Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-09


novel she has written.
In the eyes of many persons the OK
IRENE poverty In which OuidR PASSED
her last years Will always rema IN to a
certain degree ineNplicable. 1t spoms
10 have been more or less unnecessary.
III a good solicitor had been given free
play in her affairs he very probably
could have rescued enough from the
general shipwreck to have assured her
d comfortable annuity. But TO find a
good solicitor and place herself unre-
serVedly In his hands. was not Ouida's
wa! Her interests were always sub
orulnated to her convictions or, rather
10 her prejudices. our readers all re-
member the great success throughout
this country two or three years ago OF
raul Potter's dramat;zation of 'FtTnder
Wo rags Ouidas share was to have
peen onc-halt the royalties. She would
tahe nothing. Money from an Ameii-
can source. IN her eyes. would have
brought contaminati on.
Mary f. wilkins Freeman's and Max
Pemberton's newest novels, which have
been running side by side in newspa per
and serial form for purposes of COM
parison are to be published simultane-
ously In book form. THE Shoulders OF
Atlas" Mrs. Freemans story, Is IL
New England study OF character in the
present day, and evokes the additional
interest OF a mystery as bewfldering as
n plot In detective story. As Mr.. Penn
berton's Sir Richard Escombe" Is a
stalwart romance in the days of George
III, with gallant chevalier as hero,
and plot more concerned with action
than reflection, II will be seen that
these two stories are in strong contrast
and should afford telling examples of
the masculine and feminine attitudes
of mind The Harpers are arranging
that both books shall be ready for pub
lication early in May.
In his feverish haste to christen his
new play, the author, Hugh Pendexter,
finally settled host of difficulties by
employing three capital letters and
calling II just that-"-rhe New Play
II has proved to be as successful as Mr.
Pendexter's last novel, "Ttberius
smith" and is now being played in
the authors native city, Rochester.
A new volume OF stories by Mrs De-
land Is a promise to keep in mind
among the spring fiction announce
lnents The book will be brought out
by the Harpers during the first fort
night in May.
Hex Beach took to writing quite as
an afterthought. He began only five
years ago after his return to America
from the Alaska goldfields. and in this
time has written The Spoilers" which
IL also on the boards as a play and
The Barrier" which the Harpers are
quoting as a best seller. Mr.. Beach,
experience is the reverse of the stories
writers usually tell about rejected man.
usc11pt. 1T was really the result of a
bet, nc says. Il ran into a fellow
staying In the same place with me who
had come out of the gold country a lit
tie sooner. He had written two or three
articles about Alaska for some paper
devoted 10 the interests of agricultural
implements and they had paid him a
Few dollars. He gave me the stories to
read and seemed proud of them.
thought to myself, II he can get real
money out of this. | can. l made n hot
that would sell some stories too, but.
instead of following his example and
working up from the bottom, / decided
TO start at the top and let the force of
gravity do the rest, so | sent a short
story to one OF the magazines and
sure enough II was accepted. thought
for long time somebody in the office
was playing Joke on me Then I got
Into other business in Chicago. and one
day the editor of the magazine was
passing through and called on me aud
asked for some more stories. I gave
him all ! had, and he took them away
with him \ week or so later he wrote
to me that all of them had been ac-
cepted."
Admirers OF Marion Crawfords
stories are watching with interest the
puT. Ia Ill. Ill.
place IN his style and methods, Some
acute critics have already pointed out
that his latest book, THE Primadonna,"
is In some respects a radical departure
from his previous work. In the eyes OF
these critics. the change seems to be
for the better. Mr.. Walter
writing In the Chicago Rec
ord Herald says: THE Prlmadonna'
is decidedly the biggest Thing which Mr..
Crawford has achieved In fiction. al
though the lovers Of his early italian
may not be ready to recognize
It as such. With The Primadonna' tho
author takes his place among those
world noVelists who are OF no Coun-
try, time or literary creed. Tho pseu-
o-cosmopOlitanism of the popular
products OF many active pens win at
once be made apparent by comparison.
resemblance indeed may be vaguely
suggested TO some with the work OF
men like Henry James. George Mere-
dith, and Paul Bourget But era wfoid
presents no linguistic puzzles nor does
he disregard. like his French colleague.
the law Of cause and effect"
Miss Florence r., Alien, daughter Of
OK Congressman Allen Of this city. ana
musical critic OF the Cleveland, o.,
Plaindealer, Is making name for
herself In the realm Of literature out
side OF routine newspaper effort. She
has just published through Cleve-
land publishing house little book OF
poems entitled "Patris.' There
are 30 little poems IN this work. COW
ering a wide variety Of subjects sus-
ceptible of poetic Interpretation and
elaboration; and which are wrought
out with a skill that bospeaks a high
aesthetic culture and refined sentiment.
Miss Allen appears 10 have clear con-
ception OF rhyme rythm, versifieatson
IN short. all the factors which go IN
make up well balanced poetic express
sion. For instance, her ability IL evil
denced In a sonnet, style OF writing
calling for more than ordinary poetic