Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-29
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o.dsrs...sketch of Gill
bert Parker the
.0s,BlE YOUNG WRITER
49,, career Stories About W. E.
'l''. NV sdmund GOsso sir Cd
y, y 1roId's Return 10 The
Unaed States.

In, ard Edmund G0''e- %.
!, y. moIGs Return 10 the
United States
+ leeis 5ramaiist and writer oi
rr'lA ss inst come for q few
iorie' tbis city. For the past
wv me- has been royng npo .,l.,.; NJ "
n~ aaebec. gathered n9leiln, y,
m N lie recent COLLECTION ol
N dealing with life OF thc
sioIies uc"onfrv. adjoining the
pa! ogrbec II saw it, by the
alo u,o5 In an English review
oIg Ssy with the stories OF huu.
~ w bas been immensely sue.
NpuYur Parker finds this field
wv bs nroposes to work 1t for
Z ., .ey lie WIN shortly return
Gnher study: Whenever ne
" ,y he goes over the ground
s.spe Is laid very carefully.
ws hi saws. mot merely "a
l but to get into pertect
Min The conditions OF the NE
XIV Alr Parker Is q most In.
" .n About 80 years old. OF
1 hsjgbt and slight build, with 2
isil.J blark-benrlcd face aud
Drss Indicative Of the poetic
Y ~ be hns IN his looks none
n.rninrtips Of the typical nu-
y .eems rather like q well-brrd
v.5ely Though bis career has
IL Il has alrcudy been fun Of
W nj wba, ,he modern roman
Ii;'i would cnll "culur.' " lie was
cepoda. educated ut Trinity col
,rnto. and designed hy his pa
y the Episcopal mincstry But,
4 few mouths experience oi CO.
4 tn,v. hp rcbelird. and dctcrnin-
|aate literature. which had long
II. mdimc. his profession. An
KIM presented itself for trip
I,r'm ma be- seized Il, For soy
sgfhs be Travelled in the leading
I'm cities. dcyothg himself chief
turing. To the storing up of matte
N hnnre USE iu writing fiction.
more or less desultory newspaper
.ndencc. His lectures were ian
mcpssful. aud his literary work
4 ihc attention oi the editor 0t
i tbe Ieadng paper, in Sydney who
aim "a commission 90 truycl
4 ue Islands NJ thr South seas and
me- d series of articles upon his
Ir0s. The otter was 30 tempting
mite Of bis dislike of newspaper
accepted 10 and for several
IL devoted himself to- the study
conditions OF life in the southern
I0e The results of his travels
embodied in his first two, and
N, books of travel. Round the
N Australia uud Below the
ae'
Parker Is a great believer ia this
n Geld for tie writer of fiction.
DID, he said to nae the other
bad Robert Louis Stevenson de-
b 70 10 live iu Samou for there
uomded with the very Kind Of
hls best aud which he pictures
IlNNtuIly, lie Is almost In die
b iiual adventure, for until a
an ago piracy wa, pructiccd
he dave trade still ilourished.
No were still In their glory aud
iiys OF stirring dcpds and hair.
Y eapps were actually lived over
n Way ! myself know a man who
y fortune 'biackbirdiug, as the
% human beings used TO be
gohiaaly Mr. Parker woaried Of
|lTVr- v'5riT Tnu rCrC7umNl to de-
lnselt 10 pure literature. lie felt
wandering years. as the Ger
~, We're over; 500 lac threw up
fmallSllc post went 10 London
eAled down tO the writing of
hs success from the first was
|aole Wy rare fortune" hr said
y was spared the first terrible
'a@ Of the average literary Gu
London, and ! soon nude my
I. y TOE magazines. When / went
loh presented two letters of in
ION 10 editors. Neither of these
aIe ever accepted q line of my
Hose that gave mo cucUurag-
ere all strangers 10 me. I'm Lon
me way there are several cdi-
20 are always uu the search for
|nWis Some of them have eX-
lnal3 hecuuoss hoe discovering
|aleAt. In my Judgment. among
'iest OF these Is w r.. HcuIcy,
|, NE National Observer: Now
motifs editor of Mncmillau's;
'gA ,1rernWoud, who was Oe first
! inc Fan Mall Gazette, aud who
esl''el at different periods the
Y ~ James Gin2rttc, aud the
iuhct Anti-Jucobm, aud Donald
~, elltor of Good Words. and
Y III oldlnnry to the queen. Some
hell have now become my nor
'n ls and ! have the greatest
4la admiration for them.
i.i,eculey consider one of tho
,.lslnt and interesting of our
E,n'eTA Ills life would furnish
r,i ip' novelist. Surely IL would
Wv 70 hnd IN fiction ANYTHING 10
u iir began his literary career
IVY utterly lriendicss and Utmost
N lie bombardvd editors with
s,n,p he met rejection every
j w ne preserved, aud though
~ peculiar style of writing 10
uAu devoted himself was I'M
w refused To- change IL. lie
NV nv 10 do what his nnturnl b4nt
H., ~ 90, no matter what the
c1, ',r'l Ilght bee. During this
.,n n'"llu'ted serious trouble in his
T. '1 \, Hi,Apgsure, his friends believed
n.y. eV.iheu 10 have series of sur
4 % Tuou, performed, and II was
bo,gsss al I'M hospital undergoing
ANY anu, w wrote his famous hospitni
M. '''s 'hem the mastery poem
y Ile night chat covers me.
. Wbet., "Iu pnlC 10 pole,
y S u''elrr Gods may be-.
x I'leonWcruble soul "
N ny ' incident happened In him
'fa lhes2 trying operations Ills
NJ tN99spitol ward was neyt nm
lo.tPl,. lmpn fou know wbnt n
n Ivy exists between the lower
ghen flo9men and Englishmeu
/, N. 'lL Henley had been carried
tbIs| ward from The operatinS
N vSS,,olghman pcered over bis
mk ~ WI tledi Aye, and what
bs,. hannockbufnF
n M 'vl',nce. however com
h MI W. end lie made lto,,nch
uent, y Places. obtained eiitoTiai
bo'l and has now Won u''9 KIN
iat W., as a writer and elitor
! < ~, ~ could see him. Iiis9 ner.
Iihoa,, une as his work liz ms
Tba,, mad and a face Of intense
power " a Perfect exprlssion
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