Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
NOTES

William Dean Howells, In his new
volume of essays. called imaginary
Interviews" makes one "l me '''ih 'iIa
nrv interviwcrs compare the s"clii
scene described in Ralph Pulitzer
New York Society on Parade win
that OF 1863, rs satiriacd in "rhc poli-
phar Papers" OF George william Gurus
ION the contrary" says this interview
or in reply TO orc OF MI. Howells'5
genial queries, tho folly, the VANITY
the mcnnness, the hcartiessncss, ING
yulGarity, have only been condensed
and concentrated. II we are to DeiieNe
AIR. Pulitzer and l don't see why we
should doubt him. Did you say you
hadn't seen his very sharcly little
study? 1t takes, with all the unpitAinS
sincerity of Il Kodak. the likeness of our
hest society in its three most charac-
tcristc aspects: full face at dinner.
thrcc-ouartcrs face at the opera. and
profile at a ball. / should think 1t
would amusc Mr.. Pulitzer, initiating
nature from his actual observations
to find how essentially his study Is thc
same with that of Mr.. Curtis Initiating
nature 81 years ago"
There Is in the best of Poe's brief
tales a constructive skill, II command
of design, and n gift of derocatioh,
rare in any literature and almost un-
known in English, which is ever I'M
duly negligent of FORM And no one
need wonder that Poc's short stories
wandered swiftly out of our language
into French and Italian and Spanish,
into German and scandinavian anu
Bohemia, into strange tongues where
no other American author except Feni-
more Cooper had ever before penetrat-
cd. His weird psychologist studies have
influenced later writers as unlike as
Alaupa ssnnt and Richepn. FitZjames.
O'Bricn. Robert Louis stevens, ana
Rudyard Klpling. His tales of mys-
terry solved at last by observation ana
deduction have been inflated by Du-
mas and Sardou, by Gnborlnu and Eols-
eobey, by Willlie Collins and Conan
DOYLE. Anr Sherlock Holmes, the only
fictitious character to win international
recognition in the final years of the
nineteenth century, is the rcncarnat'on
Of figure first projected by zoe.
Father Robert Hugh Benson, besides
writing one or two works on the theo-
logical subjects, this autumn. has In
the press Il new novel, TO Whlch nc
gives the title None Other Gods" The
scene is Yorkshire. and 1t deals with
The fortunes of Il Cambridge graduate
who leaves the university to plunge
into the sums of London
Though Mr.. vcdder in his The Dis
gressions o: W. has not emphasized his
wide acquaintance with famous people
in all walks of life, one cannot read his
book without IL clearer and more IA
miliar view of Walt Whitman, Char
0tte Cushman, Ole Bull Artemus
Ward, Bayard TAYLOR, w, II. Rinchart
John La Fargo, Walter Savage Lander
ana many others.
He describes rs follows an intcrvicT
which he and William lllnt-thc well
known artist-hud with Ralph waldo
Emerson at Concord:
circumstances conCurrns. Hunt and
made n pilgrimage To Concord. lie
had heard previously of Il remark of
Emerson to the cflec: that Mature be-
ing the same on the bhuHs or the Ken
nchec as on tho banks Of the Tiber--
why so to Europe We, having been
to Europe. could not reconcile ourselves
TO this dictum-in fact were quite rlIcd
about il, and determined that II either
Of us had the opportunity he should
have it out with Emerson.
Now, when you saw Emerson You
saw Alcott; but when you saw .\llcott,
you did not necessarily see Emerson.
BE that as 1t may Emerson fell to my
lot. ! will not describe him-ho was
all that was most sweet and GracouS
50 was |.
81 said; Mr.. Emerson. ! think there
Is Il great difference between the liter
AIRY man and the artist in regard to
Europe. Nature is the same every
where. but literature and art are ma
ture seen through other eyes. and Il
literary man in Patagonia without
books to consult would be at great
disadvantage. Here he has all that Is
essential in the way of books; but to
the artist, whose books arc pictures,
this land is Patagonia <And so it was
ut that timc0 | continued: Take from
Your shelves your Bible, Plato Shake
spcarc Dante, Bacon, Montaigne, etc,
ana make it 80 that you could not con-
suit them without going To Europe, and
! think It would soon bc--Ho. for
EUROPE Could mpudcncc so further
was very young.
Yes, yes, said he, that Is certainly
an aspect of the question which should
be taken into consideration.
Mark Twain was once publisher.
and the sum he paid In royalties on Il
single book was Il record IN It's day
William Dean Howclls tells something
VI wv iIltlltl III MS ittNhA'N paS'i'''N'
book of "reminiscences called. MY Mark
Twain" Tho book was Gen, Grants
Memoirs" Mr.. Howcls writes: IT
was his proud joy to tell how he found
Grant about to sign u contract for his
book on certainly very good terms, ana
said to him that lie would himself pub
lish the book and give him percent.
age three times rs large. He said
Grant seemed to doubt whether he
could honorably Withdraw from the
negotiation ut that point, but Clemens
overborc his scruples, and 1t was his
unparalleled privilege, his prmcely
pleasure, to pay the author far larger
check for his work than had ever been
paid to an author before
Frederic s. Ishnm, author OF The So
cial Rucaneer. was as IS generally
known, once n newspaper man, One OF
the novelist's early exploits Is yet re-
mcmhered by some of the press IRA
ternity of Michigan. The OCCASION was
the big Saginaw fire, when over nan
the city went up in smoke. THROUGH
managerial remissness Mr. lshnm was
sent to write up tho affair after MS
rcportorial competitions had been on
the ground all dny. lsham reached