Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-06-22

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risioa. ] need not tel you that Fo.co
IL bo; modelled on Que or any half dozen
persons. His character grew on me-a
great danger to a novelist, 10y the way.
knew N man vino loved canaries, and
had known boys who loved white mice,
aud thought the mice running sbOu:
Fosco while he mcditated ON his schemes
would have fine effect. You ask me
why made him fat, his greatest beauty
in the opinion of the majority of com
petent judges. You give me good res-
sous for making him fat; that fat men
are malevOlent and ruthless, and that the
first Napoleon was fat man, together
with the chemical demonstration that
fatty substances when heated above a
certain temperature develop an acid
known as butyric acid. I knew all this,
but none Of these considerations in
fuenced me. I had begun to write my
story, when it struck me that my
villain would be commonplace, and l
made him fat in opposition to the
recognized type Of villain. His theo-
ries concerning the vulgar clsp.trap,
that murder will out, are my own"
Mr.. Collins goes on to tell US that,
having thought out his big villain, he
felt that minor villain was necessary
q weak, shabby villain, the tool of
Fosco. Sir Percival Clyde then steps on
the scepe, To stamp bis character with
he must commits mean crime;
therefore he is made bastard, and must
to destroy forged register.
''You will not think me vsin when tell
you, as u simple matter Of fact, that peo-
pie took extraordinary interest in the
mean villain, and laid bets concerning
the nature of the mysterious crime which
put him In the power of Anne's mother"
Mr.. Collins continues: "a man, too,
wrote me furious letter, complaining
that had drawn an exact picture of his
Us Blackwater Park. House,
trees, lake aud boat house all were there,
and my correspondent was amazed and
disguised that have should selected his
house as the scene Of u crime. l need
not tell you that had never heard of
him or of his house in my life, and had
never seen either. Tue Woman in
White was exceptionally fortunate in
exciting the interest of the public. No
sooner was it finished than received o
number Of letters from single gentlemen,
stating their position and means, and
their wish to marry the original of Mar
ain Halcombe at once"
Probably no writer is, as it were, SO
hard upon himself in pruning away re-
dundant incidents as Mr.. Collins. A
writer full of inventive power finds his
especially of the kind which
does not bear upon the action Of the
story, spring up at every page and in
irude themselves upon his notice, and it
requires strong self to throw them
aside. Titles, how ever, arc not SO plen-
tiful US incidents, and quite one third of
the "Woman in White" was written be-
fore title could be found for it. Dick
ems ms anxious to commence publication;
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kind, aud he, like Mr.. Collins, Was tor
once at loss. Perhaps this was the
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