Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-24

graphy Of the Amer OF Afehauistan.
one London correspondent writes That
the extracts suggest "a combination
Of Marie Bashklrtsen's diary. and the
Arabian Nights. The Nineteenth Cen
fury has always prlled Itself upon its
distinguished contributors but even
It has never caught an Afghan
Ameer"
Mr. Oliver Herfords ever sprightly
fancy has found vent In a fashion that
promises rare diversion for O select
and appreciatiye audience some even
Ing not too far away. He has just COM
pleted the book VI q thrle-act musical
fantasy called "McAdam and Eve. or,
Two In a Garden" The place OF action
alternates between Paris and the
Garden of Eden. and the theme has In
spircd DR.. Herfords son to some ex-
ceedingly clever writing.
II Is the humorous boast Of Miss
Jeanette !. Glider editor Of The
Critic, that she has never been 80 and
has never worn evening dress In her
lie. And she Is won't TO add that she
worked for nearly twenty years without
a single weeks vacation. These facts
give the keynote 90 the career Of one
OF the most engaging and unconyentlon-
al figures IN the literary life Of New
York. Miss Glider was born on Long
Island but spent the best part OF her
earlier years at BordentOWn. n. J.
The story OF her girlhood Is told with
spirit and humoT In The Autobiography
OF a Tomboy which has lately come
from the press OF Doubleday. Page &
Co. Those who make acquaintance with
It's amusing PAGES viii not be sur
prised 10 learn that It's authors favor
lite book as girl was Franklln's
Autobiography. and that her first story,
written when she was ten years old,
was called Hates Escapade." While
stlll IN her teens Miss Glider became a
working journalist on a Newark. ~ j.,
newspaper. and afterward served IN
turn on the New York Tribune and
Herald Nineteen years ago. In con-
junction with her brother she started
The Critic. with which her name and
labors have since been Identified.
The land OF Mary Johnston has pro-
duced another historical romance
writer. Mic- 4. NJ. Ewel who has
written what is said TO be an excellent
historical novel OF the time Of Bacon's
Rebellion I'm virginia IN 1916. The story
will be known bv the title. "A White
Guard 30 satan the tile being de-
rived from an incident ~ Bacon's strug-
gle. which forms the Introductory
episode OF the novel II Is a love story
IN an historical setting, the latter made
more suggestive by the assumption OF
the speech OF the tlme-an undertaking
In which # Is said the author has been
very successful Governor Berkeley
and Bacon were utterly unlike in char
acter. and their followers were no less
So Bacon's wife was also a strangely
unique character, there were a number
OF men and maids then as now To fall
in love with each other, the result here
being most pleasing one IN furnishing
several rOmances Of more than usual
interest.
A striking instance Of expert appre-
citation Is shown IN the following letter
written 10 Hamlin Garland by a s0uth-
western cattlcman. whose tribute TO
"The Eagles Heart runs as follows: II
wish 20 congratulate YOU your story
The Eagles Heart Is shore all right
you never made a miss throw, but land
cd squurely over thg horns every time.
This praise don't come from tender
foot but from "a cattlaman who has
been through It an and Is suli in the
business. When your papers ara
printed In book form ! want a copy 20
send TO my bowboys IN Arizona. Please
tell me where ! can get It and the price
and N YOU ever come TO this part OF
the country / want you visit my ranch
] will give you as good a jerSy stew
as you ever got outside OF. and shore
enough bed with goose har piller on
90 IT,"
John Kendrick Bangs latest book,
''The idiot at Home, Is meeting with
success that bids fair 10 dim even that
OF The HousebOat On the StyX.' Al
though published less than four weeks
ago. II has already gone through four
large editions. and is stlll one Of the
stories I'm greatest demand
Mr. Bangs IN this story details the
domestic adventures of the same idiot
whom we knew In Coffee and Repartee.
whose career as married man is quite
as eventful as his bachelor days.
The Publishers Weekly notes that
when sternes Trlstram Shandy was
first published. the booksellers Of the
day. 40 years ago, with considerable
Indignation returned 20 the publishers
az imperfect their copies Of the volume
which contained the sheet Of marbled
paper that was inserted 90 take the
place Of the page which Uncle Toby
was supposed 10 have torn out in o pet.
The Macmillan Company, IL seems is
having a similt experience with their
edition OF the work IN the English
Classics series At least half a dozen
copies have been returned. with re-
quest that perfect books be substituted.
and an because Of the insertion Of the
marbled-pnper leaf.
Hamilton Mabie calls attention in
Harper's Bazaar 10 the fact that poetry
Is now read almost exclusively In
silence. while primarily Il Is intended
Tor the ear. The result is that poetry
appeals 10 the reason chiefly. ana not
a. tho fanlfr.un ortl fffn nfUQflUU The