Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-07

the gifted young writer produced. In It
he has a lot Of fun with bachelors, and
In a good -natured way banters all that
crew OF young men who self-sutiiciently
have decided that bacheorhood Is good
enough for them. II Is full OF all that
verbal witness and Cleverness In turn
Ing a phrase that makes all Mr., Car
ryls works 80 entertaining. The story
tells Of young bachelor who builds
himself n house IN seclusion, and sets
up housekeeping and OF young lady
with cleverness rather than beauty who
makes herself charming enough to up
set his bacheloric plans. There are H.
lustrat lions by Peter Newell
A book of verse. by Carryl including
one long poem, under the title Of THE
Garden OF Years" Is shortly to be
brought out,
While the abridged version OF Henry
NJ. Hyde's novel, THE Buccaneers"
Just published by the Funk & Wag-
nails company, was running In the
Saturday Evening Post the author re .
ceived nearly a score OF letters, practi-
cally every one Of which contained a
paragraph reading as follows; "Of
course you are describing the fight
which the company is wag-
Ing against its competitors" the name
Of a different corporation appearing In
each case I'm the place of the blank
IN the above quotation. As q matter
OF fact Mr. Hyde's book presents a
composite picture of the tactics Of the
more desperate and INSCRIPTIONS OF
modern corporations which attempt to
maintain a monopoly at any cost That
80 many different people I'm different
parts OF the United States should fancy
they recognized in II a life-lllSe photo
graph of some particular corporation
would seem to be proof that piratical
business methods are somewhat COM
mon as well as q testimonial TO the
vivid realism OF the author.
81 sometimes wonder II the wife OF n
great business man was ever a happy
woman" writes one Of the characters
In Henry NJ. Hyde's new novel; "The
Buccaneers" II wonder whether the
excuses, the follies, the absurditles Of
70 many rich women do not deserve
pity, rather than anger and denuncla-
ton? Are they not the vain and fran.
tic efforts OF women whose soul-lives
have been starved, TO convince the
watching world that they are, after all,
happy and to be envied2 A man wins
tremendous success In business only by
life Almost always his wife is left to
live on the crumbs which fall from the
table OF her successful rival" Two
women, after reading the book, have
written to the author In regard 10 the
letter from which the above quotation
Is made. one Of these correspondents,
who does not sign her letter, wakes
highly indignant at what she calls THE
foolish and entirely incorrect view OF
life" which II presents. Your acquain-
lance with women Of wealth and refine
ment Is, fear, extremely limited" she
says, elise you would not be responsible
for such misleading and false conclu-
sions," The second correspondent. who
Is herself a prominent club woman and
the wife OF man of wealth, sends
a hearty Endorsement Of the letter. ITS
true" she says, I'm sorry to say t..
but It is every word of II true"
This year. the centenary OF Dlsraelis
birth, Is fittingly commemorated by the
publication OF Walter Sichels interest
ing volume, "Dsraeli; A Study In Per.
sonalty and Ideas"
A syndicate Of prominent Sunday
newspapers IL running series OF Rec
elections by Edward Everett Hale the
veteran author or christmas In Mar
ragansett," 1.-THE Fortunes OF Rachel"
etc.
Mrs Arthur Stannard cJohn Strange
Winter'), author OF "The Little Vanl-
ties OF Mrs. whitaker" ia the latest
notable convert to Christian Science,
says the Springfield Mass, Republican.
The clerk in the shipping department
OF McClnre-P Phillips wondered II hts firm
had been taken for wholesale grocers
when he read the other day telegram
saying ship today Wabash-l.acka-
wanna 100 cabBages all kinds" II
dawned on him In few moments that
he was wanted to furnish 100 copies OF
o. Henry's humorous novel OF South
American politics, Cabbage and
Kings"
Few men have carried away from