Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-05

| OF Lady ROSES Daughter VIII remem-
Der how naturally Mrs. Humphrey
| Ward made her heroine move through
| the world of statesmen and diplomats,
and how cieverly she gave the impress
| sion of a salon that was sin the know"
| Of all that was worth knowing. The
| political scheme is at the very core in
the later novel, The Testing of Diana
Mallory even to the extent of the he
roine'S sympathy With the political am
billions for the sake of which her lover
deserts her. The writer of the article,
a London journalist whose name is
withheld. suggests that not only do
Englishwomen thus WELD a direct and
welcome influence over the world of af-
fairs. but they likewise have provided
for them hobby infinitely more en-
crossing than the mere social or phil
anthropic diversions of their American
cousins.
Fay &c que voudras'-''You May Do
What You Please the motto Inscribed
over the notorious Medmanham abbey,
which is the setting of Max Pember-
tons gay romance, "Sir Richard lIs-
combe." is decidedly indicative, If the
stories that are even now atloat in the
district of the remodclled abbey, which
New York man is occupying. are at
all to be believed. 1t is said by the
Medmenham village folk that this mock
brotherhood. who styled themselves
F'ranciScans, from their founder Sir
Francis Dashwood-Mr Pomberton's
villain--did do what they pleased There
were 3 of them, and they despised the
law, pretending to worship the tend Of
darkness with clever mockery of ritual
The village folk whispered also to the
servants of the American occupants
how one night the countryside rose up
and punished them by lowering hide
Gus shadoWy form outside the window.
and how they scattered. really believ-
ing that the tiend had appeared among
them.
Rex Beach has recently been a sub
ject of alarm to his friends by reason
OF press reports that he was in danger
Of losing his sight as the result of
shooting accident In Alaska. Tho re-
ports were exaggerated. For a fort
night the author has been under hospi-
tai treatment in Seattle, where the ply
sicians have announced that the affec-
ton OF the eyes is purely local, and
that no permanent injury will result.
The accident however. has delayed the
return of Mr. Beach from an adventure
Gus and--accounts say--vastly success
ful hunting trip among the ice-peaks
of Alaska When he doese get back to
the states it VIII be to find himself
very much best SELLER" With "The
Barrier" quoted the favoritc novel in
most of the big cities, and repeatedly
by the Harpers for reprint
Ing. AS yet, however the first claim on
MI. Beach's attention is Il true vacation
nlain-as a friend puts it, bears before
books"
1t is u notable fact that Edith Wynne
Matthison, who is Mrs. Charles Ram
Kennedy, the wife of the author of
The Servant in the House" and Lead
h., nS+ ,t.I t,1
;ery first play Mr.. Kennedy ever wrote.
rather bad" the author describes 1t.
and forget it besides. An old soap
BOILER. though, turns nut to be u god
Ike symbol somehow" This debut per-
was thoroughly amateur. the
>iuclS little company making all their
'wn scenery and costumes. and in
ense II was family affair, too. since
he authors collaboration and assistant
was the brother of the eatiing
ady These two. Mr. Kennedy and Miss
.latthison, were not acquaintances of
he stage. but children together in War
Sickshre.
According To the present copyright :
lw, it is impossible To protect the title I
I book. The contents are protected {
ut the name is not. A particularly {
agrant and familiar case is THE Man |
( the Hour" This admira BILE title had !
N'il t-iNtit value DN inc | 4
uccess of octave Thanet's popular no.
el, II Was calmly appropriated and l
ackad on to political comedy that I
as in no sense a characterization of tho c
ock And now comes the announces
lent that play entitled Tho Best
Ian is being produced In Boston. Mr.,
Larold MacGrath might feel. with some /
that his we'll known story t
ad secured to him proprietary inter-
st in that title, but the courts would
OF recognize 1t,
THE Land OF the Living" the new
ovel by Mnude Radford Warren. is
.orN for every one OF ilfo today III the
ig general ranks of the people The i
gro Is iritn capuhie OF ideals, and or
orkins 10 make them come truss there
re two splendid and different women
'ho are almost rival heroines, and one
leat big wnrm-heart~' Irlshnan.
lretsd, wifts idness. and