The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-21
GOSSIP OF AUTHORS AND
WHAT THEY ARE GOING

". J. Locke has closed his London house
and with Mrs. Locke. has gone to Egypt
II IL said that during his trip up the Nile
he will absorb local color to use as a
literary background. Mr.. Lockes latest
novel. The Fortunate Youth" will BE- pub
iished next week.
Henry Jamess Notes Of . Son and
Brother contains several letters from
william James IS youth and Is ilus.
trated with drawings made by william
James when . young man. The book Is
continuation Of the story Of William and
Henry Jamess lives which was begun In
"A Small Boy and Othera" being full OF
accounts of Newport people tisso-s5). In
Guiding anecdotes about La Fargo and Hunt
and. a little later in Boston and Cambridge
about Professors Eliot. Norton and Childs
and about Ralph Waldo Emerson. who was
. great friend Of Henry Jamess father.
Edwin Bjorkman. taking advantage of the
fact that literary man 10 In the White
House, has written to President Wilson An
Open Letter In Behalf OF American Litera-
tu-e." In this Mr.. Bjorkmsn urges the
President to foster American literature. COM
pairing the little We do for literature with
| the encouragement and stimulus offered by
u small country like Norway through ma
| tional Institutes. prizes &C.
| Bishop EtheIbert Talbot. whose "a Bishop
and His Flock has Just been published.
| and whose MY People OF the Plains II
we'll remembered had when he was Bishop
on tho Wyoming and Idaho plains. q diocese
| larger In territory than all the New England
| states and middle States combined. His
| Journeys among his people had to Be by
means Of stage. buckboards and mountain
| trails which were impossible In winter His
| present diocese Is in Bethlehem. Pa.
| Mrs Georgia Boynton Child. the author OF
| "The Efficient Kitchen" attributes much OF
her success In her new profession OF house
| hold engineer to the training In immediacy
| and organization methods she received from
her experience In running weekly news
paper. where she was business manager,
! chief accountant. advertising collector and
| chancellor Of the excheauer.
Oliver MADDOX Huener. author Of "A vas.
| Kbond In New York." has Just arrived In
New York. torn between q desire to get on
to Mexico and . call to lead the I. W. W
| army in Its wild career. Having himself
starved In New York q year ago. slept on
! park benches and tried every sort OF work
from rubberneck wagon shouting to groom
ing n Coney Island elephant. he feels tina,
he knows the unemployed problem and this
free lodging facilities OF New York pretty
well. Mexico prevailed. however Mr. Huef
fer viii; soon start south a. correspondent Of
the London Daily Erp'ess and tho Londor
Bvsfdnder.
Tho report comes from Fan francisco
that Jack London expects to make a good
thing out Of the moving picture rights Of
his novels. I'm bound, he says, ito ths
moving picture business for life. It's iik'
matrimony; all l poss' 81. dear moving pic
turs business, 10 yours No. I'm not goinl
to write any original scenarios nor any
thing just for moving picture use alone Blu
> everything that have written OF may writ
: novels or short stories--s contracted TO
| -. -ksA l.A
Bosworth 10 in the north now aiming SOM
|, OF my Alaskan stories. ! hope 10 make Il
the nsighborhood Of 100000 out OF tn
novies In the next two ysars"
Frederick Paimers new novel. 1.-THE Las
Shot," announced by the Scribners. 10 . wa
story. purposing to show what modern wa
would be at It's utmost. that 10. a. Tough
by two great. hrst class Powers with armlr
! Of the most perfect organization and equip
y mcnt. 1t was partly to further his idea 4
y writing this novel that Mr.. Palmer went I
!, the war between the Balkan states an
Turkey. But he has seen most Of the war
II recent years including the Spanish wal
he taking Of Pekin b. the allies sitter tn
, Boxer rebellion. the Russo japanese wal
4 md some Of the lighting In the Phil. ppinei
| He was prompted to the writing OF 18th
. Last Shot" by the fact that much that ha
Z been written about what . great moder
war would be 10 90 fantastic and yet this
war has 80 largely changed that none a
the presentations Of Il In the fiction Of tn
past. such az Tostoy's War and Peace.
, give any conception Of its modern signin
. canoe.
Mgr. Robert Hugh Benson. the nov.li,
10 4 brother OF Edward r. Benson. til
novelist and also Of Arthur Christophs
y Benson. an equally prolific writer
o the essay form. All three are son
: Of the late Archbishop OF Cantsrbur,
i whose literary form Of expressing his "mel
sage" to the world was . still dinessr
n mode.
n Because Of this lifelong environment
A was Interesting to follow Mgr. Benson
. | anaiysis. made recently at . lecture at tn
Cathedral Hail. Westminster. on THE Moo
ern English Novel," Of the giants Of modsr
. Action and their followers. From these B
turned to the men who would DO moi