The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-16

iShed in book form THIS TAIL IL Is
said that Miss Keller undertook writ
ug the story in order that she might
earn enough by it to purchase smaH
Island in Halifax harbor and build
summer home there.
The following are Brander Matthews
Twelve rules for reviewers, as set forth
IN his last book, Pen and Ink.
FEst-FOrm an honest opinion.
Second-EXpress it honestly.
Third-Don't review book which
you cannot take seriously.
Fcurth-Don't review a book with
which you are out of sympathy That
is to say. put yourself in the authors
place and try to see his work from his
point of view. which is sure to be
cOign Of vantage
Fifth-Stick to the text Review the
book before you, and not the book
some other author might have written;
ObiteT dicta are as valueless from the
critic as from the Judge Don't go of
on a tangent And also don't 90 round
in a circle. say what you have got to
say and stop. Don't go on writing
about the subject, and merely weaving
garlands of flowers of rhetoric.
Sixth-Beware OF the Sham Sample,
as Charles Reade called it, Make sure
that the specimen bricks YOU select for
quotation do not give false impress
sion Of the facade. and not only Of the
elevation merely. but of the perspec-
tive also, and Of the ground plan.
SeYenth-In reviewing a biography or
a history. criticise the book before You,
and don't write a parallel essay for
which the volume you have in hand
serves only as a pes
Eighth-In reviewing a work OF nc
ton don't give away the plot In the
eyes of the novelist this is an unpar-
donable sin. And, as it discounts the
pleasure of the reader also, II is al
most equally Unkind to him.
SiHth-DOn't try to prove every sue
cessful author is a piagia-ist It may
be that many a successful author has
been 2 plagiarist. but no author ever
succeeded because of his plagiary.
Tenth-Don't break a butterfly on a
wheel. If a book is not worth much it
is not worth reviewing.
EleveIth-Don't review a book as an
east wind would review an apple tree
so il was once said Douglas Jerrold
was went 10 do. Of what profit TO any
one is mere bitterness and vexation of
spirit?
Twelftb-Remember that the critics
duty is TO the reader mainly, and that
it is to guide him not only TO what is
good, but TO what is best. Three parts
of7what is contemporary must be tenn
pOrary only. 5r
Did YOU ever notice" inquired an old
reader. how many of the book reviews
tcGav bear evidence % the fact that the
reviewer has frequently read more than
the preface of the book he has writer
about 1t reminds me of the story a
Lambs letter 20 Coieridse- 10 seems tn4i
COleridEe had written very extended
review OF Priestley works, WRereupor
Lamb wrote
-''f Dear COleridEe: ] was very much
interested I'm your review of PrIeSfley
works Priestiev Is a great favorite of
mine and I am sure. IL YOU would read
him, YOU would like him, too .---....
Yours CHARLES LAMB.
Probably the next great book o
travel" saws an English literary journal
"siH be DIT. Sven Hedin's account Of IN.
two years wanderinss i'm Thibet, west
ern China and the desert of GODL Ac
cordinE to recent newspaper accounts, Dr
Hediu claims to have Travelled b.UJJ miles
only 500 OF Whlch were through Know
country. He left Stockholm i'm June o
1899 for St Petersburg, whence ne mad'
his way by rail, horse and foot 20 tn'
lake of Lob Nor. where his 6cD miles o
travel began, The greatest dangers h'
encountered were the sandstOTmS IN IN
Cobb desert. which occur as frequently al
twice a week and sometimes last i've
davs He made several attempts to TeaCi
LIasa. the sacred city, but on one occa
sion he was captured and sent back ans
on another most of MS caravan an,
equipment were lost He is reported Z
IL r.n~. III.
months previous and also some very Talu
able manuscripts which he had Uneartne
in ancient Chinese and Monaghan cities
At the present time he is travelling nome
where he viii at once begin the prepare
ton Of his book
a new edition of Walter Savage Ian
doris book on Thibet Is announced. Read
ers have not yet forgotten the norIloI
cruelties which Mr. Lander suffered u
| this same country.
Entirely aside from the merit Of tn
story. Circumstance By Dr. ,. W e
Mitchell. many readers who nave beel
afflicted with the mania for COLLECTING
will thoroughly enjoy old John L air
! thorne and his delight in his collector
of autographs. II recalls many I'D
/ stances Of the extent To which collector
will go i'm order TO satisfy their craving
Z for rarity. A story is told or parse
I who had quite q collection OF autograph
Z which were stolen one night along wit
I a great deal OF valuable booty The par
son advertised his forgiveness 10 IN
Z thief If he would return one-haI ot IN
autographs
Clement X. Shorter is 81 the gpinio
/ that number of literary men OF Ems
2 land VIII be knighIed during the comm
( coronation services I'm London, DUt D
/ adds that he does not believe shat 81
D Anthony Hope VIII b- among the list
s The reason given IS that Mr. Anthon
/ Hope has been indiscreet enough % wit
( a play. "Pilkerton's Peer1ge. wIca 4a
! aroused disapprOvaI at the court. -
/ Conan Doyle and Sir Rudyara t>lPiin
: are at the present time being mucn DIS
l cussed. kipliug deserves the honor lee
I and the $4,000 il was instrumental !
/ raising Tor the widows and orphans
{ Doyie's Great Boer War" should o
4 ground enough for his title
! Some one has started the story that IN
/ wide popularity of the Russian novelis
! Gorky. in his own country IS Que 10 ~
I possession of an iron ring recent
/ given him by Tolst0i. According 20 IN
I Russian legend. the ring has W7nQerIt
I literary properties and has passed COW
/ from ore great Russian writer 10 an1tll
/ for centuries. TuFgenieff. when dying.
1 Is claimed. passed the wOndeTtIi Fin
! 20 Tolst0i. and. not long ago. Iolsto
/ feeling his end 20 be near, sent the I'm
10 Gorky.
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