Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-22

Gently published cannot fail 70 attract
attention. While "The Woman Who
Trusted was running as serial in
the Saturday EVENING Post the tNr
received many letters containing the
highest praise Of the novel anJ su1~i.g
absorbing interest In the plot and char
actets.
The average reader T. Interested in
the vivid, artistic portrayed OF strong
character struggling against over
whemng odds, and Mr. liarben's hero
Is a young man possessing a most sem
stye spirit and the highest ideals, who
proves hts true metal by successfully
passing through a cruclble Of sorrows
and reyersos that would have consumed
a weaker man, The story opens In the
South shifts az once 10 Bohemian New
York. and terminates happily In Eu-
rope. There are few men IN the United
States better qualified for such an UNI
dertakng than VIII r.. Harden For
years he fought the grim bait G for lit
erary recognition In New York, where
his associates We're men and women
struggling like himself but now known
the world over. For two years he was
one of the editors of the Youths Com
panion In Boston, where he learned
the inner workings Of q great pc iodical
and came IN touch with the hope delay
ed and DESPAIR Of literary aspiration In
all It's phases, humorous. ironclad,
tragic. Leaving his post on the Com
panion to crafty a hunger for new
fields, Mr. Harden drifted 20 London,
where for over a. year he wrote and
studied In that vast round, glass-domed
hive Of literary lndustry-the British
Museum meeting almost every writer
and artist in England, published by
Henry Altemus Company, Philadelphia.
"a Sailors Log by Robley d.
Evans Fighting Bob" is a book that
should reach the hands of every Amer
| lean interested in the history of the
vital affairs connected with the last
10 years OF the country's life, Begin
ming his career with the opening Of the
ciyl war the authors life has been a
succession Of momentous experiences
connected with nearly all the important
events Of the country's history since
that time In his capacity Of a ma
rine officer the hero Of the autohio-
graphy has visited nearly every knc y
portion of the habitablc globe, ana
nearly always as chief actor I'm
diplomatic affairs, and the mere re-
counting Of his adventures In the sim
pie seaman's phraseology that make up
the records Of his log book details ro.
nance enough to furnish material for
a dozen or SO novels TO the widest
worker in realms Of fiction His eX-
perence in Behrlng Sea, protecting the
seal fisheries Is full enough of ad
o. 81.
reading ana even with that and other
portions Of the volume omitted, his de-
scription of the blockade and fight at
Santiago IS sufficient 10 place the book
high among the important historical
works dealing with that eventful affair.
II was the Iowa, the battleship under
Evans command, which first discovered
the attempted escape Of Ceryera's fleet
from the bay and which fred the first
gun in the destruction OF the fleet His
ship also furnished one of the men who
went with Hobson to sink the Mcrri-
mac, and the authors account Of the
anxiety Of the men on board his ship
to venture their lives In the attempt
and also his description Of the scene
and details Of IIobson's famous exploit
are perhaps the most graphic and
WI lHS ildA nav tNfl bftu puuilfHFNs
From beginning TO end the book teens
with adventures and when It is re-
membered that the book is the exact
record Of a human life, and that the
hero is a man whose life has been spent
in the service OF his country II would
he a wonder, as well rs reflection
upon the intelligence and patriotism Of
Americans If the book does not be-
come a central ornament In the libra
iies Of every American household
Published by D. Appleton & CO., Fifth
Az, New York.