OCR Text |
Show Nome t'te.'ul Information. Chicago Herald. Considerable fun is being poked at Kider Haggard on account of his contemplated con-templated journey to Mexico in search , of materials for a new romance. 2So 1 one doubts the virility or luxuriance of i his imagination, but there are those who speak slightingly of his attainments attain-ments as a scholar. As old Thomas Tusser says, "Times go by turns." Kipling is having his boom now. and it's quite the fashion to ridicule Haggard. Hag-gard. But those squib-loaded gentlemen, gentle-men, the critics, go loo far. Haggard's 6tories are, a he intends them to be, wildly improbable, but there is considerable consid-erable useful historical, geographical and mythological information interwoven inter-woven in any one of them. If he. writes a story of Mexico it will be well worth reading. |