Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-07-14

existing just because Of the absence
OF feryid emotion and eXaCting love,
the power OF the baby fingers to press
from a true womans heart an thought
OF passion for any other than the
father of her child, these things Miss
Glasgow portrays with unerring in
sight and conclusive art She has
done we'll. too, in that The Voice OF the
People is not O sex novel, but observes
the values and proportions OF real life
Carlyle was certainly In acid and dys-
peptic mood when he called the
whole concern Of love a beggarly fulfill
IT," but he was right IN declaring II
altogether false and damnable' TO
represent the thing people call love
as spreading Itself over our whole eX-
istence and constituting the one grand
interest of IT, instead Of being but
one thing to be attended 20 among
many infnitelymore important things
Miss Glasgow gives due weight TO the
influence Of love. but she puts II into
right relations with life as a whole.
Prof. Paul S. Reinsch's World Poll
tics and stephen Bonsal's Golden
Horseshoe are two recent books which
should find a wide reading just now by
reason Of the light they throw upoa
the present disturbance In China. The
greater part OF Prof Reinschs book Is
devoted TO an Illuminating discussion
OF the reasons why China has so sud
denly become the focal point Of inter-
national politics His book Of course
was written some six months ago and
is the more interesting inasmuch as
his conclusions have been reached in
dependently Of current political excite
ment.
A remarkable character study Of the
development Of a Western school teach
or, who first marries a rather rough
husband near her home and. after Sc
curing a divorce from him, becomes the
wife OF young New York architect.
Selma Littleton is a new character IN
ictlon-a woman who believes that
Amerlcanism is term that VIII cover
not only all Of the higherideals Of man
hood and wOmanhoOd but also the
crudities Of the uncultured. The social
life Of New York Is az first abhorent
10 her. but through the influence Of a
nelghbor she chershes social ambi-
tions and finds fault with her consci-
entious husband because he viii not
lhMti Ait eAdlAAlA NA MS WI lA vi"
der 10 make the money which viii gain
entrance into certain circles Selma's
face bespeaks a soul Tar higher than
the reality. Her young husband has
welded the face for the SOIL he thought
was behind Il. and when the revelation
Of her real nature comes It Kills the az
lection that he had felt for her. As
a study Of the life of club women In
small Western towns and of society
women In New York City, the book is
most successful The quarrel between
Selma and her friend Flossie. the wife
OF an unprincipled broker who has
managed IN some way 10 make money.
Is one Of the most amusing bits of
feminine repartee that have been writ
ten IN a long time Flossie's charge
against Selma Is the key to her char
acter-"you're one OF those American
women I've always been curious TO
meet one in all her glory, who believed
that they are born IN complete panoply
OF hawless womanhood. that they are
by birthright consummate housewives,
leaders Of the worlds thought and
ethics and peerless society queens. All
this by instinct, by heritage and with
education" With such material the
book must interest a very wide circle
Of readers.