Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-01-12

& Co., who announce q most salts
factory first sale.
A larger sale OF the first number OF
| The Worlds Work Is rcported than
| OF any new 2j-cent magazine since
scribner's was first issued fourteen
| years ago,
a noteworthy feature OF the January
number Of The Worlds Work win be
| an authoritative account Of the first
crossing Of Africa, from south TO north.
| by the young English explorer Ewart
Scott Gorgan,
Alfred Olllvants "Bob. Son OF Bat
| tle," Is now selling I'm its twenty-sixth
| thousand Thereby hangs an interest
ing and unusual tale When this now
| famous book was issued a little more
| than two years ago II fen dead from
the press, nor dii liberal advertising
helm the sale though every one who
read 70 thought il a unique and re-
| markable story The tide turned al
| the end Of six months however. and
since that time the book has enjoyed a
steadily Increasing sale, a single
American bookseller dlsposing Of more
| copies than probably have been sold
| "Owd Bob" must rejoice 20 know OF
! the permanent popularity OF their
| favorlte and Of the keen appreciation
| that a really fine book has found in
! America as compared with It's reception
IN its authors home land.
More than $4,000 copies OF Booth
| Tarkington's "rhe Gentleman from In
| diana" have now been sold and 20
| emphasize IT'S success Charles Frohman
has lately arranged for rs dramatIza-
/ ton. Admirers Of the story viii be
keen 10 see the part Of Helen. she who
runs her lovers business when he Is
49, develops his newspaper, and IN a
| score OF ways proves herself a model
and capable young woman.
The remarkable success Of the new
| novel, "a Furnace Of Earth has
| plqued curiosity as 10 the personality
| ~ fits author, Halle Erminie Rives.
| Some quaint stories are told ~ this
| young girls child-life I'm Kentucky. Her
father was a noted shot and as a child
/ her greatest passion was p rife one
| day, while she was still IN short dresses,
| she was missed from the house. A
! prolonged search Of the premises failed
| 10 discover her whereabouts. As the
searchcrs cXended the circle Of their
| inquiry, a series Of rife shots drew
| them 20 the ward Of the country church
| There they found the culprit She had
/ stolen her fathers duck gun and at
| twenty PAGES was laboriouslv shooting
| her name into the back Of the church
resting the too-heavy barrel Of the
piece on the woolly head OF the inter-
csted and rrnning little darkey who
was her "fdus Achates" in all her
| childish escapades.
Howard Pylce, who has lately illus
| trated the poems OF Edwin Markham
| for Doubleday, Page & Co.. has some In
| teresting things 20 say about what must
have been a wholly congenial task. He
writes.
81 do not know why II Is that I
should have drifted into the position Of
an illustrator u what Is sometimes
called the poetlcal essay Some years
| ago I began, illustrating the occasional
poems Of Mr.. W. D. Howells which
We're afterwards collected into a volume
called stops Of Various quilts"
Whether or not the Illustrations were
very successful do not know but since
then I have every now and then been
called upon 20 illustrate a poem of the
! Analytical sort
"T think the music and the mt Of Mr.
| Markham's poems Mt them quite above
the level ~ the usual rhyme1 essay.
The music and the rhythm catch your
ear before your mind grasps the sub.
stantial thought which they clothe and
the fact that there Is the thought be-
hind adds in no small degree to the on
joyment Of his often ornate wording.
| Oftentlmes the songs possess great
| metrical beauty and even In the sombre
verse there Is a rhymthIc stride that
| catches the ear like the music Of the
measured tramp Of many feet This. at
least Is my own feeling toward Mark
hams poems, and 1t added in no small
| degree 20 my pleasure In illustrating
them
such illustrations are not very easy
10 make, there are so many require
ments demanded by such text There +
no palpable subject TO seze upon, The
Illustrations should be sober and yet
az the same time not devoid OF a GER
tain. at least decorative beauty; they
should in no instance limit or circum-
scribe the idea-upon the contrary they
should carry forward the thought Of the
author-not upon the same line but MP
on a closely parallel line. This OF
course is very difficult OF achievement
In looking over my illustrations ! feel
that ! have fallen far short Of achieve
ment. nevertheless the effort itself has
carried with It very distinct and cum
ulative pleasure"
Probably no one would have prophe-
sled, when a story called "a Titled
Maiden" took second prize IN the Pill
grim Series contest Of iSS9-least OF all,
the obscure wife OF a New England
clergyman, who wrote it-that It's au-
thor was 10 become one Of our leading
woman novelists. Yet "a Woman NJ
Yesterday" Mrs. Caroline Mason's last
book. published In the late fall by Dou-
bleday. Page & Co., has earned her
that place. Mrs. Mason Is OF Quaker
stock, and her father and mother--the
latter Of whom was a direct descendant
Of Theophius Eaton first governor OF
Connecticut-were both ardent Adolf
tlonists. Born in Providence, r. l., the
daughter grew M IN a typical New
England home Frail health kept her
from the strenuous competition ~ the
schools, and her education a desultory
one. was received at home, and later at
Friends boarding schools, a private day
school, and by travel and study in Ger
many. She married Rev. John II. Ma
son in 1877 shortly after her family had
moved TO Rochester.
The "scribhling" which she had al
ways delighted in was partially put
aside during her earlier married year,
but the prize story IN 1889 started her
ambitions anew. Mr. Mason was called
to a New Haven church, and soon Mrs
Masnn's book was remarked by Mr.. Box
OF The Ladies' Home Journal. With his
announcement 1.-THE Minister OF tbs
World" "The Inner Ring" Window
err" and "The Minister Of Carthag." l.
lowed during the next few years. show
ing consistent growth in power fex-
iblllty and expression. and eliminating
In "a Woman Of Yesterday"