The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-22

Dut ne Had Time to Add to His Wealth and Fame
by Raising Prize Steer and SeIiino
1T for Fancy Price
Special Foreign Service

Special Foreign Service.
LONDON, Jan. 21.-Hall Gaines state
OF health has been causing his friends
a good deal of uneasness of late. He
mas not been himself for a year or
more, afldsi may be Remembered that
when The Prodigal SEM was only
half written, its author broke down and
had to go to st. Morftz to finish the
work. esstayed there several months.
and when he returned to the Isle of
Man recently it was hoped that he
could keep going for quite a while, but
evidently the task Of seeing his latest
novel through. the press, and the part
ne took in the discussion that followed
Its publioadion Were too much for Hall
came. For several weeks he has suf-
Tered from acute insomnia, and on Sat
urday last-le for Switzerland. where
his physician had ordered him to make
lengthy Stay. Meanwhile his renown
is lncreaslng-on this side of the water,
at least@at a rate which must make
MS Keen rival, Miss Corelli, rather ieal-
Gus. The other day the Rev. r. j.
CampbeH, the brainy young successor
OF DR.. Joseph Parker at the City Tenn
pie, declared in public address, that
he preferred the Manxman's best work
to that of George Meredith, and during
christmas week another incident was
recorded which testifies, In a way, to
the potency Of the name of Caine This
was the sale, to fashionable butcher,
of bullock bred on the novelist's
model farm in the Isle of Man, for
S242.50, or $3.50 more than was paid
recently for similar beast reared by
the king!
After several years Of literary work
in London, Morley Roberts, who wrote
Rachel Marr," has followed the exam
pie OF so many of his confreres and
taken country house where he means
to do most of his writing In future.
Tapplngton Grange. as it is called, is
near Wadsworth and may be said. in a
way. to- have literary associations al
ready. having belonged up to now, to
Slr George Barham, one Of the family
Of which the author OF '"The Ingolsby
Legends was a member
One Of the mostinteresting Of Lon
don's literary landmarks is now threat
ened with destruction-this being the
house in Highgate, Hampstead, where
samuel Taylor Coleridge spent his last
years, and where he was visited, at
different times. by Carlyle, Leigh Hunt
Wordsworth, Charles Lamb ana Robert
Southey. The house, which it is now
intended to; replace with a modern
building, is No. in The Grove. Hamp-
stead. and formerly belonged to DR..
James Gilman. This physician was the
devoted friend of Coleridge He threw
open his doors to the author of 1.-The
Ancient Mariner" when he was suffer-
ing most horribly from the effects of
his prolonged indulgence in opium, and
for eighteen years safeguarded him
from his dangerous habit OF his con-
dition at that time Coleridge wrote:
The degradation, the blighted utility,
almost overwhelm me- However, while
in Hampstead he got back much of his
power and produced some of his finest
prose-the aids to Reflection" the two
Lay Sermons" and the essay con the
Constitution Of Church and State"
The visits of his great literary con-
freres to his home in 1.-The Grove" were
especially delightful to Coleridge. He
sat" wrote Carlyle, looking down on
London and its smoke tumult like a
sage escaped from the inanity of life's
battle. attracting towards him the
thoughts Of innumerable brave souls
still engaged there-heavy laden, high
aspiring, and surely much suffering
man." Coleridge died at The Grove In
July, 1884, and he lies in the yard of the
old chapel at Highgate, now the crypt
of the new Grammar School chapel.