The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-13
LIES ON THE FLOOR
!. TO GET INSPIRATION
AuthOress Thinks Out Plots
in This Manner
GOSSIP IN LONDON
Another Authoress Plans Her Novels
While Sitting Alone in Cathedral.
Still Another Walks Until In
spiration Penetrates Brain

London. April Especial If you
are an author and find it hard work
to get inspiration, he of good cheer.
| for here are some hints that may bear
golden fruit. They were furnished yes
terday by Stanley Paul the London
publisher, who says they are used
with the happiest results by British
story tellers whose fame is world
wide. Paul declined to divulge the
names of the authors In question but
here are the hints anyway, for what
they may be worth
| "One famous authoress," said the
publisher, goes to st. Pauls Catbe-
dial to think out her plots. She finds
the silence of the place fascinating
and stimulating 10 her Imagination.
Another authoress, whose name is a
household word, lies on her back on
her bedroom floor when wrestling with
climaxes and disposing of the fortunes
of her heroes and heroines One author
walks up and down his study in a
| fever of anxiety till the Inspiration
penetrates his BRAIN"
Paul made these disclosures in the
course of discussing the literary sitn-
alton generally with the writer. He
is well qualified to do this, for in the
last four years has built up a bis.
publishing business and has Just alb
sorbed that of Greening & Co., well
known firm He expressed the opinion
| that the sex" novel has had its day.
and said that the novel of adventure
was drug on the market Person
ally he added, Il have most hope of
the historical novel, and am demon
starting my belief by including no less
than IA romance. dealing with his
tory in my spring list"
To return, however to the subject
of getting artistic inspiration. Novel
as are at least two of the methods
mentioned above, they are outclassed
by suggestion solemnly made in the
current British Medical Journal to the
effect that poetry can be inspired by
EPSON -soltsl
There can be no doubt" says the
writer of the article, that the liver,
which was regarded by the ancients as
the seat of the passions, is readily
disturbed by mental emotions. Anxiety
as to the fate of a book an article
or paper, or as to the result of
al tApcii may HOI Only eulSO10ef
the function of the liver--worry may
even Indirectly cause organic disease
For this reason, among others, brain
workers will do well to suppress feel
ings of jealousy and keep their tenn
per under control.
Byron is cited as an instance oil
the value of epson salts, which, IL
says. acted oil him like champagne
Dryden prepared himself for the Wis
II tion of ha Of /,
and blooding."
Among the $500 odd Britons who
spent their Easter in Paris were no less
than six of the biggest guns of the
literary world in the persons of Rud-
yard Kipling, A. E. W. Mason, e. n.
Lucas. e. w. Hornung. Hadden Cham
| bers, the playwright, and j. NJ Barrie.
1t Is funny somehow, to think of Bar
rie In Paris. and if l am not mistaken,
this was only his second visit to the
gay city, the first having been paid
when Peter Pan" was produced there.
In English, by Charles Frohman six
or seven years ago. Anyhow, it seems
that Barrie took in the sprightly, and
wicked, Montmartre regisn for the first
time, last week, and appeared to be
immensely ticl<led by all he saw there.
Shy and reserved as the author of
what Every Woman Knows" is with
strangers. all who know him agree
| that he, can be a real "cut-up" when
| he is surrounded by friends and the
acquaintance of mine who noticed hin,
| at the Abbaye Theleme, the most Eng
| lish of Partisan night resorts, SAYS
| that he was like nothing so much as a
| boy out of school. One would hove
| liked to overhear the talk at Barrie 5
table by the bye, for his companions
We're none other than three of the fell
lew craftsmen mentioned above in the
persons of the author of The Four
Feathers" r, V. Lucas, the biog
rapher of Charles Lamb and one of tho
most delightful of writer's in English.
and Haddon Chambers. who gave us
"The Tyranny of Tears" and, more re-
Gently, "Passersby."
For once" said my acquaintance,
Barrie was smoking long black
cigar instead of a pipe, and he proved
himself a fine marksman with the lit
tie colored celluloid bolls with which
they present one at the Abbays, some
of his English friends at other tables
serving as targets. Everybody throws
these little balls at about 2:30 in the
morning and Barrie took a hand in
the game with zest He is left-handed,
by the way, and gets quite a swerve to
his shots"
One of Barries missiles it seems,
was aimed at the former Edna MAY,
now Mrs Oscar IeW1Sohn, who, with
her, husband was at a nearby table
and another at Shirley Kellogg, the
American star of "Hullo, Ragtime" at
the London Hippodrome, one scene in
UNDERSTANDING the censorship-is
said to have been written by the author
of Peter Pan" though he has not
owned up to 1t yet.
Writing of Barrie reminds me that in
common with other newspaper readers.
/ have just discovered the real name
of that other gifted Scot wro writes
novels under the pseudonyIh of Tan
Hay" I suppose that Hays stories. "The
Right Stuff" "a Mans Man" and "A
Safety Match'-not to mention pip"
have been published in the United
States If not. they ought to be. for
they are chock fun of genuine humor
Later 7 hope to be able to tell some
thing of Hays personality; at present
all know is that his real name proves
to be J. NJ Beth, and that he is about
to stand" as they say over here, for
narlianent as unionist candidate for
the Scotch. constituency of Kinkcaldy
Burghs
Changed Names
From the Detroit Free Press.
Jeremiah Jones Colbrath was the orig
inal name of Henry Wilson, who was