The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-19
WRITES ID MOTHERS DESPITE HER GRIEF New Work By Helen Math-
 CTS Coming Out Soon LAWRENCE WRATHY
His Book Was Confiscated By Lon don Police and Now He Intends to Leave England-What Au-
 thors Have Done In Year

London. December 5.-(Special) )-"Helen
 Mathers,' whose novel, "Comin Thro
 the Rye" published when she was 2O
 proved one of the biggest successes on record Cand who in private life is Mrs. Henry Reeves), writes from Henley-on- Thames to give me some interesting news in connection with the autobiography on which she has been working for so long. This apropos of my recent announcement lat it would soon be published.
 The great sorrow of Helen Mathers' life was the loss of her only son, Phil, and when he was taken from her she de-
 termined to write no more novels, and
 has kept her word. That was six years ago. Not long afterward she began to write her autobiography, beginning. as she says, with my espousal of literature
 at years old, to my sorrow, and going on to my writing of 'Comin' Ahro' the
 Rye and my subsequent life
 The work became so long, however,
 Mrs. Reeves adds, with the doings of my
 sons and my interwoven lives, and his
 army life, including the South African campaign, that it has had to be divided into two parts, my happy life with him, and my present life without him. It is
 
 Shall Be Light, that will, think, make
 a very great sensotion, and bring com
 fort to thousands of mothers who have
 suffered even as l. The two books (the
 other being called, Phil and I), will rap
 idly succeed each other early next year,
 Part ? being published first"
 David Herbert Lawrence, whose latest novel, 'the Rainbow was seized by the police and ordered to be destroyed, has decided to shake the mud of this coun- try from his feet and try his luck in the United States, where he no doubt expects views to be broader.
 q am thinking of locating in Florida ' he said, this week. 'I feel I should like tc, write for Americans for a time. Still
 this is not decided. 1 may perhaps have ar American edition of The Rainbow. I cannot say that it is altogether this
 disappointment about my book which is making me plan to winter out of Eng land. As a matter of fact, do not often stay here during the winter months, but I confess I feel more desire than usual | to get away He added that he believed British authors should band themselves together to place their books before the l public, but was not clear as to how this could be accomplished in a practical way and without a publisher. He impresses i one as essentially a poet and dreamer, does Lawrence. With a tawny beard, he is more French or Italian than English 1 ir appearance, though he was born in Nottingham and educated at an English university He has been a schOolmaster. Whether he will fare better in the Uni ted States than here is open to question. Not much past 30, Lawrence has consid- erable gifts but some of his chapters are just nasty How Sons and Lovers, '' his last novel but one, got past the li- brary censors is a mystery. for some 1 of it was-s A literary expert opined ] to me that the censor must have read it just up to a certain point "If he had turned over one more page, went on my friend, This hair would have curled and he would have banned the book forth with.
 Alfred Sutro, whom we first heard oi as brilliant translator of Maeterlinck. who later bounded into fame and fortun' with '"rhe Walls of Jericho and who, since then, has written a succession of clever plays, is enjoying quite little boom ll Italy. His piece, "The Two Vir- tues, which pleased both here and in the United States, was done in Italy in May last and now his John Gladyes Honor' has been secured for early production at the Mazona theatre, Milan, 1taly's
 most intellectual playhouse. The produc- tion, moreover, will be a considerable theatrical event, for the part of the wise l in the piece will be taken by Emma Grammatical. who is generally recognized
 as Duses natural successor. Sutro, ' meanwhile is doing war work in a cer- , tain government department A proposal 1 has been made to send one of his plays l on tour through the provinces, all the 1 royalties to go to the war relief funds, | and I would not be surprised if those | from Italy. followed the same route. Another British, or rather Anglo-Ameri-
 can playwright who is well represented | on the continent at present is Hubert | Henry Davies, whose "Outcast'' is enjoy l ing great success in Holland, and who i is also pocketing Danish and Swedish
 royalties. In Holland, however, the big
 success of the moment is our old friend, | Potash and Perlmutter.'
 | Among other interesting autograph let
 ters addressed to the late Mrs. Bernard