The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-10
BOOKS AMI MAGAZINES.

Barbara F~rietchie' comes out this
month in the dress given by Clyde Fitch
and worn with grace by Julia Marlowe.
Whittier's stirring story is materially
changed in this dramatized version of it.
The incident of the poem becomes the
climax and closing scene of the play and
Barbara herself is a winning, lovely girl,
instead of the ''old gray head of the
Quaker poet. This book version of the
play is exactly as Miss Marlowe presents
II. n has further interest from the fact
n 1t contains. good pictures in color and
IN Dlack and white of the actress and of
various scenes in the drama. The war
tragedy naturally forms the background
of the love story and is the cause of the
ma catastrophe. The letter press is that
of the Life Publishing company.
Albert Shaw. in the April Review of
Reviews. has an exhaustive article, with
manv illustrations. on the Hampton in
Stitute; under the title, Learning by
Doing" The Great Street Makers OF
Pittsburg' and the "Frick-Carnegie Suit
are, treated by Julius MoritZen.
The trust question is dealt with by Pro-
lessor jerks of Cornell, who talks of
Publicity as a Remedy for the Evils of
Trusts. Professor jerks is entitled to
an attentive hearing, in view of the sta
tlstlcaI tables n charts showing the eff
fectS of combinations in prices which he
compiled as the expert to the industrial
commission on trusts and industrial COM
binatiOnS.
"
The current number of Werner's Maya
zine contains articles of unusual interest
70 the audience for whom it caters. Mr..
William ShaksDere's lecture on Vocal In
terpretatiOn' is given. The Psychologist
al Training of the Body" is presented by
Mrs. Bishop. The literary article deals
with Edgar Allen Poe, the man and his
work in the world, apropos of the bust
recently unveiled at the University of
Virginia in memory of the most disting-
uished alumnus of that institution.
The last and most interesting word as
TO Poe comes in an able paper in the
IconOclaSt. The writer %savagely attacks
and refuteS a series of articles recently
published under the head THE American
Rejection of Poe" A portion of the pa
per is quoted for its singular appreciation
of the poet and the VigOr of its style:
"The English part of the western hem
isphere has furnished one man who, in
his single brain, united poesy, imagina-
highest order, logic irrefutable, utter
originality and a matchless style. He is
Edgar Allen Poe.
The American Rejection of Poe is
the title of the symposium. Why, be-
tween the Canadian line and the gulf of
Mexico, between Portland, Me, and Port
land. Ore. there are ten hundred thou
sand homes of which he is the tutelary
genius. There is not a log schoolhouse in
which The Raven is not spOuted end
lesslv. There is not an American sleigh
ing party in which the quotation Keeping
time. time, time, in a sort of Runic
rhyme.' would not be instantly capped
with TO the Naturalization of the bells,
bells. bells. To the Jingling and the
linking of tho bells There is not an
American boy or girl of 20 who has not
felt his or her pulse sway to the swing of
Annabel Lee There are few Americans
of 40 who have not known the gripping
gloom of the heart in reading sThe
Haunted Palace;' known, too. that it
came from a brain scared by alcohol. 1t
was Poe's 'Chevalier Dupin' who begot
Conan DoyIe's Sherlock Holiness and he
has 10 to be ashamed of his OFF,
spring. The Telltale Heart stands today
as earth'S chief study in horror. The
highest type of detective story, a type so
never touched. by imitators, finds its en-
bodiment in The Murders of the Rue
Morgue' and The Purloined Letter.
"In word painting of the terrible, The
Fall of the House of Usher has not been
eaualed by Kipling's Strange Rid of
MorroWby Jewkes,' which in Itself is an
epoch-making story. Not the English
language, nor any other language, pre-
sents the picture OF still despair to be
had Of all men in the ending stanza OF
! The Raven-and my soul from out that
shadow that lies floating on the floor.
There are lives in even the least known
memory like chords of some dear, though
/ half forgotten, strain. To millions of our
countrymen these lines are known, to MIL
lions of Englishmen, Dutchmen, Germans
Italians. Swedes, Frenchmen and Por-
tugese-
THE American Rejection of Poe,
0uotha? Verify. these folk be crdZyr'