The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-31
LITERARY PEOPLE
John Burroughs, Author and
Fruit Culturist.
A FRIEND OF WALT WRITMAN'S
Sladen, the Australian Author-0sCar Wilde
Julian Hawthorne-Miss Dickens
New Books Announced

New YORK, May 2S.-[Special CORES
pondence OF THE HERALD. Mr.. Ohm Bur
roughs, the charming author Of six or
seven books upon nature and bird life,
lives at West Park, Ulster county, n. Y,
on the Hudson river He is born country
liver, and can abide the city no longer than
actual business detains him there. A few
days ago he arrived here for the first time
in over six months, and l had an hours
pleasant chat with him. He was on his
way with the artists connected with one Of
our leading magazines to $40 up'' together
with them picturesque region in an ad-
jacent state. His literary work, of late,
has not been abundant; for he has about
fifteen acres of grapes to look after, and
his hands, instead of being colored with
the stray ink-spot, were trifle tinged las
he showed mel with the metallic solution
with which he had been spraying the
singular out formidable BLACK rot" that
has lately proceeded over the vineyards of
this country from west to east, and which
has only recently
REACHED TIE VICINITY OF THE HUDSON.
MIR. Burroughs when he writes, has a
bark covered cabin on the slope Of his door
yard overlooking the river. It is much
more picturesque house than Thoreau's, of
Walden pond fame; and, being among the
trees fifteen rods away from the family
house, is well fitted for silence and COM
municaton with nature. The birds the
butterflies. and all winged things find ii
and, l presume, the colony OF hornets
nest among the shelves OF books, could live
amicably with their owner, whose secrets
he would be sure, however, to share and
if they were OF Importance, communicate to
the public. This cozy study, if 1t were
round instead OF square, would look like a
section of one of the Yosemite trees-such
one as the California peope hope to put
up at the great Columbian fair.
Mr. Douglass Sladen, the distinguished
Australian poet who, with his family, has
been
LIVING IN THIS CITY
during the winter in d pleasant fat, has
lately left for H,;Irope and will make his
home for year or two now, in London.
MIR. Sladen is very genial cosmopolitan
ized Englishman, who has lost his insular-
ity by extended travels through China
Japan and India, as well IS in other parts
which countries be pursued with an au-
thor's purpose, on behalf OF the magazines
and their eager readers. He is graduate
of Oxford, is about thirty five years OF
age, has dark brown hair, very black eyes
and short moustF che and beard. He is
said to resemble to some extent, Mr.. r. W.
Glider, of the Century; in other words, is
an Anglicized copy of him He has 8
brother who, as the English express it.
s'has good liviug' near Rochester, Eng
land Mr.. Slsden's, best known works
here are are his own poems, 18Th Austria
liam Poets" Literary New York" and
younger American Poets" He viii write
next about literary London.
THE GAYETy OF OUR COUNTRY
Is soon to be eclipsed for season o.
longer by the early departure of the humor
Gus Mark Twain for an extended residenc,
Europe His home on Farmingtoi