The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-19


have made costly arrangements, in hot
haste, by cable and telegraph, for rep
resentation by artists and writers al
all possible points of conflict in the war
Latterly the newspapers, with their
special Saturday and Sunday flea
lures" have seemed to be tramping
rather ruthlessly into the immemorial
province of the editors Of magazines
and the publishers of books; but in the
matter of the war, the latter are rath-
er calling the turn on the newspaper
editors
There is scarcely a well-known CORE
Spondent or artist at the front who is
not, in way, representing either a
magazine or a publishing house as well
as a newspaper; and already monthly
magazines have published articles de-
ScriptiVe of the current movements and
engagements, and publishers have be-
gun to announce books on various
phases of the war. I know of one in
stance in which all of the arrangements
for text and pictures for a consider
able book were made by cable to Hong
kong, at a rate of perhaps SLIGO a word.
1t was for a book on the campaign
against the Philippines: and the value
of concluding a contract at the earliest
moment possible, even at unusual cost
lay in the fact that the man who is to
write it is the only correspondent, and
the man who is to illustrate it is the
only artist on board Admiral Deweys
feet.
Never before has there been a war
in which pictures have cut so impor
tant a figure as they will in this To
meet the standards and requirements
of the times, war books no less than
war dispatches, must be illustrated;
and they must be Illustrated from life
1C fHair Of h 60 ,;.,lIx
that has put publishers on their metal
and set them running a race with each
other the equal in pace of the news
paper editors. For accounts of the
events by eye-witnesses there might
safely be a curtain trusting to fortune,
for the eye-Witnesses are bound to be
many, and to find one who could tell
fairly good story, though he had not
been specially delegated to that bust
ness, would not be so rash a chance
that many a publisher might not take
1t. But for the original Illustrations
the arrangement must be made now or,
in all likelihood, never Returned sail
ors and soldiers, a few months hence
VIII supply stories in abundance;
but not, in any great numbers, photo
graphs and life drawings
Mrs. Custer is expected home this
month from a sojourn she has been
the fact that she has gotten to Egypt
has special significance. Since the
tragic death of her husband, General
Custer, now % years ago, threw upon
her own resources, she has been with
her writing and her lecturing. a re-
markedly hard working woman Her
industry has been fairly well rewarded (
She has been able to maintain here in
New York a comfortable and attractive
nome, which has been an assembling
point for literary and artistic people:
and now and then she has secured holt
day enough to enable her to pay brief
visit to Europe But through all the
years she has been too busy to accom-
pllsh the one journey on which she pro-
1eSsed to have particularly set her
heart-a journey to Egypt. Next year
l think l can manage it." she would
say, and she continued to say so. wear
by year, until finally, half sympatheti-
cally, half scoutingly. her friends grew
TO dating TO and from the time when
Mrs Custer should go to Egypt SO to
them, scarcely less than to Mrs Custer
herself, the final accomplishment of
TINS long-creamed-of expedition is an
event.
From keeping her home in an apart
ment in the heart Of the city. Mrs. Gus
ter changed year or two ago to the
suburb of Lawrence Park This is a
pretty village, some Is miles north of
the city. where all the residents own /
their houses, and a few special restric- (
tons prevail to keep up the tone and (
desirability of the place Among her /
fellow townsmen here are Mr.. VIII H. /
Low, the artist, and Mr.. Edmund Clar- /
ence Stedman, the poet. But her pres
ent return home is not to be for long.
She is going to England, 1 understand /
to spend the summer.
The iTonrascfo,, r7,.o--,s1-- H..
thCrs and especially for American au-
tnors, royalties on books are mainly a
dream and an inspiration. If an author
gets his book published without cost to
himself the current belief is that he
has done all that he could reasonably
expect TO do. And this a quite just be-
LEI, so far as uneStabliShed authors
are concerned. But the royalties ac-
count has grown to be a very important
item in the publishing business. and
publishers are forced, in planning their
ventures and shaping their affairs. to
give 1t much consideration Take Eu
gene Fields books, for example: most
people would say, probably that. while
those books might have made a fair
profit for the publishers. they could not
have yielded much to Mr. Field Yet :
L understand that the royalty must :
by now have rounded out into quite a
handsome sum- In quite a short period.
[ am told, the new edition of Henry 7
Georges works. Of which as vet only i
three or four volumes are issued. has
yielded his family $1,000 in royalties :
There are number of authors whose {
books. taken year by year. are as good ,
as the DrOverbial wheat in the mill.
The humanitarian impulse which has !
prompted most of Mr.. w D. HowelIs' {
ater essays, and which shows SO strong l
IN a number of his novels does NOT ev
pend Itself with him in merely literary 7
endeavor. He makes frequent excur-
sionS into the east side to visit the
schools and social clubs and various es- q
maintained for the relief S
and improvement of the poor people t
Who live packed almost 10 suffOcation in [
hat quarter and gives them his en- q
enlargement. and sometimes takes part Q
n their special exercises and entertain c
nents. For example, he is not an in
reGuent visitor at the university and d
ollege settlements, and has become I
-ery well known TO the boys and girls ]
Who constitute the membership of those i:
ocieties. With some of them he has {
ven established a rather close personal S
and has given them on oc- b
asions special advice and aid, and now il
nd then he is one of the readers or f
peakers at the weekly, or fortnightly
of the Social Reform t
Tub. In short, he proves his sympathy
nth the impoverished and suffering
art Of humanity by his acts no less
han by his words. And for a man T
hose social as we'll as literary engage q
tents are many, and one whose words e
re so widely read and so influential n
hat be might very well discharge his Il
Dpscience by holding that they were d
re full equivalent of deeds, / must say
lat / think this very handsome and