The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-08
will not have, no matter with what graces
OF embassage il be profered to them.


What may call the man who was there
IS in particular literary request now. Men
who have followed a comparatively up-
trodden path in life and enjoyed extraor-
dinary experiences have the best literary
material; but as a rule they lack The. eff
OF developing and presenting it. There is
an exception, however, now and then. such
as Herbert &c. Hambien, Cy Warmau and
John A. Hill. All three of the writers
named were at one time in their lives raIl-
road engineers; and they have been able
10 relate rrom their exceptional experiences
stories as much better than those of the
ordinary habitual stery-writer than life
Itself IS better than any literature Along
with them there is likely soon to be nam.
ed Lieut.. Jasper Brady Lieut.. Brady IA
now in the United States army; he was
Tor a while in the navy; but before he
was either, he was a telegraph operator.
serving in the best offices in the country.
having all those interesting adventures
Whlcn anybody can see that telegraph op-
orators must have, but which the operators
themselves are, as rule unable to tell
you much about. Lieut. Brady can tell
and have lately read some papers of his
| accepted Tor publication in a leading mag
azlne, that are the most interesting things.
and indeed about the only things of their
kind that have ever seen. The life Of the
lraln dlspatchers, with its unbrolxen in
tenslty and its hourly liability to tremsn
oous disaster, is exhibited in the most
vivid and romantic way. He has some good
stories of army and military life coming
forward also
Lieut.. Brady Is In some sort a Kansas
man, and adds his share to the POSSIBLE
lty OF Kansas becoming vet our most
fruitful section in The item of authors.
he was born in Pittsburg, in 1865 but
removed to Kansas in 1870, and there was
reared and educated. He learned teleg-
rapny when he was only u years old, and
served as a telegrapher on various inpor-
| tant railroads in the West and Southwest
He entered the navy, as a private in the
marine corps in 1887, and changed to the
army as private in infantry. in 1890
He was promoted to the rank of lieuten-
| ant the next year. He has served in
Kansas, Indian Territory Texas and
Michigan and assisted in putting down
the Chicago riots In 1894. So 1t is evident
that when he takes up his pen, he does
not have TO plow his hair and pluck his
beard to find something to write about.
| He must, too, have some hereditary inn
pulse toward the PEN for his brother is
the venerable C. T. Brady, archbishop of
Connecticut, and author of For Love of
Country
Palmer Cox has planned a new Brow
| ME excursion. He goes to Europe about
the first of June, taking lin imagination,
of course) the whole Brownie troupe with
him; and they will make the tour of Eng
| land, France Germany and other coun-
tries together That they'll have rare adj
ventures no one who knows the company
can doubt, and we shall all want TO read
| Mr. Coxs official record of the tour. This
| / understand, is to begin serial publication
with the usual wealth of Brownie pic
| lures, of course-about the first Of August
and ultimately it will appear in a book.
Under the present count, California Is
| probably the largest contributor to the
| literary and artistic ranks among the
trans Mississippi states. Not to mention
Bret Harte and Mark Twain, both of
whom California can very plausibly claim,
| ii provides, for example, Gertrude Ather-
| ton, to whose American Wives and Eng
| fish Husbands" the English reviews are at
the present moment according their larg-
| est space; and, within a few years past, it
has released to New York number of
young men who are beginning to make a
very distinct and individual impression.
Among these, none is better worth being
| on the lookout for In the coming book list
than Mr.. Frank Norris, although he is
about the latest to arrive from the Golden
| Gate He is scarcely 80 years old, and the
| distinction of his work is still largely in ats
! promise; but that promise all who are ac-
| uuainted with the work regard as extreme
| ly high Before coming East he published
a novel, Moran" in The Wave, on which
| paper he for a time held an editorial posi-
tlon and he has written at least two 9TH
ers. which will probably soon be published
| here. He has also published a NUMBER OF
| short stories.
Mr. Norris was born in Chicago and re,
moved to California in 1889. He graduated
from the California State University and
took a finishing course at Harvard. Then
he went to South Africa as the corre-
spondent of the San Francisco Chronicle,
and while there he had his personal share
/ in the Jameson raid. He enlisted In what
was known as the provisional police, Or
! home guard, at Johannesburg-an organi-
cation sympathetic with the Jameson en-
| terprise-and in consequence of this alli-
ance he was warned and compelled, along
| with others, to get out of the place and
country within twenty-four hours. He had
at one time the thought of making art his
calling, and studied TO that end several
years in Paris. He shows somewhat OF
the French influence in his writing. He
| likes Flanbert and Zola, and, while he
| has no disposition to 'naturalism" ana
| what the term implies, he has a decided
disposition to realism and rather likes the
psycologic aspect of things But he is far
| from disdaining incident; indeed, what he
likes TO exhibit is real human nature, but
manifesting itself in unusual ways and
with extraordinary potency. One day when
he was conveying 10 me something like
this, in a passing word of talk about him
self, l asked him IL he was under the
Kipling influence any. With a kind of HUI
morous glow in his dark, fine eyes, he
said: 20, suppose L had my time Of
that, like most of the others. But it's
quite over now"
Norris was in California in the spirited
days of 1.-The Lark'-that infant prodigy
of a journal that got itself known and
remarked from ocean TO ocean, although
Its whole term of life was less than two
years; and had think, hand in il. At
any rate, he was intimate, and still is,
with the founder, Gelett Burgess. Bur
CESS was born in Boston, and graduated
at the Boston School of Technology.
| About 1894 he went to California to be-
come instructor in scientific map drawing
in the University of California, and 1t was
at the university that the friendship be-
tween him and Norris began. The Lark,
| have been told was the outcome OF a