Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-12

burnc demands: Who Will, be fool
enough to imagine that he would have
been safe against the deadly and In
evitable influence of Iago?' There is
only one thing lago cannot do, the
critic points out: he cannot make the
Wife doubt. or even blame, the hus-
band. Her, Woman's cry excuses him
with woman's divine eXcusing- Nay,
we must think men are not gods!"
Thompson Buchanan. who wrote "a
Woman's Way, Il play which has
achieved much success in New OK,
with n popular actress in the principal
part. Is alo known as a novelist, being
one Of the many fiction writer's who
have gone over to dramatic work Be
fore lie took to play writing at all,
Nj. Buchanan had two novels publish
ed by the Harpers. One of these, en-
titled Judith Triumphant" tale OF
the beautiful woman of the Apocry-
pha who offered her beauty as de-
fence to her city, contained plenty OF
dramatic material for the author TO
try his skill upon. The other the
Castle Comedy is In the higher style
of Monsieur Beaucaire;' M Th3mp-
son is we'll known in the JOURNALISTIC
world of New York.
Printers errors have provoked many
n laugh, but the errors made by print
ers are not SO amusing as their at
tenpts to correct the errors of authors
"A touch of Indigestion Is essential to
genius" wrote William Dana circuit IN
the manuscript of his Harper novel,
..,rhe SPELL. and he meant It; but such
reasoning had no place In the printers
philosophy. Tho latter thought a mn
ute, and then changed it to read "A
touch Of indignation is essential TO
genius" We submit that there is
something to be said on both sides.
ID
The Inner Shrine" the much-tniked-
about novei which The Harpers have
published anonymously, is to be a play
The novel was no sooner out than APP
pl.cation for the dramatic rights was
made by Messrs. klaw and Erlangef
and Joseph Brooks. Author and mali
agement have already begun the pro.
cess Of decentralization, and itisexpected
that in the fall the play VIII be COM
plete.
The best selling book in Boston for
the past week has been "Tlle Inner
Shrine. Second on the list comes ELL
nor Mccartney Lanes "katrine.
Frederick Grin Bartlett author OF
.,rhe Web or the Golden Spider" one
Of the most successful Of this seasons
novels, IS at his camp on Highland
Lake, Bridgton, Me-, where he does
most OF his writing.
George Donworth, just appointed cir
cut Judge of Oregon, is the brother OF
Mise Grace Dpnworth of Providence, r.
r., to whom the inimtable Letters OF
Jennie Allen" are dedicated.
5ie#F s#s
Speaking at the forty third dinner
and reunion of former editors of the
Harvard Advocate on May IL of the
dignity Of journalism as a procession
walter Prichard Eaton, author OF The
American Stage Of Tody," and until
recently dramatic writer of the New
York sun said: Newspapers arc the
most powerful agencies in our public
life today Men of prominence owe IT
to the newspapers. and so TO tine PUBIC,
osrecognize that a reciprocal relation
exists and to cooperate with news
gathcrers in their work"
Mayor Brand Whitlock of Toledo has
DAYS so well filled with activities of his
office that the amount of literary WORK
he turns out surprises hts friends and
admirers He does all his writing at
home in the evening, using an old STUB
zen and purple ink which he calls his
nlascots in preparing his copy. The
manuscript of his Life of Abraham Lin
coin, which was recently published IN
tho Beacon Biographies, was received
by the publishers of the series IN type
written form. but gloriously purple with
corrections and interlneations.
writer in a Maine paper, who
speaks of Boston as the center OF
psychical research activity, is clearly
misinformed Apropos of the so-called
HRoston-1915' movement to; render the
New England capital "the finest city IN
the worla,' he urges, along with
the Esperanto guidc-book why should
Ne not have a psychical directory tell
ing us how to find the ghosts OF the
Boston Of by-gone day." The under
standing among the initiates is that
with the death of Richard ,Hodgson the
leadership IN psychic matters passed
over to New York whore Prof. James
II. Fyslop has produced his remarkable
| series of classics of the literature or
psychcal research.
Rose C'Neill. author of THE Lady IN
| tho White Veil and illustrator of
Maude Radford Warrens novel Peter,
| Peter, will illustrate a serial story by
Josephine Dask;,ni Bacon, which Is
soon to begin in Harper's BazaT. The
new book will be Mrs. Bacon's hrst
since "Ten to Seventeen. her boarding
school story, was published little over
| q year ago.