New-York tribune., 1903-04-20
Wbaf ~. y. Booksellers Say Obey
Are Telling Most.

can be carried in the pocket, and using each
alternate page. leaving the other for interpola-
tons. This is almost illegible to all but him
self and from it he makes his and final
copy on the typewriter, correcting and strength
ening as he progresses. He is of a nervous tenn
permanent. and cannot dictate to stenographer
nor compose while another person is in the
room. His daily stint is about one thousand
words and he maintains that few men. writing
creative matter. do than that day
after day and have the result worth reading.
Mr. Hotchkiss is a man now in the prime of life
He is a great reader, but his only practical lit
erary training was gained country news
paper owned by his uncle. When he returned to
New-York he studied photography in its special
branches and for more than thirteen years was
surgical photograp pher for the New-York Hos
pital and part of that time for Roosevelt Hos
pital His health becoming affected he re-
turned TO writing.
James Huneker. the dramatic critic says that
not long ago he met Mr.. George Moore in Lon
don walking along the street, "and mot, he
adds looking the other way when pretty girl
passed" He describes Mr.. Moore as follows:
"A tall. slender man, with sloping shoulders and
narrow chested. and with long neck, well COW
cred by a high collar; the arms long the feet
listless and slow. On his head he wore his hat
even as you and L It was London make
rA'i1NiSNN
rectitude. also looked English. Despite his
Celtic syrnpathies this writer still believes in
British tailors The shape of Mr.. Moores head
is a Iengthened oval. His mouth droops sadly at
times His eyes pale blue and darken When
he becomes anima ted-which is not often. the
coloring of hair and complexion is KIND OF
lemon yellow while about the temples are MOD
ulations into gray. At first glance he gives the
,rnpression of youth so blond is he; at a second
li-hf1 IL
stoned very gentle and very incurious- That IS
,,nriI one saws 'Boer' or Irish and then his
languor vanishes and he becomes a dealer in
afirmatons."
We have been wondering for some time where
Mr. l. Frank Baum's Wizard Of o. came
from. We knew well enough that there was a
man in the land of Uz. But that there ever was
a land of o. with a wizard in it. seemed TO have
that quality of outlandish dubiousness which
suggests that thing is probably true OF
course. the Kansas cyclone in tM story carries
ones conjecture with swoop to the Ozark
Mountains, and mountains have been known
to lose their ark before ever this continent was
threatened with a Columbus. Ozeana, on the
Rappanhanock naturally occurred to mind, and
the little corner in Wisconsin-Oza ukee-whence
come so much wheat oats hay and butter
Could any one have failed TO recall the Polish
Ozorkow or the pleasant little spot in Hungary,
Ozora not far from the delectabe Southwestern
burg? We really thought had pricked the
wonderland the map when we found post
office in Colorado rejoicing in the name 20. T.
But now the weary cease from troubling and the
Baedeckers are at rest for Mr. Baum himself
has confessed. Il have he says. "a little
cabinet letter file my desk that is just in
front of me. l was thinking and wondering
about title for the story, and had settled on
at,o1Is
by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the
cabinet The first A-G; the next drawer
was labelled H-N, and on the last were the
letters or And OF it at once became
The feminine hand, when welding the fc-
tional weapon of romance, is at times the most
Turbulent If this be an index of taste the
training Colonel Prentiss Ingraham has had for
writing stories for girls is noteworthy He
served in the Civil War. the Mexican war
against the French under Juarez, in the war OF
Austria against Prussia, and in wars in Crete.
Abvssfnia and Cuba. He captured by the
Spanish tried as a flibuster and condemned
to death, but escaped.
In The Girl Rough Riders" which he is now
publishing through Dana Estes & Co, he has
chosen for his scene the Grand Canyon country
along the Colorado River and the old Mormon
Trail through Arizona and Utah. The story has
the personal Endorsement of Generals Miles and
Baldwin and Colonel W. F. Cody. Buffalo
BIZ says: The characters of Colonel Ingra-
hams book real, with several exceptions