Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-07-02
American Books and
The English Reviewers.
SOUR LONDON LITERARY LETTERS

, lie dearly loves to be on the other
side Of an argument ana ! suspect
that Is one reason for his controversial
attitude regarding American women.
| lie chuckled jOyOusly the other day'
In the writer's presence, when an
American visitor hurled at him the
following comment. you may have
lived In America i've years, Or. Reich,
but you evidently saw only one klnd
OF American Woman-the kind mat
rushed up to you after lecture ana
carried you or trumphantly to din-
ner for the sake Of getting a bit OF
prestige You got among cuiture-grab-
beers and hand shakers and stayed
among em the whole five years, ana
never knew there was another sort or
American woman, You made a hasty
generalization, In other words The
learned Doctors answer TO this gallant
onslaught was crushing, My boy,'
said he. "come aud have a drink The
Doctors wife is a charming little
French lady and their London home is
hospItabe indeed
The coming centenary of George
Sand has brought out the faCt--which
probably win surprise most persons
that some OF the authorcss's work still
remains unpublished. These writings,
which now are likely TO see the light OF
day include two plays named The Man
with the MarlOnettes" and ''Manon,'
and several fragments Of novels, or
these the most interesting Is Memories
OF D. Paile.' which, begun Oy George
Sand IN 1868. was Intended by the auth
Dress 10 be the lfe-st0ry OF an imagine
airy grandson Of Rousseau. II was
given up, however, when NADINE Sand
.lr..a..yH..voI Ia. no
used by Claude GenOuN In lie En-
fants de Rousseau" Among the other
fragments Is THE queen Of the SHOWS"
which ms authorizes seems to have In
tended much on the lines o. Dickens
Christmas Books
So far as known Mrs T, p. O'Connor,
who has Just taken charge of the de-
stnles Of The weekly periodical, Chic
Is LCudou's first American woman ed
itor She has. Of course, already
had literary experience 10 burn, first
with the Harpcrs In America, and lat
err as her husbands most valued as.
sistant herc-not to mention having
written two or three plays,
Mark Twain hos shown that no ono
can be- more serious than n humorlst.
when SD disposed as Mrs, Camp would
gay and Jerome Is, Jerome is another
oHlmpo Of late the humorist has
been pitching In Go the vivisectonists
lu really savage way. II may be re-
m.mharcd too, that when jerome was
editing To-day he went for the Sui
tan of Turkey $50 viclously that the
Foreign office had 90 warn him TO
soften his tone Ana the author OF
"Thrce Men" once assured a gather
ing OF voters that II they sent him to
parlilmcnt--whlch they didnt-he
would DE las solemn ns the most por-
tcntous NJ, - ever known"
IL was not 30 long ago that / wrote
about O French poet who because let
tors proved unromunerative set up as
cOhbler. and now word reaches me
that Herr Richard SkoWronnek, a Ger
man drlmgtist who has gained some
little recognition as about to abandon
pl2y-wrItlng and take over the man
agement ~ a shocbackng factory.
Perhaps il may not be improper To-
mention that on Friday last a paper on
Books Of the Day. was read before
the Womcn's institute, Of London. by
the customary writer OF these letters,