The Independent . -tical life. He was born in Philadelphia in 1864, and gaineda good education in Lehigh and Johns Hopkins Universi-ties. Entering journalism as a young man he continued inthat work all his life. His first short story successes,Gallagher, and other similar stories, are drawn fromthe newspaper world. Thruhis remarkable ability toreport great events clearly,forcefully and with judg-ment, Mr. Davis became aspecial correspondent andtraveled over much of theworld, including our owngreat West, parts of SouthAmerica, and the manylands he visited as war cor-respondent for the LondonTim
The Independent . -tical life. He was born in Philadelphia in 1864, and gaineda good education in Lehigh and Johns Hopkins Universi-ties. Entering journalism as a young man he continued inthat work all his life. His first short story successes,Gallagher, and other similar stories, are drawn fromthe newspaper world. Thruhis remarkable ability toreport great events clearly,forcefully and with judg-ment, Mr. Davis became aspecial correspondent andtraveled over much of theworld, including our owngreat West, parts of SouthAmerica, and the manylands he visited as war cor-respondent for the LondonTimes and the New YorkHerald in the Turkish-Greek War, the Spanish-American War, the SouthAfrican War, the Russian-Japanese War, and thepresent Great War. H i sliterary work grew out ofhis life. Gallagher andOthers, and Van Bibberare stories of American citylife; Soldiers of Fortune,The Princess Aline, TheKings Jackal and Ran-soms Folly are romancesof foreign adventure; OurEnglish Cousins, Rulersof the Mediterranean,. Three Gringoes in Venezuela, Cuba in War Time, TheWest from a Car Window, With Both Armies in SouthAfrica, and Somewhere in France are graphic accountsof the correspondents life. Mr. Davis sudden death in 1916cut short a career of unusual energy and productivity. A Wasted Day is a story of modern city life, showingoutward realities but turning its principal attention uponinner life. Like all of Mr. Davis work the story is excellentin technique, condensed, suggestive, with events foreshad-owed and demanded by character, rising in power, realisticin detail and idealistic in theme. The author presents anumber of widely divergent character studies; the mil-lionaire thinking of $40,000 Correggios, of landscape gar-dening, the control of a railroad, a Japanese loan, thebuilding of an art gallery and the affairs of Petersburgand Vienna, but learning that individual life, howeverhumble, is a worthy subject, and that wealth and power are subject to law;the judge, ordinary in
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