Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-09-08
NOTES.

A good story Of Booth Tarkngton's
Princeton days is related IN this
months Bookman. The managing edl-
tor Of the Nassau Literary Magazine
happened 10 be young man who took
himself and his literary resp0nslbilitie,
with portentous seriousness. lie was
won't TO deplore the lack Of suitable
material AT his disposal and 10 speak
IN emphatic scorn OF the quality of the
contributions from which he was sup
opposed to make periodical worthy OF
the senior class. one day he found I'm
his letter-boX poem which moved
him TO more than usual disgust. 'See
here he snorted. contemporary, 10
a group Of which Harrington was one:
this Is what some fool freshman sends
IN and calls poetry. How am | going
TO make a magazine out OF stun Ike
thls7 How am |. 1 ask" ''Oh, that"
spoke up Harrington. Eyes, sent that
IN myself" 80 you wrote It. did your
growled the managing editor Mo-
said Harrington, sweetly, Il didn't
write Il, | only copied II. 1t was writ
ten by Tennyson'
In these days ~ quickened interest IN
everything pertaining TO Russia, even
the classical" authors Of that country
are coming IN for their shares OF IN
creased attention. This Is particularly
TRUE OF Turgeneif the most cosmopoli-
tan OF Russian authors. the demand FOR
whose novels and tales has recently
been strong enough 10 justify a new
issue Of The Macmillan companys
complete edition. This Is the transla-
ton by Constance Garnctt first pub
lished a number ~ years ago. which
has since held It's place as perhaps the
hest rendering in English OF any Rus
sian author,
The publication Of Power Lot" by
Sarah r. Mclean Greene, IL very time.
~ coming as Il does in the same week
with the dranatization and production
OF her first great book. cape Cod
Folks" The success Of this old book
has been tremendous, starting as Il did
with the resentment and threatened
suits for libel from some Of the resi-
dents of Cape Cod. who thought they
recognized themselves and their famil-
les IN her sketches. The present book.
Power Lot" Is story Of Nova
Scotia soacost town, exactly the sort Of
a place which Mrs Greene has always
loved 10 seek out. but the book Is not a
literal transcription either OF the town
or OF the people. any more than cape
Cod Folks" proved 10 be when the test
came. The characters are the more
wonderfully hfclike for this very rea-
son.
s,.,,,-..,,, ta- a. 49, az. 80.
Churchill, who Is an author as well as
n politician. Is a man with a super
stition. on this theory Is explained
his prediction FOR the letter that forms
the initial Of his own name 10 win
be recalled that "The Celebrity" was
his first published book, and that his
first great success was Richard Car
vel" Following these came THE
Crisis" and "The Crossing" Cornish
WAS his home when he entered politics
~ a member Of the New Hampshire
legislature. where he successfully IN.
PRODUCED a bin relating TO bridges over
the Connecticut. In "Conlston." IFS
latest book, he turns his political cx.
perience 10 good account IN the draw.
ing Of the principal character, n poiti.
cal boss whose original he found al
Croydon. II Is this latest book that
brought him prominently before me
public as a candidate Tor governor OF
New Hampshire and n is more than
possible that when the contest rs over
Churchill ~ Cornish WIN be Churchnl
81 Concord.
In an Interview in the New York
Herald Ex-Governor Odoll recently de.
clared that Mr. Winston ChurchW
knows nothing about politics" and
that the character ~ Jethro Rass Is an
Impossible one. Now a New Hampshire
citizen. MI. ID. G. Bemick % Littleton
reloris that Mr. odell may possibly be
mistaken in letter 90 the Herald
Mt kemick says; To shoH how much
Mr. Odell knows about politics Je,hro