The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 29, 1899, Page 29

THE SUNDAY CALL. By Prof. H. B. Lathrop, Stanford University. Co.” Rudyard Kipling's s ar many of we have d Kip- ity, in ance. The * f Xar e of the com- Kipling has h which ha teness wilh His mind rated with “KYAILK— Haiiac YOH" PAGODA, MOULMEIN. = BULL. MAONOLITH), TANJORE W(lle.\é;SSf\gfg}E SBOOK THE LHTER ARY W@RLD OTH N ess in speech au@ action. Both ness of situntion and The gro- he takes his place in the lower rank of the whole charact 1 for Mr. Kipling’s contempt. His tesqua co: t, for insta literary artists e who like Bert Harte moral ' , is another p e of lofty e sentim nd the ex- or Dickens arz at their best only in the ab- tl or between common fellow s, are sources to Mr. Kipling. It noble n'action. normal; he is not satisfled with the ex- £ suppressing tones and , but he exagg y. He wants decided ef- woul Insistence on salient points, dis- v trasts.. 2he result is grotesque. of fas bold! sentiment nobly and this sty 1 te ity and noblene fore, a style Is part of life; it tinges and colors the higher type of balanced and sane artists, like Ilelding give them a true or Thackeray. What claim have this worship of action e, devoid of t as {dea highest san- s of life? Tor speech, are re and action and achiev absence of di enized tendencies have helped ) er. 0 claim, and nesses netic liable, ement, the vulgi the falsely named “practics 3 nners and of ours. Kipling’s mar- A PERSONAL CHAT WITH BISHO DISCUSSES HIS BRELT L1RE CHERI Ak S ., AND HIS EXFERIBNCE OF HiSEE LIVING e SLUMG ed I Ah, but Mrs. jughtfil woman!" e Bishop fell to musing. It occurred Vanderbilt had not done ; for herself. Who found ple and the tired clergy- would-be teachers? Who ning? I Vanderblit was & d of our loan bureau It has been an odd experi- think, but it has lasted se ems to be on a sure mean the charitable pawnshop?” Bishop apparently disliked the wimitted that the Loan that ibility of such a thing oe- day when a woman told had nothing left but her rdding gift, a pair of ear- sides of many ques- rings, that she had tried to raise money on them to no avail. I thought t about the matter, and the upshot was W T 1 that I proposed my plan to Dr. Greer in fact there of St. Bartholom Church. - The bu- K But fn New reau has heen established in connection 'y pleasure with that church’s mission, and it thrives the pain Good value s given, small interest de- &an p on dipping. manded, and where articles are not re- it been wonderfully helped in my deemed sharp on time they are held a have earncd a Work. Of course T was powerless alone. little longer to glve the owner a chance. vs oL 5o The wealthlest people in the city held So very few things are ever soid. They up my hands.” are usually redeemed sooner or later, but Then the man's talents are two, T see. the owner does not feel like an object of He can work, ardently, relentlessiy; and charity.” he can marshal ranks to work under his Vhy, 1 am_only 6. t, am in heart. tire more easily £ -2 e . “Is 1t true that you llved for three than I use all that malkalane: directiots months in the slums of New York?" feel old a boy vet, I belleve. “Ui\gho Tave been some of your helpers® | Yes' hesitatingly 1 1 k a “It would take all day to name even a ‘What was your object in so doing? I small proportion. The Vanderbilts, the understand that you did not i Astors, Mr. Plerpont Morgan and Seth tracts.” member, Bishop Pofter, Tow are names that are familiar to you. The Bishop has a sense of humor. I u were all a boy? They have given great ald as great ble squirms in the corners of his mouth .,-.3 sunny home In & jngg have been theirs. But there are makes merry in his light gray eyes. and a father Who other names that you would not recog- No, I did not carry tracts. As for badest shoulders pize and yet they stand written as my object—one must live among neople rode upon. After proudly because they represent the in order to learn them, and one must for such riding I widow's mite.” A % learn them in order to help them. I went he shoulders ““The Jate Mrs. Willlam Vanderbilt gave to a mission house where 1 could find de- d be as jargely through you, did she not?” cent lodging—it is situated In the midst come, al- “She was a woman of much charity, of the most destitute quarter of the city. good oar in :=h$1 put annually into my hands $1 I could not do much, the suffering is 8o to'be used, not for asylums and charits great, but I went among the homes and institutlions, but to be bestowed person- the sweatshops and T was one of those ally. She wanted it used not so mvch people as far as possible—T made friends isters for the voor of the slums as for the poor among them and I learned taelr neess m proud to claim relation- who had known the better side of life— When I went back among the fortunate : of my ancestors, although the saddest people that the world holds. ones I could tell them of the need and ected their virtue to I found old people Sometimes for whom speak as cne having authority.” \ man's soul Is his own. the money would purchase an entrance to “T have heard that your family were ) those grandfathers a home, and there are overworked clergy- opposed to the experiment.” and that {s the men who have to thank Mrs. Vanderbilt “Oh, they had & notion that T was =et- N re kilta for a breathing space in the country. ting old—I, at only 63. I am too old for it “wa ) provided respectable clotnes pleasure, perhaps, but not for work. And for men who could not seek employment my days of DPeamxre are not all over. looking like vagrants, and it helped many I enjoy sociable little dinners to-day.” -he teacher to the necessary train- KATHRYN MARCH. carry of the time When “I remember & roc That time has ne h I could pull a prett e of an ecclesiastical family, ve been many m in em: gregation consist auck, chickens and sometimes the hired man. Bishop Potter. — rfi BT ’ velous talent in the attalnment of his great popularity. No one need grudge hiim the least trifle of his fame; but we should all be careful not to take him too seriously as a moral force, and should be on our guard against his encouragement of our narrowness and our commonness. The truth is that most of us need more to believe in ideas than in acts. We need to recognize that even the material con- ditions of modern life—machinery, rall- roads, telegraphs—are due to an ldea, a way of thinking called the sclentific spirit. We need to be convinced that laws and customs, governments and states, are ideas, created by, men of thought. New- ton and Helmholtz, Locke, Rousseau and Mil), and thousands of unknown and si- lent workers, are the makers of our mod- ern world. The United States is not made by an act, but by an idea. Civilization s a set of {deas. ‘The advance of civiliza- tion is the acquisition by the mass of men of points of view more and more closel approximately accurate, and of ideas more and more completely covering the phenomena_of human experience. It is the despised, persistent, ineffective scholar who teaches the world and who leads the march of ideas. The demand for actlon, above every- thing the logical issue of which is the WOors! \%’ of war—for the soldier is the true man gf action—is inimical to the highest civilizition:; and the influence of Mr. Kip- ling's work is perceptibly injurious in low- ering the ideals of those who are most affected by his writings. These ngracious comments on an author entitled to love and honor very far this side fdolatry have been wrung from an_unwilling hand by Mr. Kipling's in- judieious insistence on his own narrow and Inadequate view of life. A clear rec- ognition of ifs narrown and of the somewhat extravagant character of his art need not interfere with the fullest de- light in his abou and his spontaneous imaginative power, (Double- g{'\ v :,uld McClure Company, New York. 50. “Kiplingiana” is a scrap book about Rudyvard XKipling. It contains a brief blography, many anecdotes, little bits of information, fac-similes of the frontis- pieces and title. pages of Mr. Kipling' early books, a bibliography, profncgs agm? dedications, quotations “from reviews Fm‘lrnl(s and caricatures, in short, all kinds of desultory information of interest to Mr. Kipling's readers. Much of the compilation is amusing, and not a little is valuable. Tt Is a book to refer to, not to read through. 1Its value is diminished by the absence of dates, and by the Im- Perfections of the index. 'For example, we are not told when Mr, Kipling sent re- grets to the Yale Club, or wrote to tha ‘“‘Cantab,”” or contributed to the Hors- monden School Budget. The origin of the name “Rudyard” {s indexed only by the title, “A Kipling Romance,” and Mr. Kip- ling’s change of feeling as to the regula- tion of the traffic in drink appears under the head, “From American Notes.” M. Andre Chevillon’s criticism in the Revuée de Parls is Indexed merely as “A French O l;}xlon.” and {s no; d:lllo b ese are grave faults, but in spl them and of a little padding, the é’of& 01: well worth its price to a lover or critical student of Mr. Kipling's work. (Mans- fleld & Westels, New York. $1 2.) “‘Quaint Corners of Ancient Empires,” by M. M. Shoemaker, whirls along with the dizzying rapldity of an actual jour- ney from Rameswaran, off the coast of Ceylon, through Southern India and Bur- mah, to Manila. The impressions of the hasty traveler are conveyed with vivid- ness and in a very readable manner. With the help of the excellent photographic {llustrations, a reader may obtain a dis- tinct idea of the appearance of the vast temple at Rameswaran, the curious spire on the balanced rock at Moulmein. or tha FR RECENT VOLUMES OF INTEREST “Shway Dagohn” in Rangoon. The dirt of this hotel, the comfort of t the skill of an elephant in the dress of the Burmese wc but brilliant colors of the O sleep of F priests, the ch lishmen in tr st about ti ] war, are all noted In a gossiping, ramb! style that rests the mind and ma amusing reading. It is a pity that Shoemaker should have felt called on a_higher flight when he reached He eptered the town when the A troops were first occu ing it, a present at_the outbreak of h with the Filipinos. Under the d as lems of loosely kn: merit. suggestions we must deeper. insight and pr than Mr. Shoem be regretted that he gave up for gossiping trave New York.) “A First tion of \ of Califo nary to a la to be entitled Keeler has fol up the variou State In a c details a tion or such watce! Brief this feeling possess literary beauty. How naked What home’ could be imagined more dreary for a baby bird, yet here where the breakers are pounding and the keen wind ceaselessly blowing, in some cranny of the rocks, the tufted puffin lays rolitary egg and rears her lonely chick.’ Vherever Mr. Keeler himself to the conveying of sucl slons as the shary observer might taiter} ¥ cate instruction fs really scler grief. The t impossible. T mere tediol the wings the “F ed. They supposed to letter and a membe brother Pollock, Maitland sor of they ne: dissertat with a ligl matters, Lo vson, the axon and Wagner, the upsetti by a dog, and old book is_clever through or mechamcal wit Vi clsm could a lady give to book of erotic poems t your mind at res to me that you have no prejudice sin, and youl may as well let t drop.” 8 absent n: “[The t thought we ge against Sir Richarc cat of my heart 1 neari to be outdone in dutiful ‘When I think of Sir Richar voluntarfly.'” One of a d proverbs i8 worth quoting of our gear are three score anc though there be some So strong ride four score, vet {s the labor and sorrow they fetch their w These lette w devoted patriotism r knowledge, their sense of unifon, their sanity, may well bal other views wh sented to us, s dry on their read ing right and left r F few choice passages of Hindi out a translation. 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