New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

an instance Of hi; faithful preparation for giving his
public sound value may cite the case Of "Aicah
Clarke. This book took FIVE months to write but the
reading for il occupied a year.
Abou, some Of his juvenile attempts at storytelling
that were concerned with the most Sanguinary advcn
lures Sir Arthur has said that he always found 1t easter
get people into scrapcs than 10 get them out One
might accept this from almost anyone else but not from
the creator Of Sherlock Holmes
THAT brings us to what, little a, he may like it, is the
character with which his name will always be most
widely associated Il j. not 10 be wondered at II he
does not care talk very much Of Sherlock Holmes.
The tragedy Of the author who has made a great hit
with one subject character is that people insist
on associa,ing him with that alone talking about it.
writing about it, demanding more and more OF it, until
the poor author begins to rcco from the monster whom
he ha, created ana who threatens to dcyour him. Shcr
lock Holmes has brought his creator great fame and
considerable wealth.; bit it is possible that he has also
robbed him Of something literary reputation.
The public is never jus, i'll these matters. The Slcr-
lock Holmes s'orc, delightful and fascinating As they
arc are not Sir Arthur, bc5, work; but they by far
his most popular, and could well Sympathizc with
him if hc.rcscntc little the public habit OF ignoring
the other AMI perhaps better work that he has done for
the sake o is i.yuri'c.
But there is no escape for him from Sherlock Holmes.
|, va, Sherlock IIolmc, who rescued him from his carly
hurulrum career a. a medical practitioner in an English
country town + SltTItk lllllt.' WHO gave MN
one If, after another into Tie world Of fame and pros
p.rv who opened delightful door after another Of
lii and travel for him, and served him in a thousand
WAY, AMI i; now ,yac,ng his paymcn, in requiring his
author TO be in some kind Of bondage to him.
THERE i, indeed a kind Of romance about Sir Ar
thur literary beginnings He wrote through all
his student day, Edinburgh University and vixen he
wa, doctor at Sputhsca he practising the craft Il
writing bu, entirely without Success. His first pub
li,hcl story appeared in Chambcrss Journal in 1873
when he was nineteen years 81 and he got three gun'S
for it. But it was not until 1881 that ~ Study IN
Scarlet, in which Sherlock Holmes made his bow 10
the public. appeared in Bcc'pn's Christmas Annual
Conan D,ycncy,r lmorcthantftyp ound'many
one, ii the first ten years in which he wrote as,ldu"u,y
"Mcah Clarke "onc # the best Of ishsorca romancc',
was rejected by one publisher after another untili came
under the eyes Il Andrew Lang, VIII" was then reader 10
Longman;'; and they published it in 1889. This was
followed by another Sherlock Holmes story The Sign
Of Four" and then the fruits 81 success began 10 appear
Still fostering his ambitions doctor rather than
as a writer DOYLE used the first financial fruits OF MS
success, in moving from Southsca to London ana 'H-
,arG-ning himself as an eye specialist. During mat
period however it editors rather than pa'iehe