Life — August 29, 1895 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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WILLIE HOWELLS ON HIS FIRST HOBBY. THE GROWTH OF GREATNESS. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, THIS gifted writer was once a little boy, and not very long ago, but to what extent he gave promise of his future glory is not within our knowledge. But if Bill Howells, the boy, was as delightful a companion as W. D. Howells, the man, there was no necessity of promises of any kind, His own personality was more than sufficient. Mr. Howells has made the grievous error of differing from this publication on a literary question of some importance, and we still have the effrontery to regret that a writer so richly endowed should choose to despise his most artistic qualities and wander in the arid plains of realism, ‘This world would have been a duller place if all other men of genius had been of his opinion, If Mozart, for instance, had devoted himself exclusively to the hand organ, or Humboldt had confined his studies to the potato, or if Paul Veronese had seen noth- ing beyond his own back yard. If Mr, Howells were the average fin de siecle author, we might forgive him this sin, but that a citizen of his endowments should wilfully repress all the romance and poetry of his nature and find a delight in strangling his dramatic instinct is an offence that should not be too readily forgiven. Xvi. A SHINING EXAMPLE. HERE is a man in Ocean Grove of the name of Stokes, a minister of the Gospel, and president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. Said Stokes has recently issued orders to all the hotel proprietors and managers to stop the sale of cigars and tobacco at once. Several of the hotel keepers have been selling cigars and the matter was brought to the attention of President Stok Not only this, but all the nickel in the slot machines have been plugged up upon the Doctor's order. Sepa ee ¢ > WILLIAM HOWELLS, THE YOUNG AUTHOR OF PROMISE, FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN IN 1857. ‘ery year more or less orders of this sort are promulgated within the hallowed grounds of Ocean Grove and duly tele- graphed to the papers by the alert correspondents stationed there by our enterprising contemporaries. Although Lire is convinced that this sort of thing is done for advertising purposes, yet he does not hesitate to set forth this little item, as a means of enlightenment to managers of similar enter- prises, who are not so prosperous, and who, perhaps, lack the brains and ability to use so-called Christianity as a trade boomer. IN JUSTICE TO JONES. 7 y° d that Jones is a member of the Grand Army, didn’t you?” “Yes, but I want to add that he is also a veteran of the Civil War.” comicbooks.com