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Show Authors' Handwriting. If readers ami admirers of the polished pol-ished sentences of popular authors could see the original manuscripts from which their works are printed they would be given Interesting sidelights side-lights on the character and personality personal-ity of the writers. The handwriting of G. K. Chesterton has been described by an English editor as "shocking." W. W. Jacobs, comedy writer of the sea, has all his llterury work typed and inukes but few corrections on the finished fin-ished manuscript. .Other English writers whose copy Is reputed to be neat and quite. acceptable to n printer are ,H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Co-nan Co-nan iDoyle. Editors say they never know what to expect from that Imaginative Im-aginative genius, H. de Veie Stacpoole. Sometimes his work Is neatly typed on good paper, but often it Is scribbled to sheets 'torn from a copybook. |
