Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-03-08
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH 8. 1908

on his way back to Italy, from which he never
covered. Mr. Terry had been intimate friend
of the sculptor, Thomas Crawford, the authors
father, and when the latter died Terry made
guardian of the childrens interests. Later on he
married Mrs. Crawford. After Terry's death, Mrs.
Terry continued to live in Rome, where she re-
NAMED for forty years.
Distinguished Relatives
SINCE the Ward family's progenitor in Crom-
~ wells army, there to have been time
that the descendants have not well and notably
justified their existence. Samuel Ward, the authors
great grandfather, chairman of the committee
which reported in favor of Colonel Washington for
command of the American army. The world knows
and admres Julia Ward Howe, the sister of the
authors uncle Samuel Ward, whose other sister
Marion Crawfords mother. AS editor, writer
OF stores essays, poems drama: Lecturer woman
gress in London, of the founders OF the New
England Club, preacher in many Unitarian pull
pits, including that in Rome, Italy her work still
goes in her present advanced and beautiful old
age. Her Battle Hymn of the Republic" is known
to every school child in America
Mrs Hugh Fraser, sister of Mr.. Crawford, is
we'll known author, whose books have wide and
enthusiastic appreciation, especially in England
Her writings have been largely on Oriental sub
jects, and everywhere accepted authoritative
"A Dipomatists Wife in Japan and The Gus
toms of the Country of the New Japan" are among
the many which have been very. popular. Much of
her life has been spent in the far East. Her hus
band, who died in 1894 in the diplomatic
service British Minister to Japan.
Finally Launched Into Literature
THE success that Immediately followed the pub
LEGATION of - Mr.. IsaaCS huge surprise to
the author, and it opened pathway in life which
he had dreamed of finding or following He
tells how in order to secure an English well as
American copyright on the day of publication.
it necessary for him to be on English soil that
he had gone to St. Johns, New Brunswick, and
while there had finished " DR.. Claudius'; that
his return to Boston just before Christmas having
heard nothing from his publishers in the interval
he almost overwhelmed on stepping from the
train to find the newsstands plastered with huge
posters announcing 81 Mr.. ISaacs
Shortly thereafter the late Thomas Bailey Aid
rich editor of The Atlantic Monthly" asked to
see him. and arranged for serial for that magazine
By February, 1883, The Roman Singer
completed and handed in. Mr.. Crawford acknowl
edges that he wrote this and some of his other novels
since then in almost record time. But that by
always implies that the general outlines and
often most of the details of given story have
been in his mind for long time. Indeed, the writer
knows personally of stories that have been under
preparation for years and are not yet ready to be
written His mind is extraordinary in its retention
of facts and the thoroughness with which he fol-
lows line of thought once started No research,
physical difficulty, seems too great in his gather
ing of the material he feels necessary tor perfect
presentation of his story. If there is much
single flaw in what he holds to be necessary and
logical it is either overcome the entire story
laid aside till that particular point is covered salts
factorily So that when he sits down to write, his
mind for the most part is already fully primed. and
page after page is rapidly turned out, the original
sheets going to the printer frequently without the
change of single punctuation mark inter
1neation. AS to minor specific things that his char
acters do, and how they do them, and what they
say he has often said, he has not the slightest
idea when he sits down to write. The characters
work out their own salvation, and often as a mat
of fact it is of great interest to him what they
do say. A character once introduced does the thing
such a real person would do under like circum-
stances, and he proceeds to record it.
'MarzioS CrucifiX, short novel, story of the
silver workers earlv in his life in his art studies he