ten, orilisant ana anormal. A great
any prominent artists are in the
ok, others are thinly disguised-and
ter, surely one of the oddest figures
modern literature. But summaries
e weak and inadequate. ,By all
sans read "Peter Whiffle." It is one
the outstanding books of the. year.
"Kimono," by John Paris, is sup-
sed to have created some kind of a
nsation in England. A pruned edi-
in. has recently been published in
e United States by Boni and Live-
cht. A conventional plot serves to
troduce and connect a long series of
stern slide pictures of Japan. It is
A badly written; neither is the dic-
nary.
IREJINISCENCVES
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ed up something like ninety-eight
lars, I felt enabled to make a mid-
mer trip back to my old home in
age, Iowa, and to my father's home
Ordway, Dakota. This was an
och-marking experience for me, for
y three years in Boston had given
e perspective on the life of the
airie farmer. I perceived with new
ion the loneliness and drudgery of
e farmers' wives. All across North-
atern Iowa and up through Central
ikola I brooded darkly over the
oblesn presented and this bitter
>od was deepened by the condition
which I found my mother on a
eeless 'farm just above Ordway.
It was in this mood of resentment
at I began to write (immediately
ter returning to Boston) the stories
ich later made up the first volume
"Main Travelled Roads." My second
p to Dakota in 1889 added to my
vage resentment, for while on the
rm, I saw my mother suffer a pars-
ic stroke which seemed at the mu-
mt to be the end of her life. During
ase years 1887-8, I wrote nearly all
the stories in the two volumes of
lain Travelled Roads." . * * *
?ieanwhile I had left Boston and had
ablished my literary head-quarters
Chicago. My lodging was with a
nily within a few doors of the Lake
ore Drive, and from this study (and
r West Salem home) I began to
idy the Rocky mountains, or
ther I contined to study the
cky mountains, for I had al-
edy made one trip to California,
d two to Colorado. Each year I
ide a tour of some part of the High
untry, and each autumn, laden with
iterial like a bee, I returned to my
idy and there wrought out my tales
composed my poems.
My second long story, "Rose of
itcher's Cooly," was written partly
West Salem and partly. on Elm
reet, It ras published in 1895, at
Sseine time that I was beginning
write stories of Colorado and New
xico. Two years of historical re-
rch followed, for I was engaged to
a history of "Ulysses Grant His
e and Character," and then in the
ring of 1898 just before the publi-
ion of this biography, I joined the
sh to the Klondike., We followed
a Telegraph Trail which stretched
m the Thompson River to the Third
rk of the Stickeen. It was nearly a
msand miles long and we were
hty days in the wilderness. Out of
s rigorous experience came "The
ng Trail" and many poems written
my saddle or in camp.
After five months in North West, and
Aile on my way homeward on the
in somewhere in Montana, I began
write the first chapter of a novel
ich I called "The Eagle's Heart."
is curious that I should have begun
story rather than "The Long
sii," but so it happened, I finished
he Eagle's Heart" in 1899, and it
was published in 1900. This story in- Eagle's Heart" I chanced, one night My mind was busy with him when
volved Iowa, Nebraska and Colorado, to visit the largest gambling saloon in in going- down the valley a week or
and was an attempt to define the ori- Cripple Creek, which was still in the two later, I had occasion to take my
gin and character of a desperado. * * full glow of its "prosperity," and as I luncheon at a little hotel in a small
A mere story has never quite satis- stood watching the games in progress junction town on the plain. The ac-
fled me. In writing my novels I have in the long hall, my attention was at- tual manager of this hotel was a
always felt the need of an underlying tracted to the proprietor who was young girl not more than eighteen
sociologic motive. Broadly speaking, serving at the moment as "look-out." years of age, and her beauty, her dig-
my fiction has all along been based on Seated in a high chair, and idly toss- nity, and the calm self-rbliance which
the great wegtward movement of men ing a poker chip from hand to hand, enabled her to keep impudent admirers
which followed upon the close of the he presented a striking picture. He at a distance filled me with wonder.
Civil War, and "Hesper," the story was a handsome Inishman of about Miners, cattlemen, drummers, came
which followed "The Captain of the forty years of age, and on his face and went with smiles and bold words
Grey Horse Troop" was founded on rested a curiously introspective and but she remained quietly mistress of
a study of "The Cripple Creek Miner's somber expression. He suggested a herself.
War," which took place on Bull Hill, dreaming leopard, and I began to won- "Suppose that big Cripple Creek
eleven thousand 'feet above the sea, der who he was and where he came gambler should chance to stop off here
and nearly a mile above Colorado from. He did not appear to see what and become possessed of a passionate
Springs. * * * I was going on below, but I was assured .desire to take this girl away with
The characters of my next story are that he could be waked to action by him,-what would happen? Suppose
almost entirely Western. During my the slightest suspicious motion, the she should admire him or be over-
studies for "Witches Gold" and "The slightest word of accusation. powered by his-money and marry him,
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