The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-11
LITERARY NOTES.

1t is the longest and those who have beer
permitted to read it in manuscript pro-
nounce it the strongest work that has
thus far come from his pen. 1t ferns III.
opening of trilogy of novels which is Il
treat the subject of wheat under the three
phases Of production, transportation, ant
consumption, and paints the evils Of rail-
road monopoly in no uncertain colors, the
personality and methods Of the late Col
lis p. Huntington being made the subject
of full length portrait. The training oil
Mr.. Norris for the writer's trade has bser
a varied and adventurous one. He was
born in Chicago thirty-odd years ago, ana
spent his boyhood there and in Califor-
MIA. His first ambition was to become
an animal painter, and with that in view
he studied for two years at the "AtelieI
Julien in Paris, but returned to Ameri-
ca In time to enter and be graduated al
the University of California in the class
of '94. After that he studied for year
at Harvard, and then, as a correspondent
for San Francisco newspaper, journeyed
to South Africa, wnere he had hand in
the Uitlander uprising. When that move
ment met with speedy failure he was
compelled by the Beers to leave the
Transvaal, but not before he had nearly
died of fever in hospital at Johannes
burg. He returned to San Francisco to
become one of the editors OF weekly
paper called the Wave and early In
1898 came East, bringing with MIN the
manuscript of 'McTeague. Since then
he has been writing almost without in
terruption. but during the war with Spain
went again to the front as correspondent
for "McClure's Magazine" and did sue
cessful battle with second attack of
fever in Santiago hospital. Mr.. Norris
is rapid and methodicai writer. count
Ing 5000 words OF copy fair days task,
but he comes to his work after careful
preparation and with full mind, ana
prunes and revises with Infinite care.
Though "McTeague" was written in one
hundred days, its author had been two
the same careful and honest workmanship
has marked the making of all his books.
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The Macmillan Company have Just is
sued Franz Wickhofs Roman Art: Some
Of Its Principles and Their Application to
Early Christian Painting" translated and
edited by Mrs. S. Arthur Strong, LII. u,
editor OF Furtwanglers Masterpieces Oh
and eighty illustrations; quarto. OF the
learned men who have
worked at classical archaeology almost all
have hitherto devoted themselves exclu-
5ively to Greek art, and had neglected TO
observe the phenomena of the develop
ment OF style. winch suecesslVeiy appear
throughout the imperial epoch OIL roman
history. On the other nand, the scholars
occupied with early christian ART nave
concerned themselves soieiy win tne e1-
pianation OF the supJects represehtea, viii
PndeAEnrf6
mis- gap. He mas attempted an historical
account OF style IN roman arr, potn IN
ana IN sculpture, from ABOUT the
period OIL augustus 10 mat OF constantine.
ihis history. detached from the DacK-
round OF the wiener GENESIS is now
'Hered TO the pubic.
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