Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-25

sun serial in Harper's Magazine,
there have elapsed exactly 20 years.
! BOOKS
A story comes from New Hampshire
TO the effect that certain prominent
| citizens OF that state are expressing
| considerable curiosity as to the con-
tents of Winston Churchills new book
| Mr.. Crewe's Career" When Mr.
! Churchill entered politics as a menu
| Der of the New Hampshire legislature.
old hands at the political game were
| not inclined to take him seriously as
I politician. Since his campaign for the
| governorship, however, even his OPP
| ponents admit that he has learned the
| political game thoroughly. Jethro Bass
| the real hero of "Coniston," showed
that Mr.. Churchill knew something
| about the political methods of a past
| generation, and the report that his new
| book deals with the present time, has
| caused every prominent politician in
| New Hampshire to wonder whether
perchance he is this time to be the VIC
tim of Mr. Churchills satiric pen.
1t is welcome news that Mr.. Marion
Crawford's THE Primadonna," the
expected sequel to Fair Margaret"
is to be published before the end of
the month. Fair Margaret" is prob.
ably the most popular story Mr. Craw-
ford has written since the Saracines-
ca" series, and the demand for a Sc
quel IS said to have been so insistent
that the author could scarcely have re
sisted 1t, even had he wished to. The
new book takes up the story of Mar
garet Dome when she has become the
greatest singer in the world 1t is
more truly an international novel than
any other Mr.. Crawford has written.
Its scenes are enacted in the Hobbies
and behind the curtain of the Metro
polltan Opera House in New York; on
the deck of an ocean liner; in English
country houses and the streets and
drawing-rooms of London. The char
aoters include Americans, Englishmen,
Italians, Frenchmen, Germans, Rus
slams. Grecians, And this cosmopoli-
tanism Is not all veneer; it is in the
very atmosphere of the story. 1t Is
many years since Mr. Crawford has
written novel with SO big a theme,
or one that gives opportunity for such
variety as to setting and plot,
An interesting cartoon showing big
California redwood tree and pictured
from it's roots TO its topmost branch
some of the important historical events
and discoveries that have occurred dur
ing the growth of one of those forest
antedeluvians. recently appeared in
Life. The picture was drawn by G..
Broughton and is about to be publish
ed by one of the Pacific railroads as
an advertisement OF the wonders OF
California
1.-THE Golden Ladder" is a new novel
by that popular writer Margaret Pot
ter. 1t Is the story of u struggle be-
and fanUAV-pRffiuu that
grips the reader from the start, and for
sheer realism is unique I'm American
fiction. John Kildare comes as
youth from a Wisconsin farm to Chi
cago steps on the lowest rung of the
golden ladder, and in the cheap board
inghOuse where he lives encounters Kit
ty Clephane, a wilful girl of IL, and
intends to marry her. But she. through
self-love, is lured To New York and
there takes up with new lovers, while
kildare rises to power IN the New
York financial world Kitty makes
final effort to enmesh him, but is hat-
fled and ends along the road she be-
gan: while Kildare, although he has
achieved his end, goes on his way
restless millionaire. From start 20
finish tho Golden Ladder IL Keyed
to the highest pitch Of excitement, ana
will find many readers Hmpers arc
the publishers, On sale ut Deforat
News bOoh Slotc'
king Spruce" the title Of a new
novel by Holman Day, author Of Pine
Tree Ballads" Squire Phln,' etc, ana
is perhaps the most pretentious and
interesting OF his efforts. This Is
real story. II iH more than that-it ~
a splendid American novel 1t Is the
romance of young mans fight for
love and fortune In the forests OF
Maine. II describes a mighty battle
against the tyranny Of the timber bar
ons and their laWless oppression,
against tho power of king Spruce
The young hero, Dwight Wade up.
posed I'm his love for the daughter on
the lumber king, enters the woods with
the foresters and pits his pluck against
the tyrant powers. The story Is vital
with the strong passions Of strong
men, and fresh with the pungent haFor
OF the woOdsman's native humor' IN
the conflict OF Wades men with ths
l1yal gang appear quaint GharaeteI7
of the woods Pulaski ID. Britt, tho
tyrant of the camps, the squhllers or
Misery Gore; Tommy Eye, The drunk
en- log. driver and the strange girl or
the woods whose destiny u secretly
linked with the life Of Wade's own
sweetheart There ls no writer WIN
the authors knowledge OF the Maine
woods; and the scenes IN KING
snrncep IKE the great forest Are, the
woods fight man to-man, the blowing
up of the dam, and the mad race WIN
the logs. are full of teeming vitality
A scene 10 set the blood bounding Is
The wild ride of the lumber load let
loose down the hill, eight horses mead
on for the Curve OF DEATH and the
driver swinging them round 10 flanul
safety a big, strong tender story II
king Spruce Harper Bros pupllSn-
ers
santa Lucia, by Mary Austin
novel of strong literary value, II the
plcturo OF a little community IN Cali
iornia not far from san Francisco. Tho
main motive in this absorbing story 10