The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-07-16
OVERSEE WRITERS
CAPTURE ENGLAND
Canadian Novelists Gain Upper
Hand in the Race for Pop
ular Favor.
YANKEE PRODUCT LIKED
All the Colonies Are Producing
Vibrant Literature for Enter
tainment of John Bull.
YANKEE PRODUCT LIKED
Special Cable 10 The Tribune

Special Cable to The Tribune
LONDON. July 15.-Overseas Anglo
Saxondom' is coming to mean more to the
general public Than the considerations of
any reciprocity treaty or emigration ad-
vantages. Many day lately people on
the Strand sidewalk have made way for
the stately figure of Sir Wilfrid Laurer,
and turned TO watch the great statesman
going his imperturbable way In the di-
rection of ST Paus.
To at least one onlooker Sir Wilfrid
Laurier's progress was an illustration OF
the way Canadian fiction is capturing
the home markets. Sir Gilbert Parker
Pierre and His People" and the poems
Of Bliss Carmen found an early response
among poetry lovers In this tight little
island, Then Ralph Connor took the
whole fending world by storm 9th "The
Sky Pilot" and there has been huge
and increasing demand for his succeed
Ing stories, which are now TO be seen
everywhere In their cheap editions. The
secret Of the clever blend Of sentiment.
StalWart piety and adventure is his own.
but the literary mixture vastly pleases
English readers.
Like American Product
ton on this side has gone hand In hand
with the steadily increasing liking for
the American product Each variety
more or less threatens the London made
article, Tor the fiction market has It's
limits and the stories with the strangcst
settings stand a better chance of success
than the books set in well-known and
humdrum surroundings.
Mrs. Elinor Glyn too. is a Canadian
by birth. She Is. however, married TO
an Essex landowner, and moving as she
spiration elsewhere than In the land OF
the maple leaf. Her sister Is Lady Duff
Gordon. the Lucille of the fashionable
world OF dress.
Australia. has found II more difficult to
place her literary wares on the home
market The story is one of hope de-
ferred. OF fiction writer's in Melbourne.
sydney and elsewhere sending their
manuscripts 10 London, and being told
that tales Of the bush were not attrac-
tive goods.
Mrs. Campbell Praed. OF Queensland
origin, was one OF the first to break
down London prejudice with novel en-
Iine ti,ied ,,sn An Australian Heroine, though
cult themes OF somewhat cosmopolitan
flavor. Rolf Boldrewood. although not an
Australian by birth, nevertheless made
readers es,isn tr really eager With pure. Aus.
and his work is still "A good advertise
ment for the country. Other Australian
writer's whose books have made inroads
ON the home market are Marcus Clarke.
Ada Cambridge and Ethel Turner.
Australian Verse Lauded.
=, Australian verse is now entering into
It's own, too, Recently there was a re-
cital of bush ballads and stories by Miss
Carrie Haase, when her beautiful elocu-
tion did fun justice to ''The Sick Stock
Rider the most characteristic thing ever
written by the late Adam Lindsay
Gordon
Naturally. every part OF Britain's CO.
!onial possessions contributes to the many
hued colors OF that vast web OF romance
being woven by British novelists and
the cape as her own with THE Story Of
an African Farm" and more recently
remarkable South African novel "The
Dop Doctor" by Richard Dehan. a wom
possibilities of that country.
Cultured natives are not entirely alb
sent from the list OF eminent literary
prospectors OF India, an inexhausllble
knows the inimtablc themes Rudyard
Hplng found there, and thanks to his
pictures, the general client OF a London
Library knows more of life ''in the hills''
than HE In the average Irish village.
Flora Annie Steel has been another popu-
lar exponent OF Indian ltfe, though re-
Gently she has been dealing with ma
.erlal more or less TO hand around her
Welsh home. Maud Diver is also winning
reputation as writer of Indian stories,
OF the natives Sumar Ghosh the author
Of "A Prince OF Destiny" is the most
notable.
=, Free trade in books. when helped by
the push Of talent. has enabled all these
Writer'S TO get a good and constant hear
ing In the old country. Their work In
general spreads just that kind OF social
knowledge which a distinguished novelist
says 1t Is the function Of the novelist To