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ARNOLD BENNETT
Mr. Bennett has probably donc morc to
introduce new literary talent to readers
in England and America, during che
last quarter-century, than any other one
man; and today, as literary critic for an
English newspaper—a task he has now
taken up and fills, in the intervals of
novel-writing—he is as active in this
respect as ever. Like Mr. Wells, he of
course needs no introduction to Ameri¬
can readers; yet sc versatile has his
writing been, that therc is one Bennett
whom many younzer book-readers in
this country may not know, and whom
they should not fail to become ac¬
quainted with—the clear-headed
thoughtful artist, perhaps the most un¬
sentimental of present-day English
novelists, who wrote An Old Winer
Tale, Clayhunger, Hilda Lesswayr and
These Twain.
H. G. WELLS
Mr. Wells once said somewhere #har he
regarded it as onc of his chief claims to
distinction that he wrote tlie first long
critical review of a loseph Conrad novel.
He has always been active in helping
talented young writers to awiderrecog¬
nition, a phasc of his busy carcer few
pcople in this country know about.
Onc of the few major prophets of this
cra#to young people in England and
America as well as those who arc now
not so young—his inquiring, clear, in¬
ventive, unconventional thinking has
dehnitely swerved the current of opin¬
ion his way during che past twenty.
live years.