Show SPLENDID FIELD FOR ROMANCE sr gilbert parker says there Is room for american novelists sir gilbert parker canadian novel 1st and historian and since 1800 mem ler of the english house of commons ailed back to england saturday on tie campania according to the new york herald he had been on a two months visit to canada the last six days he bad spent in new york when seen on the campania just before it sailed he was surrounded by friends and relatives who had come to see him off but he found time to say a few pleasant things about the united states and its people of its bonier ful potentialities in literature he spoke with enthusiasm no country in the world he said presents so wide and wonderful a field tor the novelist and the romancer as the united states you have a his past of more than ears of exploration adventure episode and incident whereon to draw you bave a hundred great problems of na life to solve which present the fascinating elements of romance you have not only room for the great american novelist who has been ex pecked for so anany years but for twenty great american novelists As to his own literary plans sir gilbert said that he was at present engaged upon a novel which will be published in harper s maga zine next year it will follow the lead of his most recent book A lad der of swords in the fact that it hlll continue his deflection from can adian soil as a field of fiction the acene Is laid partly in england and partly in egypt and the time is some forty years ago the period of ismall pasha who is one of the characters |