Louis Becke.

Samoanische Zeitung, Volume 20, Issue 15, 10 April 1920, Page 8

Louis Becke.

AN ISLANDS Seven years ag° £°WS Becke died >m Sydney. He was a *of xTort and received'' |sm€ but at the aj^M away on an island- and reached Samoa. After some years in .the Pacific he returned to Sydney, and was induced to write about v his ' island The stories he dramatic episodes based factual happenings^werfe im mediately successful, and Becke England. He lived there and in France.-Ii eland,and the ' West' lay^es.jfefor;^the _ next - -^iw^%/.vyiE^^ f " ; which fill® ;,over thirty Inmes: WiTHe best of hss . storks are in "By; >lteeisSnd mjsF% antU ,l Wild Life iu obtainable now f Most of his books, in fact, have gone out? of.prm&but the reputation of ifhe m^#is-«fciilW-, Wis®. is,on the increase." Becke,^ 'Cjthe v^w>yW'- :i - christened George Lewis; iu the islands > he was known -gas "Lni," aufc be nse&: the name "I^roirfe' c"- Iwheu be wrojte his first stalyfo He #as% the act of writings straagt *: case of Marie Celeste