Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-03

I ONDON. Feb. 2i.-Willam j.
| Locke, whose novel The Morals
| OF Marcus Ordeyne" was de-
seryedly one Of the really big
successes Of last year, Is rather a busy
man at present TO begin with, be Is
writing a new novel aud the few tn
innate friends TO whom It's opening
chapters have been read are inclined to
think Il will be as good, II not a better
piece Of work than his last book. The
plot OF it was outlined TO me In conf
dence, but ] do not think Mr. Locke
VIII mind my stating that its central
figure is quite as definite and unusual
a character as Marcus Ordeyne him
self, He is a confirmed Bohemian,
however and utterly unlike the erudite
Philosopher whom Locke drew for us
as lover OF the sweet child from the
east, whom he found wandering on the
Thames embankment As usual with
this writer, the scene Of his new ro-
nance Is London OF today and in the
course Of the story some rather odd
types, only TO be met with I'm the Bo-
hemian circles Of the metropolis VIII
he introduced
Meanwhile I'm such time as he can
spare from his book Mr.. Locke Is work.
ing on a dramatization OF "The Morals
OF Marcus Ordeyne," I'm which Forbes
Robertson, who staged Kipings Light
That Failed" is much Interested At
the first blush, It Is true, one does not
see play in Locke's book which Is
more concerned with feelings than
with actions, but | understand that for
stage purposes the author has several
little departures from the original story
In mind that may make all the differ
ence. That the novel contains ma
terial for some really exquisite scenes
is unquestionable. and II Is also a fact
that Forbes Robertson would be almost
ones ideal "Sir Marcus" Incidental
" this Is not Mr.. Locke's first, though
Il IS his most important dramatic work.
a one-act play Of his called "Mr. Gym
ic," having been produced at the
Royalty theater In 1899, and another
named The Lost Legion" having been
seen at the Great Queen Street thea
ter in 1900.
In spite Of his plentiful literary work,
however, Mr.. Locke has not felt Il
necessary TO withdraw from the POSI-
ton which he has held for several years
OF secretary Of the Royal Institute Of
British Architects. And In this con-
nection II is desired 10 correct a mis-
statement which was made In these
letters regarding him. Writing about
Mr.. Locke at the time when the critics
were praising Marcus Ordeyne' so
unanimously, | stated that besides be-
ing club-man, he was frequently 20
be seen Joining in the fashionable
church parade in Hyde Park. 1t seems
that my frequently was faulty as
sumption-that the occasion on which
! noticed Mr., Locke among the frocks
and frills near the Achilles statue was
the first time IN several years he had
been in the park at church time, and
that then his presence was only accl-
dental.
He has undoubtedly been better en-
ployed. for no one who read THE
Morals Of Marcus Ordeyne' will need
TO be told that its author must have
spent nearly as much time with the
classics Of literature as had his own
hero. The books literary allusiveness
was. In fact. perhaps its greatest
charm. And the same quality is no.
tlceable in Mr.. Locke's other novels
"Derelicts," where Love Is and AT
the Gate OF Samaria." A bachelor.
the author Is A., and although born In
Trinidad was educated at Oxford.
benjamin Franklin would probably
be genuinely distressed could he know
OF an act which is about to be COM
mitted in London. II Will consist OF
tearing down the old Sandman Catho'
lie chapel in Duke street Lincoln's Inn
Fields, and this would grieve the shade
-. 81 fha gh a n A.
was a familiar landmark to him; IN
fact he lived across the street from II
for nearly a year---or from l125 to
1T26-while on his first visit TO Lon
don. Franklin was then earning his
living as compositor at Watts print
ing house, which was closed to LIN
coins Inn Fields, and, as he wrote
later, my lodging in Little Britain be-
ing too remote, ! found another In
Duke street, opposite to the Romish
chapel. II was two pair of stairs
backward. at an italian warehouse.
His landlady, q widow, and convert
TO the Catholic religion, had lived
much among people Of distinction and
knew a thousand anecdotes of them
as far back as the time of Charles II.
lie found her company highly anus
ing" and they often used TO have sup
per toEetnpT on OILY ldll an hltHbNN
each, on very little strip Of bread
and butter, and half pint OF ale be-
tween us; but the entertainment was
In the conversation. However true
10 the principles enumerated In his al
manac" the young Franklin did not
scruple to make his landlady come
down from three shilling and six pence
to one and six pence a week rent by
threatening 10 leave, and Of this vic
tory he tells with great gusto, As for
the Sandman chapel OF which Frank
lin often speaks, f. is now marked
down for destruction, Ike so many
other London buildings In order to
make room for up-to-date structures.
1t is rather odd that a song which
Is devoted 20 the glorilcaton Of hui
man fraternity should prove 10 be a
bone Of contention between two broth
ers But such is the wide divergence
between what they preach and what
they practise that the two men in
question have carried their difference
TO French court OF law The song
about which they have quarrelcd is
the famous revolutionary chant, LIN
ternatlonale" II Is admitted on both
sides that the words were written by
one POTTER, a member OF the Paris
Commune, in 1871, and appeared In n
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