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 (Continued from Page 1) 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. 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