Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-14

Another Three Weeks James S.
Metcalfe's humorous and satirical re-
buke of Mrs. Ellnor Glyn's book with n
semilar title, has sold over so, OGO COPIES
and the demand still continues. The
popularity of this sane-minded skit
speaks well for the better second
thoughts of the American reading pub
lie.
Marie Coreli, the author of '.HoIy
Orders, refers in it to the use or
ShaEespeare's picture as u beer adver-
tisement In Stratford- on-Avon. She
{ does not at all fancy this method OF
propagatins the immortal bard's fame,
and has taken lively interest in get
ting the the DETACHMENT removed She
herself lives i'll this beautiful old viii
lagc, and is one of It's most active citi
2ens. IT was she, who. a short time
) ago, began the movement for the pres
.ervation OF John HarvarCl's house a
delightful &oldfashioncG lumber-and-
mortar affair. Miss Corelli's house is
"a little vine-covered cottage with
profuslon of window flower boxes, and
is not far away. Few visitors, how
ever, discover her abode, as she is very
retiring, and does not care at all for per-
sonal notoriety. 1t is indeed unusual to
hear of a writer of hundred thousand.
OF Holy Orders" is "unacquainted
with London newspaper men," but If
she hurls the same invective ut them in
person that she writes about them.
their shyncss Is not to be wondered at
Her relations with the villagers, on the
other hand. arc so extensive and cor
dial, that we should not be surprised at
the sympatheticin insight into rural char
acters shown in her latest book. Not
IA Il, xii 1,
sees that the country people are often
not personally responsible for the evils
IN their community. So it is that tho
pictures of country life that she paints
IN Holy Orders" arc not those of an
ignorant sensation monger, but are the
sincere and well-considered result OF an
HntimaH., helpful acquaintance with
real people.
An interesting literary controversy
Is unfolded in this extract from q re-
cent issue of Life:
AS long ago as March 1885, there APP
pcarcd in Life some verses under the
title of "A Little Brother of the Rich"
Inc name appeared again two or three
years later on the title page of q slim
book, to-wt: "A little Brother of the
Rich, and Other Poems, by l.. S. Mar
tin. New York; Mitchell & Miller IS
West Twenty third Street, 1855" Only
boo copies of this book We're printed,
ana lt8quickly ran out of print, 1t was
rcpublished III 1890 by Charles Serb
licr's Sons, and since that time. has con-
tihued to edify mankind A good many
thousand copies of 1t have been sold.
and its annual distribution continues
Ihis book, and the verses that gave it
It's name, are pretty we'll known here
apouts but seem not to have pcnotrat-
ca the consciousness of present-day
chicago, where Joseph Mcdil Patterson
mas used their familiar title us The
name OF his new novel. He has done it
with amusing innocence of pIagiaristIc
intent. He thinks he invented his title,
ana has so confessed to Tie newspa-
pcrs.
Those We're pretty good verses, with
valuable infusion of youth in them
irof Charles Eliot Norton used to read
them, we have heard. to some of his
classes Cat Haryard) as an example of
something that was good of its kind.
Joseph Patterson's novel will probably
outsell Martins youthful verses time
ana time again. but 80 or 40 years
from now, when Martin is dead and
.'oseph has, perhaps become sensible in
ms opinions, the verses will still he
awe, and still be known, except, per
maps, in Chicago.
Frederick Palmer's new novel, "The
: Big Fellow" required second large
cdition to I'LL the requirements of pub
ncation. The timely Significance Of
ms powerful story has apparently
missed none of the reviewers. nearly all
OF whom make the comment that it
seems to parallel. in certain ways. Paul
l.. Ford's The Honorable Peter
Stirling
IN addition to his sparkling novel,
Tho Spitfire, which started on what
looks like q Triumphant run the first
week in September Edward Peple Will
publish this autumn a second book ur-
der the title of "The Mallet's Master
piece This Is also fiction but is not a
novel. It Is a story of much charm
built around the mystery of the Venus
Of Milo and presented as n gift book
OF great beauty.
Some of the executive force of Fred
erick A. Stokes company are think
Ing of making an Office rule to the
effect that no copies of Santa Claus
and All About Him. By q. Boyd
Smith, shall be allowed outside Of
s tile stock room In the busy .Icnson.