The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-01-10

ty. New Brunswick hfty- four years ago to-day. aild came of Emitted Is1la-s EpBe Loyanst stock. His early zsoy-
 hood was pent in his atlvs viiIage Ion the Say of Fa1ndy. where sea and sky and marsh and forest and pllr- pie. misty hills combine to delight the - .sLter the R ob CT is aznal " i1aeE stc the city of Ered dericton. W here the are author was educated at th e tC1lIesd sse school, nnslsr Dr arkin. the m pezisI fsderat tlonisf orator and at the IJlaipei'sity of New Bruslswick At tl1e latter znstitution he won the Douglas gold medal for Latin and Greek, the alumni medal for Latin es- |say. and graduated with high Ihonors in ethics, political economy ana met aphysica. II was at ab out this time, when he had not yet reached his ma Joritys that lie began to write verse which was published in leading maga- zines in both Canada and the States For brief period hesvas head master of a graznrner school at chathan in
 his native Province. but he soon alban- doned the oecupatson Of pedaeogue and became journalist At twenty l three he accepted the position of edi- tor of s,rhe Week. a. Toronto pubIiS cation owned by Goldwin Smith. The lfirst volume bearing his name. a col lection Of verge entitled .Orzon and Eother Poems. was published when the author was only twen Seven lyears elapsed before .sIni Divers Tones another book of verse, came 1 from the press. and in the meantime
 Roberts had returned fo educational
 work as a member Of the faculty of Kings College. Nova Scotia.
 While engaged as professor of Eng fish and French literature and of Eng fish and economics at the Nova Sco- tia college, MT. Roberts found time
 Ito indulge his bent for literature, and
 the volumes of prose and poetry that teane from his pen spread his fame
 abroad. Leading critics Of America
 and England hailed him as a coming 1 Justified when he turned to writing of
 the woods and wilds which he knew and loved so we'll. In 1898 he wrote I Around the Camp Fire a collection 1of short stories dealing with the wild IpIaces of New Brunswick. In 1897 in which year he went to New York
 to take an editorial position on the H. illustrated American, he published the first of those great novels of Acadiar life, 'tThe Forge in the Forest" whict
 was soon followed by "A Sister tc
 Evangeline.'' Then came '.The Hear of the Ancient Wood,'' ..The Kindred of the Wi1d,'' '.Kings in Exile "Tht
 Feet of the Furtive,'' and other work. of fiction which have made his nam,
 a household word in every part of tn,
 United States and England, as vel
 as, his native Canada
 Howard Chandler Christy, the mag
 azine illustrator, was born in Chi,
 forty-on years ago to-day. He wa
 Ionly twenty when he invaded Nev
 1 York; where his work found aImos
 immediate acceptance. He went t. } Cuba with the Second United State
 regulars and the Rough Riders, ant : his Rough Riders, and his illustration of the fighting before Santiago were g. vivid and realistic that the young ar : tist nnediate1y deaped into fame I Since then his work has appeared il 2 many of the best of American pericdi calls, and he has also illustrated. tn : novels of numerous distinguished .au : lthors.