LONDON'S YOUNGEST EDITOR.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 4

LONDON'S YOUNGEST EDITOR.

MR HALL CAINE'S SON IN CHARLES DICKENS' CHAIR Mr Rilph Hall Came, the son of ths famous novelist, who is barely sevenieea and a half years old, is editiog "Household Words," the weekly paper founded in London, and for some time edited by Charles Dickens. Mr Hall Came does not look a day more than his age. Ho wr.s tui a few months ago at King William's College, in the Isie of Mau, aad his lather intended that he should go on to Oxford and afterwards (nter the diplomatic service. Neither classics nor diplomacy, however, had any attractions for him. He had watched his father oarrecting proofs and had been in the newspaper office with which his uncle has been ooDn^cted, and he determined that whatever his work was it rumt bj concerned with tho trade of the writer. To some extent against his father's will, he left school, and came to London foe a visit, and after a week or two wrote home to Greeba Castle eayiug that •• Household Words" was in the marke!; and would his father buy it for him. Not only did M: Hall Cain? accede to the request, Lub he also came to London to give his assist ance and advice, lie has written an , interesting article on the Pope for the Christmas number, and has arranged ihat the "Eternal City" shall be publishtd as a serial in his son's paper. Young Mr Came, in conversation, spoke diffidently about his plans. •' I intend," he said, •* to try to maintain the Dickens tradition. My contents will consist of stories and gossipy literary articl s. Mr ZaugwiU, Mr Coulson Kernahan Mr Auguetine Birrell, and several others of my father's friends have promised to help me, and I am hopeful of its being a success. " I am doing the one thing I have always wanted to do, and I am more than delighted to say that the Christmas number— the first ihat is really all my own— is in its third edition." .