wal waa va translate I JU limy moon m ny the name of ur Irving Irvin b known in III nil and the tho tor for a 1 ance to The fir Ju BI k kU U a Mr Irving Irvine however h wv e er 1 WM kar fl not noL R a writer whose waa to popular demand h ho three roan boron Hall When It came cam It not met every expectation ox J imitation There WM waa no n fall I off olt And It waa wa conceived In the th h mine vein o ot of tender good g humor and the thai thaI hll hla earlier rUeI work Tho rho Th chapter anti tied til l lave Rv at HIU l I U the gem pm of ot the collection and andt I it t to 0 first place In hole hoi lIt U IL ll I of q literary atom f fin n lures t to their popularity to Kerno orn little known to the public u declared that he owed till hll ro tc tr tic the nl fact tact that he h had writ tin tan the tho th Christmas tale talt entitled Dal Thia la Ii I an amusing of ot literary obtuse rrt ld U za J IA k 1 JJ CHARLES 1 y r b bl l l Uhl 1 I ne liea for or Fair Fall had Just i been published Net N i It Il may be bt true for or Th had ao 10 o little III tie faith In that novel that ho he applied for a small government otter after It wun wn publish lira Hill Perkin Ball Bait s anY la Is l a 0 charming tilt lilt of or but It ll Is I Into ln g by the inn I nitwit of ot the other work York Although Chari Chin enl wa was not th the originator of ot tin the story Y 1 i w W e certainly n II most I fol 01 of the delightful nit or of con Ins Inn them No NG other story atory writer hat has shown an nn equal to product produce the ther thereal r real rul al Yuletide Atmosphere at tit will win and andAll All It with the then to be den denI in I UenH of or the holiday world HI ills ma sta cheer la II the actual acl uti of or orthe the holy hol season lealon and Mi NI Christmas sore nor real ral Even Ills his I yow row OW la I not a whit lees lem Christmas ghosts are like the of lit no other HUon And I lit hll by the lb way wa are the ghosts holta of or a mortal who liaa hea II once onn had hall ao In great faith falth In them that lh l no lapse lupee of oC time or stress of ot circumstance oan an shatter that belief ballet Critics cavil over Dickens mare mor I Il uis Ul l but no one crne has h i re uni d to doubt his hla ghosts They art are seldom Idom cant ant and amI never supernumerary they Hley tire are Rt provided with a presence ence which Is I never wanting They fht live love even though they thY he be K dead When Vh n Bret Hart Marte wrote that Kite alt Inspiration Dickens In Campy Camp he 1 did tint not know that the great muter master of ot Christmas then gono gunn to his hi long Ion r rest reMI m hn hurl 11 r looked upon any Iny scrap coral of his hla tai y handiwork handU ork Ii 11 He did not 1101 know until long that bon his hll death dath the generous novelist spoke admiringly of the 1111 gifted young oun far tar westerner and de di d dared to those about him that thai Harts hart had caught his hll hi own manner to 10 a 1 turn and his hi Christmas manner farmer at that always preserved his hi fondue fondness for tor the Christmas season sad and accord hag Ing to his hl hi biographer kept up Ul to 10 the thelast last the fond and foolish custom of ot tending presents to 10 his hll friends How Claus Mine cone to liar la III one of 0 the most mot dainty holiday Id Idyls Is ever eer penned Nathaniel and nary JUry Unwell ore Ire aa as dissimilar both bold In plan Illan and In treatment aa two holiday compositions well could be lit Like Ilke Dickens Hawthorne was wu constrained by L his hi artistic sense aen of justice from fromi ex eluding ghosts from hi hl hll Christmas fes tee Dot his hla apparition and pres presences encell are not the cheery cheer and well be bee b spooks pook who Uio came obedient to 10 the call of ot the magician They are of oC th till psychological and creepy or ur order ordel der del requiring counter Influences to re repel pet pel them and they thy hAve retained I nothing mortal In their makeup l lOf Of 01 course they the are arc genuine ghosts but buL they do not hurt fit Into the holiday scheme Miss Ulu Milford did IUd not deal with the tho 7 supernatural l She found hor her Inspiration thin tion In Dm UIO that n R and ami she tho concocted a very cry vOry and mul II nd app a appetizing Christmas f out nut of K ever pros pres I I sobs ent tIt and nd most mont apparent t Yeti y now tiow her hilI Imagery Is 18 fair and verY vary sweet but It II la is tin the fragrance of the faded la vendor lavender hlf lies lit III the i long Ion disused cabinet of ot her hor literary pans gems JAMES L i iA I t A WOLF HUNT The most mont mo northern point of Scandinavia navia or Finland Is I inhabited d by Lips L p They are ara divided Into Inlo mountain oleo field Ild Up lap Thu Utter latter live In tin tho NA va I leys Ie and are re employed chiefly In hi agri agriculture i culture the former k kp keep p to III the h moun mountains Loins and they thoy tho are very ory o ow owIng Ing hog to their Immense herds beh of or I which grass grail summer ummer and winter r In tho I open t I It If tits the mow Is II very d dup deep ep In vt winter Inter tho the i herds are brought down to the moro morn I sheltered valleys valley In spite of ur watchfulness they th are mn even eV n there Iere not safe safo from the Invasion of or wolves whom I hunger hUller drives drivel down to the tho lowland from the forests forest ta The Th mountain Laps Lap La pa paIn I I t tto In to consequence organize wait volt hunts hunt l I t during durin th the winter i They Th pursue the tho animals on akl of ot r snowshoes and owing to the greot 1 speed at which they can set get t over the rolen snow they the soon loon overtake the 1 Hying beats beast and aM kill them The hunts huntsmen huntsmen r i men carry carr nothing but bul u II short henry heavy I i spear which titer they drive home horn with a tm 1 l t ti Ii practiced land hand Only when wounded I Ido do the wolves attack their i H sIt otherwise othel the cowardly brut brul 8 seek ek i 1 safety In light t j It I t I 1 a i oJ Y |
