Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-25
RICHARD W. YOUNG AS A CADET.

In search Of new material. The pow
erful short stories which were his in
PRODUCTION to the public IN the pages
OF McClure's were the first literary
fruits of our occupation Of the Phil
ippnes, Hooper, then fresh from coll
lege and the football field, went over
az a teacher aud gathered a great
batch of material, on which he has
been drawing ever since. on this his
second visit TO the islands he is ac-
companied by Mrs, Hopper.
Perhaps NO writer Of magazine fiction
can equal the speed record made by
Edwin Lefrevre, whose Wall Street
Mystery story Is now appearing IN Nc
Clure's, lie produced $4,000 words be-
tween Saturday and Monday, an WRIT
en- in longhand, for Mr. Lefeyre doesn't
use a typewriter The mere physical
labor Of penciling out this enormous
quantity OF copy would be no mean un-
dertaking In itself 20 many 10 the craft.
but the author Of the Golden Flood
Is a newspaper man, the financial editor
Of New York daily, and a such he
does not consider a mere matter OF
5000 words day feat worth Boosting
Of.
Ray Stannard Baker has undertaken
the mighty task " calculating the
transportation problem, the complicated
railroad question which the national
laWmaker have been ponderously do-
batting The results OF his work viii
appear In series Of articles In Nc
Cures next fall.
Stewart Edward white, author OF
1.-THE Mountains" 1.-THE Silent Places"
etc. finds 1t difficult to stay home
even in winter time, though ne has
what is known as the most comfort
able house on the Pacific Coast He
mas Just returned to Santa Barbara
from a two weeks trip IN Arizona
where he went among the most desolate
desert mountains a hunting mountain
lions. Mr. White rarely goes anywhere
whore travel is easy, and he did not
find II so IN Arizona. He met with ter
rife winter storms and snow I'm the
mountains, and spent three nights hud-
died In a crevlce on the side OF the cliff,
which was the only shelter from the
weather he could find, and where he
had to sleep standing.
Alchemy 1t seems, is not a lost and
unpractisod art. Since the unfolding
Of the plot OF "The Golden Flood" IN
McClure's with the supposltious manu.
facture Of the gold which poure i'm an
palling volume into the Y. S. assay
office, Edwin Lefevre, the author Of this
mystery story, has been bombarded
with letters from persons all over the
country who claim more or less success
I'm making the precious metal. There
are even some who follow the old school
or the seekers Of the philosophers
stone. They are horribly afraid that
the story VIII lay bare the inner mys-
teries Other letters have n business
like tone; they enclose allurlng pros-
peotuses and tell Of stock for sale: the
author is invited to get In on the
ground floor.
The trials of editorial piety are many.
Just think what Il costs to be constant
~ prim and proper In print. The NJ.
erary editor OF the religious periodical
which has perhaps the largest crcula-
tion In this country recently wrote TO
The Bobbs-Merrill company as fol-
lows.
~ have just finished, at a single sit
ting, with work piled about me Ia A
maddening height, that mighty good
story, "The Man on the Box" / should
Ike to say IN my review Just what
think Of 49, but I dassent. So I have
taken my pen IN hand 10 tell you
privately that there ls more ginger and
Juice In that story Of MacGrath's than
IN any ] have read for a long time.
That fellow can tell a story which Is
much better than being a great novel;
ist Deliver me from greatness, so long
as I can have a genuinely vital book
Now ] must write my perfectly proper
roview-hut this ls my real opinion"
Naturally the name Of the critic is not
given.