New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-07
A MANY NOVELIST.
MR.. HALL GAME AT HOME

From Back ahd white.
ntlc squaT, built stone house. almost hidden
from The coaC road Ly thick tres, and OVERCOMING
the BEAUTIFUL valley VI DcrwcutN alter and h"ssrh.
ul~anc. with the town Of k">"lch Blhe zero"
such is lawthOrns. The home among tAe fAlfU,h
Lakes Of tie author OF " The >eap'soat inc bohu
mn aad The D-,u-tcr londrr to thr N''t "h u
mound between tae Eray C'o,th"nte 'hui'h J,
uct. Han. the Loi"c t.ri %. 'oIeri"se anu a. a. o.,
OF -olthry. Round the corner OF The rond Is IN.
struggling Oh" ,'oricd cottage where ohGioy w. 1
MIA Harriet only ur ago an o'd iHHS u,e e ~
IN Lyase above wnD had " On'" seen shelley pAl,i
md In the cottage, pHud about old FOLKS are SUI
liViug ~ho remember the great Lake poets. Ay, !
mind Master Nod worth when was BIZ boy 10
Grasna lays a. old FELLOW On tne rosH' i r's y
Il grt tall man nivvcr loOain' at O"t and NnFi quet'
NOt the least VI NE literary ASSOCIATIONS OF Lake
land ccutrc ~ the study oi me novelist VINO ' "a
,akcu up his nDoie there Eleven - car 'hV ~
brought ilossetu to spend month or tT1 IN "r ,
house afnVng the hill, Of The vne Of - John ana nov
hc surrounded bN - many meme mo- u 'i7 Wv
frlnd,hp that the room where ne sits al work seoiia
almost to hive backward Slance 81 the dead po;'
painter The desk the biz chair. the pictuTrs, me
Lt-t Of Shakespeare that used 70 stand over thc OV,h
Gaze Ia Ch-yur Walk, the caNk"t tor manuscripts me
portrait by Frcfcrick shields drawn from the dead
iucci and even NOR Interesting IL more pnhiul thhi
these The death mask with lis noble forehead ana
nucly -ch4,cled none. Nost VI uesc al" seen III
Mr.. fuckers drawing.
ial Cane'1 personality l. pretty well known ~. ~
les, m Il London drawing room. that you see the
u.turul man himself lie Is sOu VI the people,
ham 81 MAX urd CAmbran parents. aud COMING OF
Inc soil I'M q more literal perhaps than Is The
case with other notable man OF Letters no" Hvg
he PEASANT and the student. thc man Goff % WIZ
IN Ccrtnu rugrc,in.~s Of exterior loosely. al
most untdlly dressed Win rial deicAcy u p3 -i4ue
the head ol an Elzabethan. having perfectly suirt
ing resemblance ut some moments 10 TIE poiirh's
Of Shake>pearcit Is certainly curious and striking
pid moi NJ Jules Clarctic say lately, writing about
poor Guy de Maupassnnt's breakdown, that all me
Chew tie cud the bees make honey certainly !
shold suy t.at OF AL the resue,> workers among
tLem Mr. Hall Caine f. quite the most ardent, ne
mo.t feverish, even the most impatient and indiS
erect lie Is II sheer bundle OF nerves, 'ad a
body breakdown serves Il, warning 10 ri'h ihpctu
y INT have you got ia hand now - asked.
There Mann story party written, 10 Cr 'aliaa
Man, story only drafted 10 dcal with the sale Of the
I"and to the Crown, and well. other things
Nrlthcr-in some cascs. look" and he brought
dow, from cabinet pill" Of type written copy. Ny
Teadcrs viii hardly be prepared FOR IT. subject. II
wa, part of new life of J"'u, Rad some OF IT
nnd saw lis Iasou d. ctrc instantly II was to present
me nrr,onallty Of jesus wildly. realistically. a.
closely a, any great figure In modern biogmphy or.
not To put IT Irrcvrr"y' as any grand figure III serious
'O:'I How long has this been in hand D"
when +. It TO appcarl
Years hence. II at all-thc public wants me as n
novelist ana not sS P'Tp'n r.c.n visit tho novelist
showed what he could do In new walk Of hirI n
lie Ind written a drama, %' kao~n "' ond
the author read # aloud IN the drawing room Ihe
uornlng was like May and the reader sat In the Hight
~ ~" soft sunshine booking In hi, dressing gown II
W, ois jeal,~ as unlike n modern Eugshman any
such could DO frequently passing his long fingers
reading with strong feeling should call Hall Cain"
fin" render No long ago Mark Twain read some
ahmS reminiscent Of the little Bethel Hall Gaines
is neither that nor theatrical. Ills voice, like TIE
,sItten .tve ~ his best books 10 tnglc with
passion at the great moments He read for an hour
and a half and the effect produced On his lIte andi
s spssp was son. it Of the autSor WIFE his Young
slser hi, little boy, "snnlocl''' ,lc actor and my
M SDeS ON %ss Of f the pay All su ca% say S IT,
there, something coming and 4 know chalk from
Ss ~ 5Gmsh"s s TS o Sni@s Of 5PT the possibilities
n, he drama for imaginative art Notwithstanding
Mr. r. +. OConnor. he adhercs TO IT that the vogue
20 he SAYS speaks to ten. twenty. thirty or 1t may d.
one hundred thousand readers But the new dqmatlSt
mann mr. Scandnavan-ls going to speak 10 a hundred
thou.9nd hearers every night for three months Mt
.tr"ich. lie Is 10 BE- played simultaneously In Lon.
d"n Inris New York, Berlin, Dresden. Madrid and
Mejionrne His voice is to be the loudest heard in
w. talked on many aspects OF the literary art dur
Ing those long evenings IN the country. where there
hnnh fo read and the glorious river, the Grcta to
listen 10 rs babbles under the study Windows Mr.
Game pleased me BY the real 90, d sd he showed a, the
fitv and Meredith. Il glory In fardys success
Win Tess said he that book is vertable master
pei II seems to pity" he continued, "that on
tho Strength Of one fine book even two three. a
VIZ writer should push from their stools the older
you who have long and noble records. For my own
o Dart should be well content 70 ten years
,,caship 10 the public II there any assur-
np r Mat after that should not be aside,
Wilde collins Was ,, =; Reads WIS as as S fear one
i x,"aor child who came along in my wake!
Thc NE that the novelist lives M In the mountains
Is vs, Mrs Cne is very energetic and does her
prn milking churnng and chcesemokine, for there
Is COW, country homestead. We took long wallis
In the hills and OF MI Gaines favOritc sros s