Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24

Special Correspondence
y oMDON, Oct. l4.--Thts year. Mt
craturo with ~ big u Is TO lie
given !; grand send-off by tue
new lord mayor. Distinguished
men of letters are 10 be feature Oh
his annual circus, which goes III Lon
don under the more digniied title OF
the Lord Mayors Show" a notable
portion Of the pageant will be the great
founders OF early English letters as wei
as DISTINGUISHED litteratt Of modern
times. OF course, there will be shake
speare and Bacon as well, despite inc
controyersalists. Dr. Johnson, CharieA
Lamb. Pope and Addison will also an
pear in the procession. II mas penh
suggested by some that Charles Dick
ans should be borne in cffigy through
|tthe streets of London: but, as many
members of the Dickens family are
slill alive others considered that his
career is not sufficiently antique" 10
| figure in q show Of this description
Another point, still undecided. IS
whether wax figures typifying the au-
thors. or actual living men, dressed up
to look like them, will he employed II
the latter, there will probably be no
difficulty in finding plenty OF men to
look like Shakespeare, Milton and the
rest as there was no trouble in the
Chelsea pageant IN finding mulhtudeS
OF Charles the Seconds.
TOO MUCH BELLANlY
IT,, G.. Wells has resigned from the
socialistic society known as the 'Fa-
bans'' Ii has long been known that
Wells and the Fabians We're not getting
along quite as well as they should and
now the cut is out of the bag. Tie
Fahians say that it was a case of
I, ,tat,-
whereas the distinguished author,
more in sorrow than in anger" at
tributes their failure to get on to. the
pure cussedness of things in general.
No author has done more than Wells To-
popularize that nebulous philosophy
called Socialism. which. so far. has re-
fused 10 allow itself to be defined. In
"Anticipatons" ana other of his books,
he adopted the Edward Bellamy point
OF view, but when the Irabians drew UP
"a formula putting metes and bounds
to Socialism. which. like the primcval
chaos, refuses to conform to any limi-
tntions, Wells found it necessary TO
drop out.
SHAW VERSUS WELLS.
Inside members of the Fabian So
cietT darkly hint at !, struggle for con-
troll between Bernard Shaw and II. q.
Wells. Anyone who knows the Great
and Only q. +, s." must admit that
1t is difficult for two Great and Onlrs'
to exist in the same society The Fa-
bians still retain G.. 3. s., though X
must be admitted they are hit rattle
hard by the withdrawal OF Wells. Cue
of the ostensble reasons for Wells
resignation consists in the fact that
the classical Fabians viii nor admit
the principle of compensation 10 indi-
vidual and class owners OF land and
property. SAYS W@i's on TINS point:
PREDICTS FABIAN FAILURE.
"I think the Reputation Of compen-
sation in the Fabian basis is opposed
10 all those ideas of orderly social de-
velapncnt inherent In modern social
ism, l have lost any hope OF the Fa-
bian society contributing cffectually to
the progress of the movement and. to
borrow a convenient Americanisn. |
have no use for q Fabian society that
is not developing and spreading IDEAS
Moreover" he continues, Il want very
much TO concentrate myself now upon
the writing of novels for some years"
SERIOUS LOSS TO SOCIETY.
Judging from the hint which Wells
has thrown out. it is doubtful II his flu
ture books will contain quite so much
socialism as have his early works One
Thing is certain, the cause which ne
has championei SO well, will lose. for
the time being much of the active sup
port of one of its most brilliant and,
1t should be added. well-balanced adj
vocates.
UNIQUE ADVERTISING.
Some of the more hustliug PUBLISH
ers In England are adopting all sorts
of lodges" to get the public interested
in their authors aside from the purely
literary attractiveness OF the novel
itself. For instance. one firm Is offer
ing prize for the best l2-word teie-
gram describing the personality of
the author OF d certain book: another
publisher offers a prize Of SIS for the
best drawing of an imaginary portrait
of n mysterious novelist whose iden
tity is not disclosed A third one,
not TO be outdone. offers 4 prize for
the exact height Of the author; and
the most accurate surmise as to wheth-
er certain book is written by a man
or q woman. With all these induce
ments before the public 1T Is little
difficult to choose which scheme gives
the largest reward tor the smallest
amount Of brain fag. 1t is a. rather
distressing sign OF the times when pub
fishers have to descend to giving away
houses and lots in order to get their
a. ,t.