The San Francisco call., 1899-03-05

ing himself has said that he loved It
a pink string around rS hts stomach
The first edition printed at Lahore by
the Civil and Military Gazette Press IS
now as scarce as to command from S90 10
Sloe; according to condition.
Out of India.
Thus 1t was that Rudyard Kipling first
entered literature: At the present day
Journalist" Is but another word fer lit
erary man, or Should be at least as ap-
Piled to those Of the craft who stand at
the head, and Kipling's heroic work on
the Indian newspaper fer the value OF q
few hundred dollars year gave his art
the impetus which he later turned so well
TO account. His travels led him te ENG
land, across the Pacific and through the
United States; as the outcome OF which
he published through various newspapers
d Series Of observations, or Impressions,
Which might properly be called american
Therein he gave the free and democratic
attitude Of the masses or such part of
that body with when he came In contact
some hard shocks.
GSeden Sl Gate he jogqrneyed tlrsf g, to to the
Park and Chicago to the East,
His running comment was both apt ana
pertinent, and to express the most and
the least which can be said in their favor
he .teld some very evident truths.
Kipling on Stevenson.
There is writer, called Mr.. Robert
Louis Stevenson, who makes most deli
cate inlay work in black and white ana
files out to the fraction of q hair. He
has written a story about a suicide club,
wherein men gambled for death because
other amusements did not bite sufficiently.
nothing about Mr.. Stevenson, but he once
assisted informally at a meeting of almost
such a club as that gentleman has de-
scrbed, and his words are true SOL
dierS Three"
From "A Kipling Note Book" pub
lished by. NJ. F. Mansfield & Co., New
York. Price Is cents.
His Recent Illness.
The feeling people here have shown
since Mr.. Kiplfng fell i'll has moved some
friends who have seen great deal of
him during this visit to talk interesting
ly about him. They wish to clear away
an old Misunderstanding. 1t seems that
more than the general impression prevail
ing here and in England that he dislikes
the American people. 1t is utterly un-
true.
His chief object In coming to America
this time, his friends say, was to efface
that false impression. He was willing to
feelings for the fellow-countryme of his
''bloomin' bludgeOn" they took him for.
The man is bored by formal going out,
yet he offered to dress every night of his
visit to meet any and all people whom he
could make his friends.
When Mr.. Kipling was a young man he
made a journey from India to England
by way of the United States. He had
one or two of his books published and he
was an extraordinarily clever young
man." with a power over words that he
was accustomed to let out freely. The
running glimpse of American life afford
ed the young genius an opportunity
which he must have been dozen years
older to have neglected. He wrote a vol
ume of amazing notes, which the mass
of readers-who are by no means amaz-
ing in their literary Observation-Disclosures
lowed seriously and they proved lump
ish mouthful. Now Mr.. Kiplings sin pur-
sues him. He makes this hard-headed
misconception of his real position and
sympathy He is hard put 1t to 1t to show
himself through the veil of prejudice.
Kiplings Ambition.
People who are impatient for greater
work from the man who reached almost
at a leap an extraordinary level and who.
they say, has done no more in a half
dozen years than maintain that level. will
be interested in this opinion of his own.
Mr. Ktpling says that no man can write
real novel until he is 40 Up to that
time the artist must be willing to do lesser
things. practice smaller effects. pay more
attention to detail than 1t apparently de-
serves and wait for the power of the mas
ter. BY and by that will come; the artist
will write novel that is big with the
larger facts of life, handled in a larger
way.
novel it Will be something elemental
almost primeval ''Withouf
Benefit of Clergy" may furnish the theme.
and for setting and characters the new
novel will almost surely contain e.writ HTM
large, the Englishman and Indian
woman, and their story-all of it.