Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-23

n.y." has already had to be- printed IN
this country seventeen times. arrived To-
New York recently The drumatlEution
~ the novel viii be- given at WnllackH
Sept iG with Sir stuart Robson uF the
gadfiy and Miss Mari, burroughs as
the Amnzonian Osmmu. Mrs Noyulch
brings with hor numerous photographs
anu sketches NJ the quaint architecture
and characteristic scenery amid which
the plot % the story takes its course.
Some curiosity " felt uH 10 whether the
play will end with the military oxecu-
ton or the cathedral scene. Numerous
photographs and sketches 81 the novel
likely 90 be reproduced on the stage 1rv
the passing u the mOuntebarks,thc light
In tho square Of the mountain town,
and the scene between father and son Ia
prison.
The London Mail says the death Of
Mr. W. -. Lntto removes from the
world OF letters one who has had
marked Influence upon his times,
Though not actually the originator "
the form Of literary expression which
has had o. highest achievement IN the
work N j. NJ. Barrie. Mr.. Latto was
certainly. with Gait ana NOR, one %
the pioneers u what was recently called
the Knllyurd school. and his delight
fully humorous writings, sent forth
with the pen name ~ 'TammnH BOD
kin" have penetrated TO wherever the
homei" Scots dialect II underatood, and
10 wherever true Scots humor Is APP
prcclated.
The plan 10 erect statue 20 Lord
byron az Aberdeen seems 10 BE- hanging
hro. only ono-fourth ~ the sum re-
quircd has been subscribed thus FAR,
and the city Itself evidently jcnlouHly
guards IT, reputation FOR cannlneas.
ttANW
burgh ~ also languiahing FOR lack 81
Scotch-aud evidently EnEllsh-enthusi-
nHm. But. HtrnnEeet Of all, II appears
that great difficulty 4 experienced In
obtaining the inai $500 needed Tor the
National Burnn Memorial and CuttnEe
Homes nt Mauchllno. The fund FOR this
cmlnontly Scotch memorial was started
four years ago.
Sir Thomas J. Upton makes a per-
Honni statement In AinHlce'H Tor octo-
bor on the subject OF his challenge Tor
the America cup, An important con-
trhution 60 this number r. The New
Dawn IN Education Study of the
Public schools in Washington. ID, G."
other timely features Of AlnsleoH for
october are. - Mnn ana colony the
story ~ Newfoundland" THE Camera
club ~ New York. eNqulHltcly illus
trutcd "rhe Solving of the Servant
Problem" and short stories by y. W,
Honung, Henry q. Catlln, Arthur J.
etringer. Howard Fielding and Edith
Robinson.-New York.
Some little time ago the Court Circu.
lar announced the presentation 60 the
queen ~ Ills Hlghncas, sultan Aiu-
humufcd shah the Arnh Khan, Spirit
uni Hoad N the Shoia Community"
The prince Muhnmmcd Is IL linrul do
Hccndnnt ~ Hnann-l- Subhah, q school
mate of omar Khayynm, who Huhse-
puently became the celebrated "old
Man ~ the Mountain" ami the head %
the Assnsslns. The descent was proved
some thirty years axe ~ the Nigh Court
~ Bombay in the time OF Prince Mu-
hnmmed'H father An income ~ 10000
"a year depended upon the proving OF H.
&c.
Paul Laurence Dunbar II full
bloodci negro, Dumas pere was mu-
lntio and pnushkiu, the Russian poet.
the centenary OF whose birth was cole
hutrd recently was an oCturoon. tie
was drHcondCd from negro boy named
Hannibal who was sent By Peter tho
Greats ambassador at Constantlnoplc
10 the Autucrat as present. Poushltln
Be- sometimes called the Russian byron.
lie was killed in a duel whom he was
only "a years old, His last years were
years N dissipation and VI little pros
durtIyencsH.
o o o
'"Tho Choir Invisible" has been drn-
matted by Miss Frances Hastings.
Her work has received the approval of
Mr. lamrH Lane Allen, and the play will
Doe produced Ia october by the Henry
igwvtt Dramatic company IN New
York SIN another book published by
The Macmillan company ls being
dfumRtlErd this fan "rhc children 81
the Ghetto Will appear uH u play in
November. Mr Zangwill ~ himself now
IN New York experimenting lts produce
ton with his managers Llebler Is co,
A school Tor publishers h. one Of 'hc
latest propositions The idea is of
French origin, II iE proposed 10 take
the cullow youth and gradually induct
him into the mysteries NJ the business
schools Of journalism are no new thing
but na far as people know. no
graduate OF one NJ these schools was
ever seen making his living ON Park
row II would he quite us remarkable
TO SEQ o. graduate of the School for Pub
books.
u does not seem possible that a
publishing house can AFFORD 10 pay
man 100000 for one novel and then
make money on II. Yet, when you come
10 think ~ H. the sale OF 100. 900 books
would put the publisher pretty near
even on $3.50 book. II Il said that
General Lew Wallace asked 500 900 Tor
HE Prince u India" and that finally
ne ilarpers took Il for $4,000 year
ior ten years. This Is a good price but
II IA said that the Harpers are by mo-
means the worse on Tor their bargain.
or Emile zola's works 10000 copies are