The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-01-19
FLASHES FROM THE
LITERARY WORLD
Faithful Chronicle of Authors
Movements.
SCIENCE AND FICTION
Jules Verne, Fl. G. Wells 0utdone by
Recent Discoveries.
HOW A VAIN AUTHOR WAS TAKEN DOWN
A Charles Lamb Discovery. Caudius Clear on
Publishing Love Letters. Some let
tiers That Should Never be
Made Public.

The movements of great writer's, and
of many not so great, are chronicled as
faithfully as Lloyd's records of shipping
1t matters not whether the authors are
on business or pleasure bent, every orbit
of the literary lights or satellites is
watched Thus it is we learn that Mr..
Kipling has arrived in South Africa that
Winston American Churchill lives in
New Hampshire but gets his mail in
Vermont, that Seumas Macmanus has
recently married the poetess "Ethna
Cabrey" and has settled down to a life
of typewriter manipulation in Donegal,
that Sarah Grand in her travels in
America has fallen in love with the
American girl and will make a real one
the heroine of her next novel; that G.. A.
Henty is contemplating a lecture tour
in the United States, that Mary E. Will
kins is finally married, and that-but
why continue?
Kipling goes to South Africa because
he hates a winter in England, and he
has given up visiting this country since
his disastrous experience three winters
ago 1t is to presumed that Mr.. Church
i'll lives on the Vermont New Hamp-
shire line because he refers the locality,
and that our prolific friend of the Irish
folk lore tales took unto himself wife
because he really wished a help meet or
perhaps an editor at home We shall be
glad to have Sarah's' Grand American
heroine, and doubtless many boys on
this side of the Atlantic would be glad
to hear Mr.. Heny relate some of his
youthful experience. The parents will
probably want to hear how he writes
four or five good books annually year
in and year out, for, to tell the truth,
Mr.. Henty is almost as prolific as An
drew Lang or S. r. Crockett, both of
whom are reported to write equally we'll
with both hands. After seeing the la
test photograph of Mr.. Crockett. how
ever, one is tempted to treat the above
report as joke, since along side of the
author is shown in the picture a type
writer Which appears to have been used
considerably. Whether John Kendrick
Bangs has really discovered number
of enchanted typewriters and is letting
them out to a number of his literary
friends and acquaintances on a royalty
basis is another professional secret.
We are soon to have a new book by
Charles Lamb in the form of a very old
book recently discovered in London by
E. Y. Lucas, who learned of it's existence
while examining the Lamb Wordsworth
correspondence in the possession of Mr..
Gordon Wordsworth. In a certain letter
Lamb enumerates the books which he has
just dispatched to Wordsworth by car
rier from London: There comes w.
Hazlitt's book about Human Action for
Coleridgc; a little song book for Sarah
Coleridge; box for Hartley-a para
phrase on the King and Queen of Hearts.
or which l. being the author, beg Mr..
Johnny Wordsworth acceptance and
opinion
This was the clue. Mr.. Lucas imme-
diately began search through the
museums old catalogues book shops and
private collections The boolo>was finally
found among many other specimens of
quaint literature in the possession of Miss
Edith Pollock, London.
The cover a yellow paper wrapper,
bears the following lettering and date: