Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-20


In course of the various comment at
tending his latest novel, THE Secret
Agent" Joseph Conrad has been called
the disciple of Henry James. Such
comparison is especially curious in view
of the fact that Mr.. James uses English
as a natural heritage, while Mr. Conrad's
native medium is not English at all, but
Polish. In this connection, too, 1t is sig
nihcant that during the years when
Joseph Conrad was acquiring the tongue
his only model was the speech OF the
crew of a sailing vessel and that his
occasional reading was chiefly French.
Mr.. Conrad is at present living in Bed
Yorkshire, having very recently left MS
home at Pent Farm in Kent.
story is being told of a woman who
met Gertrude Atherton at the recent re-
ception In her honor of the San Francisco
Spinners, and tried hard to say some
thing ut" AS the line was passing
along, this woman whispered to her COM
panton, "Oh, do tell me the name of the
book she wrote-something or other about
family descent" but the other said she
couldn't recall 1t. either. Just as they
reached the author of Ancestors" the
woman apparently remembered and her
face beamed, ooh, Mrs Atherton! she
said, as they shook hands, II can't tell
you how loved your Forefathers'
The new edition list of the Harpers
presents some interesting names. Mark
Twain is represented by "A Horses Tale
and Christian Science" Mrs. Phelps
Ward by Walled In" and Margaret De-
land by IAN Encore" Hamlin Garland,
Money Magic; Herman Whitaker The
Settler' VIII N Harden, MAN Linda;
Basil King, THE Giants Strength and
Neil Munro, "Bud'-are other names to
be added. 1t remains for Gilbert Parker
to complete the list with yet two more
editions of THE Weavers."
NJ. Escoffier, author of "a Guide to
Modern Cookery" (the Mcclure COM
pany), is now chef de cuisine of the Ho-
tel Carlton and of the Hotel Ritz, in
London. He was also chef of the Savoy
hotel In the same city for eight years
from $3.50 to 1898, and presided over the
opening of the Ritz hotel at Paris. AT
the opening of his career he spent ten
years at the Moulin Rouge, a restaurant
of the first class Ia the Champs Elysees,
during the first empire. After the Franco
Prussian war he was for a time chef at
the Grand hotel. Monte Carlo, and at
the Grand Hotel National, Lucerne. There
are very few lovers of good living In the
world today who have not heard of M.
Escoftier and there are very few in
formed Americans who would think of
visiting London without going to the
Hotel Carlton for at least one dinner
prepared by this great cook. It is he
more than anything else that has given
this hotel its international reputation,
and made its name synonymous the
world over with perfection of cuisine
In view of present-day discussions Of
corporate combinations of capital, it is
of interest to note the distinctly modern
/ Bod
out by Professor e. E. Sparks in his
volume on National Development"
late volume in Harpers' History of the
American Nation" Professor Sparks
shows hat as late as 1880 the railway
mileage of the United States was operated
by 1514 different companies; also that OF
the 1888 manufacturing combinations listed
in the report o. the industrial commission
of 1901, only three were in existence be-
fore 1885.
This is Harry Leon Wilson's lucky year.
He is not only one of the authors of the
play 1.-THE Man from Home" which Is
the success of the season in Chicago, out
he is also the author of Ewing Lazy
a novel published serially and now issued
in book form by d. Appleton ana com
pany His BOOK is perhaps the most hu-
| morous presentation yet made OF the
i actual artlSIic BOntIildiio "a 49,
THESE are the real people and they be-
have-or misbehave-just about as Mr.
wilson indicates, especially in their NIL
or;ons moments. Their antics become
twice as amusing seen as they are
| through the eyes of the hero, COWBOY
artist fresh from the west
The great Russian basso Cnlaiiapine'
who is the sensation of the Manhattan
80, this season. tells of his early
friendship for Maxim Gorky, whose novel
s'NTother'' was written in this country.
Somewhat as the illustrator, 9. ID. Iin-
son. and the novelist, Robert W. Cham
| hers. took their first drawings togetner 10
| on editor and came away, Chambers with
an a., aocentance. Gibson with a rejection,
eo the Russian novelist Gorky and the
basso Chialiapine went TO the same
tbaoter long ago for a position in the
chorus Chialiapne was sent nome.
| Corlxy got the position Chlahapine VIZ
a cobbier's apprentice across the STREE sure,
from the bakery where G1rng s;d w" ort list. e
THE fact that two such splendld artlsls
sbo,,ld rise from such lowliness proves
+be truth of Gorky's claim that no man
&c ever too low to rise TO the heisHts -
his chance comes, and his inspiration II
is this lofty optimism that perVaues an"
sweetens his novel Mother
,n.,,s 1r,izabeth B. Browning, care of
n Annleton & Co.. New York, was the
- address on a letter inclosing re-
View of new edition Of the famous JUS
noem. Lady Geraldine's Courtship, oy
Elizabeth Barrett Browning A iette e.,. a.
,tad the climbing and solicited miss
f cummings" patronage for the clipping
hmresu. she would doubtless be glad 70
saa this charmingly illustrated EDITION OF
see see ' noe.rv and to hear what people OF
tbis dav are saying of her There is GER
tainly 10 other poetess IN history S Tr Suv
pHaue,. had read this clipping through he
cl up sbe~would have come across these
lords. "There is a tradition that II was
t W. ooen, that first attracted Ropere
prowping to Elizabeth Barrett.