Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-17

kept its high level during lhe
past ~ months. and the wonder
increases as 20 how long the seemingly
msotlate demand wUl continue Every
boIng born with turn for happy
phrases I'm these days looms as an en-
bryo author and few so retiring as not
TO launch % literary craft however irH
upon the fayorlng tide The sale OF
new books by writer's comparatively un-
known is "a wonder TO author publish
Grand public alike, while thatotlendms
the efforts Of the best known net for.
tunes for each which 20 tne literary CO..
lebnty OF 20 years ago would nave
seemed fabulous
SALT Lake has done its share with
other cities On Keeping up this record
The bookdealcrs declare % generous ana
ever increasing demand tor the best
books fiction. history travel etci ana
orders from ali houses here have fire.
quenuy TO be duplicated many times
10 meet the swelling patronage This
fact IN view of the efficient service OF
the free public library 600 meeting the
needs OF the reading public is fIgnIh-
cant Of the individual tendency TO pat-
ronlze the growing literary spirit Of me
country and bids well as am incentive
10 literary effort salt Lake is evident
~ becoming fayoubly known 10 the
publishers. none OF the great houses
felllne to bring TO notice Of the local
hook reviewers their new ventures.
with each locality boasting It's embryo
Hawthorne and Irving and a demand
natterlng and reckoning each effort, the
outlook for a distinctive national liter
allure was never brighter and II viii be
little credit 10 the country II the great
food sweeping around year by year
does not float treasure enough to the
mainland to make a proud literary
monument to the nation
II is announced that Sherlock Holmes
after a farewell appearance at Christ
mas time will retire Tor good and ALL
Edward Marston. the London book
seller and publisher, gives In his recent
volume OF "reminiscences some recollec-
tlons OF Macaulay. II only remember
him as OF medium height rather stout
with short collar close up TO his ears
lie walked with stout stick, with
which have seen him vigorously stamp
the pavement now and then, as II 10 en-
force an argument that was working In
his brain. He was usually very affablc,
hut once saw him much annoyed by
steel engraving Of himself which had
been made from a d0guerrotype for an
American edition Of The History OF
England; He did not Ike It at all, ana
II had 10 be cancelled Mr. Marston
remembers Mrs. stowe as "a charming
little woman, bright and pleasant in
conversation, with an occasional air OF
absentness." He published Hard Cash"
for Charles Rcade, and gives the au-
thor's note on the book. for which he
wanted $4,000 Dickens has pro-
nounced It lncomparably my best pro-
ductlon," he wrote, and, looking at
the research aud labor have bestowed,
should not be compensated by the sum
] ask" Backmore is represented by
come letters, very different from the
placid communications which so many
Of his friends received. once q title-
page OF his went wrong, and IN his fury
he wrote 20 Mt Marston as follows:
Some idiot Chatched out Of an added
egg has put his curdled brains to work
(--'s vacuum press) az that ancient
institution the ttlepage. Behold the
squash OF such is the kingdom Of
fools. a realm and republic everlasting
see my remarks, which are much too
mild. cut on strong language from
bottom last time, stet everything be-
ginning with q D now
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Gertrude Atherton has arrived IN San
Francisco, where she win visit her sis.
ter. Mrs. Ashton Stevens. for a month
or 80. She win then settle IN northern
California for part Of the winter and
devote herself 10 literary work. Re.
Gently well known Hungarian scholar
applied to Mrs. Atherton Tor permission
TO translate "Rulers Of Kings into the
Hungarian Language. In his letter h'
said, In your wonderful novel the az.
mosphere and picture Of the HE her,
are perfect"
Harold McGtath whose new novel
"The Man on the Box" hal
Just been issued IS one Of th,
many men who have bossomed in
90 fiction from the newspaper held
Mr. McGrath's journalistic work hal
been carried on chiefly in Syracuse. n
Y. whore he has made his home FOL
many years. His previous novels "Th
Puppet Crown and The Grey Cloak
both extraordinarily successful wer
swashbucklmg romances with TIN
Man on the Box he comes back q
present-day America after his lonl
wanderings IN od days and imagnar
kingdoms But ne has left none Of hl
high romance behind him In modern
Washington he finds situations MS ad
venturous, wit as polished, laughter "a
hearty, ladies as fair, men as brave. am
love as strong as ever he found then
Osia and Paris.
Mrs. Thurston has been accused o
drawing the character OF John Loder d
1.-THE Masquerade from various dis
tngulshed English politicians, anon