The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-25

Australian kipling, and v BIO, in additi on
to various short stories, has written q
book called On the Wallaby, and appar.
ently containing an account of his own
experience in Australia. At present Mr..
Boothby kipples assiduously, but he
will grow ont OF this. He has had a
good many adventures, and seen q good
deal Of the odds and ends of life. With
this material he will do something
worth doing, as soon as he learns to
handle it with q lite more skill. On
the Wallaby lie by no means bad first
book, and its faults are all those OF q
young and inexperienced writer. 1t
will not be long, unless / am very much
mistaken. before Mr.. Boothby ceases
from kippling. and writes his own
stories in his own way. Then he will
no longer be called the kipling OF Aus-
tralia, but he. ae well az his books. will
be all the better for it,"
"a New Englsnder" writes from Lon.
don to the Critic some sharp things
about The New England Conscience
which will be viewed with curious in,
terest BY our readers Reading a recent
Critic review of some New England
novel, l am reminded that the tradition
of The Nav England Conscience is still
vital. Tradition has more lives than q
cat, is harder to kill than the chopped
worm that crawls away in sections
to grow new heads or tails at
its leisure. New England novelists
are continually supplying new heads
and tails to this tradition; no wonder
that in the hands OF the Jswstts, Wiki
inses & Co. 1t refuses to die. Haw-
thorne started this literary tradition.
The nature of that unworldly romancer
saw not the facts but the fotions of
spiritual existence, and to him any
world, even the world OF Rome
and Paris. muet turn upon con :
science, or not turn at all.
The ''conscience'' was in him. Mrs.
Stowe WAS of q race whose business was
the belaboring Of consciencss. hence she
saw New England only through the
came blurred eyes. Thus the tradition
got its growth. the convention its form,
for every story.teller to add to, and
every.outside-of-New -Englande as The
Critic is, firmly to believe in. The
truth is. that the New England con-
science is q sham, dismal fraud. 1t
10 mere hypocricy, that OF the
rural districts differing from that of
the towns only in being sour where the
other is SNUG. l am New Highlander.
born and bred from two centuries and q
half of New England Puritanism. There
fore speak with quite as much author.
ity as anyone when I utterly deny the
New England conscience" as else than
q purely literary convention and tradi-
ton. In my birthplace in Maine, dur
ing my maturity in Massachusetts, l
never sew q throb more of conscience
than l see in English people of the
same class, in the French and Ger
man peasantry. in the shop.
keepers of western villages, the
farm people OF the middle states. My
father and mother were notable in
stances OF 'Conscience" to the outward
eye; to me they were hypocrites, al.
though unconsciously suoh. | regard
as hypocrites all who sacrifice every
thing to good moral repute, who live.
novs and have their being, as most New
EnRlanders do. in Q good reputation. Ii
anybody ever had right to a heritage OF
New England conscience" had. But
had to- leave New England to know
conscience as q moving spring OF life
long action. never knew it there. OF
course l except great moral movements.
such as anti slavery and others in which
much more enthusiasm OF temperament
cloaks itsslf az conscience, and much
has really right to the name. But in
individuals in New England there is NO
more conscience than there is south oil
Mason and Dixon's line.
Art and literature have both met a
great loss in the death of Mr.. Phillip
Gilbert Hamsrton, whose busy and
fruitful life ended on the 9th OF this
month. The chief facts Of Mr.. Hamer-
toms life may be briefly related. He
was born September 10th 1884, in Lam
cashire. Orphaned when q child. he
was taken care Of by an aunt,
who bestowed great pains up.
on his education He fitted for
Oxford, but in the process discovered q
vocation for landscape painting. and in
stead of going to the university, went to
London and entered the studio OF Mr..
Pettill. In 1866. after publishing his
volume OF youthful verse. he went to
Paris for further study. Here he stayed
for some years, then returned to Eng
land, and started the Painters Camp
of which he has written 80 charmingly.
At the age OF "a he married y French
lady, Mademoiselle Gindriez, the daugh.
ter Of well known Repu blican states
man. After Ills marriage he spent some
time in Scotland, then lived for three
years at Sens, painting industriously
then fixed his permanent residence O,
Pre- ChermOy, near Autun. Here, with
occasional outings, he has since lived.
Four American Universities will be
the subject of an illustrated volume
soon to be issued by Messrs. Harper
& Bros. the universities being Harvard
Yale, Princeton and Columbia, and the
writers Professors Charles Elio
Norton, A. 7. Hsdley, w. Fl
Sloane and Brander Matthews
Nearly simultaneous will be thu
publication by Messrs. Macmillan
Co. of translation of Professor Paul
sens account of the German universities
with an introduction. contrasting the
German and American universities
written by Professor n. M. Butler.
CARMEN SYLVA'S HEART,