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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1933.
MAKING THE MOST
OF WRITING.
Straightforward Views Of An Author.
TRY TO SPECIALIZE.
Mr. Horder points the way out of Grub-street with a frm and un- abashed hand in his book," writing for money.
man.
Ho
on.
Monocled Hermit Of Hitchin
A Romance Of The Hunting Field
AN
ASTONISHING HISTORY
fiercely out of a face as black as a tinker's. You could hardly dis- cern the man's features for matted forest of His mane.”
Whatever his game was, he was
the
THE CHINA MAIL.
ANNUAL OF THE FAR EAST.
Interesting Mirror Of Present Conditions.
PORT SAID TO JAPAN.
Messra. Kelly and Walsh are now selling at the price of $4 one of the most interesting publications con- corning the Far East which has ap peared for a long time. It is now over 15 months since Mr. H. F. Knapp, F. R. G. S., who is a nows- paper man of long experience in South Africa and elsewhere, toured the Far East in search of material for his second edition of the An- dual. Formerly, he had not been able to take in China and Japan but last year he planned ambitious- ly and-as the book shows-success- fully..
The Annual was to have appear.
It abounds in interesting articles ranging geographically from Port Said to Japan, it "covers" Egypt and the Sudan, India, Burma, Cey- on, British Malaya, the Dutch I.E., Siam, Indo-China, Hong Kong, China and Japan, is profusely illus- trated with beautiful pictures and coloured plates, and is printed and (Continued at foot of nezt Column.)
on
FROM EVERY
POINT OF VIEW-
WILLS'S
GOLD FLAKE
ARE
GOLD
SIDA!
FLA
Here you will find no nonsense about "literature"--we don't think he even mentions the word; his bu- siness is to instruct the beginner how to give the public what it
If you had watched James Lucas, across them as barricades; and wants. Any boyish notlons the of Hitchin, in the hunting-field within Lucas like an animal in a author may have had about quality ¦ about a hundred years ago, you cage. In the earlier years you or style were dispelled when, in would have been surprised, for looked through the barricaded kit well-known office, he was directed you would have seen his shirt chen windows; later he moved to a to return to the literary agent eight streaming in the wind. He pre- room upstairs. You saw a man Barry Pain short stories in a batch. ferred to wear it outside his whose nakedness was covered by So this book is business: it tells trousers instead of inside, and it nothing but a blanket held round
"Though fre you how to make £6,000 a year-or was a peculiarity of James Lucas him by a skewer. more by writing the right "tosh" that he did, completely and to the quently covered with soot from a cd a year ago, but he was advised, (the word is his own) for the right degree of one hundred per cent, chimney that was never awept, he owing to the depression, to postpone people. It discusses the shocker, that which he preferred to do. never washed, brushed, combed or publication. And the result has the serial, the magazine story, even The shirt, flown like a deflant cut his hair. His finger and toe-been that the year of waiting was the bumorous story, though that is banner of Independenco, was not nails grew into talons like those spent in adding to the volume of very dangerous ground, for every- the only thing which distinguish-of a bird of prey. He wore neither material and pictures, so that the thing depends on whether the au-ed James Lucas from his fellow boots nor shoes. His body, with 1932-83 Annual is easily the finest thor is already known as a funny huntsmen. The whole astounding a patina of grime and fifth upon thing of its kind.
sight of him is presented to you it, took on the colour of treacle. recommends specialism as by Mr. Reginald L. Hine in his The whites of his eyes gleamed the shortest way to success:—— book "Hitchin "Worthies" (Allen
What do we find? Jan Hay, and Unwin, 168.). sentiment; Philip Oppenheim, His sult was of yellow nankeen: beautiful women und champagne his hair was long and streaming in a Riviera setting: "Sapper." sympathetically with his shirt; his British ex-officers with a strong bare feet were in stirrups made of not out to mortify the flesh. He taste for beer and adventure; rope, and rope WAS his bridle. ate and drank well, and he could Ethel M. Dell, long-suffering her-Though bare-footed, he was
not hold converse with the best of his oines who swoon with delight at bootless: his boots hung round his visitors, Axing them quizzically at the slight of a horse-whip, and so neck. That he might not fall off times through his monocle, which led at last, was glossy and silken, window raven black. Amid the fifth and -which there was no reason to was a piece of broken
once-beautiful. Naturally Edgar Wallace la "the expect since he was an excellent glass. He liked best to see chil-wreckage of the king of our craft: we are fold that horseman he was roped round the dren and tramps. For the children lome was found a bag of hot-cross and buns, the remains of a cartload he he had on hand sufficient plots for waist, and the ends of the rope there were always.coppers another 150 novels, that he was not really the quickest writer. His ri-were fastened to the peaks of a sweets, and on Good Fridays he had ordered for the children
held an especial sort of court and his last Good Friday. high-pitched saddle.
Mr. Hine makes no comment on Lucas's father, a wealthy mer doled out hot-cross buns through
• writer) # 25,000-word story in one chant, died when the boy was the bars. For the tramps there the astonishing history of Hermit an unhappy was money and gin. Lucas spent Lucas. He leaves it with us as a Mr. Horder's own output is al seventeen; there was
love affair in the twenties: and about $300 a year on his trampa sad, suber fact. That is his way three-quarters of a million words athen Lucas vowed to his mother alone.
with all these Hitchin worthies. year, and he recommande dictation that when she died he would die, But though children and trampa Here we find John Everett, the which, he finds. "keeps pace with
highwayman, cutting 11 was 50; had the first place in the hermit's dandy 100. She died when he his thoughts." Generally he gives and at that moment Lucas died to affection, there were several other grand figure even on the gallows one a pleasant sense, of literature the world. He became the hermit soft spots in his heart. One was in his white gloves and beaver hat, as a matter of ustronomical figures, of Elmwood House and did not for men of letters; he would not his long wig, silver snuff-box, gold and, of course of emolumente also cross its threshold again except to offer them gin but sherry, and he watch and nose-gay. And here is on a soaring scale,
produced in the highest possible ex- 'STONE' NEWSPAPER WROTE AND PRINTED He is, it is true, full of warnings go to his deathbed. That was 25 delighted in their conversation. Captain Robert Hinde,
The exception was Dickens, whom Sterne immortalised as Uncle Toby,cellence.
OWN BOOK. as to the perils, and hazards, and The beginning of the hermit's Lucas loathed and insulted, so enriching Preston Castle with tur- Mr. Knapp, as the Compiler and travails of the life, but what is the long career was marked by the fn- much so that the novelist, wanting rats, portholes and posteyllises, Editor, went to those best qualified use of that when he himself has so cident of his mother's body. Lucas, another interview, came disguised rigging up a battery on the ter-to write on their respective subjects.
First Edition Sold For face and banging off the guns on and the result is a collection of manifestly found it good, and
4d. A Copy. having driven out his brother and as a Highlander. writes of it with so much gaiety
Lutaa could not stand lawyers, "particular rejoicing days.” He articles of absorbing interest. For and confidence? We fear that those sinters and all the servants, locked piles of MSS. he has observel in and barred the house and watched either; and he once let fly with his dressed his own children and the instance, the article on Shanghai 18
A stone "newspaper" of the time
It is impossible to discourage. publishers' offices will be percepti- beside the body for three months. blunderbuss at a party of soldiers: eight children of a neighbour in by none other than Mr. O. M. Green, Then it was forcibly taken away He got on well enough, though, scarlet uniform with a blue sash, lately Editor of the "North China
with the rats that shared his home, and they all called him "General." Dally News" while the article on of the Roman Emperor, Trojan, Anton Edmound Minarjsk.. for burial by officers of the law.
He has been unemployed for merely complaining Never Disturbed Again.
Hong Kong (although not so ac has been unearthed among the Ro- some time now. Day after day ha the They had grand times. CONTROVERSIAL NAMES Lucas was never disturbed again, utmost good humour, when they And whether we see Sir Henry knowledged) is by a journalist of
bls Bessemer amid the rattle of long standing here. Over 850 pages man remains at Ostia, which is toured the city's offices looking for save by the visitors who flocked as had chewed a bald patch on
a job. He was always refused. Why are
Territorial names so to a national monument. As many head, that they were getting "too machinery and the roar of furnaces go to make up the book published nowadays the "Lido" of Rome.
dreaming of Hitebin names under Government auspices, and it The find which may prove very So ac sat down and wrote a book controversial? It is the Welsh as 12,000 came in a year, and what familiar."
He died on a Sunday morning in Sweetings Valley, Hunting Gates, has secured the support of the lead- valuable to historians, consists of Male Sex,"
called "The Decline and Fall of the A house with all Guards, but the Welch Fusillers; did they find?
"When the crust of Drift Hill; or watch the old squire,ing British shipping and industrial the word "Briton" pleases no one; the glass gone from its windows, April, 1874.
Delme-Radcliffe, nodding enterprises in the Far East. As a stone slab covered with an inscrip and the man in the street still hesi-with great chunks of wood fixed years had been removed, the face Peter
of this madman, so called, had a' through the sermon and dreaming mirror of life and conditions in the tlon of 66 lines dealing with cer So he made a printing outfit, tates between Scotch, Scots, and
sanity and serenity quite remark- of his hounds; or mest Sir Henry Far East to-day, the Annual is toŝtain remarkable events in Rome and printed his book and bound all the Scottish,
Of recent years there has been able. It would seem that the coat Hawkins, that famous Tichborne be thoroughly recommended; it is the Empire during the Roign five hundred copies himself." The authorities are painfully di
He is selling this "first edition" vided. "Scotch" was good enough an alternative association to the ing of soot had preserved his com- lawyer and a worthy of worthies, also an excellent book to buy and for Walter Scott and Burns: but word "Scotch," used as a noun; and plexion, for his akin was as pure we are filled with admiration both to keep for its pages can be turn-Tropan. From its character it has at 4d, a copy. The book is written "Scote law" and "Scots Guards" are it is probably for that reason that and diaphanous as that of a child." at the pertinacity of Mr. Hine's ed in future years when we shall been compared with the government in the form of a "talkio" script. traditional terms; and it is an Act the need is felt for a different ad- He was found to be well-nourished quest and at the richness of the be looking back on the days that "official journal" of the present-But the author says "all rights re- of Parliament that dones "the jective.
val in Amerien wrote (on the type-
day.
bly increased by his book.
years later.
Scottish Education Department."
with
and muscular, and his hair, clean- reward that has crowned it.
whom
Wore.
WONDERFUL
CIGARETTES
DISCOVERED.
Trojan's "Government Journal."
Reuter.
Rome.
-01
ALSO
PACKED IN PACKETS OF
10
Nobody would print it.
served."-Reuter.
Prague.
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