The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-16

he writes all he can in the morning.
From caring for Tom Sawyer ard
Huck Finn he commenced to be inter-
ested in Mark Twain; that Of course
before he thought Of writing himself.
OF Huckleberry Finn he says:
THE subject had so soaked into
Mark Twain that he reproduced it
with such intensity that I know OF no
more compelling piece Of atmosphere
in all literature"
Meeting Mark Twain, then. was one
Of the events Of Galsworthy's life. The
more so because "he was quite as good
as I had expected" The Clemens
family was staying at DOLLS Hill near
London. and Galworthy's sister knew
Mark Twain's daughter And SO one
summer afternoon they went to call.
and sat for a long time under tree in
the garden. talking OF the things that
interested them.
Mr.. Galsworthy said that OF Ameri-
can authors he liked Emerson, Haw-
thorne, the early work OF Henry
James; and Howells. who is not con-
temporary but eternal"
He has a great affection for Tur-
senieff and an admiration for every
thing he wrote. And l regret that I
could not have known him."
Speaking OF the Saturday Club. the
meeting place of early New England
authors, Mr.. Galsworthy said that they
had no clubs OF the sort in England.
Younger men and amateurs met so /;
but they had no we'll known names
among them Showing that even Lon
don has its Greenwich Village.
Now the Galsworthys are rarely In
London. They prefer their Devonshire
country to any city. and leave il only
when some errand takes them away.
Their town house is at Hampstead
very near where Du Maurier used to
live.
or fine afternoons Galsworthy rides
or walks over the moors. There are
not many houses about. and only a
few cultivated places at distances from
one another. The sea is twelve miles
away, and on clear day one can see
II from the hilltops.
BY way OF contrast / asked him
about Bolshevism.
Il hesitate to speak OF Bolsheyism.
as of that and world politics generally
ono speaks at the mercy OF report.
But the Bolsheviki are definitely a
Russian product; what they are doing
or may do nobody knows. reports
from Russia are EMBARRASSMENT con-
Trajectory"
His attitude seemed TO he that the
nations of the world are all waiting
at the bar OF Fate; and that the result
OF the several trials is far in the fu-
ture.
He had forgotten the hour; but per-
sons waiting for him had not. He
said he was ashamed to have so little
memory for details. Yes, in some
ways, one could work better without
facts, but IL was embarrassing. He
would be mere easy at his house on
the moors, with a whole evening at
his disposal, than in a New York
hotel; for hurry Is entirely foreign to
him. And I can fancy him talking
10 few choice spirits or sitting I'm
dreamy contemplation while Mrs.
Galsworthy plays the Piano for him.
He IL impatient OF detail. But he
had time to notice the breeze which
came in with a cheerful, 81 ringtide
rustic which set the eyelet butterflies
| on the hotel window curtains TO doing
a fine d1nce.
Ne just a word to the people NJ
Missou.i and elsewhere In America
When man ramed John Smith come
looking for a cave and n first sight
OF the Miss! ss!ppi River pretend tina
YOU don't know him. Oihcrwsesyoul'
spoil all the fun.