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


casternly laxity. Yet Kitchens speaks
, of Miss Corelli as follows:
Miss Marie Corelll occupies pecu-
llar position. For years she has been
worshlpped by millions of readers. For
years she has been target for the
scorn or critics For years she has been
discussed, condemned, praised, pilloried.
In the midst of all this hubbub she con-
tirues tC write as she feels to express
/ her temperament on paper, to put
forth. with an amazing vivacity, her
opinions, to go for all she considers
. hTpocritical, irreligious, sham or dis
eascd.
II like to think Of her posed in some
calm retreat and producing while peo-
pie VINO have never seen her, who will
never see her, are growing purple In
the face as they discuss her merits and
dement's in various parts OF the globe
she is small and fair. SO she ought to
bc--a fairy stirring up the world with
wand dipped in ink Does she care
for tho tornado she produces? Does
She wish to be adorcd or reve in being
hated, Who knows? Perhaps she
laughs to herself in some shady hermit
age, and marvcls at the good people
who grow dishevelled around her foot
stool.
her writing table for a moment, slaps
the critics full IN the face, and then sits
down again to resume her novel. 1t is
delicious. The critics hit back. and Miss
Coreiii composedly goes on writing.
Now she tells OF Barnbbas; onw OF
the Priest Philenlan. who misundef-
stood the sanctity of life, and IN long
years repented, till all tho feathcred
creatures of God drew near to the one
who knew them best; now of the child
who forced the door into the great
darkuess-or great light; now of tho
spirit of evil seeking resistance; now
of a princess of nature. who came from
the north to stand amazed in l>nndon'S
busy thoroughfares. But always she
puts into her work the same peculiar
and abnormal vitality-a vitality that
never flags or falters, that seems, m
decd, tc grow, like a fire famed by tho
bellows of discussion.
AS an evidence of returning prosperi-
ty, the Macmillan company reports that
it has recently booked the largest single
order in its history. This order, which
was received from we'll known frm
of booksellers, comprised over 1000 IL
ties, the number of copies Of single
titles running as high as 10. 900. AS the
Macmillan company has larger list
than any other American publisher
this Is proba bly, the largest miscellan-
cous order for books ever placed In
America.
Miss Mary Johnston's latest novel,
Lewis Rand" was not dashed Off In
short order. az some OF the novels or
the day have been. Four years ago, 1t
will be remembered, Miss Johnston's
health had a serious breakdown and her
doctor ordered her to stop all literary
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foreign travel. however, Lewis Rand
was in her mind; she kept turning 1t
over and over, creating first one sub
sidiary character and then another, and
slowly developing the plot. And so the
story was worked out little by little,
sometimes in Sicily, sometimes in Eng
land. sometimes on steamships. some
times in hotels. Slowly and carefully
she laid the foundation for her master
piece, until finally, upon her return
from England last year in complete
health, she was able to go vigorously
ahead with the book and carry 1t
through to triumphant completion. 1t
will be published by Houghton Mifflin
Co.
Before he became railroad man. Mr.
James o. Pagan, the author OF THE
Confessions Of Railroad Signalman,
was a cable-operator in South America,
and dug gold and hunted big game and
rebellious Kaffirs in southern Africa
He has been for % years in the railroad
business and his book was written
while working eight hours day IN a
signal tower. Its publication in serial
form stirred up the railroad men as few
articles have ever done. Half the rail-
road presidents In the country wanted
to see the author, President Roosevelt
sent for him to come down to the White
House and talk the subject over, Presi-
dent Eliot invited him to give a course
on the subject at Harvard, ana ne IS
still at his daily work in the fsgnal-H
tower; for he is one of the most mod
est men in the world, as we'll as one OF
the most clear-headed.
Charles Hanford Hcnderson's lectures
at Harvard and elsewhere. his boys
camp in New Hampshire, and the new
school which he is starting In Califor-
MIA on strictly Hellenic lines have made
him one of the foremost figures IN the
educational! world. The amazing sue
cess four years ago for his quiet-hued.
easygoing, roundabout novel. John
Percifbeld,'' placed him among the
leading American novelists. His new
book "I,he Lighted Lamp, presents
his whole philosophy of life in the
guise of an engrossing novelette, wan
uerJaHr. OF q narrow ltliIuSu yodil6
and the broadening of his experience.
Mr.. Henderson has been at work on 1t
for four or five years past. and 1t was
written partly in his chambers In Bos-
ton. partly while travelling in India,
partly in his bungalow In California,
and partly in his New Hampshire
camp, 1t went into a. third printing
before publication.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers are an
nouncing seven books TO be published
during the first week in October. OF
these, one is volume Of essays, an
other is work Of literary criticism.
third is !, novelzed play, two others
are Juvenile stories, the isxth is a hum
orous novelette,, and the remaining one
a new edition, elaborately edited, of
very old favolite Lorna Doone.
The Christy Book for 1908 is entitled
drawings in Black and White and
cclors." and is a lotable volume from
Several points, of view. II contains
much of his very latest, and Very best.
work. reproduced with great care and
beauty. Moffat, Yard & Company VIII
publish 1t at once.
a recent visitor in Stratford -on-Avon
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