Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-08-07
WITH TIE PEOPLE
WHO WRITE BOOKS

New York Aug solve Harper. who
has recently been covering herself with
phosohorescent glow from the old
graye!ards Of New York and their oc-
cupanta while writing a good sized book
about the doings OF the ghosts under
Trinity church which book is Ilius-
trated firm The dead, has added % her
onense by giving her readers "a problem
10 solve. The title page reads, "ihe SOC
Viatlc ghost, being the. a ventures of a
reporter who was invited by the sociable
ghost 90 Il grand banquet ball and con-
NentiJu under me ground OF old Trinity
vhglcnyard, "A true tale of ~ things he
saw and DID not see while BE- was not
there. written down by Olive Harper and
another
Now. who II mat other and why If
there was another did he or she wish 90
hide under q bushel so 10 SPEAK, Tire
ubiquitous reporter asked her with this
result. who Is the other? Wei / viii
trll You. ! know "a liltle boy who is verS
clever and very good 40 shifting me blame
ior any oi his shortcomings. and $50 when
DE- Is bad he pretends 10 his parents. and
himself too, thar downstairs there h. am
other boy named Billy who comes up and
takes possession OF his body and mind
ana does an DE bad thlugs When he
has exhausted his badness for the dHv
Nilly Immediately disappears and my boz
friend is himself aguin. Now J thought
u would be q GOOD idea % have literary
lilly at whose door AN The bdC things In
the book could be laid n ever there Is ID
suspicion af biz D. % is 70 be accredii
Cd 90 Another And an the superlatiyely
good Is naturally mine My Diakka sea
me up 20 do ths, So II the reader finds
anything in the book that he or she
thinks Is calculated 20 upset the proper
order OF things That part must be charged
10 Anothr
The unknown man walked down the
aisle % The smoking car and stopped
where another unknown man Sat reading
AoruciOrsly, says a humOrst in the
Princeton Tiger
May ] sit By you2' be asked meekly.
Certainly replied the occupant with
22ut iookmg up. May as wei be sociabie.
And Freeman mine May ask what
You arc reading
"CTalnly'
Wen nat are YOU tCadlng2'
Mrs Wigs Of The Cabbage Patch "
Pure trash. have my wifes word Tor
"Whc's your wlfc?' inquired the orig.
nal occupant beginning to betray signs
Of interest.
my VIE Is Mrs Freeman" with some
signs u plque.
Never heard OF her Literary shark.
IS she2 My wfes strong Tor Mrs Wigs
You sec-er-why she wrote it,
My dear sir shouted the quondaR
critic. there seems 10 be fatal msun-
derstlndlng somewhere. Let me intro
auce myself again as Mr.. Mary Il. VIII
k.ns Freeman
And J. gr.nned the man with the
book. "am Mr. Alice Caldwell Hogan
Rice ~ course. Why didn't We do this
before Happy to know you
Howard Pyle one Of the srtist-authors
OF note. has been al work for eight years
on his religious novel Rejected Of Men"
which the harptrs have finally published.
The novel g. the outcome az "A young
mans early skCptlclsm about the great
facts OF Christianity a skepucism which
only years Of youthful mental struggle
enabled him 10 escape from. "sncb "a sclf
education In reasoning makes one rather
radical in ones opinions. writes M
Pyle 10 his publishers "and I suppose
mat my opinions are very radical Indeed
And radical opinions impel man TO ex-
press himself almost against his own
vohton. 50 they have impclled me TO
write M BOOK. u seems 10 be O very
shou story frr eiohf wears of intnrnu-
tent work. but ! can say Il was written
YER earnestly ard with great sincerity q
cnnNculu uhu. iiuNtttt l.r uultu nav
lake o. have yet the satisfaction Of
knowing that | have said my say with
every sentiment Of reverence and very
strong belief in that which l Was trying
Co sa.
The Outlook company has In prepare
ton a notable work by John n Long eN-
secretary OF the navy, which will b. pub
llshed this fall under the title The Now
American Navy" II will be Issued IN two
volumes and Elil deal with the history of