Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-01-24

lcot,' was asked where he got the pc
culiar Gallo type used with such
amusing effect In his drawings. IN
the cafes OF the Latin quarter in Paris,
said Mr., Leveripg, promptly. When
! cast about In my mind for the sort
OF Frenchman suggested by the author
% Harcot, at once recalled the type
| have drawn In the boOk-not the real
Partisan, not the Provincial French
man, but the Frenchman who has lived
50 long in Bohemia that he is cosmo-
poitan. He wears large bow necktie
he is ready for adventure, he gesticu-
lates wildly; in the cafes eyerybody's
attention Is drawn TO him, as he set
ties the affairs Of the universe He is
really not so fine a fellow as dHaricot
really was for all his carnival manner
hut he seemed to me exactly the type
to represent the reckless gayety of the
book
A German translation Is to be made
Of Hamlin Garland's successful novel
"The Captain Of the Gray-Horse
Troop" for publication In Germany.
That nation will doubtless be interest
ed i'm learning about the American at
ttude towards the Indians, which is
SO keenly ana alphabetically shown
IN this western love story.
Doubleday. Page q Co. will have
ready early in the year Helen keller's
autobiography. which she calls THE
story Of NV Life" She was said to
be ayerse 20 writing the book. But she
had been possessed Of an ambition 70
acquire a small island In Halifax har'
Dor for summer home, and the temp
tation was toe much for her scruples
% modesty Up to the present II is not
known that she has entered into pos
session of the island. and whether she
will persist In her idea OF purchase re-
mains to be seen.
Henry Seton Mewiman, whose liter
ary career has been one Of uninter-
rupted success and who has now made
another hit with "The Vultures," Is IN
private life Hugh Scott, an English
! country gentleman. Much Of his child
hood was spent IN France. and serle:
~ long sea voyages, ne0essitated by his
health. reused In him a wanderlust
| which he has never lived down, though
he calls n beautiful country place n
| Suffolk home Both in looks and II
temperament he Is said to resemble
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The Lothrop Publishing company o
Poston win bring out toward the en-,
OF this month a volume OF essays o
exceptional interest. Exits and En-
| tranoea." by Charles Warren Stoddard
whose south Sea ldyls" Is one of tn
little classics Of American literature
air. Stoddard In this book gives per
| sonal "reminiscences Of interesting lit
erary figures like Kingsley, GCorg
Eliot. Stevenson, Bret Hartc and Mar
Twain. write prose poems Of travel
ne fascinating as Heine's "Rcisebilder,
or treats OF mis- experience In the form
OF half fiction and half essay. an alto
gpther delightful kind Of literature Il
his hands The book makes a series q
cesays and sketches full Of charm. an
e. enriched by a frontlsnicce picture O
Nj stoddard, reproduced from a paint
Ing and here for the first time printed
Queen Victoria II now transpires. dl
no, like "Mlddlemarch." because "fin
asit.s g." she wrote, 1T Is a dis
appointing book. An the people az
failures" But the queen had quit
surprising diversity Of taste in hctioi
Eei fondness for the books 81 Mari
Ccrclli IL well known, and we no
learn, from a new biography, that N
Merriman's The Sewers gave ht
much pleasure" As The Sewers
quite as thrilling and adventurous @
The Vultures," ii not more 50. q ne