Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-07-26


bilious youngster, but he never filnched.
All that night he collected material,
and the next day reported to the sur
prised editor With bright and newsy
article on The Bakeries Of Cincinna-
IT,"
The young reporter was Immediately
engaged.
In his remarkably interesting biog-
raphy OF civilian Black, Novelist "
Sir Wemyss Reid includes the following
extract from a letter written by An
drew Carnegie to Black early In 1857,
and which is interesting IN connection
with Garfield's tragic end not long be-
fore.
II had a message for you from Presl-
dent Garfield! | dined with him a week
or so before sailing, and, the CONVERSE
ton turning upon my proposed coach
ing-trip, he said: Why, that's the
Adventures of a Phaeton over again,
upon a grand scale. Has Black ever
written anything so fine? | don't think
he has. That was charming. He con-
tnued by the way, I'm provoked
with him just now. A man has no
right to end novel so miserably as
Macleod o. Dare ends. Human life has
tragedies enough-flction should give us
the bright side. told him | expected
70 see you and would tell you this, and
he laughed, and said, Do So. When we
heard of his fate at Chatsworth, the
words came back TO me, and ! have Of
ten thought Of his look as he spoke
them"
"Bagsby's Daughter" by Bessie and
Marie Van Worst, has been very highly
commended by the Hevue des Deux
Mondes, and is now being translated In
to French for publication in France.
This novel is known as the story that
goes or like a spring gun" for the rea-
son that the hero and heroine meet, be-
come engaged, married. and involved
in an exciting series of misadventures
in an incredibly short time. Miss Van
Worst has recently published another
novel OF entirely different character,
entitled philip Longstreth." II deals
with the fortunes Of young man who
hesitates between two loves, one fac
tory girl Of great beauty, the other a
handsome young woman OF his own
class. Miss Van Worst is now in Paris
Mark Twains latest book, "a Double
Barreled Detective Story has not
drawn from any paper a more graceful
tribute than this paragraph, which
closes a very appreclative review OF the
book in the current London Spectator:
above all, It is most welcome proof
that neither the approach OF age nor
the severe troubles which he has met
and surmounted with such admirable
fortitude and splendid industry have
been able 10 impair the boylsh gayey
of the great and wholesome humorist
who has endeared himself to all sec
tions OF the English-speaking race.
One OF the original ideas incorporat-
ed in the new Harpers Weekly, the
first number OF which was issued July
5, is the separation Of the Journal INTO
two parts, the editorial section ana the
pictorial section. This arrangement Is
designed TO facilitate the family read
ing. and In order that the literary part
OF the paper can be read by some mem
bers OF the family circle at the same
time that the pictures and their accom-
panying text are enjoyed by others
Each separate section is securely wired
and the leaves cut, so that for con-
yenience. comfort, and readableness
the new Weekly stands easily at the
head OF the worlds periodicals.
I'm the Case Of Dora Riser is one
OF the cleyerest stories IN Miss Eliza
beth G. Jordan's recent volume. Tales
OF Destiny, published by the Harpers.
IL tells how a woman journalist
thought TO give pleasure 60 a poor wo-
man. who had lived for years IN one
tenement-hotre room, by taking her
out for a drive. The result was eX.
ceedingly funny, and a revelation 10
the woman journalist.
President Roosevelt's magnificent
steam yacht. The Aaynower, has Just