Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-06-24

ucrIenoo that the very worst criminals
who had resisted 90 uthnr Influences
had been brought 20 repentance ana
holiness by kindness VIII not God,
then. au act with Ills crrlturrft HAS
lia H0 constituted human hrlngH that
they clu be- saved by love, and viii lie
withhold that love from any Such
was her tmln OF thoughts while. on
Che other hand. she could not but be-
lIsNp nNIl unconquornblo FROM itf ufls
sim init o. difficult 90 understand
what You should have been with uf,
NOT Hp much 90 combat her adopted
tenptH ug 90 convince hcf they were not
ln harmony with her own hearts Wit
ness 90 tho truth.
ON sunday we may learn who her
the death struggle iH 0r lH not To &c M
meuCr lu the United States. 10 an
not Boz confined tn America. slavery
In various forms threatens Europe
"tf I were asked what seemed 10
be tho most significant tendency Ia
literature" says Mr. William Dean
liowclH. ~ should say that 10 was the
gradual decline ~ interest ln poetry. !
have spoken of u as the twilight OF
poetry
when ! began 20 write. young pco-
pie read Byron. byron vas. indeed, q
craze. a little later every one read
Emerson. Trnnyson and whittier Poo
pie Of literary taste were really fond NJ
poetry They committed 70 90 memo
ry: they talked about a.
"But now an that seems 10 b,
changed. browning apparently closed
the poeucal cycle. This cvunescqncr
% poetry seems 90 me 10 De the most
marked change In imaginative htcra-
ture.'
Just here I suggested Mr. Kipling.
"Tho Occasional" aud THE White
Mans burden" Mr.. ltowrlls expressed
the deepest admiration Tor l<ipllngH
work. but In speaking % THE white
Mans Burden" hc said;
1T 81 very tine ana notnhlci Il IL
poetry with an object and Il ~, per-
hapH. the most significant recent ut
terunrr uf literary man. think,
however. that u has been taken rather
differently from what was Intended,
TO me 10 seems "a note of WlrulnE.
The idea that u Or our destiny 90 as
sumo this tremendous responsibility uf
governing several million saNages, many
thousand miles away. Do not nt am clear.
And since We have approached this
subject. / am Elud 90 Boz able 10 eN-
press myself ON the war and its prob
able effects uu Our literature. Tho upin-
ION fuomH 60 De pretty generally held
that 10 win tend 90 bring about a re-
yIyul OF rumuutlcIam. ON the contrary,
I believe its influence 90 Dee already
past. even doubt II u has cxcrtcd
any real Influence.
NO good can come from war u
can inspire nothing that ~ worthy IN
art or letters. What ala our great
Civll War do for lltrrature2 Literature
may be- said 90 have produced No., but
10 lOft mo- literature, The revolution
was also barren NJ inspiration. No
book poem, or painting u any value
came out VI a. War b. % madness, a
blind rage. Il brushes and destroys the
beautiful,
u think the turn N poetry viii como
again { think there are some signs
OF lts coming, ] don't see why a
story iu verse should not be- done again,
Don Juan and oven tho odyssey arr
really novels In worse
In Thackornys ballad. "Thc Chronicle
M the Drum" he makes a curious nlir
BOO naming "Tho glorious Fourth OF
July as the date ON which the BnHtll'
falL 10 was, OF course, on July Is
Thuckony seems 90 have got the Amer
lean Independence Day and the French
anniversary mixed up II iH possible
that "rhe chronicle of thr Drum wa
suggested by Hoino'H "Burh Lcrrnnd '
| The KluE VI pryntford's Testament u
! uaruhuhlH directly 90 "iloi a. Nyrtot
! always fIvoritc with Thackcray, 'Ih'
! Gnlaul may have been written aH
| parody ON Edward Fit2Bcruld'H render
! Irr of tns Rubayllt. Little ullrv'
| WAS composed nt supper party whit
/ the rest OFF the company were ninFin!
| and making merry. Thougl
] ThluEyrIya verso was generally comic
hr would ut times write Il Ia a mos
] pathetic vein.