Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-09

I There's moro evidence 60 como yet.
| please your majesty said tho White
! Rabbit jumping uu In n great hurry.
this paper has lurt boon picked up
what's IN lt9' said tho queen.
~ haven't opcncd q yet" tsld tho
White Rabbit. but u seems 10 d. "a
letter written by the prisoner to-to
~ must have been thnt" said the
king. unless 70 was written 90 nobody.
which isn't usual. you know"
81. Who "a u directed tor f1ld one OF
m lsn't directed at nu" mId tho
White Rabbit. "lu fact there's nothing
written uu the outside" fIU uuf1IuUI
the paper H8 be- spoke. and added. "It
Isn't o. letter. after all. itH "a r.t Of
"Arc they in the prlsoncr'a hauIvrit.
lnEf" asked uputhHr OF the iurymuu
NO, they're not" said tho White
Rabbit, "uul that's the queorart thing
about IT, Crhc jury an looked puz-
zlcd)
HE must have Initiated somebody
olsc'H hand" ah1 tho King, tThe jury
nll frightened up nguln)
PLEASE your malnrty," said tho
knnyo, ~ didn't write 10, and thay can't
prove that I ala. there's no name signed
ut tho oni"
N you NIAN tlEu ~ NlIu tho KIM
'th1t only makes the matter wurHo.
You must have meant some mischief. or
else you'd have signed your name like
an honest man"
There was general clapplng or
hands NJ this. % was the fret really
clcycr thing ihs King had snld that day.
That proves bis guilt, OF course"
said the queen. $50 m with"
Jules Verne g. now a years old and
Hull writing romance with undated
energy II Or said ~ him that o. llfs uf
almost spartan simplicity has insured
him an old age ~ extraordinary ylg0r
and faculties undimmed.
II II wei known among litcmry pro-
PIE that Charles Dickens considered
David Coppgrnpli" tho best uf his
novels. but occasions when Dc actually
expressed That opinion urn 90 rare that
% 10 worth while a. recall an lucldrut
which happened while DO was ln phIn-
dolphln. Mr.. Chaplin, father q pr. John
10, chaplin, the wei known expert on iu.
sanity, was ut that time at tho hond of
Che blind asylum here. Raised type Tor
blind reading was Just coming Into
vogue. and desiring TO have one %
Dickens books printed On that way. Mr..
ChnpIu took advantage of an introduce
ton 90 the great novelist 90 ask him
which of hls works De considered the
N'Htf NllN lN'Nl|hNtI inc Ifh.nN why De- .
wanted Co know. dickens Undertaking.
ly answered, David CopprnJd"
The peculiar conditions under which /
russian literature has grown 40 huyo
brought about oIoHr Intimacy between ]
me political ideals ~ M cultured /
classes, on the one hand, and their nc- ]
ton. ON the other slloucoI by the cou- /
For, the ufDrmur a. forced 90 can upon /
the novel 10 convoy hiH message. ThIH
a. the Characteristic feature OF Russian /
letters II Involves point of view .
which countries otherwise c'rcum- /
stnucci may nnd o. dlnlCult 10 npprocl- |
ate. and that accounts for the unusual |
forlouHupFf with which tho educated ]
Russian takes hls hctl0n.
No nation hur % theory OF ant NO /
clearly defined, nor one 20 firmly Inn
gent classes, ~ ia the theory which l
forms the underlying principle of RUS
sion criticism, ana one ~ the essential /
points NJ this theory % that "a work OF
art must also be n work % education.
Art Tor arts sake" a. out ~ tho quos-
iiun In 70 country whore the poem must ]
take tho place NJ the editorial. and ]
wherc the Htory-toller who docs not
make his fiction criticism OF NE. Is
looked uppn M something like public
officer who hotrnyH his trust
A literary creed such as this would
r.
,lFed upon % doomed a. DEGENERATE into
That species ~ sermon novel which o.
bad sermon and re- worse novel; Yet. 30 !
Far nH Russia "a concerned. tho curse
has turned out 90 be blessing. SDr-
nonlging o. Just what the censor VIII
make his pictures talk. 90 let ne expose
ts own wounds. For. like those we'll
bred ladies OF whom Thnckrr1y tolls as
hat they dld not mind looking nt tho
trousers NJ hundreds NJ mon. though
hey would have been shocked 20 boar
he word uttered the censor, NJ a rule.
Hoes not prevent q subject N tho car
rom painting @ spade, but DC viii not
et him call It by 10 name
Rudyurd Kiplrg's grandfather Mac.
lonald, who Yves o. Methodist preacher
must have had some good blood in hil
'olns, Al any rate, the family turned ]
Iut we'll The latest member ~ lt 10 /
chiove distinction ~ The Rev, Il. W.
Macdonald, Rudyad klplIng's uncle.
no hos Just been chosen 10 b. the head
4 tho Methodist church ln Great |
Britain. 10 succeed the Rev Hugh
rice Hughes. one Of Mr. Mucuonuld's
listers married Sir Edward burue-
ones. md the other Sir Edward Poyn-
my. and the third married John Lock
wood kipllur who m also an artist. ana
eoainc he mother " Rudyard Klpling.
Countess Tatinna Tolstol. dauRht p 81
'ount Loo TolHtol n being treated az n
Jenna suburban aanltnrlum Tor an OBJ
tlnata throat complaint. from which !
he ia recovering. She ls about 90 years
IA and has long figured Oa Tolrtoi'a
ight hand. She bears a strong resen- d
lance TO her father In face ana feature. q