Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-20

| novels and RECALLED their majesties with
something like this
There is the exact spot at which
Glory Quayle Is first introduced to the
reader" Again, Donald MacSheaf
passed through that gateway as he en-
countered the trusty laird from Doug
las And at another place, Here the
blacksmith shod the landlords horse. In
The ManXman.' Thus the clcerone
continued for two mortal hours.
Their maJesties were dreadfully bor-
ed King Edward asked TO be driven
back to town and abandoned slght-see-
ing, When Game stepped from the
carriage he dropped upon one knee.
Rise, Mr.. Calnel commanded his
majesty according to the story,
THE author got on his feet. much
chagrined. He had confidently expect
ed, il is said at Douglastown, TO hear
words that would create him a knight;
Rise, Sir Ham,
Knishthoods had been literally doled
out and CaIne couldn't understand
why he failed to get one.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward,
who Is spending the summer al Glou-
cester has Just completed a new love
story with dog as an important char
aeter II viii be published in October
by Houghton, Mlfflln & Co. The same
house also announces a fourth edition
OF Dog Watches at Sea" by stanton
II King a fourth edition Of Essays
on Great Writers" by Henry d. Sedg-
wick and a second edition OF THE
Penobscott Man" by Fannie Hardy
Eckstrom.
Mary Austin. author OF "The Land OF
Little Rain has Just finished a 70.
nance OF southern California and Mex
leo, which is to appear serlally in The
Atlantic Monthly, beginning with Sep
TENDER, under the title Of "Isidro."
Mrs. Austin is also TO publish through
Houghton, Mifiln & Co. tales Of the
California desert, collected under the
title Of THE Basket Woman"
The press has been full recently OF the
peculiar psychological experience OF
hidel Haggard. the author Of she"
Allan Quartermain," etc. The story IL
that Mr. Haggard had an intense and
vivid dream In which he saw his favor.
ite dog Bob Killed by railroad train.
Few days after the novelist discover
ed that the dog had died under condi-
IONS practically the same as those he
witnessed In his dream. The incident
seems almost to establish the fact OF
telepathic communication between an
animal and man.
Another peculiar fact In connection
with this story is that Mr. Haggard's
last book, THE Brethren" is founded
upon a mysterious revelation. which
comes to one OF the leading characters
IN dream. THE Brethren" Will be
published In America this fall by Nc
Clnre-Phillips.
II proof were wanting 10 controyert
the statement oft repeated both in Eng
land and here that American fiction
is being coldly received in England IL
might be found in the following quota
ton In a review Of Rose H. Youngs
novel Of Missouri life. sally of Mis-
souri,, from the Literary World OF
London: In Sally of Missouri we
nave one more proof that the ART OF
writing fiction is nourishing we'll In
America. II Is as easy to find good
qualities in this fresh and convincing
story as It Is to find stones In cherries"
Tom Mason. author Of an Merry
Measure" was born IN Essex, Connecti-
cut I'm 1866,
His father was one OF the best known
NAN "hiil' Nfh AupAdlilc III lnt united
states, and Mr.. Mason went to sea
when he was nine months old. He has
been the Managing and Literary Editor
OF Life for the past 10 years his writ
ings for that paper and other maya
zines having become universal.
Mr.. Mason Is a resident OF Glen
Ridge, New Jersey. my family" he
remarked consists of three children,
three dogs, three servants, and only one
wife,"
The Summer Girl is so much Of an
institution now that 1t will be OF inter-
est to know that the first verses that
were ever written Of her were written
some 10 years ago by Tom Mason, who
has included them III his character
istic collection OF verse, in Merry
Measure" Just issued BY the Life Pub
fishing Company.
81 wrote the verses one February"
said MIR Mosson. during a binding
snowstorm and the only thing ! could
think of was The Summer Girl The
poem was widely copied and the
phrase thereafter bee lme part OF cur
rent speech.
The ny leaf Of Stewart Edward
Whites book, 1.-THE Forest" bears the
inscription; ITO BLY, In explanation
OF who Billy is ono literary journal
has come forth with the statement that
the book Is inscribed to Mr. Whites
half-breed guide, Billy" let II be
stated authoritativelv here, was MIR.
Whites special name for Miss Grant,
OF Santa Barbara, Cal, who Is now Mrs.
Stewart Edward White.
Mrs. II. A. Mitchell Keays, the author
Of the novel OF divorce HE That Eat
eth Bread with Me" (McClure- Phil
llps), is spending her summer at re-
mote little village I'm Wisconsin, which
bears the biblical sounding name, Eph-
rain. The house she Is living In Ia
called "The Pod" The reason for its
being called "The Pod" Is clear when
one Is informed that II is owned and
Inhabited by a famil" OF Pease'
Ellis .deredith. author OF Heart OF
NV Heart" though still young wo-
man, has had an extremely wide ex-
perience In political newspaper work
She declares that she must have been
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