New-York tribune., 1899-03-26


Stars" which is 10 be published s'rlaliy I'D
"Scriiner's " is a tale of the Cornish coast. The
first chapters viii appear in the Aprii number
Mr.. "Benjamn Swift" minor novelist IS wrl', =,
ING a history Of Italy in the Middle Ages-ahu
readers will hope that he writes better history
than novels.
The first volume Of the new American Uni
versity Series" to be published by l.. c. Page
& CO.. is to be on Yale. Her Campus. Class,
rooms and Athletes" by walter Camp ana
Lewis S Welch The book is to have sixty
full-page illustrations.
Miss Sara Henncr, the early intellectual
friend Of George Eliot, has just died IN Eng
land This lady. we are reminded was the SIS
ter Of Charles Hcnnell. author of an inquiry
Concerning the Orisin Of Christianity Trans
Ia ed into German with n preface by SlrausS)'
which together with the effect OF the intellec-
tual converse Of the Charles Brays. another
sister and her husband. had the effect upon
Miss Marian Evans of making per give up
going TO church. ana 50 subjected her 10 4 Id m
distressing Disagreement with her father. But
probably the most natural incident in the
friendship was the almost increduious amaze
ment of the Brays and Miss HenneIl later,
when their friend avowod herself the author OF
Adam Bcdr" and the Scenes of Clerical Lie.
They seemed overwhelmed with surprise.
writes George Eliot in her dairy This expert
cnce has enlightened me good deal as to the
ignorance in which We all live Of each other.
IL was by the way, one Of the Hennells VINO
got George Eliot, as a girl, to have her head
shaved that a cast might be taken Of her
bumps.
sand n Bushes" is The title Of novel left
by the late Maria l.. Pool. and announced TOR
publication 10y H. :. stone K co. other books
which this firm is just bringing out are MIS-:
Burton iaris0n's collection of stories entitled
The Carceln Emerald; Mrs. Ella W. Peat
ties tales for children "Ickery Ann ana Other
Girls and Boys" and Mr.. Henry Seton Merrf-
mans new novel "DrOsS.'
An Englishman lately returned from India has
given interesting If slight notes ABOUT Ih'.
Kipugs To The Lancashire Daily POST Ol
the elder KiglIng he says: Il don't believe there
was another such Oriental scholar in India As
he He had a marvellous knowledge of the re
leious crec1s and of the language and dialects
Of the country. Added TO that. he was one OF
the greatest authorities on antiquarian matters
there and would be sent for from all parts ol
India i'm the case OF there being discovered any
thing Of interesting but doubtful origin. re-
member my first visit TO tn" house of the KIP
lngs AT Lahore. ! fancy the house was Mr;
Kiplng's by virtue Of his holding the official
positions have told you of. Every room INTO
which We went simply teemed with curiOs and
artistic wonders. on could have spent days in
every apartment. The KiplinS family were de-
lightful people. all clever. artistic in their tastes
and the kindest, most gracious family have
known.
Mr. Rudyard Kipling was quite young man
when | first knew hm-about tWenty-One or
twenty-five. He was man of slight frame. Dut
very active. He did not impress one as being oi
a reflective. studiOus turn of mind on the con-
trary. he was brimful Of the most Ooisteious
spirits and laughed and jOked his way through
the day. II ia said that ne is cold, reserved ana
distant in his manner now. If that Is So the
Rudyard Kipling Of to-day is the very antlthesls
II the bithesome high spirited lad knew NJ
teen years ago in the Punjab Eventually he
went % Allahabad-I forget in what year-and
joined the staff Of The Pioneer AT that time
he had no reputation in literature He was not
known except as the son Of his father. Here in
England we know Mr.. Kpins 81. only as the
father Of his son. The first | saw of pam
Tales from the Hills was when they appeared
in book form. At first they circulated only
among the KiplnGs's circle of friends, VINO
bought the tales not for any literary merit they
might possess. but because readers were able to
locate most Of the characters depicted. All his
tales | have learned. have as their basis real
fact. ard the figures that live in them are those
of men and women. not of Imnd-creatiOn, but
who are. or have been. People in India to-day
can tell YOU every man, woman. child and place
he describes in his Plain Tales and other
Indian stories. Mulvaney. Ortheris and Learoyd
are living men. as surely as you or L.
The Pope. it appears, has become Interested
in Kipling. having seen their names close to-
gether in a French paper. But who is this Mr..
Kipng?" he asked and when told he straight
way sent to London for copy Of "Barrack
Room Ballads"
OF the making Of many books about other
DoOhS tHtic - Ho cII' anu MI. NlpHuS HluSl
suffer like those who have gone before him 1t
is Mr. lie Gallienne who is doing "a critical
volume "a study of the works Of the author
Of the Jungle Book" Pleasanter than this bit
OF information is this paragraph from The
London Mall: But while Kipling the writer
is known 20 all. KiplinG the man Is something
Of recluse. Celebrity has driven him into his
shell, and it is accounted 1--WE believe) the most
difficult Of ali feats 10 entrap him into a Lon
don draWing-rOom. The society Of his kind is
not for him. and he Is stranger to the literary
clubS Though he is artiiicer of words, |
action is his real province and the navy is the /