Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 499, 17 January 1902 — LECTURE BY MR. P. PERRY [ARTICLE]

LECTURE BY MR. P. PERRY

HHEBESiniG TILK IT T. S. C. 1. MANY PEOPLE ENJOY SPEECH ON SUBJECT “AUTHORS I HAVE KNOWN.” Visiting Book Lower Tells of Ht# Acquaintance With Such Men as Mark Twain. Eugene Field. Oliver Optic. William Everett Hall and Many Well Known Authors. Those who attended the lecture last evening, given by Mr. P. Perry. of Boston, in the Y. W. C. A. rooms, consider themselves fortunate in having heard Mr. Perry tell in his delightful informal way of the great literary lights has has known, or met with, in his extensive travels. His acquaintance with Oliver Optic began when he was sixteen years old when a fellow passenger en route to New York. Oliver Optic took a kindly interest in the boy and on parting with him gave him a book. Many years after, when they met again. Oliver Optic recalled this incident. Eugene Field Not Immoral. Many charming stories were told of Eugene Field and of the Bohemian Club in Denver which was organized by Eugene Field. Mr. Perry utterly repudiated the idea that Field was an immoral man. In Boston he knew William Everett Hale and had once heard him say that he felt like taking off his hat every time hp saw an electric street car because of its wonderful and mysterious power. Mark Twain was described as a man of charming personality, w-hose wit is spontaneous and sparkling, but whose great fault is his laziness. Tells of Leslie's Salon. In New York Mr. Perry had attended the salons of Mrs. Frank Leslie and met there a class of men whose coats were shiny and who cared for the kind and quantity of refreshments offered them more than for anything else. Mr. Perry also gave charming reminiscenseg of the time he spent at the Aldine Club in New York, of his acquaintance with Holmes and manyother notable literary men of New York.