Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-15
NOTES.,

Richard Harding Davis has retu'''eN
to London from the CONGO
Il Is to the influence of Hawthorne
mat Hamlin Garland owes II 'nat ie
himself became novelist; ,.,. ,,s,
He was but a hoy, living WIN ms
parents on a farm on the plans OF loM''
when his father, a man of New Fms
land birth, put seNeral Nolu'''0 Va
Hawthorne into his hands ~,
GarIand was fascinated. From mat
moment he thought OF nothing nut DC
coming a writer. At first ne oaIe"
moi aspirc to he a writer Of fiction now
ever not reali1ing that he possessed me
imaginative gift, and his early EFFORTS
"a! writing were essays descriptive o.
life IN the west. ,,,.o.
expanding: then there came short sto-
,jcs. Their the novels that have made
His latest book is THE Long Trail,
"a story OF ihe klondike, which is eS-
pecially interesting from the tact tnat
Ia il he pictures the tulflment OF ms
own carly dream 20 be treasure-huht-
en-
The news cabIed from England. a few
days ago. that probably epoch-maKllls
invention had been perfected, as proven
by an exhibition given under the aus
pices of the Royal society, Is curious a'
coming at almost the same time as the
suggestion OF precisely the same In
Nrnfion i'm tho delightful new novel Of
Wiiiam Dean HoWel4s, published Ie"
weeks ago
For The widely heralded English In
veution from which SO much Is hoped
IS the running of electric cars upon
single rail- And in Through the Eye
grHsF-
ond-is the following, descriptive of the
railroads of Altruria
"There are swift little 0ne-rail cleo
tric expresses running daily from ono
CANAL To another The old steam roads
OF the capltalistic epoch have been dis
used tor generations, and their beds
are now The country roads which are
everywhere kept in beautiful repair"
Which shows that Mr.. HoWells. Ia adj
dition to his other titles 10 fame, must
now bc given that OF prophet, FOR his
anticipation of such striking and
original invention,
Even those who have most admired
the work of Mrs Gertrude Atherton
have not looked upon her as a prophet
but that she Is a prophet and nn eN-
trtmely good one is shown by an inter
estng extract from her Rulers Of
Kings published by the Harpers three
years ago,
Battlo-kitcs such as she anticipated
are at present actively discussed and
planned; ana the French government
within "a few weeks past, has been at
tracing attention by an armored auto
mobiie--a movable fort with cannon
which gets over extremely rough
ground altogether away from tho roads.
The third series OF her prophecies IL a
moving fort which can both Novo'r
rough ground and hY over streams. and
81 viii doubtless soon be realization
also.
IN her story, Fessenden is speaking TO
the German emperor and he says
"'The Kites can be sent by clcctrlci-
ty to am incalculahlo distance, and each
one win rain down dynamite enough
10 Kin a thousand men a, time IL they
nae close enough together. The genera
tors 10 charge storage batteries have
le-i, 90 reduced IN size and weight chat
they hardly count among the effects Of
n travelling army The enemy could he
routed IN 10 minutes Even balloons
are not necessary, except for reconnoIt-
crlng,
You also know OF the other lnVcn-
lion, no less important That rs per-
feeted. The steel forts are not only