Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-23

! NV hihnInhputfa river, and his thrill
ing experiences of Imprisonment and
| torture IN Tibet are narrated In his
book, In the Forbidden Land" lie
! marched with the allied troops TO Pekin
| in 1900, and was the first Anglo Saxon
| TO enter the Forbidden City"
The letters Of John Ruskin to Charles
! Eliot Norton viii be published I'm book
| form next autumn. Professor Norton
| was iusklns closest American friend,
| and their correspondence, beginning in
1870, continued practically until Rus.
| kins death.
A new story written by Kate Douglas
Wlggin, with the assistance OF three
British friends, is coming out In Sep.
| tember THE Affair at the Inn" is to
| be the title, and Virginia is the name Of
J the hcrolne-a young person who is
mentioned as fascinating.
Henry Seton Merriman, author Of
'Barlasch of the Guard' Mcclure
| PhilllpS, was an extremely slow and
careful writer, chiefly because he felt
| that he must know his ground thor
oughly before he dared to put pon to
paper. II took him nearly year and a
! half to write "A book, and when he en-
! gagged on such a story Of "Barlasch Of
the Guard he worked just as hard
az II he were booming up to pass a
stif historical examination in the peri
3D.
Shan Bullock's new novel. "The Red.
Leaguers" is story Of Ireland fighting
FOR freedom and, I'm a certain way, al
most political tract, It has been
praised heartily in England, but the
words Of commentator which Mr.. Bull
lock most appreciates are those con-
tanned In a letter he received from Mr..
George Wyndham, the chief secretary
for Ireland, himselG a literary man,
known for his scholarly editing of
Elizabethan literature Mr.. Wyndham
wrote: II an reading The Read-Leag-
uers' with deep interest FOR, quite apart
from the clean-cut style IN which the
story is told-and to get both a story
and style is much In these days-it
contains bold and convincing portraits
Of strongly marked types, That they
may retain their strength and dlstlnc-
ton aud yet lose their hatred and an
tagonsm is my earnest wish'
Booth Harrington, the author OF "The
Two Nanrevels," having spent some
months I'm Italy, has become ambitious
In the direction of art As college
man he was noted for his ability as a
draughtsman, and 1t is said that he is
nov warming again to his first love and
viii himself illustrate some Of his stor-
les, which are to appear In the near
future.
one Of the most attractive phases of
American literary life today is the in.
tcrest and enthusiasm manifested by
the older and established authors to-
wards the recruits Mr. Howells is one
who is always ready to welcome the
arrival Of a new and sincere talent. Mr.
Joel Chandler Harris Is another, Re-
Gently a volume of stories OF animal
FOLKLORE OF the south. entitled "At the
Big House. appeared from the pen Of
Miss Anne Virginia Culbertson. Mr.
Harris might have regarded it as an
invasion Of his peculiar bailiWck, But
he didn't lie wrote a letter to the pub
fishers at once, full of warm apprecia-
ton and just praise, lat the Big
House he said has carried me back
to old times by Il most delightful road
II Is a charming book, There Is a color
about it-an atmosphere, delicate
touch-that Is So rarely found In Amer
lean books that certain critics have
claimed II 10 be entirely lacking, But
the truth is. that only a woman Of
great sensihility can write stories for
children as they should be written-as,
In fact, Miss Culbertson has written
them, The book should be one Of the
most substantial successes Of the sea-
SON
Ana Uncle Remus should know. If
anyone.
An interesting summer trip Is being
planned by Miss Alice MacGowan and
Mrs. Grace MacGowan Cooke the joint
authors OF the new cattle-county story.
"Huldah.' Information has come 10
them that the last bit OF open range
| land IN New Mexico has been sold 10
parties who win remove the cattle and
bring IN sheep. So they ure going out
for one last look at the fields which
they have made peculiarly their own in
fiction with the vanishing Of the open
| range the fencing OF pastures, the
bringing in Of sheep and the breaking
up OF public domain into small farms,
there passes forever that picturesque
and elemental life which Is told Of from
| the masculine viewpoint IN 1.-THE Vlr-
gnian' and from the feminine View
point in Huldah,
The story Of the romantic movement
| IN France Is so thoroughly a twice. told
| tale that Or. Brandes account may be
| passed over in favor OF his separate
| discussion Of the great figures in
| French literature. In his chapter upon
| George Sand he remarks that her pro-
| ductyity was almost equal 20 that Of
| the elder Dumas. and that her works mi
10 closely printed volumes. After
| briefly narrating the salient features Of
| her llfe she analyses briefly the plots
| and characters OF her bestknown ro-
mances. emphasizing especially the fact
! that her view of men and women was
| strongly colored by the results OF her
own married life. 10 Balzac. the giant
OF them all, are given six chapters. in
which are set forth with pcnetrativc In
| sight the great powers, the eXtraya-
| gances and the shortcomings Of The au-
| thor Of lie Coincide Humane Ills
style was uncertain" says Or, Brandes
1T was NJ times vulgarly trivial at
times bombastic. And deficiency In the
matter Of style Is a serious deficiency;
| because what distinguishes art from
| that which Is not art rs Just that deter
mined exclusion Of what Is almost, but
| not quito right TO which we give the
| name Of style. II Is, moreover, a par
| ticularly Objectionable deficiency In the
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