Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-10

ries, includes "Harpers Encyclopedia
Of United States History" which stood
No SO on a list OF 80 arranged In the
order OF the number Of votes received,
and including popular fiction,
The weird and wonderful adventures
Of Steve Bonnet and his plratlcal crew
as set forth I'm Kate Bonnet Frank r..
Stockton's new novel (Appleton3D have
appealed Ia Jack Tar In q most forciblC
way, and the navy department has or
dered copies placed In the ships u
braries Of the United states navy The
book has gone through four editions In
less than a month.
When Kate Douglas Wlggin is not In
England or New York city she is likely
TO be found AZ "OuillCotc-on -SacO," her
home at Hollis Maine Here, when the
weather Is fine. she win write all day
in a nook IN the orchard, which she
calls her "apple-tree study with a
pad and pencil and an easy chair, under
the blue sky and the spell Of the innu-
merable Whisperlngs Of a dr0Wsy sum
mer day, much OF her latest work 1.-THE
Diary Of a Goose Girl" was written So
1t Is doubly an out-of-door book Three
proofs Of every line I'm print Is what
Mrs, Wiggin requires from her publish
ers before she Is satisfied 90 let the
book out upon the world, and many a
time Is the manuscript corrected before
It goes TO the printer. 1t is said that
she has now commenced q dramatiza-
ton of 1.-THE Birds Christmas Carol
Ia ,,4 gfta,, tbnt Av,aqtpay, hnnku
win much popularity I'm England. But
Mr. w. l.. Alden says IN a recent letter
from London, Miss Mary JohnstOn's
Audrey is praised by nearly all the
English newspapers-especlally by
those whose judgment is worth some-
thing. II Is also having an excellent
sale, Indeed, ! do not know Of any
novel Of the last u months which has
had a more decided success here than
Audrey has had
Bret Hartes 20 years experience in
California seems 10 have furnished him
with an ineNhaustible fund Of the best
OF story material, Openings In the Old
Trail" a collection of nine new tales
Of vigorous western life, Astounding in
genial humor and picturesque charm.
There Is IAN All Baba Of the Sierras."
a Goddess Of the Excelsior" and
Colonel Starbottle for the PLAINTIFF
the very titles are so suggestive and al
Turing that nothing more need be said.
How Julien Gordon, CMrs. Van Rens-
selaer CrugeO finds time In her busy
life to write her admirable stories Is a
mystery to her publishers. Worlds
People, q new book from her pen, Is
promised for the summer. II deals with
people Of today. and is treated in her
brilliant trenchant style.
Tn Hamlln Garland's capital new
novel "The Captain Of the Gray Horse
Troop" Just published by the Harpers,
there is a particularly attractive Amer
lean girl, elsie Brisbane the heroine.
who has been studying art In Paris,
and has come to the West to paint
Indians. She regards the Indians sim
ply as 50 much material" for sketches,
while Captain Curtis, the young army
officer who Is the hero OF the story. has
the most earnest sympathy with the
lives and hopes OF the redmen The
between the artistic. studio
atmosphere which surrounds Elsie, and
the rude and primitive life she and her
friends are leading and the differences
in the points Of view Of the hero and
heroine, are plcturesquely worked out
In the novel 1t Is PROFESSIONALLY the
most interesting book Mr. Garland has
ever written.
A contributor to the ''Writer" maya
y q
fellow! 81 once wrote to the poet
Longfellow asking him TO give me
some account Of the circumstances UNI
der which he wrote "The BRIDGE
stood on the bridge at midnight, "a
poem which an eminent English critic
has called "the most sympathetic in
this language | received In return
cordial note from the poet in which he
said: IF you viii come over and pass
m evening with me, Il will give me
pleasure to tell you the history Of the
poem, and also Of any of my poems
hat may interest you"
A few evenings later found me at the
poets door at his Cambridge home. He
was then verging on 70 years. in the
'ulness Of his experience and the ripe
less Of his fame. ! paused at the door
before ringing the bell ] rang. and
vas shown into a long hall-like room. !
llmly lighted, In which was a broad |
able, antique furniture, and a tall |
colonial clock. The poet was there
llOne. He arose 10 meet me. and |
ormed a striking and statuesque fig
Ire, with his kindly smile and long |
white hair and beard. "And so you |
would like to know something about !
he first inspiration Of some Of my |
led me 10 write them?" |
lie said when we We're seated. "Well, |
'ou are very kind
Il will tell you first how | came to |
write the Psalm Of Life was a |
'oung man then / we'll recall the time.
[ was a bright day and the trees were
blooming, and felt an impulse 10 write
nut my aim and purpose In the world; |
wrote the poem and put II into my
ocket wrote 1t for myself / did
ot intend It for publication. Some
lonths afterward ] was asked for
oem by a popular magazine. | re-
allied my Psalm of Life | copied Il.
ent 1t to the periodical. 1t saw the
ght, took wings, and flew over the
'orld. There you may see Il, written
n japanese screen"
He pointed TO a high, richly orna-
rented screen that stood before a great
replace. He added an anecdote that /
ave always regarded as a true picture
his soul.
when | was In England ! was hon
red by receiving an invitation from
le queen. As ! was leaving the palace
ard, my carriage was hindered by the
owd of vehicles. There came TO the
,or Of the coach a looking Eng
III w0rkingman.
" Are you Professor Longfellow? he
i'd.
81 bowed.
% May 1 ask, sir, II you wrote the
salm of LifeT
II answered that / did.
" Would you be willing. sir, 10 take
by the hand? ,
II extended my hand 10 him he
lsped It, and never In my life have /
ceived compliment that gave me so
UGH satisfaction.
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