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ambitious to shine as a writer sad at the age of 17 sotually succeeded in selling two stories to a publication known as "Boys" Life," which failed almost immediately afterwards.
Then came Borneo. Back in
Booth Tarkington certainly was started. Execution of Freytag needs no introduction to English was delayed because of the frantic England a few years later, Snell readers, who will welcome bis offers of trades made by the Ger- found himself, as he confesses, a
·latest book, a volume of short sto-} mana to effect his reloane.
trifle out of touch with events ries collected under the title of the In May, 1918. Marshal Foch in the home country. Final principal.one, "The Fascinating told the allied commanders that ly be drifted into caudeville Stranger." In almost every story success of the cause depended onlin a skotch entitled "Navy in the volume Mr. Tarkington gaining information concerning Blue. As the villain in this. evolves a whimsical, humorous plans of the German High Com- playlat, it was his duty, at the tale from some form of mental mand. Secret services of other proper time, to be vanquished in aberration. Thus in the title story allied countries had failed. The fist fight with the hero. One) we find Mr. Tuttle, who makes his discredited American secrot ser- unfortunate evening, however, by i home in a deseried limousine vice was the last resort.
an anything but lucky fluke, it body and gains afinence A major of the secret service changed that he k. o.'d the lattor, through trading a stfolen lawn, force was arrested at Hondayo, a and it the war hadn't broken out nower for A package of town near the Spanish border. just at that time, be doesn't know cigaretteq. 78 conts and After news of the arrest had beeg just where he'd have looked diamond ring he thought worth aoised shout, he escaped into next for means to maintain Jess, In another tale a young Spain. He arrived in San himself. Enlisting immediately, man is so upset by witnessing the Sebastian, sest of "the Group in the Royal Artillery, he fought Folies Bergere that he was plac. of Five that ruled German inter-throughout the entire conflict. od in a sanitarium for 6 years,ests in Spain, and succeeded in Having seen the worst of every When be returned to the world gaining their confidence. He thing in Flanders, he was serving he could not account for the pas- drank to the health of the Kaiser on the Italian front where, in sage of time. His little niece ap- and the success of the German 1917, he won his way to a com peared to have reached maturity arms, He took the oath of mission. overnight. She "thraw a toddle" allegiance to the Fatherland and In 1919 he became a railroad and the modern form of enter signed it in his own blood. Then transport officer, first at. Voghera, tainment unbalanced bis reason be was assigned to return Italy, and later at the French again. These stories have ap-to France and effect the escape frontier town of Modane. Demo peared in various magazines. of Freytag, who was with Prince bilized in 1920, be opened what They do not form as substantial Joachim. He did this and also be called a "diplomatic, travel, a-contribution as Mr. Tarkington brought back another officer, bureau" and a movie theatre. The has made to literature heretofore, posing as a traitor, who declared former, he relates, "died a natural but they make excellent reading, he had the blueprints of the death" and the latter "failed igno "Impromptu" ie the title of a Liberty, motor, Those two miniously." Nothing was left to now novel by Elliot H. Paul mon with Prince Joachim him but to begin writing for a Irwin Atwood is the central figure were carried to Kiel. on a living. in "Impromptu." His boyhood Gorman submarino and eventual-" As an author, hie earlier ven- is spent in a New England town ly ranched the High Command at tures had discouraged him pretty as bleak and provincial sa Gopher | Coblenz, where they were to tell effectively, but now, to his un- Prairie. He is a burden to his of allied plans and explain the bounded astonishment, he suc- mathar He is ever engaged in Liberty motor blueprints. The ceeded immediately. His work some petty dishonesty. Swept up Germans planned. to MUT. in the war, one looks for some der them when this informe magazines and shortly there be
took
at once with English ennobling trait to develop, but it tion bad been given. Two gan to be a call for it from Ameri- never does. To the very end he women in the German secret ca. It was as a short story writer is a cravea coward. Hesteals service had been assigned to that he made his start, and "The small sums from his mother. shadow the Americans. In the Yellow Seven" is his first venture Ho takes bis buddy's life belt end they fell in love with the into the field of longer fiction. when be thinks his transport is American officers. The women Mr. Saell" is 'the kind of about to sink. He complains of arranged for two traitorous novelist who wastes no time overy potty task that fell to his lot colonels of the German head- getting into "** bia story. in the army. He returns and quarters staff to Accompany He bothers with sponges on a kindly employer. the Americans to the front liminary explanations. The narra- Atwood meets Dorotby, the girl line where they sneaktive-carrios them. "Action" is he left behind him when he enliet- ed over No Man's Land bis motto, from start to fosh, cd. He had left her in a sorry and delivered to the allied com His field is altogether a new one. predicament, but others had cared mand what details they had His style bas a freshness and in- for her. When Atwood meats her learned of the German strategy terest. He knows what he wants again she is earning her livelland troop distribution. The re to say and he takes the shortest hood in a manner generelly con-treat of the Gormans which cuts to say it. If "The Yellow sidered unconventional, not to say followed ended the war.
Seven" is to be taken as a sample immoral. He accepts money from The two traitorous Germans of what he has to come after it, immunity. Edmund Snell is a made fiction A professional dancer sees Thoy wore sent to the writer, perhaps, after all, only them at a Boston dancing United States on the trans-because the reading public like pavilion. He offers them a place port Agamemnon, Prince Joachim colourful fiction dealing with in New York, Dorothy's invalid committed suicide. The Amer Orientals, however inaccurate or sister is a burden that cannot he can officers who were the heroes exaggerated. carried along. At wood plans to of the adventure believe that he; murder her." He believes he killed himself because he realized causes her death when sho.col.he was the means of the Ameri- lapses and dies. Here-enliste in the, army.
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promised wore
can secret service reaching the High Command. And the two. When Mr. Paul wrote this story women who, all too human, fell he evidently pledged himself to in love with, the enemy and be the truth. But he often tells the trayed their country? Their fate truth uncouthly. He talks like a le not mentioned. Here again the rough-neck. He goes too much fate of empire, of several empires, into details regarding humanhinged on the sentiment, or emo- functions. The ugliness lies in tion, or caprice-call it what you trivialities not essential to the will-of woman, or so we are told. stors. That sort of thing con
An Author From Borneo. stirutes posing.
Every great fiction writer draws largely, in connection with his work, on his own experiences. Edmund Sneil, author of "The Yellow Seven," had led a life full
True Tales of the Secret Service, Nothing makes Buch interesting reading matter as life itself. Fiction is only entertaining when
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it either approximates or parallels that his stories, too, should be full of two figures, so that each row fact. The old saw, "Truth is of them..
stranger than fiction," is truc. As a young man, Mr. Snell number may be used only once,
numbers, each number consisting Fill in the blank squares with
across will add up to 143. Each Thus "True Adventures of the Se- went from England to British cret Service," by Major C. E. North Borneo, as assistant on aed, will have a different number
so that the square, when complet Russell, is as inspiriting an rubber estate, and it was in this
in each cell. adventure tale as has been printed far away land, the home of advan- in months. We have no doubt that ture, the weird, that be absorbed
Yesterday's answer: at times the truth is aberrated by the vividness characteristic. the writer's imagination. All of of his writings. Borneo is the the facts do not come to him home of the headhunter, Ás îf at first hand and when this weren't enough, the island
he fills in, the ground does not settlements swarm with im- geem solid enough for the struc- Į migrants from mysterious China.
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In the "word square" shown
fure of fact the author erects. which authors love to depict as above, the words, rascal, active, Fictitious names are given reel the terrible, the inscrutable. characters. In soverel of the Such occurrences as the bura- stages, cigars, averse and lessen stories the names Lupin and Leing by refractory natives, of the may each be read from left to Blanc are used. It may be only manager's bungalow on the right or from top to bottom,
a coincidental matter, but it so ostate whore he was employed happens that Le Blanc wrote were ciere incidents in Mr. Snell's
FIEUZAL GLASSES.
the Arsone Lupin detective life in thie wilderness. Ho recalls Out of doors there is nothing so stories. The flavour of those only as a rather unimportant restful and comfortable, for the stories and the style of writing is happening a riot in the coolie eyes as the light reflected from evident in Major Russell's work, lines, during which he had quite green fields and trees--the absorp
By far the most engaging of eorious argument with a mutinonation of the ultra-violet and orange the stories are the first two which Chinese armed with an axe. That rays by the chlorophyll of the concern the capture and escape the Mongolian had a pig-tailleayes; hence the introduction of of Prince Joachim, late son of or-which he managed to grab bafore Fiduzal Glass, yellowish green in Kaleer Wilhelm,
the latter got him with his wee colour, which is produced in]
A Swiss Red Cross worker, pon, Mr. Snell mentione only several shades, and lensos made named Fraytag, was stationed at casually when asked how the dis of this may be worn as a protec- New Rochelle, France. He work. cussion torminated,
tion by over-sensitive eyes where ed among German prisoners of The author was born in London it is desirable to tone down ex- war. A number of fires at that, in 1889. He turned to literature cessive light and glare. Fieuzal point endangered A. E. F. sup.early, having produced a play at lenses of any prescription in plies at a time when their loss the age of 13, while attending the either regular or Torio forma are would have marked a turning point grammar school at Ashford, Kent manufactured by The Hongkong in the war. Members of the armywhore his uncle was headmaster. Optical Co., successors to Clark secret service discovered that The youthful dramatist seems to & Co., manufacturing and refract- Freytag gave the prisoners acids have liked excitement and action ing opticians, 53, Queen's Road to disinfect their clothes. When even then, for it appears that Central. they took off their blouses to most of the principal öharacters work, another acid in a bottle in this early drama were murder
Victor SupremaOY, in the blouse would eat ed. When he was 16 young, THE VICTROLA. through the paper stoppo". Whon, Edmund found employment in a Is the only Insitumani recogaland by the the two soids combined the fire London office. He was stilli Warion, Arktise Ask Montgies for %Çatalogu.
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