AN AUTUMN TAILOR-MADE IN LIGHT-WEIGHT TWEED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1384, 9 March 1912, Page 11

AN AUTUMN TAILOR-MADE IN LIGHT-WEIGHT TWEED.

Weddings.—Shower Bouquets for brides and bridesmaids. Only the choicest of Flowers used. Specially packed and (o any port of the Dominion. Miss Murray, 35 Willis Street (Florist to his Excellency Lord Islington).

and, just as soroo people tako such a tip for a race, Frederick Urccnwood took this title as an augury of a moderately readable book by which he could succeed in passing an houv or two whilst travelling in tho train. Ho read tho book with erer-iucreasing delight and wonder, and at once realised that he had discovered a genius. When he got back to town he wroto to tho unknown author, asking him to write a serial for "All tho Year Hound," of which he was then tho editor. The serial was written, and entitled "Far From the Madding Crowd," a book which, as everyone knows, is one of the most popular of the great Wcssex novelist's works • • The ■ succfES of Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler was to some extent a "fluke." Certainly, she had been Writing short stories for some time before she emerged as a successful novelist, but her circle of readers, now reckoned :in tens ■■ of thousands,' might then be reckoned in tons. Ono day a great , London editor was saying to a Methodist minister that there was no novel then existing which treated intimately of the inner life and spirit of Methodism, and the minister, who knew the lady well, mado the remark that probably only ono person in England could do it—if sho would—Miss Fowler. r .Tho.editor-at .once placed himself in communication with her. and commissioned her to write a Methodist novel. The result was the brilliant book "Concerning Isabel Carnaby," a book so full of epigram that it fakes away one's breath.