Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-11-15

ment, and also saw much OF charitable
| medical work Those experiences huye
| given her Keen insight into the pccu
liar lie IN this unique part Of Boston
ana warm interest In the people for
whom she and others were labOring, and
with whom her novel "rhe Heart of Ike
| Doctor" deals.
Miss Nster Is at present In Italy,
where she hopes by "A residence OF a
| year or more to perfect herself in DE
language to study the features VI llal-
! ian life, especially as bearing IN spr'o-
I logical, educational and religious ques-
tions and to gain fuller kno Sledge Of
Italian art.
The Baroness Won Hutton, author Of
"Our Lady Of the Beeches' expects to
visit this country during the coming
winter. Her home Is in Bavaria, ieI-
many, but she is a native OF Pannsyl-
| Vana.
The much-tallied dramatization Of
Mary Johnston's last novel, Audrey "
! Will be produced at the Madison Square
| Theater, New York, on Nov Is. Flea
nor Robson has the title role,
In Harper's for November, Mr. How
| ellis In commenting on George Eliots
| work, discusses the difficulty presented
| to the woman writer in giving an al
| tictic and faithful picture of the men
| necessary 10 her stories. Mr., Howell
| says:
1T seems as If there must always be
women artists as well as men artists,
| ana that In the art Of fiction the woman
artits should be obliged II not tempted,
| to realize their acquaintance with men
to the perception of their readers No
story can get on, or get far on, with
women alone in it; there must be men
TO Keep 1t going, and II II Is woman
who writes the story II must be a
woman who paints the mems charac-
tiers.
'Of course she has to do the best she
can under the conditions. She cannot
know men so thoroughly as a man can
know women. There Is whole world,
a dreadful world, which a passably
good man may al least know about, out
which can be known only to the worst
Of women. Still that Is a world well
lost to knowledge for most practical
purposes, and If the woman who IL
writing a story will take her men IN
the ordinary circumstances Of life, or as
they are usually known TO the human
family, and not In their uttermost moral
squalor, there is nothing In her being a
woman that shall prevent her repre-
senting them accurately, wildly, tculh-
fully. She must look into her heart and
write, as a man must but IN the heart
of every human being there Is the po-
tentialty OF every woman and every
man, irrespective of the kings sex, ana
so long as Il woman honestly reports
what she sees I'm her heart she will
make a successful appeal to the recog-
milton of her readers with the figure to
which she attributes the nature Of a
man"
Albert lowering the illustrator Of
Grimm Tales Made Gay" has been do
ing some very clever work lately. He
studied art at the Munich Academy be-
sides taking "A course In architecture
which gives his work precision pos
sessed by few illustrators
"Our Lady OF the Beeches" and "The
Confessions of a Wife" both Just pub
lished, are arousing considerable dis
cussion over their respective merits.
Both first appeared serially In prom
inent magazines, both treat with a rare
frankness the questions Of marriage aud
divorce, and are full Of a penetrating
philosophy of life, and both have inter-
estng names on their title-pages. The
first is by the Baroness Won Hutton, an
American girl who married a German
noble, and the second is by MARY
Adams" the anonymity OF which ev-
cry one is trying to solve,
In the Editors Study OF Harpers for
November Mr.. Alden refutes the idea
that American literature is on the de
cline, and that there is no demand for
good books. He says:
MANY fallacies are entertained con-
corning publishers editors, and those
who are employed asreaders SO many
books and so many periodicals are pub
liShed which have no relation to any
thing which may properly be called lit
erature that II Is too generally assumed
that all publishing enterprises have
that detachment and are of wholly
commercial characters II this We're
true IL would cast grave reflection
upon the great body Of intelligent
readers In this country, showing on
their part monstrous depravity. The
real situation is far different from that
supposed. There is a large and steadily
increasing number Of cultivated and
appreciative American readers whose
taste has not been yitiated, and who
insist upon the highest standards and
the best ideals. How large this audi
ence Is may be inferred from the fact
that novel, OF supreme distinction as
literature, and with no Fictitious claim
to popularity, may have sale OF from
50 TO 100000 copies-larger than II could
have had a generation ago. II Is an
audience demanding something better
than 1t gets, but not something better
than we trust it VIII get. We have no
such constellation of great noyelwriters
as 40 years ago frightened the English
literary heavens. The interval has been
made radiant by solitary stars. now
and then Of great magnitude. We may
not soon see such another group as
throngtd the field, dazz The view OF
the last generation; but The skies are
nebulously rich for fresh indications to
satisfy the eagerly expectant eyes of
the English speaking people. The de-
mand will surely he met. We are not
uonfessing TO the inferiority OF our
own present literature as compared
with the past Excluding from the re-
Prospect a single period. as brief AS IL
was BRILLIANT. on the contrary, Ia
America, literary taste and literary ac-
tivity are far advanced since the days
OF Irving and Cooper. The quality of
our literature Is better than In those
days: appreciation is quicker and more
abundant, judioious criticism more ex-