Author: Wells Herbert G. Title: STEPHEN CRANE. FROM AN ENGLISH STANDPOINT Source: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/browse-mixed- Subject: ENGLISH ESSAYS (824)
Stephen Crane. From an English Standpoint Crane review: Wells, H. G. Wells, H. G. "Stephen Crane, from an English Standpoint." North American Monthly Review 171 (Aug. 1900): 233-242. THE untimely death at thirty of Stephen Crane robs English literature of an interesting and significant figure, and the little world of those who write, of a stout friend and a pleasant comrade. For a year and more he had been ailing. The bitter hardships of his Cuban expedition had set its mark upon mind and body alike, and the slow darkling of the shadow upon him must have been evident to all who were not blinded by their confidence in what he was yet to do. Altogether, I knew Crane for less than a year, and I saw him for the last time hardly more than seven weeks ago. He was then in a hotel at Dover, lying still and comfortably wrapped about, before an open window and the calm and spacious sea. If you would figure him as I saw him, you must think of him as a face of a type very typically American, long and spare, with very straight hair and straight features and long, quiet hands and hollow eyes, moving slowly, smiling and speaking slowly, with that deliberate New Jersey manner he had, and lapsing from speech again into a quiet contemplation of his ancient enemy. For it was the sea that had taken his strength, the same

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