The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-31
IR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A DETECTIVE IN REAL LIFE
After a Long Fight He
Succeeded in Having
a Court of Criminal
Appeal Established in
Great Britain. Aban.
GonedMedicine to Take
Up Writing

the princirN surgeons o. the Eangman
field hospital. For his work in this
connection he received the honor of
knighthood on the restoration Of peace,
and then devoted himself to the writing
OF two OF the mos; popular books that
have been published concerning the con-
fiict: books defending the British army
from the charges of incompetence and
inefficiency so unjustly brought against
1t by those who had remained at home
to criticise. The one volume bears the
title OF The Great Boer War" and the
other that OF The War I'm South
Africa, It's Causes and Its Conduct"
Sir Arthur has been twice married.
His first wife died after TWENTY-FIVE
years fwedded happiness In 1906, and
about two years later he led to the altar
the present Lady Doyle, who was Miss
Jean Leckie. With her and with his
two children by his first wife he makes
his home at Windlesham, his charming
country place in Sussex near Crow
/ borough, while in town he divides his
time between & he Atheneum and the
Reform Club.
He has always been an enthusiastic
cricketer, is veteran member of
that premier cricket organization the
Marylebone Cricket Club, is a Liberal
Unionist In politics, which accounts for
the defeat OF his attempts to get into
parliament, has travelled extensively in
the Arctic regions, in the west of Africa
and In the Sudan. did a quantity of
shooting in the Rocky Mountains
twenty years ago, in the Selkirk Range
north of Banff, which he intends 10
visit with Lady Doyle before returning
home, and takes a leading part. in all
sorts OF public movements, to which his
personal popularity and the gift of his
pen are invaluable.
Thus for the last three months he has
been engaged I'm getting up an agitation
among all the literary men In England,
that Is to say the writer's, for the pur-
pose OF forcing the Government to pro-
vide for the participation of Great
Britain In the Panama exhibition at
san Francisco. In spite OF all the pres
sure brought to bear upon the Admin
istration. however, II has been found
impossible to induce Premier Asquith 90
reconsider the decision of the Cabinet to
decline the inv itation OF the United
States to the worlds fair at the Golden
Gate.
Sir Arthur Is not only a writer OF sin
gularly wholesome and virile novels
but is also something of a poet, a fact
which Is generally ignored. OF his
gifts In this connection no better Illus
tration can be given than his Song of
the Bow" 1t runs as follows:
What Of the bow
The bow was made In England:
OF true wood. OF yew wood,
The wood of English bows:
80 men who are free
Love the old yew tree
And the land where the yew tree grows
What Of the cord?
The cord was made in Englandt
A rough cord. tough cord,
cord that bowmen love:
So we'll drain our jacks
To the English fax
And the land where the hemp was wove.
What OF the SHAFT?
The shaft was cut in England:
A long shaft, a strong shaft,
Barbed and trim and true
30 we'll drink all together
To the gray goose feather
. And the land where the gray goose flew.
! What OF the men7
The men were bred in England
. The bowman-the yeoman-
The lads OF the dale and fell
Here's to you-and to you
To the hearts that are true
And the land where the true hearts dwell.