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Show THE CITIZEN 9 JIUIIlWHINIIIHhU More than ever before, successful business requires Banking Service of the broad, permanent character we give. 5hhmni THE BRIAN OF KENT. By Harold Bell Wright. Book by courtesy of D. A. Callahan. "A man writes for his own peculiar CMtemcffS CoJhuoinnD OPI14LANI SMBUSNED ISIS SURPLUS f90d0eaa L'liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinr s I Every Dollar Paid For I Insurance in i i 1 The Guardian Fire Insurance IIHIHIIII j ! Company friends, just as every individual has his own peculiar friends, says Auntie Sue, the old gentlewoman who brings about the reformation of Brian Kent. One is tempted to turn this saying into a jest and to remark that Harold Bell Wright must have some very peculiar friends, but the jest has no meaning when we consider that he is the most popular writer in America and that more than 8,000,000 of his books hav been sold. The fact is significant as giving us an insight into what manner of folk' the American people, generally speaking, are.. All of the writers works" are brimming over with idealism. They stand fast by the orthodox 'morality and try to preach the nobilities of life. That oftentimes they do this but weakly is a highly illuminating circumstance, for despite the shallowness of the characters and action, 8,000,000 persons have found his hooks absorbing in their interest and edifying in their preachments. , With what lofty scorn some of our critics have denounced Mr. Wright I believe it was once the Rev. Mr. Critics looking for the stuWhite. pendous imaginings and great organ tones of genius are impatient with the gentle author who writes sweetly pretty tales with an. unvarying motif There is of goodness and virtue. nothing in him of revolt against the old traditions of the Christian life. Most of his books are as orthodox as Sunday school tracts. There are bad men and women in his novels, just as there are bad men and women sometimes alluded to in the aforementioned tracts, but we do not find the author gloating over lubricities or seeking to enamor his readers with some character who has sinned greatly. We may be annoyed at his saccharine simperings over his saints of glass and yearn for something more virile and compelling, but we must give him credit for the universal nature of his appeal to the American mind and i has been advertised on such a large scale, which means that in all the history of literature from Cadmus to Kipling, Mr. Wright holds the record. He is the product of the press agent, but the press agent could not have made him the best seller of the world if his works did not have in them the true essence of story telling and a popular appeal. McCORMACK: HI8 OWN JOHN LIFE STORY.. Transcribed by Pierre V. B. Key. Boston: Small, Maynard & Co. LADIESl Get the habit of lunching and dining at i Mr. Key sets down the most inti- mate details of how John McCormack plays golf, walks for exercise at a grilling pace, plays tennis, goes motoring, swimming and fishing, all at his country place, Rocklea, at Noro-toConn., during the summer. He also and this is the heart of the book tells how McCormick talks. And the result is a most engaging autobiography. It is a tale of work sheer, hard work from beginning to end, work- that has brought merited success to this once Irishman, now a good American citizen. McCormicks tale begins with his boyhood in Athlone, Ireland, where he was born on June 14 our Flag day, as he proudly notes 1886, fourth of him eleven children. It follows through his school and college days, where he began to sing for money, his first appearance netting him four shillings (he later tells of having been paid $150,000 by one singing machine company), and where he received a criticism to which we owe the acclaimed purity of his diction. He sang a song in English, and when he had finished and was receiving the praise of his fellow students Maggie, the old college cook, uttered these fruitful words: Sure, Johnny, dar- lin but what did you want to show off your education for by singing in the furrin languages? That criticism kept him awake that night and set him on the right path toward the perfect enunciation which is always one of the pleasures of hearing McCormack sing. Key says later in the heart. book that it was not an empty honor Some have said that Harold Bell Holy Cross college conferred on McCormack when it made him a doctor Wright is simply a god manufactured t by the machine of publicity, that his of literature, as his work m Helping-edisuccess is due to advertising. I beg Keys manuscript revealed to to differ. He has the Homeric sense the writer. This is also borne out by of narrative, the Homeric sense of the singers scholastic record at Sum simplicity, a simplicity that is alive. merhill college, which shows that his It is possible to conclude, therefore, mark in Latin was 1,028 out of a possible 1,200; 648 points in French out that his appeal lies in his story-tellin- g ability and in his preaching. The of a possible 700, and a perfect recAmerican people like stories and they ord of 600 in algebra. McCormack has often been described as a singer like preaching and, despite our scornful critics, they approve of the ten. who is a scholar. This record proves commandments and often observe he was the scholar first. John tried for a postal clerkship in them. It would not be telling the whole Dublin in 1903 and failed. But it was truth, however, to ignore the part pub- there, one day during a walk in Phoo-ni- x park, that he made up his mind licity has played in the success of (CoCntinued on Page 12.) Mr. Wright. No writer of our time n, ROTISSERIE INN Where tempting dishes can always be had. We specialize on Soft Shell Crabs, Frog Legs, Soles, Mushrooms, Alligator Pears and all fresh vegetables obtainable on eastern and western markets. C. RINETTI F. CAPITOLA 323 - More than 15,000 individuals, firms and corporations representing every western industry, have accounts Brothers Walker Bankers. . of Utah I I Stays In Utah The Agency Company Managers 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH llllllllllllllllllllllllll!IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIMIIIItlllll,li,ll!M Tel. Was. 5616 Apen All Night UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS S. D. 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