The Washington herald., 1907-07-21

Few living writers who once had a
wide and rather extravagant vogue have
dropped so completely out Of the public
eye as has Mr.. Rudyard Kipling. The
recent fine demonstration in England over
the visit Of Mark Twain into that country
has been compared 20 the intense popular
interest that was manifest when MIR. Kip
ling. visiting the United States, fell i'll
and lowered for a long time between
life and death
It would seem. perhaps. that Mr. Kip
Iings earlier writings. which appealed so
strongly 10 all classes OF readers, did not
az all satisfy him. and soon forsakIng the
field in which he won fortune and re-
nown. he started of on a new tangent as
II, not satisfied with having founded the
AIulvaney school, he wanted to found
another He himself. Ionged in one Of
his early poems for the time when
Only the master shall praise and only the master
shall blame.
And no one shan work for money and no one shah
work for fame;
But each for the Joy Of the working
The short stories and poems Of his ear
ly days brought him in so much money
that he has long since arrived at that
happy condition where he need not write
another line SO far as the need of money
is concerned. Speaking recently in Lon
don on behalf of those who devote their
skill 70 producing things and expressing
ideas for which the public has no present
need, he said;
Being artists, these men must needs do the work
that is laid upon them 20 do and while they are
rIHtr r1lsr Of i'm
p1rtant worldly considerations It is reprehensble
Of cUuTse-and worse than rcprehensibe. it is un-
busnesslike-but 1t happens and il happens more
frequently than people would imagine. No one EN-
braces the career Of art with the direct idea Of
making money. Tho material rewards Of art are
often 50 small that men may be forgiven If they
sacTce themselves and their belongings to make ar
appeal to the next generation while they neglect
their own.
If this is really Mr.. Kipling's theory
he seems TO be striving TO live up 70 it.
But the present generation is the one
that viii bitterly regret it. In spite Of
the many people who are writing now
adays we are not getting anywhere such
stories as "The Man Who Would Be
King" The Mark Of the Beast" OF
The City Of Dreadful Night" These
and the many other finely materialistic
tales IN Soldiers Three" and Under
story of psychological import which.
in Mr. Kipling. first found expression
in "The Finest Story in the World" and
afterward in "The BrushwoOd Boy"
THAT far we could all follow him. but
then ensued the psychological tale run
mad. They and Puck of POOkS Hill''
and the talking machinery and the gTOan-
ing ship that never has found herself so
that the Kiplng that we once knew and
loved we stil love, but we know no
more, Would 10 Heaven he would once
more be the teller Of tales and that the
voice Of the blind Gobind from the ba-
zaar might once more ring in his ears.
The record for book popularity at the
Public Library during the past week
shows that in nonfctlon the call was for
Senator Beveridge's Child Labor and
Spargo's THE Bitter Cry of the Chill
dreu." In fiction the demand was for
Meredith Nicholson's The Port of Miss
ing Men" and Chambers THE Tree Of
Heaven" In the children's department,
French's ''The Junior Cup and Alcott's
Eight Cousins held sway. There were
two subjects during the week on which
readers evidently desired information
q
the former subject the books which
seemed 10 meet the need We're Dewsnap's
Railway Organization" and McPher-
sons THE Working Of the Railroads"
On the latter subject the call was for
Goodwin's bookkeeping Self-Taught"
and Breakers American Accountant"
Scarcely had .A1essrs. Henry Holt &
Co. issued 1Ir de Morgans Joseph
Vance" when an interesting and thor
oughly agreeable correspondence COM
menced between Mr.. de Morgan and the
real Joseph Vance (the well-known au
thor Of stirring novels) and now the
same publishers have received an order
from a real John Glynn, living in Ohio,
for a COPY Of the book of that name by
Arthur Paterson. Mr.. Burton Egbert
Stevenson. author Of The Holiday
Case" also got into correspondence with
a family of Holladays after the appear
ance Of that book.
The new Kipling book in one volume.
Prom Sea 10 Sea-" will be published in
the near future by Doubleday, Page *
Co, and viii include hitherto IN
published matter, as well as an accurate
text Of the american Notes" Letters
Of Marque," city OF Dreadful Night"
"The Smith Administration" &c, &c.
That Katherine Cecil Thurston has a
great love for ireland, and spends much
Of her time there, follows naturally from
the fact that she was born in Ireland
and lived there during her girlhOod.
Although her home is in London, she
likes nothing so much as to get back to
Ireland. and it is in Ireland that she most
loves TO work
All three Of her great successes, THE
Masquerade" ''The Gambler" and her
most recent book, "The Mystic" were
written in great part at the little village
OF Ardmore. a secluded seaside village.
not very far from Cork, the city of Mrs.
Thurstons birth.
The vicinity Of Ardmore has delightful
literary associations. for il was in a little
church. still standing. not many miles
from there. that Edmund Spenser was
married. and it was In a house not far
from Ardmore that Spenser read to Sir
Walter Raleigh the first part of the then
unpublished ''Faerie Queene.'
An example Of rather refined Babu Eng
iish Is contained in the following letter
received by an East Indian firm in Lon
don from Hindoo correspondent:
Dear Sirs: We are duly In receipt OF
your favor. By this mail we have nothing
specially profound 10 say. With deep re-
gret, however, which rends our aggrieved
hearts, we beg to announce that a deep
misty cloud recently lowered over Us for
eight days. 1t did not clear away until
il successfully washed off our hands our
most steady, energetic, and piOus junior
manager. Breathing his last on the night
Of the 18th ultimo, and leaving us to look
after his path with wistful and fearful
eyes. he leapt up to his everlasting green