The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-27
THE
LITERARY
OUTLOOK
BY HERBERF BREwsTER-)

psesSioHs of these various people IN the
newspaper articles. Il did not require
a great deal of additional writing, how
ever to complete very interesting
book of travel. Some of her personal
experiences and those CT her compan-
ions we're thrown in. and she took oc-
casioa to tell what she thought OF Eng
FISH manners aud customs, with the
pleasing result of having made book
which not only the European traveller
viii enjoy, but the stay-at-hon1e as
Well. Mrs. Bogue is now at her sum
Iner home up the Hudson, where she
is at weflS on an account or married
hfe, in which her own husband figures
largely Mrs. Bogue evidently believes
in taking advantage of every expert
enee in life for use as material in hsr
writing.
Two new novels by well known Eng
fish writers are starting in serial pub
LEGATIONS here this summer Anthony
Hope has written a story of London
life, ia which a young widow is the
chief figure. called The Intrusions OF
Peggy" and James NJ. Barrie's last
story. The Little White Bird, tells
about the experiences of an Old club
bachelor, young married couple and
little child. The stories VIII be pub
lished in book form this coming fall
Harry De Windt, who was recently
rescued by a whaler up in the neigh
borhood of the strait between Siberia
and Alaska, viii doubtless have an in
teresting story to tell about his ex-
periences in making the overland trip
from Paris 60 New York Mr.. De
Windt has already shown himself TO be
an entertaining writer. his last book,
Finland AS It Is" having just been
published in this country So little is
known OF Finland here that the name
suggests little more to the average
reader than pine forests, wild, barren
country. with occasional fishing VIII
lagos, and an uninteresting people some
decades behind the times, but one does
not have to read far into Mr. De
Windt's book before the. country has a
fascinating Interest. The need OF such
book, however, is not so apparent
We probably care less for that partic-
ular bit Of the earth's surface than any
other just at this time. The subject,
doubtless, has more interest for Euro
peans- Indeed. the present book came
out of suggestion made to the author
By St. Petersburg bookseller, who
said he had many inquiries every sum
mer for volume on Finland. Acting
on the advice of this same bookseller,
Mr.. De Nindt made his book story
of q trip through the country, as well
as guide, telling Englishrhen and
Americans how 70 get there, what to do
and how to do il. Before taking the
would-be traveller into Finland. Mr.. De
Windt has given some experiences of
his own in various European capitals.
HE says that hfgdyety and beauty Of
ST. Petersburg sexists. only in the ina g
nations of English writer's, and calls
this city the ~dullest in Europe"
Miss Josephine Dodge Daskams vol
unle of short stories. The Madness of
Philip" is adding to the fame of the
author considerably, as well as MAX
ing a creditable record of sales for the
publishers. Most of the stories in the
book were published in the magazines.
where they attracted attention because
of their cleverness. There is little to
be added about the stories in their
present form, except that the volume is
tastefully bound and that the ilIustra-
tons by Miss Fanny Cory add much
TO the readers enjoyment of the char
acters of the various stories. There
is abundant FfiumOr in the tales them
selves and a. thorough knowledge of
children. but Miss Cory has way of
picturing children in mischief or at
play that is especially attractive.
For some reason or other theFe seems
TO be fevfvaIl.of interest IN Daniel
Webster. Only few days ago short
life of Webster was published by a
Boston firm. and there is now an
nounced a biography of Webster from
! the pen of Professor John Bach Nc
Master. the well known historian. In
| September there viii appear also a
! large volume sof Letters OF Daniel
| Webster" compiled by DR.. c. H. Van
| Tyne, who. bssthe way. is associated
| with Professor McMaste% in the de-
| partment of history in the University
| of Pennsylva MIA 1t only remains now
for the historical novelists to take
| their cue and proceed to get out a few
/ novels in which Webster shall figure
| in time for the fall trade. Seriously
1 Professor McMaSter's work on Web
ster viii be. of course, a valuable pro-
duction. Some of the chapters have
! already been published in one Of the
| magazines. and if the rest are as good
/! the book will be deserving of every
| praise. The Letters of Webster.
curiously enough, was the outcome =
Professor McMaster's work. Mr.. We
Tyne, as an assistant in Professor
McMaster's department, went up u
Concord nearly, two years ago in scarce
of Webster material for the biography
1 II happened that Mr.. Van Tyne found
/ that literally hundreds of WebsteriaE
I letters had never been published. al
| though volumes of Webster letter:
/ had already, come out. Mr.. Van Tyne
called the attention OF Professor Me
Master to the facts and the hist0
rian advised his young assistant 4
/ take up the. work of collecting the par
ticular material Mr.. Van Tyne spsn
all of last summer going through pri
vate collections. making copies ani
discovering new and unused material
with the result that his volume, to b'
| issued this fall is a very fat and sub
stantial volume, and this. too. aftei
taking out fully ene-third Of the mat
ter which was originally designed L
go into the work
A New York newspaper had an arti
Gle not long ago which was headed
Americas Fastest Author" and fol
lowed with an account of the work o
/ Cyrus Townsend Brady. Within a da.
or two there were protests from vari
Gus parts of the country against givfn;
this honor 20 Nh Brady. The artici
in question stated that within a peri0'
of seven months Of aetIye work Mf
Brady had produced four long stories
amounting TO $40, 0o0 words; short arti
cles amounting TO 4e,e9o words; bOol
reviews amounting 10 $500 words. an
sermons amounting 10 1850 words,
grand total Of s3S, 500 words for sevel
months. This meant that Mr.. Brad,
had averaged over 1000 words day 70
1 the period. The title Of fastest autho
cannot be claimed by Mr.. Brady
There IS now in New York City. say