A WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 139, 11 December 1908, Page 7

A WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.

LECTURING, TOUR ABANDONED. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 10th December. The recovery of Mr. Jack London, the well-known novelist, who underwent an operation a few days ago, is likely to take a considerable length of time. As a consequence, Mr London has abandoned his proposed lecturing tour. liis yacht Snark has been ordered to proceed from the Islands to Sydney, where she will be sold. Mr. London was born in San Francisco in 1876, and educated at the University of California. He has been sailor, goldminer, tramp, writer, Socialist, lecturer, journalist, etc. in his search for adventures among the scum marine population of San Francisco Bay fie soon lost his ideal romance, and replaced it with the real romance of things ; he became, in turn, a salmon fisher, an oyster pirate, a schooner sailor, a fish patrolman, a longshoreman, and gefi<s-al boy-faring adventurer. He has been before the mast as an A.8., went to Japan, did hunting in the Beliring Sea, tramped over the* United States and Canada, has been in gaol for having no fixed place of abode, w.is a war correspondent in Japan, Korea, and Manchuria, and, generally, has led the strenuous life. In 1906 he started on a seven years' cruise round the world in a fifty-foot ketch-rig yacht. His publications include "The Son of tho Wolf," "A Daughter of tho Snows, ' "The Faith of Men," "The Sea Wolf," "The War of the Classes," "Moon-Face," "Tho Game,"- "Iron Heeri "The Koad A " et.q,