Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-02
MIR. RUDYaRD KIPLIss.
A Boston Woman Tells the Truth
 About His Looks. Health and Tenn
From Letter in Boston Transcript,

Il PtEs
 From Letter in Boston Transcript Mir. Collier has certainly succeeded in | exactly portraying Kipling, not only in re- spect to features, but in respect to expres sion. In this portrait the young anthor wears white woolen blouse, snggestively Indian in style and as he leans forward toward the spectator his eyes have a merry and agreeable twinkle. I can bear witness to the merits of this portrait, for it was my own good fortune to meet Mir. Kipling,
 a few evenings ago, at little dinner where the whole party numbered only five,
 and where, therefore, it was easy for each
 of the others to see much of the chief
 guest. Rudyard Kipling has been often
 described dining the past year or two, and
 yet his admirers in America are so numer- ous that, even at the risk of repetition, I
 will describe him again. Imagine, then. a
 young man, looking, perhaps, nearer thir
 ty than twenty-five, above middle height,
 with good shoulders and a well-knit figure:
 with hair and eyes of the darkest brown, with firm mouth and pleasant smile in all, not only an agreeable personality,
 but one that speaks of much latent power.
 Furthermore, MT. Kipling is now the pie
 ture of health, newsr aper rumors to the contrary notwithstanding. It is impossi-
 ble to imagine him the half-dying invalid for whom our sympathy was asked a few months ago.
 The rumor probably arose from the fact that he has been working pretty hard the past few months, and for that reason wise | ly made up his mind to forego all invits | tions to receptions and all other similar affairs. On this account, and because he decided to get perfect rest by taking 8 rapid voyage to America and back, the out side world has been asked to believe that consumption or some other malady is soon to put an end to his career. l will ad- init that myself was a little skeptical even as to the newspaper paragraphs which stated that MT Kipling had landed in New York in June, for 1 could not imagine it possible even for so clever a man as he to elude entirely the vigilsnt American inter viewers, yet he did this, and did it so thor oughly; too, that in one case he was even himself successful in sending an unwary reporter from one New York hotel to another in search of Mir. Rudyard Kip ling.
 On this visit Mir Kipling was in Amer lea hardly a week, but he had been there be- fore and speaks very appreciatively of | American cities and American people. He | seems to have seized the chief points of | Boston, San Francisco and New York, all | of which cities he seems to have very clear | and col rect ideas. He was interested in the Kipling reading given in Boston last | winter, and in every way showed himself ! much better informed on current affairs, literary and social, in the United States | than is the case with the most English | men.
 | MT. Kipling's manner in conversation
 reminds one strongly of his style in writ | ing-there is a certain indescl ibable terse- ness and humor in all that he says. Best
 of all, however, is the entire freedom from | conceit and egotism. It is of Rudyar6 | Kipling the man, not of Rudyard Kipling
 the author, of whom you think as you talk
 with him. A new novel by Mir. kipling, Il written in collaboration with & young Il American, now resident in London, is soon to be published as serial, and an Ameri- can magazine is to have the honor of bring ing it out. More than this may not be said
 now, although before this letter reaches the
 Transcript the well-kept secret may have
 been divulged.
 A new volume of poems by Mir. Kipling
 is soon to appear, and it would not b'
 strange if the critics should agree that tn,
 metricsl work of this gifted young man ii
 to be placed even higher than his prose
 In view of the many Tumors, however, o
 which he has been the subject, one canno
 but wonder what will be said when it il
 learned that he starts this week on a six
 months voyage to the Cape of Good Hope
 New Zealand and the South sea islands
 He goes because he finds st sea the bes
 relaxation for rather highly strung organ
 ization, and probably he hoped, too, t | gather novel material for future hterar
 work. But it may be stated in sovRnc
 that he does not go as an invalid in searc | of health.