The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-11-22
Writers ARE HARD
|WORKERS-GREENE
he Lite of An Author is
Not Zone Grand Sweet
Song"
D "FLOWERY BEDS OF EASE"
FOR HIM SAYS MIR. GREENE
IN HIS PERSONALITY OF
WRITER'S"

IN HIS "PERSONALITY OF
WRITER'S"
Homer Greene, ESQ, Wayne
lnty's poet and Fiction writer, is
htributing an interesting series of
ticles to the Independent Republi-
n, of Montrose. The first story,
lich appeared in last weeks issue
that bright and newsy weekly,
as follows:
In my younger days, when l was
lch mora of a reader of literature
an | am now, no subject possessed
pre- fascination for me than the per-
nality of the writers whose works
read. In my imagination l sur
unded these men and women with
romance and adorned them with a
10 far greater and brighter than
y which their heroes or heroines
rried with them. 1t is difficult now
say to what extent my dreams
build have been dissipated or my
pls shattered if / had known them
rsonally. 1t is doubtless safe to
+ sert, however, that not one of them
build have satisfied my fancy. 1t
Ps perhaps happy circumstance
me that instead of being permit
to touch the hem of the garment
any one of them, l was obliged to
brship them all from afar. 1t was
t until | had just reached my ma
rity, and had been for two years
college, that / had opportunity to
pet real, live author. This was
7. }. G. Holland, long since dead. l
ls spending my summer vacation
ing some engineering work at a
pee on the upper Hudson, and DR..
Plland was a guest for day at the
use of the people with whom l
hs staying.
had been familiar with his writ
gs for years; "Bitter-Sweet," "Old
aniel Gray" his novel Arthur
Pnnicastle," and his poem "Kath-
la," which l knew almost by heart.
was in the height of his fame and
pularity 1t was treat, there
re, for me to be able to meet and
k with him. And yet 1 found in
personality nothing of the OBJ
8Pusly romantic or unusual. a
He was simply a quiet, plain-spok-
courteous gentleman, impressing
e more by his sincerity than by
5 brilliancy. He did not at all bear
t any conception of how a poet
d novelist should look or act or
k. But / believe DR.. Holland to
We been one of the best types of
? 4nerican literary men.
Some years later, after / had done
4 little unimportant literary work
Eself, l had occasion to visit j, T.
fowbridge at his home in Arling-
|n, one of the suburbs of Boston.
e took me for a quiet stroll of an
ur around the shore of the pretty
Ike that borders his garden. l re-
ember that he told me it was his
tn birthday. l found him as
let, as unassuming, as plain in ap-
|arance and dress, as eminently
actical as any deacon or vestry-
hn Of any church in Montrose. He
still living, 1 believe, at his home
the border of the little lake in
Flington.
Another Boston writer whom L
hew in those days was Hezekiah
ltterworth, a plain, serious, stud
t-like man of 40, who died some
lars ago. With in the last ten or
teen years it has been my good for
Inc, largely through my member
tp in the Authors Club of New
prk, to become we'll, and in some
ses intimately, acquainted with
any of the famous American writ
OF the present day. OF some of
EN- ] have already but fragrant
emories, as they have passed on be-
= re.
/ Edmund Clarence Steadman, the
pet, / knew well. He was delicate
\ thought as in build, refined in
Inner as in face; banker and busi-
ss man as well as scholar and poet,
Hing all positions with a quiet dig
+ ty and grace. Bronson Howard,
Iaywright, author of " Shenandoah"
Thlso counted as one of my good
7iends. His long association with
e stage might have led one to ex-
pct to find in him something of the
aggressive, the self-assertive, the
\ Fer-bold. On the contrary l never
hew a more modest, refined, quietly
enial gentleman than Bronson How
I'd.
One OF my greatest surprises, how
Yer, was in Joseph Jefferson, the
ftor and artist as we'll as author. /
hd seen him many times on the
|age in his favorite roles before l
hew him personally. He was a man
great ability and varied talent, but
charmingly simply and unobtrusive
his manner, so sweet in DISPOSE
Jon, as to be almost childlike. His
lyable qualities made fast friends
pr him of all who came to know
i'm.
] think the most picturesque figure
|mong all the writer's whom / have
hown was George Cary Eggleston,
be novelist, who died only last win
pr. Tall, straight, with dropping
|ustache, and gray hair hanging on
is shoulders, he attracted attention
Ferywhere. But his picturesque ap-
earance was not due SO much to the
bet that he was a writer as to the
Ict that as a Virginia Colonel he
hd fought through the war OF the
bbellion. / we'll remember how, at
ever-to-be-forgotten evenings at the
uthors' Club, he would put on his
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