Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-07-20

Go Court) Bear with me-ohl
| dreamed last night of dome Of beat
en- gold
To be a Counter-glory to the sun.
There shall the eagle blindly dash him
self.
There the first beam shall strike and
there The moon
Shall aim all night her argent archery:
And II shall be the tryst Of sundered
stars,
The haunt Of dead and dreaming Solo
mon;
Shall send a light upon the lost in Hell,
And fashngs upon faces without
hope
(Murmer of sympathy
And will think in gold and dream In
silver,
Imagine in marble and in bronze con-
ceive,
TIL it shall dazzle pilgrim nations
Ana stammering tributes from unds-
covered lands,
Allure the living God out Of the bliss,
And all the streaming seraphim from
heaven.
Enter musicians)
Herod.- Music, o music Now create
land
From lovely chords, that land where we
would be;
Where NE no longer Jars, nor jolts. but
glides;
The end may recompense us, but mean
time
Crises and looks at door, Too bare, o
God, too bare thy universal
am so hurt that the half-light seems
good
There should be wells between us and
the sun.
(Muslc.)
Or why not ever moonlight, ever the
moon
With bathing and obliteratlng beauty?
Now Introduce with melody a life
which we can live, where there is no
farewell,
Nor any death, but
In the New York Journal Saturday
Review, Miss Dorothy Dix calls atten.
ton TO what she terms a remarkabl
literary coincidence, In the fact that
1.-THE two best and most popular histori-
cal novels Of the year" have been writ
ten by Miss Potter and Miss Runkel
VINO are scarcely out Of their teens
Mics Dix should have added that. be.
fore Miss Runkel had begun her story
Miss Potter. the author OF "The House
OF de Mailly,' had published at the
age Of seventeen her first novel "A
Social Lion" which was the seasons
sensation in Chicago Miss Dix re-
marks that whereas Miss Runkel has
written a story Of the swashbuckling
style-of which the public has begun TO
tire-Miss Potter. in "The House Of de
Mailly' (Harpers,) has written a tale
which bids for the favor Of posterity
being "a love idyl--a field flower that
springs W and buds and blossoms In
the most brilliant and corript court Of
EUROPE that Of Louis V. Miss Potter
Is spending the summer at Lake Cen
eva. Wisconsin. busily engaged upon
future work, II win he interesting to
follow The literary development Of these
two gifted young women
Miss Margaret Horton Potter. author
Of "The House Of de Mailly." Miss
Mary Johnston. and Miss Bertha Rum
kle are now being associated by review
ers as the three champion young women
novelsts Of the hour The writer Of a
current article, speaking Of Miss Pot
ter's novel, 'The House If de Mailly."
remarks: Miss Potter has lately ar
rived in literature with the startling
suddenness and brilliancy Of meteorc
flights" And he continues: Naturally
comparison is invited with The Helmet
OF Navarro and TO Have and 20 Hold
II Is an audacious thing TO
attempt this shifting Of scene from
Parts to Annapolis and back again. as
In The House Of de Mailly' but Il is
too late TO manifest surprise at any
thing that these young women novelists
may dare TO do" II Is exceedingly In
teresting, however, 60 note the distinct
characteristics Of the three novels His
torical IN character they yet differ
very materially In motif Miss Runkle's
book Is especially OF the sword-and-
huckler class. Miss Johnstons work Is
particularly praiseworthy for polish Of
style. and Miss potter's novel Is most Of
all charming and piquant love story
Montanye Is a work OF genuine his
torical value. but this feature does not
at all detract from its interest as &c
ton.
General Lew Wallace's Ben Hur."
which was recently issued in a new and
illustrated edition. called the Players
Edition because OF the novelty and in