Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-08-13

and furious writing Of copy" some
idea for a bit of fiction would strike
him. lie would make a note Of II and
stick IL I'm his desk drawer The drawer
was always chock- OF such memor-
andums. Saturday night. when the
weeks work was over. Chester would
pull out one OF the scraps Of paper at
random, write his story, mail II 20 a
magazine that very night, and go home
to sleep the sleep OF the just.
Mr. Chester lives now I'm one OF the
suburbs of Cincinnati. and devotes
himself exclusively TO literary work a
new book from his pen, piquently en-
titled The Early Bird has just been
published.
Since the publication Of owen John
sons stories of schoolbov life at
Lawrencevlle, the proprietor Of the
bigger shop has leaped into popu-
larity The school Is on the highway
between Trenton and Princeton and
scores Of automobiles stop for Tiger
and a chat with Al The Watchdog
OF the tigger,' with keen eye for
business has not only brought out a
respondent gilt sign but for fear Of
imitators has gone so far as to copy
right it as a trademark.
Don G. Seitz, whose Discoveries in
Every day Europe" was recently pub
lished. has followed this book of quiz
zical humor by a service Of serious
value TO the reading public--the pre-
paration OF a Whistler photography
titles. Mr.. Seitz has completed also a
second book Of European travel which
the Harpers are to bring out.
In process Of deliverance from the
primal swamp In little park on a
peninsula watered by the Bronx and
East rivers. in the borough Of New
York city that takes It's name from
the former stream. II Is destined to
become a point of interest to every
student OF American letters and every
lover OF poetry, for here Is erected
the marble shaft over the grave Of
Joseph Rodman Drake on which are
inscribed the last two lines Of one OF
the most exquisite odes in the lam
guAge: that ending:
Green be the turf above thee
Friend Of my better days!
None knew him but TO love him,
Nor named him but to praise"
This shaft commentaries the liter
AIRY partnership and romantic friend
ship existing between the poet whose
remains are Inferred beneath it and
Fitz-Greene Halleck. who wrote the
epitaph upon the day the other died.
For the greater part OF the 90 years
during which the dust of the author
Of the American Flag and the Culprit
Fay has lain in the little graveyard on
Hunts Point the plot has been ne
elected, and II was only last Memorial
day that It's rehabilitation. due--under
the agis OF the American Scenic and
Historical Preservation society--to the
President and the park commissioner
OF the Borough OF the Bronx, was cele-
brated by literary men and women
public officials. and children OF the
schools.
Rodman Drake Park seems rather an
awkward name, the more particularly
as the poet f. inscribed on the tomb
simply as Joseph II Drake. while TO
his friends when he was alive he was
plan "Joc." However. IN the gra ndeur
OF youth he sometimes signed himself
y Rodmau Drake" which affords an
ecuse FOR the present nomenclature
and while Joseph Rodman Drake
Park" would he rather long. Drake
Park" might convey a wrong impress
sion 10 the unlettered Frank Mar
shall White in Harper's Weekly.
Fiction IS. In our time. especially
significant because II is becoming more
and more the very organ OF creative
Interpretation and realization OF hu-
man life. IL IL true that nine-tenths OF
our novels, as like proportion Of our
plays, are fashioned merely for enter
81 these. IL must be
allowed. FOR intellectual entertainment.
and most OF them. following an old
fashion as old as fiction itself. at
tempting something more by way OF
easy mOralities. didaCtiCally or muck
rakingly our diversions are lcgitl-
mate. but thCy are for the most part