Show mr howells and reporters mr howells does not shun publicity and he gets his share of it he says he used formerly greatly to enjoy favorable press notices of his books and owns to having carried them about like love letters having once been a newspaper man he has a soft place in his heart for the reporter A journalist who sought an interview with him not long ago received this reply what there is left of me to be interviewed Is at your service discriminating readers who have felt the charm of A modern instance and haie have tl iced with the mute yearnings of silas lap ham enjoy reading a newspaper page in which mr howells talks of his work and they see noth ing immodest in it the present writer never could understand why so many modern writers so obviously affect to ignore their own work and refrain from speaking about it for nearly all writers are proud of their literary performances and of whatever distinction they may have gained stevenson had no of this sort I 1 know what ale pleasure sure Is he says frankly for I 1 have done good work he was a proud man out not a vain one the silly statement made by W E benlev that stevenson could not pass a mirror without looking into it proceeded from a heart full of the jealously or art stevenson was not a much photographed man but I 1 have seen an album of pictures of him taken amid various scenes and in none of them was there anything like pose in many of the photographs his head s modestly lowered and his eyes are on the ground or otherwise averted where he appears in a group you would hardly single him out as the person whom the photographer most wished to present |