Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-26
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London does not often initiate tn !,
rare coincidence the first and secohl
hest selling books in London for .ne
nnst month were published in America
II Mrs. Humphry Wards The Testing
of Diana mallory and Robert Hichens
"a spirit in Prison. both Septemnef
publications of the Messrs Harper.
Mr.. Charles Frohman has secured the
rights both American and English, "
a, administration Of AfSene Lupll, u
French detective story which belongs
10 tac school Of sherlock Holmes ana
trho Amateur Craftsman, and was M
troduced in translation into this couh-
Try last fall by the tiarpers. ~, l.e
French premier OF the play takes place
next week IN Paris. and the dramatic
note is strllSis in IL night meeting pc
tween Lupn and q woman, both OIL
them thieves, who are led to abandon
crime through their love for each otfer.
Arsene Lupin himself is remslnbered
as /. brilliant burglar and IL quite II
resisfible French gentleman whom It
would be u pleasure to meet--at stage
distance. The author OF the STORY rs
Maurice Leblanc
out of d hoax the humorous hit OF
the present century. The ilrSt one o.
/ 4 he ~ letters 4hileli.
Small, Maynard Il Co, have Just pun
lishcd, was IL joke epistle sent by MISS
Grace Dunwurth to the San Francisco
relief committee of Providence, II. L
1t requested with quaint humor ana
archaic spelling that a certain garment
should be returned to Jennie Alien,
whore address was given. Inc conf
munication was so lSi!lmgly funny,
and apparently sincere, that copies oil
lit were made and circulated for the
amusement of friends OF the committee.
one OF them came eventually into the
= hand; OF Mark Twain, who, SURPRISING
it genuine, used 1T as subject-lnatter
for more or less serious discourse, anu
even quoted 1t at length in speech
before the Associated Press. Finally,
theSinplified Spelling society actually
issued n copy of it in a leaiet. Mean.
time however, an answer which nau
been written in reply to the original
{ letter was returned from the. dead letter
Office, and members ofsthe committee,
whose suspicious had already peen
aroused, accused Miss DUnworth, one
of their associates, of the authorship,
She at once pleaded bully, and there
inter amused herself and her friends by
adding to the communications until sla
had u complete story describing tle
trials and tribulations of the Allen
family Some of the letters We're pub
+ fllGItCu SGIluilS III VIZ
Journal, and now for the first time With
many further additions have been Is
sued in book form by the Boston house
which discovered Mr.. Wooley and which
made "a great strike with the THE Let
tiers From IL Self-Made Merchant to His
Son
Margarita Spaldng Gerry, who has
written "The Toy-Shop," a story-study
of Lincoln which appeared first ~
IIarpers Magazine, and is published
now MS a book has been u privileged
student of the Lincoln period. Mis-
Gerry, who is Il resident of Washington.
was engaged in writing an article on
the historic associations of little
Washington shop when the personality
of Lincoln as one of its visitors over
Swallowed all others. and led To Fha
Toy-Shop in iictional form instead Of
The intended article ! t WAS during tn
course OF her search for Lincoln mem
orabilia that Mrs. Gerry met Col. VIII
liam Crook, the author of "reminiscences
OF Presidents Lincoln. Andrew jackson
Grant, and Hayes, which have appeared
III Harpers or in the Century, and an
inmate of the White House since TIL
days of Lincoln. AfterMafa Mrs. Gerry
assisted i'll preparing Col. Crooks me-
Inoirs for publication.
Tho Peoples Magazine Tor January
strikes u fine Individual note III its
cover design. The picture represents
the world famous Great White Way
looking south from the Times Squat-.
The daZHle III the great electric signs.
the bewildering array of thcaters aud
notable cafes, and the thin wedge OF
the Times building. which looms up in
the background, its nose upstream
dividing the vast current Of traffic, are
most realistically painted Turning the
leaf, the eye is at once attracted by the
exquisite cuipr-plate u portrait or
Merely Mary Ann The reproduction
shows all the beautiful pastel tiuts
OF the original painting by Louis Loep,
and is one of II series OF notable wo-
mon upon the stage which The l'eo-
pies presents monthly Il series Of por-
traits, eNquititeIy executed upon fine
anamcled paper, and possessing the
charm and delicacy of coloring of the
Originals. The 32-npge section oil stage
Photographs, are particularly attrac-
tive this month The theatrical sea
son is IN fun tide and this issue shows
a great diversity oc scenes from the
Popular PLAYS now running aud is ac-
companied by an excellent dramatic
critique in another paw Of the maya
zine
Smiths for January contains an cs-
peciaiiy interesting ana informing ar
NAclc ny IikNi'SlN tltSltfS on tHt5 lptgll!-
ners of Romantic orera. in Which tho
author writes:
ut is u strange fact that Beethoven
for al his breadth of glory; wrote very
little in the most popular forms of mu-
sic, song, and opera. Hardly half a
dozen of BeethoNens lyrics have ever
had the lcast popularity. and none %
these shows any special originality;
even his adelaide is only 4 sublime
romantic ballad pfsa8 hackneSed type.
It remained for his humble and neg
lected fellow toWnsnan. Schubert 10
reNoiutionize song.
IN opera one work represents Bee
thoYens whole contribution. And thar
came perilously near oblivion. 1t was
hIoanced in three different versions
With three different librettos and four
dlfiefent oNartures before was safely
4 Established on this side, of the deal4ilac
1ieES5 is IL noble lesson for persever-
i aiics IN taesa stories OF immortal op-
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