The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Authors Works and Ways

George Wharton Edwards, author of
the architectural grandeur of France
and Belgium. was decorated but a
short time ago by Albert, King of the
Belgians. Now France has honored
this artist-author and he has received
the golden palm of Officer of Public
Instruction. NJ. Rene Viviani, former
French Premier, conferred the decora-
ton on behalf of the French Govern
ment, adding that it was given "as
reward for your great works of art
and patriotism" The Golden Palms
Order is the highest decoration given
by the French Academy Qnstitute of
F'rance).
Like other successful authors, Clar-
ence Burlington Kelland served his ap-
premiership as a newspaper man. He
describes his life as reporter on the
Detroit Nelcs with the humor which
runs throughout his latest novel,
'rScattergood Baines": II was con-
stant, interested attendant at such
merrymakings as murders, suicides.
train wrecks, &C., and grew in promi-
nence and virtue. until l knew innu
merable policemen by their first
names, and condescended to speak to
Mayors and Governors and Senators
as Jim and Phil and Jack. To mere
| Assemblymen I never unbent."
Whiting williams, author Of Full
-. ,n,-fe. Htt.1
in Crowded Britain" and What's on
the Workers Mind" has been work.
ing as laborer during the summer
months in France and Germany In
recent letter to his publishers
Charles Scribners Sons. he says:
"The summer has so far been
great success. I've worked in mines
and steel plants in north and dew
astated France, had a look in on in
6ustrial affairs in Belgium, studied
Essen and the Ruhr district, visited
Krupps, saw the iron country of
France and Lorraine-talling with
workers, &C., the battlefieds of Ver-
dun (awful), worked below ground
800 feet in the Saar mines. besides
dining with the French officers of
the mines, the British member of the
Saar Governing Commission> of Five,
the German Landrat, sc.
"Fm UP and Fed Up" is an ac-
count of his experiences in the mines,
steel plants and shipyards in Great
Britain during the summer of 1920.
1t will be published in early October.
We are forever reviewing ana talk
ing about books for readers, but here's
one that will interest not only the
reader but the writer's as well. 1t is
"The Craft of Fiction" (Scribners),
which is heralded as an analysis of
the art of makirg novels. The au-
thor is Percy Lubbock the British
critic. who was the editor of "The
Letters of Henry James, Among Mr..
Lubbock's subjects in this discussion
of the technique of fiction are "The
Scene of Each Work" "The Incident
Dramatized," THE Incident Pictured"
and "The Panoramic Impression" IL
lustrations for the analysis of the va
rious processes Of the craft are drawn
from the novels of Tolstoy. Flaubert,
Meredith, Balzac. Dickens and others.
Edison Marshall, whose third novel.
"The Snowshoe Trail" has just been
published by Little. Brown & Co. is a
young Oregon author who specializes
i'm stories of the open. Mr.. Marshall
has now gone to Alaska for an ex-
tended trip.
Nalbro BARLEY, we are told, has no
desire TO be "realist" in the sense
which the term usually implies She
has not sought to spy out the ugly,
the sordid and vulgar details of life
which, presented on masse, give n pic
ture as far out of focus as the most
sugar coated romances. Life, she be-
lieves. should be portrayed just as It
is. the good AND the bad. The pleasant