Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-09
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It would appear that George Grandes,
the Danish critic OF literature, ls a
disappointed man. 81 am famous, he
recently remarked. but that Is Of no
avail o. nobody read me. My publish
es never sell more than 40 copies Of
my books" Impossible exclaimed
Dds interviewer They must cheat
YOU NO. ] have many publishers.
and they can't AN be- crooked. WHY,
W the British edition Of my memoirs
only two copies were actually sold
They haven't even issued the second
volume And ] don't ask them. ! am
TOO proud How could you have
made your reputation. If the sales OF
yours books ale so circumscribcd ~
] am sure ] don't know. But they
read your essays in magazines / have
.'ii1 % said that they pay you fabu-
nus prices when the twentieth cen
fury was about 60 be usherod in, "A
prosperous German newspaper wrote 10
lHc that they had planned to publish
iuI-pago review Of the nineteenth
century hy poet q philosopher. and
q scholar and that I was their man
because combined In my person the
qualities of ihc three. don't care To
Wit. for newspapers. II detracts from
Nl Vitality aud abstracts me from my
N''.'f.'" NNNN N" AiNf hlAAaAit ANfi
sl.0 am article occurs only once la 100
years. ami Z didn't expect to live
n"ug1 another century, / agreed 10
undertake the task FOR rcmuncra-
Non of 800 Crowns. They replied re-
h'elllng that they had written TO me.
ana mat in view Of my unreasonable
demands they would be compelled TO
'hIsl the service ~ less expensive
l,'' but surely American maya
@nes pay you Well2" They write 20
ne occasionally for contributions and
''N mo % name my own price ] don't
,a.' lo do that sort Of thing for less
u'ln ''0 crowns And they usually send
.I' ene-haIf of what / demand" THAT
a'u'oe' Incredible ~ am old The
I''lc ls used to my name. They want
N people Younger writer's And /
N'' hHme Them ! wonder IL Homer
'g Goethe would have observed with
.u.h colossal Indifference the rising ~
2, runs ON the literary horizon Aud
''' yellow press would have put
900 half-ply why" Brandcs
.,''' nn's. ana his eyes swept across
l immense row OF books. reaching
aI,' ono end OF the room 20 the other.
b.. 't books published in the Eng
t.o tnsuage earn for mo less than
q" por auuum"
i..W I..am Allen Whites "A Certain
Man has beoh leading the ust
o. ''.i sellers am over the country
.o "'lII naturally expect that this
f,r.... %. KANSAS would be popular
D, sNl't ihe whole west. but II has
rs., won success In the east as we'll
Nl week "a Certain Ricb Man, WAS
~, nook most In demand. both In Bos-
aIl Philadelphia. probably the
D ,'Nes ln the country the furthest
vtgo.el from the lie Of which Mr.
1a.9l can't think what have been
Dt lll. afternoon" said Mrs Kate
uII,' virgin 10 an interviewer who
.pe news M her forthcoming play
~. 'h M SunnybroOk Farm " ~
D.h Dn buying "a stage coach Tor
o. 'ntrance in the FIRST acti N
ayar.5 4.hl ntrst most beautiful 1l1
ssg.D .I Tho thoroughhrace Concord
N r.,. ''l .N.r was scent A neiehbo"
f17 t.. .M. Hargraves OF West nuV-
5aYr,,. .n nelping me 90 soour York
tg In We have been greatly aidod
rata NN fi1gc-drlver friend who ro
f,,lh'Lfl coach exhibited I'M the
nlfl.l I1lw N 20 wears ago. Afto-
Va.t in am ola barn near prout's
ls k,r-ll9. amor learning that II could
e. r.,i.nN tlmidlv approached KlaN
flssi ,Nser expecting courteous re-
m ~, used evvp argument porsiblo
fashio,. 'ler M request FOR an old
10 in...u stage coach OF this kind q
thon. i'nslfe tribe really expected
nr. "a answer. Dear Madam we
he a., .lm m vonr esteemed favor N
fhai ii. september and would saw
riaso 4, 'nlnA ihe distant rumble Of "a
IN posr M, NinFs viii a. very well
be-. '1n pe easily inflated ana ne
instn.,an enter the brick -honse ee.,
'''y ON her own feet JUDGE