Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-09-14


OF Greek, so that my atmosphere was
more or less literary right from the be-
ginning. / had from my earliest boy
hood q love OF reading, which, as |
grew order, led to love Of study OF
various subjects. This presently de-
veloped into a fondness for writing
And ] wrote, as everybody with literary
Instincts writes because he IL impeiled
to do 80. My first success was win
The Luck OF Roaring Camp. Never
was such sensation.
Il couldn't get 1t published In Ameri-
ca, not even In California; 1t was
thought TO be too realistic by the intel
lectual purltans SO Gas ! was never
worried as SO many poor authors are,
by want Of meahs) | published 1t on
my own account. The success was un-
precedentod | had forced my way
against all prejudice" and look OF
pride illuminated Bret Harte's sensi-
tive features. And now that | am
getting old / feel that ! am doing my
best work. have more skin and con-
fdence than when | was In calloW
youth: I have now u commend over my
instrument which / had not then TO
say that a mans best work Is done IN
youth is the greatest mistake; does II
not seem obvious that the more you
practice a trade the more you must
know about it?"-London Mainly About
People.
Now is the time for Josiah Flynt to
rise up and cry 81 told you So 20 those
who have doubted his statements mace
In his world Of Graft" All this init
mate connection existing between me
police and gamblers which has been re,
Gently exposed, Mr.. Flynt showed
clearly In his book. Josiah Flynt's
name has for some time now been an
authority on questions OF this kind.
He makes no statements or assertions
that he cannot back up or prove II
necessary. In the October Mcclure >,
he Is TO have another OF his Interesting
and timely articles exposing even more
clearly than he has heretofore done,
the methods Of Tammany Han rms
article promises TO be a campaign oocu-
ment OF more than ordinary import
George Manville Fem, in the Temple
Magazine publishes for the nrt tiille
letter written by Dickens IN 1888. MI.
Fem describes II as follows: II -
written upon a sheet of old-fashloneu
blue wire-woven note paper anu hau
its habitaton for years upon the pill
file of the tradesman TO whom u was
sent, with the consequence mat IN hu-
dltlon 10 time stains, II Is pl'rceo Nv
three rough holes where the wire passed
through the original folds. II tells us
own tale: Mr.. Charles Dickens Is mucn
obliged TO Mr.. Claridge for the oner OF
Lord Byron's flute. But as MT DICK
ems cannot play that instrument MINI
self, and has nobody at his house VINO
can. he begs to decline the purchase
with thanks There Is no visible marx
OF smile upon the paper, but there
seems to be one playing among me
words, and one cannot help thinking
that. when Dickens wrote that he could
not play the flute, he must nave recall
ed a certain flute serenade played at
Mrs. Todgers' commercial boarding.
house. and written by him In ISIS
The Tristan blood and the Tristan
ways are In themselves sufficient TO
make Anthony Hopes new novel,
Tristan Of Blent which VIII be pup-
ished shortly by Mcclure, Phil
lips & Co. original and interesting.
Harry Tristan Is peculiar character
MILO Is the NlNAlili VI AiiNAAAiSNNiNr'
which are even more peculiar. The
trouble all begins with an out-ot-date
and peculiar Russian custom. Russia,
you know, still clings 70 the old Julian
calendar. and is already twelve days
behind the rest Of the civilized world.
And what a difference these twelve
days make in the life Of Harry Tris-
tram! A marriage becomes Illegal,
i l.tf and
Tristram OF Blent, proud with the
pride OF centuries. is in danger Of los
Ing both lands and name, But it's
the blood that makes the right and not
the law" says this Tristram, and forth
with begins cool and cunning fight
for what is his Then woman
comes. and, as is a woman's uncon-
scious way, produces new complica-
tons She is a Tristram, too, and
for the creation of odd situations a
pair Of Trstrams would be hard to
equal Finally the solution comes
with the woman, and just as we are
about 10 excalm, as the people do In the
story, "Oh, you Tristramsl" Anthony
Hope ends II all In the most satisfac-
tory manner imaginable.
Depletion OF character has never
strong points, but here he demonstrates
his ability in thlJ way by sketches so
keen that they might he termed psy-
Geological studies. The whole novel
shows clearly that the author ls not
limited TO one field nor to two. hut IL
possessed OF a wonderful versatility.
In speaking of the lengthy oxford
sojourn Of Miss Louise lmogen Quincy.
a writer in The Sphere remarks that
she has a considerable band Of admip-
ers In England where her poems, Eng
land and Yesterday" and her volume
Of essays, "PGtrns," have found a
ready sale. "Patrins," says this writ
er. contains one OF Miss Guiney's most
remarkable literary Efforts, An inquir-
endo into wit and other good parts OF
his late majesty, King Charles H. Here
we have hundred pages in which are
contained quite an extraordinary num-
Der OF the bright and witty sayings Of
the second Charles. Miss Quincy has
here written one OF the best essays in
literature. The author may possibly
remain in England at least two years
In pursuit Of her Vaughan studies"
Hall Calne has been raped so fire.
quently and so hard by supersensitive
critics that TO many the following para
graph from the Academy will be well
coined both for its restraint and for its
appreciation Of an author who, In spite
OF many extravagancies, cannot be de-
MED a prominent position in oontem-
porary literature: when Mr.. Game
wrote ''The Deemster" and "The Bond
man. there was hardly a paper OF any
standing In London aud the provinces
that did not hail him as genius
Praise was literally heaped upon him.
We were told that a new great writer
was among us that he had developed
the English novel on new lines and that
he had a wonderful future before him.
Among nlhlra WIN nnk nnNulnAn nl lie