Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-30

no critic and therefore avoid attempts
ing criticism. What | feel and what
think many writer's would feel about
Dickens, is that his greatness lies prl-
marily not In his humor or his pathoS--
great as both are in their own kind.
though neither sH, perhaps impeocable-
but I'M his enormous creative faculty,
the richness of his invention, and the
breadth of his observation. Thus he
seems TO me To have size beyond all
most any English novelist. Your ap-
peal must excuse this rough attempt t1
put label on the cause OF a mans
greatness II would seem that Dick
ems Is doomed TO he the subject Of an
eternal controversy among literary
men. As for the public 1t simply reads
and loves him,
most sumptuously staged play is
promised in My Lady Peggy Goes to
Town" written by Frances Aymar
Mathews and based on her most OK
quislte little novel of the same name,
which appeared last October and which
was instantly acclaimed the cleyerest
book IN many many moons. AZ the
time Of the ho0ks publication the ci-
Al'N ltllhl NiN tue hliNNNNl UNIIhl hlH|'l
my Lady Peggy afforded for eIahur-
ate dramau2auon The play h. brlm-
ming with the wit and ceNeruess thar
made the book 80 popular, asa those
who know predict that il is sure To be-
one Of the strongest attractions %. the
coming season. A new star will op-
pear IN the title role ana the play VIII
open in New York city
Some of the critics Of THE Heroine
of the strait evidently suppose the i1-
cldent Of Angeiiquc Cuillenerg reycia-
ton Of the conspiracy Of Pontiac hc'i-
tious, As matter Of fact Miss Grove
ley founded this important part of her
romance ON information that has come
to light sine Parkman's day That em-
ineut historian dld not credit the ac-
count which ascrlbcs this act to an In.
dian girl.
Sheppard stevens romance Of the
Louieiana purchase entitled cir The
Eagles Talon had In reality two hero
ines, and as the hero could not marry
both with 0 committing bipamy one
critic has suggested that Mrs Stevens
write a sequel In which the girl who
refused the first consurs suit shall be-
suitably mated If II be as well planned
and as consistent with history as In
the Eagles Talons' It VIII ne more than
welcome"
The following letter, written by Hc'-
en- Hunt Jackson TO a bookseller 30
years ago, Is interesting at this time, as
a new illustrated edition Of the book
she 40 highly c0mmends is about TO be
brought cut this fal3
Newport, Monday June B.
Dear Mr. Niles-Please send ire
copy Of Little Women / have never
read It, strange to say, and | an so
delighted with the first chapters Of
Little Men that | want to go back
ana find out who they all ar. ! shall
write a short notice Of It al once. Miss
Alcott is really beneiactor of house
holds, You should have seen the chill
dren IN this house when ! opened the
package containing Little Men" They
crowded and screamed and all shouted
at once:
oh let me have first reading"
'No-let me! You read Little Wo-
men frst!' and so on
Now they take turns, the three--and
the book is in somebody's hands from
q a. m. till bedtimel
Yours truly
HELEN HUNT.
Mr.. Walter f. Perkins, who win play
the quaint star part this coming season
IN the dramatizatlon Of Mary r. VIII
klns's Jerome; a Poor Man, PLAYED the
leading part in the well known farce
My Friend from India" and is most
widely known in that connection. Mr.
Perltnss speciality, however is quaint
character work, and the stage version
Of jerome has been prepared with a
view TO this aptitude. The dramatlza-
ton Is by Carroll Fleming. 1t is the
first work Of Miss Wlkins's TO be
iramatized for professional use.
owen Wlster Is an Eastern man.
though his work shows that he has
aiken the West 10 his heart His first
literary work was done on school papers
1t St Pauls and at Harvard, III
leaIth led him to Western ranches In
Texas, Arizona, Wyoming.
The spirit Of the West crept into his
'eins, and after he was strong and we'll
he still went back again and again to |
anch life and TO his cowboy friends !
GRADUALLY he began 10 write stories of |
hem and the fascination OF the work |
made him turn his back upon the legal |
Profession for which he had fitted him |
elf
"The VirgInian" iustihes his choice.
Edmond Gosse is writing history
4 English literature and his admirers
INSIST that no living man of letters Is
letter fitted for the task. These admir- |
RS Include some Of the most prominent
rifles OF both England and America
n connection with the matter. some
ne has revived the story OF Mr.. Gosse's
pplicatlon for the place of clark
lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Ihere were many candidates and !
ach handed in host of testimonials /
rom more or less famous men of
atters, Gosse presented only three
estimonials, but those three were
'ritten by Matthew Arnold, Alfred
and Robert Browning. He
fas appointed.
"The Bookman" for August reports
hat the best selling book in America
uring the month Just closed is "The
Mississippi Bubble The publishers OF
ir HOugh's book say that 1t Is the
lost successful book they have even
ubllshed-considerng the short time II
as been on the market From the re-
orts Of the booksellers In IS repre-
'ntative cities. "The Bookman" finds
ne six books most In demand, in the
blowing order:
he Mississippi Bubble. Emerson Hough
OrOihy vernon ......,,,. Charles Major |
hrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch
.,",....... Alice Caldwell Heagan |
ne Nlrglnlan ....,.... owen Dister |
he Leopard's Spots. Thomas Dixon in.
he Hound OF the Baskervilles.
"....-... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When the New Hampshire Legislature
1908 meets. the first Tuesday in jan
lry the clerk IN calling The roll VIII
~: MT. Churchill OF Cornish" and
lie voice which answers, Here" viii
: that % the author OF Richard Car
'r and "The Crisis
Recently Mr. and Mrs. Churchill gave
reception az their beautiful summer
slionre, li0rlakendon house, IN Cor
sh 1t which the city colony" 81