Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-25

Hust popular or living French writer's
ana has a record of sales that Is little
snort OF amazing, His Crime of syi.
Nestre Bonnard' has gone through 81
eaiuons, and Le Lys Rouge" through
So 'LOrme du Mall" Is In Ito nth edi-
ton, lie Mannequin d'Osier" I'm Its
10Th, and Monsieur Bergeret" IN Ito
Doth. The figures are a credit TO French
taste, considering that the author Is the
leading stylist Of his age.
A good deal Of interest is being taken
IN reprint Just published Ia London OF
'Oronooka," a novel by Mira. Aphia
Behn, who Is supposed to have bean the
FIRST English professional aulhoress and
female playwright Born In 1910, Mrs.
Behn was also one Of the first Engtish
women TO take up the business OF q
political spy, and I'm this capacity she
was sent TO Antwerp in 1866 10 md out
the designs OF the Dutch, her husband
being gentleman OF Il At nationality.
She conducted her n isslon with sons,
success and gave information OF the
projected expedition OF the DuIch 10
the Thames, though Charles III and his
sapient counselors thought proper to
Ignore her warning Then she took u
writing plays, which had some BIZ .cess
on the stage though they were not IL
ko" was the best Of her novels.
Before long we may have a Dorset
shire man asserting that Thomas Hardy
doesn't know WesseS, Quite recently
a Hindu critic, who ought TO havs
known what he was talking about de-
clared that Rudyard Kipling'B knowl-
edge Of India was only superficial and
now comes j, r. Patterson, a former
sailor with the information that Clark
Russell IL ignorant OF life at sea Re-
viewing His Island Princess" RusselTs
latest saltwater novel, this nautical
critic says There is no true breath
Of the ocean about him Take these ut
terances OF his as samples
The breeze was blowing a stlft
wind. The decks sobbed the
shrouds rang like church bells
Such things as these | never heard
during a dozen years under canvas the
world round. Again, the narrator, talk
Ing OF the wet sails. says they were
dark midway the height Of the mast
with the saturation OF the swing Of the
brine
This man must have been looking a
hundred years ahead Of his day pre-.
ternauurally seeking to throw Rudyar1
kipling and Frank r Bullen into
couple Of lines SO much for this uu-
eeamanlike sailor
Clark Russell an "unseamanllke sail
orr" After this It will be no shock 20
hear that Dr. Doyle knows nothing
about medicine or that Barrie isn't real
ly Scotch
A story that IL none the worse for
being rather belated. IL being told OF
how a cute French newspaper man once
got an interview with Zola. Knowing
that It was out OF the question 10 try to
get the novelist TO talk IN the ordln-
airy way this reporter called at his
house and told the servant TO tell his
master that Francois Coppee was dying.
COppee, OF course, was Zola's great
comrade and the author OF "JAccuse"
came rushing out Immediately white
OF face. Whereupon the waiting scribe
said blandly, "slr. II is not true that
Monsieur Coppee Is dying, although he is
not especially well today. but should
very much like to get your opinion on
such and such a subject 1t Is affirmed
that Zola was so fabbergasted that he
gave up" all that his visitor wanted to
know. HAYDEN CHURCH.