| Show 11 IE IS A iXEW LIGHT TKIHLN CRANE IN THKAPCNA OF UlTEItATUIIB III Itent Story the 111 scads pr votsrsuts list iln Iavott for flint on Ilooll 114 of I 10 tonality NIW light has begun ZJ be-gun to uhlne In literature lit-erature still It Hares tJ up so powerfully ns OCJII to Indicate that It rV1 j may perhaps Illu r minate the future is iJI m a beacon ot thlb 4444 I literary epoch Au thorltallto critic have predicted as much ns this for the work of Stephen Crane a young writer living In New York City whoso nut adequately published novel The 111 Ridge of Courage recently took tho London literary world by storm and Is receiving more tardy but no I MM emphatic recognition In this country lenlus In I n rather vague and a very much abuiM work but It can be apPropriately appro-priately applied to Mr Cranes work llhough ho personally objects to the term writes J II Welch In 11101 l Weekly Ho says that his success side from a literary apprcntlceithlp of eight years In the field of newspaper riling has been the result simply ot Intense application and mental concon ration Hut whatever his own cattle nntlon ot his power may be It Is certAinly cer-tAinly n most unusual power which carries both the average Imllsrlmlnal ng reader and the kci < n critic along Ir ralstlbly Indeed the critic Is I apt to forget his vocation when The 1M idgoof Coumga Is opened Illscrltl Ism 1 Is swept away by tho rage of bat II I e tha screaming nt shells tho hoarse Shoals of men the tumult and cxclte lent The young author Is hut twentyfour y1 old < and began tel write for pub Icnllon nl the age of Platoon Ho was born In Newark New Jersey of n fain fly whose male members an both his mothers nnd his fathers stile < were chiefly Methodist clergymen Ills maternal ernal grandfather < was Wallop Peck And his father was an eloquent and successful preacher These however are not the moil In emitlng things about the author nr The lied Badge of Courage Little has been said < l of Jho personality that cats produce such a work Physically llephen Crane Is I n slender young mAnor man-or n little above medium height with finely chiseled but rather delicate feat tires and n large head covered with a luxuriant growth ot light hair which alls In cnrcleiis disorder over a high forehead The blue ies which look out from beneath have a suggestion 01 weariness and even of sadness In then when the brain behind Is I passive but when It Is alert and active as In Inter citing conversation they light up and flesh with sparkling animation Ills eyes arc n good Index ot his temperament tempera-ment I cant do any sort or work that I dont like or dont feel like doing he said the other day and Pvo given UI trying to do It When I was at school few of my studies Interested me And as a rrsult I wan a bad scholar They used to say at Syracuse University where by tho way I didnt finish the course that I was cut out to be II professional baseball pla > cr And I the truth nf the matter Is that I went there more to play basnbsll than to study I was always very fond of lltcratur though I remember when I was eight l years old I became very much Inter ested In B child character called I think Little noodle Ilrlghleyes and I wrote a story then which I called After this fascinating little person When I wss about sixteen I began to write for the New York newspapers doing car rrtpondencn from Asbury Park another an-other places Then I began to write special Articles and short stories for the Sunday papers and one of the life vary syndicates reading n great deal in I the meantime and gradually acqulrln n style I decided that the nearer IL writer gets to life the greater he become be-come as on artlut and most nt my prose writings have been toward the goal partially described by that misunderstood mis-understood and abused word realism Totslol Is the writer I sciatica molt or r 4 STIPIIIN CIIANB all Ive been a free lanco during most of the time I have been doing literary work writing stories and ar tlclm about anything under heaven that seemed to posse Interest and wiling them wherever I could It wa hopeless work Of nilhuman lots for a person ol sensibility that ol an ob scuro freo lance In literature or journalism Jour-nalism Is I think the most dlscourag Inn it was during this period that I wrote The lied lladgo of Courage It wits an effort born of pain deopal almost and I believe that this mad K a betta iece of literature than It irtirrmie would havR been It touts R pity that art should < bo A child of Ialll and yet I think It Is Ot eourm we have fine writers who are prosper oil is and contented but In my opinion their work would < 1 lie I greater If thin were net so It lacks the sling It would have If written tinder the spur of a great need |
