Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-05
NOTES.

The English Bookman is in the
habit of Offering each month a prize
Gov the hest quotation from Shake
speare applicable to any review or the
name of any author or book appear
,r,, I'm that months issue of the mag
ao5ne september the book was The
IInpIe" The prize was won by the
TItania. say, sweet love, what thou
desirst to eat.
Bottom. mad rather have handful
Or two OF dried peas.
"The Jungle suggested many quota
lions. For instance.
And now about the cauldron sing,
Enchanting all that you put in.
Macbeth.
And again:
Sir. 1 will eat no meat.
Anthony and Cleopatra.
BY my troth, cannot abide the smell
of meat since.-Merry Wives of Wind
sor.
Perhaps more than any writer of to-
day--certainly far more than most
Robert Kitchens makes point of
studying closely and for n long time the
scenes where he Is to locate his stories.
London for his earlier work, the Sa-
hara for his Garden Of Allah, and
afterwards Sicily In preparation for
what has proved to be his greatest
success, The Call of the Blood, were
In turn lengthily studied in their every
aspect.
All Of which made 1t very amusing
TO him to meet, In an Italian railway
ear recently. a man who. having no
suspicion of Hichens's identity began
speaking with admiration of his Sicil-
ian novel, but then said:
But, you know this Kitchens never
sees these places he writes about He
Just stays at home and imagines it ALI"
Arthur L. Bostwlck. Phi. D., chief of
the circulation department of the New
York public library, writes for one OF
the periodicals on the subject of the
best novels of the year." and among
the very few which he admits to this
distinction he places prominently The
Awakening of Helena Richie and The
Call of the Blood.
Speaking Of this latter. he refers to
the intimate skip of Robert Hichens
IN the drawing of native and of hui
man passion"
Mrs. Deland he compares with an
other author of the Harpers, Mrs.
Humphrey Ward, and declares that
both display sanity, seriousness of
purpose, lucidlty. and clear-cut delin-
cation of character"
Harold MacGrath. whose new story,
Half Rogue, is beiry very generally
'ead, gives the following description OF
the way he writes his noyalS.'
map out the first two or three
chapters IN my mind and then the end
ing or the story. I don't bother with
what is IN between until / to work on
,he story itself. ! write It out first In
lead pencil on cheap paper-any old
way While ! am at work on the story
! make notes about II on backs of en-
yel9pes That l happen to have In my
ttNAeis' tried carrying around a
,,ormal note book once, but found that
Wy me time got that out and ready to
use my precious thought of the mo-
meht mad been heightened away,
MierWard / typewrite the manuscript
,,Ha correct II some more. ] find that
gan not do as well by letting some
az e'se COPY II on the machine as by
nsg'ls 1t myself, because so many new
'seas come TO me In that part of
me work. with Half a Rogue Ii was
n.y. sn,i'ely impossible for time TO do
n ras Wpewrlting, and some OF my man
S SaVSI'pts must have given the printers a
@a quarter Of an hour"
,t an announcement Of much interest is
s w marx Twaln's book on Christian
ns rs.'ee Is TO be published by the Har-
bn,,s, early IN February He has been
msI uurlhs the past month In thor
a ~ IeVislng this great work, which
VIC result Of years of labor.
u has often been said that Rem u,r
o Das among the books which found n
,n yrs ne WIN great difficulty and only
laS we manuscript had been submit
sunros, many different houses, and this
rIY9''ious TACT has frequently been