MR C. R. ALLEN'S NOVEL
BLIND WRITER THE KING REMEMBERED. V, lien tlie King visited the Dominion Artists’ exhibition be stood for a minute before a portrait of Mr O. R. Allen, the blind son of Sir James Allen, and remarked, “ft is jmihotic•all.v strange that two High Commissioners lor Now Zealand should have sans who became- blind.”
There has just been published ‘"Brown Smock,” a novel by Mr C. R. Allen, which should be even more successful than his first novel, “The Ship Beatuiful,” a copy of which was accepted by the Queen. “Brown Smock” is the story of Jerry Hood, a liny whose talent for music was fostered by Hilda C'rol't, ci blind novelist, who took him away from the poor district of London where he lived to the peace of her country home. It was like a new world to him. The boy met Lois Ilanrey, whose beauty helped to determine him to win fame by writing the tune wbic-h should satisfy the flame of genius burning within him.
Xevor conventional. never insincere, Mr Alien writes as one alio has seen boa my and loved it at first sight. “Brown Smock” is a distinctive bock ill every way.
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Hokitika Guardian, 27 May 1926, Page 4
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