Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15

Dr. Emil Reich, whose industry vcr-
satalIty and fiery zeal remind one Of
Dr. Nordau. Is also spending hts va
cation--in hts fayorito ContreXeyilc,
working as hard as when he
stays at home. Re has iu hand a huge
scheme 20 bring his native Hungary
more prominently before the world at
large is editing % series of readers OF
philosophy theology natural science,
and political economy for a new London
publishing house, is putting some fin
lsh touches ON his Universal History
and amusing himself between Whiles
with magazine onslaughts ON the cu-
tics OF his latest book, Success Among
Nations The doctor stands manfully
to his guns I'm what was considered by
some Of the American papers as an at
tack on American women. He says It Is
absurd TO interpret his appreciative
comments as an attack But he has a
definite impression that there are lines
along which American womanhood
could develop to greater usefulness, and
az last accounts he was setting down
those impressions with his usual vlgor
and enthusiasm for immediate publIca-
ton In the United states.
There are three facts Of especial In
terest about two imposing volumes en-
titled THE Lives Of James and VIII
liam Ward which are 10 be published
here next month One IL that the work
is 10 cost 30 gulneas, which ls a trne
more than $50 another is that the
entire edition was sold before "a copy
b tWl ha al leV hat
subscribed for within few days Of the
first announcement that the work was
to be undertaken. The third fact is
that the text Is by Julia Frankau-the
real name Of a lady widely known IN
England and the United states under
the pseudonym Of Frank Dandy au-
thor Of that surprising novel, Pigs In
Glover" which was one OF the sud.
den successes Of last year Very few
readers on either side OF the Atlantic
have been aware that the distinguished
writer and editor Of Art works, and
the popular novelist are one and the
same person Mrs Fmnkau has
charming, and buslness-like work room
IN her home IN Charges street just OF
Piccadilly, and the characteristics Of
this work room reflect the qualities Of
It's mistress. Mrs Frankau's last previ-
Gus book "The Life OF John Raphael
Smith, was a companion volume 10 the
Ward books, and I believe equally ter
rifle In price, owing 10 the quality Of
the engraylnrs on her Frank Dam
by side Mrs. Frankau has lately I'm.
ished q series of short stories and Is
now planning out a successor to pigs
In Glover for which arrangements al
ready have been made
That entertaining American book,
"rhe Heart Of Japan" by G. l.. Brown
ell, has gone through three editions I'm
England, and the Italian translation
rights were purchased last week by n
publishing house IN Milan which ex-
poets 10 produce the work I'm Italian
this autumn. The author Of THE Heart
Of japan after two or three years
residence In London seems TO have re-
turned to Am RIGA FOR good.
The long and painful list of futile
attempts to raise money for noble
monuments I'm stone and brass TO the
memory OF dead authors has had rs
salutary lesson on the friends Of the
late SIR Edwin Arnold, who, headed
by Lord Brarsey are now asking for
funds. not for tablet or statue, but
TO found Arnold scholarships az OK
ford for proficiency in oriental litem-
turc-a memorial far more appropriate
and useful than anything that could be-
carved In stone with the funds likely
to be raised. incidentally the sum
raised will probably be much larger
than could have been obtained for any
carved memorial Of a kindly poet who
was taken less seriously as a man Of
letters than as a sympathetic interpre-
ter Of the emotions Of the east into the
language OF the west
CURTIS BROWN.