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STEADY IMPROVEMENT. COMPARISON WITH THE PAST.

Sir William Orpar, the famous artist and portrait painter, argues in the following article thas the handsomer men and women of to-day are a result of the higher mentality of the age-、

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"NOVELISTS AT WORK, METHODS OF STORYTELLING. DESCRIBED BY THEMSELVES.

There has always been a great curiosity about authors and how they write their books. How do they get their plots, their characters, how do they write it all are questions they are being ask Is the October num ed continually. A year or so ago, he says, when critics berof The Strand Magazine the veil is were in full tongue telling the world lifted from the workshops of leading how much it had deteriorated since the authors of to-day, revealing some very Below are priated century before, I voiced the heresy that interesting facts. men and women were rot only better some extracts from the symposiumi

31r. H. G

WELLS WELLES looking, and therefore better minded, than they had ever been before, but that Advanced as he is in many ways, Mr.

Every H G. Wells is old-fashioned beside: they were steadily improving.

sonte novelists because in the first place day confirms me in that belief.

It is my business in life to study, he writes everything. Not only so, bat

of falt. It is also my lot in doing such as we are a Victorians. vd shares

ho generally uses large

paper, Bects

to, in the job to get to know automatically what

of the manuscripts is in the mind that is behind the face, by him shows how second thoughts and and I do not hesitate to any that there fuller thoughts come to him, and how is no such thing as real beauty of face deftly they are woven in. His actual ballooning without beauty of mind. And there is

writing has a lift in it, a a lot of both kinds of beauty about sort of touch, such as one finds in his to-day.

novels. Moreover, when bis script be- comes typescript he still works on it, before, it goes to the publisher.

Beauty is more than a regular bone structure covered with healthy flesh and skin, and whether a face is a fortune or not, it is always a hall mark.

A criminal's face proclaims his vice, whether he likes it or not, as clearly as an honest nine's proclaims his worth. This is no more, a coincidence than the fact that pipe-smokers, from Mr. Bald. win downward, cannot keep a crease in their trousers All faces and all appear aaces are shaped through an attitude of mind. As you think, so you become..

and so

until

The late JosEH CONRAD wrote with his hand, but gout in his later years caused him to try dictation: When he It is not by sheer coincideree thai you

was engaged upon a big novel like and in one profession bundreds of faces one on the Napoleonic timea, which has that look as though they had beers turn-been left unanished, he attacked it in ed out by the same mould. It is not salt divers ways, by pen and by voice to a water that shapes the sailor's face, or secretary. He would speak a part, have go had court rooms that shape the lawyer's or is typed, re-speak it,

Tt he got where he wanted. preaching the parson's

with diguity, at a particular sitting. one chapter of a hook, he would take his up another, so that, altogether, scheme of labour was long and arduous, Mr. BERNARD SHAW say that good writing represents the survival of about of the notions that present per cent. themselves. "A ginss of champagne or cider will lead to the survival of 93 per cent. or more; an author who is not INSPIRED WITH BETTER THOUGHTS. completely sober is for serious literary Do not suspect me of confusing tea. purposes drunk. Mr. Shaw, who says that it often takes much longer to re- tures with expression Expression is a

a page than to write it describes Kise

as follows: physical change, and rot something be-

where bind a face which shines through it. No his technical procedure

work one can sacer, smile, experience horror, write in shorthand, when and

сап. A great deal of my fater languor, love, fear, or any emotion with has been written in the train between out using some of the innumerable face Hatfield and King's Cross. My secre muscles to raise or lower eyebrows or eyetary transcribes this on the typewriter.

wrinkle lids, move the lips, produce

When I have gone over the tapescript ar a dimple, or bringing about some at least twice (sometimes much oftener) revise two. actual change, even if it is only the dila. it goes to the printer, tion of the pupils.

successive sets of proofs very carefully, a third. When I see better-looking min and and check the corrections on

Then go to press. In the case of a

+ women about me I know they are in- spired with better thoughts, and that play I write dialogue first, and then these will be handed on to and multi. work out the stage business and superim-

poze it. plied on our great-great-grandchildren.

Mr. Shaw advises all young authors If we cancet look into the faces of read. Anthony Trollope's Autobio

cheap the future to make sure that the race!

graphy, now obtainable in a is improving, we can look at the past. edition. Consider the good old days of one or two centuries ago, and compare the faces of these good old men and women with those of our own day. We have the ex cellent evidence of Gainsborough, Res rolds. Lely, and others to show us what they looked like.

CAN BEAT HIS ANCESTORS.

Lely's pictures, for all I know, were net very like his sitters. They all look very much alike, but we may take it that he painted the type of his own day, and from his popularity we may assume that he was flattering rather than the

raverac.

Even so, his pictures of the graceful backs of Charles's Court compare badly with the average strong-faced, square jawed citizen of the present day. With! out the curls, ruffs and trappings of the Restoration, the average man of 1924 can beat his ancestors hollow for tooks, physique, and mailiness

cannot The average molera man squeeze into the largest sizes of medieval coats of mail, and the modern girl would find it even more difficult to wear an Elizabethan stomacher.

Woman has not been left behind in the race it may seem untair to compare 42 outstanding beauty like Mrs. Siddons with the modern girl, but Aliss 1924 does Mry. not suffer by. the. comparison.

famous because Siddons's beauty was

I ran beauty was rarer in her day. readily thick of a dozen now who would outshine her. I see rivals for most of the other canvas beauties daily.

AVERAGE OF BEAUTY RISING.

The average of beauty is rising, and it is rising because there is going on n strady rise in virtue. I do not use the word it any priggish "sense, but for want of a better term to describe the inherent decency of instinct and goud- neas of mind which are prident al

around us.

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Mr. H. DE VERE STACPOOLE says frank- ty that he does not know how stories come to him: I believe all characters and most scenes that are nay good come from the cellars of the mind; a charac ter may be drawn from a living human being, but it is no good till it has gone below and received vitality and addi- tions from the gnomes who are responsi

I never ble for the dreams of man. dictate or use a typewriter. »I can no more imagine writer dictating a imagine n pain- book than I

dictating a picture. I can't, ter

imagine a man writing á somehow

with his tongue-at least, a book | worth reading.

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Then

Mr. W. PETT RIDGE is methodical:- Before starting to write a story. I set down a group of characters, with their names, ages, and occupations. comes the planning of about 20 chap

For me the old-fashion- ters, and not until that is done do I begin to write. ed nib does the recording work, from beginning to finish,

Mr. GILBERT FRANEAT anys he spends sometimes six months "drafting out rio." Then he dictates the exact sernario."

He puts from 10 till 1 and & till 7. on any final polish" with his pen on the typescript of his final dictation.

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it is the bealthy mind that puts men women into the sports field,

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The war has been a big factor in help ing to change us Adversity best is Covers virtue, and no great experience of suffering can leave us unchanged for the better.

The children of each new age start out with greater advantages" than their parents. They have a greater necumu lation of beauty, example and, experi- ence behind them, and they can start where their fathers left off,

A child surrounded by good cheerful

This is glad news for both sexes. though the novelist fixes the bite of this domestic millennium as still twenty years ahead.

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It is open to question whether, with wore spare time on their hands, women will utilise it in self-improvement. It is a common experience that men with Ashe, too little to to, and too long to do it No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda io, do not go in for courses of character-

have left the Godown and all Claims must be building, and utilise their leisure in

Why presented within two weeks of the Steamer's the development of their minds, da Arrival here, after which date they will not be should Woman?

The picture thus painted of

recognised. Woman,

Consignees are requested to sarrender their travelled and free with

countersignature, va women, and delight the other sex, is, however, more than 20 years distant.

But we may look cheerfully forward to the women's millennium for Woman knows her own immemorial job best... sho does not mind being considered the wenker sax, because she does very well. out of that alleged inferiority.

pictures, wholesome books, and the good orsonalities that impress oven other Bill of Lading to the Undersigned for

examples of his parents cannot fail to be affected beneficially by his caviton

ment

We all become like the things we study and like those we love and with whom we come into daily contact. Example draws when precept fails.

THIS YEAR'S HENLEY,

HIGH HEELS AGAIN...

A recent London cable to Australia Baya The French effort to popularise low-healed shoes, has failed.

Englishwomen only protended to like them. Though they were moro com fortable, the wearers were conscious of

At the annual meeting of the stowards of the Henley Boyal Regatta it was an nounced that this year's regatta would be held on July 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Mr. F. 1. Pitman, of the Cambridge loss of ankle charm Boms Bufered University Boat Club, was re-elected from ankle acuralgia, which disappear chairman of the Managemont Committeed on their resuming high heels.

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