Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-10-24

derson does not take Holmes gibes at
the expense of Scotland Yard with
great seriousness. There IL a Wlde
difference" he says between the work
of the responsible police officer, whose
business il is TO bring criminals TO
Justice and the work OF the private
detective who has merely to ascertain
facts and to solve seeming mysteries.
But the difference is not so vital as
that which distinguishes the fancies OF
the novelist from the facts of real life.
He must be poor sort of creature who
cannot solve his own problems. And
IL Is delightful to notice how accurate
~ the Sherlock Holmes keys invaria-
bly, fit the Sherlock Holmes locks, and
how invariably his two and two makes
four. But in real life keys are apt to
get mixed or mislaid and two and two
have sometimes way or making TWEEN
ty-two, all of which may be quite un-
preventlble and is always most embar-
RAISING le s4l ll 1.u.HI II nu
A PICTURESQUE FIGURE.
William Faux, who has just retired,
was rather a picturesque figure in the
Englis literary world. For the last 30
years he has selected all the books
handled NJ. w. Ii. Smith Il Co., who,
besides conducting an immense clrcu-
lating library, are the sole propretors
of railway bookstals throughout the
United Kingdom. Frequently Mr.. Faux
acted as a censor-declnlng 10 allow
certain novel or other volume TO be
handled by his company was
bad business for the author OF the work
unless he could manage to make SUM-
cient advertising capital out of the oc-
tHu
whole day in his Office Judging
books--that is satisfying himself II they
would be worth handling. In this way,
he developed such an instinct that in
some cases few pages would tell him
whether a book would do" in Others a
chapter. Unluckily, however, he never
kept any record of the number of works
thus dealt with. He began life at IL In
a commercial house, but soon gravitat-
ed into a book shop, and then Joined
the Smiths, whom he served 80 years,
rising from one post to another Mr.
Faux says the first book he remembers
reading was Frederick Random" and
Robinson Crusoe," Is his favorite nov
ell His business brought him closely
In touch with both publishers and writ
ers, and he was intimate with Sir Wal
ter Besant and James Rice.
IN MEMORY OF HENRY GEORGE.
The recent dinner in London to the
memory OF Henry George attracted a
good deal of attention, especially as
delegates were present from the United
States, Natal, the Transvaal. Canada,
India and Australia. oddly enough, the
gathering was held at a house once oc-
cupled by Edmund Burke. The Eng
fish League for the Taxation OF Land
Values was, Of course, host, and in his
speech, It's chairman declared that few
men had doomed so large as George OH
historys page, that few had exercised
more force Of intellect more power Of
imagination, and that fey had more
fully impressed their ideas upon not
only their own generation, but upon
generations to come.
"A SUCCESSFUL NOVEL,
SO comparatively few Continental
novels are translated into English now
adays that II may be worth while 10
give an idea of the plot Of a recent
Italian romance which has scored heav-
lily In IT'S authors country. This Is LA
Nipote di Professore Romualdo," by
Enrice CastelnuovO. The professor
here occupies the chair Of mathematics
at an Italian university, but chemistry
N MS real ioNti anu iie mas ith "a MS
Of practical seclusion In his laboratory
up TO the time when word comes from
Brazil that his SISTER, q widow, has
died and left her little daughter to his
care He has the child brought to his
home and of course, she grows into a
beautiful girl and he falls In love- with
her Equally of course she bestows her
affections on a younger man, an artist,
who Is attracted solely by her beauty.
But. one day while the professor ac-
companled by his niece, Is experiment
ing In his laboratory, a terrible explo- |
sion occurs, which ruins the girls looks. |
Her lover breaks on their engage
ment. when the damsel turns TO her
uncle, who finally marrles her, enabled |
to do so by a special royal decree |
Whereupon the gods bless the union by |
restoring the girls beauty In greater |
perfection than ever. II. G.