Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-30

pers, who publish all three, consider
this record fair demonstration Of pop
ular appreciation OF the best American
fiction. The other three BOOKS on the
list are Phillips, The Cost (Bobbs-
Merrill, Whites The Silent Places
(Mc-Cure & Phillips) and Parrlsh's
When Wilderness was King (McClurg),
of which the authors are all men,
Justin Huntley Mccarthy, author Of
If | Were King, The Proud Prince, etc,
is at work on new romance which
Harper & Brothers viii publish next
autumn For the past few weeks Mr..
Mccarthy has been travelling around
England and resting from his literary
work. IL may not be generally known
that he Is a son Of Justin Mccarthy, the
historian author of the famous History
of Our Own Times.
More than 1900 copies of Mrs. Flor
ence Morse Kingsley's novel, THE SIM
guar MISS Smith" were sold on a SIM
gle day last week, and the publishers
have put the book to press for the
fourth time.
Henry Harland, the author Of my
Friend Prospero," Is now the type OF
tne NuCCeN6Iul anu ODultUA llpNtiioA' I liN
latest news from him is that he is trav-
cling luxurlously In Italy with his FAM
lily. But It was once quite different with
him. A friend of his younger days gives
an interesting picture of Harland be
fore taking his dose OF popular sue
cess 1T was at the time h was writing
his first novel, Mrs. peiXada, he says,
that knew him. He worked feyerlsh-
ly, going 60 bed at seven each night
and rising at some such ungodly hour
as four or five o'clock I'm the morning,
TO write until breakfast. Then he
worked at his office, where he earned
his daily bread-a lawyers ofhce' pc
lieve-and rushed back as soon as he
could to work on the book an hour or
SO before goirs to bed 1t takes
great deal of pluck TO give up every
| thing like that when a man Is young
and fond Of living.
DR.. A. Conan Doyle, the author OF
''The Adventures of Gerard (McClue-
| phIlllps) Is a stalwart crlcketer, and
they say can provide as exciting
time with his bat as with his pen. lie
has recently been covering himself win
| honor on the crease, playing on the
| Marylebone eleven In an internatlonal
| match, in England, agaist the Haver-
score and was mot out
Edgar Jepson, the author OF an Eng
| lish Youths Sherlock Holmes-ian adj
ventures, "The Admirable Tinker lMc-
! cline phillps) has the reputation OF pc
ING the most barbarously honest crluc
| among contemporaneou English writ
| ers. His natural aptitude FOR telllnB
| what he considers the truth, no matter
what il may cost (the other leloWl, mas
made MIR. Jepson one or the malhstayS
of the uuabashedly frank satuluay he-
y,Iew. He IL constant contributor 10
lts columns and when he takes his pen
! i'm hand some idol Of the market-place
! is sure 10 find itself stripped OF us
| rnuds ana pretences. Strange TO say,
| NTr Jepson's books have always had
| cordial treatment from his brotner
.y,5ters especially "The Admirable Iin-
l.ar which seems to suit the Engllsh
mind 10 a r. Even the French reviews
have Joined In the nraise OF ~ m
Nercure de France. In long entlu minus.
astic review OF IT, finds only one lau,,
that the author has allowed the pI'i,, ~,
to nut an accent on a capltal let'eI J"
French quotation.
| WIN irwin. who collaboratcd with Ge,
| lott burgess I'm "The Plcaroons' ana
''rhe Reign OF Queen IsyL' has recently
| ,oft his native California 20 come easl
| and ioin the forces Of the New ioIk
Sun lie was formerly Sunday editor
| ~ Tho san Francisco Chronicle, RAIN
cr "snooly" Incident lies behind ms de.
| cislon TO accept the sun ouer ano.'
| while MO a letter came to MN ahu,
| ,,hen No opened &C. he received quite u
| shnck Of surprise In recognizing slle
Sawdcritlng OF his friend, the novelist,
Fronl, Norris. who had been dead so.no
,,,o,ths The friend to whom the letter
| Ia bcer entrusted had delayed IN
| ,itno A. In n Norris advised lrWln
49, aGei 10 New York. and the delaysu
eoistle arrived Just in time to help lIMiH
| decide TO accept thhe oifer 10 come '''''
whether charles Reade's novels are
| ,oeiected or not has been n subject OF
| rocent discussion I'm literary perlodl-
| oais Whatever the decision, the iaeis
| .",,o,r thai a standard edition OF ms
aanital novels viii shortly be publish
| "a In Iondon; and IN America Reade
su,,,nua story 'The Cloister ana me
| Ifcarth" Ia among the regularly nesl
saiilnr hooks on the long standard nst
! =, Iierner a BROTHERS. II IL In such
s,eady demand that they publish sever
| al different editions OF ~ Nm, mu, 3, n
| sold at varying prices pS 49, etnSo n
regarded as Reade's masteLp,y,Ced'
has certainly never pe.n h'e'0''"
Josenhne Daskam, author or NE
] mors Of Baby" has taken up 'ne