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

not care for his novels, according as
ones literary. preference runs in this
| direction or in that, but one must al
ways think well of the man.
1t is curious, and also amusing. the
abundance and kind of criticism an au-
thor provokes when he undertakes to
present, either in a recital of personal
experiences or in the form Of fiction, an
unusual side of real life Naturally, the
people who read such writing with
most intensity are those who have had
share in the particular kind of life
portrayed, and to these the least mac
curacy or the smallest omisson is aot
to be mortal offense. Many OF them
cannot rest until they have written a
letter to the author, or his publisher,
showing him up in all of his charla-
tanry.
For instance, a very stormy letter was
written not long since to Mr.. Herbert
Hamblen, author of that thrilling book
Of railroad experiences, The General
Managers Story" Indicating to him a
large assortment of small facts that
proved conclusiVely that he knew moth
ing of railroads and railroad life To
man who has himself set brakes and
fired and run locomotives, as Hamblen
mas, this was something of a revelation,
but he could not eScape-there were the
facts He had. called some road by an
other name than that by which, accord
ing to the writer of the letter, all Eenu-
inc railroad men VIGOROUSLY called it;
he had run an engine in conflict with
some rule or custom which any cub
could have told him, the letter writer
affirmed, made the running Of an en-
CINE in that fashion clearly impossible
Another author, who recently pub
liShed q story that had to do with a
whaling voyage, had a similar expert
ence. The publication of the story led
to his being looked up by an old friend,
whom he had not seen for a long time,
and his friend said to him, in an Off
hand, matter-of-course way: THAT was
first-rate story you wrote; 1 read it,
and l liked it. But say, you never were
on a whaler. were you; no. that's
cleari"
AS the author had made quite a cruise
on a whaler, the answer that first came
TO his lips was not a cold one. He de-
I led himself however, and simply said,
80, yes-yos, 1 have BEEN
mo, no." returned his friend obsti-
nately; 1T couldn't be, you know. You
speak of 'What-you-may-c call (my
own bad memory in mechanics forces
me to a makeshift here; the name ac-
tually employed, and the object it was
applied to, 1 must confess L quite for
never known as a What-you-may-call.
but always as a whats-its-name'
After the publication of Captains
Mr.. Kipling and his pub
fishers were favored with considerable
enlightening them on
any number of minor points in the Ian
guage and life of the Gloucester fisher
mehs and even generous proposals were
made to write articles or books por-
"a G1nIrnnETav-
really are.
1 suppose there will be quite a stir
DOW among the people who hunger for
Italy in their novels They had a rare
least. three or four years ago. in ''Es- /
her Waters" And have you read 'Es- |
her Waters? p" they demanded, eager |
Y, when they met. And what did you !
-hink of it? 1t is very strong don't you !
hink? Strong-and originate" The |
author of Esther Waters" Mr.. George /
Moore, has prepared a new banquet in !
Evelyn Innes," a novel that is to be |
published within a few days. As the |
scene of it is laid in Paris and London,
where there is no end of opportunity for
passion and psychology and ethics, it /
an scarcely fail to prove to Mr..
doore's admirers just the sort of thing
hey like. Though Mr.. Moore has still /
the regard of a new man
mong US, il was full 20 years ago that
lie published his first book. But he has
lot been one of the book-a-year men,
nd his list is still comparatively short
Esther Waters published in 1894 was
lis first to attract general attention in
his country.
Mrs. Ella Higginson, who lives in
yhat seems to us here the farthest cor
er of the country, namely, at New
Vhatcom, in the state of Washington
though, no doubt, to her and her
eighbors, it is we who seem to inhabit
hat corner), is preparing a volume of
er poems for the press. Her two vol
mes of short stories, published within
ne last two years, have had very fair
uccess; and there is reason to believe
lso, for the best of them show the
anne same reality of sentiment and
Gene and the same SureneSS of eXecu-
on that mark the best of her stories.
Irs. Higginson had no easier work Sc
uring her recognition than most other
riters have had. Her stories, written
luch better than the stories of novices
sually are and disclosing always a GER
lin genuineness in their conception ]
nd execution, went around from editor
} editor, only to find publication in
lther obscure places, or to be returned | s
last. for good and all. Yet any edi-
II who read them must have felt, even p,
hen he passed them on, that they
ere not the ordinary volunteered
Dry BY slow degrees one and anoth- '
stayed where it was first sent; and {
tie by little Mrs. Higginson found {
erself growing into an assured posi-
On. One of her most profitable con-
tests, at the time, was the winning [
the first "a $500 prize, about five
.ars ago, in a prize-story contest The
emium story was one of her very @
st; it was widely noticed, and it must I
I've done more than any other piece
e has published to make her name
lown. E.. c. MARTIN. h
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