Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-11

and what with my brilliant converse
ton and the refined atmosphere Of the
studio, these men viii never know
whether 1t Is good or bad Somehow
men understand red wine. II you give
them a cheap vintage, they recognize
vinegar but with the qualities OF white
wine they are not so familiar So
IL always proved to be. This lS-penny
white Wine was produced al the famous
Whistler breakfasts, whore II was pro-
nounced to be perfect a very sound
wine, very sound indeed. | have heard
men say as they held IL up to the light,
handling II carefully rs though II were
priceless-n exactly the same way l
have seen them cafess blue-and-
white-plate I have heard intelligent
men dilate for hours upon the beauty
and rarity Of certain porcelain which
myself have seen Whistler buy at a
cheap shop round the corner, or which
has been presented al our doors in COM
pany with a pound of oriental tea
A curious fact noticed by publishers
and authors IL the cumulative effect on
the public OF an authors work. The
result Is that the more books an author
puts out--provlded they are not disap-
polnting-the greater the sale of each
one. For instance, the announcement
Of Mr. J. A. MitchelPs new book, "The
Villa Claudia" has stimulated the de-
mand for his previous successes. The
Pines of Lory" Gloria Nictis" and
Amos Judd" The new readers of
these IN turn spread the demand for
"The villa Claudia ana so 1t works
IN a sort OF endless chain, each new
work increasing the sale OF the others'
and indirectly lts own.
1t Is interesting 10 learn that the con-
servatve Bostonians of this longago
day were greatly shocked, about this
time, by an innovation which gave to
Hannah Adams, the FIRST American wo-
man to earn her living with her PEN
and very scanty living II was-the
freedom Of the Athenoeums library.
| This was IN Miss Adams old age, after
she had become deaf as well as nearly
| blind But In spite Of her intirmities
| sh retained her keen love Of books, ana
was frequently so lost In the dusty
| tones that she forgot TO eat and could
| not be reused by the Librarian when he
| departed at noon to satisfy his healthy
mans appetite He would lock her up
| with the books, therefore, only 10 find
when he returned from dinner that she
was as unconscious of him as before.
| Miss Adams herself seems TO have felt
! the strangeness OF her occupation, for
| she laments IN her "Memoire' that cir
cumstances forced her 10 do business
! out of the female line and so expose
! herself to the ridlcule Of males When
one contrasts the conditions OF her time
(she died In 1882, being the first person
| buried In Mt Auburn, with the honor
with which the women literary workers
in the Athenaeum are today regarded
| one feels indeed that THE world do
| move" And then one IL doubly glad
that the portrait OF this first American
woman worker at books has an honored
place on the walls OF one Of the Athen-
aeum rooms along with the pictures or
famous literary men who have used the
library.
Miss Gwendolen Overtons new novel
win be published by The Macmillan
company in September captains Of
the World is the first OF what MISS
Overton intends TO make a series Of
studies of modern American life and
conditions, numbering In all some six or
eight Miss OVerton scored hit with
her first novel. "Tho Heritage Of I'm
rest" and her second ANNE Carmel"
was one Of the most widely read and
discussed OF last years books. Cap-
tains of the World" Is said. however, 10
be of much more Importance than any
thing else which Miss Overton has done.
4 writer IN the London Times calls
attention to I he fact that there seems TO
be q prospect Of Anthony Trollope' :
books fulfilling the prophecy yentured
by DR.. Garnett IN his life OF the novel
list In the Dictionary of National Biog-
raphy." Or. Garnett wrote; His
works may fall into temporary oblivion,
but when the twentieth century desires
10 estimate the nineteenth they viii be
disintered and studied with an atten-
ton accorded TO no contemporary WORK
OF the kind, except, perhaps George
Enot's Middlemarch.' The demand
for Trollope's tales Is steadily increas-
ing. and George Routedge & Sons arc
now arranging to bring out new u
brary edition Of his works. At present
Trollopes best-known books are scat
tered among half-a-do2en publishers
the latest to take advantage OF theil
popularity being John Lane, whose New
Pocket Library already includes The
Warden. "''Barchester Towers" Fran
ley Parsonage and "Dr, Thorne.'
"'rhe Three Clerks' win be added &C
this SERIES with an Introduction by Az
gar Thorold. Messrs Routledge's uni
form edition viii include the woodcuu
OF the original editions. Millals-an In
innate friend OF Trolope IN those days
with Thackeray. Wilkie Collins, ant
John I.eech-illustrate several Of th'
novels, beginning with "Framley Par
sonage," which viii be one OF the frs
books to appear in the new uniform edi
tlon.
Few Americans can boast Of so lonI
and distinguished an ancestry as Mrs
II. A. Mitchell Keays, author OF NJ
That Eateth Bread with Me" tn
prominence that Mrs, Keay's name ha
attained through the success OF he
novel has brought her into connection