[22] Rudyard Kipling was 23 when Plain Tales from the Hills was brought out in Calcutta; recognition came a few years later. Mr. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote This Side of Paradise at 23. William De Morgan was well past sixty when Joseph Vance made its success.
[23] Interview in the Boston Sunday Globe, 28 May 1912 (London correspondence printed without a date line).
[24] The Honourable Mr. Tawnish (1913).
[25] “A better selection than Mr. Farnol the Daily Mail could not have made,” said W. B. (“Bat”) Masterson, in The Morning Telegraph, New York, 24 July 1921. “Mr. Farnol’s narrative was not only interesting, but for the most part extremely thrilling. I would like to give the whole story as Mr. Farnol wrote it.” He does, however, quote the salient passages of Farnol’s story.
[26] Interview by John Anderson in The Evening Post, New York, 23 October 1923, page 12.
[27] Interview in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20.
[28] “An Attic Salt-Shaker,” by W. Orton Tewson in The Public Ledger, Philadelphia, 3 November 1923.
[29] Interviews in The Evening Telegram, New York, 21 October 1923, page 20; in The New York Tribune, 19 October 1923; in The Boston Herald, 18 October 1923. The Definite Object (1917) is laid in New York.
[30] Interview by Fay Stevenson in The Evening World, New York, 24 October 1923.
[31] “Jeffery Farnol at Home,” by Henry Keats, The Book News Monthly, September, 1911.