Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-09
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THE fiow-1.cRgcd Ghost" N the odd
title that Leon Mead has given 10 a
new volume Just published by the wcr-
nor company. Mr.. Mead. ~ associate
editor II Truth. was IN poaition to
see md learn much OF the American
| humOr and its manufacturers. This de-
/ llEhtfui volume Of sketches ana ancc-
doteH is the result ~ this familiarity.
| II assumes local value in that the
author gives "a a line description Of
/ Eugene Field ana his den In the days
when he was connected with the old
| Denver Tribune. That ever popular
humorist. 1911 Nyc. also comes IN for
some personal "reminiscences of the
| days when he ran the Boomerang at
Laramie. Wyo. Tho volume n large
one and contains a great many sketch
90 and verses, some serious and many
lnughnhlr. II ~ q good volume FOR the
busy man and wife 10 have around. II
eau be picked up and an amusing story
read from 20 In "a Few niinutcH, and
then 70 can be laid aside with the an
ilcination ~ further feaHta on other
evenings. such volumes are more
popular today than ever before. A
good wife VIII do her llcge lord great
favor N she purchases THE Bow-i.cg-
ged Ghost and leaves Il where he may
accidentally stumble upon II. capcci-
ally on night after u dny OF consider
able IVORY. This unique book ~ printed
~ the Werner company 10 New York
city. Akron ohio. and Chicago. H..
and - Tor raic BY an book dealers.
In Sntnna Realm. BY Edgar G. Blum.
4 reporter who died and went to
heaven ~ excluded .th1refrom and dis
patched TO the neither regions. who're he
IL well received BY Satan. II escorted
through the different departments and
II favored with sundry sarcastic COM
ments upun human nature by his Sa-
tnnic mnierty, who permits him to
transmit them To earth. The devil "
represented Ms "a sort NJ chief Justice
whore purpose u to mctc to each o.
fender logical and not an arbitrary
punlghmcnt flr his offcnses Satan
Hatirizca human Vanitios. weaknesses
and crimes ana claims for the demons
rupcriority "a men. we torment our
foes" he says, they pcrnccute and be-
not hypocritca. They are hypocrltcs.
but. for our sake. hope they cannot
be clanscd ~ demons" Much that IL
amusing and much that may suggest
little serious reflections Is scattered
through the forty.one chapters r. the
book. Rand, McNally & Co. Chicago.
N,2i.
what Women can Earn" Il the
title OF volume on the occupa-
lions " women and their compensation
ln made up 81 a series Of papers by
qualified to give instruction and infor-
nation upon the particular subjects
concerning which they write Among
them nrc Grace w. Dodge. Mrs. Ma.
garot y. sangsier, editor ~ Harpcr's
Bazaar: Mrs cundnrc wheeler, the art
designer. Helen NJ. Winsiow. OF the
club Woman. Mary H. wilkins, Mrs.
\. NJ. Palmer, president 81 the Pro-
fcaslonm Womnn's League. Mn. Mary
J; Lincoln. Miss rlllighast. the stained
glass decorator; and . score ~ others
OF equal reputation. Nearly every oc-
cupntion In which women are engaged
II considered. with Information na TO
duties, hours pay, etc. ana suggestions
for those about to enter upon any one
OF them. The book has great value TO
those for whose Information II has been |
prepared Published BY the Frederick |
a. Stokes Company.
.
a holiday edition Of Whlttler's "Thc |
Tent on the Hcach." Ia Illustrated with |
a dozen designs by Charles II. Wood. |
bury and Mrs. Marcia o. Woodbury. |
that are IN thorough keeping with the |
cluster of narrative poems read by |
Whittier and HIS friends at their aufn-
mer picnic ON the beach near the mouth
OF HAMPTON river To the group OF
pocmg In The Tent on the Beach"
have been added four shorter narrative !
poems by Whittier. "Thc ENilcs." ''iiar- |
clay OF Try" ''rhe Kings Mlsslve" and |
How the Women Went From Dover" /
The book IL Handsomely mnde.-Houg- |
ton. MINI 4 Co. Boston: The burrows |
Brothers Co.
4 now edition In two volumes OF |
THE Poetical Works ~ Dante Gabriel |
Rossctti" has been issued by Little, |
Brown g. Co. Boston. The FIRST coll |
lectcd edition was published twelve |
years ngu, ilve years after the death |
Of the author and soon after the death |
u his mother The work ~ collecting |
ana editing II was a task Of love under |
taken by W. NJ. RoHHettl the surviving /
son and brother who prcfaced the |
collection with biographical aud !
hibliorraphlcnl sketch. The now cdl- |
tlon II "a reproduction Of that OF 1857.
o.
Sons 81 Strength" Is the little 81 a
book wrltton by william II, Lightdn. |
new writor who hns chosen Tor the |
SCENE ~ hlH story the Kansas Border |
IN ante-hellun days. The principal |
figure In the book II r. founding child. |
who upon growing to manhood finds a |
direct appeal 10 his conscience In the |
strife going ON between the opponents |
and friends Of slavery In Kansas. and |
decides 10 east his lot with those who |