Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-20

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with the issue of April 18th The
Youths Companion entered upon it's
18th year. This "15th Birtnday Issue
is double number, counting
among us contributors the vice. presi-
dent Of the United States, Theodore
Roosevelt, Mary Il, wilkins and Sarah
Barnwell Elliott
The vice president of the United
States. the Secretary OF the navy, the
| director Of the Twelfth census, the
| chief statlstician Of the department Of
| agriculture are announced among the
| distinguished contributors TO the four
| April issues OF The Youths Companion
In honor Of the 10Th birthday OF The
| Youths Companion the publishers have
! issued q handsome 10Th Birthday Sou
| venir." IL contains series OF striking
| maps and suggestive facts, showing the
| vast growth of the nation and OF the
| nations foremost family weekly since
the day in April 1927. which saw the
| first number OF the first volume OF The
Youths Companion come from the
press.
In 1927 The Youths Companion began
life with practically no subscribers
In 1901 the subscription list contains
more than 600 names, and the paper
enters that number Of homes every
week
In 1927 The Companion consisted Of
four pages Of about 9xl2 inches in size,
with three columns to page.
In 1901 The Companion has an aver
age Of at least u pages of lll5Xl6 Inches
In size, with four columns 10 a page.
In 1927 The Companion was prlnci-
pally made up Of selections from other
publications, There were no illustra-
lions.
In 1901 The Companion publishes
more than 225 stories and articles by
the most popular writers Of fiction, en-
inent statesmen, scientists, educators,
travellers and explorers. The text Is
embellshed with over 500 illustrations
ALI by well-known artists.
In 1927 boy brought the paper for a
weeks edition Of The Companion In a
bundle on a wheelbarrow.
In 1901 the paper for a weeks edition
is brought on eleven two-horse drays,
ten rolls of paper on each dray, and
each roll weighing $50 pounds.
Paris has Just discovered Quo Vadls.
The sales Of the translation OF sienkie-
wiez's great story beat the records OF
lola and Ohnet.
Governor General Leonard Wood has
taken from his official duties time
enough for the preparation Of pic
turesque bit OF prose. This Is an arti-
Gle entitled, ION the Trail OF Geronimo, ="
and II is to appear in Outing.
New Shakespeareana, quarterly,
will shortly appear an Issue OF the
Shakespeare Society Of New York, This
society now sixteen years old, finds IT.
self rich enough 10 re-establish its or
gan after a long interval of silence.
The hero Of George Glssings forth
coming novel is a man with a perfect
genius for making mistakes and choos-
ing the wrong one Of any two courses
that may be presented TO him. He goes
from failure to failure, but at the end
success comes.
In Harpers Magazine Amelie Rives
win again appear as an author or some
thing striking and original" Mean
while the magazine will publish some
interesting letters written by her
grandmother, Mrs, w. c. Rives, during
her stay in Paris In 1910. These let
ters describe the revolution OF that
year and show much literary ability
The fiction announced by Messrs
Houghton Miniin and company for the
spring has surprisingly wide range OF
interest Boston appears In a humor-
Gus story Of the servant.girl problem
"The Successors Of Mary the First, by
Elizabeth stuart Phelps; Chicago in a
Tolstolan novel by Win Payne called
"The story OF Eva" and Paris in
Eugena Brooks Frothlngham's The
Turn Of the Road" Kate Douglas
: Virgins "Peneope's Irish Expert
ences" surveys Ireland; Colonial VIZ
ginia appears in Burton E. Stevenson
romantic Soldier OF Virginia and
Europe in Clara Louise Burnham's
Miss Pritchards Wedding Trip Alice
Brown paints part OF New Hamp-
shire in Kings End" and for the sea
there is Dog Watches at Sea by stan
ton King.
The Turn Of the Road the romance
Of a singer by Eugenia Brooks troth
ingham, young woman well known II
Boston society circles, who makes VIII
! this volume her entrance into literature
has been so well received that II hat
been found necessary to make thlr(
impression. Two impressions were ex
!. hausted before the day of publication.
People are reading Babs the Impossi
Bile and eXclaiming, What Will Saral
Grand do next" The men are congrat
ulatlng themselves upon having ESCAPED
her scalpe this time; and the woman
question has no part in her latest book
A bright story, with sparkling dialogue
! and a fascinating. heroine whom on
alternately longs TO chastise and EN-
brace. are the chief attractions In Babs
, As for Babs herself, what can be said
II she had had different moline
, would she have been better girlv
.
Since the appearance OF Babs the I'm
, possible the publishers have received
dozens OF letters asking II the dramatl
rights TO the book are open. They ar
obliged to reply that q dramatizatioi
of this lively novel is already in hand
"Babs" will be wonderfully captivat
: ing part for a star actress who pos
sesses youth. beauty and vicacity. w
can fancy how "Babs" would dane
through a play, creating CONSERVATION
and Amusement In her wake. What |
part IL would be for Lolita Crabtree, /
! l,only she could renew that fascinating
! youth Of hers!
Speaking of Felipa the heroine II
Miss Gwendolen Overtons novel TIT
Heritage OF Unrest the Brooklyn DALI
Eagle says that 'she Is altogether on
Of the most striking feminine creations
In recent fiction" The same pape
commits itself 70 the rashness of as
serting that III Kipling had written 1
the world would declare that Kiplns
! had improved" II refers TO Kipling fo
analogy simply because The Heritage
OF Unrest has the crispness OF charac
terlzation and romantic brevity Of dia
logue and comment which distinguish
that author, although without the over
emphasis. The heroine Felipa is al
Apache half cast, beautiful well edu
Gated, the wife OF Captain Lander, ant
a savage at heart all the time. She Is
one OF the most complete as well as on
of the most extraordinary characters
In fiction"