Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-19

paradise in the shape Of free libra
ry," Between school hours and work
he found time TO pore over history,
poetry and fiction, and to nurse the
secret wish to become writer.
The strong nomadc strain In his
blood led him to leave home at fifteen
In his search for adventures amongst
the scum marine population of San
Francisco Bay he soon lost his ideal
romance and replaced Il with the real
romance OF things. He bcame. In turn,
n salmon flshr an oyester pirate, n fish
patrolman, a 'longshoreman, and "A
general bay-farng adventurer. At
seventeen he shipped before the mast
AS an able seaman, spending some time
seal-huntlng on the Russian side Of
Berlng Sea- He fought his way to
respect In every forecastle I'm which he
served. So far, he was a rampant in
dlviduallst partly, as he expresses II
now, because he was o winner" II
looked on the world and called Il good,
every bit Of It..
He rambled all over the country, more
or less as n tramp, being moved there
TO partly by the fascination of the en-
terprise; and his experiences in the
congested labor centers of the east
made him n confirmed Socialist. Event
ually he decided that tramping was
not all beer and skittcs, and returned
TO Oakland. whore he entered the High
school Breaking or his course in the
University Of California, In the middle
Of his freshman year, he went over the
Chilcoot Pass with the first of the
Klondike rush Of 1897; and there at last
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not be denied, came TO him too strongly
TO resist His actual development as
writer began on the trail and young
London came consciously into his hertz
age.
A beautiful tribute has been paid by
English authors TO the splendid and en-
during work which the late Sir Walter
Besant performed as historian OF the
city of London The Inscription upon
the bronze nas-reief recently placed in
st. Paul's cathedral in memory of the
author of London In the Eighteenth
Century" runs as follows
Sir Walter Besant,
Novelist,
Historian of London,
Secretary of the Palestine Exploration
Fund,
Originator Of the Peoples Palace
and
Founder OF the Society Of Authors.
This Monument Is erected
by
His Grateful Brethren in Literature,
Paul Meurice pointed out the other
day in Paris that the Gift to the city
by the grandchildren and kin Of Vic
tor Hugo OF the house I'm the Place des
Nosges. where he spent the most active
years of his life. was designed to give
France n memorial similar to Englands
home of Shakespeare and Germanys
home of Goethe. Allowances must be
made, OF course, FOR the requirements
Of formal presentation oratory. But
one cannot well help recalling Moliere,
and the fact that Paris boasts two
houses understood 10 be his birthplace.
That Mr.. Chambers grows increasing
" in popularity is n compliment 10 the
reading public as well as a qualification
TO the author, for few authors today
are doing such fine, sound work In lit
erature. well-known author writ
ing from Paris to friend In New York
City the other day, acknowledged the
receipt OF the August Harper's and
said 81 am glad to see story In II by
Robert w. Chambers, That Is always
promise beforehand and afterwards
a fulnment lie has spirit, Il sense OF
the unseen things that are the real
things. and for such let us be duly
thankful They are as rare ms sunny
days In Paris this summer Mr.. Cham
bers has another story In the september
Harper's called "Pasque Florida" In