Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-11

them I> tho natural popularity OF the
decent edition The public are rcauiug
a huc harvest of cheap editions at the
expense of the author. uo one is going
10 pay $lle or $50 FOR novel when
10 can be bought after the lapse of
f.W weeks or months FOR - cents Tn
like the uaper-CoNercd 12-cent editions.
fhe Accent books can be kept and given
"a place ou the book shelves
'ot course. booksellers are not going
90 stock SIP novels which remain uu.
asked for in the shop while the public
wait patiently for the cheap edition.
so TIME TO READ
"Thc motor-car IS another factor To-
the decline OF the novel; people have
no time Co read while they are travel
ms about the country what the ulti-
mate result OF the cheapening Of now
els will be- I do not know. ] can only
think that IN time the best authors
will cease 10 write and win turn their
brains and energies 20 some other way
Of making living
That at any rate. is what ann go
ing 10 DO myself and when ! finally
lay down my pen IL viii be 20 take up
! tho business Of decoration But be
fore doing that I have 10 finish my
9utnbiography-re am account Of my
sons lie 1s well as my own II will
br called Ms Son and !. and il viii
start with the dOings of the real chill
dren who figured in the pages Of COM
al Thro' the Rye
When Comm Thro' the Rye" was
published Miss Mathers was only just
out of her teens. But she had been
writing then since she was years old.
and at % had composed a poem which
won the praises Of Eossett Her best
book. She thinks. Is Comm Thro' the
Rye" and il has been her most sue
cessful one. Thomas Hardy once told
her that wherever Doe went he was al
ways sure of finding this book and tho
Bible
The composition OF Comm Thro' the
Rye" WAS a secret from the rest of as
author family Shc wrote 10 on scraps
of paper and pitched them higglody-
piggledy together. But she must have
had second manuscript, for. when she
had got h8lf the book written. she was
so much In love with her work that she
took OF the manuscript as 70 was 10
"a publisher Her experience was UNI
like that of most successful authors.
she met with mo- rebuff The work
was accepted there and then. and the
second half remained 90 be written.
That did not trouble its author she
wrote at top speed, and very soon pco-
IlN| were SHOW TT INF ''IAN AL NiAi NNNlNH WI
Miss Rhoda Broughtou on her supposed
authorship of the new novel
WIN WATSON MABRIEs
The marriage this week Of William
Watson the poet has been one Of the
surprises of the literary world Mr.
Watson ls 81 years Old and he was
looked ON as confirmed bachelor He
married an Irish lady and the wedding
IFS the elimination of romance. the
acquaintance Of the poet and h,s wife
having been very short n is rather
interesting 30 note that WatRou's best
work has been concerned smith hts
vlfc's native land ~ was he Nho in
bis code on the Day nj the Coronation
of King Edward VII referred 90 lro-
land as
"-tho lovely and TIE l1uclv bride
Whom wo have welded but have never
won
% ls also interesting 90 recall tho
Verses to Lady which DO placed at
the front of hIs booh of poems "The
Year of shame published as long ago
as 1886.
"pauchtrr of Ircland-nay 'twcro bet
tUr said.
Daughtsr of lreland's beauty Ircland's
grace,
Child of hon charm OF her romance.
whose face
d. legendary with hen gIor.os dod' ...
Though Wroug Boz strong. though
thrones Boo built 0n crimes.
r1 know vou Lady is 90 doubt mo-
moro
That 20 tb. world arc mirhucr powers
than those