Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-13

hiat W NHplu tue MUSE OF the udlllt -
an everyday reality; who writes with
the smoke Of the battle around him and
from the very thick OF the fight" and
the fact that It's author stands In the
front rank Of the successful self made"
men OF the day. Is strong testimony
as TO the efficacy OF the doctrines which
his clever book enunciates.
The flavor Of the work Is removed
many and very wide degrees from the
"goody. goody" sort Of literature, but
teens with trenchant sentences OF good
common sense, the kind that puts a
man on his feet and keeps him there"
and is couched in the style OF argument
that appeals directly to ones reason
honor and conscience by the simple
straightforward faith asserted In the
efficacy Of those judges to decide the
questions discussed. The book Is pub
llshed by the Doubleday, Mcclure Co,
New York
one Of the cleverest and most origin
al character cketches that have APP
peared In years is Violet Hunts analy-
sis Of a pathetically ridiculous woman
lone who Is always striving to attain
the sublime, but is relentlessly pur-
sued by It's opposite. Mrs Mortimer
Ellis was a young woman who was not
tall but slight enough TO look so. She
arranged her hair In hundreds OF waves
and curls, and dressed Il with wonder
full style and taste. There was some-
thing curlously plaintlve and beguiling
about her voice and manner Her
drawing-room was stamped with the
evidepces OF culture and was "redolent
Of personality" She cultivated the So
ciety Of literary lions and was bored
by the unromantlc nature Of her hus-
band.
ooh. what II must be to be in the
midst OF life. really in it-of it-part Of
III Here one sits and yearns and
catches the far-away echoes the re-
yerberati0ns OF the delightful things
that are happening, away down there,
where you are-in the very, very heart
OF II all"
Mrs. Ellis finally leaves her husband
and goes TO live at little inn, where
she finds an artist, whom she worships
80 appealingly that he at last returns
her affection-only to find that she Is
already married. The unromantc hus-
band wishes to begin proceedings for
divorce, but Is prevented by woman
novelist, who also loves the artist and
does not wish to see HIS career ruined
by a divorce court scandal In the last
scene Mrs. Ellis applies to friend for
poison and Is given some harmless
drug. which she takes, But she Is not
even allowed to die Economically. AL
though her attempt TO do so almost
brings tears TO the readers eyes, the
a. mi tft
ment when he learns that the heroine
has only taken q little bromide and
water.
The woes Of Mrs. Ellis like those OF
many ladies with romantic warnings,
are mostly imaginary. She is a little
fraud, but sweet, pretty, appealing
little fraud. and she has the readers
sympathy from beginning to end The
killing off in the last chapter Of the
matter of-fact husband Is one Of those
cruetles which women noyelists 50 de-
light In. They show the poor men no
mercy on paper. In this case the act
seems to lack poetic justice, as Ellis
had done nothing more Objectionable
than merely to exist-but that is some
times the grayest Of offenses.
The Human Interest" by Violet
Hunt. (Herbert S. Stone & Coz
In "The Money Makers" Margaret
Warner Morley has given US an inter-
esting story OF the honey bee. The
chapters describing the busy insect and
its habits are accompanied by illustra-
lions. The second part Of the work
covers the literature and history Of the
bee, from ancient Egyptian and Hindu
times up to the present. 1t is a book
full Of interest. The author has EVIL
IDENTIFY initiated the bee in the industry
with which she has gathered so much
information. Published by A. c. Nc
Clurg & Co., Chicago.
THE Three Musketeers," by Alexan-
DIRE Dumas, appears in a handsome two
volume edition from the press OF Little,
Brown & Co., Boston. The stirring
adventures OF D'Artagnan have for
years been exceedingly popular That
audacious Gascon has a reputation for
bravery and wit that seems likely to
carry him through countless editions
in generations TO come.
"Our Lady Of Darkness" by Bernard
Capes, is a story Of strong and tragic
interest, the scenes of which are laid
in England, Berlin and Paris during
the French Revolution, "our Lady Of
Darkness being one Of the leading
figures in the revolution.
vanity Fair" Thackeray's novel
without hero has had many a year Of
deserved popularity. 1t Is published
once more, by the Harpers, in which is
called the Becky Sharp edition. Its IL
are half-tones Of the charac-
tiers and scenes in the production Of
Mitchell's dramatizatlon of the
story In the play Becky sharp" Min
ME Madden Fiske had the title role and |
her portrait Is the frontisplece. The |
book Is handsomely made, and It's H. |
from life give to 1t an up-to-
date interest.
In "0ut OF the Nest: a Flight OF |
Verses" Mary Mcneil Fenolllsa has put
much Of the spirit OF Japan into verse
hat is both original and emotional. A
single specimen from one Of the lighter
poems will suffice TO give an idea Of the
ityle
Snare me the soul OF a dragon-fy
The jeweled heart OF developed
spray,
a stars quick eye
Or the scarlet cry
" lonely wing on a dawn-lit bay.
Then add the CLEAN OF a golden fan
md will paint you Miyoko San.
Published, by Little. Brown & Co.
Boston.
1.-THE Island Impossible" by Harriet
iorgan, with number OF good illustra-
ions, is an elaborate child story Of the
airy type, and will furnish abundant
God for infantile speculation and Won
Ter. Ii relates the adventures by land
nd sea OF a party Of rolllcklng chill
Iren. quite as extravagant as the ex-
,lolts OF the Rag-Tags, In which the
readers Of the Chronicle re-
emily found amusement. IL there Is
my fault with the story, II is that there
> little too much OF It. Boston:
little, Brown 4 Coz
Messenger Boy No. ~" Is a story OF