Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29
NOTES

Katherine Cecil Thurston, author of
the memorable The Masquerader,"
has completed a new novel called
Max" Max" is running, as 4 h
Masqueraderr ran. a serial in Harp
ers Bazar, and the authors devoteeS
are thereforeffre to learn whether tho
new story will offer them anything Of
the thrill of that other about a nan
who looked so like another man that
he was able to play husband TO the
others wife without her knowing it
Certainly the situation in Max" with
out In the least suggesting The Mas
querader" suggests a masquerade
Only this time the masquerading one
is not q man.
"Tower of Ivory" the title of Mrs.
Atherton's Forthcoming novel, Is
phrase that goes far back Into the past
OF literature. 1t goes so far back into
the past of literature that its origin Is
unknown. 1t is quite true that Solo
mon used it In his songs. but there
Il had no relation to the meaning that
II has since acquired-the inner temple
Of man, the soul In which he dwells
alone In this sense il Is said tina.
Plato used 1t. and In modern literature
the phrase has been In continual use
among the poets and more poetical Of
be, it is a very different kind OF title
than the ones which Mrs. Atherton
has chosen for her other works.
os
Mr. James OD. Bennett writes at
length in the Chicago Record-Herald
of the reception accorded by the audi
ence OF a low-priced theater In Chicago
10 william Vaughan Moody's The
Great Divide" Quite recently this play
was published In book form, meeting
with the serious attention which Is
naturally given to what Is recognized
as a real addition to literature, i'he
popular reception of the play. there
fore, when performed in theater
usually devoted to melodrama ana
farce Is naturally matter OF interest
Mr.. Bennett was surprised with tne
real appreciation that the audience
gave Voluntarily. Externally, 1t did
not seem q cultivated OF intellectual
gathering: yet both the silence and ap-
nlause showed how keenly alive II was
the Significance Of Mr. Moodys
work. 1t Is indeed significant that this
ilay so strong in its situations ana
iheme and 50 poetic In Its treatment,
should appeal to all classes OF theater-
goers AS book in an age when plays
In book form are none too popular.
It's success Is equally remarkable
Ono of the many ways In wnlcn eDc
growth OF tho suffrage movement IN
this country as we'll as in England can
be measured Is by the Increased de-
mand for fiction on the subject. as well
as for serious work. Thus The Con-
vert" which Elizabeth Robins pub
lished some two years ago. is now Sell
ing as though II was just from the
press. 1t is a novel of English HE.
when suffragctte violence was JUST pc
1,n QN
world and had not yet become some
hing OF an old story.
After publishing almost 100 books IN
the past year A. G. McClurg a. Co..
enter 1910 with strong spring list OF
% titles including half dozen novels
Four OF the stories deal with western
themes. and a novel of American po-
liticai life is also promised. TWO OF
the earliest spring novels will be Hop
long Cassidy" a story of the pralrics
~ Clarence E Milford. author OF
Bar 10" and Dan Merrithew. "a sea
ale by Lawrence Perry. The Car,
novel by a now writer, X l.. Montgom-
cry. will be published in the arm
new series of rs cents cloth books, the
first of which, 1.-The Woman ana ene
Sword" was issued with gratifying
success last summer. Among notaoi
ooks other than hction VIII oe Dy
one Days in Chicago" series OF OF
collections of the Garden city IN
,he SOS by Frederick F. Cook. and I'm
closed Territory by Edgar Beecher
Bronson. a narrative OF hunting IN the
closed lands OF British East Africa.
snuth and west of Nairobi. the Same
territory over which Col Roosevelt Is
now hunting.
Gertrude Athcrton, the novelist. pu-
thor of THE Conqueror. Rulers OF
Kings" etc, has been wr1tinS ior