The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-23

iectlous OF William Morris handWrltlnS
and one volume containing copies of
stxty-seven letters written BY Lord
Nielsen. many of which have never been
published. The Morris manuscripts
comprise "A Dream of John Ball.
making ninety-flve pages. bound IN
I kelmscOtt velium- 1.-THE Friendship OF
/ Amis and Amile.' nineteen pages Of
toolscap, and the original autograph
manuscripts of five lectures on art sub
! Jects. covering 49, pages. Morris man
I uscripts are very scarce an occasional
autograph letter appears, but such an
/ extended lot Of Morrisiana has never
/ been offered before. ard, doubtless, the
] prices viii be high.
Those who are interested in autobi-
/ ographical detail win enjoy reading the
/ following from MI Arthur Henry. Mr.
I Henry is the author Of A Princess of
| Already" published last year. and An
( Island Cabin" which viii be issued
/ this spring.
4 was born" he writes, Gin 1857 in
| PeccatOnica, Ills. Ny father was one
/ of the early circuit riders. He was
/ killed in the war and my mother was
thrown on her own resources. She was
of a very pOetical temperament, wrote
poems for the Ladies' Repository-nOw
Scribner's Magazine-was an evangel-
! ist and organized the ". c. T. l. She
was a very remarkable woman.
Il was very delicate as a chiiA and
it was doubtful whether 1 should ever
grow up. So I never went to school;
! in fact, / wouldn't go. And my mother
/ thinking I would die from year 20 year
did not press the matter Every sum-
mer she sent me out on a farm, where
I there were dogs. I can't remember
ever learning to read; think l picked
/ it up UncOnsciously by sitting beside
my sister in the evening and listening
| while she read aloud. interrupted by
occasional questions from me; knew
nothing Of arithmetic until | was 20
years old, when became interested in
Il as study and took it up. 1 learned
everything that way.
when 1 was IA mother bought q
home in Evanston. Ills. I was sent to
the preparatory school then. / had
read philosophy, history and everything
I could lay my hands on. but system
attic study I could not understand, and
I left school for good after three weeks.
So 7 TO2med around Evanston for two
years, and then my sisters health be-
came poor and my mother started US
for the Rocky mountains. We got as
far as Nebraska, where mother discov-
cred she had 40 more money. Then /
felt I must go to work. and went to a
! family friend TO herd cattle. I used to
so out with them every morning and
climb a high plateau, where 1 could
watch the herd. I did this for about
eight months, going out with volume
OF Pope or Emerson every morning.
| Then l wrote my first poem, knowing
. NJ. u e. hoe
verse must be euDhonious.
I went to Central City after that
where l split kindling wood for board.
Then 1 got a joe in Faulkner's book
store. but found the life irksOme. and
went TO Chicago, where 1 got a job in
5. A. Kean's bank. He was a friend
Of mothers. He had never read a book
outside Of the Bible. Then I began TO
write. Aly first story. a Legend Of
Pastine, was printed by Slason
Thompson, who gave me $40 for it.
Then l wrote a Ghosts Wooing' This
1 read to Kean, who was very angry
and tried to make me promise to tend
to business and leave literature alone,
and he would take me into the bust
ness. But I got horse with the money
made by these stories and rode from
Chicago to New York. wandering
O. NIaAA4 tAaN tUlt lE AtllAtllN On the
kindness Of farmers for food and lodg-
ing, until I was 20 years old. began
to take an interest in politics then. and
made a Prohibition speech in Roches-
ter Ny horse grew lame and useless
and wandered through the Berkshires
on foot. and then drifted back to Chi
eagO, where I went into the newspaper
business, knowing nothing Of life.
would 60 out and lo5k around. come in
and write about what I had seen. but
could never find it in the paper. The
editor didn't know what to make of
me. but Eugene Field, who was on the
stan, kept me there and was interest
ed in me- One day Stone said to me.
What are you trying to do. anyway?
Are you trying to initiate washington
rVing2 This country has bad only
one Washington irving and that is
enough. Now you get out on the street
ana look around you and see what's
there and come in and write it, Il
went out came back wrote a column
and half about what happened on the
corner, and from that time all my stuff
was published. Wrote q novel. Mich
oiaS Blood that lam ashamed Of now.
ana which was never published. Then
became city editor of the Toledo
Blade and there I met Miss NTaude
wood, young newspaper woman
Whom / married. We lived in Toledo
Tor three years. I also became inter-
ested in an electric road from NTiaD,i
10 Toledo, and started in the green
mouse business at one time. But I've
had enough Of business. Am irving
10 get some understanding Of life and
Ilot lhJure anybody. if possible. New
80 mas always been a favorable
49, toI me. / have since had a novel
publlshed, A Princess of Arcadv- .,
ROBERT Barr has made England his
home for several wears ana 49, a l'S
nouncement that his last bool- 49,,
llctorsi is only now being iss,aJ
there. SIX months after its publication
la THIS country, comes as a slight sl1r-
PRISE unless one has read the book ana
tSdli@ed the entirely American nature
OF lt. ne EiCtorS' is the story Of an
American political boss. perhaps based
on Richard Croker as a central figure
and with the excitement of a NeV-
1ork City election on last fall. it was
NOT strange tEat the American publish
elS OF tne book rushed the volume our
tnen- whether the newSnaDers t7rs7
every one with their noIiticaI 17sv,,S ~
WneJner The interest il the campaieu
against Tammany was so great - +,
Keep readers from taking up a story Of ]
poitical intrigue or not. il is hard to
say, put certain it is that the book did
not sell as well as the merit OF the
story OF the fame Of the author would /
nave led one to expect. However. q 1
DOCK IS not published until the people I
KNOW about it. fact which was anus !
lngiy illustrated the other day. when
New York paper reviewed The 4
house with the Green Shutters" and
called It the book OF the week The F..
story was published early last fan by a I:
New York firm, but the local paper had +