Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-18

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the author and to the publishers ask
ms DO you know Il single negro who
would be capable OF such an act2" And
author and publisher have agreed on
this reply DO you know single
white man who would be?'
II Is to be nagretted that Il Is neces-
sary to warn the public against the
chance OF confusion which has been
caused by the publication Of an anthol-
ogy by Or. William Knight bearing the
same title and dealing with the Same
period as Edmund Clarence Stedman's
standard work, "A Victorian Antolo-
gy," published by Houghton Mlfnn &
Co. Mr. Stedman's volume has Won a
permanent place as being accurate,
comprehensive, thoroughly reliable. and
in every way satisfactory.
The Alaskan country whore Rex
Beach laid the scene OF his now novel
'"The Barrier" Is identified as Rampant
City. IT was the first camp that Mr.
Beach struck in Alaska. and the author
himself helped TO build It, which, he
says, in that country means telling the
trees and proceeding from the ground
up" In the novel the post is called
Flambeau, and is represented as sud
denly turned from q remote Arcadia TO
a miners stamping ground by dis
coNery of gold.
Mr.. William Dean Howells has been
sojournlng at Rome in o. house on the
Vic Veneto Just below Queen Margherl-
ta's palace Recently he left for Genoa,
bound thence for Gibraltar and Alge-
ciras, and writing en- route several de-
scriptiye articles which have been APP
pearing in IA New York newspaper. The
previous visit of Mr., Howells to Rome
4 de- 40 hf
ed that ono result of the present visit
will be novel which will have its set
ting In modern Rome.
When w j Bryan was In Indiana
polls recently he met Meredith Nichol-
son, the novelist, at small dinner par
ty. Somewhere between soup and salad
the author asked the orator If he could
and would. tell in n sentence the secret
of successful speechmakng. BE sure
of your facts and believe all you say.
replied the Democratic idol. And
now" Mr.. Bryan continued, will you
tell me. in a sentence, how you make
successful fiction?" Forget the facts
and make the other fellow believe all
you say" promptly replied Nicholson.
whose House of Thousand Candles"
and "Rosalnd at Red Gate" would
seem to prove his epigrammauc receipt
a good one.
"The Duke of Gambia" Swinburnes
new dramatic poem. is laid about the
persons of the Cesare Borgias. Accord
ing to Mr. Theodore Watts Dunton. the
work represents the elimination OF the
poets dramatic art, both in progress of
action and in verse movement. MI
SwirJburne's personal attention to the
publication of the poem, which TOOK
place in this country through the
Harpers on April 2, is an impressive
commentary on his prolonged activity
as an artist and as workman.
The methods of Henry James and
Mrs. Humphrey Ward have been placed
in amusing antithesis by the clever
phrasing of q. noted New York art cri-
tic. This critic In discussing the ex-
hibit of Thomas w. Dewing at the
present Academy remarks that he Is
the painter who has portrayed The
Woman Who Reads Henry James-to
capitalize the phrase into a solemn I'M
portance These lean, aristocratic Ia
dies may peep once in while INTO
Mrs. Ward, but she is so obvious that
they always return to The sacred
Fount' or The Golden Bowl They
know what Maisie knew, and it is a
testimony to the art of Dewing that
he Indicates this within such a narrow
compass" 1t Is a singular coincidence
which combines TO place in the March
Harper's Magazine the Diana Mall
lory' of Mrs. Werd, the Julia Bride
of Mr.. James, as well as several pic
tured reproductions of Mr.. Dewings
delicate. high-bned women, of whom
the critic adds. "They are not dream
wraiths, though they don't drink ale
and do read Henry James"
Frederic S. Isham, author of The
lady of the Mount and other popular
novels, has acquired some little reputa-
ton among his friends as an amateur
chef. The preparation OF game is his
speciality. and his partridge, cooked on
"a spit before a fire OF grapevine wood
are always In demand at those little
feasts the writer enjoys to set before
n small, but congenial company. AS
an accompaniment, sour krout. sea-
soned with light champagne, Is especial
Nv recommended by the writer. who as
sures his friends the combination Is not
barbarous, ~, altogether delicately
palatable.
1t Is only seven months since the
death of the great American sculptor.
Augustus Saint Gaudcns. Already
notable study of his life and work, by
Royal Cortissoz. has been publishedi
the new gold coins designed by MN
have been issued; an exhibition OF his
work has been held at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art IN New York; and arti-
cles on him have appeared in two OF the
leading magazines.