Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-07

65. Only one Of the list Professor
BeecheT Of Yale, had cried quits before
reaching the half-century mark This
bears witness 70 the fact that the ca
reer Of the literary worker is not a
hazardous one at least, so far as our
sane, grave, temperate American writ
ers are concerned. II seems TO be dif-
ferent with those who have a fans
within them. The last few years have
seen some gallant Adventures In the
world of thought go down--though with
colOrs flying, be II said. DE Maupas-
SAINT and Emma Lazarus stephen Crane
and Henley, Stevens and Norris, Hoo
vey, Farless and Carryl-above all,
Stevenson. Why could they not have
been more tenacious OF the serviceable
body through which they made them
selves coherent? If they are speaking
now II is not I'm our tongue. We are
too duh to hear.
George Madden Martin has gripped
the interest Of her large circle Of read
ers for her new story, THE House OF
Fuhlment," now running serially in
McClure's, by creating the character
Of another lovely little girl, who wins
and holds the affections from the first
There is every indication that Mrs,
Martin Is TO repeat the success Of her
Emmy Lou"
A book of sociology, which is al en-
Pertaining as It is profound, Is Char
lotte Perkins Gilmans Human Work"
which Mcclure Phillips viii bring out
the beginning of May. This book brings
to a logical conclusion the theories ad-
vanCed by Mrs. Gilman in her former
works. THE Home" Women and Ec-
onomics," Concerning Children" etc.
II Is almost revolutionary Mrs GIL
man takes very optimistic point ~
view, and argues that II is mans gent
Ter social side that rules him, and not
his more animalistic, crueller and selfish
Instincts. She claims man is essential
~ social creature and that II Is his
social impulse which leads him to
work and not his british desire to
advance himself at the sacrifice Of 9TH
ers
The endeavor of Protestant churches
| 10 arrive at some agreement on the
| question of remarriage between d.
| vorced couples has brought the ethics
| OF the divorce question very much 10
| the fore.
Novels have frequently made great
| changes in public opinion. Mrs. II, A,
! Mitchell Keays' novel ON the divorce
question, Gle That Eateth Bread with
! Me. " seems likely to be great innu-
! once in the present discussion of the
| divorce evil Clergymen Of all demon
! nations have read il with approval
| and have used Il az a basis for SER
mons delivered in their pupits.
ellis Meredith. the author Of Heart
4. .f 4 h. Ia L. askN
| nolitical writer's of the west. Recently
in "A colorado gubernatorial campaign
| shp was commissioned by a Denver pa
per To write interviews with the lead
! ing candidates. With her first candi'
date she made an appointment by teie'
| praphing what train she would arrive
on and signing "Ellis Meredith Now
there was nothing in the name "Elli'
| Meredith" 10 keep the local politica
committee from expecting business
| like man In a Stetson hat, so, attel
nreparIng smokahles and drlnkabl
| ihnv repaired to the station In a body
10 give him proper reception When
after n long search, they finally located
Ellis Meredith in the person OF sma
demure, soft-voiced LADY, they mad'
very sudden changes In ,heir plans 10
her entertainment, ana employed TN
. Eunull0S Int1 Unu bhNh'A'N 80
pected newspaperman In restoring thel
own shattered nerves.
third edition Of Jack London's voi
ume OF Alaskan stories, "The GOD OF NJ
Fathers, has been Issued by Mcclure
Phillips. ,,. IT. aoo,
Mr. william Dean Howells' the dea'
NJ American novelists and critics, ma
gone abroad for the spring mohlns
perhaps his most erdearing trnit-an'
bc has many--is the generosity OF m
Praise for the rising generation OF No
tion-writers. To an English interVie"
er he said recently - .
"Chicago Is becoming the center o
an active school of novelists, / th'h
very highly Of Edith Wyatt, who has
dne sense OF style, but knows lltera
tire TOO we'll 20 be literary. Then ther
ia Edith Wharton and poor Frank Nor
ris-of the mystical side OF whose ma
lure no one has ever done Justice an
Rrand Whitlock. who has written IN
best American political novel that ma
ever been done, THE Tnirteenth DIS
Mr.. Whltiock, however. Is no longer
resident of Chicago. He belongs
now 10 Toledo. Ohio, and wrote tnoI
his latest book, Her INFINITE Narlety'
Mir. Howells has the same enthusiast
1 for this COMEDY OF Suffrage thot