Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-05-27


Ing work of fiction was David Itarum.
KipllnH'r "Day Work sold rapidly
during holiday time. not va well since.
MunreyH ana tho Ladies' Home Journal
led the magazines. the Cosmopolitan
and MrtlureH following closely. The
big call was for % cent bound bpokE.
n 10 not Fonrnlly known that West
colt wrote Dusid liarum on his death
bed. ile hoped great things Tor the
book ana had he lived he would have
realized them. but the Wide popularity u
attained came after he had passed
away,
Harper nros. have just issued "a
Thousand Days IN the Arctic" hy rrud-
crlrk q, jackson. The most picture
oaquc. the most romantic aud the most
POLITICALLY satlafyinF Of al episodes In
the history u Arctic adventure ~ tho
accidental meeting ut Franz Josef
Land, IN Greenland. between Frederick
q. Jackson and Manson. That meet
lnE IN al human probability saved
SanHen'a life and rescued Tor the world
the story OF the heroic endurance ~
himself and his companion. Johanscn.
which the world Will never Willingly
let die.
Just n dozen years AFRO Mr.. Guntcr
tunce poor aHanycr IN Salt Lake. by
tho way, a llttlo-known ana wOrro-
paid American playwright, was taking
the manuscript OF "Air Harness of New
York from one publishing house 10 an
other. rejection mrttinH him every
where. until In very despair h. pub
liahod the book at hlH own expense. The
sequel II known TO the world. Mr. Gun
tor'a next novel brourht him ci0.00o
within "a year. and the rejected novel
- N.NImHuNNUn 81 "a
day ar. uunter has a paiatiai house In
New York and large estates, and II
sole owner Of big publishing busl-
ness.
The namc story IL told ~ John iIah-
berion, an American journalist. about
his now World-kn0Wn book, "iieleun
liabloH." The manuscript was r..
ceiVcd everywhere with contempt ana
even deriHion. The only appreciation
u received was from a Eirl Hub-rcadcr,
who vowed Il was the most amusing
book she had ever read and through
her inHlstonce Il was ultimately pub
lshed 49, a very risky experiment, IT.
fame was immediate, and IT, authors
fortune insured.
Andrew Lang has discovered that
''kcnllworih" u most unscrupulouHly
unhlHtorlc. aud that Amy Hobart died
at Gunner In 1860, while Scott makes
her alive and beautiful twenty-five
years after. II really does not matter
Whom Amy died, She never can die NJ
long NJ tho Engilnh language II Rad.
Hut l.anr'n researches into the pathetic
story OF this unfortunate woman are
Interesting reading, That Amy WAS
murdered nt the command ~ Elizabeth
there seems TO be- no doubt, but the
queen herself appears 90 have been In
danger at the same time. Those were
days OF Intrigue and murder.
Mark Twain Il humor's,. ana either
he or some OF his fellow humarlHts are
responsible for tho statement that be-
never reads anything except old news
plpors. because he then knows whether
what ho reads l. true or not.
"somo arc born great, some achieve
greatness and some have greatness
thrust upon EN- and Sir; y ~. H.
Gordon, the author OF "iinch der
Kaiser" II certainly one OF the last
class, FOR when writing the lines II
doggerel entitled "AlriuHeif und Colt"
he probably had no thought further
than that NJ furnishing a BIT of fntire
which would be rad today and FOR
gotten tomorrow. No one could posai-
bly, have forseen the prominence into
which the poem would leap az bound.
II N not the nrst Instance IN history
Of lnmpoOn becoming an international
Issue, but that a skit written Ia hnr-
~ at the request or the managing cd,
itor should IN q single day become Of
worldwide notorlcty. the subject OF
diplomatic communications between
two ~ the greatest governments on
the earth, In one Of the ourloa Of liter
ature.
Few people know that writer who
~ ~
for his offense. Il was Palm. q Nurcm-
burg bookseller, who for n sntlfiral
poem against Napoleon, was arrested
by command Of the emperor, conveyed
10 Iiraunau and shot. Whether or not
Palm was the author never transpired,
lie was required 10 give the authors
name. but refused 90 do no, assuming
full responsibility, both for the poem
and itH publication. Tho poem itself II
n painfully weak and trivial compost
ton, lacking altogether tho wit ana
humor OF liOch Der Kaiser. Its dull
ness may be Judged from a sample. Il
| N In dialogue, one line being spoken by
Napoleon, the answer given by Echoi
Bona what. should I. like coward Vile
TO compound be reduced?
oho-Reduoed.
Bona-After 10 many bright exploits be
forced TO restitutlon2
| Echo- Restitution.
bona Restitution Of whist i've got by
true heroic feats ana martial ad-
dreas2
EchO-Yes.
Why the great Napoleon should have
| felt the need OF taking any notice OF 40
dispicable bit OF alleged poetry u
| queer, hut he. like Wilhelm, was de-
vout rtlokler for the dignity OF the pur-
| pie, the law OF lese maJcatatis Was new
| er allowed 20 grow rusty In his time,
80 Palm suffered the extreme penalty