The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-21

neen taught 10 expect to see. his heau
only is big. He IS barely of medium
height, and heavy stoop-like that OF
man who has been bent by a great weight
OF heavy work-lowers his shoulders and
makes him appear even shorter than he
really is. His face-with It's pallid yellow,
In front OF which the still very dark beard
stands forth with almost startling en-
phasis: with its painfully deep and clearly
defined burrows running across the brow
and down at the side of the round, blunt
nose: with its deep eyes, sunk in hollows.
like those OF man VINO does not sleep
well. and obscured by prodigious eye
glasses; with It's nervously twitching and
impatient lips-is the face of a man who
worries about his work and worries about
the world which that work deals with and
concerns. His hands and feet are the
small hands and feet OF a delicate dilet-
tante. His neck is the big neck OF the hard
worker. His frame, covered by clothes
which fit better than those the ordinary
Frenchman wears, seems to indicate
strength which has been overtaxed-but
still real and very great strength. a hasty
glance makes lola look more like a man
who could run a great bank successfully
than like a man who could teach great
lessons in a novel. But the second glance
reveals the novelist, after it has first re-
vealed the more evident student and
he looks, too, like a banker whose bank
has failed, and, in falling, brought dis
tress to the innocent through no fault of
his own. His is not the face of the mis-
anthrope, but II is the face of man who
SORROWS. Perhaps this is the result of
life in which there has been little pleasure.
Perhaps 1t is a facial deception-an ex-
preston as misleading as that Of the thief
who looks like a clergyman. At any rate
. l.. ~, &c
ence. to imagine lola really happy. But
/ must emphasize the fact that the lines
in his face are those OF the man who is
sad, not of the cynic or pessimist.
yes, shall most certainly go to Amer
ica," he said gravely, but with that great
nervous rapidly which forces him, even
when he Is making a public speech, to go
back and repeat words over which he has
stumbled.
which are to be treated in your new SER
ies?' I asked. amazed at the possibility
which his reVark had opened up.
81 Will not say yes, and I will not say
no." he replied. THAT series began with
Iourdes' Its next book will be Rome
After that will come Paris Whether
Paris viii be followed by london and
London by New York I cannot say yet.
I have thought OF It. II decide to carry
l.
study of my field. I think shall not make
mistakes which VIII amuse you. I try to
r. avoid mistakes. I study my subjects very
infinitely before I take them up. and am
most careful"
And with that he dismissed what is ap-
parently the most important piece OF liter
airy news of the year. Zola going to Amer
lea to write novel about New York! One.
wonders how this literary surgeon would
WV oft wh stolen
books without even so much as 'by your
leave" and from which he has never re-
ceived a penny-except 900 from the New
York Herald for 'I4ourdes"-in pay. The
literary piracy OF American publishers is
a sore spot with him.
The second book of this new series OF his
Is almost ready TO go to the publisher. He
has not talked about It very much-he ex-
pects. I think. that Il will create a greater
Stir than "Lourdes" did. He gave me per-
mission TO quote him thus concerning it,
and these are really the first important
word he has spoken on the subject:
at took me eight months Of definite
study and research 10 gather the material
for II, doing nothing else meantime. There
will be forty characters moving through
It's sixteen chapters. and each chapter will
be from fifty 10 sixty pages long. 1t Will
be as big volume as La Debacle.'
LEO XIII. viii be the lofty figure in the
book, as Napoleon III. was in lie Debacle.
l have treated Leo XIII. with the great
respect which is due TO him. I consider
him to be an intelligence-an intellectual
and moral force.
MY novel pictures Rome under three
aspects: The Rome OF the Palatine, the
Rome of the popes and the Rome Of the
Ouirinal. / shall treat ancient Rome in
retrospective manner for the action OF the
book is wholly modern. / was somewhat
disappointed when visited some or the
ruins there yet have taken great pleas
ure In preparing this part OF the book"
II would be impossible 20 give a better
idea OF Zolas methods OF work than he
himself gives In his description OF the way
he has written and is writing Rome" In
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