Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-08-10

'hoi lhhely uDIubleu manner Her llhl
real fame came 20 her after the appear
ance OF her Love Affairs Of an old
Maid Among her later works are
The Under Side Of Things" "a
Little Sister to The Wilderness From
a Girls Point of View "The Instinct
Of Step Fatherhood, "As Seen by Me-"
end THE EXpatrlates," "Sr John and
the American Girl" has lust been pub
llshed In Harpers Portrait Collection
Of Short Stories 1.-THE Exparlates."
an intensely patriotic American story,
sharply criticized certain phases Of
French society ana the book promptly
ran through several editions Mrs.
Bogue has received numerous letters
concentrating her upon having so
neatly hit or the peccadiOes OF mod
ern Parisians. Much gossip was current
concerning the identity Of certain char
actrrs in THE ENpatriates. and the
names of several very prominent par
ties % International marriages were op-
emily associated with the people in this
daring and witty novel In "Sir John
ana the American Girl Mrs Bogue
again handles the interesting subject of
the marriage OF American girls to for
eign men. In this case the man is an
lfllN w ililltlllf NAIt ~ nhllf Wei per
tinent dialogue In which the American
giri openly questions the quality Of the
lInglshman's manners, and his replies
ave the most natural I'm the world, as
II the conversation had been taken di-
rect from life~as II probably was.
NJ zola, in declining an invitation to
q banquet given in his honor by the
Iaf4riaf NAat4tts al Ia 81 a., ba
purpose Of celebrating the success Of
his latest work, Labor" wrote In these
terms III | am not with YOU, II is be-
cause II seems to me more modest,
more logical that the man be absent
II is not | who am importaut-nor my
work, That which you celebrate is the
struggle for more justice; the good
fight for the happiness Of humanity"
These seem the words Of a trae human
tartan I'm Labor" (Harpersl, Iola
has embodied the cause Of the work
man in q story Of powerful charm, The
French edition Of the book is having a
phenomenal sale.
Emile Zoia wifi ne siyty-one years Of
age IN August Eis father was an en-
gineer, who died when Emile was a
FfI.tltI no. VI NlNAllfls n Hlp0N ~"
cellent woman" he says in the July
Literary Era was Of a Beauceron
family and like Sarcey, was born at
Dourdan She had the very best in
tCnti0ns, but she understood nothing
Of business and her want Of expert
ence brought us TO penury
ITO go back TO nv earliest recolec-
tons ! was three Years old when my
family left Paris to take up its resi-
dence at AK. During my hoyhood |
made two visits TO the capital, one
when ! was seven the other when |
was nearly twelve: Though | look
strong now, | was small and sickly at
that time | had my first schooling at
the College Of AK, and / did not get
into the eighth form til ] was twelve
years old II was rather late to begin
Latin So that when ! was eighteen.
and my mother placed me at the Lycce
Saint Louis, In Paris. ! was considered
| extremely backward
Il had been a good boy at AK.
though never brilliant pupil at Paris
| became a very idle and troublesome
one. | had already caught the literary
fever, and /. felt myself, body and soul,
part OF the literary world neg
| lected my classic authors 10 pore with
avidity over Montague, Radicals.
Diderot and Victor Hugo An, Victor
Hugo. | was mad about him in those
days.
so now you understand why Though
| have heard other explanations 1 have
never taken college degree. Daudet
never did, either Was II for the same
reason? | do not know At any rate
1t seems strange that two very promi-
nent noyelists have been found un-
worthy to assume the Academic
badge
/ lola does not write his realistic mas
| tetpieces during the midnight hours
which are the sombre background In
| so many Of his novels II rise at
! O'Clock, ! work TIL /; take the morn,
| ing for my most important work FOR
my novel in hand, for my drama, or for
| literary criticism, he says In his "Au-
! photographed Confessions Made 10 a
! Fellow Journalist In the afternoon
| I take IN what Is less Important, for
| eien correspondence and newspaper ar
| ticles. ! have made Il practice TO
work regularly and very seldom
break into IT. find that when on ny
| notes are ready. all my investigat ions
made, and all my observations taken. Il
| takes me about an equal length Of time
70 make my book ready for publlca-
ton.
Public report insists that I am q
| mere photographer with the addition
OF being that detestGble charactel--au
! inventor Of hon mots The public has
| found out that my characters are
! drawn from people known 20 every one
except myself No matter that the
fictitious personages bear little or no
resemblance 10 the living ones. A Is
quite sufficient II there Is slight sim
ilarifv Of name. IL has been supposed
| that I make puns on the names OF
those who have sat 20 me for Their
portraits. Not very flattering to ms
powers you must own"
"The favorite author with Younc
Russia" writes Christian Brinton in
the Critic lis Maxim Gorky. ex- bakers
apprentice and tramp. who IN his wan
| derings over the face OF Russia has
seen and has remembered. The Mics.
tyanin is his hero. the itinerant shoe.
maker or tInsmith. the Cosiaky or bare
footed. Gorky's pages are fun Of bitter
| llNANHA anu NhFNiVudAf III iAlNlii
Surely Tolstois successor. II he real
| ~ proves TO be what Russia now pro-
claims him. Is one OF the most roman
tie figures IN the Republic or Letters
Gorky's father was on unholsterer
| and died when the boy was Eve years
| Old The young author is about thirty
two now, by the way. He was hired
| out Inv a shoe shop, ran away: appreu-
| ticed to a draughtspan ran away; put
| az the making of wooden saints. hired
| out as cooks boy on q steamer and
then made gardeners assistant He
also peddled apples, worked on dock.
s"~'oH wood and acted as porter Then
he went TO Tzartizyn ard WAS watch
man on railroad He tried TO go into
the army, but they refused TO accept
| p ramp
he sold beer for awhile, then was
| hired by lawyer hgt ;ramped on 10
| Tir- where he Worked In a railroad
shop ard published his first novel In a
local paper. Then he wandered back
10 Nolga. and at Nizhni- Novgorod lived
| by selling sketches 10 the newspapers.
IN this way he met the writer Vladimer
Kololenko. one Of the most brilliant
men OF Russian letters and developed
| very rapidly under his guiding hand.