Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-13

week end or seclusion club for men,
beers Of the Lyceum club and their
friends. called the River Bank club.
Among the many passages of droll
humor in 1.-THE Cruise of the Shining
Light is that which describes the
questioning of Moses Shoes, simple
minded and well-intentioned. as to
what was the amount of the bid which
won the contract for the carrying Of the
mail 1t Is Dannie, the hero of the tale.
who lis questioning him:
Ay,' ! complained; but what was
the bid?
The bid?'
'Ay: the bid
Not expensive. says he
But how much, Moses
Wei, Dannie,' he answered. with
a Sigh and a rub of his curly yellow
beard, 1 lowed mother wouldn't charge
much for servin' the queen: for says
he, enlivened. 'twould be too much
like common labor t carry her males
tvs mail at a price. An ! bid, he
I what lowed mother would have me
do IN the queens service. Fac is, Dam
ME. says he, in squat of confidence.
i lowed I'd carry 1t freer"
Justin Huntly Mccarthy can write
eplsTainS When ne chooses, Is well as
descriptions of love and OF lighting; as,
Tor example, this bit of succinct wis
dom. which he puts into the mouth of
Louis the Eleventh, in Needles and
Pins"
Never explain; many a bad explana-
ton spells a. good case"
There Is no other man SO well quail
ned to write of pirates and buccaneers
"a n IVA Ia A.
DOCK stolen Treasure" book about
gallant desperadoes of this stamp, a
keen delight.
For years Mr.. Pyle has given special
attention to the history of pirates, and
especially to those who haunted the
American coast, the Caribbean sea. and
the Gulf of Mexico. and al his home In
Wilmington. Della, he has a large coll
lection of Knives. guns, and costumes of
the piratical era, and also a number of
pirates hats.
He has thus STEPPED himself in pirate
lore, and In the local color" of pirates
haunts, and is able not only to describe
them admirably. but to set them forth
with splendid effectiveness in the pic
lures with which his stories are illus
trated.
Anna Katharine Green, the author of
popular detective stories. has this to
say about the detective of fiction: II
question II the average reader has ever
noted the difficulties attending the
handling OF a detective In a natural
way-that is, the detective as he is
forced to be and tn work. The natural
detective either by profession or by
force OF circumstances can only work
up to his capacity, with the facts as
known and developed before him. This
applies especially to the detective of
constituted lines.
THE supernatural detective OF fc-
ton is an impossible creature with
self-imposed faculties supernaturally
developed for supernatural purposes.
The earth and it's people are his toy,
and of course he makes merry with
them for our own diversion and we
are diverted
AS for her own detectives. Mrs,
Green believes In making them subject
to ordinary human limitations In THE
Mayors Wife" her latest story. for ex-
ample, The detective is young woman.
who makes very feminine mistakes and
goes OFF on wrong scents.
Hamlin Garland, whose most recent
book Is THE Long Trail" has from
boyhood been a lover of the wilder
ness and the frontier; and II is IA
vOrlte dictum OF his that,
mo man can know the essential ma
jesty of the wilderness iii he has lain
down beside his fire. alone and uncer-
tain of his way. IN a land OF pines and
peaks and roaring ice-cOld water"