Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-12-07
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Mrs Flora Annie SteePs new novel
is to be called "The Sovereign REM
edy." It's action takes place In Wales.
The author herself lives In the region
Of which she writes.
Mark Twain was once asked By a
charming girl to write something In her
autograph album. The humorist looked
Through the book and found the usual
sentimental stun such as 'Be good,
sweet maid, and let who will be clever"
Then he took pen, wrote Never tell
lie" and signed his name. This he
carefully dried with the blotter, after
which he added: "P. s.-Except to
keep in practice"
General A. w. Greeley, Arctic ex-
plorer, for many years chief signal OH
Ger OF the United States army, and at
present In charge Of the Pacific divis-
ion, with headquarters at San Fran
cisco, has prepared a Handbook OF
Polar Discoveries" which Little, Brown
& Co., Boston, will issue. This book
will contain resume Of Polar explor-
atoms from the earliest voyages to the
present time, and is based upon his
earlier Handbook OF Arctic Discov-
cries" The material has been brought
up to date and a summary has been
added to the noteworthy achievements
Of Adventures in the frozen North
within the ten years that have elapsed
since It was published.
Eloo+I, n, lyt.,,,t,,, A., ~. Z. I : s,rs,s.
Conquest Of Canaan. and other poIyu-
lar novels, is known among his frieids
as somewhat OF practical Joker A
good story Of his Princeton days is ne
lated in the Bookman. The managing
editor Of the Nassau Literary Magazine
at that time was person who took
himself and his literary responsibilities
with portentious seriousness. He was
wont to deplore the lack OF suitable
material at his disposal, and to speak
in accents Of emphatic scorn Of the
! quality of the submitted contributions
from which he was supposed to make
periodical worthy OF the senior class
One day he found In his letter box a
poem which moved him to more than
usual disgust "See here" he snOrted,
CONTEMPORARY, to a group Of which
Harrington was one; ''thls is what
some fool freshman sends in and calls
poetry. How am / going to make q
magazine out of stuff like thisl How
am /, askT' "Oh, thatl" spoke up
Harrington. Yes, sent that In my
self" $50 you wrote It. did your"
growled the managing editor. mo-"
said Harrington, sweetly, II didn't
write 1t, / only copied It 1t was writ
ten by TennysOn."
Not long ago a writer OF modern
fame" called on journalistic ac-
Quaintance and proposed that he write
some bright bitter, epigrammatic par
agraphs attacking the authors latest
novel. "Why In the world should you
want me to do thatT inquired the as
tonished journalist. "For business rea-
sons" was the calm reply. MY re-
views have been very favorable, but the
book doesn't seem to be going as we'll
as my last, and ! think some hot shot
would do 1t good" 1t is no exaggera-
tion to say that the high road to liter
airy fame Is well-night deserted. But
the short cuts are SO crowded that the
adyenturers bump one another at every
step. Rumor has 1t that one aspirant
for Immortality personally visits every
book stall in the large cities and pre-
sents an autograph copy to the CHIEF
salesman before his volume Is market
ed; another makes It his business to
procure testimonials from public char
acters on every book be offers; and q
few years ago fancy dress ball was
given In Washington by an author
whose guests were actually requested
to impersonate the characters portray
ed In their hostess latest tonlel Re.
port does not say whether the masks
saved the wearers' faces, but the laugh
ter that this supreme effort provoked
was happily undlsguised.