Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-23

| book il now In Its fOrty-0fth thousand
The last edition OF ten thousand COPIES
went to press on Thursday and was de-
llvered TO the binders on the Saturday
followng--a record OF rapid printing.
on the forces which are at work be-
| hind the ponulRritv Of n vp.iter ~ Mr.
Hewlett's power, II has been Interest,"
ing to watch the widening OF the circle
| of his readers. Beginning with few
of the most famous literary mon In the
let's work is growing at a pace that
The sum Of $4,000 Is TO go this year
| to the author of the literary work
which the Swedish academy shall con.
| slider the most noteworthy from the
| ideallst point Of view. The period set
| for nominatiOns-by members of the
| Swedish French and Spanish academies
| and by the professors of aesthetics. liz.
| eraturu or history at any university
has almost expired This prize was
founded by the late DR.. Nobel one Of
|
The New York Times recently print.
| ed short note on Edward Markham's
| poem, 'The Passing Of Victoria I'm
| which mention was made of the two
splendid concluding lines In this stan.
| "a, which Il said showed fine imagina.
| tive power:
| When London in far centuries shall
be
As still as Babylon and both dream
poets theme - ~
When all her tombs and towers shall
be flight
| or ghostly arches in the nolseless night.
| The late Charles Dudley Warmers
| My Summer in a Garden had been re-
| fused by two Boston publishers when
one evening the author met Henry
! Ward Beecher at the house of Harriet
| Beecher stowe near whom ne lived I'm
| Hartford, Mrs stowe spoke so well Of
| II, and having read the manuscript.
| eXerted his influence and had II pub-
| lghed,
| Mrs, Paget Toynbee has undertaken
| new edition Of the Letters OF Horace
| Walpole, and desires to make Ii as com |
pete as possible. Nearly two hundred
letters which are not included In cur
rent editions have already been Sc |
cured. Others doubtless remain in pri- |
yate hands, and the loan of such or of |
careful c..ies is requested Mrs. |
TOynbee's address is Dorney Wood. |
Burnham, Bucks, England.
The Scribners have lust issued /
Worthington c. Ford's deliberately IL |
Illustrated production entitled George |
Washington, IN two volumes. Besides |
the text IL includes as illustrated mat
ter, probably the finest collection I'm |
reproduction of Washlngtoniana that |
has ever been made. Mr.. Ford's liter
airy work appears to be most careful |
and cultured His tone throughout |
is personal. and he attempts TO show |
what sort Of a man Washington was |
in the eyes Of his contemporaries.
The house In MARKET Square .Lichneld,
in which Dr. lel Johnson was born,
has been purchased for $3.50 by the
city corporation 1t was sold al pub
lie auction In 1887.
'ss
The Macmillan Company are soon to
introduce 10 me Dunllr a new writer OF |
fiction, Mr.. owen Johnson of New
York. whose first novel. arrows OF the
Almighty" Is to appear under the ans
pieces Of that house in April being pub
lished simultaneously in New York and
Robert Underwood Johnson. associate
editor OF the Century. This novel is
the first serious work he has under
taken executing contributions 10 the
Yale Literary Magazine. OF which he
was chairman for the class of 1900 His
story does not follow the romantic or
historical tendency of current fiction
but is a novel OF character-deyelopme
from childhood to middle age. with he
roic phases The opening scenes ate
laid In Maryland, chiefly on the eastern
shore in ante-bellum days; the nara
tive then shifts to Cleveland, about the
time of the breaking out Of the Civil
war, returning to Baltimore. where the
hero, John Gaunt, is stationed as an
officer Of the commissary department.
His defense Of the interests Of the gov
eminent against the rascality of con-
tractors is leading motive Of the story,
and one which 1t Is believed has not be-
lore Deen utllized IN notion me clos
ing scenes take place In New YORK
CITY the canvas Is large one and the
popular, appear OK the BOOK Is said TO
ne IN the range ana the ViVIuness OF
out the story there Is a versatile balanc-
ing OF serious ana humorous episodes
Apropos or the exclusion by the ladies'
and gentlemen on the committee Of Sc
lection In the Boston Public Library OF
Maurice Hewletts charming Little
Novels OF italy the following lines on
his work are not without point We
reprint them from the New York Times
Saturday Review" They are addressed
presumably 10 other novellsts OF the
day by John Ernest Mccain:
a sword:
Ye write with ink and he with blood
and tears:
We from the head: and he from the
head and hearti
He fronts his work like Richard, his
great Lord,
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