Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-05-05

Special Correspondence
I ONDON, April 25.--Wil the Wins
ton Churchill who wrote THE
Crisis" and "rhe Crossing" agree,
after a while, TO print a tiny
American flag after his name 10 show
that he Is not the English Winston?
AMI will the accomplished son of Lord
Randolph Churchill likewise consent to
embelish the title-pages of his books
with small Union Jack lest amy should
take them for the work of his Ameri-
can namesake?
The thing Is quite possible should d
plan be adopted which the British So
clety of Authors is said TO be serious
~ considering" at the present time. II
Is no more or less than that authors
generally should adopt definite tot
ems" or trademarks in order 20 dis
tinguish them from other writer's who
are similarly. or almost similarly
named. and 1t must be admitted that
as things are now there Is chance for
good deal OF confusion in the mind
Of the reading public.
Perhaps the case of the two Winston
Churchills Is the most striking instance
IN point but one also recalls immedi-
ately that no less than three brothers
BY the name of Benson are writing
simultaneously in this country, that as
many Haggards, similarly related, are
producing fiction. and that romantic
works of moral character are being
turned out by two Hockings-both OF
them clergymen, too-the Rev. Silas and
the Rev, Joseph. TO name these, how
ever. is only to make a beginning, and
IA well known literary authority has
Just drawn W much more formid-
able list Of writers who not only have
the same surnames, but In some cases
the same Christian names, They IN
clude, three Zangwills. five William
sons, six FoWlers seven Murrays, eight
Smiths and no less than nine Watsons
to name only q few out of verltable
literary army.
"Why should each Of these writer's not
adopt some distinctive insignia, or tot
emf" asks the patient compiler Of the
aforementioned list and he then goes
on 10 advocate "humor and common
sense" IN the matter of selection. For
instance he says IN dead seriousness
'Hf Cutcliffe Hyne printed a Kettle az
ter bis name to distinguish himself
from Conrad IIyne there would he
nOtlllNB lldNlIbVl lAN'' WI ilH N'f'''.
Kettle stories have made that useful
article quite a famous and bloodstirrlhg
emblem
In case the thing come into effect
Mr.. f. +. Benson might distinguish
himself from the other Bensons by
mining a picture Of a Dodo on tho
tile pages of his novel--that Is II any
picture now exists Of that VIGOROUSLY
extinct biped. But think of the pos
abilities that this scheme has In the
matter OF future Advertisements Inn
ngine being told to TASK for Laura
lean I.ibbeys new romance ana insist
on seeing the trademark view or LID
bey PRISON. stamped on the cover.
But after all, win 1t be any easier Tor
d reader, say. who has an aHecuon lot.
and INSISTS on getting the books or
the Mr.. Haggard to remember that his
"totemr is female figure, c'She,D
than to recall the simple fact that his
first name Is Rider, and not Andrew or
Lionel as the other literary Haggards
are respectively named?
Evidently Bret Harte's daughter in
herited a portion az any rate OF her
fathers literary genius, for quite
promising little tale from her pen ap-
pears in the London "Tatler' this
week and | hear that another rather
longer story by Ethel Bret Ilnrte, as
she calls herself, has been accepted by
thc London Magazine and Is also 10 app
near I'm the United states. These are
almost Miss Bret Hnrtcs first ventures
I'm the way NJ story-writlng. although
She has had some little experience ON
Inc stage. II may be remembered that
m, fund which was raised for her benz
en- some time ngo was used IN assist