Show SPLENDID FIELD FOR ROMANCE sir gilbert parker says there Is room for amer can novelists sir gilbert parker canadian novel 1st and historian and since 1900 mem ber of the english house of commons sailed back to england saturday on the campania according to the new york herald he had been on a two months visit to canada the last days he had spent in new york hen seen on the campania just before it sailed he was surrounded by friends and relatives who had come to see him oaf bajt he found time to say a few pleasant things about the united states and its people of its conler i tul potentialities in literature he spoke with enthusiasm no country in the world he said I 1 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 years of exploration adventure episode ard 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 many years but tor 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 serially 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 will 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 |