Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-01

general public Now there are more
| female writers than male No woman
poet has ever written an inevitable line,
line that flashes spontaneously out Of
the unknown and casts an illuminating
light upon the abyss, Woman has add,
| ed practically nothing 10 our stock OF
familiar quotations Take down your
Bartlett or your anthology. and you
may be surprised TO find that from Mrs
Browning 10 Mrs Meynell women hay,
never coined phrase which has passed
into the common currency Of speech
Mrs Browning has indeed written fine
mes but nothing Of hers can be said
to have become household word.
Nor has any woman novelist created
any character that is generally recog
niZed as typical George Eliot has come
closest with her Tito Melema and Mrs
Poyser You would appeal only to the
educated few If you described a person
as a Tito or Poyser. But call a mar
a Don Quiyote, a Micawber. a Dog
berry, Falstaff, Colonel Newcome
a Bliil, Parson ADAMS, Bob Acres
call a woman a Mrs. Malaprop, a
Becky sharp Beatrice, Diana Yer
non Meg Merriles, and even the Hitter
ate will mentally classify the individual
as YOU wish him or her to be classified
"Ah, but" you say "ln real life wO-
men are the true intuitlons. They size
up n man or woman at a glance
They are never mistaken when they
trust TO their Instincts"
I ! can only testify TO my own expert
ence. ] have not found that women's
snap judgments of character are i'm
bued with any special verify They
form likes or dsllBes quicker than man
does because they are quicker on the
trigger OF conjecture, They can only
be one OF two thngs-rght or wrong
II time proves that they are right as
they must be in 30 per cent Of cases
the right guess IS remembered and
treasured up by the slower.minded man
as an extraordinary instance Of IntuI-
ton, The wrong guess is forgotten.
Miss Louise Forsslund. whose new
novel The Ship Of Dreams. ls Just pub
llshed by the Harpers, had an interest
ing experience with her first novel The
Story Of Sarah In the first place, the
book was the young authors initial at
tempt at a long story, and she spent
three years in writing 1t. Then fol-
low ed eight weary months In which
she endeavored to find a publisher
The first one rejected It; the second
likewise; and so on through Ave dismal
reflections. The sixth refused even 20
examine It, saying he was too busy
The seventh publisher accepted IT, and
'he book proved big success Nov
comes this authors second book, TIE
snip of Dreams, showing a striking
..lts has
FIST, and dealing with that part of our
country and people its author knows
best-Long Island and Its native folk.
japanese authors receive so little pay
for work in their own country that .
native writer says there Is no hope fot
any remarkable japanese work to be
PRODUCED. A Japanese man Of letters,
In order to live in bare comfort, has 20
produce at least four or five long
volumes year and II Is seldom he re-
Cfiyes as much as 5000 for voluminous
novel, In order TO live deCently he must
earn at least 500 year. II will BE-
seen from these figures that he car
scarcely be expected to DO any fine
work at that rate of production, The
only professional japanese author IN
VII, Sc latest story, The Wooing OF Wis
tarla, the charming love story OF a
lady OF quality, has just been published
by Harper & Brothers. Miss Watanna's
striking success In this country ought
70 encourage other japanese novelists
10 learn English and come TO America,
$3.50
When Col. T. w. Higginson was In
ha hn
auch impressed with the great popu-
lority Of Longfelow's poems there and
the large annual sale OF them which
the booksellers reported. In his life Of
Longfelow just published Mr.. Higgln
son has made distinct contribution TO
cur previous knowledge Of the poet
character and work, having had much
new material at hand.
George Ebers' earlier work stlll flu
nlches the standard by which to judge
Psychological fiction. Alexander Clio
yafskis "The Pharaoh and the Priest"
translated from the Polish by Mr.. Jere
niah Curtin, and published, OF course,
by Messrs. Little Brown g. Co., resem
lies the German writer's stories In
nothing except in its unmistakab'e
eruditlon, which sits, however, witt
surprising lightness upon the Polish
authors shoulders, Here Is a novel OF
which IL can be said that it gives life
10 the far distant past. Mr.. Glovatski
iepicts men and women like ourselves,
affairs Of state such as might have
been in France before the Revolution,
as may be IN rural Russia today-thc
struggle between the Pharaoh and q
ruling priesthood, the sufferings OF the
peasantry, the money power OF the
Ploenician. the relations between The
farther east and the mighty empire on
the Nile. This is historical fiction NJ
the best, the truest kind, fascinating In
is pictures Of life now gone and fof.
gotten, dignified and made strong by =
note OF profound understanding OF the
life and needs, the sufferings and joys
OF all humanity We owe Mr. Curtin q
debt Of gratitude for his discovery OF
Slenkiewcz TO the English-reading
world. Hardly less must be the thanks
he deserves for translatlng this new
Polish master and introducing him 10
US. THE Pharaoh and the Priest" Is a
book to be recommended without re-
serve.
Mr.. Richard Harding Davis has fallen
in love with the soldier Of fortune
not the fighting idealist OF whom the |
late Count de Ynlebois- Mareull was
the modern type, but the adventurer |
pure and simple. who seeks danger and
fighting f0 their own sake. Captain |
Macklin." HIS latest hero OF this class |
whose story Messrs. Charles Scribner's |
Sons have just published, IS a very |
young man. with this poison Of adven.
ture hot in his veins; he has tasted VI |
ouce, he must taste II again. At tie
End Of the book We find him ready 10 |
fight under the French flag, under any |
flag, wherever fighting is 10 be done
yet declaring himself true az heart TO