Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-06-27
MRS. EVA Y. DAVIS.

I shown in his THE Ylrginlan' what can
be made Of him by skiful hand. In
THE Log OF u Cowboy" by Andy
Adams (Houghton, Miffiin & Coz we
have something that sounds a little
more like the real thing. II is the story
Of a great drive OF cattle from Texas
into Montana, 20 years ago, with all
the incidents and adventures that were
likely to occur IN such an expedition,
The narrative Is In the first person and
has all the marke OF verisimllitude,
Very likely 1t is true story, At any
rate the reader will derive from Il a
lively sense OF what the life Mr. Roose-
welt admires is like, There is plenty OF
action and OF adventure in the book,
which II not written by a real cowboy,
reads very much as though 1t has been.
N. Y. Sun.
Stewart Edward White has been
travelling on the Pacific coast with
President Roosevelt in the presidents
private car. White was annexed TO
the presidential party, at Santa Bar
bara in a rather informal manner
When the party reached there one OF
the men remarked that he had a friend
in town, Stewart White, and that he
was going to take an hour of to run
up and see him.
rs that the fellow who wrote The
Blazed Trail?' asked the president.
That's the man" said Whites
friend. DO you know him?"
mo; but | want to-" replied Presi-
dent Roosevelt IL know his work well
See II YOU can't bring him back with
you, Tell him to pack a grip and come
along"
Thus II happened that the young
author, on very brief notice, found him
self a member of the presidential party.
lie spent several days with the presl.
dent. and when he finally left, Mr..
Roosevelt remarked to the man who
had introduced White.
That's the kind OF young American
who Is making our new literature"
There has beena good deal OF rivalry
among American publishers for the
work Of Joseph Conrad, since the pub
ication Of Youth" has aroused the
critics TO appreciation OF new force
In literature. last week Col Harvey
Of Harper & Brothers announced from
London, according to cabegrams, that
all Conrad's future work win be pub
lshed by that firm. Apparently an er-
ror nos crept into Col. Harper's calcua-
tons. "Falk. and Two Other Novelot-
ties" the next volume by Conrad. will
be published this fan by Mcclure, Phil.
lips & Company This will be followed,
probably next spring. by novel 10 be
entitled Romance" put out by the
same publishers. Conrad's next out
put Is TO be his most ambitious work
thus far, a novel of sea-faring which
he had intended TO call THE Rescue"
had not this title been pre-empted by
another author. II is not yet finished,
but when It appears II viii bear the inn
print OF Mcclure Phillips & Company.
IN this connection It Is interesting TO
note that Col. Harvey, in an interview
recently, claimed all the future work Of
c. d. Gibson and George AIDE. This
was almost Immediately followed by
the announcement OF Gibson book
from the press Of Scribners. and OF an
AIDE book from Mcclure. Phillips &
Company. II looks as II the head of the
Harper firm were being reoklessly mis-
quoted.
Few 1rishmen can put pen 10 paper
without INDUCING IN bit av an argy-
merit" seumas McManus. the author
OF "A Lad o. the O'Friels" has already
written enough political STUFF" to
make him cause OF trouble 10 the 10.
cal government officials. Shan +. Bull
lock. the author Of the Squireen." re-
Gently published by Mcclure, Phillips
& Company, has also a little pokamicai
purpose IN his latest work. though Il IL
not political lie w!shfs to draw sttsn.