Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-30


trial and conviction, recently published
In McClure's Magazine by Samuel Hop.
klns Adams, aroused much public inter-
est In his case.
A reader writes from Nashville, Tenn,
inquiri0g concerning report of the
death of Henry Wallace Phillips, whose
RED Saunders" stories have given him
immense popularity. Like Mark Twain,
Mr., Phillips rises } state that the ru-
mors concerning his death have been
greatly exaggerated. lie Is very much
alive and doing more stories OF the far
west for the JOY Of the nations,
Q. Henry, the new humorist whose
recent stories In McClures have made
a tremendous hit, has come "out OF the
west" 10 make his home In New York.
Some OF his Impressions OF the metrop-
oils are reflected in this comment he
puts In the mouth OF one Of his char
actersI You'd think New York people
was all WISE but no. They don't get
chance 20 learn. Everything Is too
compressed, Even the hay-seeds are
baled hay-seeds. There's enough Rubes
walk down Broadway In one hour to
buy up weeks output OF fake fac
cory. But what else can you expect
from town that's shut of from the
world by the ocean one side and New
Jersey on the other?"
one of Philadel1hias leading citi-
gems, who has been prominently identi-
fled with the reform movement In that
city. has been 50 strongly impressed
with the Importance and significance Of
Lincoln Steffens first article In hts Sc
rles on Enemies OF the Republic" In
McClures Magazine for April. that he
has announced that he will be one Of
1000 good citizens to give $1,000 each
toward a fund TO be used In giving this
and furtherlng a campaign OF educa-
ton In good government
Ida NJ, Tarbell has been often i'm.
portuned TO speak at dinners, before
clubs and elsewhere concerning the
Standard Oh company, whose interest
Ing history she has told so graphically
In McClures Magazine But she has
steadfastly declined such invitations
until last week when she spoke at the
Twentieth Century club OF Boston.
Ray Stannard Baker writes from his
home at Lansing Mich, that his work
on Great Labor Conflicts for Nc.
Clure's Magazine has been somewhat
interrupted by broken leg, resulting
from fall into a coal hole. "A most
unherolc and ignominous performance
he writes,
The 81. Louis Globe Democrat has
coined new word. In commenting on
the articles concerning municipal corr
ruptlon by Lincoln Steffens which have
appeared IN McClures Magazine, II de-
scribes the cities considered as The
steffenIzed Towns"
The first volume Of the long-expected
Varlorum edition OF the works OF
beaumont and Fletcher II now nearly
ready. The edition. which has been
planned under the general direction OF
Mr., A. IL. Bullen, assisted by several
scholars, includes a full list OF various
readings, besides the usual annotations.
The first volume contains 1.-THE Maids
Tragedy" and "Philaster," edited by
Mr. T. A. Daniel and "A King and No
King" "The Scornful Lady and ''The
Custom OF the Country" edited by Mr..
r. warwick Bond The work will be
completed In ls volumes, the last con-
tanning memoirs etc, by the general
editor and will be published Jointly In
London by Mr., Bullen and George Bell
q Sons
The title OF Mrs Humphry Wards
new novel which begins serial pubica-
lion in Harper's Magazine for June Is
"The Marriage Of William Ashe," The
scenes Of the story are laid In time
previous TO that Of Lady Roses
Daughter
In the Cornhlll Magazine for April,
Mr. Frederic Harrison thus sums up Sir
Leslies claim upon our attention az a
critic II came upon an admirable
sentence, which sums up stephens own
literary Judgment: The eighteenth CEN
fury. It's enemies used TO say, was the
century of coarse unitarian aims, Of
religious indifference and political cor
ruptlon, but, as prefer to say, was the
century OF sound common sense and
growing federation and OF steady social
and Industrial development > That IN
Leslie stephens message 90 our tlme'
sound sense, liberation social develop.
mont. IL ls A worthy and great mes