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Show A FAMOUS NOVELIST. A Graphic Pen Tictnre of Hall Calne and Something of His Character. Hall Caine is said to resemble Shakespeare Shake-speare in the keen intelligence of his features and in the intellectual height of his prominent forehead. He possesses a highly nervous organization, and his first novel came near bankrupting him in health. His best work is done after midnight in the early morning hours. He is a native of the isle of Man, a Manxman, and is 45 years old, or thereabouts. there-abouts. Much o'f his time is spent ia travel, when he exert3 his powers of observation ob-servation and gathers material for future fu-ture use. His home . is in the English lake country, overlooking Derwentwa-ter Derwentwa-ter and above the town of Reswick. It is called "Hawthorns." The novelist is also at times a poet, as he occasionally writes some verses for publication. He has decided religion? tendencies, which take the form of in vestigation. He contemplates writing a life of Christ, and as he excels in terse, epigrammatic sentences his style would be in the direct line of Biblical truths. He is conscientious and painstaking in all his literary methods, and his readers recognize in him one who has sincerity as a superstructure for every romance of which he is the architect. New York Advertiser. i |