Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-15

ANrNs NiA lllhl nus ElhllANNA# ItFIt iHNN
Jane Grey, met death on the seanold
Mr. Winston Churchill has aban-
doned the visit 90 the United
states which had been fixed tor thl-
autumn owing To- a fear that the Ptea
dental election would interfere with.
the success OF his lecWung tour
II Is likely however that NJ
Churchill win pay "a visit TO the United
States early next year
Tho following appeared M a recent
issue OF the New York World:
with regard 90 your notice OF my
forthcoming new book Wlll YOU Kindly
permit me 10 point ont th8t your OBJ
servation Marie Corel herself thinks
the book is her masterpiece" is one 0f
those oiIicious and foolish statements
which, unfortunately. have the effect OF
making the journalist who writes them
look ridiculous To the public? Marie
Corelli-that is. myself-is not such
fool as 20 think anything she does on
ever has done ever approaches The
shadow " "a masterpiece" She, more
over thinks that So there is any man or
woman living who judges himself on
herself capable of creating master
fair road 90 am asylum for idiots one
other word. II ls true ] have been Jul
for three years, but ] have not advcr-
tiscd the fact 10 Is true ] have met
death face 90 face. but ] have not
cahled over my temperature or my
pulse beats. ] suffered. recovered and
took up my work again quietly as soon
as ! could do So and 1.-THE Master
Christian and Boy are the result
of fifteen months work only No "en-
thusiastIc friend" has read The manu-
SCRIPT ot the THE Master Christian.
What few incorrect and gaibled state
ments have appeared concerning 10
have cmanated from the American
publishers office. much 10 that pub
lishCrs annoyance and 10 mine. NO one
has read the manuscript but the pun
fishers and the printers. AS regards
advertisement" allow me TO say that
having sold my books / am not respon-
sihle Tor the way lon which the firms
who have bought them announce what
they consider % be- the value OF their
wares 1.-THE Master Christian is o
very slight effort 10 express certain
thoughts which are In the minds "
manu and % is quite as inadequate and
uusatislying 20 the mind Of It's author
as the most dyspeptic reviewer can
possibly End II when be sfips its
pages Oraying out the middle parU
between two whisky sodas
Yours faithfully
MARIE CORELLL
1.-THE comments OF which Miss Coralli
complains We're largely based upon
printed circular sent out In regular
course 20 the newspapers which pur-
ported 10 give the verdict Of a friend
who had read the manuscript OF THE
Master Christian The epithet enthu-
siastic was used because that friend
dl betray @ lyric feryor Of enthusi-
asm
AS TO the word masterpiece It may be
that Miss Coreui Is more severely self
repressed In her use Of &. than some
Of the careless and the unthinkine
There are people who consider THE
ordeal Of Richard Feverel q master
piece There are others who consider
'Thc Sorrows OF Satan" O masterpiece.
As ! am sorry 70 infer Miss Cureul
would not ogree that the first are
RIGHT As ! am charmed 20 perceive,
| Miss Corelli agrees that the second are
wrong
But IN a general way ! believe that
an occasional masterpiece ls turned
| out today, ana that II is not necessary
10 await the verdict Of the centuries
| In order 10 declare that some living
authors are masters Of their craft
Indeed, II Miss Corelli viii pardon a
kindly personality ] would add that
| consider the last sentence In her own
letter a little masterpiece OF It's sort.
| In small COMPASS n contains some OF
the most notable OF literary qualities
| dignity. reserve, a certain gracious ur-
| banity calm and noble scorn.
But even this little masterpiece Is not
| fawless.
II fails. for example, IN local color
| Whiskey soda Is a popular English
drink II is practically unknown ia
America
Mr. W d. Howells has written 10
| Mrs Stephen Crane n Ions letter about
| her late husband portions OF which
| appear i'm the London Acadcmv He
! describes his first visit from the then
unknown author OF Maggie telling
how Crane stayed far into the evening,
| talking about his work "and the stress
there was on him to put I'm the profani-
| ties which / thought would shock the
public from him and about the semi
savage poor, whose types he had stud
/ led IN that book He spoke wisely and
| kindly about them, and especially about
the tough. who was tough because. as
/ he said, he felt that everything was on
| him He never came without leaving
some light on the poor sad life he
knew so well In New York. so that
saw Il more truly than ever before.
/ lie had thought wisely and maturely
/ about H. but he had no nlan for H.
| Perhaps not even any hone without
| q plan He was the great artist which
| he was because he was In no wise a
| sentlmentalist or course ] was struck
| almost as much by his presence as by
his mind and admired his strange,
melancholy beauty In which there was
already the forecast of his early death.
His voice charmed me and the seusi-
tive lins from which T. came, with
their intelligent and ironical smile, and
! his mystical. cloudod eyes
stephen Cranes death has prompted
| his publishers to bring out new edi-
lions OF his early works, The only
one OF these that shows unusual abil-
ity is 'The Red Badge Of Cour-
| ace" the story that made Crane ia
nous almost in a dav. II is published
| bv ID. Appleton g. Co. OF New York
with an appreciative sketch Of Cranes
| life and work and an excellent por-
trait. A minute and slngularly vivid
| picture OF the feelings and actions Of
men on the field OF battle, this book
was SO fun Of realism. so alive with
| CHASTITY detail that every one accepted
| IL at first as the actual transcript Of
the experiences and emotions ~ SOL
| der In our Civil war. What then was
the establishment of the literary world
on both sides OF the ocean 20 learn
that the book was written by man
| who had then never seen battle and
never even smelt pupowder iu "a hght.
| Crane was not born until several years
| after the civil war VAS ended and on
| the mass OF detail that makes up the
| book was actually evolved from hts
inner consciousness, As feat OF Ne
erary art the book was n great sue