The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-16
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.
AN ENGLISH NOVELIST WHO MAN
AGES TO LIVE AND WRITE
IN AMERICA.


dy and His stories of the Ameri-
can Navy-Eden Phillpotts.
New York. April ID understand that
Mr.. H. A. Vachell, author Of the recently
published California story, THE Process
zion OF Life" is coming soon for VISIT
in New York When he arrives there
ought 20 be something rather in partic-
ular made of him; for at time when Sir
Iepel Griffin and Mr.. Howells are discuss
ing whether the American atmosphere IS
not so adverse to literature that all OF the
American authors viii have to remove
sooner or later, TO England or resign
themselves to another craft, Mr. Nache'i
may become a great consolation ana COM
fort to u.s. He is an Engiishman VINO mas
now for a number Of years made MS
home In America, and has written most
If not ALI of his books here. True we
may. as Mr. Howells has pointed out ara"
some reinsurance from the lhs.aHCe
of Mr. Kipling who has found ii possiple 10
nroduce very creditable work under Amer
lean skies and even on American tHSiheS'
But in this as in so many DINER fesaius'
Mr. Kipling has been so much RUE ullo
himself that the disputauons are 'ti0
free 20 say, with a certain force, lhal ne
proves nothing respecting the point az Is
sue; that he could probably produce uhu@F
any conditions, and that, at most he mas
etiil been among us little more than Vlsi-
TOR. This point certainly cannot De mace
against Mr. Vachell; the descendants OF
Miles Standish are not more truly settled
in the country than he.
Mr.. Vachen was educated at the Eng
nsh military school OF Sandhurt ana
an English army
He resigned from the army because ne
was attracted by the life and oprortunl-
ties of our far west. He settled IN Can
fornia. at or near San Jose, married there
acquired ranches, and is now as strictly
a man of the country as any you coulu
name. But to get public for MS Garner
literary work, he had to go-or, az any
rate did go-back 10 England. lie mas
written a number of novels; but none OF
mot more than one, before THE Procession
of Life has been published in this com
trv. AZ first blush this fact may seem 10
make a little against him as consolation.
But regarded more closely u only COM
pletes and perfects him as a roland TOT
England's divers: for most of che Ameri-
CON authors to whom England has extend
ed the Inequalities of her supposedly
more saiubrlous literary climate have not
been able to dispense with the services
Of American publishers.
Mr.. VacheIl has not pursued literature
In a cfoister He is very much OF an out
door man; man of affairs and action. lie
has especial fame as a fisherman, and mas
made some eminent records as tahef VI
''big game" in the waters.
Archdeacon Brady, who made so secure
an entrance into authorship year of two
ago with his historical romance, For Love
of Country" has been encouraged by its
cordial reception to mike further ven
lures He has completed a second novel
based, like the first, on American history,
as / understand-and is now well forward
IN book that viii tell. from a new
and thorough study of all the documents
and authorities the stories of the notable
sea fights of the early navy. A number
OF the chapters of this last book will first
appear as magazine articles. The novel,
40, l believe, is to make its first appear
ance serially.
The archdeacon is writing his stories of
the navy with special enthusiasm. He says
he is putting his best efforts into them;
and those tt at he has already finished he
likes as well as anything he has yet done.
This to people who know him only as the
archdeacon of Pennsylvania, devoted to
church service and duties, may seem a
little singular But it is natural enough,
and indeed almost inevitable, when you
history of the man. He is of a Virginian
and Pennsylvania stock that as the needs
of the country required, has supplied good
stout soldiers from the time of the revo-
lutionary war downward; and the warrior
impulse OF the family prompted both him
and a brother to desire a martial career
At II he entered the navy as a cadet and
was educated ,at the United States Naval
Academy. Then the church attracted
him, and his life work became clerical,
and not marital: but there has survived in
him the strongest interest in the navy and
admiration for warrior skill and heroism.
The brother who shared the hereditary
martial Impulse with him, after serving
some years as a telegraph operator, made
his way into the army, and is that Capt
Brady who, throughout the recent war, was
the government censor of telegraph matter
at Tampa. He by the way, has complet-
ed the special service In Cuba and Porto
Rico ON which he was engaged through
the autumn and early winter. and is now
stationed at Columbus, o.. where be is
dovoting such leisure as he can get to
writing the story of his experiences during
and since the war, and In seeing through
the press the forthcoming book of his ad-
ventures as a telegraph operator.
1t is not always che reviewers, those
august dispensers of literary fate. whose
approval gives an author most delight MIR.
Stockton tells of an Endorsement once re-
ceived by himself, from an authority far
humber that afforded him the highest
satisfaction. 1t was called forth by one
of his earlier books of stories for young
people, and came TO him from a bright
boy"
II had never doubted for q moment, -
said Mr. Stockton in recalling the Incl.
dent, that boys and girls appreciated hu,
NOR as they enjoyed fun; but in those
days l did not believe that young people
would be very apt to see the point of a
play upon words. Hoping for some older
readers of my stories for young people.
occasionally inserted something of the
kind. In the "Ting-a-Ling Tales" there
Is an account of a young woman whose
head was accidentally cut OFF, and when
by good viii and hard work of a com.
pany Of fairies It had been put on again
Il was found that. by the malicious act
OF a dwarf who twisted a rope at tht
moment Of union, it had been attached
wrong side foremost. her face toward the
back. This unfortunate condition Of the