The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-23
IN RAILWAY CIRCLE HIS TRUST BETRAYED AMONG THE WRITER'S:


was repeated from sea to sea.
The mention of Mr. Kipling reminds
me that he is likely to be in this coun-
try just in time to see and hear for
himself how we tai his instructions in
regard to our disposition of our foreign
~conqueStS. The poem containing these
instructions. of which l gave a full ac-
count in this correspondence last week,
will appear about Feb. ]. On Jan. 25
Mr.. Kipling sails from England for the
United States. This will be his first
visit to this country since he gave up
his residence at Brattleboro. VT. His
present residence is at Nottingham, a
village in Sussex that has no railroad
nearer than four miles, and which is
attractive 10 him not simply because Of
its own -l'leasantness, but also because
of certain family connections and asSo-
cations. BY the way, an interesting
fact in the Kipling g~enealogy came to
my attention the other day. 1t may not
be new TO everybody, but it will be so, L
am sure. to many. 1t is that both of
Mr.. Kipling's g~randfathers We're minis
tiers, anC one of them was a Wesleyan.
1t seems to me hat the Wesleyan
strain, if one looks closely. appears
quite Enthusiastically in much of Mr..
kiDling's later work.
MI. Seumas McManus has been some
weeks N his country, looking a little
after bis literary affairs, and making
observations, n gathering expert
enceS. In England he has come to be
we'll known by his stories and sketches
of present-day Irish life and his tales
from Irish folk lore; but over here he is
as yet pretty much of a stranger. This
is likely not to be the case long, for he
has arranged to bring out a book of his
stories shortly, through an American
house, and from what | know Of the
occurrences and honest charm of the
matter Of it 1 feel sure that it will
make him many friends. Mr.. McManus
is a native Of Ireland, and his litera-
ture centels in that part Of it which
has gone into his blood, and which he
knows as il it were himself.
Another man, who is already pretty
we'll known in England, but whose first
appearance here is just now to be made,
is MI Walter Raymond. A novel of his
pcrtIaying life in the mines of Corn
wall, and entitled 1.-TWO Men O. Men
dip, will appear in the course of two
or three weeks. Mr.. Raymond is a lit
efary instance particularly interesting
in this, that he began life in a manu-
featuring business, which he followed
~assiduously until about three years g
when, at the age of 43, he gave il I'D in
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the writing of fiction. He had already,
III & way, gotten his "hold," however.
published in the preceding five
years as many as five books. Whether.
that he is entirely free of business. |
expects 20 do better than this, and
bless the world with even more than
is Il fuil-btooded Englishman, and the
Englishman, when he real
ly lets himself go, can be, in the Depart
OF novel writing, at least, a ter
rifle producer. Mr.. Raymond is a man
CT quiet tastes, fond of outdoor recrea-
zen, n is something of a sportsman.
re has his home in Somersetshire. near
Taunton, and seems not to care very
for London.
A personal friend of Henry Seton
Merriman informs me that Merriman's
last novel, "Roden's Corner published 4.
last year in Harper's Maya
zine, bids fair to repeat the success of
The Sewers" 1t will be remembered
The Sewers was the making of
Merrjman. On private life, L believe I
explained in this correspondence,
Merriman is Mr.. Scott.) After Begin
ming rather unpromisingly, if took a
turn. and sold, and sold. in this coun-
try as we'll as in England: and thence
coward the author of The Sewers"
a legend to conjure with in pub
fishers circulars. A year later. In
.edar's Tents came out, and it has
ned a sale of upward of 50.O 900. The first
American edition of "Roden's Corner
$4,000. 1t was sold out clean in a
short time; and in England the
is rated one of the best selling
books of the yea One is rather glad
% hear all this, for it is a tribute to
done with conscience and care.
Few novelists eXpend the labor on their
writing that Mr.. Scott expends.
Z. @. MARTIN.