Arizona republican., 1903-01-19

| this country is better suited to the poet | who voiced The Cry of Little Peo- pies" than the close, prescriptive air of | England.
 MT. Le Gallienne has published
 twenty books in prose and verse, and | he is only 36 years old. His literary | reputation has been wei. established | for good dozen years in England, ami | is not now seriously questioned even | by the London Saturday Review long ! his redOubtable foe. Yet remarkable | as has been MT. Le Gallienne's prog l ress. until very lately he has felt that he had to fight every inch of the way.
 A brief sketch is here offered of his | brilliant and interesting career. | Richard Le Gallienne was born at
 Liverpool, January 20. 1866. His father
 was a Guernsey man and a Frenchman | to boot, which accounts for the poets 1 patronymic. With this exception the 1 family was of excellent English stock | into which, however. a drop of Irish | blood found its way and, it may De | taken for granted, helped in the mak- | ing of the poet. Perhaps also it may ! be held responsible for Richards demo- cratic proclivities.
 l uE lDtl lGliltI W dS d SOui4l DuSl- ! ness man and determined to make an- | other of his son. Richard was edu- | cated at Liverpool college and. in ac- | cordance with the paternal programme, was at the age of 16 article to a firm | of chartered accountants. So one of | the finest and most deIicately artistic ] of living English writers owes nothing
 to either of the great English universi- ! rT ITk, ! recalled, who has also glorified the race of accountants. and whose drudgery at the desks dead wood began earlier and | lasted far longer than did Le Galli- i ennes.
 Richar felt he had the literary voca- tion from the moment of leaving col 1 lege, but the paternal will prevailed and so he served seven long. dreary years for Rachael in the office of the Liverpool accountant. But during this
 time he was zealous in acquiring a lit
 erary equipment Bookkeeping is nor incompatible with a mild practice of l literature, as Charles Lamb had proven. Young Le Gallienne soon be- san to test his vocation in the usual way, and even before leaving the char tered accountant he had made quite l self in South Lancashire. As an ex- | ample of his early leanings toward sin guiarity it is pointed out that he ''raved over Walt Whitman's poetry to hard l headed Lancashire people who could see neither rhyme nor reason in the rugged lines of the wild man of the west, but who admired Mir Le GalIi- enne's genius in perceiving the genius they could not discern underlying the Leaves of Grass It is not amiss to recall that Robert Louis Stevenson also professed great admiration for Whit
 man and wrote splendid essay in jus
 tification thereof.
 The aestheticism of the sos was not
 without its influence on the young poet and indeed he was ere long to be rec 1 oSnized as a leading exponent of that peculiar cult of beauty and hedonism But while indulging the honors of youth, Le Gallienne, with sagacity
 for which the critics have not always
 gwen him credit, never lost sight of his objective
 Having abandoned his Iedgers. be | went up to London, where for somo months he acted as secretary to Wilson Barrett. Then he joined the staff or
 the Star as literary critic, in which ca paclty he obtained his first blush of fame This prepared the way for his genuine literary debut with "'The Book
 Bills of Narcissus." which, in the es- timation of many critics, still remains one Of his most charming worxs. The
 book at once established I.e GalIienne's
 reputation, which was presently con-
 flrmed by his George Meredith; Some Characteristics" a just and subtle ap-
 preciation.
 But tho thing which compelled the
 world in geenral to take note of vouna,
 Mir. Le Gallienne was his happily timer
 The Religion of a Literary Man" De-
 nunciatory advertisement on the mar,
 of the English clergy helped to make
 both book and author famous. Tn.
 most Unfriendly critics-and the pac,,
 were after Richard in those days-wera
 obliged to confess that he had lar
 rived"
 This was in 1893, and since that time
 the world has occupied itself a great
 deal with MT. Richard Le Gallienne.
 Also, it is to be said, the world thinks
 better of him than ever Though he
 has published twenty books, he has
 written no cOnspicuously bad one, and
 he has added immensely to the delight
 of English readers. Few contemporary
 English writers have been so prolific
 as MT. Le Gallienne-Kipling is, lf
 course, remarkable exception In
 spite of this great sum of literary work
 (to which should be added much jour
 n2lizing both in this country and in
 England. featuring. etc), it cannot be denied that Le Gallienne has shown corresponding artistic growth. Today
 his work is firm and mature. proving the full knowledge of life into which he has come, while the delicate fancy. the style exquisite alike in prose and verse, are as alluring as ever.
 MT. Le Gallienne has just entered into an engagement, through R. H. Russell of New York, to suplpy week