Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-30

some Of his American friends are try
ing To- persuade him to visit the United
states again next summer with the
idea OF speaking at some Of the Chaut-
auquas, Whether he viii be able to do
so, however ,he author could no, say.
Marie Corelli Is on the war path
again, II seems chat she has changed
publishers recently, and that the house
heretofore favored with her business
has been acting IN what the authoress
describes as a most unworthy man
ner According TO Miss Corelli the de-
serted publishers have Enthusiastically
circulated a report that the new ones
have secured only a shor, work from
her pen, and that she X preparing a
long novel for publication about the
same time which viii quite oyershadoW
The first book. This, Il appears, Is not
the case, For says the authoress:
nave only TO say on my own part.
ana IN the most emphatic manner pos
slble, that the novel / am at present
writing Will be the only one issued from
my pen In 1905, that so far from being
q short book, II viii be Of the average
length quite as long as Barabbas' for
eNamplel and that the publishers Of this
one and only book. Will be Messrs
BLANK a co. Furthermore, that | have
no intention Of writing any other novel
for any other arm whatsoever al pres
ent, having refused 20 sigh any COM
tracts binding me to future work"
rms authoritative announcement
that only one book viii be published by
Miss Corelli I'm 1906 has been received
with much relief
Mrs, Craigie John Oliver Hobbes) IL
among the writer's who have taken to
motoring, and she had rather a narrow
escape the other day, no mention Of
which got into the newspapers Rather
persistent Insomnia led Mrs Craigle to
take up motoring, and the other day
near F'ramlingham, I'm trying to AVOID
a carriage, her chauffeur steered her
car into a telegraph pole, which re-
suited In an upset into a ditch. For
tuuately the authoress got nothing
worse than a bad shaking up, but It
took three horses 10 get the motor out
Of the ditch.
Mrs ST. Leger Harrison--"Lucas Ma.
let. who wrote sir Richard Calma-
dy" was one Of the guests at an old
fashioned harvest home" held this
week at Eversley on the estate OF Sir
Anthony Cope
one Of the most striking novels Of the
past year was sarah Tulden." by
"Orme Angus" who had previously
published several novels IN rather the
Hardy vein The author, whose rea
name Is j. &. Higginhotham, was mar
'ried at Wareham this week to Miss l..
G, Maher Of that city
II must IN almost pleasure to have
a manuscript reiected-in China.
Brusque enough, I'm all conscience. rs the
familiar declined with thanks of
western editors, but no such frigld
formula offends the susceptibilities Of
the unsuccessful contributor Of the
fowery Kingdom on the other hand.
If he does not feel that he is truly "it'
when his manuscript comes back tO
HIM It is not the fault Of the editor.
For example, according to the Parts
Gaulois, an author at Picking who sent
an article to q Chinese newspaper re-
ceiyed 1t back accompanied by The fol-
lowing letter;
"Illustrious Brother Of the sun and
OF the Moou-We have perused your
manuscript with celestial delight. BY
the bones OF our ancestors we swear
that We have never met masterpiece
like IT, n we publish II, II, NJ the
emperor Will command ny 10 "a Ike II us
a criterion. and to print nothing that
does not equal Il. Since that could
never be possible In ten thousand years.
We return your manuscript, trembling
and asking your mercy seventeen
thousand times Lo' my head is az
your feet ana | am the slave Of your
slave"
II 10 the making Of books there IS no
end. there Is none either, apparently,
to the lodges for selling them The
latest is culled from the advertising col
umns Of London evening journal Of
prominence ana is truly a gem of its
kind:
EXPuRGATED EDITION
ut has been pointed out by readers
of - by ---- that II contains episodes
which are too realistic for modern con-
ccptions Of propriety. and which pre-
vent Il taking the first place amongst
the really humorous novels Of the sed-
son, IN addition to the imprint now
BEDE At HOME