The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-11-30

His "Mrs .Poixada'' has also been success
and Mr.. Harland is fully within a strong
literary career. He has so far dwelt upon
the Jewish life of New York. but is branch
ing out into other themes. He is the
youngest of the American colony of
writers, being less than 3d. believe.
Moncuree d. Conway still divides his
time between writing and preaching. His
latest effert in the literary line is Life
of Hawthorne'' which has been well
spoken OF. 1t is not so many years ago
since remember Mr.. Conway as news
paper writer, but he seems to have dropped
out of journalism and to have gone into
what may be called the contented sphere
of writing. He is another example of the
well known fact that as soon as a man
gets to writing books or essays, he dislikes
journalistic work. That is because the
last is eXacting, and the first easy. In
weaving stories, one can put off until to-
morrow, what ought to be done to day
Newspaper work has its eXactions every
hour.
The Virginia writer, Thomas Nelson
Page, was discovered along Pail Mall at
tending to little business, and gathering
some material for future use. MIR. Page
does not get away from his home in the
Old Dominion very often, even to reach
New York, and a trip to London is I'M
usual. That is why he enjoyed himself,
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| here of whom he had so often read, and
many of whom had read of him. In fact,
this mutual recognition of each others
work. is one of the charms either to a
journalist, or man of letters. We are all
Of US more or less vain, and to be recog-
nized as having done something that is re-
membered, is great comfort
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett was here
| a part of the summer, but went to the con-
tinent with her dying boy. She is doing
nothing whatever in literary way, her
home SORROWS destroying all her abilities
to use her pen.
Louise Imogene Quincy is new Amer
lean poetess who has been seeing consider
able of London life this summer. She is
here, like tina rest of them, to get new sub
jects for lyrics.
A. Oakley Hall, who used to be mayor of
New York in the old Tweed days, can be
seen along the Strand almost every day,
still looking we'll and hearty. He has a
quiet home and seems to be very well con-
tented with life, declaring that man can
buy great deal in England for what he
earns, and does not seem to want as much
as in the United States.
There are other American writers doing
more or less work of different kinds among
whom l recall Blanche Roosevelt, who was
: once stage struck, tried to make a success
as an opera singer, and then wrote popu
lar book called ''Stage Struck" to illustrate
the disappointments and curiosities of the
boards. She is married now, but is doing
, more or less literary work for amusement
or pin money, doubtless the latter as she
married q baron with a queer title
} 1t is becoming really a popular custom
with busy men with the pen to run over
: here, gather lot of material and then GO
: home and write, but ii is fact that M
) American writer who has come here anc
} stayed any length of time ever want so re-
, turn Their testimony is that living is 81
cheap and all the requisites of literary
J life so numerous that it is easy to stay
here and be contented.
FRANK A. BURR