Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-11-03
NOTES

The autumn publishing season may
| now be said 20 Dee fairly opened, and us
| this seasOn-lhree mluths-generaIlF
! has an output equal 10 10 not in excess
| Of the remaining nine months. a very
| busy time may now DE looked Tor
/ among the publishing houses. IN re-
/ Spouse TO an inquiry boy the Chicago
/ Tribune number OF the leading puo-
| fishing houses have expressed AN Ipin-
| ion predicting q prosp -rOua ram trade,
| with one OF the largest outputs on rec-
| ord, In quality similar 20 last season s.,
/ a majority OF them EXPRESSING the be-
| lief that the historical romance was
| nearing the end Of It's phenomenal pop
ularity
According 10 the American B1okman
| and thei English academy 'The Reign
| Of Law is the best selling novel On
| both countries az the present time. II
| Is now in It's hundredth thousand.
king stork Of the Netherlands is
! the title Of the new historical romance
| by Albert Lee author ~ the success
! ful Gentleman Pensiouer' published
| by d. Appleton & Co.
Kalman Miks2ath the Hungarian
| novelist, whose recent story "St.
| Peters Umbrella has Just ben pub
| llshed by the HaTpars, ls q writer Sec
| ond only 20 Maurus J0kal In popular
| ity among his own cOuntrymen. He is
/ a member OF the Hungarian Academy
and has twice served In the Hungarian
parliament He Is particularly famous
for his stories Of peasant life.
Miss Corelli Is obtaining some excel
lent free advertising apropos OF the late
| Eric Mackay. First. a paragraph ap.
| peared saying that Miss Corelli had not
| yet finished her biography Of Mr.. Mac
! kay. Then followed paragraph, writ
| ten by Mis- Corelll. IN which she said
| that she never had had any intention
Of writing Mr.. Mackay's biography
| for the reason that she never saw him
| until he was forty-6ve years old. at
! which date she was only twelve Then
/ The Academy makes a little calcula-
| tIon showing that II Mr. Mackay was
| forty-hye when Miss Corell was
! twelve, she must now be only four.
! teen Last Of all another and later
paragraph explains that there has been
a misprint In connection With Mr.. Mac
| kay's age, and that Miss Corelli is IN
| reality a little more than fourteen. All
| OF which goes 20 show that Miss Corel-
| lis belief In the intellectual equality OF
! the sexes is perfectly true so far as re-
| CARDS skill In self-advertisement.
Gertrude Atherton Is one OF the few
American authors whose books have
| been reissued by Baron Tauchnltz who
! during the last year has published
American Wives and English Hus-
| haa.1e 30 ttFfha lfafFfrYWfaru % avl
tlence Sparhawk and Her Times" and
is about to publish also Senator
North"
The original copy of Lincoln's note
book, which is 20 be published in fac
smile by Mcclure, Phillips q Co., short
~, has been purchased by Colonel
William H. Lambert Of Philadelphia
Colonel Lambert is said 10 have the
finest collection OF LincOlniana In eX-
lstence. The Lincoln notebook he OBJ
tanned from the sons OF Captain Brown.
Ia whom Lincoln gave the book in 1855.
Henry Norman's article on the great
Siberian Railway. IN the November
Scrihners. is the result Of a recent
journey made throughout IT'S entire
length. so far as completed The coun-
try traversed with its industrial and
mineral possibilities, is described from
actual observation and conversation
with the people living along the route
OF the railway. Mr.. Norman says that
the road will cost $500 600 WV, and Is the
greatest undertaking OF modern times,
1t Is the real key to the Far East"
Hamlin Garland has recently com.
pleted the novel which is regarded as
the strongest and most important liter.
airy work that he has yet done. The
title Is THE Eagles Heart and the
story Is said 10 present an epic OF the
West. wherein the hero with "the
eagles heart" goes westward and en-
tiers upon the strange and picturesque
life Of the plains The novel offers
vivid pictures OF cattle ranching and
other phases OF western life. There Il
an interaction between the middle west
and the far west. which Is adroitly In
dicated, and the variety Of the story Is
as noticeable as It's yigor and dramatic
power. Mr.. Garland has been engaged
upon this romance for some years, and
it embodles his most earnest treatment
OF theme which has appealed espe-
cially 70 him. both from the artistic
and the realistic points OF view. The
mediately by d. Appleton q Co.
A rumor that Richard le Gallienne
had. Tor literary effect 'FrenchIded'
for himself the nrosaic name Of Gal
leon" probably had rs origin IN n fact
which be explains In M. a. p" lie says
that his grandfather was ~ Guernsey
origin. and spelled his name exactly
as the grandson SPELLS it today. HIS
father, however, dropped the prefix as,
IN his opinion. cumbrous for business
purposes Did this progenitor write
the name Gllleon. after all?
Albert r. Wenzell has not favored
the public with a collection Of his
drawings since the publication in 1896
OF In Vanity Fair" which was 40 IA
vorably received This fall, however
II. II. Russell, the publisher OF artistic