Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06

who began to come to his door; and in the undoubed
success of Sherlock Holmes and 4The White Company
that delightful story of fourteenth century Eng
land the England in which, to quote his own words,
the pioneers of the era were marching with the
stragglers of the DID, where the knight Grant and the
democratic politicians impnged upon each other'-de-
cided him to abandon his profession doctor and de-
clare himself author But he has often said that
he abandoned his profession until that abandoned
him.
HOW full his literary activities have been can be
= realized only by someone who has read all his
books; but even mere list of them indication
of the subjects they cover is impressive.
Apart from the great series of detective stories with
which the character of Sherlock Holmes associated,
there is group of historical novels which
siderable period of history chiefly the fourteenth and
seventeenth centuries At least four other root
ed in the Napoeonc period The two novels whose hero
is Brigadier Gerard perhaps the most popular of
these full as they of roicking vitality and spirit
of adventure. In Round the Red Lamp which
shall always regard of his best works. he gets as
realism he has got, and agitates the grim
and somber curtain behind which pathological tragedies
are enacted He has written two books of poetry, and
also of literary criticism. His historical work, "The
Great Boer War" suffers probably little any such
work could from the speed with which it was written
and the and complexity of the subject and
if it does not stand permanent history OF Englands
struggle for South Africa it has at any rate admirably
served its immediate purpose of giving the world
right and spirited view of Engands military conduct
of that campaign.
Another department of his literary activity is repre-
sented by books and pamphlets certain great crni
nal in England where there to believe
that there had been miscarriage of justice, on the
Kongo atrocities and also certain controversial mat
tiers connected with the Boer
There is also series of short stories studies in the
volume called aThe Last Galley which remarkable
their way and unlike anything else that know CT in
fiction. Each of them although preserves the form
of short story, based the reconstruction of
bit of actual life recorded in the history of the world
Roman, Carthagenan, European, and British history
are laid under contribution. In each the author
has absorbed his atmosphere and produced series of
stories that would leave any boy who read them with
considerably more knowledge of the history of the
world than it found him with Apart from its interest
as good fiction 3The Last Galley has not in my opin
on received the recognition that it deserves work
of great educational value in elementary history.
Like much of the of Sir Arthurs best work. it
is blanketed speak, by the ubiquitous Sherlock
Holmes. There is getting away from Sherlock.
When series end with his almost certain
death in the ravine two continents wrung with
sorrow and Sir Arthur was bombarded with demands
for accounts of his prcwess Indeed this creation
has passed into the life of those who speak the
English language. He is and will remain among the
inmortals who the companions of every genera
ton, who ultimately to
represent groups Of qualities q
types rather than individual
characters
And to complete this extreme IN