Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-06-25

ment Whloh sprang without leaders
from the peasantry Of the country.
The book will narrate the ways
and means by which revolution, more
or less on the lines OF a passive resist
ance accomplished these reforms" And
again; "The chapter recalling the dra-
matte trial OF the land league and its
leaders in the special commission Of
1888 VIII narrate how that unscrupulous
plot 10 destroy Mr.. Parnell and the
powerful movement behind him was
frustrated, and will add something
not previously told 10 the history OF Il
judicial inqusltlon unparalleled In the
annals Of political warfare"
II is said that John H. Whitson
author OF THE Rainbow Chasers,' like
many hero of romance. owes his sue
cess to a rejection, hut that his rejec-
tlon came from a masculine hand. His
early attempts in fiction were sent to
the Yankee Blade, when Mr.. Sam Wal
ter Foss was It's editor, One day Mr.
Foss returned n ~arcel Of his manu-
script with the criticism, TOO good for
US" and bade the westerner try his
fortune elsewhere. As the trial was
successful, this was the beginning OF a
warm friendship between the two men,
and Mr.. Whitson has now come east
and lives in Somerville, near the public
library, Of which Mr.. Foss 10 librarian
No Alhanesi the author of "Su~
sannah and One Other" used her own
charming Kent home as a background
for part OF her story She calls her
place Frognall Farm II Hes about six
miles from the picturesque town Of
Canterbury, and Is but a short drive
from the English Channel 1t is an an
Client roomy house, about 300 years old,
standing In typical Kentish surround
ings--wide- eaved barns and sheepfolds,
bowery orchards and broad meadows.
II was these meadows, indeed, that in
spired the opening chapters Of Susan
NAH" for, having risen at dawn one
midsummer morning, just as her hero
Inc does, 10 gather mushrooms, Madame
Albanesi says that, as she stood watch
ing the sun rise, she developed the
whole scheme Of her story and outlined
It on paper after breakfast that very
day
The year 1904 Is memorable as being
the centenary Of the death OF Alexander
Hamilton. In the Riverside Biographi-
cal Series, published by Houghton, Milf
fin & Co., MIR. G, a. Conant sketches
I'm fascinating style the career OF the
great statesman without some d.
recting and organizing genius like his, "
writes MIR. Conant 1.-THE consolidation
of the union must have been delayed,
and have been accomplished with much
travail. He was fortunate
in finding an opportunity TOR the exer-
else Of his high abilities In a crisis
which enabled him to render greater
services 10 the country than have keen
rendered by almost any man In her his
tory, with the exception Of Washington
and Lincoln" The price of this book,
In linen binding with frontispiece por-
trait OF Hamilton, Is 50 cents, postpaid.
Charles Reade's last years were spent
in the shadow Of mental observation
which might readily have been fore
seen, for his life had been increasingly
fun OF Incorporate mental activity. He
died at his home in London on April II,
1884, and his remains were buried at
Willesden cemetery on the 18th. by his
own request, for he always held his
work for the stage above all else that
he did, the plate upon his coffin bore
the inscription; Charles Reade, ORA
matist, Novelist and Journalist and
his tomb hears the same words. When
he was laid In the grave, as far az my
eyes could see through the mist which
rose before them" says Mr., Coleman,
there were present 200 people, more or
less, among whom / could distinguish
OF men OF letters only two--Robert Blu
chanan and George Augustus Sala-and
of actors only two-Stanlslaus Calhaem
and Davenport Coleman. They follow
ed him that day to his grave, | have
since followed them to theirs" Not the
least entertaining pages IN the volume
are those which describe Charles
Reade's association with Mrs Seymour
and her husband and the curious men
age which offered him congenial home
and surroundings for many years. IL
Illustrations are plentfully scattered
through the book list OF Reade's
works is given, and there Is an index
which is extraordinarily inadequate and
incomplete. Il. y. Dutton 4 Co. are
the publishers.
Gertrude Atherton, author Of Rulers
OF Kings" has left Munich and is now
travelling IN Spain. She wrote recently
to a friend that she did not expect a
single favorable review Of her novel In
London, on account OF It's rampant
Americanism. II has, on the contrary,
been received In England with a great
deal Of interest
prophet Is not always without hon
or In his own country. Virginia Frazer
Boyle has sent to her publishers the
Harpers. a verltable ragged curiosity in
the shape OF q copy Of her Devil