The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-14

plush seats on the Big Four or b. and
o. There doesn Z seem to be any rea-
SON in the book for their being
here.
"Wen, this fellow chases the royal
chairwarmer homo, as | said, and finds
out who she is He meets her on the
corso or the strasse one evening and
gives us ten pages OF conversation
She reminds him of the difference IN
their stations, and that gives him a
chance to ring in three solid pages
about America 5 uncrowned sovereigns.
ii you d take his remarks and set 'em
TO music. they ID sound exactly like
one of George Cohan S songs.
'tWell, you know how it runs on, If
you we read any of 'em-be slaps the
kings Swiss body guards around like
everything whenever they get in his
way. He's q great fencer, too. Now,
I've known of some Chicago men who
We're pretty notorious fences, but l
never heard of any fencers from there
He stands on the first landing of the
royal staircase in Castle Schutzentes-
tenstein with n cleaning rapier in his
hand. and makes n Baltimore broil of
six platoons of traitors who come to
massacre the said king. And then he
has to fight duels with couple OF chan
cellors. and foil a plot by four Austrian
gasoline station.
But the great scene is when his
rival for the princess 3 hand, Count
Feodor, attacks him between the port
cullis and the ruined chapel. armed with
mitrailleuse, n yataghan, and couple
of Siberian bloodhounds. This scene is
what runs the best-seller into the goth
edition before the publisher has had
time to draw check for the advance
royalties.
f'The American hero shucks his coat
and throws it over the heads of the
bloodhounds, gives the mitrailleuse a
slap with his mitt, says Iahl to the
yataghan and lands in Kid Mccoy g
best style on the counts left eye OF
course, we have a neat little prize fight
right then and there. The count-in
order to make the go possibie--seems TO
be an expert at the art of self f-dcfense,
himself; and here we have the Corbett-
Sullivan fight done over into literature.
princess doing John Cecil Clay cover
under the linden trees on the Gorgon-
zola Walk. That winds up the love-
story plenty good enough. But l no
tice that the book lodges the final is
sue, Even best-seller has sense enough
to shy at either leaving Chicago
grain broker on the throne Of Lobster
potsdam or bringing over real princess
TO eat fish and potato salad in an ltal-
Ian chalet on Michigan avenue. What
do you think about emf"
EWhy.' said i, 81 hardly know,
John. There's saying: Love levels
all ranks, you know. -
''Yes,' said Pescud, "but these kind
Of love stories are rank-on the level, l
know something about literature, even
if I am in plate.glass. These kind of
books are wrong, and yet I never 60
into a train but what they pile 'em up
on me. No good can come out of an
international clinch between the old
world aristocracy and one Of us fresh
Americans, When people in real life
marry. they generally hunt up some
body in their own station. A fellow
the same high school and belonged to
the same singing society that he did.
When young millionaires fall in love,
they always select the chorus girl that
likes the same kind of sauce on the lob
ster that he does. Washington newspa-
per correspondents always marry widow
ladies' ten years older than themselves,
who keep boarding houses. No, sir, you
can't make a novel sound right to me
when it makes one of C. D. Gibson IS
bright young men go abroad and turn
Taft American and took a course at a
gymnasium, And listen how they talk,
tool
Pescud picked up the best-seller and
hunted his page.
Listen to this said he. "Trev-
elyan is Ginning with the Princess AL
wyna at the back end of the tulip gar
| den, This is how it goes;
Say not. so, dearest and sweetest
of earth s fairest flowers. Would /
| aspire3 You are a star set high above
ME in royal heaven; / am only-my-
| self. Yet [ am man, and | have a
heart to do and dare. l have no title
| save that of an uncrowned sovereign
but | have an arm and sword that
yet might free Schutzenfestestein from
the plots of traitors
| "Think of Chicago man packing a
sword, and talking about freeing any,
tuing that sounded as much like
canned pork as thatl He'd be much
more likely to fight to have an import
duty put on it. -
| II think I understand you. JOHN said
L. You want fctionwriters TO be con-
sistent with their scenes and characters
They shouldn't mix Turkish pashas witt
Vermont farmers. or English dukes with
Long Island clam-diggers. or Italiar
countesses with Montana cowboys, ol
Cincinnati brewery agents with the raJah!
Of India"
"Or plain business men sith aris.
tocracy high above 'em." added Pescud
| 'It don't 1ibe, People are divided int
classes, whether we admit 1t or not, and
It's everybody's impulse TO stick TO thei,
own class. They do 1t. too. don't sc,
iof thousands OF books Ike that. Yol