St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1896-10-30
LITERARY AND POLITICAL.
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| Especial Correspondence of the c AIRnoNIAN
BURLINGTON, Oct "a, 1896.
WhiIe in Brattleboro, yesterday, |
learned few facts Of interest concerning
Kudyard KipIing. This bright particu-
lar star OF current literature, who it has
been feared, would shoot away to stay,
is to become a fixed light i'll Vermont,
and pummerston is to have him perma-
nentIy, to the delight of many Brattle.
borans, when he returns from abroad.
klping is at Torquay a naval station
on the English coast, where his wife and
children are also resting, A letter from
him to an associate, dated October first.
describes the life which is led by the fish
ermen OF that locality, and indicates the
tondness with which the novelist and
balIadist studies sea characters.
Since he was mere youth, and before
his first little book of stories ('Letters
of Marquee was published, he has Clio.
ried as much in human seattle as his con.
temporary, Swinburne, has goried in
the sea ITSELF and it is therefore to be
expected that much OF his future writing,
in both prose and verse, will be about
seattle and sea characters.
The Forthcoming serial, Captains
Courageous" will illustrate his tendency
in this direction. The story deals with
nine characters, besides several minor
ones and has to do with life on the
Grand Banks of Newfoundland and the
Massachusetts village of Gloucester.
The technical phrases bearing on sailor
life and language are believed to be per-
feet by those who have read the manu-
script, and that although the field of
American and provincial marine fiction
was wholly new to Kipling when he be-
gan this work, and although, too, he has
not lived among the people whose life he
describes, month after month, but has
merely visited the scenes of the narrative
several times, making short visits each
time.
One who read the manuscript says he
is curious to learn what American aud
provincial newspaper critics will say of
the novel, particularly the sailor lingo,
and he thinks of subscribing to news
paper clipping bureau in order that he
may get all the criticisms which the
story receives. Kipling's power of alb
sorption and reproduction is such that
one of his friends. who has observed his
literary methods closely, says that what
most authors would need six months
to get, in the shape of material, he can
acquire in three days.
Captains Courageous" will appear
from the press Charles Scribner's Sons as
soon as its serial publications. completed
1t is vivid account of real life, and
some OF its characters are living today.
Kipling, who was reported to have in
tended to visit India before his return to
Vermont, is not likely to do so, and may
be at Naulahka in the spring. A large
barn is being completed at Naulahka,
the appearance Of which, as it is described
in letters to its owner, gives him much
satisfaction. His mind is still much of
the time in this state, far as he is away,
and he wishes he might enjoy on the
English coast the beauty and salubrity
of the Vermont autumn.
When he returns he WILL in all proba-
bility, write a novel or story of some
sort dealing with New England-in other
words, with Vermont life. In his letters
to newspapers 1.-THE Springfield Republi-
can and others in the first year Of his
residence in this country, Kipling made
poor impression of his ability to picture
New England life in general on hurried
observation, and gave New Englanders
reason to wish that he would leave them
alone in the future. Whatever he may
think of these letters now, they are not
worthy to be preserved in any form, and
his work in the story to be written will
be wholly new, am told, and, Of course,
the result of mature observation.
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