FRANK HARRIS DEAD

Rotorua Morning Post, 29 August 1931, Page 3

FRANK HARRIS DEAD

BRILLIANT ECCENTRIC PASSES. LONDON, Wednesday. The death is announced of Mr. Frank Ilarris, the well knjwn author. editor and critic. Frank Harris, a critic apd editor of note, had a very varied career. He went to sehool in Armagh and Engand, and at 16 went to America, where he worked as ' a shoeblack and cowboy. His love of- poetry attracted the attention of a professor in Kansas who got him to graduate. Plarris worked as a reporter in Philadelphia; practised for a while as a barrister, and then wtnt to Eurxpe. He taugbt in England, and then went to the Russo-Turkish was as a correspondent. Afterwards he studied in Heidelberg, Gottingen and Berlin. Re turning to England he rapidly came ■-,0 the front a a writer *and editor He edited the "Evening News," the "Fortnightly Review," "Vanity Fair," an the "Saturday Review." It was during his editorship of the f am ius "Saturday" that there appeared an article suggesting the destruction of the German fleet before it grew too powerful. This article was used in Germany as proof of England's bad intentions. Ilarris, who had gone to live in America, was violently antiBritish during the Great War, as he had been during tha Boer War. He was a very able critic and but for his unconventionality and eccentricity might have gope furthrr. When be issued his autobiography in 1924 it was so outspoken that no firm^ would take it, and he had to publish it himself. Even in France he got ^ int'o trouhle over it. . / trouble over it. He wrote a hfe of Oscar Wilde, with whom he was on intimate terms, and this also was banned in England as being oifensive to persons still living. '