Show Scrap Between BetTeen Wells and nd Executors of or o Novelist Gissing G iss LONDON l OON LITERARY LIT nAJ LETTER l or Special Correspondence 0 O Wells going to 10 lose anything us thin Ihn result rosult of ot othis L his hi recent trouble with the thc ex cx 0 eI lora of o tho the lato late George lbs aiss Ins hill two little boys boye Lo how however however ever tire to be tile the poorer because of ot It The thing Is especially unfortunate for forthe or orthe orthis the this reason r that thal ot left heft little or nothing In consideration of o which fast Act It tt may mil bo 0 remembered his hit children re recently were granted a ft small pension loll from rUm the lie civil hut Hot 1 H it O G Wells was wad one of or best friends and ami after aUer the tho lattera death Wells Well elis offered to 10 write an nn Introduction to 10 posthumous novel nOel which is lea a romance of ot th the Byzantine empire The orte offe was Willi gladly accepted by Al AI AIgernon gernon hoeing and Miss lIel Collett lIes OleS C I Ings InglI executors executor BH as II n II lon lol publisher wita WIlli to pay ia 13 quite a IL nt price for the novel noel on th the strength of o the tho foreword When the introduction wan wall submitted however though It hind had bo hiren n highly approved by hy of oC friends It II did not at all please the this novelists executors They refused In fact fatt to have hae It In III Incorporated In iii the book honk Walli Ih for Cor his hiM part declined to alter what he hl had bath Written 10 so matters matter reached a deadlock Is to appear minus tine tha place pine of ot h there ate arc to be tOme some remarks by b Frederick Harrison on ott the Ile period In which tim tho romance tilts takes lal s an RII a II result the publisher Is I ii going to 10 p pay JI w 70 KM for tor the book than thin he ho originally offered re R fL dead eod low loc far Nr the two little boys bOI Meanwhile Wells has baa had no difficulty whatever In iii disposing of ot his ti nI i ri I 1011 I 1 s Jut t app i i 1 i 1 I r ii it In lIeu 1111 I s M Ji li 10 lea leaC CW C Sp V F I Minion Marl It t vin tt Ih itO spent th hi nf of it jiny Mity Mil Jun antI and July Jilly III In lins huts loft ift this the 1 It for fir his hilt villa at al t a 1 hr he Is I Int his 1111 now nets novil Shull Offend C end This Is I n a story of III day clay life In anti and It its horo lii b lug Inn a II bright Italian Italiani child of ot however persons attempt at in I I make a criminal This Ihl will be hit I Mi Mr 7 Crawfords romance Oil tue n nor or more Inore of them hutin appeared nr etc f etcEl ry El year IlIr SN elate U ho hi bogun with whIm Mr In l I s CS r Haggard has bin nut hut stopped tI think thinkIng lug Ing III about aboul his hili queer In ionn v lion with wRit his 1111 iii dog do ot lieU Dot In I II till fact h Is been allowed to tf people twill from nil oil over ver tJ er the counts country con II tr having hwn In wilt hag Ing In to titus hIm concerning It 1 Tn Till I e eion rIU lion ion us ill ID to whether this animal In dy II ing In l with IU Its 1 owner la is still being In lii till Lii rs and emit H few tew days daYI ago 80 It was Wll that the Physical Jh 1 Intended to Investigate in V the Meanwhile time the Ih author of at Uh She hm In a letter to tu the Times rim declares declarer that the many letters he his I has baa received seem PePSIn to 10 prove almost almot beyond question that telepathic Intercourse does exist l be hi between bh tween nUll mann and dogs logn horses eats cats and evem birds Hut Mut by hy fur far the most litter Inter eating part patt of ot Mr Haggard second letter Illel H he I a theory th which he tI puts pUll forth as Its to tn the possibility that Hint the same sante sort ot of soul exists In both buth human humin be beings behla logs ings anti and animals Whet Is II th r V hu he asks aska to 10 that man has ha reached d In his knowing kill ut ti such won n damn doro the th dally dull store storo of ot indicates revelation Is I aind we wo not riot still have to t learn an OM to So thu of ur animal l life Ift CM on 1 nt ot nil all life lilt A llama hams set leI In iii it tt tall uC of von pure glass su brightly In Ina n nu a u vase valle nf ot dimly Imly In a iv A of or rough ut at all or only through Its cracks find amid imperfection Yet Vet Y t till the name flume nuy may be bl Identical of tim the sarn heat lUht P I ter tr and size It IM lit hut but the Ih material that v vanIC arl arlor rl n nor or In iii th thi case cape which h I strive to titus Illus Illustrate rats the gross grace or em le j lees gross giu body of t the particular name I P 1 the mil tin and In lu Inspiring which conies comes we know not whence and aitel goes v we e know lOt live whither happens to tn be enclosed Certainly English writers writer have been having weird experiences of ot late Ms MI ii dog duK story Will was run close by time ghostly experiences of o t Phillips ps ut mit but they are ire both Doth w d by the Ito things Mrs ni Camp Campbell Campbell bell 1 lies to tell tIll about her h com can communications with II a reincarnated Ro Rb Roman man mall maiden When Wh hemi Mrs Mr new book which has hu to 10 do clo wits with the time Eternal City Ity appeared recently there thare the was n a statement In III Uon that the romance lid hAd been ally dictated by an English girl Irl III in whom the sou soul of in an n early Homan Roman dom dam dams domI s pel l I evidently dwelt but bUl of 01 course no 11 noone Otis one took the thing seriously Mi Praed however hower declines to be dl hived llevad and now she lies has given the ex cx exact act acl details ot of how she Ih made the Ihl nc ac acquaintance of ot the reincarnated one and situ how they wrote wrol a novel In iii partnership The rhe real tal It tt seems Is a Veil fell brought up tsp young yo un lady who moved In excellent IOde but bul who dOt nt care are for or personal publicity Mrs Mr Praed usual and hi him hll r met at h a hotel abroad so o the th writer says YI but nothing wits was l said eaid ShOUt about old Home nome until one day lIy antiquarian matters rime came um Uh der discussion In these t ele Mm Mrs lit Praed Pried Is 18 deeply Interested Now she says It Mo o happened that I 1 had with me lite two Iwo stones One ISO of o them was wall a torte stone that I 1 had hAll myself picked nicked up UI from Crom the Temple of 0 Jupiter Capita linus at Rome The other came from front Coylon Ceylon I 1 showed theta them to 10 her Site She Instantly In astonished me by b telling me nie exactly whit where te tate th tite stone Ione must have Iino of Jupiter come from rom In the Temple About the Ceylon he was wits hopelessly wrong Naturally I 1 Will was quite amazed PS PM as ns ii I knew kneit that my m young friend had hM never In III Home flame no so o I asked hor her to 10 tell tail me ate more moro about aboul the temple about which I 1 knew toast most of Dr what can be known as I had bee Ip working up UI the sublet IU for tor a book I wrote a n few years before Imagine my lay wonder when she nan Hh uc tIe scribed tho the whole temple as It must t have hao stood atoori In the tile days d of at tolling me moo to 10 tile the minutest deUll wh vlee everything was north south east a t aid west e t U Jl was ins all till exactly as II I know knew It roust must have havo beell mid toino comae co details I Ihn hn 0 verified 1 since lInce After Arter that limit I made mado ft n point of o seeing her again and of or getting her herto herto Home The Themore Themore to speak spelt C about ancient more I hoard heard the lie more maIo 1 I waN Nearly N everything she said sata hout th Ih place 1 J have verified the ht spoke t I ti III no u oven oen about such Huch timings things HS as II little house houst by h I the lie Tiber you know tl till ii house houw mentioned In iii Isle his l Ind J jealousy r Gradually I began begun to find In hI her talk references to lo a II certain Domino the tho lady lad had of ot the novel and mis mistress mistress tress I 1 asked lI ked hor her about this thill and M s little by little drow drew out of ot her hor tho tue whole love story told loll In III the tho book l enough apparently for or Mrs Irs Praed continues When once I 1 unit hUll convinced Nyria that lint alto nho had no ito need to 10 be frightened about my mity betraying her lien beloved Domina I meroy hail had to 10 sit lilt at lit my typewriter and it was Willi as 11 much as nil I could do to keep pace with her hor That was war later laler on ott In the thc course of ot the story Wo We had a 1 Roman nomon talk lalk nearly every cery day for or two or three months At first I hold hand Then Thon I 1 used IsM to 10 take notes In a II short shorthand shorthand hand of ot lilY my own wn anti anil transcribe them item tho the next day ml Finally 1 I used to 10 type typewrite typewrite write from rom remit dictation almost straightaway straight Mrs t Is hurt at nl the scepticism with which her story of ot these doings has lu been bash received and like Mr Ir hug Hila gavel Kard site he welcomes all Investigation e Meanwhile horrible prospect I she hI la is I getting really ready to publish the actual notes lintel of ot her confabs with Nyria to 10 demonstrate that she Ih hue IB It no hlO myth loth HAYD 11 IiA A 0 mx N ILlICIt ell I unell |