A TRAGEDY'S TALE.
—— THE JOURNAL OF CAPTAIN SCOTT. PUBLICATION IN FULL. $y Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright .. (Rec. April 21, 9.10 p.m.) -. London, April 21. 'Lady Scott, in a letter to tho press returning thanks for/ the sympathy shown to her on tho., occasion of the. news of Captain Scott's,tragic death at the South Polo becoming known, states that her late husband's journal will bo published in full as soon as practicable. _ Every word, therein "Lady Scott writes, will enhance tho glory of tho expedition, tad. tho' work accomplished by. every officer'and man concerned in it. . ' ! ' i EIDER HAGGARD SPEAKS. NOVEL WRITING AND FARMING. : CHOOSE TIIE LAND. ( / fit Telegraph—Press, Association-Oopyrii'ht Sydney, April 21. Speaking 'at tho Journalists' Association supper, Sir Rider Haggard said ho . Yrould not recommend any young man to take lip tho practice of writing;: it was n,: heart-breaking trade,' and the very greatest names of a generation were quickly fprgotten. Therefore ho was proud to know ' that, books; ho ".mote thirty. years viago were selling better to-day than when "they .camo put.. Condemning base books, .which,, ho. was sorry; to say were, mostly written by women, who, if they quite understood what they wero doing would /'turn off tho tap," ho declared that there Vas nothing easier than, to 'write books
t v/pf "'that,.sort. _ , 'l P coul<l,'^ : he,sai(l ) "under- •« < - .r iako to "writo ovljook thtifcwjrildosell by tie hundred thousand, and yet avoid the law, but not for. t. million pounds would I do ■ .Explaining' his.reasons for turning fartiitri'tho novelist said: "There camo a tnfiß when I was not. satisfied my, ' ' output of fictional and imaginative mat- ,... tor, when I thought I would ljlso to. do something practical in the world, something. thai would atfcct thoso who fpl- •• lowed." He therefore resolved to. devoto himself to'preaching to tho peoples of the. World tliat (heir safety lies only upon the. land, and •thiit'- if .they desert it for the citics to .surely will they bring upon the world,the prophccy of. their own doom. '
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 5
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332A TRAGEDY'S TALE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1730, 22 April 1913, Page 5
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