Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-16

ranger Abbey for $40 outright Her
| publisher allowed the story 10 lie I'm his
! desk for fifteen years, and allowed Miss
Austen to buy baEI her manuscript AT
us original tgGL She had become
| famous IN the meantime but her fame
had evidently not reached the Bath
| publisher
Tolstoys favorlte thinkers and au-
| thors-according to his recent bio
| glapher SergeJcnko-are Socrates,
| Epictetus, Pascal, Dickens. Victor
Hugo, LermontoG, and above all Rous.
seau, whose Confessions made a last
ing impression on him At one time he
| had with him collection Of German
authors, but the books were taken
| from him at the boundary, to be exam.
| med by the censor, and never returned
| to him. Hence II Is only lately that he
has become acquainted with the writ
| lhss OF Heine, Boerne and Schiller,
which he greatly admires and now fire.
quently cites.
| A letter written by Carlyle in 1921 was
| sold In London short time ago 1t
contained this characteristic passage.
| Literature Is like money, the appetite
|
| of literature, too are unwholesome and
| dreary as the mines Of Potosl Yet
| from either there Is no return, and
though little confident Of finding con-
| tentment-happines is too proud a
| term-I must work, ! believe, i'm those
damp caverns till once the whole mind
! Is recast or the lamp Of life has ceased
to burn within it,
The bOol; about the twenty-nlne men
| first chosen for place in the Hall Of
| Fame Will be written for the Putnams
| by George Cary Eggleston His work
| viii consist Of series of twenty-nine
monographs intended to answer in each
case the question, Why Is he here?
| What has he done to entitle him to a
| place in the Hall Of Fame? Reproduc-
tons Of the best portraits obtainable
| Will be given, The book will be pub
| lished first as an elaborate subscrip-
ton volume, ana later in a more popu-
lar form.
Sir John Tennel, the famous carica-
| turst, has retired from the staff of
London Punch Tennlel's work has been
the distinguishing feature of that pub
| LEGATION since 1862. when he began reg
| ularly to supply the full-page cartoon
dealing with the most important event
OF each week Many Of these cartoons
have had an important influence in
swaying public sentiment Tenniel, who
was discovered by Punch in 1850, when
he was thirty years old, will be sue
ceeded by Linley Sambourne, who has
been a regular contributor to Punch al
most as long as his predecessor Here
after the cartoons. instead of being
drawn by hand on wood, will be photo
| engraved.
| The impression gains ground that
! Jack London Is a coming author-that
| 1T is merely a matter Of few yeavs
| when he will be recognized as q writer
as forceful as Kipling, as finished and
| discerning as Lafcadio Hearn;" and
that "what Klplng has done for India,
and Lafcadio Hearn foW Japan, Jack
| London has done for the Arctic so
writes Howard V. Sutherland in I'M
pressions Of San Francisco, in taking
| up for the second time London's The
! Son of the Wolf. ut is only a matter
! Of time" he concludes. when he Will
! take his place among the few writer's
of really international reputation"
/
| General Lew Wallace's story, Ben
! Hur, which has probably passed
| through more editions than any other
! novel Of It's time, may soon be published
| In Greek General Wallace recently re-
! ceived a request from a Greek gentle
| man Of Constantin0Hle for his permits
! sion to make the translation. The
| would-be translator's letter TO General
| Wallace Is not without interest, Some
| time ago" he says. "a friend OF mine
gave me a German book, advising me
| to read il with attention, | never read
| novels. so | intended TO give II back
| without having opened It. But then
one day being unoccupied ] took II
| carelessly and began to read II, and II
| impressed me so much that ! read II
| again and again. and did not fail to
| translate parts of II to my father and
| brothers. ! looked for a Greek transla-
| ton of It, but there Is none. From that
time the idea has possessed me to trans
| late Ben-Hur into Greek, and Tor TINS
II Is my duty to ask your eXcellency,s
| permission. ! am sure all Greeks VIII
enjoy It as ! enjoyed It."
Arthur Morrison, the novelist, carries
| abroad with him a silver cigarette case
| After writing A Child Of the Jago, he
| received letter from an officer in
charge Of a fort IN Northwest India
| thanking him FOR the immense pleaiure
which the reading Of his beautiful tale
! had afforded. Shortly afterward Mr..
| Morrison's admlrer came home and
| died. on his deathbed he told his moth
| or that he wished TO leave a memento
| TO the author of A Child OF the Jago.
| Mr.. Morrison was sent for, and told to
| take his choice Of number of things
the dead soldier had left behind him.
| He selected as being the least intrin-
| sIcally valuable, n silver cigarette case,
| inscribed with its owners initials and
crest and. above the former he had
| inscribed the simple words: I'm Men,
DRY Of" Mr. Morrison is naturally
| very proud Of his possession, And in
! deed, A Child OF the Jago must have
| made a deep impression on its reader
to have resulted in so touching an in
| cident.
Maurice Hewlett whose Richard Yea
| and Nay is one Of the most notable
| books Of the day, attributes much Of
| his literary bent and skill to his father,
| but speaks indifferently of the influence
| of school and college life. Most of his
| days were given to reading and writing,
| and he left oxford without obtaining
| scholarship. II wasted my time" he
saws concerning these university days,
81 dreamed / tried to do things too big
| for me, and threw them up at the first
failure. diligently pursued every false
goa. don't think | was very happy,
| and am sure | was very disagreeable,
| | doubt now If was ever boy except
| for a short period, when by rights l
should have been a man."
The Academy of London remarks, In
| the course OF an article on American
publications, that It is most astonishing
that over there they seem to read
| nothing but fiction, The best selling