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Show Authors' Handwriting. If readers and 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 literary work typed and makes but few corrections on the finished fin-ished manuscript. Other English writers whose copy 1-s reputed to be neat and quite acceptable to a printer are II. G. Wells, Itudyard Kipling, Arnold Bennett and Sir Arthur Co-nan Co-nan Doyle. Editors say they never know what to expect from that imaginative im-aginative genius, II. do Vere Stacpoole. Sometimes his work is neatly typed on good paper, but often it is scribbled to sheets torn from a copybook. |