The Moving Finger

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 55, 29 March 1912, Page 9

The Moving Finger

Tlk> cirrul.ir from Vho F.L. to ihn unionists ol ; Australi;i on "Hob" Somplc's ini.-.sioii -piibiislii'd in our l;i.st i-.sii" ■■ -lias lii'i'ii iiprinti'd in iju i.-i, a iiurn!."•! of nil;- Am'.ralinn rnnl<'i!i|>or;i]!c~ iiii'ludiii- . On •fiisliiiirl "Worlwr," Nydii.-y ••W'.rki'r/ , Ad'liiido ■ilornld," .Mi-lMoiiriic •■Sociiilisi." iiairn r Ti'iitli" iuid Svdiic-y ■■Jiit-"nia!ii>nal Hm'i.tli.-il •" T!i.' l;ui-n.i'iii'd ;<No a.ii. int'-i-\'i'".v i'l' -Rnrral culinniis with tho Iravriiiuy (ii';j;;!',]!M'r. S<'m;>li- writes thai \w i> closely i\;\;rhin : .>, iioiiiinioii :n;i'' -rs, aixl is pii-kii! t ;-u]) m ln-ulth. Aid. li-ii'.l.v'- 1..'t.;-r M .\l-'ll ! iislio]) I'i'dwnod" i< just 1-1)0 vcl-.V i.liill!.; lo ]i:n. into :iu' hands oi tilt- 11>-h'jjini.-'.-inmut'd who ln.iy linvi; !.)>\'ii i;i!lii":iccrl by tin. , i-lrrii'iil aM.-ick-; ujklii S.vinli-iin. ' Arch'ii-iii.'ip Redwood's i>mslol'.ll is, Wl' lllld'Tsi illld. Still I.HM111!; f'X!i'ii<ivcly <'ircul:iicd, and as lh<' > 'iiireli iiiai'liiin'ry oi' <list:ioulton is almost ji-'rl'iM-t, iri'ivr-ndous cfl'-iils *;■.■ i".(|.|i;i.,i (.0 put 'icl'div (.110 ['tropin ll>i' o!.!| ( >,- sid<- ..f (lie r;IS,\ Pllsh li.'ir'l-Vs p-i:ii|vlili'l ; price. :!■.!. nr "_'s. per du/i-n, posta;fi' cvt;a. * « • A '75" ■■>•'.!■<) and publish l''or;l's nrticlp.s in a p-nu-p'llet and as chcaji as you can, no -. hai it rd'A be sell by the Lhousail'js '' Y\ i , 'md ilia!' wo car.nol issue ''The Cnsc Compulsory Mill' iry Traiiiiiej," vie'i't , .'!d. per ropy or L's. per d iZ"ii !|. ist;i.. ; e jier do;',ell, Id. f'S-ir.-iV l'viiit in■>; is o.wily in New Z<'.il.ird. Xeveithcl-Ms. we trust tlie bnlli.ini "C:is«>" will sell by tho thousands, and iv<« ury> a)! to Iftid a ban >■ * ' * ♦ FroDi t,ho "Vmce'-' T'l-iiitiii'j; and i'ublisldiio; Co.. Aiickl.md, we havo roer'ived a copy of ''The ' D ■!,:, !,-" ...i l'hr- Cllitv TllP ~,;.,,;,],,. ■:, ..- i; :-, — ~,] .-,„* nl ><l i= w.t.i at 'M. Tli.-> report is of tlu , Auckland and makes or.od reading. Our scrie? of London 'Truth" nrtiolos on ''Tiif Great Oil Octopus" finidies this week. Sonio readors will be *hul to know thai ihf nrnr-lrs b;n-(* Ijcoii issued in hook loii:i by Publisher I'nivin. Thf> book is an aUra-'t.ivo one in 'loth. The instructive matlor of tho book needs no cuiiiiiH-n lation. * ♦ » With the. last mail from San Fra.nrisco ?K",v,s oanie io hand that .lack London was endeavonny; to rharter a sailing vessel for the jnnposo of sailing from New York around America to California, via the Horn, writes Arthur Crocker in Svdnov '■Sun."

Writers nowadays sjiend n. much more, strenuous time in search for i:;a-tei-iiil lor their siories lhau was the case iv forme: limes. And at the lio.ie?

of these strenuous s-°ekrrs after the iinii =tijol and sorisatioml rn?ily co;nes .Inek London. Othi'-n (!i.eje aro who ha.vo sojourned in the hinds of wild ways and strange sui'its: but none of them hfi?i lived i.-lie life adventurous as Loudon has In ed it.

As an adventurer ho easily stands at Iho head of modern writers. "Wo Utiow that 'The Cinnic/' came nf his iuU'iisf I'tvo of. Jio\iiij; and lu.s own fxpononecs ,is a ci.ulc aiiialciir. His ''('all of Hip Yi'il'l' , v ;is L'.iii'l' 'J with th* spn)i{.nne<i;i-i nii'l nii:ii':moi!s t'lmuli's oi Anr-ricn nnlv ;•. [! i r !iis n'.. ii liivi'P' , rxjirrif nr.'-s its tlif* I'lilifM ()[ Li;,' i'l -'■ v. -f". liorill. Ill's ''('nti.>f! of th- iva.s iiic <uilcoiiio of a. Viivi uni(iii< in (ho liistnrv' o! 'ra 1 .-. 1 ! His "N;ivi;';!iiin.g Four Norlh of thr liny" was ihfl result of nn ainrizing }:uvl trip. And now ",'.f ,-iro to hnvr> ihia !v>!uid-A morioa vovn^o. With Jnck Londnn jmrsonnl nr-liiero-mcTil is tlio salt of life, run] tho of hi* nostrils. Ilf says hod rnShor win (h< , n - a<cr-/i!.;]it in tho swimmingpool than nritfl tho American novel. But to this wriW, London, looks the only mnn in America with a chance to write THE American norel. .Aa a ntylist lie is head nnd shotilrlors ,Tlior<? tho next I)pst. And who shnll say ilmt tho miitiM-inl for that American nnvol is not Doming from this trip—if successful. * * * Mrs. (Joldio, bettor known as Jfiss Duk'.io Df.iiiiT-r, has left for London aiid Now York with tho mannseript. of ;i e.oiiple of novrl;;. Or.o is said to bo a prehistoric slory of gront merit. Her niissina jq with thu Kij p'jbiishora.