Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-01-09

are becoming quite popular in
l. England, and several English
publishers are beginning 20 tato
a lively interest In them This Is quito
"a revolution from tho state or things
which prevailed a fow years back. In
those days ~ you asked for an Amcrl-
can book-cven BY "a prominent author
you wero looked at in O. patroniaing
way which implied that you must Boo
more or less AFFLICTED" To-day hove
over II bookseller has not tho work
of w. Dean Howell Jnmcs Lame Allan,
! 0r other shining American literary
lights, ho offers 90 get 10 Tor you at
once" SO much Roadway have Amor-
can books mado in England the fact
that one or two United statcs consuls
have even taken upon themselves To-
advise tho American government that
certain books should DO introduced iu-
20 particularly books OF ref
orenco. which, the consular reports
state are frequently onquircd artor"
A LONG FELT WANT.
AZ matter OF fact. much interest
is taken In everything American just
now and one OF tho consuls even goes
80 far as 10 suggest that IL an agency
were started which undertook 10 give
the fullest information concerning
everything American rather amhi-
tous project, perhaps-it would an a
long-felt want. In recent years. "a
number OF American publishers have
opened London branches. and most of
these are doing well. IL is not unusual
20 see works brought out with the im-
print OF an English publisher bearing
the words. printed Ia America" Some
OF the very largest English firms are
thus saving themselves the cost of
typesetting, which naturally gives that
much more business 90 Uncle sam.
The principal reason FOR this arrange
ment SIS. OF course. the requirements
of American copyright law-always
mysterious affair, anyway
DRESS SUIT PROBLEM.
Several clubs which pretend Co more
or less literary flavor notably the
Emerson-have been debating the
question whether or not authors should
he required Co wear dress suits. 10
may be recalled that Edward Fitzgor-
ald-translator OF Omar Khayyam-de-
nounccd the dress suit as am "abomina-
htFliH wv Il All''lNfT0H Allf Anl llIfNA sun
exercises its tyranny on most of the
authors who have arrived" Singular |
ly enough IL is only In the early stages |
Of their career that authors raise any
objection 10 wearing the wedding gar /
ment" as IL were. As they get ON In /
life, and as their books become bottor /
known, they gradually haul down the |
flag Of defiance and step upon the |
deck Of the prim yacht Society. fully |
prepared 20 conform 10 all the regula- /
tons Of conventionality II was oven /
SO with the great ana only Bernard /
Shaw. When DE first went out" Do /
refused 70 wear anything FOR am upper I
garment but a dinner jacket. which |
he further adorned by a narng red I
tie-which meant Socialism How /
ever. as &c B. s. won fame and /
shekels. ho shed HIS early views. along |
with his red tie and jacket, and you |
may now see him dressed quite n /
the style, and even "a little proud of /
having a dress suit whose dt an \
proaches perfection. Thus does tho /
whirling OF time bring along It's con-
ventions as well as ITS reyenges.
EGOTIsTICAL c.. B, SHAW.
Someone who was intimate enough |
70 remind Shaw OF his lapse from early |
Independence was told that only fools 4
tried 10 strike an oddly IA dress. 4
whereas persons or brains-he might.
perhaps. have meant &c b s." him
self-only differed from others IN their
intellectual capacity The dress suit
IN England is certainly Second nature"
10 most people who move in the circle
which has been described as THE i'm
tellectually elite" Many theater man
ayers even require that the occupants
Of stall seats shall wear dress suits |
and many london theaters gO so FAR !
as 10 print across the tickets the sig
n,hcant words: Dress suit must be
worn"
When the New Vagabonds' club" was
formed a few years ago-this club. as
the name implies being for literary
unconventionals--it was at first decided
that dress suits should be tabooed At
the last dinner given by the club, how
ever. no one came without the intordict-
ed garment which again proves the
power Of society" even over "Naga-
bonds'-and literary ones at that
FIRST LOVES OF AUTHORS.
IN these days OF delvings and pry-
iugs into the inmost secrets Of author
ship. curious facts are constantly COM
Ing 10 Hight concerning great names I'm I
literature. An interesting series OF |
have been made recently |
about authors FIRST loves" Walter
scott, IL seems, never married Tho WOMB ]
an or his choice. Lady scott" says |
lne % his recent biographrrs. could |
never be a companion 20 him." and he
goes on 20 explain that. though Scott
married a Miss Carpenter. DE was
actually dead IN love" with William
ma Stuart whom DE met in "a very
'omantio way. Tho story would Zoe old.
We're u not for the fact that
owe is never ancient Scott met his
Nilliamina outside tho door OF
'hurch. Ii was raining Scott had an
Umbrella; Williamina none. Out of this 4
simple situation grew the
uling passion Of scotts life. He pro-
losed 10 tho adored one, but her father
uned him down, owing 10 his rather q
lnpromising prospects," Scott never Z
.u,te recovered from the blow on the
ay OF hts final rejection De erode q
rom the young lady's house. eating his q
Wn heart. and avoiding the paths of
men, Williamlna married another. q
hough she, too, had confessed her ne =
action for scott ln after years when "
colt got into debt Wilamua's
husband came 20 his rescue Scott n