The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-12
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Mrs. Eiinor .Glyn Taking the
"Cure" Carlsbad--WiII Kip
ling Returnto rockingham?

ing NeturntO NOttlng0edn!
! Special to The Globe.
! LONDON, Oct 11-No sooner had
she made the last corrections in the
proof sheets of her new book, ''The
Damsel and the Sage" which is APP
pearing simultaneously on both sides
of the Atlantic, than Mrs. ElinOr Glyn
put this country behind her and start
! ed for Carlsbad, where, according to
private letter received from her
day or two ago, she is now taking the
] cure" She is expecting to do quite q
! little continental travelling before re-
turning to England, and has not yet
decided when she will pay her already
much postponed visit to the United
States.
Like 1.-The Visits of Elizabeth" and
! "Ambrosine,'' Mrs. Glyn's latest work
has been written at Steering hall, her
husbands country place at Harlow, in
Essex. In spite of the success of her
books the authoress declines to look
upon writing as anything more than
her 'avocation," so to speak, and she
composes only when she feels quite in
the mood. And then it is in the good
old fashioned way, with never type
writer or amanuensis on the place. As
a matter of fact, Mrs. GYMS social du-
ties leave her good deal less time for
writing than she would like. She is
in great demand at exactly the sort Of
smart house parties which she de-
scribes in her stories, and only recent
! ly was the guest of the Countess of
! Warwick.
One cannot help feeling that authors
! play a larger part in what is called
"the national life" over here than they
do at home. In fact, it is pretty re-
! stricted discussion of any kind on this
side of the water that comes to an end
! without one or two prominent men of
| letters taking part in it. The other
day we had Jerome K. Jerome laying
about him ,energetically on the subject
| of ViViSection, and G. S. Street eX-
pounding his views on preferential
| tariffs, and now the voice of Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, for the return of whose
Sherlock Holmes in the pages of the
Strand readers are waiting eargerly,
has been heard in the discussion on
matters in the Balkans. In moving a
resolution of indignation over the sit
uation in Macedonia at public meet
| ing held at Grayshott the other day,
Sir Arthur spoke in exactly the tone
| that might have been expected from.
him. He remarked that the powers
| sent notes to the sultan, and made
| diplomatic representations, "but it was
| not until they pointed At gun at his
| palace that the Turk began to under
stand that they meant business" And
the tenor of the remainder of the
speech was that such a gun should
| be pointed in the direction indicated
forthwith.
There is gladness in Nottingham
over the announcement made by the
local newspaper that Mr.. Kipling is
about to forgive the town "alP' and
come back there to live. Gladness not
only because the little village near
Brighton was downcast over losing its
"lion,'' but because the exceedingly re-
munerative tourist-or "stripper," as
they call him -here-almoSt has ceased
to visit the place since Kipling left.
1t is said now that the writer didn't
so much mind the people on omnibuses
who tried to look over his garden wall,
but got mad at Nottingham on ac-
count of some rather unpleasant at
tentions that the populace paid to a
relative Of his who didn't sympathize
with the local enthusiasm over the re-
lief of Mafeking. However, Mr.. Kip
ling was in Nottingham the other day,
| when his friends gave him rouSing
| welcome, and everyone believes that
| he will come back permanently, as he
really likes the town. His interests
there are many, not the least of them
| the rifle range which he equipped out
| of his own pocket.
| The illness from which Nine.
Sarah Grand has been suffering for the
| last month or so has led her to give up
| all thought of lecturing at Edinburgh
| university this session, as she had ar
ranged to do.
! Probably there will be some "scrab-
bling on the part of book-lovers for
remarkable new edition of "Barnaby
Ridge" which Chapman & Hall, Dick
ems old publishers, are about to issue.
| This will be bound in wood from New
gate prison, about which, of course, an
important part of the novel centers
When the old gaol was pulled down
| recently, the great oak door, which the
| Gordon Rioters attacked was bought
by Chapman & Hall and the wood util-
lied in making the binding for the
new "Barnaby Rudge." These quaint
covers are carved by hand.
The new portion of Queen Victoria's
letters which King Edward has just
ordered made public are likely to
prove especially interesting because Of
the period they cover-from 1S37-the
! year of the queens accession, to 1861,
in which the prince consort died.
During this time, the Crimean war
! was fought, and other great events
were the Indian mutiny, the adoption
of free trade by Great Britain, Char
! tism, and the revolutionary movements
| OF 40, the influence OF all OF which
! could be shown in the royal corre-
| spondence. The letters will be edited
by Lord Esher and Arthur G. Benson,
of Elton college.
! When a great statesman, as the
head of a nation, publishes a tract,
addressed directly to the electorate, is
he justified in adopting the CONNER
cial attitude of the ordinary writer
toward his production? The question
has been raised by Mr. Balfour's act
not only in limiting the quotations
which the press was permitted to
make from his recent pamphlet on
preferential tariffs-the vital subject of
the moment in this country-but in
making the price of it 25 cents. At
this rate, some one has calculated. If
the pamphlet sold only to the extent
of 100000 copies, Mr.. Balfour's profits
| thereupon would be something like
$4,000. Which strikes some people as
rather cool in the prime minister. es-
pecially as his pamphlet is planned
to win the celebrates approval for a
policy calculated to keep his own
| party in power. A. q