Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1914-10-07
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A writer for the Book News Monthly
who has recently bud the privilege Of
visiting Wells In his hcme describes
his personal appearance and his home.
He says:
Wells Is little man. He is thin.
and so Is his hair. His eyes are unim.
pressive, and his mustache is straggly.
No one failing to know him would
guess the presence Of England's great
est writer. His eyes are brown
and kindly and set deeply beneath q
forehead across which unruly strands
Of reddish brown hair persist in stray.
ing.
In its white gables and awnings in
strong contrast to the century old ivy
stands the rectory, a low, rambling
house built in the days when George !.
was king. And there. too, lying at full
length upon the grass in the midst of a
very chaos Of toy engines. forts and
leaden soldiers, was Mr.. Wells, no whit
less interested than were his two sons,
boys Of some ten and eleven years,
who played beside him.
Leaving the boys to their game, Mr..
Wells took me to the house and togeth-
er we entered the low, cool room that
Is his study. Here by the open window
stood his desk, and the breeze fluttered
the leaves of manuscript upon which
be had been working earlier in the day.
Around the walls were we'll stocked
bookcases, with here and there a SIM
ply framed picture.
During short walk he showed me
the various things Of interest about the
place. A herd of gentle deer. quietly
grazing beyond boundary fence, look
ed up in sudden alarm at our approach.
Just back of the rectory, but sheltered
from view by screen of elms. is the
pond upon which Mr.. Wells and his
sons venture throughout long summer
afternoons, their argosy a venerable
punt.
His Favorite Book a Failure.
Later Mr.. Wells discussed his liter
ary work. He said that "Mr. Polly"
was one of his favorites. though in
England it had never been successful
enough to soar beyond two shilling
edition.
he partially assented that much Of
his work is autobiographical:
Every novel is to some degree auto
biographical, inasmuch as the author
consciously or unconsciously puts into
1t more or less of himself. In regard
to my own work, much of the early
portions of 'Tono-Bungay' and Of
The New Machiavellr may be said to
be the result Of my own experience.
am not university man, nor for the
work in which l have engaged do |
feel it to be disadvantage. Oxford
and Cambridge are institutions Of the
past. We need more Of the spirit Of
today"
America Mr.. Wells feels to be the
true expression of the new phase. Not
perhaps the America Of today, but the
America Of the future. Il must revisit
the United States" he said between
puffs at his briar. Even since my last
trip conditions have change beyond be-
lief. New forces are at work. You
have space and you are still young.
You have hope"
He is an outdoors man, fond of mo-
toring and cricket and keenly interest,"
ed in aviation, as is shown in his books.
1.-THE War In the Air." 1.-THE First Men
In the Moon" and 1.-The Sleeper
Awakes" all center about the conquest
OF the air, while aviation is included in
1.-THE New Machieveill," '"Tono- Bun
gay" and MARRIAGE"
Writes Of His Own Life.
Writing of his own life few years
ago. Mr.. Wells said:
"The literary life is one of the mod
| ern forms Of adventure. Success with
book. even commercially modest
success, as mine has BEEN means in
| the English speaking world not mere
| ~ moderate financial independence,
but the utmost freedom Of movement
| and intercourse.
"A poor man Is lifted out of his mar
! row circumstances into familiar and
unrestrained intercourse with a great
! variety of people. He sees the world.
| If his work excites interest he meets
philosophers, scientific men. soldiers,
artists, professional men. politicians of
all sorts, the rich. the great, and he
may make such use of them as he can.
| HE finds himself no longer reading
in books and papers, but hearing and
touching at first hand the big discus
sions that sway men, the initiatives
that shape human affairs. And Lon.
don is more than the capital Of a
kingdom; it is the center Of a world
empire and Of worldwide enterprises.
Intensely Interested In Life.
ITO be literary artist Is to want to
give ones impressions Of the things
about one. Life has Interested me
enormously and filed me with ideas
and associations l want to present
again. have liked life and like II
more and more.
1.-THE days in the shop and the serv'
ants hall, the straitened struggles OF
my early manhood. have stored me
with vivid memories that illuminate
and help me to appreciate all the wider
vistas of my later social experiences.
have friends and fntimates now at al
most every social level, from that of q
peer to that of pauper, and find
my sympathies and curiosities stretch
ing like thin spiders web from tor
to bottom Of the social tangle."
TAKES OFF DANDRUFF.
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Save your Hair! Get a Is cent bottl'
Of Danderine right noW-AIso