Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-26
AMERICA MAY HAVE
 A SHAKESPEARE
H. c. Wells Believes We Will
 Develop Great Author.
DECLARES POE IS UNDERRATED

English Novelist Thinks Tine Is Ripe For an American Dickens - Finda Our Women Doing Noble Work For 1 Betterment of the Poor-Does Not 1 Believe In Oslerism.
 In his entertaining occupation of sci ] entidcallyss examining the. cogs 1, and
 crank shafts of time and of noting the drift of the universe, H. c. Wells, the
 brilliant English novelist, has found opportunity to make a flying tour of the United States for the purpose of writing a series of articles on 'sThe Future In America" for Harper's Mag azine.
 Mir. Wells is described by Langdon Smith. who interviewed the novelist for the New York World, as follows: Under forty years of age, he is still slender and delicate man, with a broad brow and face full of refiec- tion. His clear blue eyes gleam as he talks. His opinions upon all questions are lucid and entertaining. Tn short, he looks the quiet, unostentatious man of genius that he is."
 Sc far as his impressions of America so Mir. Wells thinks the skyscrapers are not necessarily ugly and may even be graceful. and In speaking of Amer ican houses he said:
 T noticed a very pretty thing about your American architecture in the sub urbs and throughout the country. It was the presence on almost every house of little piazzas. believe you call them. supported by pillars. Its effect Is charming"
 Mir. Wells went on to say he had not been upset by the scramble for wealth which so many Englishmen have found in American life. He thought such conditions natural and to be expected, for sfr. Wells is not at all a believer in the development of leisured class.
 Mfr. Wells paid the following tribute 10 American women:
 T must say they are doing great good work in other directions. It is quietly done. but 1t Is great neverthe- less. There are many hard workers among them in behalf of the poor. Miss Jane Addams in Chicago is do- ing wonders with the Hull House among the poorer people, and your settlement workers and tenement char iiies here in New York are spleDdidly looked after by wealthy and charita- bly, disposed women"
 Tn speaking of American literature Mfr. Wells said he thought the time was ripe for an American Dickens. and in the future the conditions might easily deTeIop a Shakespeare and a Milton The greatest poets, he said. did not necessarily come from the nonworking classes.
 Shakespeare was a poor man who wrote for his bread: Milton. as every one knows. was not only poor. but blind as well. Burns was a plowman. and many other English writers. nov elIsts as well as poets. were poor men I believe that when the poet is born he will work out his destiny on that line. whatever his fate or his fortune mag te.
 ~Yeu have had many poor men over hee who have been great writers There Is one man h particular whom I believe to be sadly underestinated in this country. That is Edgar Allan Poe He Is known quite as well in England and Frznce e In America YoB seen fO have taken c sort of aver stou to hin over here. | c1a sccounf for t h 10 other vsy tban through vhzt has eeea said about him by Ru- fus V. Crisvo5d. the custodian Of kis eGscs after desfh- Gfisweid said Poe v.s . druskArl s.1 thnt speDe1 ts pufEIe e wsfA oR kmx1za- neo11A