Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24

from one another Is a pleasant thought
for the reading public to reflect upon,
and it is also source of frequent pleas
,ire to the authors friends. to whom he
is wont to express his stray thoughts
IN letter. "By the way. / re-read
Barrie's When a Mans Single the
other day" writes Herman Whitaker.
whose. novel, 1.-THE Platter" is among
the recent Harper fiction. and was
greatly comforted by the mixture Of
5crudity and flashes Of power in this
book. He's learned a lot since then.
as much as Hardy since he wrote Far
From the Madding Crowd, wherein one
finds the like evidence of power cheap
cned by amateurish touches. And that
reminds me that Zola never got fully
away from his beginnings. In that
artist story of his q forget the name)
he continues after the end; and In.
Rome his pen ran away with him,
clean bolted. So let us be thankful for
these comfortable faiings of our bet
ters"
Warwick Deeping, whose last novel.
published by the Harpers, is Mad
Barbara" writes of the English June
to friend from his quaint Gate Cot
tage at old Battle, In Sussex: It is the
rose and the hay season with us, a
glorious June. am up at now.
moving in the orchard. and am brown
as a berry, and keeping lusty and full
of youth 1t is this life that keeps one
young. so near to nature, and to ele-
mental things"
Eighteen pocket volumes in the series
or the Abbott Biographical Histories
are announced as having been set for
reprint on the Harper press. The Alb
bolt histories. whose authors We're ia
cob and John s. Abbott, are memoir
able for the praise given them by Abra-
4 ham Lincoln.who many years ago wrote
to the house of Harper. II have not
education enough to appreciate the pro-
found works of voluminous historians:
and If had, have not time to read
them. But these histories give me, In
brief compass, just that knowledge of
past men and events which I need To
them 1 am indebted for about all the
historical knowledge I have"
At the age of fifteen Jacques Futrelle,
the author. held the typewriting cham
pionship of the United States-that is
to say. he could write more words to
the minute than any other person in the
country CAUTIOUSLY enough. Mr.. Flu
Etrelle has entirely discarded the type
eWTlteTE III TIE COll)DSltlOl ol Ills SlclleS.
All of ELUSIVE Isabel was written out
in long hand, corrected. worked over,
and written out in long hand a second
time.
Jason" the Forthcoming novel by
Justus Miles Forman. which TIE Har-
pers will publish in July, will have two
Hheroines. one American, and the other
Irish. For the sake of the fair Amer
lean it is that the very-much-in-love
hero undertakes to search Paris over
on the mysterious quest which lends
to him the classic title of Jason"
One question said to be involved in the
plot is, Are American girls cold-heart-
ed?
When Fifty Four Forty or Fight"
was published a large proportion of the
short memorled American public
thought the title cryptic or crazy. All
sorts of amusing mistakes and more
amusing gucsses We're made as to its
meaning. In New Orleans, for IN
stance. it happens that the number of
the municipal "move-on" ordinance
Is $40. When Mr.. Hough's book APP
peared in the windows of the book
stores the police thought it was an at
tempt TO have a little fun with them.