Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-28

Molly Elliot Seawal VINO Is great
friend and admlrer OF Cardlal Gibbons,
made a special trip from Mannheim,
where she spent the summer to call on
his eminence at Rome at the time OF the
pope's funeral. 1t is said that Cardinal
Gibbons read "The Fortunes Of Fih,"
Miss Seawells new novel, In manu-
script form, and that he laughed heart
ilv over the interview Of the little
French heroine with Pope Plus
Seventh. The Cardinal is frequent
visitor at Miss Sewells Washington
home.
The chief of the bureau of equip
ment has advised the Bobbs- Merrill
company that directions have been CIV
en- to the commandment hayward,
Brooklyn, to add The Flllgree Ball,
by Anna Katherine Green, to the list
for crews libraries in the United States
navy
Hamln Garland's new novel, Hesper
Is just published by Harper & Broth
crs. In this story Mr.. Garland has por-
trayed western mining camp In the
mountains, and a stern revolt OF the
miners, as II has never been done be-
fore-yiyidly. and with an accurate re-
alIsm that makes the book valuable for
It's distinctive American quality, To
some aspettshe has brought his hero
inc. Hesper, a girl reared ENORMOUSLY In
all the artificial conventions of the east
From this suggestive theme Mr.. Gar
land has written profoundly dramatic
romance.
Mark Twain so seldom goes out Of his
way TO commend a current book that
any opinion he expresses Is inevitably
Of interest. Il wish TO thank you par
ticularly," he writes to Harper q
Brothers, for the volume III of Poult-
ney Bigelow's German History | have
not seen the other volumes, but i find
this one thoroughly interesting. | am
not aware that there is another Ger
man history that can be charged with
having that quality In which last
statement Mr.. Clemens is In accord
with the author who, referring In his
preparatory remarks to the wheelbarrow
loads of German history he has had to
read, exClaims THAT sort of history
Is Immediately useful. and ! cannot do
without IT, But may merciful Provi-
dence protect me from having TO read
Il a second time"
A Conan Doyle. In his new book evil
IDENTIFY aims at producing something
more than a volume of interesting and
exciting stories. His purpose appears TO
be TO reproduce period Of history ac-
curately and with such attractiveness
as 10 arouse the interest of the reader
In the period itself II seems that, since
his writing of the History OF the Great
Boer War" MIR. Doyle has taken up
the historians point of view, In his
preface to the volume OF tales Of the
adventures Of Brigadier Gerard, follow
ing the army OF Napoleon, Mr.. Doyle
says;
II hope that some readers may pos
sIhly be interested In these tales of the
Napoleonlc soldiers TO the extent Of fol-
lowing them up to their original sourc-
es The age was rich In military ma
terial, some of the most picturesque and
the most human that have ever read"
Mr.. Doyle gives a long list OF MEM
uirs" and Souvenirs Of Napoleonlc Of
ilcers that he has read records Of men
from the Dragons, the cavalry the
.Cuirassiers the Chasscurs, each rep
resepting the point Of view of the part
of the service to which the writer was
book gives a very comprehensive view
OF the spirit that animated the follow
ers OF the Little Corporal The inn
pressions of historical accuracy that the
stories leave will probably give them
an Importance and a value beyond that
which they have as merely bright and
clever stories by Mr.. Doyle
Miss Mary Johnston's romance, sir
Mortimer, which, after long postpone
ment, begins In Harper's Magazine for
November, has been written under un-
usual circumstances. The story was to
have commenced publication In May
1909, and the first instruments had been
placed In the hands OF the artist Mr..
f G, Yohn, for illustration. Just at
this time Miss Johnston fell Ill. and
was unable to continue the work.
Alessrs Harper & Brothers then an
nounced the necessary postponemont Of
the novel. Meanwhile Miss Johnston
had been ordered 10 Bermuda by her
physician and, az soon as she was per-
United to write for an hour each day.
pluotily resumed her work, expendng.
as Is her custom, the most minute care
upon her writing, until every paragraph
received It's due polish. Not content
with the usual work Of revision. how
ever Il Is remarkable under the cir
cumstances that Miss Johnson has COM
pleiely rewritten many pages OF the re-
vised proofs. so anxious has she been to
make Sir Mortimer her greatest novel.
Evidence Of this careful work is quite
apparent In the November instalment,
which Is not only exquisite In diction.
hut has more OF the natural spirit Of
the language Of Queen Elizabeth's court
-ofthe true Shakespearan language
than almost any modern work that
comes To mind The heroine II a lady
in-watIng upon Elizabeth; the hero, Sir
Mortimer, an officer IN her majesty's
feet. commanded BY Sir John Nevil. IT
II interesting TO conjecture what rows