Show AFRICA ISIIKK r HOME I I LITERARY SUCCESS HAS NOT txIAUOID OLIVK SCHREINER i nlTfnrn irti In HIP lair of time tether hr The ilnry of so ltrlesn rm hair tla I eeaot lee Kely Idle 1a lapr Toes I 55 138 Olive Hchrelntr I bold a unlquf po j iltlon In the world n of English letter Most people aaya a Homo Notes eon alder her the ODe great writer produced pro-duced by our col onlci although oth era would probably lilac Taama and Half lloldrnwooil by her side The way In which the la regarded la I the more nrloiii when we ranalder Ibat her fame baa been entirely won by one book The Htory of on African 1arm written when the nuthoreaa was only 17 sal a tale ao strangely atinple In Its language that the youth of the writer seems to shine nut from every sentence Ollte Hchrelner aa moat peop would gutaa from her name la I of lerman extraction ex-traction but her mother was ally iAn dale the daughter of an lingllih l clergyman I I clergy-man The future novelist apint her childhood In Capo Town end In the wild Karoo I those sandy plains nor rounded by mountnlna where she laid the scene of her book Although silo wss ono of several children chil-dren Including u much loved elder 1111 and n brother now a distinguished I dis-tinguished South African barrister Mian flchrelncr seems to have Il > ed n Ingularly absorbed life eorimunlng with herself and nature and noting nil that wont on In the Dutch I farmhouim round her home with n chlldi pltllew thourli often correct Judgment The story of her adventure aa a et ttnpub llihnl l writer la I n veritable romance She came to England with the man iiscrlpl of ThoAfrlcan Farm In her trunk with no literary friends In help her with advice Home happy Intplra tlon led her to tend her novel to Meter I Chapman t ft Hall the publlihcra In due course the UK found I Its I way Into the lands of one of their then readers leorge Meredith and he himself In nmnv peoples ertlmntlon the greatest nimtlth novelist of modern this unhesitatingly un-hesitatingly declared 1 his high npprccla lion of the work Nay more he sent for Ilalph Iron aa the young Isly then styled heraelf and dlteuMnd theM the-M with IHT giving her the benefit of lilt lane experience ami know ledge The book nlthougli only cotiditlng ot ono abort volume created nn Immediate Ini prcsulon and In n few week Miss Oiva Kchrolrcr became famoua Hut success Old not spelt her She refused to be lionized I and wan only to be ICon among her mull circle of friend where htr solid thoughtful was much appreciated appre-ciated for unlike many manor she I can npe ih aa will aa she can write and i he ti even more admirable aa n woman than an n writer Thou followed some Mara of comparative Inaction Mlaa Krhirlner wrote innstnntl but pub Hulled nothing and her known and countless unknown friends and ndmlr irs had the dlaappolntment of seeing I her go back to the Cape without luvlnj I publlrhed a stand book I quietly and unostentatiously ahe then Ml up her honastnld gods ut Matjcafon ledn a mall village situated nearly 200 mites from Cape Town Her 1110 Will simple In the extreme and entirely spent In reading writing and riding for aa la always the caw with n woman brought up In tho colonies I she la I n splendid horsewoman snub li never w happy aa when In the aadde A alight dwrlplon of her home aa won In DIOM unw distant days Ixfore she became Mrs flchriiner Cronwrlght gives aa nolhliiR el 10 can do n 1111 01 Pie of her character uml mnnlfold Intcroati Klne pholograplia nnd mextotlnts ot Doroa 1 pulntlngi and of Wall Ave nnd Bath lang In her altlino room stul an apartment utterly devoid of all literary liter-ary uiniaralua paraphernnlla She wrote nt a large Claire table and al thi tilt I In onto ways 3 recluse was alb al-b 10 pirated to are any globetrotter wr made hla nay from Cipe Town In or to pay hen respects to the author eta of An African Inrm Dreamt Mian Schrclneri second book a collection of abort atorlra and allegoric was published 1 after her return re-turn to Africa and although It baa not In any way added to her great reputation reputa-tion It cannot bo old to Imo detracted from It Shortly after the I publication of thli her second Look her frleuda were aur prlMd to hear of her mnrrlagti to n young Smith African gentleman farmer I whom ahn had known for mme lime grout Interact In all her pantry work Mrs Hchrelner I Cronwrlght na silo U now called lives lu a charming Dutch homestead an Kit all ted African form She write by Ills and starts and at times In tho Interval In-terval of work the goes for n short brink walk In the broad spent Karoo I coming Imclt with tier thought fresh I and collected |