The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08


a while in the navy; but before he wa
in either, he was a telegraph operator
serving in the best offices in the coun
i,try, having all those interesting adven
4 lures which anybody can see that tele
graph operators must have. but which
! are, as a rule, unable to ten you mucl
about. Lieutenant Brady can tell, an
/ I have lately read some papers of hi:
accepted for publication in a leadini
magazine, that are the most interestin:
things. and, indeed. about the only
things of their kind that l have eve
/ seen. The life of IT, train <isDatchers
I with it's unbroken intensity and it
hourly liability to tremendous disaster
i is exhibited in the most vivid and dra-
4 matte way. He has some good stor:e!
I of army and military life coming for
+ ward also.
Lieutenant Brady is in some sort E
Kansas man, and adds his share to the
most fruitful section in the item of au-
/ thors. He was born in Pittsburg, in
1867 but removed to Kansas in 1870, and
! there was reared and educated. He
! learned biography when he was only
II years old, and served as a tele-
grapher on various important railroads
in the west and southwest. He entered
the navy DIS d private IN the marine
corps, in 1887, and changed to the army
as a private in infantry, in 1890. He was
promoted to the rank of lieutenant the
next year. He has served in Kansas,
Indian Territory, Texas and Michigan
and assisted in putting down the Chi
cago riots in 1894. So it is evident that
when he takes up his pen, he does not
have to pillow his hair and pluck his
beard to find something to write about.
6ar.n tar.xy
impulse toward the pen, for his brother
is the venerable c. T. Brady, archbishop
of Connecticut, and author of For
Love of Country"
Palmer Cox has planned a new
Brownie excursion. He goes to Europe
about the first of June, taking Gin i'm
agination, Of course) the whole Brownie
troupe with him, and they will make
the tour of England, France, Germany
and other countries together. That
they'll have rare adventures, no one
who knows the company can doubt and
we shall ali want to read Mr.. Cox S
official record of the tour. This, l I'M
derstand is to begin serial publication
with the usual wealth of Brownie
pictures, of cOurse-about the first of
August, and ultimately it will appear
in a book.
Under the present count California is
probably the largest contributor to the
literary and artistic ranks among the
trans Mississippi states. Not to men
ton Bret Marie and Mark Twain, both
OF whom California can very plausibly
claim, it provides, for example, Ger
trude Anterior, to whose American
Wives and English Husbands the
English reviews are at the present mo-
ment according their largest space; and
within a few years past, it has released
to New York a number of very distinct
and individual impression. Among
these none is better worth being on
the lookout for in the coming book list
than Mr.. Frank Norris, although he is
about the latest to arrive from the Col
den Gate. He is scarcely 80 years old,
and the distinction of his work is still
largely in its promise; but that prom
Use all who are acquainted with the
work regard as extremely high. Before
coming east he published a novel,
Moran, in the Wave, on which paper
he for a time held an editorial posi-
ton; and he has written at least two
others, which will probably soon be
published here. He has also published
a number of short stories.
Mr. Norris was born in Chicago and
removed to California in 1889. He grad
uated from the California state univer-
sity and took a finishing course at
Harvard. Then he went to South At
RIGA as the correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle, and while there
he I'd his personal share in the Jane
son raid. He enlisted in what was
known as the provisional police or home
guard at JohanneSburg-an organiZa-
ton sympathizing with the Jameson
in consequence of this
alliance he was warned and compelled,
along with others, to get out of the
place and country within "a hours. He
had at one time had the thought of
making art his calling, and studied
TO that end several years in
Paris. He shows somewhat of the
French influence in his writing. He
likes Flaubert and lola, and, while he
has no disposition to 'naturalism'' and
what the term implies. he has a de-
cided. disposition to realism and rather
likes the psyshologic aspect of things. !
But he is far from disdaining incident; /
indeed, what he likes to exhibit is real |
human nature, but manifesting itself in /
ways and with extraordinary
potency. One day, when he was con- |
veying to me something like this, in |
passing word of talk about himself, 1 |
asked him if he was under the Kipling
any. With a kind of humor-
)us glow in his dark, fine eyes, he said: |
%, 1 suppose 1 had my time of that,
ike most of the others. But it's quite
)ver now"
Norris was in California in the spir-
ted days of THE Lark'-that infant
prodigy of a journal that got itself
Known and remarked from ocean to
ocean, although its whole term of life 4
vas less than two years; and had, 1
hink. a hand in it. At any rate, he T
vas intimate, and still is, with the
ounder, Gelett Burgess. Burgess was
)orn in Boston, and graduated at the
Boston school of Technology. About
S94 he went to California to become
instructor in scientific map drawing in
he University of California, and it was
It the university that the friendship
between him and Norris began The
ark, l have been told, was the out
ome of a conversation that occurred
me night at an Italian restaurant in
ian Francisco between Burgess and
Bruce Porter, a stained-glass designer
low in Italy. Porter became one of the
contributors. But The Lark
vas too lively to live long; and giving
in scientific map drawing
ould not long content a man of Bur-
ess' imagination. Last year he came
ack to Boston. is now living in New
Iork and is going soon to London.
nce ''ViVette." that. book of CAV fan
astic Memoirs of the Romance Asso-
iatioh." came out, few months ago,
fr. Burgess does not have to solicit for
ttention from editors. He has matter
ccepted for early publication in Har- I
er's, the Century. and. perhaps, other ,
Magazines. He is at present engaged
n a series of stories for the Century
} which he has given the battling title
Coup Babies"
M c. MARTIN.
b,
A Sad Case. {
New York Press: Mixer-It's queer
hat marriage will do to sensible peo-