The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-08
LITERARY NOTES.

MT Caspar Whitney, whose new pook
Of travel Jungle Trails and jungle Peo-
pie" published recently. gives so interest
ing and novel an account OF trip IN
Siam and the Malay Peninsula, has 1ust
returned from another equally thr1lllnS
trip In South America. He travelled over
three thousand miles going up the ANA
zon river and coming down the Orinoco,
through country In some places where no
white man had over been before. Part of
his trip included the route travelled by
Alexander Humboldt one hundred years
order to note the difference between con
dltions then and now, The story OF this
trip should make almost as good reading
as Jungle Trails and Jungle People.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "An Incur
sion into Diplomacy" In The Living Age
for July I Is an extremely interesting & &C, e,
clear the namo of British soldiers from
accusations of cruelty during the Boer
war.
The Baker G. Taylor Co. has recently
sent to press again My Mamie Rose,
by owen Kildare, the demand for which
continues to be large although the book
is nearly three years old. Scarcely day
passes without either the author or the
publishers receiving a letter from some
clipping OF a sermon which some minister
has preached on this remarkable life and
It's lessons. Probably no book save the
Bible has furnished more texts In the last
three years.
People who wonder how a successful
novel was written may be interested to
know that Rex Beach's The Spoilers.
tho latest sensation in the book world.
was composed in large part while the
first chapters were being published serial
ly, and under urgent stress, Mr.. Beach
being. as he himself puts 1t scared 10
death" lest 1T should not be completed in
time. The general plot OF the story was,
OF course, carefully planned months be-
fore, and the details were added from
notebook crammed with the Jottings OF
Mr.. Beachs Alaskan experiences. AS to
the actual writing much of this was done
on trains travelling to and from Chicago
as the author, being member Of q big
manufacturing firm and secretary OF the
Chicago Athletic association Is a busy
man OF affairs. Mr. Beach says he rather
likes composing under such circum-
stances. as the noise and hurry OF car
wheels tend TO promote mental activity,
In "a Dotted Coronet." published q few
years ago-which, as every one knows, Is
truth In the guise OF flction-the anony-
nous author of THE Martyrdom of an
Empress" gives very vivid account of q
visit paid by her TO the Chicago stock
yards, which is of interest in connection
with the recent agitation. 1t Is not a
pleasant piCture-far from 1t, but directly
In line with the revelations Of the invesu-
eating committee. Tho book contains.
Also some very clever characterizations
OF Chicagos beef trust magnetes.
Some Reflections Upon the Far East
ern War" by Captain Mahan, Personal
! Recollectlons of Michael Davitt" by WILL
frId Scawen Blunt a clever essay on The
New Humility by G. *. Chesterton.
| by the veteran journalist Alexander In
nes Shand, "EugenlcS and st. Valentine
| by Havelock Ellis, and an article on
Greek at the Universities by Professor
| Tyrrell. are some OF the features which
| make The Living Age for July Ii espe-
cially noteworthy.
The Civil war in fiction has so far
received a very stereotyped treatment.
| Love linking the hostile ranks has so far
! been the most unvarying theme of the
| Molly Elliot Seawell whose new book
| The Victory" is shortly to be published
| by the house Of Appleton, adopts In II a
more original and 1t would seem, more
| plausible viewpoint. The chief characters
| in the book are all on one sde-the
| Southern-and the web and woof of the
| At the same time, the author avails her.
| self OF the occasion TO eXpound her prin-
ciples OF what we might call Southern
aboltionlSm."
Marah Ellis Ryan IS one OF the most
| interesting among creators OF American
fiction. She has TO her credit a consider
able list OF novels OF decided popularity.
the most generally admired being OF
course. Told in the Hills" 1t seems
quite likely. though. that this new story
| Ol neTS, TOR luc Soui VI iNdldci, Will
prove equally successful. She has had the
| discernment to take a little-used life and
period for the story-Callfornia In It's
| Spanish days-and one with which she is
| thoroughly familiar. She has lived for
! some time in San Juan Caplstrano and
this accurate knowledge OF the place has
been most effectively used. For the Soul
| OF Rafael" attracted immediate attention
| from newspaper reviewers. and already
| comparisons by no means unfavorable
| have been made with Ramona"
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