Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-06-02

Europe about July /. She has never
crossed the ocean and as her stories
nave been popular In England and on
the continent she Is likely TO meet with
a very distinguished reception Al
though widely popular Miss wilkins
literary quality has be n peculiarly New
Englandish up TO ihis time. She has.
however marked fOndness for
the romantic and the historl-
cal ana IN novel which
she is now writing. The Hearts High
way, she has given free rein to this
fancy OF hers for "a subject which is
commonly regarded as outside her
field But those who are familiar with
her works viii, n they go back over her
stories. recall that very few OF them
are laid IN the present time Her novels,
Pembroke, Madelon, Jerome are laid In
a period just far enough back 10 escape
railroads, telegraphs modern costumes
and modern industries Her latest coll
lection, The Love of Parson Lord. be-
longs stu further back than the some.
what indefinite period Of Pembroke.
Though she is sometimes called real
ist Miss wilkins is very far from being
fond of the life and ways OF the present
moment
American authors with very few ex-
ceptons, cling % country life. Richard
watson Glider the editor Of the Cen-
fury Magazine. owns farm in Massa-
chusetts 10 which be repairs whenever
ne can spare the time Frank stockton
IT, now "a Virginia farmer. Edward Eg-
gleston hai summer place on the
banks OF picturesque Lake George Ed
q "a
town, IN Br0nXyllle. Hamilton W. Ma
bic dWeils beyond the North River.
amid the tranquiIlitieg of New jersey.
Edward Everett Hale is called "a BIOS.
tonian but be lives IN peaceful R0x-
bury. Mark Twain when he soiourus on
this Side of the Atlantic halls from
Hartford; Charles Henry Webb CJohn
Faul' , years ago became a Nantucke-
ter, and the list might be- continued al
length with similar result.
William Le Queux has set out on a
journey that viii result In a very in
teresting book. lie Is 10 travel In ST.
IBERIA along the route OF the great
Trans-S,berlan railway aud has been
accorded official permission 10 visit AN
penal settlements mines and prisons In
Siberia. Books Of fiction and fact arc
10 be written but Il Is hOped that Mr.
lie QueuX viii not mix the two care
lessly. As a writer Of wildly exciting
novels he has shown that he poespsses
an lmingaton heated enough 10 make
one wonder whether the Russian GOV
eminent Is wise IN opening Siberia 10
such an investigator
The advance sale Of Geo W. Pecks
new book. Sunbeams. by the Author
OF Peck's Bad Boy" already exceeds
900 copies, and by the date OF issue
(June 5thl the outlook IL that fully 25..
900 copies win boz required 10 am or.
ders. Pccks Uncle Ike and Tho Red
Headed Boy published last November
has passed the sO0cO mark and Is stnl
selling we'll
An entertaining and Intimate account
or Mary Cholmondelty appears On "a
preface 90 he new edition OF Diana
Tempest Just published by d Apple.
ton a 60. There II also portrait Of
the author drawn by a well-known
artist.
Harpers Bazaar is greatly improved
by lbs change 90 magazine form Tho
FIRST two numbers under the new form
show that more good literature win be |
given IN exchange Tor the large pic. !
lures " the old paper In fact the !
new Bazaar Is like the best Of the ten
cent monthlies.
Charles Major. who came into fame
under the name Of Edwin CaskOden." |
the author Of When KniRhthood was |
IN Flower" Will appear la the June
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