Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-09-18
How Two Americans IN London
Made Kipling Victim of Joke
JANET
London Literary Letter

Lady de Battle Is also publishing
her first novel this autumn. II Is TO be
called. An az sea" and is described AS
IAN Unconditional tale about sport and
| the drama"
GRIM REAPER BUSY.
Death is stiH busy in the ranks OF
| English literary men. The last to go is
George ManVlle Fem who in his day
was undoubtedly the best known
writer OF books for boys in the Eng
lish language, He had retired from
authorship for many years. Few au-
thors have been more prolific than Mr.
Fem Tie IS responsible for more than
80 novels. a multitude of sketches. es-
says and critiques, and number Of
plays
At the beginning he had the usual
struggle for recognition and had Just
decided 90 give up the attempt 10 earn
his bread by writing when his first
success came. He determined before
admitting himself beaten 20 have one
more try and he sat down and wrote
"a note 10 Charles Dickens who was
then editor OF "All the Year Round"
asking him TO read the accompanying
manuscript His reply was an envelope
containing the printed proofs for cor
reCtion.
Afterwards Mr. Penn became editor
NA AHnf'AA = lNhA4aAllt a lNnA WHICH
he held for many years The later
years OF his life were spent at his
home az Syon Lodge, Isleworh near
London whore he INDUCED i'm his hobby
for gardening and book collecting He
left "a library OF about $4,000 volumes
and "a collection OF about 5000 plays.
HALL GAME ROASTED.
Clement X Shorter. one Of London's
/ Ia IHHs.ra q 8
doesn't like Han Caine. In a page Of
literary criticism and gossip which he
contributes to "a weekly paper he deals
with Heincmann's experiment of pub
fishing Gaines latest book. The White
Prophet" az the new price of 81. or
rather In two volumes az 60 cents each
and he expresses the hope that Heine-
mann viii not pin his judgment of tho
5O-cent price TO the result OF his expert
ment with The White Prophet"
~ do not attach any Importance 10
the fact that there have been number
Of severe reviews OF Mr. Gaines book. %
says Mr. shorter Writers of the
type OF MI Hail Caine-writcrs. that ~.
who provide popular fiction outside the
range OF anything that can be- called
htcrature-auo absolutely independent
Of rcviewers-thcir popularity is So
cured in quite other ways.
Although ! cannot read Ar Han
| Gaines books j am bon the forefront Of
his admirers. Ills clcyerucss. his gent
as for Advertisements far cXccls that Of
any other man in his own OF any other
line of business.
CAME As PRESS AGENT
Perennial paragraphs are vastly more
important than reviews and stil more
Ia lnurrnfoTar uuuu aufun HaUagf Df
your work MI Hall Calno not only
supplies tho public with what Il wants.
| the mclodramatic story written in "A
cheap. tawdry style but De is equal a.
| the other emergency. ON the very day
of the publication Of his book The
| White Prophet there appeared am arti-
cle hy Mr. calnc Boa the British Week
ly.' ono of the most powerful organs OF
political literary and religious opinion
of today
"Mr Calno incidentally deprecated
the attempts of Christian missionaries
to convert the Mah0medan. InYmen
Nho have met che Mahomodan and who
have mot the missionary ln the east
viii entirely agrer with Alr CaIuo But
se. the well calculated result. The
British Weekly publishes "a correspond
once from au quarters THO Church
Missionary society. The London Mission
arF society, aud amy number 1f power
ful organizations wall boz up boz arms Zoe
their dcienso
! Altogether IL win b. passing strange
be- an Hall Games books d0 NOT sell
upon this controversy. 10 bis books
were really as clever as MIS- advertising
methods oven / would continue tO read
them CHARLES oipENS.