The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-24

caSo NWhlch, AFTER the Wisconsin farm, he
accounts his home), and goes off into the
PLAINS and the Rocky mountains and lives
with the miners and hunters and Indians.
And he declares, with a CLEAN in his
brown eyes and an emphatic pluck at his
brown beard, that this is the only life
worth living. Nevertheless he has his
efeminacies, ike the rest of us. he can
travel day after day on horseback wad-
Ing streams and climbing mountains,
sleeping on the ground, and eating the
ruaest fare, and yet he can write only in
a room heated up TO rs degrees or 80 de-
grees. He will go into the KIondike about
May l, by one of the Canadian routes and
will remain until toward the end of Sep
tember.
Mr.. Garlands Life Of Grant" already
mentioned, is a work of devotion. Mr..
Garland inclines naturally to make his
studies in the open air, directly from PEG,
pie, rather than from documents, in con-
fning bureaus and libraries But the char
acter Of Grant has long had a special fas-
cination for him, and in his zeal 10 am
ply portray it, he has shown himself ca
pable of Flooding through books and ar
chfyes as faithfully as any dry-as-dust,
But even here his preference for learning
directly from men has had ample exer-
else. He has followed Grant tenaciously
footsteps, talking with the people who per-
sonally knew him, and studying the scenes
of the various incidents of his life. The
result is book of comparatively small
size, that contains Qf 1 may Judge it by
such parts as l have been permitted to
read in manuscript more about Grant, the
man, than any book yet published. The
papers on Grant published by Mr. Gar
land in McClure's Magazine give an init
nation Of the general character of the
book, but only an intimation, for the pa
pers become in the subsequent treatment
merely an outline or general plan.
Representatives of the Illustrated Bible
Company, limited, Amsterdam, are now in
New York, making arrangements for
American cooperation in the largest ana
costliest enterprise in the way of an edi-
ton of the Bible ever undertaken. The
Bible has been the favorite book with the
printers of succeeding ages wherein to ex-
emplify the highest capacity of the print
er's art in their several times; and what
these Amsterdam publishers are planning
is an illustrated Bible, that Shall embody
and typify the fun perfection of nineteenth
century Illustration, typography, printing
and binding. 1t will be issued in English,
German, Dutch, French and perhaps other
languages. The text will be, in each in
stance, the authorized version, and in II
there will be no aim at novelties; but
the illustrations will be of a kind never
before attempted. All the great artists of
the present time who have a bent toward
such subjects have been enlisted to draw
or paint a masterpiece on some Biblical
theme. Thus the work will be an assem-
blage of great Bible pictures by such men
as Burne-Jones, Alma-Tadema, E. A. Alb
hey and Munkacsy
I learn from a friend of Mr.. Rudyard
Kipling's that Mr.. Kipling will return to
England i'll a month or two from South
Africa. He was accompanied to South At
RIGA by his entire family, which consists
of his wife and three children, and also
by his father, ]. Lockwood Kipling. There
have been various speculations regarding
the occasion of his going-as there al
ways are when he makes a move-but the
motive is really very simple he went mere
ly to escape the English winter. He has
taken house for the summer at Rotting-
dean, England. He is at present prepar-
ing new volume of short stories for the
press. 1t will be published the latter part
of September, through the Macmillans in
England and the Doubleday & Mcclure
company In this country. 1t will be made
up of the short stories which Mr.. KipIing
4 lle1o OCSA laying dSi1S LOT DOCK DuOl1Cd-
ton through the last five years. and as
within these five years he has written
some Of his greatest stories, the collec-
ton cannot fail to have extraordinary in
terest and value 1t is during this period
that he has written, for example that
wonderful group of stories on ships. such
As 1.-THE Ship That Found Herself and
Bread Upon the Waters" Then there
are THE Bushwood Boy" 1.-THE Tomb of
His Ancestors" and Slaves of the Lamp. -
Indeed. I hardly see how this can fail to
be his greatest book thus far in the kind
that he has made peculiarly. his own. The
title of the volume, understand, is still
undetermined.
Richard Harding Davis is still in Eng
land, but is likely to come home at any
moment. The war. situation is a consld-
cradle factor in his movements. It's not
in his nature-and shrewd editors would
scarcely permit him to do so, If 1t were in
MS nature-to sit quietly indoors when
great dramas in warfare were enacting
abroad. Mr.. Davis Soldiers of Fortune
has won a genuine success in England.
The sales have largely exceeded those Of
any previous work of his there and the
literary authorities have pronounced unan-
imously and heartily In its favor. This
fact will not lessen-probably il will only
increase-the frequency of those wire-edg-
ed little observations that are continually
allowed to fall in the columns of some of
the newspapers regarding Mr.. Davis as
a person" No doubt personally he has
his foibles, but it has long seemed to me
that the important fact to dwell upon in
his case is that he does, after all, mind
his own affairs with almost exceptional
constancy, and that he does not Scamp
his work. To dwell on this fact, In the
case of a young man who has achieved
rather rapid popularity, were of some ben
eft to young men in general; whereas the
other thing is of no eft and of very
little interest to anbody.
Henry George, Jr., has gene to Califor.
MIA to gather material for the life he is
writing of his father. The book will prob
ably be finished early In the autumn. The
devotion to Henry Georges doctrines has
shown no abatement since his death. Since
he died over 1000 copies of Progress and
Poverty" have been sold, and when we
consider the immense number sold before,
and also the fact that the book is not an
oratorical tract but a formal treatise and
q closely reasoned argument, we must al
low that the interest in his teaching is a
very, decided one. This is shown further
in the attitude toward his new book, 1.-The
Science of Political Economy" the book