Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-24
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Two Of the most interesting an
ronncements made by the Macmillan
comuany concern the novels upon
which Winston Churchill and Charles
Major have been at work for some time
mast, Mr. Churchill's story WIN De
called THE Crossing and VIII deal
NTH the period OF the Louisiana Pnr-
chase. Mr.. Majors is entitled the
FOREST Hearth" and Will be n tale OF
me people who conquered the great
witness In the first quarter Oh
the nineteenth century.
Under the will of the, late Mr.. VIII
liam Pearce, son of Charles Dickens
fathers landlord, the birthplace Of the
novelist in Landport Is to be put up Tor
mbllc auction, and committee of the
Town council of Portsmouth has recon-
mended that the corporation should buy
Il for the purpose OF a museum. Ac-
cording to Forster, Dickens remember
ed playing in the garden of this house,
but there Is documentary evidence That
the family left It in June, lSl2, only
four and one-half months after Charles
birth, They did not however, go TO
Catham until he was two years old, 80
thai il Is quite possible there was am
other house In Portsmouth to which
his "reminiscences went back.
The untimely death Of Mrs. Eliza
beth Cherry Waltz viii be sincerely
regretted by many readers of the Cen
fury. She first attracted the attention
Of the editors Of tina magazine by n
lDrn i..er N tal
which was accepted and published in
The Century for July, 1900. Others In
the original PA GLADDEN. series soon
followed. Mrs, Waltz has had three
Christmas stories accepted for three
succeeding years of The Century, be-
ginning In 1901 Besides the Christmas
story for 1903, another striking story of
hers Will appear posthumously. II is
entitled "a Lady Of Balance Her Pa
GLADDEN." stories are soon to be pub
lished In book form. Mrs. Waltz was
connected with the Louisville Dispatch,
and later with the Courier-Journal. She
was woman OF indomtable courage
and energy, and there were elements
Of The heroic In the story Of her devoted
life.
When a young writer places his first
novel with a publisher before Il Is even
Wpewritten, and on terms that include
liberal advance royalty he may be
considered in luck. But when a proml-
nent London publisher after reading
the galley proofs accepts his novel for
simultaneously publication In Eng
iland and America, the UNI
known writer may with some
reason be said to have struck ii rich.
let this is exactly what Mr. Philip
fayne has done with his dramatic
story Of Chicago life and American poll
Tics entitled THE Mills of Man"
which Is considered by many critics
the nearest approach to the great
american novel; that has appeared In
~ years In any case II is RAPIDLY be-
coming one of the most talked about
sad Consequently one OF the most wide
" read books Of the day.
Messrs, Rand, McNally &c Company
are MI Payne's publishers in this
country and Messrs. Hutchinson & 20.
In London,
Miss Elizabeth Bisland, whose new
novel, a Candle OF unders landing, IL
attracting so much attention, made
name Tor herself, as all will remember,
IN following the example OF Magellan
'er account OF that experience, entitled
u ~ lying Trip Around the World, WAS
received with intense interest. Among
NOSE who complmented her most
highly upon the exploit. and upon the
lnerll OF her story at the time Of It's
publication, were Mr.. Howells and Mu-
IIaI Halstead, In connection with Miss
a.. ts,e.x l... q
hole That its dominant thought Is in
iense, deep-seatcd love for the south
imshl whereas a new novel by Hamlin
uarland, entitled Hesper, which follows
y closely from the Harper presses, has
ior It's dominant thought an intense
ana appreciatlve love for the far west.
The October Century win bring the
nus OF Richard Whitelng's latest now
eL Ihe yellow Van. what this student
VI hnglish social conditions believes to
W me solution OF the vexed problems
painted so black In the cartier chap
YRS OF The Yellow Van is promised IN
.lehe closing chapters. Book pubIlea-
~ euh OF The Yellow Van Ia announced
lor October.
'''aHbe as u may seem, the Optimis-
We essays In The Great optimIst, 1T
We book written by Leigh Mitchell
Judges announced for immediate pub
,vVatlon by the Dodge company Of New
ORG were originally brought about
Wy cynlc. Mr., Hodges. who is a
sSuhg westerner, now living In phil
suelphia. conceived the idea OF brief
ualy writing looking on tho bright
s cue OF things, from a column headed
\, ne cynic" and written by Horace M.
irauoel the well known poet and phil
osopher, which appeared In the Phil
oueiphln Times two years ago, II was
S5ulmewhat as an offset TO these cynical
that this young writer
susgested to the editor Of the Times
column OF opposite tendencies. Such
WIS the beginning OF The Optimlst
winch subsequently became the leading
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