The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24

went merely to escape the English winter
He has taken a house for the summer at
nottingham, England. he is at present
preparing a new volume OF short stories
latter part of September. through the
Macmillans in England and the Double
day & Mcclure company in this country
1t will be made up of the short stories
which Mr.. Kipling has been laying aside
for book publication through the last 1--WE
years, and as within these i've years he
has written some of his greatest stories.
the collection cannot fail to have extra
ordinary interest and value. 1t is during
this period that he has written. for ex-
ample, that wonderful group of stories
Herself and Bread Upon the Waters. :
Then there are The Bushwood Boy"
The Tomb of His Ancestors and
Slaves of the Lamp" Indeed, / 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. 1 understand, is still undeter-
mined.
Richard Harding Davis had settled him
self very comfortably in London, and
was prepared TO prolong his pleasant visit
there almost indefinitely. But he has
been hurried home by the war situation.
1t not his nature-and shrewd editors
would scarcely permit him to do so, if it
were in his nature-to sit quietly indoors
when great dramas in warfare were en-
acting abroad. Mr.. Davis Soldiers of
Fortune" has Won a genuine success in
England: The. sales have largely eX-
ceeded those of any previous work OF his
there, and the literary authorities have
pronounced unanimously and heartily in
its favor. This fact will not lessen
probably it will only increaSe-the fire.
quency of those wire-edged little observa-
lions 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
We're of some benefit to young men in
general: whereas the other thing is of
no benefit and of very little interest to
anybody.
Henry George. jr.. has gone to Cali
fornia to gather material for the life he
is writing of his father. The book will
probably be finished early in the autumn.
The devotion to Henry Georges doc
trines has shown no abatement since his
death. Since he died over 1900 copies of
Progress and Poverty have been sold,
and when We consider the immense num-
Der sold before, and also the fact that the
book is not an oratorical tract. but a
formal treatise and a, closely reasoned
argument, We must allow that the interest
in his teaching is a very decided one. This
is shown further in the attitude toward
MS new DOCK, Inc science OF ROullcdl
Economy" the book which he was just
finishing at the time he was stricken
down. 1t is having a large sale, and the
reviewers are as one in treating il as one
of the most important books of the sea-
son. AS was to be expected they divide
unequivocally in their opinions of it
those on the one side. with unfailing
acknowledgements of Mr.. Georges ability
and sincerity, disappearing of it wholly
in its conclusions. while those on the
other side as heartily approve. This is
the experience of Progress and Pow
erty'' over again; all agreed that it was
an extraordinary book, and then fell
apart ardently and even fiercely on the
question of its truth. e. c. MARTIN.