Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-11-22

or, at twcnty-six he became editor o.
| the Albany Evening Journal, ~ wen
ty-eight. he was eng-ged by IN. NV
/ York Times. aud sent to LONDON ~
correspondcnt FOR that newspaper
| since igsl. then. his career has beer
| pubtte property. and we nrc now I,i'
| sadIv wondering at the position ~,
/ created for himself during IN.
fourteen years u his ne, and az w
amount II serious work that ne h"u ~
| compushcd before he di.I' A.. ,,,r
/ al, ht' Erryah NE. that We mr." siN
Ne t1mr on IIAs1l1 Frederic TO- PRINT
+. "a sirnsd go a short article 10 tne
pail Mall GaEcttc. wri!en ~ w
,,.,,,t-,r ir for..nu" and devoted go
an ,r,5urt w the condition uf literary
sffairs IN che United stlifs. we Wen -
mcn,bcr asking ourselves VINO ans M
could be-. whose name was whoiy W.
familiar vet who wrote 'ai.h 80 ilucn
s.'iie,rce and lntciiigcrc grasp Of MS
suhiaff. 10 WIS fui ural some thl ~
yenfs iaiar shat the ramc nrtn al-
irtrfad cor attention. whon q vas %
t4rha1 o. uliry f'fiklrNlN tiit
al,h,f ur9fhrr'e We. which began o.
eps' .r alfiiiv in ln1 of The magizin .a.
From this time rh.eh amounts i'
etying or the Pot ten year .he
nam has htca wei known so aN Am'f I.
loan rfrdUrs. ir1 has come 60 ta-l
Tor re1i literary work clutel niiou. y
prrf mod IN whatever neh " ACTIVITY
H. uvflr mlghi ch $50 90 cnslFr.
A. c1rrtfpouIerf. Al FrelerrH
work has become very widely known
indeed during recent yc1rf. TVS Lone
don itttfs. printed In number W 9ur
ffT.flrr rOwHrlrc have h.Uu the
mpai decreasing % thor Kind, fun Y
energy ari Meas. brngar trained
mird go bear UPON currlni qu.su 'la
% politics. sOclfy and ART and en-
b0dylng nH much 10 style us could rnA-
sirlb'y be- expewrl " a writer who
usei che Atianuc cahe fr hls inH,ru-
mrrr. Moreover. O1 ni ltaN Two uCrl-
sieHs. Mr. Frederic wa not coniarc
vfh rr1vidind f1r bic An ficfn public
.ha news supplied o. his hard In Lon
don. bus oct Hu o. cfdlln news ~ bis
own by q feo irv .siir1ilur. II was iu
iN,l al thc ouHat " hls career a. q
Newspaper cOfrtap1r1fgf. thai ne mad
a pufflnll iaFrt .finr % the chulrrt-.
ard ii1iy. Hc visited Marseiilcs and
Tuulon in lhc days when N rlpulsci1n
~ thlsc citles Vas panic-E.ricken. and
HE lct0ra upon the subject wore an
mncgil-f confederation 60 our kn0wi-
edge " she epidemic NJ time when 70
WE feared ehat even uur own courrry
was thfcatcroi WIKI invasion by the
dreaded plague. The second ~ the oc.
ctalons referred b WIS IN 1891. 'ghen
the reCudsccncc of Jcw.baNlng 10
Russia was made she subject n a per-
f0u1i invCrlTlilor by Mr. Frederic. fh-
result " hla observations being pub.
llshCd the f1lhwing year In graphic
ana Impressive work entitled. Tho
New ENodusi A study - Israel IN
nusr'l.
This work and the Newspaper cor.
respnnicncc which h. carried on for
fourteen years. gave Mr.. Frederick con.
siderable prominence ~ student 81
public affairs. and HE firm grasp OF DO.
ii,ical problems made him somowhat 81
an authority upon contemporary his.
tory. MI this work. however. IL 0f a
sort soon 20 be Inevitably forgotten be
cause essentially enhemorai nus Mr..
Mr. frrdcrlrk'a fiction II not enhcmoral.
and has won Tor him high place
among American nnvollsis Numerous
volumes " that fiction have already
been published. and moro will make the
llsi complete. Ten volumes In ten years
u not q bad record. whom we consider
that their author was by vocation a
Journal IT,
TIN ten volumes are these; seth's
Brothers Wlfe. 1857: Tho Lawton Glfl.
1890. In the Valley. 1880. The Return III
the o'Mahoncy. is12: The Coppofhrad
lslt; Mntsona, and other stories % thr
War, 1896. The Damnail0n 81 Theron
Ware, 1896; March iiarrs. 1885. Gloria
Mundl. iNf,; ana The Market Place
promised FOR publication ncxt year.
The bamnnil1n ~ Theron Ware. b,
common consent SIT. Frcdrricka sue,
crsfful novel, has Tor ~ theme tn,
warfare waFei ny two religious IDEAL
IN the battlefield o. mans soul: hui
even this p0werfuhsNark IL az the sam,
flmet richly uhrcryant study OF pro,
vincial American society. Mr. Ffeder,
lex aimed 90 produce a great ana typlca
picture ~ American llfr. ANA mn un
crring lnstlnc. taught him that aucl
a picture must be concerned with tn
life Of a small community rather thai
with the more attractive hut also NOR
sophisticated civilization of the grea
ckieH II ~ the small community thu
the mnlnHprlng's Of the nation
strength are 20 be- frlt most distinctly
and the dement's OF ~ weakness mos
clearly dlsc0fncd; 10 IL here that IA
fundamental Ideals are most naiycly Of
fcfrd 90 fht View.
Gloria Mundi has just been Issued {
book form; having finished IT, aerla
course ln shc Cosmopolitan. ~ had oC
/ cupied Mr.. FrcdtriclH attention Almo,
/ an the last moment ~ his ne, and, q
/ his one serious treatment Of English No
| u u likely % command widespread al
! tenll0n.