Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-05
NOTES

.Thc Missioner" oppenheim's lat
est novel, was the leader on Little
brown. &. Company's early 1909 list
Il ,yith an extended stay among the
1 "sly best, or their other fiction the
fcllowinr titles demanded several edi-
y tons. Miss Rays "The Bridge Build.
ers,'' Miss Knapp's But Still man;
y and Rowland Thomas Ihe lLtLs
81 Gods" have just gone into the thlru
b edition. ..1n q Mysterious Way" by
II Anne Warner, and "A Royal Ward,
Il hy Percy Brebner. out May lst, are
Il already in the second edition. while
sidney McCalI's new story 'Red
q Horse Ill.," published May end re-
ouired two editions to fill advance
orders before publication.
4 Rex Beach, no longer TO be described
4 M a rising youth author, but as one
already risen, grows more and more
dramatic. Going Some the francica!
comedy he wrote in collaboration
with Paul Armstrong. has settled IN
New York, and its career IS salu "
he doing perfect Justice to IT'S name.
New The Barrier when mas TO- TO-
ceased to be q best seller since inc
Harpers published it last fall. Is 70 be
staged under the direction of klaW
&. Erlanger. The playwright who VII
dramatjze it. Eugene Presbrey, IS me
same who dramatized Sir Gilpert
Parker's 'The Right of Way, ana
the actors who will take the ieadlhs
parts, Guy Standing and IN eoa COG. ts
Roberts, played the principal ioies - -
that production.
On an autograph copy Of "The
Barrier" which Rex Beach very
cheerfully sent out West 70 help pY4
its sale a hospital fund, the author
wrote a hearty, impromptu sort or
paragraph that is sure 70 del'she
some lucky possessor. 1t leads:
"a sentiment by the author that the
characters in this book had prototypes
in real life who walked the real streets
of real Flambeau may interest the
reader although it will scarcely sldd
to any pleasure he may be patleht
enought to elicit from its pages. me
fear, however, that the book may
come to the notice Of one--or more
of the originals has long haunted the
writer, aud he therefore takes this
means of hastily and publicly aSerr-=
ing that the virtues and villanies ne
has attributed to the characters were
evolved utterly and wholly from MS
own fancy and that the real people
from who he drew the pictures are
neither quite so bad nor half SO good
AS depicted herein. Signed, Rex
Beach,
Now that the ruler OF Turkey is being
generally named in conversation. a gen
lieman from Indiana. recalls of Low
Wallace. author Of 'Ben- Hur," thut
while the general was ambassador 10
turkey he became q favorite of the
lately deposed sultan. While talking.
With General Wallace. the friend OBJ
served the latter's strict pronunciation
OF the word sultan, which. while in use
ny cultivated speakers of English, is
not generally used by the mass of the
peoplc. This pronunciation is '.soo-.
tan. with an almost even emphasis OF
sFIan!es, or perhaps a slight accent
on the last Another word of which
me general observed the oriental sound
m pronunciation was harem. which he
always called "hareenl," accented on
The reem.
When she was a youngstcr Mary Rob
sls hlnehart spent her summers on a
arm, There was an old wooden settle
" me Kitchen: the seat was hinged,
a.Ni one day underneath 1t she struck
,,edsore hove. Under Fox's Book of
l cl We're about 95 of the Nick
0srter nickel novels dripping with
ptt,etures, too. They belonged to the
a..ea man, a pale-eyed, pale-haired
l., sure, ineekneEs itself who reveled
~ frin1e on the sty and dreamed of
making redskins tremble at the mera
mention OF his na1ae.
SOM, lone go to 1.-The Had for their in
p mhfstion: some to Shakespeare or the
sta pe The author of The Circular
1 Tsai and THE Man in Lower
t IN ehesrruliy confesses that she got
s nsss from Nick Carter at the age Of
.a.I Herman Whitaker, whose latest novel.
~ ne e. Planter, recently published by
MIA fiafpers, seems to have created d
Ill sen saton With It's verified tale of
Nfpng-doing in the Mexico rubber
t 80 Travelled all through the coup-
r.;., ne writes about, and came back
Az .sH a collection Of experiences that
M, suitleiently startling. Once in a.
q ,' ~. funny story Turns up as a relief
sts Tragic. OF railway camp where