Show A BACKWARD GLANCE Some of the Celebrities That Have Arisen In Fifteen Years New York Telegraph Fifteen years ago There are many people who are now prominent whose names are on many tongues in mary land and were then unheard of outside out-side of their own little circles Rudy rd Kipling for instance was in the early 80s an assistant editor on the Indian Pioneer His pay was then man less rupees per month than he now tarns dollars In a single day In his spare moments he was writing his Department t Depart-ment Ditties Some day he hoped and this thought was the height of ale am bition at that time to induce the world to read them in book form In the time that has elapsed since then he has made many thousands of dollars is midway in a remarkable career and has created 1 I a lasts fame that will live while the world I About the same time Rider Haggard had written one book Cetewayo and His White Neighbors and was uttuny discouraged I had been published at a loss of 230 He was then on il1e I I verge of publishing another novel Dawn which never attained any great fame and which netted him just GO the result of a years hard work worI Today everybody is talking of Lord Curzon the present viceroy of India In 1884 he was reading for his bachelor of arts degree at Oxford and was looking look-ing forward to an apprenticeship in politics pol-itics He began the following year in the humble position of assistant scare tary to Lord Salisbury The fifteen years that have elapsed have placed him In a position second to none in a wide sphere of action and power A decade and a half ago Conan Doyle was laboriously working up a medical practice at Southsea England Beseemed Be-seemed destined to live and die a country coun-try doctor His pen was as yet untried and that he had within him the novelistic novel-istic spirit which has gained him dollars dol-lars and fame was unthought of Not unti ISIS did he try his hand at writing writ-ing The reading public who have enjoyed en-joyed his Sherlock Holmes and other stories know with what success h2 met so do his bankers Ian MacLaren won popularity fifteen fif-teen years ago as minister of the Sof ton Park church In Liverpool EngJanil But for a dozen years after that ha pen was engaged 4n transcribing his thoughts into sermons before It turned to the beauty and pathos of the Bonny Brier Bush As a writer and as a minister min-ister he now has a reputation which is worldwide Anthony Hope was a scholar at J1ai liol fifteen years ago and his only ambition am-bition then was t follow in the footsteps foot-steps of his uncle Sir Henry Hawkins Not until 1890 did he begli to write and find out for himself as well as how others that he had ability in quite another an-other direction Mmc Sarah Grand was rambling allover over the world with her soldlerdictor husband fifteen years ago and only vaguely mapping out a novel whch the world now knows a Ideala Faraway Far-away In the solitude of the African veldt at the same time was Olive Schreiner dreaming dreams The Story of an African Farm with Its weirdness and its philospphy and its religion was gradually asserting itself In her brain Mrs Humphry Ward was busy with domestic cares fifteen years ago too busy to recognize the genius that was working within her Nobody knew Hall Caine fifteen years ago but now everybody knows of him and it is a certainty that before he dies unless the end comes quickly he will earn his weight in gold After spending spend-ing a number of years In Liverpool a Journalist of no very marked ability and working for a stipend rather than for a salary he went to London and became Dante Rossettis prIvate secretary secre-tary There he found scope aril inspiration in-spiration for the gifts that were In him Change of environment appeared to work a miracle for in 18S5 nis story The Shadow of a Crime Introducoil a new aspirant to world of readers |