The Indianapolis journal., 1898-06-19
LITERARY NOTES.

Henry Newboit is a London barrister, in
active practice, and is now thirty-eight
years old. He is an oxford man, and began
to write ten years ago.
1t is asserted that books bearing upon the
subject of sport have always good chance
of finding a circulation in Great Britain.
There is even hope for poetry which deals
with outdoor sports.
Mr.. Winston Churchill the author of that
slight but amusing novel THE Celebrity"
has written another book which he calls
Richard Carvel. 1t IS a novel OF the
colonial period in this country.
Mr.. Thomas Hardy is said to be preparing
to issue a collection of his unpublished short
stories. He has also in hand long, novel
with which he has made considerable
progress the last winter and spring.
The Boston Transcript thinks there is one
beautiful and impressive thing about Mrs.
Humphry Wards new novel, just out, and
that is the fact that "Hebeck of Bannis
dale" has not been trumpeted until readers
of novels with purposes almost wished that
such thing novel with purpose never
existed.
The present Baron TauchnitZ is said to
be, like his father, man of letters first
and man of business afterward. 1t is not
every so-called successful novelist that
finds a place in the famous library. The
firm now employs a thousand Workmen,
and although Leipsic is a center of social
ism, no strike or disturbance has ever oc-
Cured in this great publishing house.
The Criterion thus correets Chicago con-
temporary: THE Chap Book announces
that Mark Twain is about to become dra-
matist Those Chicago young men are
clever, but their memories don't go back far
and their town, too lacks the old rounder
of literary habits whom they need to help
them out. 1t is a generation ago that Marx
Twain became a dramatist, and a success
full one.
ling married who saved THE RecessionaH'
for posterity. This is the way of it, ac-
cording to a South African paper: When
Rudyard Kipling had written '.The Recess
sional," which two hemispheres felt to be
one of the very truest and soundest pieces
of work done by any writing man in our
day and generation, he was so depressed
by it's shortcomings of his private concep-
tion that he threw the rough copy in the
waste paper basket. Thence Mrs. kipling
rescued it. But for Mrs. Kipling we should
have had no "Recessional
Acccr6ing to writer in the Westminster
Gazette an appeal was recently made to
"Ouida" for material out of which to con-
struct a brief biography of that author.
Instead of material The following reply
was sent 81 Rave not replied to you be-
cause I regret to refuse your request, and
l cannot comply with it, What impertinence
aud wnat fCIly are these so-called biogrd-
phies of persons who have done nothing to
deserve suck punishment. The life of such
q man as Gordon or Wellington contains
material for history but that of man or
wC man of The world has nothing in il which
Is not essentially private and personal. and
with which the public and the press have
ICthinG to de- My works there for all
TO read With me individually they have
nothing tc G.. Print this if you like
w. L. Alden's letter in Literature says:
Mr.. Kipling was the guest at a recent
dinner of the Anglo-African Writer'S Club.
The, Anglo-African writer's are, so far as
is known, Mr.. Rider Haggard. Mr.. SeIous
and Miss Olive Schreiner. These appear to
have taken to themselves a sufficient num-
Der Of Aaglo-Africans. who hope some of