Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-02
Should the Character"
Horsewhip the Author?

! ready rcnched "a big circulation Il
was founded By Mary r. Macarthur.
who has the reputation of having set
tied more womcns strikes than any
other leader Of women. She d. prcs-
ident NJ a large trades council of wo-
men, and. though quite young. is booked
up 10 By most OF the women workers in
England. She has been called before
many government commissions ape
pointed 10 investigate sweating. child
labor and womcn's employment
when she first started the Women
Woilscrs' she had some difficulty ln
keeping the paper going but timely as
sietunce from Robert Blatchford. Of
1.-THE clarion" to the extent OF some
500 n week brought the Woman
Worker around the corner. and now lt
~ a going concern" and paying hand
somoiy
Israel zangwill IL receiving great
send on" On Germany just now.
Everywhere his books are being read
Wells and Doyle are about the only
other living English noyciists who have
achieved q German vogue in recent
years. Nearly everyone OF Iangwilrs
books has now been done into Ger
man." and the Germans are asking for
more. He has recently been engaged in
books and plays especially FOR Ger
many. Zangwills output OF books has
been limited recently by his interest In
social afairs-not dining and winning.
but studies In political economy. He
belongs to all sorts OF advance"
thought associations. and as everyone
knows, Is staunch women's Fighter
IN addition TO his work In these dircc-
tons. he is actively engaged in tho
la
some exhaustive studies Ia the ques-
ton Of Jewish emigration recently and
hopes soon to bring out a book on this
subject He has already written a
play dealing with II.
A novelist OF remarkable productive
powers is Nat Gould. whose sport
ing books have made his name world
famous. Gould has upwards OF 20 full
nedged novels TO his credit, and
though most of them might not appeal
to readers who do not care for "man-
ly arts' of various kinds, still, they
have wide circulations.
Gould's literary career has been a
fascinating one, He left England ia
1854, and drilled as he says TO New
South Wales 81 first tried my hand az
the tea trade" he said. in a recent in
terview, but it was a CHASTITY failure
! then went in for farming, but did not
make a success Of that. / then got
Job on an Australian paper, Where
STAYED for six months"
After knocking about In general
newspaper work IN various parts of
Australia. Nat Gould decided TO try his
hand az fiction. He had been asked
TO write a serial for an Australian pa
per, and he plunged into tho work
without any definite idea OF what his
story was TO be like. The paper began
publishing the story before he had
made up his mind what TO do with IT,
Il remember" he says, describing the
fix In which he found himself when
/ came 10 the NTH chapter. / was rath-
err puzzled as TO how I was going to
make out However, I managed 10
worry through. This novel work had
TO be done after hours when I had
already written from Ave 90 six COLI
umna n day OF newspaper stun for a
paper called the Bathurst Times.
When the serial had been running
for thirty or forty chapters. one day
the editor catuc 10 me and asked: How
long is that story Of ynurs going TO
nn| I replied. Oh. about 30 more in
stallments. No IL isn't he said. de-
it's going 10 run two more
chapters. You have 10 wind II up in
that length And / did.
las the story came out week by
week and when ! had it complete /
showed II 10 some friends. They
brought the clippings before the man
ager of Routledge's, and, 10 my sur
prise, after he had read Il. his finn
made me a good offer. Routledge ca
bled asking me 10 do some more work
for them and IN the course OF time /
wrote % novels for that firm alone.
The book WAS first called With tho
Tide, and then In the Swim, but as
Il was found that both these titles had
been used, it was finally changed "A
third time TO THE Double Event. 1t
has sold well, ana proved the biggest Of
All my successes. The book was writ
ten Ia great haste, and under peculiar
Of worry and Interrupt
ton. aud despite its abrupt ending, it
proved "A success. II was dramatized |
In Australia. ] might say that 1t was
The Double Event which led to my |
success In book writing"
Nat Gould Is stu a vigorous novel |
writer. He rs now in his 5lst year, and /
enjoys remarkable health. He Is in |
.ensely interested Ia racing, driving, |
and an sports. and, at the same time. /
,ue OF his favorite hobbies is garden I
ing. lie lives most OF the time IN Eng /
and. CHARLES OGDENS.