Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — Other Ideas Than Poetry. [ARTICLE]

Other Ideas Than Poetry.

There’s more than a poetic soul to London’s latest literary find in the ex* mechanic, John Helston. He has not mastered Shakespeare, he admits, nor learned Browning by heart, but he has made a few observations. “'Till a few weeks ago,” he announced upon bMng wined and dined by numerous London literary lights, “when the newspapers began to print articles about me—all bally rot it was. too, most of it —I wasn't used to this kind of feed. I was more used to heating my dinner on a shovel. Kind, I call it, awfully kind they are to me. Lady Margaret Sackville, she’s read every line I’ve ever done, and a lot of it was rot, and she said so, and I chucked it But some of the things they said was rot wasn’t rot and I knew it, and that part I wouldn’t chuck, no, not if Shakespeare himself came up to me and said it wga rot**