WHERE THE NOVEL ENDED.
FATE 0? EDWARD -SMITH.
Mr. E. V. Knox ("Evog," of Punch), in an amusing speech at the Authors Club in London, recalling the only attempt he had made to write a novel, said that, so far as he could remember, it began: " Edward Smith stood on the top step of his house in Berkeley Square, on a late November evening of 18 —. He was immaculately dressed. A fine drizzling rain was falling." j " It never got any further than that,' Mr. Knox continued. " I left Edward Smith standing there, and there he will stand through tho years on that top step, one of London's less considerable statues. His clothes remain immaculate. Tho rain continues to fall. If I ever visit Berkeley Square—and that is very seldom —I pass hurriedly by tho house with averted eyes. What do I care about Edward Smith? Who was the idiot, anyhow ? I was sick of him. I hated the man."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20560, 10 May 1930, Page 8 (Supplement)
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