Show NEW FIELDS FOR NOVELISTS why hot writer f RU ae tho division of abo earth among contemporary novelists nove litts lias cofas yet in eluded greenland chero some now writer can scene of a story in which tho heroine will wear sealskin trousers and calm lier troubled libart mighty drafta of train oil neither ahna any novelist seized upon china chero great things may yet be done by a story toller who really knows that modern and multitudinous sphinx the chinaman but with these exceptions thero is very little desirable territory which Is not preempted pre empted this of course greatly hampers new novelists who are compelled novels dealing only with euclish men and women at home england la ahn common possession of everybody and even the american writer who does not wish to liui tato cither mr diarte or mr is compelled to lay the scene of bis etorlia in london or in one of tho many lattio english colonies to be found in continental cities the english novelist who wishes to write n story characterized by some lattio novelty is reduced to inventing dodos or other fabulous an attempt which fails more frequently than it eno ceodes this state of things ia plain to every writer that I 1 wonder that no ono has unshod in to occupy tho greenland or tho chinese field A greenland story would at attract attention because of its novelty and wo who have never been to greenland could warmly tho truth of its local color and tho profound knowledge of eskimo character shown by tho writer an advanced eskimo maiden with a wild desire to wear petticoats instead of trousers and to drink tea instead of train oil could hardly tail to charm the reader I 1 am afraid however that the nd eskimo maid would not beyond tho first four or alvo chapters for I 1 understand that whenever an eskimo woman exhibits symptoms of advanced thinking she Is immediately set adrift on an ice floe W L aidon in idler |