Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1893 — Fame Found Him in Africa. [ARTICLE]

Fame Found Him in Africa.

iof. Henry Drummond, the author o! ! '.'.nt remarkably successful boy 7-, “.Yu t r.it Law in the Spirit World, ” is a mu , v a slight and intellectual type, with s, loivdid head. He has a wonderluhy 0.-ignetlc influence over his studen . ltu. most tamous book first appear* i s.-fiaily in a journal whioh soon dim: : he chapters not having attracted mu u , t nation, and the writer feeling “a I ills r ug remorse at what share I migh ta re had in its untimely end. ” Tim.L-,-> .Bookman says, “two leading Lot *on publishers were offered the hue ; in declined it. The author had 10 u> * o ! oover again to be served w; b ‘■he bia. k seal of literature an i put the i- onied sheets back in their pigeon* j. u, ■!. Air, H. M. Hodder, howev .. rec 1 the papers In their serial form, m i !UO t used their publication to the auti.o., iro jewrote his pages in much ha -ecijitd his proofs and started ;--r A. -/tea. He heard nothing of his fat.» k r »iv« mouths’ travel, during -jrbh h /;: u< -r saw a letter or newspaper, un ", or.. itHßei with a geological and bot.im-e-..i .- urvey, he forgot his venture eomOne night, an hour after mi<!~ht, three black messengers from the , •,h end of Lake Nyassa disturbed his cm p and delivered the hollow skin o a t M'-’ -cst with a small package of letters -.1 ' papers. Among them he foun-. roj. .* of the Spectator containing a ro\,<*w if kit book, which remains to h in 'aio-ug the mysteries of literary unselfishness and cnarity,’ "