Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-12-29
DEsERET EVENING NEWS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1900

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risk may az first have seemed hazard
Gus. The story was called 'Stringtown
on the Pike and "seriaIizod' ln a llt-
erary paper. So deep was its effect and
so Instant that before the date Of us
publication IN book form 10000 copies
| had been Soda remarkable feat FOR
an author then almost unknown.
a second edition was put on the
| press and sold within two weeks of the
| date ot publication a third edition was
| sold In the next week; while the fourth
/ edition is now selling and a fifth is 100
| preparation IAN within one month from
| the date Of publication.
| And why Is an this? Why. amid the
| mass and ruck of current fiction. does
the public suddenly affect interest In
| this tale OF Northern Kentucky? Bee
cause the characters are absolutely
! alive. absolutely American, and TRUTH
| ful 20 the last degree. I'm tragic inter-
est the story has not been found want-
| Ing. In perfect portrayal Of some Of
| those types of character that make up
| the South and West-the p8rson. the
| colonel. the slave the soldier the nee
gro Vict.ms-nearly an Of them-of
! feud pride war superstition and ai-
venturel-the book Is quite alone DO Us
! class
I'm certain Western cities It immodl-
! otely ieaped into the position Of the
best selling book Of the day, and It's
! vogue s working steadily Eastward.
| or the hundred or more notices, public
| and private which the publishers have
| received but three are adverse. and
| ihts' IhIee amounted virtually 4"
praise.
sun another edition or thr Euol'Ft
! 10TH IL Is from inc press OF " '.'l''
| DoNey' ana lhe Illustrations
| are by Florence Lunlu2lE,
san Francisco LliI VINO mas sluII'I
! ART IN PARIS ana Berlin ana VINO mas
| made a nit WIN some "I htr 1IaNH ,bH.
| FROM ms oooh OF Ola omar sn' nd,
| caught lhr genuine oiI'nlal spirit .,,'
| lne decorative uoIu,I7 ahl many a., '',
| plates are dlullIaply zone IL Us 'Ih'
! panorama OF me east WIN l.s plt-
| uaIlo "eaIih OF pearl ahl s"I' llI9
! series or pictures, 10 Wnl'h lhe aIIl'l
| mas l.'el 10 reproduce llg ui'H'u'l-
ana ihe l9hslnss "l lne ltIsllh l'el
! lH utI ,"V'aN'I 10 il"h' lu, S.""h.
! contrasts between h.ath anu WIN. tu'
! HIlisl mas utn'heu ON AupI'y s'aIls'
.ey territory, ana lh sgNeIa' INJURIES.
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novels MANY c''Sl,s III lhf serlai Iy.
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| muSl S.leMeI9 nav lous uIoppyu Wv
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| quaIh'auce WIN lne SuuJev,S ul iil-. 'Ii
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! .Ily luolosl,9l ana ol"'. eII"ll. po1hS.
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ASHAMED Io.lIy ~ s'I.' d uIuE lh ,n'
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attained by the puoH.auoh'
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! lhal ne mas Ieao Wounus lh lhe ram
! win aaIhlIa ,lonY lhls M'Ih OF
| STEPHEN crane mas peeh more tn ,o'9nN
| received Ihah ahNlnlhE NN.ltn oN DIM
since i9e Eed hadse oi COURAGE,
Win when IL mas oeeh laNor4uly com
! pared Dy many reviewers lts sales
nave required t9ur rdltlons To De pui
on lne press IN the snort TINE since us
1 publicailon' MIS- crane writes 70 tne
| american pupilsh FREDERICK A.
| stokes company ork' or ner laie
| husoands WORKS Ihe - hudly
Is 10 DC uraIiauA,+ Da'lu heIasVo'
STEPHEN crane was discovered uy
| Englls' readers ana u looks as " q
new American writer M cranes own
! neld Is 10 win noteworthy reeoEn ,lloh
| There has been taken up by English