Jack Loudon’s Life.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1921, Page 4

Jack Loudon’s Life.

LONDON, October Ilk Jack London’s biography, w fit ten b Ins w idow, XX ill be published on Kriclay An advance copy shows that’t is a work of amazing frankness and covers London’s early experiences in San Kratirisco as newsboy, cannery band, oyster pirate, member of file nllicial lisli patrol, sealer tramp, anti railway stowaxvay. The hook 'relates that London was sent Lu gaol at Niagara for vagrancy. His adventures in the Klotulyke including brilliant steering in the'swirling torrent to Box Canyon. ID’Dirning to San Kruucisco, he married, oflliandcdl.v, Bessie Maddorn, his first wife in order to escape from a lady “highbrow.” During li is early literary strug-

gles editors paid London as little as a dollar and a half for a complete manuscript. In his early correspondence! London pays high tributes to England, remarking: “When England becomes so decadent as to lose li(*r colonies she will fall. Then the United States will he shaken to its foundations. But England is not going to fall. Me are the salt, of the earth, and because we have if in us to sax so frankly xve really are

“Tlie other 'F.uropean countries stand ostensibly alone, hut really stand together when it comes to huekmg the Anglo-Saxon. The United States never had hut one light, and that was when it. fought itself. Then England never bothered it. for England’s hands were full with other things, fighting in every quarter of the glolie.”