The Editor and His Contributors

New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 1 April 1903, Page 3

The Editor and His Contributors

Jsjj&RTHtlß H.A DAMS, 8.A., is WHj^/ a New Zealander. He has liKMi done a considerable amount .£Jxyk of journalistic work, arid ~°^~ also was once Mr. J. 0. Williamson's literary secretary. After publishing a book of poems ■entitled " Maoriland/' he went to

tides,, stories, addresses, and anything else that would bring grist to the mill. She is now taking a wider scope, collaborating with a wellknown comedian in a musical comedy, and with a doctor now at Home in a series of medical, metaphysical magazine articles. She states that she owes much of her success to tAvo editors who took

China as War Correspondent, representing four leading New Zealand papers. He was invalided home after an attack of enteric. He went to London last April, and is now engaged there in literary and journalistic work. He has recently published " The Nazarene," an ambitious poem which has been very favourably received.

Mrs Laing-Meeson has hitherto wielded a handy pen, producing ar-

the trouble to run down, and so build up the foundation of an inexperienced writer's career.

Josiah Martin was at one time engaged in active educational work. He established a Model Training School in Auckland, and was a popular science teacher and platform speaker in the seventies. He afterwards turned to photography on account of his health, and received the Gold Medal of the Paris Exhibition for artistic work in this

taken great interest in ferns. His professional work as an engineer gave him unusual facilities for collecting specimens. He has gathered them from the Bay of Islands to the Dunstan. His work on New Zealand ferns, published some years since, is well known. For fifty years past he has written a good deal on political, religious and scientific questions, and is now publishing a booklet on the results of recent discoveries respecting Christianity through Bible criticism and the finds in Egypt, Babylon and India.

A. E. Carrington has been for many years a writer of fugitive verses, and " vers de societe " for various English periodicals. During the seventies he occasionally contri-

line. Mr Martin lias contributed to ■science a number of papers on the phenomena of the thermal district. For this work he was awarded the Fellowship of the Geological Society, and of the Auckland Institute, of which he was once Pre.-d---dent. H. C. Field, C.E., came to New Zealand in 1851. He has always

buted to " Fun " and.-otfye.r London comics. He prefers serious verses, but has generally found those of a. humorous tendency more marketable.. His peculiar method of working is this : He always has a number of unfinished poems, in his head/ but never puts them on paper until they are sufficiently perfected and^polished to appear in print.

W. G. McDonald owes his bent in ihe direction of literature to Pro-

Hall, London. George Meredith was at that time their reader. Me has also contributed at intervals to several English and Australasian publications. He has just completed a work of fiction dealing with old New Zealand, to be published in book form. Old Maori legends and customs have always had a special attraction for Mr Ward.

Scott Main is a young New Zealander. He has done much juvenile work, and has written over several

fessor McMillan Brown. He has been engaged principally in teaching, but has found leisure time for contributions to this magazine as well as various New Zealand papers and periodicals.

R. Ward's first published work was " Supplejack," Chapman and

pen names for New Zealand and Australian papers, among others the " New Zealand Graphic/"' "Otago Witness/ "The Triad/ "The Critic," and the Sydney " Town and Country Journal," and his work has been favourably commented upon in America. He lias won many prizes in literary competitions, but still regards himself as a 'prentice-hand at literature, thinking it a most fascinating pastime, and his leisure moments are at present devoted to study and the technique of story-writing.