The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-28

are not endowed with ideas. and ideas
are after all, necessary. Mr.. Page be-
neVes that the daF OF leisureiy style has
passed. and that IN the vigorous go-ahead
shall be direct clear and energetic. The
lack of this latter he deplores. believing
that tho teaching OF composition and Inc
practice of style has not kept pace with
the development OF intellectual life IN
recent years.
The implication" says another. that
II the leisurelv writer's like Hazlitt, De
Quincy. Macaulay. Carlyle and Mathews
Arnold were writing today their TOO leis-
urely style would be found tagging De-
hind our recent intellectual Development
requires no very serious discussion. The
writer who wishes TO reach our public
would do much better. we believe, to
study the leisurely style than 10 strive
for that nervous quality which the mod
ern magazine reader is supposed TO re-
guire.
"As a matter of fact. the desiderated
style for the times has had a pretty thor
ough trial. The late c. W. Stevens GER
tainiy wrote il; Mr. kipling writes u
and produces six distinct electrical dis
charges in the space in which the leis-
urely writer would grudge himself one;
Mr. Maurice Hewlett. although he Is sui
eaviare TO the general. has all the nerv-
BUSINESS and DietuFesdueness that any edl-
tor could desire. But these examples OF
the modern style hardly encourage as
TO believe that progress lies that way
1t seems to us. in short. that Mr.. Page 3
conception OF a deliberate attack upon
the larger reading public or general at
tempt TO measure up or down To the
standards OF those who have learned 10
read only between pictures is fundament-
ally erroneous. We do not believe thal
the style which the great unframed pub
lie wants is a good style. me Iset -
that while the intellectual contributor
is often a DUN .Derson. the writers OF to
dav are less at fault than the pubic.
Ii is the public that needs 70 De con-
verted 10 the intellectual leisureliness,
not the writer who needs 10 catch the
fever OF modern life"
A collection of unpublished letters OF
Sir Walter Scott has been discovered py
an enterprising publisher and they VIII
be brought out shortly In book form Inc
letters are all written 10 Mrs. Hughes
the grandmother Of Thomas Hughes, the
author OF Tom Brownies SchoOldays.
Mrs Hughes, the recipient, was Wei
known wcman IN her day and II her let
ters TO Sir Walter could be recovered a
companion volume might well be issued.
Mention was recently made OF newly
discovered manuscript Of Robert South
ey. A limited edition OF this work Is 10
be brought out in this country under the
title journal of a Tour IN the Nether-
lands" The journey was one Southey
made two or three months after the bat
tie of Waterloo. and the account was
carefully kept By the Southey FAMILY un-
I'll 1864. when il passed into the hands
OF the Pease family. It's existence was
forgotten until, not long ago, one OF the
! latter family discovered IL while going
over a lot Of musty papers and allowed
It to be reproduced in England and Amer
lea.
A - I attf
| Lords of the North" was generally be-
1 lieved to be the work OF a man, because
/ she signs her name a. 9. Laut, is Follow
| ing the same line of writing with consid-
The Story OF the Trapper" in a few
/ weeks, a work which gives an account OF
/ the various early fighters OF the wilder
ness throughout the north and west.
It is said that London publisher has
agreed TO pay Mr.. Kruger $4,000 for hi:
| memoirs This price is for the Englisi
rights alone, and AIR. Kruger's agent had
| asked a considerably larger sum- SO IA
| arrangements have not been completed
for the rights of publication in America
but when they are made no such sun
will be paid. An agreement has beef
made whereby Kruger's book viii appea
before those OF the Boer generaiss WI
were recently trying 10 make contract
for book publication in London. Genera
Dewets book is TO come second, but a
he has not completed the work of writ
ing il. probably 1t will not be issued be
fore next spring.
The German critics. for years 1ealou
OF Toistoi and now of Gorky, are giyin
free expression 20 their opinions OF thes
writers. They claim that these two par
tieularly, and the lesser novelists OF IN
same school. are exercising on wester
thought IAN enervating Oriental influ
I II, xrfaxr ~ he
Dillon has Just written a book on tn
life and works Of Gorky, which Is to b
published here this fall. il is interestin
10 learn what some Of the Germans hav
to say about the Russian writers. Han
, Fisher calls a halt in the following mar
ner: '~rOlstoi and GOriSy are probably IN
most read Of the modern Russian writer
! on the continent, although the influenC