Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-10
nEsERFT# FYENING NEWS SATURDAY. ocTOBER 10 1908

/ 900 % year. In giving all his characters
enormous wealth--placing them, as ii
were. above ordinary yicissitudes--An-
/ thony Hope shows his knowledge OF
. human nature In these days, ex-
istence is so strenuous--and even sor-
i Gid-for most people that they like to
read OF lucky mortals who have been
raised above want, and the fear OF
1 want. This Is said to be one OF the
secrets of Anthons Hopes steady
success. People like fairy tales with
| heroes and heroines possessed of no
end OF ready cash. AS one of the Lon
don critics said, in reviewing this last
| book Of Anthony Hope, I'VE like the
| hero, II possible, to discover an enor-
| nous treasure. The fact that no such
| money Will probably be, II nothing else,
at any rate u great bore, does not
trouble us. 1t is true that the doings
and feelings of characters exempt from
the necessity of earning their daily
bread have a certain unreality for us
but. Oh the whole, the general public;
| likes unreality i'll novel. The novel
is for many simply the fairy-story
| grown up
BOOKS OF ACTION.
There is Il big demand in England
| JUST now fol'books which tell you how
to do things. There are no end of
| WORKS On how 10 eat, sleep, drink, walk,
| run and ride, One of the most popular
books in the How" line is Arnold Ben
nett How to Live on Twenty-four.
Hours Day" Bennett issa sort Of
intellectual gEmnast, and he breaches
the cult of the strenuous. EiiS motto
Tor getting the best out of life Isl
Put your best into everything you
DO He accuses the London business.
| man OF not taking an interest in BUSH
ness simply as business, but regarding
ms daily office hours" as so ~luch
boredom for the mere sake of making
bread and butter. Bennett takes the
point of view that people should be in
tercsted In every task they perform,
however minute il may be, and who
ever may benefit from it. The author
has Won laurels in several lines OF
endeavor His books are going Well
several OF his serials have made u.
hit. number of his short stories
nave done. remarkably well. and his
elaborated work With Eden Phillpotts
has Won him fame.
BENEFITS NEW PLAYS.
Quite a number OF Benefits plays
have been accepted though. as YET.
not one of them has been produced
The other day, in the course Of an i'm
lerNleW, he remarked; Wont it be Il
funny thing when several of those ac-}
@ccepted plays are all produced By dir
ferent theaters at the same time"
There will be all epidemic OF. Bennett
plays from Aldwych TO Chelsea, Ben
nett seems one OF those all around
writer's whose literary output is on the
factory order--not at to quality, of
course, but simply as 10 enormous
quantity. In most of the smart. per-
lodicals of the day his name figures
prominently, and his new book with
the title aiready.mentioned, is rapidIv
going through several editions He
moves in what is considered very ..se-
lect society," and is a ia miIjar figure
at the famous fashionable resorts on
the continent. Monte Carlo and the
Riviera know him well. Strange Ia
say, he has little affection fol. cav
life as such, ana freauents these
places mostly for the purpose ar st,,fly- 4
ing types, which he analyses With re-
lentless insight. II may sefelv be pre-
dicted that ii Arnold Bennett keeps
up his present output OF books.
serials, short stories, critiuues fan
tastes, reviews and plays. he viii Re-
fore long be one of the most talked
about writer's in England
1t is rather curious TIA, ntrs INV,
phIY ward ware, and Miss Beatrice Har-
novelistic arena as literary Antagonists,
Miss Beatrice Harraden since she
wrote her famous "Ships That Pass in
the Night has done little to arouse
public interest, but her latest novel
''Interplay" has attracted attention
Mainly. she deals with the subject nf
the suffragette and has written a hook
that puts the case OF that 1nuch ad.
vertised person very strongly. Mrs
Humphry Ward on the other hand
minimises the suffrage cause ana deals
with the coming OF radical socialism
in England Strange to say and with
true feminine inconsistency ali Of Miss
Harraden's women characters fall in
love, and there is a strong Interplay Of
passion throughout Hence ne INA 4
Though the women arc lined nm IN
battle against the "sex." ana ara try