- -0~ i - '&e r~ j n L.h kfI U ORn3 A. mu' , I A cn~r « YAR of nerve-shattering peril and expo* Kipling a edrops While Shakespeare Hence the magic. That a wizard sh t~es*w S,2|~tephlf~s.W*quor.x* L f control such an Island was demande the beliefs of the seafarer of that dat Plies Stephano W th Liquor Accept this theory and you will celve that " The Tempest" came to the n ager sanely and normlly i the cour to Get Iis Story his daily life. He may have been ca about for a new play; he miy have NE of the numerous Shakespeare tha n the hatter f a half-tipy or posed to vamp an old one-say "Au controversies lvolves the origin at a thatre Thus: ' ' ' and Isabella "; or he may have been me walting on his demon. But It is all ofO"The Tms." Wa. :hak-. P A stage manager who writes and vamps per's wealthi anst aliban's pig se fmiliar th the circum- plays, mong his audience, over that to him in a receptve hour, sen stances of the memorable wreck of Ad- hea a mariner diso to his neigh- Heaven, entered the orikinal Stepi mirpl Sir Geoge omers and his party or o a grievou wreck, and of the be- freh from the seas and half-sea ove. hn Stephano tells his tale, all In of Virgini ol onistaon the Bermuda bhvlor of the passgers, for whom all sailors have ever entertained a naural pie, a two hours' dscourse of most gO Islandi'-" the stllH vexed Betrmoothes "- contempt. Ee describes, with the wealth ous absurdlte pro ate abund in 1109, and was he acquainted with the of detail peculi to sai , mea of detail at' the beinning, when he stirrng accounts of that er written by taketo cw the ship off a lee sho, how more or less-sober, supplied and cu William Strachy and 81ivanus Jordan, both helm and sals weew orked, what the pa.- established the earth-bsis of the plai seer'did, accordance with the great law that a s members of the Sea Venture' company? and what h said. On puget phras to be e re ndlatereInto "What I to be truly miraculous must be balla And had he heard the tale of Carter, care these brawlere for the name of the with facts. His maunderings of Waters,and Chard, the three adventurers King-" strikes the naer's ear, and and incomprehensible ambushes when o elected to remain on the Isla de he standbe hind the talkers. was without resrvaon drunk (and is just the time when a lesser-minded I Denonos, assu s mariners called Prhaps ntyy one-tth of the earnetly delivered handon-shoulder sea talk was than Shakespeare would have paid B ua and uphold Brh sovereignty, actually used o all that waa automtically reckonng and turned him out) suge until setler could be sent out from Eng- and tncon .ouslysr by the Inand a to the manager the peculiar note c land? who I new* nland and craft. Now supernatural mechanism. Truly it was a dream, but that tl Washington Irlvng in "The Three King Is It tooifnciul to Imagne a balfturn to the econd listener as the marie, banning may be doubt of ts source or of his a o Bermuda and Their Treasure of Am- his luck, ai maine will, says there are gation Shakespeare ha also made bergr" sees Carter, Waters, and Chard those who will not give a dolt to a poor dreamer Immortal. typifid In Seb n Trinculo, and their' man while they will lay out ten to see a I am. Sir, &c., RUDYARD KIPIIN.- thy ompanon Caliban, and surmises raree-show-a dead Indian? Were he In foreign parts, ax now he. Is In England. he that the wreck of Sir eorge's ship Sea could show people something in the way of Venture and subsequent events on the strange fish. I t to consider too curiously lonely islad may have furnished Shake- to see a drink ensue on this hint (the man- ager dealtt ut little n b pere wit some of the play with the elements of his sea at fst hand and his Instinct for new dram. A Rudyard Kipling, who knows words wuld have ben wke by what he Bermuda alost well a he knows many h alreay caught) ad with tbe drink a I other parts at' the British Empire, has ilor's minute d ipion o hrow he ent written )n characterIstIc style that Sbake' acro through the trsttthe snd of ~ceu eI IO.d this caa r In rather, for there 4nIl J MiZA~ 4 k 'J spearewove his material from nothng more were many? Some ou could almot carry promising than the chatter of a half-tipsy away in our pocket They were sown 'ov ct@ n ci4,r PiPvkftt. 6y osh Wle"Jht* sailor at a theatre; broadcast like-like nutshells onthe stage The mn, Kpling's opinion, almost forgotten among there. " Mny Ilands in truth." ss the refeshed with more drink. There I no other cave for some two mile* price were probably described as tools. He manager, patiently, and afterward hi Se- then d . geoahy of the lnd- "Here's neither bush nor shrub," one is e was the oly or mao n n the company. his writin, is found an a letter to the bastian sys to his :Antoio: I think he ingw plae-the spot where Trnculoe mak posed to the wrath of " yond' same bla So0 they went inla, farin badly as they editor of The Lndon Spectator published will carry n d home In. s pocket and his first appearance. e nsists and re- cloud," and here the current strand wreck- staggered up and down thi petilet coun- on July 2, 188. He rote give It to his on or an apple." To which Inslts on detal which to him at one time age. It was so well done that af two try, They were pricked with palmettos, Antonio answers: "And sowing the ker- ant ie or death, and the ma er fol hundred year a stray tripper, and no iaz the cedar branches sped their faes nels of t In the sa bring. forth more lows attentively. He cn give his ,adi- Shakespere scholar, recog d n a fah Then they found and stole some of their Ruya Kiplng'a Letter ence no more than a few hanings and a that old first set of all. oftcers' clothes which were hanging up to To the Sdtor of The Spetator: "But wht was the land like?" says the placard for scenery, but that his lines shall So far good. Up to this point the ma- dry. But presently they fell into a swamp, manager. The sailor tr to explain. "It lift them beyond that bare show to the ager has gained little except some uggew- and, what as worse, into the hands of iIR: Your article on "andscape and w was green, with yellow In It; a. tawny col- place he would have them, the manager tlons for his opening scene, and some nq- their offrs; and the great exediton iterature " n The Spectator of June ored country "-the color, that Is to say, of needs for himself the clearest possibleMu- ion of an uncanny island. The mariner ended in muck and mire. 18 has the following, among other the coral beached, cedar-coverd Bermuda sadg-the mot ample detail- e (one cannot believe that Shak ea wa Truly an sland bewitched. Else why sugge stiv -"But whence came of today-"and the air made one sleepy, must see the scene in the round-solid- meanIn .he theelittle thIns) Is dio to their cramp and sickness? Sack never and the place was full of noises "-the mut- he peoples it Much, doubtless, he dscarded, a deeper drunkenness. Suddenly h made a man more than reasonably drunk. the vision of the ench a nd ' The tering and the roaring of the sea among but so closely did he keep to his original launches Int a epo rus tale of him, He was prepared for urlimited acek: but Tempest'? It hd no existenc In Shale- the lands and, between the reef-" and Informations thatthoe wh go tot a self and h ellos flung ashore, sep what befell his stomach and head was the speare's world, tut was woven out of such there was a sou'west wind that blistered certain beach some two miles from Ham- o their .offcers, horribly afraid o the purest magic that honest man ever met. stff a dream are made of" one all over," The Ellsabethan mariner ilton will find the stage set for Act II., devil-haunted beach of noses, with their A drunken sailor of today, wandering would not dsltingish finely between blis- Scene 2. of lThe Tempest "-a bare beach, heads full of the fumes of broached liquor. about Bermuda, would probably sympathise May I take Mlone's sugetlon connect- ters and prickly heat, but the Bermudlan withthheo wind singig through the scrub One castaway was found hiding under the with him; and today, as then, if one takes ing the play ith the casting away of Sir of today 'ill tell that the sou'west, or at the and' dge, a gap in the reefs wide ribs of a dead whale, which smelt abom- the easlest Inland road from Trtnculo' George omers on the sland of Bermuda Lighthouse, wind in Summer bring that enough for the passage of Stephan's butt inably.