Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-06
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No better indication ~ the trend OF
present day fiction could be found than
the fact that Mary f. wilkins. So long
one OF the foremost representatives OF
American realism has In her last book,
The Hearts Highway turned unmis-
tlkably 10 historical romance. tn this
tale she demonstrates her ability In
what is for her a comparatively now
though not utterly uutried field since
some Of her short stories have been.
before this, ~ a more or less romantic
character THE Hearts Highway Is
her first full-leugth work of this class,
however II Is a story OF Virginia, the
time being the seventeenth century
just after Bacon's rebellion, when the
tobacco trade was being seriously Ics-
sened by the navigation act II is an
unusually careful character study for
a romance The hero, who tells the
story. Master Harry Wingield. Is
gentleman by birth but sent 20 Nir-
glnia ae convict and reduced 10 serve
as tutor to Mistress Mary Cuvendish.
We have had COnyiCts I'm American roe
nance before. hut never quite Ike this
one. Suffering the deepest disgrace.
even 10 exposure In the stocks. he is
yet the embodiment OF an the highest
ideas Of honor and chvalry Of his
time, a man Of fine spirit, a scholar
and something Of philosopher. De-
spised as a convict he nevertheless
wins by sheer force Of character the
respect Of those with whom he comes
into contact and the love OF a high
spirited girl like Mary Cavendish Than
his love for her nothing could De finer
and purcr He Is, Indeed an admirable
figure. Inspiring through his very IDEAL
lily and drawn with no little subtlety.
He somewhat oycrshadows the other
characters. but they are AN well drawn.
from the drinking, racing parsOn 70
proud old Madam Cayendish.
In Mr. W j. Dawsons THE Makers
Of Modern Poetry" Mr. Thomas Whit
taker has reprinted from It's seventh
London edition a series OF careful critI-
cal studies Of the greater English poets
Of the present century the Intellectual
merit Of several Of which studies Is of
a rather too pronounced and too subtle
Kind for such a popular handbook as
this purports 90 be. The author selects
sixteen nineteenth century writer's of
verse as fulfilling the poetic conditions
and achievements which stamp them
as Makers. and considers them from
different point Of view. some NJ which
are, and should be, alien 90 purely poot-
zeal consideration His poetic fist en-
brates the names NJ Burns. Byron.
Shelly, Keats Scott, Colcrldge. Southey.
Wordsworth. Hood. Mrs Browning
Tennyson, Browning Arnold Rossetti
Swinbuue and Morris. TO these ne de-
votes 'hirty-slX papers, seven OF which
are bestowed on Wordsworth eight ON
Tennyson and six on Browning. Burns
Byron, shelly and Keats being each dis.
missed with one brief one.
An entertainlnglv chatty volume of
the Personal Rec Elections" OF II SIth.
erland Edwards has been published by
Cassell q Co. They are OF men and
things In Europe. especially England
and France. and extend back 10 the
time when lucIfer matches were novel;
ties and the polka a new dance. There
are stories OF many Of the celebrated
men Of the middle OF the century,
Thackeray Charles Roade. Douglas
Jerrold. Cruikshank. Hans Won Bul0w
Rossi the reyolutionlst Bakunin.
MacIt'dy and others and these aucc-
d0tes tJgcther with the giimpses given
Of the tine. make pleasant reading.
Heavens Distant Lamps, Is a volume
Of poems ~ comfort and hone
arranged hy Anna t. Mack
editor % Because Love You"
Miss Mack has already shown herself
possessed OF a most discriminating lit
orary taste. as well as q profound ac-
quaintauce with the masterpieces OF
the poetry of our language 10y her rec
markedly popular collection Of love
poems the wIdely-ltuown Because I
Love You" She has now used her tall
ent On an even more noble and svmpa-
thetic way by compiling an almost
faultlessly complete and well chosen
collection OF poems NJ comfort and
hope, happily named from a quotation,
Heavens Distant Lamps" The con-
tents are arranged IN thirteen sections
each prefaced by a short quotation. the
sentiment OF which gives the keynote
% the poems Of that division Thus
the theme of the FIRST section is seen
10 be bereavement. OF the next comfort.
then submission, prayer resignation,
each group becoming more grand and
strong IN rs tone untn the closing al
vision which Is given up 20 poems Of the
resurrection and paradise. n would be
very difficult 20 find a nohler set Of
authors. or a worthler selection OF ex-
tracts from their verse, and certainly
no such anthology OF comfort. trust.
and hope has ever been prepared. Tho
appearance " the volume 10 It's dress
OF white, blue. and gold Is daintlly az
tractlye. and wo may be- sure that Il
viii Zoe eagerly welcomed as a Gift ana
especially welcomed and priced as q
token OF sympathy
MAG AZINEs.