Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-17

stories. The explanation was simple:
Norris and | had read the same news
paper account. and proceeded to ex-
plot II. But the fun did not stop there.
Somebody dug up a Black Cat pub
lished a year previous, In which was
similar story by another man who used
the same foundation and motive. Then
Chicago hustled around end resurrected
story that had been published some
months before the Black Cat story and
that was the same In foundation and
motive. or course, nll these different
writer's had CHANGED upon the same
newspaper article" Unusual as this
duplication of material may appear, no
one who has read Noon Face will
wonder that the grim humor OF the idea
appealed to more than one author.
Captain Lettarblair," the comedy by
Marguer.,e Merington In which Z. II.
Sothern and Virginia Harmed made orc
OF their earliest and greatest success -
has just been brought out in book form
by the Bobbs-Merrill company. Ii II
illustrated with photographs OF the
play and arranged from the prompt
book used IN the original Lyceum pro-
duct!on. The lines throughout are capt.
tally clever.
'rhe Call OF the Blood" by Robert
Kitchens, published only two weeks ago
by the Harpers. has already aroused
wide interest. Following his great sue
cess, The Garden OF Allah" none but
most unusual book could by any pos
sibility have satisfied the expectations
that had been aroused. but THE Call of
the Blood has done this TO the full.
even in the judgment of those who ex-
pectations were highest. Not only is
there the play OF passion. the thrill of
vivid life, the swift succession OF Incl
dent, but the man and woman about
whom the passion and temptation OF
the story are woven are taken from
present-day London and set down IN
the fascinating environment of the
Mediterranean. Tho author pictures all
the mystery OF Sicily. its magic charm,
the waveess wonder OF its sea, the
binding white of its roads, the beauty
OF It's mighty cliffs, it's olive groves It's
sun-scorched mountains. He has lived
In Sicily and knows thoroughly the peo-
pie and the localities OF which he
writes.
As with so many successful novelists,
It was at first the ambition OF Robert
Hichens to be something else. He
hoped 20 be musician, and for sovera,
years devoted himself 10 musical study.
The masterful way In which he treats
musical effects IN HIS Garden OF Al
lah," and IN his latest book. "The Call
OF the Blood, shows the trained music
al ear and the musicians sense Of
rhythm and melody.
Yet Hichens never treats music with
pedantry. as those with less knowledge
often do. He studlously avoids techni-
cal words and describes musical effects
with the broad simplicity Of a master.
Mrs. Alice Prescott Smiths novel,
"Montlivot," has been most favorably
received, and has been compared by
several critics with Miss Johnston's TO
Have and To Hold one OF them calls
It THE best American historical novel,
by woman, since the appearance OF
To Have and To Hold In fact Il has
much In common with that romantic
masterpiece, not by way OF imitation,
but through the authors masoulinlty OF
touch, her power of description. and the
slngularly effective way IN which she
has set q tender and delicate love story
amid Wild and savage surroundings"
The book is already In its second edi-
ton.