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the outside world will not surrender Its
first impressions Of him as a Colonial. His
new novel, No Hero" which is to be pub
lished this spring, is said to be In a vein
entirely different from anything he has at
tempted heretofore.
Having taken up hts residence at Cape
town for the remainder Of the winter Rud-
yard kipling is now expected to make him
self as familiar with South African life
as with that of India, the hoped-for result
being u series OF stories to be classed with
those that first established his name. While
it is reasonably certain that whatever Kip
ling may write of South Africa will be
graphic and coIorful, 1t may well be doubt
ed, however. If he will equal his India
achievements in the storytelling line. He
enjoyed just the right conditions for re-
ceiving vivid Impressions in India. growing
UP there from boyhocd into early man
hood. and the stories then written possessed
a freshness that cannot be duplicated. An
other result of his wintering in South
Africa, 1t Is thought, will be that of setting
an example which will be followed by
many innitators who seek GUNNER cli-
mate in the winter time. This seems more
probable.
Vance Thompson, whose novel, Spinners
of Life" will be published next month, is
one of the best-known foreign litterateurs
In Paris. He has made that city his resi-
dence for some years past and has written
much concerning its current events and the
social phases of Partisan life. For the past
tive months. however, he has been in this
country arranging for the publication OF
his novel and for the staging of new
play by him, which will be brought out by
Beiasco. and Is said to have keenly en-
joyed the return to his native land. The
new novel is announced as possessing great
esoteric interest and as representing the
authors most mature work.
In all likelihood there will be noted the
beginning of a bookish sensation" OF
somewhat somber character when. next
week. 1.-THE Journal of Arthur Stirling" is
issued from the Appleton press.
Tragedy and mystery combine to create
a profound interest in the personality which
will therein be laid before the reading
world. Arthur Stirling committed suicide
by drowning in June, 1902. On June the
editor of the forthcoming journal, close
friend of Stirling. received large package
from New York. It was from Arthur Stir
ling, although marked as coming from an
other person. Two sealed parcels were in
the package. One was the manuscript Of
''The Captive" a tragedy in blank verse
written by Stirling. 1t had been rejected
by nine publishers. The other parcel was
the journal. now about to be published. A
letter lay on the top Of this manuscript.
In this letter Stirling notified his friend
that he would be dead when 1t was re-
ceived. 1T is simply that I was born to
he an artist and that as anything else I
cannot i've" he wrote. Il mean to buy a
ticket for as far up the Hudson as can
go. In the evening mean to find steep
bank, and, with a heavy dumbbefl I have
bought and a strong rope think can find
the place have been seeking" The next
day his dead body was found in the river.
so he lived and so he worked. the