The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-30
LITERARY NOTES.

The love letters of Mr.. and Mrs. BrowniEg'
are about to be published. All other letters
and papers Mr.. Browning destroyed, but of
these he said: do with these as you please
when am dead and gone"
Rudyard Kipling's Echoes" Lahore, 1884,
the earliest and scarcest of his books in the
original wrapper, brought $137 at a recent
London book SALE The first edition of De
partmental Ditues," Lahore, 1886, brought
Herbert E. Hamblin, author of ION Many
Seas" and 1.-THE General Managers Story"
is working engineer now, and has been for
some time past in the employ of the city of
New York. He writes much of his matter
at night while at work and while his en-
gines do not require attention.
Kenneth Grahame, best known In this
country the author of that delightful
book, 1.-THE Golden Age" is banker as
well as litterateur. For many years he has
been deputy secretary of the Bank of Eng
land, and lately he has been appointed to
succeed George Frederick Glenine in the
very important post of secretary of the
bank.
The lover of Riley will be made glad this
Christmas season by 1.-THE Golden Year."
just issued in London, England. The COM
piler, Miss Clara E. Laughlin, has selected
from his writings some quotation for each
day In the year, the whole making a hand
book that seems destined to become a ia
miliar companion to his thousands of
friends. 1t is bound uniform with his "Old
land.
DR.. Moritz Busch Bismarck's biographer
was student of theology at Leipsic when
the revolutionary uprising of 1S4S, in which
he took part, led to his fight to America
While in this country he wrote book on
the Mormons, who up to that time had been
regarded by the Germans as almost mythical
beings. On his return to GERMANY he was
asked Gustav ErQVt9p he Staf
of the GrenZbOten. Toward the close of the
seventies he became Bismarck assistant.
Maurice Maeterlinck, the dramatist, is
still in the prime of life, being but four
and-thirty years of age, and was born at
Client. Like so many literary men of other
nationalities, the author of "Pelleas and
Melisande' was trained for the law. The
legal profession, however, he early aban-
boned in order to devote himself more fully
to his dramatic work. His literary output
is not as yet very large. 1t consists of nine
plays. volume Of essays and a few stray
poems.
The recent change in the management of
the Arena leads the Springfield Republican
to remark: why the Arena should fall out
of the hands of B. o. Flower, who founded
1t, into those of Ridpath who fiattened it,
and now into those of Paul Tyner, whose
work IS yet to be proved; why now Mr..
rioWer should start new magazine Of
Age, these things, in spite of Mr.. Flowers
inaugural of the last named, are still
puzzle"
A melancholy interest attends the appear
ance Of Harold Frederic's last novel, GLORIA
Mundi." which has been running in serial
form and is to be published Immediately in
book form in London and New York 1t is
his third novel dealing with English life
and one of the characters is a great and
powerful duke. 1t deals largely with he
redity, of which Mr.. Frederic had long been
a jealous student He had just read the
last proof sheets before the illness which
preceded his sudden death.
After classifying Kipling as a mans poet
w. L. Alden says in the New York Times:
What Matthew Arnold would call the main
current of the literature of cur time flows
in Kipling. Not only is he part and parcel
of the spirit of freedom, accomplishment
and zest for humanity which is our pride,
but he has struck the keynote of the poetry
hidden in the practical processes by which
races now advance. He knows how the en-
gineer's heart goes forward with his engine
manly vigor behind the iron rails which
stretch across the country; he feels the
glory of the heavy seas; he understands the
enthusiasm which takes men into battle
and the foresight of achievement which
makes them patient with small details
PessimistS say that our age is material
kipling puts his finger on mans pulse and
feels it throb as he conquers matter. No
wonder that strong men whose lives are
bound up in the worlds hard tussle appre-
ciate Rudyard Kipling."