The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
LANDOR FINISHES HIS
gems OF THE EAST
For Three Months the Explorer
Has Hidden Himself Away
in Order to Write.
From a staf Correspondent

LONDON, April 2O.-For three months
A. Henry Savage Landor has been in
LONDON and yet not one OF his large Cir
Gle of friends has known Of his where
abouts. At a Westminster hotel. where
| this grandson Of the poet Walter Saw
age Lander, always lives when In the
metropolis, he has been shut up. deny
| Ing himself all social pleasures so that
he might write his long projected book
On the Philippines in peace. undistnrbed
by callers Gems of the East" is to be
| the title of this book on the Philippines.
where Mr.. Savage Landor has Just spent
whole year-living among the most
| savage tribes to be found in the ISL
ands
Now that Landor has emerged from his
seclusion he let's little bits of his ex-
per1ence in this archipelago-where he
had several close shaves-escape him and
is especially loud In his praises of the
courtesy of the United States government
which not only placed vessel at his
disposal but every facility for the ex-
plorations which occupied him for more
than a year.
Experienced in dealing with savage
tribes, Mr.. Lander got on wonderfully
well with those of the Philippines and re-
turned to London looking as youthful as
ever and confessing that he thoroughly en-
joyed his adventures. He says that though
he let the savageS see that they couldn't
SCARE HIffl, ne Q1u nOI Du1AY IHGIng anu
only were they In desperate fright of
him when he wanted to measure their
heads. Then they thought he was trying
to work a spell on them. But in the end
he succeeded in disarming their fears
and has beside many measurements
brought back number Of skulls for
anthropological purposes which are to be
presented to the natural history section
of the British museum. Beside the book
which is to have red cover, adorned
with the Stars and Stripes and which Is
to be published simultaneously in Lon
don, New York and Berlin, Mr.. Lander
is compiling no less than thirty diction-
aries Of the words used by thirty different
tribes In the islands This explorer, who
is a wonderful linguist in European Ian
guages, can pick up one of these print
tive languages In an uncommonly short
time and thus make himself quite at
home with any savage tribe.
Has Foreign Accent.
Mr.. Landor speaks English with a slight
foreign accent, for his mother was an
Italian and it is from her that he has
inherited charming little estate In Italy,
Florence, In which city dwell his father
and mother, one sister and two brothers,
all quite untouched with the spirit of adj
venture that excites the author. 1t Is to
this estate, his real home, that Mr.. Ian
dor will repair later this month.
Lander never smokes, never drinks al
coholic liquors.. and hardly knows, the
meaning of fatigue. AS one example of
his endurance, when the war between
China and Japan broke out the explorer
fulfilled a publishers sudden demands to
complete the writing and illustrating of
a book on Korea. from whence he had
just then returned, within one month.
That month he had promised to stay in
was royalty staying In the house, he was
not only unable to cancel his engagement
but he had to join in everything that was
going on all day, so that his writing had
to be done during the hours of night. He
only allowed himself three hours sleep
each night and at the end of twenty eight
days his work, including Illustrations and
covers, was completed and in the pub
fishers hands.
Bishop 5ooms Novel.
Guy .Thorne's novel, when It Was
Dark the unusual plot Of which was de-
scribed In these letters, and reviews of
g sfataa are rot now bandsoeg # e
the hands Of the Bishop of London the
other day. 1t is seldom indeed that ref
erence to modern work of fiction is
made from the pulpit here-and the COM
pliment to Guy Thorne was the greater
from the fact that the Bishop of London
praised his work in sermon at West
'I wonder said Mr.. Ingram, whether
any of you have read that remarkable
work of fiction, When It Was Dark?
seems to me the world would be If for
six months as in the story 1t is sup
posed to be the case, owing to a gigantic
fraud the resurrection might be supposed
never to have occurred.
Miss cobbe's Queer Will.
Although in her time Frances Powell
Cobbe both wrote and spoke on the sub
rect of woman'S rights with the energy
Of Susan B. Anthony herself, the wide
attention which her death attracted the
other day was due principally to the I'M
usual commands contained in her will.
She evidently had a horror of being buried
alive. for she left strict Instructions that
DR.. HadWen, of Gloucester a former CO.
worker in her anti-vivisection< campaign,
should perform or her body the opera
ton of completely and thoroughly severing
the arteries of the neck and windpipe,
nearly severing the head altogether, so
as to render any revival in the grave alb
solutely impossible"
declaring that If this operation was not
performed, and its completion witnessed
by one or the other of her executors, and
testified by the same all the requests
in her viii were to be made null and
void
rious effect:
II desire that my coffin be not made of
oak. or of any durable wood, but, on the
principle of earth to earth burialS, of the
lightest and most perishable materials,
merely sufficient to carry my body de-
Gently to the grave, and without any or
nament or inscription whatever. ] de-
sire to be carried to Llanelltyd cemetery,
not in a funeral hearse, but in one or
other of my own carriages, driven by my
coachman, at his usual pace. And de-
sire that neither then nor at any other
time may my friends or servants wear
mourning for me"
ADropos of this strenuous woman's
death, literary acquaintance of mine
recalled a use of her name by Darwin to
which Huxley often made laughing ref
erence Speaking of some man who
had just perpetrated screech1ng anti
viyisection pamphlet, Darwin remarked
that he wrote like female Frances
Cobbe." Hayden Church.