Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-30
NOTES

one of the drawbacks To- tine enjoy
ment of some Of the American nctior
that is placed before English readers
is eNemplhd 10y Mary Roberts Rine-
hart's clever detective story, The Man
ln Lower Ten. lu the first place,
most BrItshers have understood tine
title Deaders in England instantly
connect the name of the book with a
current English phrlsc-"tn upper
teu' They Imagine that the title cam
notes its social antithesis-thc lower
strata Of soCiety-Whereds 10 is Of
course, merely the number of "a man b
berth on sleeping ear Various
IvchnlCalltics. strange tu lnsular ptU-
Ile, are also introduced into the
story which. altogether, is too local
l American for popular English
taste Even. AN Englisnman, however
ought to have no difficulty boo under
standing the title of Mrs. RIneharts
latest story when Man Marrics
W PETIT Ridge, who won his public
boo this country several years ago
when the Harpers published his novel
uf young London girl of tho slums
entitled, by order ot the Magistrate
I5 counted iu London, where mis- pub
Tic d. very wide. % most excellent rae
contour. one of his stories is of AN iu-
iurIutcd musician who rushed mp To-
@ policeman and demanded vengeance
on small urchin who, ne protested,
had insulted him:
81 was coming along the road i'm
hurry just now hc explained, WRATH
fully. "Whou the young scouudrod
topped me and asked me the time.
j said, 10 o. ten to three and he
said. Al three O'Clock get your hair
cut"
The policeman glanced slowly at "a
UeighburinE clock.
We'll" he replied, stolidly. you're
% right, sir--you have still got a good
eight minutes
William Vaughn Mooiy's play The
Faith Healer published this spring
i drama which lends itself
readily to book form. It's fine
literary and poetic qualities. the sim-
IhciN OF It's handling, and lis adj
nirahly drawn characters are as clear
On the library as ON the stage.
lH am exhaustive review OF the play
in the san Francisco Argonaut. Miss
Jeanette l.. Glider speaks of 10 as "a
drama ~ "rare merit and OF uuu-
ual Distinction work OF a poct
and thinker" She further remarks
nat there is not one superHuous word
lL 10. 10 is as conCis as story by
hlpling or play by lbsn 1t is a
play Co Dee taken seriously and TO be
Eratotul tor In regard to the (
original from whom AIR Moody drew |
DTS hero, Miss Glider has several I'M !
i.resting suggestions. "Ho ls undoubt- |
t'l} drawn from lite' she writes "for /
~ YOU remember. there was "a Divine /
I'eal'r whose powers To heal by tho I
.IFing ON of hands was implicitly be- ,
.'Fed in by large section Of the I
west and then there was John the /
lptst ON whom the character OF the I
I'lh healer may wei have been
founded"
II ls not often that ana author rec
Gives such a tribute as the following;
meron Hought Author;
Good Friend have read some OF
our talk, and ] ann very pleased, as
pre- many tribes. because you try and
I'D clip us 10 be better understood bv our
81 bite brothers
We want 20 read an your talk. and
sk YOU to send ms "a paper with an
1e names Of your talks and how wo
1n get them
Goodcheeri
oGHEMA NIAGARA.
Chief Thunderwator, President
''unoil OF tho Tribes
Some months ago Miss Sara Dean.
whose novel, Disciple of Chance is
net published by stokes, discovered
tier crossing the Grecian bordur and
rrived AT her hotel IN Athens. that
The last ten chapters Of the novel had
cen removed from her trunk Inquiry
nd protestation were vain-nObody
ld seen them. nobody had the sllgh-
% knowledge Of them. The pub
shers were hcseechlng her for tho |
Manuscript and there was no time TO