WATTS, ANNA MARY, see HOWITT, ANNA MARY WESLEY, CHARLES WESLEY, JOHN WESSEL, JOHAN HERMANN WESTALL, WILLIAM WESTCOTT, EDWARD NOYES WETHERELL, ELIZABETH, see WARNER, SUSAN WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN WHARTON, EDITH NEWBOLD JONES iii 136 139 143 147 150 153 159 165 168 • a W ATSON, HENRY BRERETON MARRIOTT, a British novelist, journalist and dramatist; born at Caulfield, Melbourne, Australia, December 20, 1863. He was graduated from Canterbury College in 1883, removed to England, and adopted journalism as a profession. He held editorial positions on the National Observer, Black and White, and Pall Mall Gazette. Among his works are Marahuna (1888); The Web of the Spider (1891); The Adventurers (1898); The Skirts of Happy Chance (1901); The House Divided (1901); Godfrey Merivale (1902); Alarms and Exclusion (1903); Hurricane Island (1904), and Twisted Eglantine (1905). With James M. Barrie he wrote the drama Richard Savage. PRECOCIOUS POETS. In no art save that of imaginative prose is maturity necessary to the highest flights. The painter, the composer, the poet, make a call upon faculties in which the intellect is not essentially involved; and consequently, lespite the difficult technic of two at least of those arts, they may reach excellence very early. This is truer of the musician than of any other artist. He has no need of intellect; indeed, it may hamper him, as it hampered (7) |