Two Friends in Fiction
Two Friends in Fiction is an article published in The Tatler on 24 september 1902.
Two Friends in Fiction
The accompanying portraits of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Mr. Robert Barr pleasantly recall that there is a great deal of genuine friendship among the writers of fiction to-day. I know few men more hearty and more genial than Sir Arthur Doyle and Mr. Barr. Both are unconsciously more fiercely Tory in their politics than anything that the Primrose League can boast, although one is a member of the Reform Club, the other of the Devonshire, but they are both true Liberals in being ever ready to help lame dogs over styles. Sir Arthur Doyle has done this in many ways-to-day by a present of £1,000 to Edinburgh University. And as for Mr. Barr, as editor of the Detroit Free Press and later of the Idler, he has published much early work of the litrary aspirant and shown that literary aspirant boundless kindness. Mr. Barr lives at Woldingham in Surrey, and Sir Arthur Doyle in the same county in a beautiful house on the top of Hindhead, almost oposite to where Mr. Grant Allen spent so many happy years.
