New-York tribune., 1905-01-29


Mr.; Kipling is quoted saying that he had
faced the camera for the last time: was tired
No photograph has ever been half realistic
as the description of the youth Kipling set down
by E. K. Robinson. the editor of the Indian
paper in which appeared the early work of the
author of The Jungle Book:
In the heat of summer white cotton trousers
and thin vest constituted his Office attire He
had a habit of dipping his pen frequently deep
into the inkpot and his movements were alb
rupt almost jerky, the ink used to fly. When
he darted into my room, as he used to do about
one thing or another in connection with the con-
tents of the paper a dozen times in the morn
ing had to shout 10 him to Stand OFF, other
wise as knew by experience. the abrupt halt
he would make. and the flourish with which he
placed the proof in his hand before me, would
send the penful of ink-he always had a full pen
in his hand-iying over me. Driving some
times walking home to breakfast in his light at
tire, plentifully besprnkled with ink, his spec
tacled face peeping out under enormous.
mushroom shaped pith hat, Kipling was a quaint
looking object"
"Brendle' is the title of the new novel which
is coming from the pen of Marmaduke Pickthall,
the author of Said. the Fisherman" 1t is a
story of English provincial life.
It is refreshing to read of the pride in Ger
vantes which Spain is manifesting She let him
spend his existence in dire poverty to be sure;
but now she is erecting statue of him in every
town in which he ever lived, and his bust is TO
be placed in every school in the country. Don
Quixote' has been translated into nearly every
language including Turkish
II is interesting 10 remember tnat the 1mmOr-
tai work became popular at home and abroad
almost as soon as does modern book The
critic of 1.-The London Times" reminds us that
II was quickly translated into French and Eng
lish. so that it has been said that the author Of
Hamlet may have read Don Quixote" in
Shelton's racy English. Don Ouixote' be-
came a classic in all countries To create char
acters that live said Alphonse Daudet, with
something more than side glance at his friend
F1aubert, the business of the novelist,
rather than to write fine prose Foreigners may
fail to appreciate fine prose in unfamiliar
tongue, but they can all understand the charac-
terS that live Daudet called his own Tartarin
QuiXote of Southern France. For such char
acters Quixote not only live-they beget chill
dren. Hamlet and Quixote, perhaps the two
most deathless bachelors in literature have both
begotten large families If Werther and Rene
and Obermann OF the kin of Hamlet, are
Hudibras and Sir Roger de Coverley and Uncle
Toby and Dr. Syntax and Colonel NeWcome and
Mr. Pickwtck of the kin of Quixote"
T is said that the anecdotes of de Musset and
of George Sand related now and again by the
poets sister, Nine. Lardin de Musset-who
has Just died in PariS-WOuld make capital
volume. She owned a remarka bic collection of
his unpublished letters and people wonder
ing if these are to be given to the world
r L. Stevensoa's father mourned over his sons
devotion literature DR.. Japp, in his first pub
lished book the novelist, says: Thomas Stew
enson, with a strange, sad smile told me how
much of a disappointment, in the first stage, at
all events Louis Che always called his son Louis
at home) had caused him by failing to follow
up his profession at the Scottish bar. How much |
he had looked forward after the engineering |
was abandoned to his devoting himself to the |
work of the Parliament House (aS the Hall or
the Chief Court is called in Scotland, from the
building having been while there yet a |
Scottish Parliament the place where 1t SAT- |
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