The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-05-04

farm | did the hardest work that I've
ever done. 1t did me good, but it
couldn't last. had to go home, Louis
vile at that time, where | worked for
the l.. and N railway for several
years. After being severely hurt in
railway row l left them
Still having no money | went to
New Orleans, then to Atlanta. where
| worked on the News. | did every
kind Of newspaper work and enjoyed
it all, but soon wanted to tramp again
and went to Chicago. That is one year
in my life that | nate. My job was to
address envelopes at 10 cents thous-
and. | left for construction job in
Nashville. Nashville bored me and |
started around the world with another
man. but in Los Angeles we both fell
in love and spent the year there Dur
ing the following summer | ran a
hotel in the Catskills-.lS rooms and
no bath.
'At this point in my career | decid-
ed to settle down, studied law and
passed the bar. | opened an office
with another man and we had just
stopped borrowing money from our
stenographer and begun to make
money when l left OF join up for the
Mexican border row. On my return
started writing on the side and then
the great war came along. | enlisted
in the 9th and went overseas. | start
ed out as private and ended up as
division adjutant ranking as a major
After the war l turned to writing.
"The House of Five Swords" is my
first novel. 1t is primarily the story
of a child ad I have found a certain
sweetness in life that l have tried to
put in the book | am tired Of authors
who go through life seeing only the
ashcans on the sidewalk"
There are no lash cans" in his nov
ell.
new First Book in English" has
just been brought out by d. c. Heath
& Co.. in which A. l.. Murray, head
of the English department Of the State
Normal School at Eau Claire, Wis,
WOThiHS WIFI WilcS, has a tCAt
book thoroughly adapted to use in
American high schools, based on years
of class room experience in teaching
composition to junior and senior high
school pupils of all ages. The four
basic problems kept in mind in the
text are: (D finding something to
write about; (2) gathering. evaluating
! and organizing material; (3) express
ing thoughts correctly, clearly, sim
cerely and pleasingly; and (4 adapt
ing all this to a definite body of read
ers. The authors have endeavored
through guided practice rather than
precept to fix on the pupils habit of
expressing unified thoughts coherent
~ and with emphasis. Nor is writing
the whole aim. Oral composition has
been emphasized The book is of a
practical nature throughout, as for
example, the inclusion Of a chapter on
"Learning How to Recite,' to help the
pupil in other classes In his school
work; chapters on Letter Writing
Telling the News" Convincing Peo-
ple," and Making things understood y
A carefully selected photography is
included at the end, covering not only
other texts, and books on standards of
English. but also on voice, diction, de-
bate. dramatcs, speech, story telling
and English teaching in general
|
Two popular American novels are
about to be brought out in England.
"The Tyranny of Power" by d. Thorn
as Curtin. a tale of coal miners in
West Virginia, now in its second
printing, is to be published by Hoddler
& Stoughton in London. and Henry
Walsw orth Kinneys "The Code of the
| Karstens". just printed here for the
fourth time since its first appearance
few months ago, is to go to the Brit
lish public by the way of Eveleigh Nash
& Grayson.
In a letter I had the other day was
this comment on Miss Sackville-
Vests novel. Challenge" (Doran)
which | am now reading. love the
book, ;,
eft is a work of the finest art; Il
tells a superb story; but an entirely
personal feeling prompts-or compels
this letter.
whether it is because l once SCI
foot in Greece, or because, like Julian
Davenant, have been young and ro
mantle and Ito myself heroic-t1at
can't say. But think the secret ism
in age or place. 1t must be In ones
hopes or dreams"
Some day soon | am going to tel
Won about Howard Vincent OBrien
, novel. Forbidden Gold (Llttle)
which clergymen are using extensively
as a basis for their sermons. ina
: fact gives special interest to o'Brien
, Idea concerning religious expression
! lin a recent letter, thus:
at bears out a notion I've had TO
q long time-that we're on the thresh
old of a new era, an era quite liter
, ally of spiritual activity. Religion