AUTHOR'S DEATH.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 202, 27 August 1931, Page 7

AUTHOR'S DEATH.

FRANK HARRIS PASSES. (Received 12 noon.) LONDON, August 26. The death is announced of Mr. Frank Harris, the well-known author, editor and critic., Frank Harris, a critic and editor of note, had a very colourful career. He went to school in Armagh and England, ai-d at 16 went off to America, where he worked as shoeblack and cowboy. His love of poetry attracted the attention of a professor in Kansas, who got him to graduate. Harris worked as a reporter in Philadelphia, practised for a while as a barrister, and then went to Europe. He taught in England, and then went to the Russo-Turkisk war as a correspondent Afterwards lie studied in Heidelberg, where he was expelled for knocking down a student, Gottingen and Berlin. Returning to England he rapidly came to the front as a writer and editor. He edited the '-Evening News," the "Fortnightly Review," "Vanity Fair/ and toe '•Saturday Review." It was during his editorship of the famous "Saturday that there appeared an article suggesting the destruction of the German fleet before it crew too powerful. This article was used in Germany as proof of England's bad intentions. Curiously enough, Harris, who had gone to live in America, was violently anti-British during the Great War He was a verv able critic—among other things a prominent authority on Shakespeare— and but for his unconventionally and eccentricity might have gone further. When he issued his autobiography in 1924 it wasso outspoken that no firm would t«nce it, and he had to publish it himself. Even in France he got into trouble over it.