The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-19

assortment of small facts that proved con-
elusively that he knew nothing of rail-
roads and railroad life. To man who
has himself set brakes and fired and run
locomotives, as Hamblem has, this was
something of a revelation, but he could
not escape-there were the facts He had
called some road by another name than
that by which, according to the writer
Of the letter, all genuine railroad men no.
toriously called il; he had run an engine
IN conflict with some rules or custom which
any cub" could have told him. the letter
writer affirmed, made the running of an
engine in that fashion clearly impossible
Another author, who recently published
a story that had to do with a whaling voy-
age, had similar experience. The pub
hcation of the story led to his being look
ed up by an old friend, whom he had lot
seen for long time, and his friend said
to him, in an offhand, matter-of-course
way: That was a first-rate story you
wrote l read it, and liked It, But, say,
you never were on Whaler, Were you?
no, that's clear!"
AS the author had made quite a cruise
on whaler the answer that first came to
his lips was not a cold one. He denied
himself, however, and simply said, 20, yes
yes, 1 have been"
mo, no." returned his friend obstinate.
ly; lit couldn't be, you know. You speak
Of 'Whatyou- may-cal my own bad
memory in mechanics forces me to a
makeshift here the name actually employ
ed, and the object it was applied TO,
must confess l quite forget, and on q
Whaler that thing is never known as a
'What-you- may-call-it,' but always as a
what s-its-name' "
After the publication of Captains Cour-
ageous," Mr.. Kipling and his publishers
We're favored with considerable CORE
spondence enlghtening them on any num-
I,- 1
life Of the Gloucester fishermen; and even
generous proposals were made to write
articles or books portraying the Gloucester
men as they really are.
/ suppose there will be quite a stir now
among the people who hunger for thaght
in their novels. They had a rare feast,
three or four years ago, in Esther Wa
Jers." And have you read Esther Wa
ters'?" they demanded eagerly, when they
met. "And what did you think of it? 1t is
very strong, don't you think? Strong-and
originate" The author of Esther Waters, -
Mr. George Moore has prepared a new
banquet in Evelyn lines" a novel that is
TO be published within few days. As the
scene of it is laid in Paris and London,
where there is no end of opportunity for
passion and psychology and ethics, it can
scarcely fail to prove to Mr.. Moore s ad-
MIXERS just the sort of thing they like.
Though Mr.. Moore has still something the
regard of new man among us, it was full
~ years ago that he publshtd his first
book But he has not been one of the book
a-year men, and his list is still compare
lively short, Esther Waters" published
in 1884, was his first to attract general at >
tention In this country.
Mrs. Ella Higginson, who lives in what
seems to us here The farthest corner of the
country, namely at New Whatcom, in the
a NJ ~ aa
TO her and her ncighbors, it is we who
seem to inhabit that corner, is preparing
volume OF her poems for the press. Her
two volumes of short stories, published
within the last two years, have had very
fair success; and there is reason 10 believe
that her poems would find much favor also
for the best of them show the same reality
of sentiment and scene ana the same sure
ness of execution that mark the best of her
stories. Mrs. Higginson had no easier work
securing her recognition than most other
writers have had. Her stories, written
much better than the stories of noyices
usually are and disclosing always a GER
tain genuinencss in their conception and
execution, went around from editor to ed
itor only TO find publication in rather oh
scuTe places, or to be returned at last
for good and all. Yet any editor who read
them must have felt, even when he passed
them on, that they were not the ordinary
volunteered story. BY slow degrees one
and another stayed where 1t was first sent
and little by little Mrs. Higginson found
herself growing into an assured position.
One of her most profitable conquests. a
the time, was the winning of the first Ia
$500 prize, about five years ago, In prize
story contest. The premium story was one
OF her very best; II was widely noticed and
II must have done more than any other
piece she has published to make her name
KNOWN T.. c. Martin.