Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-31
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Blanche Goodman.

The recent publication of some of the
changes which have been rung on the
eccentric titles of Meredith Nicholsons
novels has called forth reports Of other
parodies and adaptations from all parts
of the country. Thus. from Montana
at Helena, named Tho House of Il
Thousand Scandals" wherein dwell a
journalist, a lawyer and an engineer.
The journalist is Mark NATION, q
prominent northwestern critic. THE
House of a Thousand Scandals la the
rendezvous of newspaper men, musi-
clans, artists, actors, lecturers, polti-
clans. travellers and musicians. In the
buffet is kept 1.-THE Little Brown jug
of Killcare."
Anne Warner, whose "An Original
Gentleman" has just been published by
Little Brown g. Company, Is staying
IN Hidesheim, the scene Of her story.
She writes: II have never seen any
one so happy as the headwaiter in the
Weinerhof at 'Hildeshein, whom ! made
Il character In the story Some one
translated An Original Gentleman to
him, and he was one mixture of joy and
reverence over my making a book hero
of him. | have been wondering about
the town today. renewing my acquaint-
ance with the various scenes have
described in the book. 1t was the burg
omaster of this quaint old town OF
IlildesheIm who first promulgated the
decree that it was the duty of an old
town to preserve its ancient APP
pcarance, az far as was commensurate
with health and progress. Edinburs
was the next place to follow, and since
then many others have seen the wisdom
OF such action.
AS a result OF the notable scientific
article in the Atlantic Monthly entitled
The Air of the City Hollis Godfrey,
author of that clever story, The Man
Who Ended War published by Little.
Brown & Company, has been notified
by the acting secretary OF the Smith.
sonian Institute of Washington that
the memoir mentioned above has been
accorded the honor of a place in the
Hodgkins Library on Atmospheric Air.
Accompany this statement was q re-
quest that Mr.. Godfrey consider enter
ing the competition for the Hodgkins
Gold Medal. with its accompanying
prize of s1.500. The Hodgkins prize may
be considered as analogous to the fam
Gus Nobel prize awards. 1t was estab-
lished In 1891, and first awarded to Lord
Rawleigh and Sir William Ramsay for
their research which demonstrated the
presence of argon in the air.
A twelfth printing of '.Aunt Jane of
Kenucky,' by Eliza. Calvert Hall, is an
nounced by the publishers, Little,
Brown & Company. who report that
this delightful portrayal of provincial
life in the Blue Grass state Is one of
their best selling books of fiction for
this year, as 1t was in 1907. To adver-S
tise the book. Messrs. Little, Brown &
Company have had the first chapter,
Sally AIMS Experience, printed sep
arately. This they are, sending gratis
10 all who request It,
Tho latest5writer to get into the class
OF Conan Doyle and Anna Katharine
Green as a concocter of mystery fiction
Is Mary Roberts Rinehart. author Of
The Circular Staircase. This book of
curiosity intricate plot had its origin In
familiar experience. Ask nine per
sons out Of 10 to describe a spiral stair.
way, and they will leave on speech anu
/ begin making frantic gestures and gyr-&
atoms. The observance of this amusing
spectacle suggested by Mrs. Rinehart
that the circular staircase was an ar