Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-09
WHERE PROMINENT
AUTHORS ENJOY A
SUMMER VACATION
Mrs. Humphrey Ward in Walters
Haunts-W. D. HOwells
in Europe.

are taken from material furnished by
Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square,
New York city. 1t is believed that
their dissemination through the me-
dunn of the Evening Star will be of
interest. 1t is certain that those who
are entertained or relieved when in
sorrow or pain by the imagination of
writer's of fiction are glad to know
that their benefactors are themselves
being revived in the heat of the sum-
mer by life by the silver sea or by
a breath of mountain air.
Margaret Deland. author of 1.-THE
Iron Woman" will shortly return
from her transcontinental trip to
her home at Kennebunkport, Me-,
and to her garden, which occu-
MES so large a part of her summer
DAYS. She Is at present in British
Columbia, where her husband, Lorln
F. Deland. author of Imagination in
Business" is recovering from severe
operation.
Holman Day, having bought new
boat, Davy Jones H., to take the
place of it's predecessor burned last
winter. is cruising in it up and down
the 200 miles af the Maine coast. III
was Just a year ago that THE Red
Lane" Mr.. Days latest novel, made
its appearance.
Mrs. Ward on Classic Ground.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward is spending a
great part of the summer at stocks,
her country home near Tring. lts
formal parterres and terraces where
the Poet Waller, and. in later days,
Sir Walter Scott, often walked may
possibly have suggested the gardens:
described in 1.-THE Coryston Family,
Mrs. Wards new novel, now appear
Ing serially N Harper's Magazine.
Rex Beach's summer is being spent
at his home, high up on the slopes OF
Lake Hopatcong. A daily dive from
his own dock, excursions in motor
boats. motoring, trout fishing and ire
uuent house parties keep him pleas
antly busy now that he has finished
work on his new Alaska story to De
published this fall
General Nelson A. Miles's summer
has brought him an unusual expert
ence-that of being kept virtually a
prisoner in the besieged city of Sonia.
General Miles's interest in military
operations-which he acknowledges
in his book of "reminiscences, Serving
the Republic" began as chat When
he listened to the exploif- OF ms
ancestors in the Indian end ReVolu-
tionary Wars-took him abroad some
weeks ago to witness the lighting IN
the Balkans.
Robert d. Elder author of the
recently published novel, THE So
iourner." having taken his Phi. ID. at
Columbia. has turned for the sum
ner from the academic to the bust
ness life. He is now occupied In Lead
Vile. Col, looking after his father
mining interests.
VIII N Harben's Novel.
VIII N. Harden, who has finished
work on a new novel, will probably
in New York this summer in
stead of going south as he usually,
does. The scenes of Paul Rundel,
his latest novel, are laid in his we'll
known Georgia mountains.
Albert Bigelow Paine spends the
summer days fishing and motoring at
his home in Redding, Conn. He re-
Gently took trip to Bedford, Mass,
to visit the home of his ancestors.
subject of his book, MARK Twain; A
Biography was born in the Middle
West.
Sir Gilbert Parker is still In Lon
don, where he will stay as long as
Parliament remains in session. 1t
may be recalled that he was APP
pointed member for Gravesend in
1900 That he has not deserted litera-
ture for politics is proved by the pub
LEGATION a few months ago of his new
novel. THE Judgment House
Arnold Benefits Summer.
Arnold Bennett, in spite of the lik-
ing he evi ced In your United
States" for the hustle of American
life, chooses when he is in England
a quieter, more mellowed, back
ground. He is now in his new home,
a Jacobean Mansion In Essex. near a
town with the quaint name of Thorpe
lie Soken.
Louise Closer Hale, author of 1.-THE
and THE married Miss
WORTH" is resting on her laurels-
both literary and dramatic-at Ken
Maine. Later in the
season she expects TO start on a
transcontinental theatrical tour.
H. G. Wells. author of Ann We
ronica," etc, Is spending his sum-
mer at his home in Dunmow, Essex.
He and Arnold Bennett are compar-
atively near neighbors. both being
residents of the same county.
James Oliver Curwood Is not likely
to complain of the heat this summer.
Only a few days ago he started off
for one of his extended trips to I'M
explored regions in Northern Canada.
Like the heroine of his latest novel,
"Isobel" Mrs. Curwood bravely ac-
her husband into the Arc
tic wildernesses.
Kate Langley Bosher, author of
MARY Cary" has moved for the
from her home in Richmond,
Va, to the Country Club outside of
that city Country clubs may not
suggest quiet atmosphere for liter
airy effort, but Mrs. Bosher finds 1t
possible to work there in putting the
final touches to new novel sched-
uled for the autumn season. This
will be her first book since 1.-THE Man
in Lonely Land" was published.
Eleanor Stuart, author of the just
published novel, THE Romance of
ALL" is at her country home in Moro
ton, Conn, which Is situated on the
designated Good Wives
road"
Eleanor Atkinson, whose story of
the wee Scotch doggie, "Greyfriars
Bobby" is being Endorsed by numer-
Gus humanitarian societies, is spend
ing her summer on the shores of
Grand Traverse bay. Mich. Up to
the present Mrs. Atkinson has given
Bobby" no successor.
william Dean Howells is summer
ing in Europe. and expects to remain
abroad until the autumn. Mr.. How
q novel 1t is rumored that his next
one of last seasons publications, was
ells's latest book. New Leaf Mills"
work will be volume of travels.
The midsummer number of The
American Boy is particularly rich in
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