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Naïvely Author Horn declares himself "plot-locked." Indeed, the merit of his new "works" lies not in the yarn, but in occasional vivid transfer of sight or sound or smell. Better yet, the recorded conversations concerning his writing, and further shoes and ships: prohibition in America, evolution, Queen Victoria, comforts of the Catholic Church. Fortunately the trader did not realize that this chatter was to be published, else it would no doubt have been formalized out of pleasant recognition. For his is the manual laborer's awe for bombastic standards of Literature. Half an eye cocked on "literrariness," half on the must-be-amused Americans, and another on cinema possibilities, he begs his author to put in the "highlights and so on."
* Now practicing in Daytona, Fla. In 1894 British Vice-Consul at Kabinda, West Africa, in the so-called "Trader Horn Coast." The photograph shows Dr. Puleston in his Vice-Consul's uniform, complete with "fore and aft hat."