The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-03-18

which paid my expenses to India
around the Cape of Good Hope.
Arrived there / found my father
had retired from the Church and
while publishing his translations OF |
the classics, was editing the Pioneer !
newspaper. I Joined him as sub |
editor and in two years succeeded
him as editor. My writings how
ever had attracted the attention OF
the Government and / was offered
land accepted) the chair as professor
of literature at the college. Soon
after was appointed editor to the
government of India of the state
Records of the Benares province
and also Censor of the Vernacular
press. In 1871 l exchanged my
professorship for that of Met
aphysics and Logic and considering
my lot te be cast in India settled
down to Anglo-Indian life. In 1876
however l returned to London on
furlough and married, My wife's
health proving weak, l had to leave
India in the following year and
on reaching England, found a book
which | had published for some per-
SOM friends sakes in India, was
being republished in London. Hear
ing that | was in the country, the
publishers sent for me and the book
appeared under its new title, "In
my Indian Garden" 1t attracted
the attention of Mr.. Edwin Arm
old (since so famous as the
great author of the Light of Asia
who wrote the preface to the first
edition, and invited me to join the
staff of DGilyIelegTGph. As soon
as my literary engagements permit
ted me to do so-one of them was
the editing of II. NJ. Stanley's
Through the Dark Continent. p
/ joined that powerful newspaper.
In 1878, l published "Under the
Punkah;" and the same year was
sent out to the Afghan war as a
special war correspondent of the
Dolly telegraph. Since then my
life has been before the public.
In 1879, l published my "Cabul,
history of the country and its
Ameers;" also my "Atlas Of the
Afghan War;" When the Zulu
war broke out, 1 was sent there anC
after its cessation, returned to Eng
land round the Cape of Good Hope
In 1881 1 left the Telegraph JC
join Mr.. Edmund Yates, the cele
brated novelist and proprietor Of tn
London World, in a journalist,
, venture, The Cuckoo. 1t failed ant
took to literature. pure and simpl
I for living. My "NOah's Ark" wa
a very signal success and entere'
into engagements with another firm
7 of publishers for a four VOlum
work On the British Poets, whiel
I is now passing through the press
}; Finding that my popularity as a
= author was likely to get me pirates
in America, l came over to tn
States in 1882, and having made N.
q arrangements With publishers Il
F this country, was returning to Eng
land when l met the editor Of tn
New York World, at whose invita-
I ton I took trip round the State
. as his special correspondent" NJ,
q attention was specially directed I
the mining grounds of Colorado an
e the so-called Chinese question. BIT
r when l got to Salt Lake City
r found so much to interest me tha
v l stayed here-and you know tn
= = rest.
= had arranged last year for TRIP
= into Old Mexico and to all kinds {
q places, but the Egyptian war brok
. out and l made rush for it fror
q Salt Lake City to Cairo. got to tt
, scene of war about two days befol
!. Sir Garnet Wolseley and saw all tt
:, fun from first to last. But the lite
4 airy connection which l had forme
+ with the leading American review
~ and newspapers was too importaI
a to neglect, and as soon as the W;
+. was over 1 returned to the State
II and here | am.
q l am due in England at the Dali
r. Telegraph Office (for l have rejoint
% that paper on the 1st of May, ar
! have, therefore, to make a rush f,
% it again, seeing that l have to Wis
3 Philadelphia and Boston before
70 say goodbye to the States"
/ "lhere," concluded Mr.. Robinso
! 81 have told you all | can think {