Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-28

Special Correspondents.
0NDON. July lt.-Arthur w.
| Marchmont. whose stories Of adj
venture are popular on both sides
- Of the Atlantic. has just been tell
ing an interviewer some interesting
things about his first efforts In the gen.
tie art Of noyel-vnting. And in this
connection. he has quaint story 10 re-
late about an early romance Of his that
never was published. but which aroused
quite a feyerlsh interest IN the first
publisher to whom IL was sent
The novel ia question was March
monrs second attempt az romance
writing. II bore the alluring title,
How We Won 10000 a. Monte Car
io and 90 had hardly been dispatched
% prominent London publishing
house before It's author received a letter
from the head Of the firm inviting him
10 eall. Naturally be was elated, but
this sentiment changed 10 surprise
when tho publisher demanded eagerly;
rs this story true, Mr. Marchmont"
" course Il was the Yeriest action,
but the budding author thought .ndefi-
uittuess the Wisest course, and so made
some oyasiye reply. Whersupon the
man Of books explained that the story
was ~ realistic that he thought II must
be true. and 10 so. he vas particularly
anxious % get some further informa-
ton about the system by which the
Gi0t0O had been won He added naiye-
ly that his firm vas just about bring
ing out a Bible. and therefore could
not well bring out q gambling novel az
,he same time. but just the same he
was nightly keen over Marchmonts
mythical system So says March
mont "Ne discussed the system and
! brought my Ms. and my disappoint-
ment away with me-
"a already explained. this Monte
Cdrt romance was its authors second
effort bon the story-writiug way He
wrote nrst what was termed a close
study Of morbid psychology and paid
ilr its publication Il was reviewed in
about hundred papers and received
both eNtuyagant praise and blame
one reviewer who is now well.known
.s man ol letters declared that 1t
would bc read and remembered when
ihe majority of the then current novels
had long been on the dustheap. An
other pronounced Il the fesblest Of
trash. Net result says Mr. Marsh
mont "a sale OF 90 copies. the loss oi
my money. q head half swollen and
ha!f withereG. a very modified opinion
of the nfallibulty Of reviewers In gen
cal and a determination to persevere. ID
MGrchmonts next venture after the
Monte Carlo story was q blending OF
psychology AND action. But The action
was not rapid enough TO make the psy-
Ohol0gy go with the publishers. and
they ul rejected o. After that ne
abandoned psychology morbid and
otherwise and devoted himself IA
stories OF incident and adventure. hi,
FIRST work Do that line. by Right N
Sword making quite a hit on both
sides OF the Atlantic
Il Is not generally known that
Thomas Hardy was an architect before
I he took 90 writing novels That bis
first love si.l, claims his attention Q,
shown by a paper be wrote recently on
church restoration f1r the Society oil
thc Protection ~ Ancient Buildings
. Ills Views ol church restoration mas
Do summed up in sentence. lie doe,
NOT believe Do it II be we're a prac.
+ usiaE architect he saws nothing
could induce him 20 tackle the SOB OF
/ restoring "a church But he mas verJ
pronounce notions ss 90 how il Shout,
+ Do Zone u 90 ls done AZ az. The idea
method. De thinks. would be- 10 enclos,
/ the old church iu "a glass structure Tx.
+ the Crystal Palace which would pro,
I teci 20 trom Wind and rain and build !
new church alongside But" he ADDS
! even O parish COMPOSED ~ such opu,
lent members as the Society Tor In
/ Protection OF Ancient Buildings woult
I De staggered hv such an undertaking..
Hc told some funny stories ~ N,
I hlundsrs mad by church resiorers q
I which the bes' Or The following. "Th,
J chancel ~ church not 80 miles from
London has o. one corner a vault con,
tainirg o. fashionable actor and nj
wife. IN another corner q vault enclos
I ing thc remains Of a former venrrsbl
vicar who abjurod women. and died .
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