The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-25
is a refreshing pc.

THEY WE'RE DELIGHTED TO SEE HIM.
his short stories are ranked with those
of Kiplings and his new novel, "A
Daughter of the Shows is one of the
popular books of the year.
Jack London is only twenty-six years
of age, but he has been earning his liv-
ing since he was sixteen--befo the
mast on whaler, as tramp or jour-
NEWMAN laborer and in the Klondlke
mines. When his London publishers
were putting cut his first book in Eng
land. they wrote and advised him to
come to Europe and see something
of the old world. especially of the east
end of London. where, they thought.
he would find endless material of the
kind that he would know how to use.
This was some time last spring. He
wrote from his home in California say
ing that he hoped to do 1t some day.
Along last September he walked into
the publishers Offices. They We're de
lighted to see him and asked him when
be arrived in England.
About two months ago" was the
reply.
but where have you been all the
time
I'm the east end down by the docks.
This Is the first cell have made"
And Ii was fact He arrived in
London, told no one went straight to
an old clothes shop. rugged himself out
in q shabby secondhand suit and
promptly loo himself somewhere
down by the docks" and stayed lost
for two months The sequel will prob
ably be set of new stories located In
the London slun.s.
Stirred BY Gabrielle D'Annunzio's
good example, Mark Twain announces
that he Is giving bis skull to Cornell
university, where 1t can be studied for
the enlightenment of future genera
TONS
II am getting pretty old" said Mr..
Clemens. speaking on this subject.
land shall probably not need the skull
after next Christmas. dunno. But II
should, will pay rent. :
He modestly declined to state what
rental he thought skull like his ought
to bring in the open literary market.
The story of how Lord Tennyson
came to write Crossing the Bar" as
told by Canon Fleming, is interesting
reading. When asked the question by
DR.. Butler Of Cambridge, the poet,
pointing te a nurse who had been with
him some eighteen months and had
great influence over him, replied: That
nurse was the cause of my writing
Crossing the Bare She asked me to
write hymn. and | replied. Hymns
are often srch dull things But at
last ne consented to write one. adding
IT hey~say that compose very slowly.
but ] knocked that of IN ten minutes. =
An observing writer who has just
made a literary pilgrimage to England
says: Buried anu urai scenes Mrs.
Humphrey Ward great novelist
the modern Geolse eliot as some have
called her lives a life of ideal work
It the pretty little village of Tring
gtoes House the name of her coun-
..ry estete, rests on the crest of d high
bill, from vbicl a magnificent sweep Of
the surrounding country can be seen.
Mrs Wards books are full of word
pictures of his country
For mr. ~ years previous to taking
up q country residence Mrs. Ward lived
in dingy London But, even while re-
siding in ar cid. rickety mansion Of
Russell square. her mind was full Of
country lie One would never suspect
that Robert Elsnlere could have been
produced by a person who looked down
upon a London park, where even the
leaves Of the trees wear on their upper
sides a coating Of graz smoke.
RICHARD UPPER