The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-28
The LITERARY OUTLOOK.
EARLY MOVEMENT OF AUTHORS
OFT OF TOWN FOR THE SUMNER.

EmersOn-Stephen cranes New
NoveI-The Large, Steady Demand
for RiIey's Poenas-The German
Dramatist HauptmanR Possibly
Coming to the United states-va-
rious Items.
New York, May 1.-The authors who are
nee 10 go and come at will have already
bonn their summer movement from city
10 country. Mr.. Stockton, who. with his
wife spent good part of the winter in
town. living at the Grenoble dhe hotel at
which Kipling lay through his long i'll
rees) returned 10 his country place, The
Holt. at Convent Station, N. j., some
weeks ago. He doesn't suspend work
when he comes TO town; his three or four
hours Of daily dictation are maintained as
scrupulously as at home; but he does his
daiIv stint with much more comfort, not
10 say freedom, in his own study up in the
tower of his house. where there is plenty
of room. convenient furnishings, abundant
light and a fair, wide outlook.
Mr.. John Burroughs, after his winter
visits here and in Boston, is now estab-
1ished again at his fruit and celery farm
on the Hudson.
Mr.. Clinton Ross abandoned the town
for the country while we were yet in the
midst of winter. But with him going into
the country isn't settled habit and he
has no fixed season for it, He is as apt as
not to be found toiling away in the heart
bf the city, even in midsummer.
Mr. Howells, 1 believe, is still maintain
inc his outlook over Central park, but he
will undoubtedly be seeking a wider pros
pect soon, for he is one of those whom the
city never fails to lose the moment sum-
mer is well started
Mr. Ernest Seton Thompson still abides
10 against the rumble or the Fifth ave-
nue. stages; but he shares with Hamlin
Garland the passion for getting every sum-
mer somewhere within the shadow of the
Rocky mountains and he will certainly
soon have filed his city garb away secure
" from the moths, put himself into his
frontier outfit and taken his flight west
ward Mr.. Garland may not reach the land
of their common alteration this year, for
it will be near midsummer before he re-
turns from Europe, Mr.. Thompson, by the
way. is enjoying the first felicities of
"made man." His beck, wild Animals
Have Known" has met with nothing but
approval-usually approval, too of the
most enthusiastic knd-and has sold and
is selling excellently; and it has so in
creased The desire of editors and publish
ers for Mr. Thompson's work, both as an
artist aud writer, that he has been able
to make a substantial raise in his prices.
He ought, therefore, to have good relish
for his summer outing, especially as it is
sure TO yield him new material for pen and
pencil
After all. when you come to consider 1t,
New York isn't much affected by authors,
pure and simple, as a place of residence.
Those that really live here have, for the
most part, some professorship, editorship
or other office or vocation little apart
from strict authorship tnat holds them
here
It is rumored that Gerhant Hauptmann,
who divides with Ibsen the honor of be-
ing the most significant and serious dram
atist of our time may shortly revisit
this country Just five years ago, the
production in this city of an English YER
sion of Hauptmann's dream play"
"Hannele" made by Charles Henry Melt
ger the well-known musical and dramatic
critic, caused an unprecedented hubbub.
Orders TO arrest not only Hauptmann
and the translator, Meltzer, but also the
managers of the theater, were issued by
Col. Fellowes, then district attorney, at
the instigation of Mr.. Elbridge T. Gerry
and his associates. But at the eleventh
hour the orders were countermanded, and
the play was presented without further
obstruction. An English rendering of
Hauptmann's dramatic allegory or fairy
play The Sunken Bell has just been
published by R. II. Russell. Like the
Hannele' adaptation, it is from the pen
of Charles Henry Meltzer. a friend and
an enthusiastic admirer of the German
dramatist Later in the year 1t will be
produced by Mr.. E. H. Sothern, for whom
1t was especially made. Ii follows the
original verifcation, freely but faithfully
and has been Warmly approved by Haupt-
MANN Agnes Sorma, the popular German
actress, scored the greatest triumph of
her career three seasons ago, in the char
aeter OF Rautendelein, the elfn heroine
ol the play The part of the hero, Helm
ncn' which in a far-on way suggests
Faust, Prospero and Prometheus, will be
Played here by Mr.. Sothern.
have just had accorded to me as a
special favor a reading of the manuscript
Oh Stephen Cranes new novel-or rather
oI SO much of it as Mr.. Crane has sent
over from England. for, in point of fact,
ne mas not quite finished the novel, and
fourth of the manuscript is still to
Coule. While l am in that state most
distressing to the novel reader of not
moving at all how the tale will turn out,
sun can speak rather exactly regarding
It's general character and course. 1t Is
enited Active Service" that phrase de-
scrlplng the condition of the hero of the
mg through good part of it. He is
coo' omnipotent young man, who hasn't
MISSED many experiences that life can be
n9ae 10 yield, and who first presents him
sqi as the autocratic editor of what an
o.n .er man in the story calls 1.-THE Sunday
ttailon Of great outrage on our sensi-
Sn-'les. He passes from this (by acct
oen' rather than design to the function
80. war correspondent; and his "active
Set'lce consists chiefly of a very bold
SS@eurslon in the Greek and Turkish war
aoI the rescue of a party of Americans,
S'io4g them one who is more or less the
,aNy OF his heart 1t is much the longest
alu most elaborate work that Mr.. Crane
n nss written, and in it is depicted, with all
VI MS unique vividness and power, the
99'ea,Sst variety of scene and character.
Az VIII be brOUoht 0ut oc I,ooty 49, 49,