Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29

an officer Of the law, sir, not to do any
thing rash when you get to Chicago"
The third English edition Of The
House Of Thousand Candle" was ex-
hausted IN November, and the novel
bids fair to repeat Its American sue
cess 1t is already issued in independ-
ent editions In Canada and Austria.
The English press is speaking In cor
dial praise of the workmanship OF the
tale, which presents, moreover. the rar-
est OF achievements these days-a new
and astonishing device In romantic flc-
ton.
Though Kipling loves England, he
dIslikes her winter climate and has
gone TO the beautiful home near Cape
Town, South Africa, which was given
to him by Cecil Rhodes. His summer
home is In Sussex, England. where he
has a 500-acre farm, In which he takes
a keen interest, discussing agriculture
and the details of flower and vegetable
culture with his callers.
The Harpers have just published new
| editions OF 1.-THE Call OF the Blood
and "sophy Of Kravonia," and also an.
other edition OF THE Awakening OF
Helena Richie" which Is In steady de-
mand for the holiday season.
| The author Of THE Slave Of Silence
1 Fred NJ White, Is one of Englands
! popular writer's OF ingenious mystery
! stories. Discussing the subject OF ideas
FOR novels, he said recently: II recol-
| lect some years ago in fine weather
| looking out OF a back window and see
ing a clothes line. Noticing that the
line sagged-the reason being that It
had not been In recent .use-and re-
| Numbering that directly a clothes line
gets wet II comes up like harpstrlng,
| / at once exclaimed TO myself, Here's
motive. BY some means or another
man fanting or wounded falls In
mesh OF cord that is loose and hanging
down. There ia kink In the cord,
rain descends. the cord tightens. and
the man Is strangled. subsequently,
the rain ceases. the cord oosens, ana
the body drops to the ground. ms
would be a death difficult to account
for wouldn't 1t? | utilized the notion
in my book entitled The cardinal
Moth which attracted the attention
az King Edward" Like r. Phillips
onpenheim and other English novelists,
Mr.. Whites favorite sport is golf y
play II every afternoon" he says. It's
fine discipline for the temper
II seems 20 be one OF the inevitable
penalties or pleasures of literary sue
cess to become the target FOR ehdless
questions and requests from all SORTS
Wilbur Nesbit, author Of that sue
oessful book. THE Gentleman Rag
man" recently published by the Har'
pers, received few days ago rom
young woman who was an entlr'
stranger to him, letter anhounclils
that she was planning mover, ana u ,,
manding that Nesblt furnish her WIZ
list OF possible characters W II. ,,'S,
a tentative plot which she suggested
She demanded. too, that he furnish ne
with some paragraphs Of funny tam
and In conclusion" says Mr.. Nespi'
I'm telling the tale, she suavely SAL
, that she hoped she was not asking 10
much, and asked that ! should lot GOV
, the Ideas Just as soon as poss'pl
could"
, DR. L. L. Zamenhof the inventor
Esperanto. the universal languas
: which has begun 10 attract such WIG
| and important attention, mas an me
/ esting paper In regard TO ms new ia a.
{ guage In the current number OF VI
: North American Revue"
Striking names for articles OF met
' chandise are constantly IN demand an
Y tbe success OF a new breakfast foo
Y toothpower or novel depends nowadal
0 largely upon the genius behlnd u
e name. II appears that Imitation e.
o ters into commercial nomenclature
= into other branches OF business, 500
o after Meredith Nicholson's novel ~
v Uouse OF a Thousand Candles, W.
launched railway paraphrased "
name 10 suit It's own needs as ~
2 road of Thousand Wonders. Nv
n candy manufacturer IN widely separa
5 ed cities have lately been adverusu
d 'eThe House OF THOUSAND Candies
i well known summer resort nov
J. has proclaimed itself FAR and VIDE l,
y House OF a Thousand Delights
n Nicholsons good luck as maker
Ie nhrases has followed him IN the title
!, hls new romance now running as
n serial in the Reader Magazine ana q
nounced for publication IN the Spin
l. "The Port OF Missing Men, He recen
Iy received IN good faith cheek l
= a handsome sum from great cannl
, sactory IN western New York askii
4, him TO name new line Of fan
"A nickles-an offer which he declined {
> the reason. as he wrote the president
the company, that he was AFRAID
II making himself liable under the pu
10 food law.
l. A urlous thing has happened In
q. gar The Awakening Of Hele
re- RE The title first chosen W
10 SIM The Awakening" and the otf
Al words were added only because II "
= found that the title OF THE Awake
ing had been used some years a
m for another book. And now the pub