Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-09-24

worn out In a wrestle with the noun
tains. / simply felt that IL could not
be done, Tho very thought Of q haunt
ed ana terrified me. Deliberately, i'm
agination turned to softer and easier
things, and though ! confess now that
Delafeld's Interpolation on the Jars
| journey, and all the later scenes Of the
| book, involve, IN truth forcing OF the
subject, certain treachery to the ar.
tistic conscience. yet the relief and
| pleasure they gave me at the moment
are not 10 be described
When a woman takes masculine
name 10 put on the cover Of her first
novel. as I'm the case OF Georg Schock
| and the recently published Hearts
| COntendinF." there is always curiosity
as to what she looks Ike why this
| should be so, Is hard 20 tell unless the
| historic examples Of George sand and
| George Eliot suggest unusual appear
| ance. But the author OF Hearts con-
| tending" II not "a freak. She ls tan
perhaps a little above medium height
has n well rounded figure and As rather
dignined Her hair II chestnut brown,
nearly auburn, and Is worn parted and
drawn back from her face. entirely
guiltless Of puffs She has brown eyes
and her voice is low ana even, with
ring Of frmness In fact her person
ality suggests the character Of her
novel for Hearts Contendlng" Is set in
81 GeHuaglNHnlA NAIeNt ana inc people
are Pennsylvania Germans, the stock
from which Georg Schock has come.
Her name IN everyday life ia Rather
Inc Riegel Loose
Theodore Watts-Dunton has identl-
fed the valuable Swinburne manu-
scripts which recently appeared In Bos-
ton, and as he was the poets literary
executor he may be supposed to know.
These manuscripts ] sold to Il we'll
known London bookseller II WIS not I
who named my modest collection Of
Swlnburnes manuscripts the Watts
Dunton Collection I never did pos
sess tho manuscript Of any Of the most
famous OF Swiuburne's poems. such as
Dolores 'Anactoria. etc, nor the
manuscript ~ 'Atalant1' These he
gave to other and earlier friends They
were giftsd uring his lifetime. like the
gifts 10 others. These ran over many
years II the prices now put upon the
manuscripts by the Chicago owner are
in excess OF the prices ri which ] SOLD
them IN London land they certainly
are), I do not In tho least regret that /
had the worst Of the bargain II shows
that Swinburne has In America great
er attraction for the public than | had
dared 10 hope"
- Successful Wife tho novel by !
a hitherto unheerd-of authol. q Dor |
reads like narrative OF real eNperi- |
ence. and there Is some reason TO be |
lieye II is, at least IN part. 4 remark |
OF the heroine and supposed narrator |
about the books purpose has ring OF |
sincerity which ls borne out by the |
evident Intention throughout the story |
10 stick close 70 the facts 81 life. Il /
don't think there Is creature living |
who would not love 10 be successful /
and who isn't ready 10 spend 25 cents
or even S25 on a book which would tell
them how 70 succeed I don't pre-
tend 10 write such book But looking
AT the opening 81 my life I'm the small '
BlackettsVine house. with only me TO
support the family. | suppose that
people would say I have made quo
cess In this case, II what have to tell
can give any woman, or any wife. cour-
ase-why then the pages are worth
while"
we may indeed speak Of Rostand's I
Chandelier as "the play of the cen
fury" We cannot foretel1 what the
future viii bring us. but the first decade /
~ the twentieth century has seen nc |