THE TRAMP NOVELIST.
Mr. Bart Kennedy, who lias recently pub-' lished a new : and characteristically, clever book about Germany, is certainly a.man. who has taken, hold of life with both hands., : '
Ho was born iii Lancashire, and atveight-' years old ho was,a "half-timer," getting'up at-half-past- fivd; in tho morning and working for oighteon-pence a week. / When ;he was seventeen, ho - shipped at Liverpool, as an able seaman, and went to America; where.;,for fifteen years ho lived a roving life, working as navvy, goldminer, opera siuger, sometimes tramping, once .giving . with-Indians'.\ ■ He in New York, came back to London -with his pockets full'of manuscripts,' and • sold ten snort, stories on the first day ho began the invasion, of Fleet Street. : '. 7-
. He is a largo' man, clean-shaven, bullethoaded, short-sighted—a man who'has lived, and who can-write.—"London Opinion."
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 9
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