A NOVELIST WORKING AGAINST TIME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2365, 5 August 1886, Page 2

A NOVELIST WORKING AGAINST TIME.

. Jf ntl "g m Irippmcbft'g Magazine Mr Julian Hawthorn says'tliat hejeraembern that on one occasion he wrote for twentysiiconseciitive hours without; a pause. This was during hisresidehce in London shortly ►after he'-had entered upon a literary career. He had agreed to haw a story done b? "a certain hour on a certain diy. v and, as is very apt to be the way, ith young mon, he had pud off the work'.; until the eleventh hour", Theu, confronted by the uncompromising fact that he must aV the work or lose h»«oney, he set himself at the task wit«Ul hit might and main. He started it, at nine o'clock bno ; rnorning aud stuck hard at work until nearly noon the riejt day. He says he founino difficulty in writing a/tw tho fimfc hbur;j hip thoughts came freely, and his mechanically. Hejto,, memben'jtlia|wftjii h» finished the atorj?'

■ hs became aware that his 'little. children' ' were .playing about tho .room ■ where-, he ...... ..had'bebn'.wntiri^;. ho )i<uthor saw nor > " '*.;. '..lioanl theiu wlfile he :Traß at Work, and «*." ."now! theylooked more like shadows.tlwij" JP,',.." tealj tangible forms. He did 'hot feei ~.'."': particularly worried, but'liisbrain seemed, .tol)e'.iitrai)jjely_confused; so, instead.of '■' gbiiig tu.bea, .bb ft.'tijan naturally would tliink of doing, he put on his hat and ovurcoat and set out for a long walk, He remained out of doors until dusk; then, upon his return homo, ho ittu a light suppur, drank two bottles of alo and wont , , ;, to.bed,. The bodily oxerciso had cleared (-.. his" hoad, Ins brain'was as 00l and quiet . i ~M could he wished, and he slept eightueu hoiirt.M and peaoofully an a child.