The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-10

nd more delft touch; his characteriza. tion is assuming a surety which can. not be denied. And one of these days "a year from now, perhaps 10 years but inevitably-the name will be or the lips of all readers of good fiction and Birmingham will be proud tt -iaim him as one of it's literary prod ucts.
 The man is Artemus Galloway!
 Mr. Galloway began his writing ca reer humbly. Unlike most literary
 novices, he held no delusions regard ing the work he was attempting. He knew that the road was lonS and
 stony. yet sensed that the rewards were amply worth the difficulties. And he started his efforts with the
 most difficult of all forms of literary expression--the novel. And that nnv- el his initial literary effort, sold to Top Notch magazine It was a slash ing story of adventure in Honduras where Mir. Galloway lived for seven years. It appeared under the title of
 Land of the Three Eyes" An6 il made tremendous hit with readers of Top Notch magazine, to which pub lication Mir. Galloway has been a
 steady contributor since that time.
 He then essayed the short story field His success has been coming slowly. but with increasing velocity
 as he learns the tools of his profcs-
 sion. His short stories have appeared
 with consistent regularity in susf
 magazines as the All Story. Argosy Top Notch, Peoples, Telling Tales
 and others His latest and greatest
 achievement was the placing of a short story with the Chicago Tribune's fiction magazine. which magazine is weekly publishing some of the finest
 work of America's leading fictionists Mir. Galloway has not yet reached that point of story achievement which is classified as htving arrived" But he Is coming closer to 1t daily. In
 two years of work he had placed with
 general fiction magazines one novel and over 30 short stories. Editors are watching him with keen interest
 they know that he Is to be reckoned with in the not too distant future. MT. Galloway has wealth of ex- perience to draw from in his work He has done a variety of things and lived in variety of places. And. bet ter than all, he knows people and un-
 derstands them. And is rapidly de- veloping the artistic knack of mak- ing other people know those whom he has met, introducing them through the medium of words.
 Be 1t remembered that Booth Tark- ington wrote five years before selling single story; that Mary Roberts
 Rinehart labored four years before attaining the recognition of an ed- tor; that during those years two of the greatest figures in contemporary literature were unknown and discour-
 aged at times-their product un- marketable.
 When that is remembered. more faith may be placed in the prophecy that eventually the name of Artemus Galloway will becomes e by word with those who read, appreciate and enjoy worthwhile fiction.
 Ones next-door neighbors may ap- pear miles away. simply because he does not know them. They may have possibilities for gpod--or they may not haveLbut the only way for one to find that out Is by becoming ao- quainted When this cannot be done in person the next best way Is by reading what someone who does know them has written. And because the writer knows his subject Rev. Robert