Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-27
Mil lionaire Gorky
Bitterly Criticized
Our Paris Literary Letter.

Special Correspondence.
~ ARTS. April l7.-Maxim GorEy who
~ recently moved to Rome and took
an expensive villa there. is now
lying seriously III, It is said that
he has consumption, and that the end
OF his brilliant career may not be Il
great way on.
That GOrky's premature death would
he sincerely regretted In America goes
without saying despite the bitter at
taoks which are made on the United
States and It's people in the new series
OF articles from his pen which arc now
appearing IN Europe under the pleas
ing title OF THE yellow Devil, Their
savage tone is largely the result. Of
course, OF what Gorky considers this
"nhuman Treatment he received in
America
To many of his former associates,
however. and to numbers OF his cOun-
trymen both al home and abroad who
consider him their apostle, IL is prob
able that Gorky's death would come as
something less than a calamity. They
regard MIN, In fact, as "the lost leader
and, If they knew Browning, might
quote him and say just for o handful
OF silver he left u.s. only in Gorky's
case It Is considerably more than a
handful OF silver, for the one timo
bakers assistant lis said to have made
writings.
His raloofness" since he became "a
Vutocrat Is the cause oi the bitter re-
sentiment against him IN the part Of
many Of biz cOmpatriOts. Some Of
these feel that Ciorky being what he is,
a Socialist and so on, they have claim
on his fortune and consideration,
Gorlty is far from holding the same
View.
Among those who detained against
him and said shHt he would perish
rather than ask q favor VI him WAS a
young Russian artist in Rome Times
" erd bad however ana landlords were
brutality tnsisicut and the artist pat
his pride IN his pocket and hlE pictures
under his arm, and assembled 10 the
Gorky ylIla, Ills reception was MOT
cordial, he WAS nos asked 20 hll doWn
or 10 show his pictures Having gone
so far ha was not 20 be daunted by A
little thing Ike that, and stated his
business. SIN Ctorky refused TO be M
terestad, ana being pressed for a Tca-
son, stated that h. did not Hike The APP
pea.rance OF his visitor Talking II over
with n compatrlot later I'm the day, ln
a tearoom. they both foll into such "A
plroxysm NJ indignation that lhey de-
cihcu II ought 10 hp publisher ulohN'
cast, only JHty said no ono would he-
Hove such N iSGracetul hlns
one or the greatest literary lrloksters
that France ever has known dled yes
turdny IN the person NJ Gabriel Iosaud
H. had been almost completely Tor
gotten and the mention Of his rcal
name suggests nothing 20 most people
As Geo Taxil' however he has MS
hour OF worldwide nOtorlety, and ono
OF his several literary frauds deceiV'N
tho most astute journalists OF EUROPE
Among his mlsdeeds was he pupIl1a-
ton. under his own natne. ~ hook p9
a dead author the manuscript % which
had happened 20 fan into his hands
THIS fraud WAS soon discovered and neg
Ia his being turned out OF the ORDER OF
Freenasnns, just as he previously mao
been expelled nom the Catholic chNrel
for Issuing a serlcs OF scurrllous lnl
feandalous lIhels on tho priesthood.
Accordingly no now wrote against
Frecmasonry and free Thought and pre,.,
tended 10 discover that 'deNl-woTshlp-
VAS carried on Iva Paris ana olheE
places. including the Rock Of GlprsltaF'