The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-06

| London, June 5.--The afternoon pa
pers refer to the late Stephen Crane,
the American novelist, in terms of
warm admiration. The ST. James Ga
zette says: "The loss of one of the
most brilliant of present-day writer's
viii be as deeply felt by the English as
! by the American nation.
The career of Stephen Crane was as
successful as it was brief. He was
born in Newark, N. j., in 1870, his faith
er being the Rev. j. |. Crane, d. d.
His education was gained partly in La
fayette college and partly at Syracuse
university, but he began writing for the
press in early youth and soon attracted
attention in journalistic circles by his
cleverness as a writer of sketches. To
the general public he became known by
his Red Badge of Courage" purport-
ing to be the experiences of a recruit
in the War of the Rebellion, put to-
gether in odd hours when he was
hard working reporter on a New York
newspaper, which was published in 1895.
This was a very vigorous and vivid bit
of realistic descriptive writing and OBJ
tained wide circulation in this country
and in England, the power and imagi-
nation in it receiving prompt and gen.
eral critical recognition The success
of this work led to his engagement by
the London Westminster Gazette as
correspondent for the Graeco-Turkish
war in 1897, and the letters which he
furnished were full of life and color.
Later on he again did admirable work
for New York and other newspapers in
Cuba and Porto Rico of the war with
Spain. Before the war broke out in
the fflibustering period, Mr. Crane took
part in an expedition in which he near
ly lost his life, owing to the founder
ing of the vessel. Some of his compan-
ions We're drowned and he only gained
the shore with great difficulty. His ac-
count of the adventure was character
istically graphic.
Mr.. Cranes mental attitude was that
of one for whom there We're to be no
surprises. His confidence in himself
was thorough. His belief in the excel
lence of his work was complete, but not
often expressed; and towards the last
he frequently made light of the early
style in which he placed too much de-
pendenee upon adjectives of color, and
in some stories of childlife commenced
on board dispatch boat in the Santi-
ago blockade) he was trying for that
finish and nicer use of language which
his critics had said he lacked
Notwithstanding a kind of shyness
of manner, he was always self possess
ed. In the matter of social conduct few
conventions We're permitted to interfere
with what he felt inclined to do; and
as war correspondent, on the top of the
encircled hill at Guantanamo and In the
field before Santiago. he showed abso-
Lutte fearlessness of danger
His health for some time had been
failing and his death was not unexpect-
ed He had sought various climates in
the hope of getting relief from the lung
trouble with which he was afflicted His
literary production, considering the
shortness of his life, was considerable.
The list of his books includes Mag
gie,' realistic tale of the Bowery
1.-THE Black Riders" Georges Moth
err" 1.-The Little Regiment "The Third
Violet, Romance" THE Open Boat"
"The Eternal Patience" Pictures of
War" etc.