Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-07
Joseph Conrad as
An Ardent MOfOriSt.
4soUR LONDON LITERARY LETTER..

Special Correspondence.
T ONDoN, Dec. S-Untll Joseph
Conrad's motor car knocked down
and ran over a man near Roches-
ter, the other day, It was not gem
orally known by the sailor-novelIst's
admirers that he wet in" for motor
ing. Mr., Conrad caught the prevailing
craze about six months ago, when he
Invested IN a Panhard, and since then
he and his wife have spent most OF their
time In motoring in the neighborhood
of Hythe, in Kent, where the author OF
"Typhoon" does his work now. 1t was
while making the run up to London
from Hythe, the other day, that the
novelist had his first accident with his
car. The man he ran over was labor
er named George Field. Mr.. and Mrs.
Conrad. their child, aud Conrad's chaut-
feur were In the car at the time The
injured man brought suit against the
chauffeur, who was driving the car, In
the Rochester county court, ana was
awarded t1O5 damages, which was paid
by Mr.. Conrad.
II was announced this week by no less
authority than the London Times that
the Right Hon. John Morley vas under
stood to have consented 10 write Tor a
magazine concerning the impressions
gained on his recent tour IN America
In response to my request for further
Information on the subject Mr.. Morley
writes TO say that the Times report ls
wholly unfounded,
Not since his attack OF pneumonia IN
the United States, several years ago
has the state OF Rudyard klplins =
lungs made It possible for him TO en-
dure the English winter Hence MS
present habit OF spending the time rom
The middle OF December 10 the begin
ming OF April at the cape" for which,
with the members Of his family, he left
by the Armadale Castle on Saturday
last Last year Kipling aid a lot OF
motoring during his stay IN South Atrl-
ca and also took quite an active part IN
the pollticnl campaign thar was IN prog
ress at the time-making several roul-
ing speeches In favor Of The imperlals-
tic candidates.
The attempt OF william Waldorf AS
tors London magazine, the Pan Mall,
70 compete In this country with tho
higher priced American monthlies has
failed-that IL the significance OF tha
coming reduction In It's price from a
shilling TO slxpenco-the popular
magazine price over here. However, it
ia maintained that the Pail Mails real
ly high quality viii be kept up, and
the announcements made by it's ed"
tor. George r. Halkett, for the ne"
year. indicate good Intention, at least.
They include a new serial story by II,
q. Wells. Joseph Courad's "Recollec-
tions of a Seafaror's Life, new poem
by Thomas Hardy and stories by r. w.
Hornung and other fayorlte writer's
Fac-Simile reproductions are 20 be Is
sued shortly Of an unusually grim mau-
uscrlpt which Ia owned By the I'M
pcrial library NJ ST, Petersburg This
is "a Koran written by the hand ~ the
Callph Osman. IN ga a. D., and the
parchment Is stained with It's writer's
blood for he was assassinated while
reading from A. The reproductions of
the manuscript, which Is one OF the
most precious OF oriental documents
viii be limited to TO-
a movement is now on foot IN London
TO placl memorial TO the late W.