The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-06
|RIEWS AND VIEWS
OF THE
Il VBOOK WORLD


lBY HERBERT BREWsTER)
clarence s. Darrow. the wen known
lawyer VINO conducted the case for the
miners miners in the recent series OF hearings
+ before the coal commission, Is about 20
/ make an appearance In the book world
I aa an author During the past year AIr
LafIOW has written a number OF short
stories Whlch be hopes 10 bring out ln
Nplume uel0fe long. The stories were an
written with purpOse-mOst OF them are
ABOUT poor children. realistic stories OF
rea hte' the author calls them.
Inls is NOT, however MIR DarrOw's first
venture in writing FOR the general public.
some time ago ne wrote q number of
mastery essays on IolstOl, Burns and
other vel known writers who were at
lne same time men Of the common people.
Indeed, IN an OF his work. Mr. DarroW's
sympdInles lead him into this sort Ot eX-
pieaslQA-tne glorlucatlQn or uplifting or
me poor OF the under class, His enemies
call him an anarchist. a socialist. a revO-
iultonlsl, 70 an OF which the lawyer
author agrees. His friends, however, tell
you 90 read his essay on the doctrine OF
I n0n-reslstance.
In his persian Pearl and other Es-
says, the volume OF essays already re-
TERED 90, Mr. barrow has treated Of
ttlldr hndy yam, Wait Whitman, bufns
and other wei known literary characters
from the point OF view of a socialist, yet
not entirely so. His idea Is TO SHOW tnat
these men were striving for 'the brother
nood OF man and the kinship OF al
breathing things. Mr.. barrow S opinion
of Wait Whitman is worth quoting.
Nhen the world looks back 20 the
doubt and confusion o. today, Walt
whitman viii stand alone, the greatest
truesl, nOblest prophet of the age, a man
by the raise standards of his time"
ar. barrow IS an out and out realsL
4 doubt, said he the other day, ''Wheth-
er any of the regular magazines would
with ana for purpose. 1 believe writ
er should write the truth and all of it,"
As % his philosophy of lie, probably
talr expression OF Il may be had IN MS
essay on TOlstOi.
''Nen may Tolstoi say that we must
turn back from the false, unWhOlesOme
luxury OF tOuay TO the patient simple
Door. Wen may ne turn from his disciples,
as another re1Ormer ages since, from the
closed doors of the great and the barred
temples OF the God or Hosts, TO the peas
ants. the fishermen. the puDllcans, the
sinners and the wandering homeless
Magdaleas.
Leo Tolstoi has the brain to see and
the strength TO do. Amid the universal
clamOr OF the crowd he has raised has
voice for justice and for right, and his
strong words and brave message viii De
borne by other tongues. and upheld Dy
other lives until righteousness snail rule
upon the earth. In that day 10 man VIII
compel The service OF his fellow man, but
moved by the righteous power Of love.
The great artists viii paint no more 10
adorn the mansions OF the rich. but earn
ing his right TO live by the labor OF his
HANDS ana knowing humanity as he
KNOWS himself, viii draw his Inspirations
from the great eternal source OF life and
art. and dream dreams and do such work
as the world has never known. Then
ara VIII become part OF daily Life ana
dall3 Ire a part or art. To make one
pair, Of shoes Tor weary feet Will be as
worthy i'm the sight of man as TO write
an epic poem, or compose a. deafness
song 20 thatch one roof as great as 10
paint the brightest hueS that the sunset
ever wrought, and 10 cool one parched
tongue OF hold out one hand to guide your
fellow mortal through the dark, more
than an the sermons ever preached by
man
OF one thing we may be sure Mr.. Oar
row Is the biggest man in Chicago so Far
as working people are concerned. and
since his connection with the coal COM
mission working people all over the coun-
try regard him as one OF their greatest
heroes. His work In writing for the gem
eral public is well worth watching.
SO freely has President Roosevelt con-
trbuted 90 the success Of various books
he likes by commencing them In public
that 10 has become q matter of great
pride 20 a publisher who secures this
high authOritys approval 1t is not at
OF the far reaching effect Of such com
mendatiOn or of the Injustice he does 20
publishers whose books he does not find I
time 20 read, but as a literary log roller /
he Isl a very strenuous success. Last sum :
mer ne CHANGED 10 read The Simple /
Life and I'm mis- speeches he told the /
public how much he enjoyed Ii. III we I
add simply here that eight editions of the Z
book have been sold since we have [
drawn enough conclusion Recently the /
president commented ''The Woman Who /
Tolls. by Mrs. and Miss Van Worst, and I
as result the book Is one of the good /
sellers. IL happens that II was on this /
occasion that the agitation on race sui [
eide was started. This latter fact has /.
given the book even wider publicity than /
could have been had in any other way. 1
The art OF literary log rolling Is adj /
vauclng to q remarkable state of perfeC-
ton. Long before book is i'm type 1t /
has frequently been submitted 20 a NUM- I
Der OF well known men who are asked 20 4
say what they think Of IL. Out OF a 4
score OF opinions some few should be /
good enough 20 use In ads. So the work 4
goes ON.
Quite the most amusing effort of one
writer 20 obtain publicity has. as IL /
should, resulted only in nOtOriety. She
goes from city 60 city accompanied by a /
press agent This astute man, expert /
enceu IN newspaper work, visits the /
newspaper offices and invites an editor /
over TO meet the DISTINGUISHED writer 4
lets IL De known that she has come TO 4
meet some We'll known actor 10 see about /
stage version OF her most famous book. /
Sometimes she intimatcs that she has /
been captvated by a football, baseball. I
or war hero we'll known in the place. /
The innocent victim is invited 10 lunch ]
and the reporters flock 20 see whether
the couple make love and 10 hear what /
they say 20 each other. Most of these /
strange efforts 10 appear Ia the public /
print have resulted only III convincing
readers that the young woman is. 10 be /
generous, making herself ridiculous,
The man who discovers the deadly 4
parallel is once more abroad in the lana, /
and young authors especially are warned 1
TO be very careful where they draw their /
the well known writer 20 appropriate /
lnese from others, because the public /
knows they could have invented situa- 4
tious and characters just as good, but the /
unknown writer must be very wary
Aipling can go aud take what e thinks I
2 might REQUIRE, just the same as omar /
did The folks who noticed a similarity I
i'm Homer's tales to something they had /
heard before. "Winked at 'Omer down the /
road and 10 was an right.
Since lt was discovered that Mrs.
Humphrey Ward drew her plot for Lady /
Roses Daughter" from Julie de Les [
pinasses memoirs. the parallel man has /
been hard az work and before long 1t Is /
expected that he viii make many reve- I
lauons.
10 is a notable fact that many English /
writer's OF sea stories are not English |
rad Is a Pole. and Albert Sonnichsen. the I
author OF "DeeD sea NaU9 h0ndc ff fa /