The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-26

newspapers. Here is a kind OF writing
very different from the preparation or
fact of the timeliness with style, what
Mr. HART calls The literary treatment
Of = news subject
That there Is reason in his argument
no one can deny The Supplen ent editor
of a newspaper does much to mould the
clay of common scribolers into beauurui
vessels, watch glow and palpitate ana
change hues with the mood OF the pres
ent day they are trying TO reflect
THE new man., writes Mr. Eartt =
presenting himself peTpetually and mul-
fitudinousIy. Also heterogenously: re-
porters. painters. stOwawayS, preachers,
collegians. jailbirds Turks. Jews, RID
what a motley array. And these 70
whom the angel says Writet must, Tor
such is the editorial demand for time
illness that out of the as yet untrled must
be wrested success.
That Boston stin slings to her former
greatness as the literary center OF TINS
country is shown by at least two books
recently published. Literary Boston oil
Today by Helen ". WlnSleW, president
of the Authors club OF that city, and
''FicJionai Rambles In and About Bos-
ton" by Frances Weston carruth, ana
that Boston had and still mas much OIL
which TO boast, these books bear evl-
dence il plenty. Those who are bookish
or who are interested in the best in
American books will find delightful pleas
ure in reading these volumes and study
ing the pictures which. in the "Fictional
Rambles. throw so much light on our
classic stories in the making in ist
CT 100 best American authors or twenty
years ago, more than half would be found
to be BOstOnesc. Today the list WOULD
not show as large a proportion, yet tne
array of literary talent that comes out OF
that staid old city will convince anyone
that Boston is still remarkably rich IN
book culture.
ITO the traveller. writes Mrs. Carruth.
the old world owes its attractiveness
quite as much to the creations of Shake
speare, Scott, Thackeray, Dickens, Balzac,
Hugo and Dumas as TO the princes,
statesmen and soldiers of whose births
and deaths history tells US with 50 much
pomp and precision. IL was said by an
admirer Of Henry Esmond that the charm
Of the Potomac river was not IN the mill
tary associations so inSeDarably blended
With it. but IN the fact that on its banks
Esmond and the woman, who had so
patiently waited for his WOoing- had es-
tablished themselves; linking the noble
Virginia stream with the memories of the
Stuarts and Addison, with the English
meadows and with the campaigns of
Marlborough. Gibraltars towering might
impressed a devOtee of Marryat not as
being Engiand's gateway fortress of the
against a world In arms. but as the scene
of the exploits of Mr.. Midshipman Easy
and the discontinue of the surly boat
swain. Every year a thrOng of tourists
wander through the land of Evangeline
asking persons native to the soil to point
out localities whose names. as rule,
toned, unless, perchance, they may have
read Longfeilow's immortal poem. Robin
son CrusOe's island has been explored as
thoroughly as for buried treasure-the
seekers looking not for gold or jewels,
but to identify the spring, the cave, or the
spot on the sands where Robinson was
startled by the solitary footprint
$50 Boston has been the scene of much
that will live in American fiction: but II
may be doubted IL il has yet fulfilled ali
, that may be required of it by the poet
town not only OF New England, but of
North America, leading politically and
commercially as well as intellectually,
but the men who gave it worl--wide fame
in literature were not writing fiction
Mrs. Carruth has come to her task well
fitted. She is direct descendant of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullins, and her pill
grim blood must have enjoyed the labor
of recording her fictiOnal rambleS in and
about BOstOn-the very heart of her own
country. Five years each of life in WASH
| her enthusiasm Mrs. CarrUth reads ON
niverously, and when one with her gifts
reads much, it is a short step TO an at
tempt at writing. Her first book, Those
Dale Girls was mainly founded on fact
| she and her sister haVing-oWing to their
| fathers loss Of fOrtune-lived through
many of the experiences of the book. The
plot and characters of the story We're
| however. entirely fictitious. Her second
/ book, -"The Way of belinda" is a New
York story on different lines. having no
foundations in fact. and written, so the
| author explains, for the purpose OF con-
vincing herself that she had creative
I ability Both of these books had an inn
mediate success.
/ and traditions, Mrs Carruth considers
\ that her task in writing the 'FictiOnal
/ Rambles" was easier because she had
/ The true Bostonese would scarcely have
| been able to see and comment upon al
J of the many sides OF that city.