Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-07-09
MSS. OF STEVENSON TO BE SOLD
PHILOSOPHER AUTHORS
PEN PICTURE PRESENTED
sympathetic Description of
Face and Fads Of Jay Will
liam Hudson.
liam Hudson.

In personal appearance jay VIII
liam Hudson. author Of tho new
novel. "Abbe Pierre" (Appieton). is
short in stature. with dark hair.
brown eyes that seem to he ever
dreaming except when they light NJ.
az they often do. with a merry twin
kle ~ some ready Jest. His face iT
AZ smooth as boys. he is uuirk and
alert In his movements. SO that people
arc much baficd concerning his age.
guessing IL all the way from 20 to
50. Mir. Hudson isn't the Old-fash-
toned. b"Spectacled professor that ".
| used to piCtur. as holding down the
! chair Of phiiosophy ia college and
! talking about Plato and the ancient
Creeks. fc's beSpcctaclrd all right.
| but they are moherH eyeglasses. fic
! smokes - good cigar with relish.
he wears fashionable clothes. and he
talks Tx. business man making
/ big deal. Yet, hal-calt ia n con
! iradictIon II you will---his whole ap-
p"arnnce starnIe him as possessing an
artistic tempera
i.Iterntur~ His First Interest.
| Although - professor Of philosophy
and author Of a number OF technical
trsatiscs and articles that have
kEa ined vide recognition. Mr.. Hud-
some first intcrest--stranEs To say
is literature. Al college hr was
! class poet: indeed. IL Is said br his
! lose friends that he haG written q
substantial volume Of poems which.
! however. he cannot be persuaded to
publish. lie sayE he write. poetry
only TO keep himself constantly In
tune with the beauty OF things. When
u" lived in California he was warm
and intimate friend OF Edwin Mark
ham and joaquin Miller. both %.
shpm vainly urged him to publish
some Of his verse. When asked re-
Gently why nc did not teach English
literature instead OF philosophy sir.
hudson said: Literature is indeed
my vocation and philosophy only my
avocation; but have a theory tina,
II ones vocation IL an art. he had
better not earn his bread and butter
by 1.-THE commercial note should
never corrupt ones artistic motives
when we-conform art To some utility
we lower II. 1t is all sufficient in
i,Aeif. Every art is tho creation Of
,."me new expression Of tho ideal;
therefore. II i. forever its own en-
cUsc or end
Hard, !. FnrorItc Novelist.
Mr.. HUDSON does all his writing IN
TIC morning on an old homcmad.
desk. in little simple room. his
va,ls covered with the scenes he is
writing about. His favoritc novelist
!s Thomas Hardy. He reads detective
stories for relaxation: recently VII
Irwin remarked that ono Of his mos
University Of Missouri was jay VII,
Lam Hudson and hi. intense intcres
In detective stories.
II might he thought that mar
Who devotes his time TO literature /!
iikciy TO he reclusc. But Mr.. Hud
son Is very much man ot aNairf
, ~" is an enthusiastic Rotarian.
member Of the Cha mber Of Commerc
. ~ his home city. and active mcmbe
Of the national secret music frater
uity, Phi Mu Alpha. and is SO niue
, an authority on international mat
tors that he has been often aske
=. 10 speak upon them before note
worthy gatherings. among them IN
fourth American Peace Congress, I
" which the late Andrew Carnegie in
J ,-oduccd him. However. one of Nj
d liudson's pet aversicns is puhli
!. @peakinG. in spite OF tho fact that
' is said that he is the one man wh
p can fill tho large auditorium OF h
q own university.
t Defines BcrR.on'a Philosophy.
When the French philosophc
Eercsnn. Was touring this countr
9 mot" Of MIR. Hudson was quote
G ideiy in the Journals OF France AN
America. Including Life. Some w
!: man had asked him to state III
/ philosophy OF Sergson in a nutsncl
ne replied that perhaps Bergson
creative evolution could be be.
summed in the line Of tho song:
. don't know where I'm going, but II
= on my way"
When recently asked hos he woul
express his life-crecd, MIR. H''dso
:, answered in the words Of his ow
" Able Pierre: Il would like
become the dream Of my boyhood
neart-which is the inner dream
the world.