The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-22

speaking IN a deep, SLOW voice, and to all
appearances with the profoundest gravity.
We'll, Mr.. -, 1 think this is all the
copy you will require from me this week
and I'll now go over to the hospital and
have a surgical operation performed"
Like the humorist of an earlier day,
Mr.. LOOMS sometimes suffers embarrass-
ments from letting himself be as funny
as he can. During the war between
Greece and Turkey he put OUT some war
sketches written in caricature of the
several styles of Rudyard Kipling
Stephen Crane and other noted penpic-
turers of war and battle From the sketch
in the style of Kipling a New York news
paper took a passage and subjected it to
grave and searching criticism, having no
end of fun, presumably at Mr.. Kiplings
expense, and then other newspapers, see
ing and relshing the article in which the
just correction of so eminent writer was
so wittly accomplished, reproduced it, and
thus the blunder of mistaking a Garcia
ture for the reality was repeated from
sea to sea.
The mention of Mr.. Kipllng reminds
me that1he is likely to be in this coun-
try just In tine to see and hear for him
self how we take his instructions in regard
TO the disposition of our foreign conquests
The poem containing these instructions, of
which / gave a fun account in this CORE
spondence last week, will appear about
Feb. 1.iHOn Jan. % 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 rockingham, a
village in Sussex that has no railroad
nearer than four miles, and which is at
tractive to him not simply because of its
nj ole hao
tain family connections and associat tons
BY, the way. an interesting fact in the
Kipling genealogy came to my attention
the other day. 1t may not be new to
everybody but ii will be So l am sure, to
many. 1t is that both of Mr. Kiplings
grandfathers were ministers, and one of
them was a Wesleyan. 1t seems to me
that the Wesleyan strain, if one looks
closely, appears quite Enthusiastically in
much of Mr.. Kiplings later works.
Mr. Seumas McManus has been some
weeks in This country, looking a little
after his literary affairs, and making OBJ
servations, and gathering experiences. In
England he has come to be well 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 book of his stories shortly
through an American house and from
what I know of the genuineness and hon
est charm of the matter of it I feel sure
that it will make him many friends. Mr.
MacManus is a native of Ireland, and his
literature centers in that part of IL which
has gone into his blood, and which he
knows as If Il were himself
Another man, who is already pretty we'll
known in England, but whose first APP
pearance here is just now to be made,
is MIR. Walter Raymond. A novel of his
portraying life in the mines of Cornwall,
and entitled 1.-TWO Men O. Mendip," will
appear in the course of two or three
weeks. Mr.. Raymond is a literary in
stance particularly interesting in this, that
he began life in a manufacturing business,
which he followed assduously until about
three years ago, when, at the age of 43,
he gave it up in order to devote himself
exclusively to the writing of fiction. He
had already, in way, gotten his hold"
however, having published in the preced-
ing five years as many as five books.
Whether now that he is entirely free of
business, he expects to do better than
this and bless the world with even more
than a novel a year, l do not know; but
he is a full-blOoded Englishman and the
full-blooded Englishman, when he really
lets himself go, can be, in the department
of novel writing, at least, a terrific pro-
Queer Mr. Raymond is a man of quiet
tastes. fond of outdoor recreation, and is
something of a sportsman He has his
home in Somersetshire. near Taunton, and
seems not to care very much for London.
A personal friend of Henry Seton Mer-
riman informs me that Merrimans last
novel. "Roden's Corner" published serl-
ally last year in Harpers Magazine, bids
fair to repeat the success of THE Sow
ers." 1t will be remembered that 1.-The
Sewers" was the making Of Merriman.
I'm private life. believe once explained
In this correspondence, Merriman is Mr.
Scott) After beginning rather unpromis-
inglv. IL took a turn, and Sold and Sold
in This country as well as in England
ana thenceforward "the author Of The
Sewers was a legend TO conjure with
in publishers circulars. year later
"rn Kedar's Tents" came out, and 1t has
had sale of upward of $4,000. The first
American edition of "Rodens Corner was
* Ooo IL was sold out clean In a very
short time, and in England the book is
rated one Of the best selling books of the
year one is rather glad TO hear all this,
for n Is a tribute to work done with con-
,torca and care Few noVelists expend