The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-03
that he will not be allowed to grow
lonesome out there.

No one, I am sure, will begrudge Mr..
! George W. Gable the success he is hav-
ing with his readings in England. 1t
| seems to be success without reser-
vations; wherever he appears he is met
| by a good audience, and one that seems
always to relish what he has to offer.
| fancy that Mr.. Cable was in mood to
| find such cordial reception especially
gratifying, for at home, of late, l think,
| it has been with hime one of those de-
pressed periods which all successful
authors encounter now and then, when,
after being much read and much talked
about, they drop, in a measure, out of
sight, and have almost to make their
careers over again. Mr.. Cables readings
must have lost their edge here at home
some years ago; his last novel was no
great success; he became editor of Cur
rent Literature, and soon retired with
out having added any manifest new
laurel to his crown; and so, on the
whole, the game seemed to be rather
running against him. His visit to
England, likely enough, will work
complete turn in his fortune. He will
come home quickened by the new ex-
perience, and with his name freshened
in the public memory, he will produce
novel that the public will like as well
as any of his earlier ones; and he will
figure again at the authors readings
and in all the literary announcements
and letters; and the story will be re-
told of how he once FURNISHED his trou-
SerS on counting house STOOL and he
will be the George w. Gable of yore.
The writer's of personal paragraphs
for the literary journals of London are
having not a little distress in locating
the Cosmopolitan university, wherein
their clever fellow countryman Mr.
EiHhnr6 T a q hnc 1of oil
cepted the chair of English literature.
This is not exactly to be wondered at.
of course, since the Cosmopolitan uni
verSity lies mainly within the band of
Mr.. John Brisbin Walkers hat 1t is a
goCd-siZed hat, to be sure, but it con-
tains a world of things besides the Cos
mopolitan university, and as it has
never yet got into the Biographies,
even in its bare contour much less in
the detail of its many points of inter
est" there could scarcely be anything
but gross ignorance regarding it in
London.
Mr.. Clinton Ross is engaged in writ
ing play under an arrangement with
Mr.. Frohman. OF course, the venture of
a story writer into play writing is al
ways one in which the chances are
largely on the side of failure, but in the
case of Mr.. Ross one inclines to look for
success. He has always had the dra-
matte quality. His stories abound.
rather exceptionally, in dialogue and
action, and, indeed. they have seemed
sometimes to rather suffer from too
little of plain, direct, coherent narra-
tive, having, in reading, something of
the mere outline, unsatisfactory char
acter that plays are apt to have. So
it may happen that he will prove ex-
actly the man to write for the stage.
Charles Dana Gibson's book of Egyp-
tan sketches is now in the ergraVer's
hands, making ready for the press. 1
have had the pleasure of looking
through 1t; and / think it will be pro-
nounced about the most spirited and
sympathetic work that Mr.. Gibson has
yet done. He spent a good part of last