Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-02-02
BOOKS,

College Entrance Requirements in
English, For Study and Practice l9Ol-
1905 is a new publication from the
press of the American Book company.
From the well known Eclectic English
Classics there have here been collected
Burke's Cancellation with the American
Colonies Shakespeare Macbeth, Mil
tons Minor Poems, Macaulay's Addi-
son, and Macaulay's Milton, These con
stitutethe college entrance requirements
in English for study and practice 1901
1906 and have here been bound togeth-
or for the convenience of students who
are preparing themselves for these eX-
amnations. Such a volume, we think,
Will prove very acceptable to all pre-
paratory schools.-New York.
The third edition Of an Clolsters
Dim" by Charles Curtz Hahn, literary
editor of the World-Herald, is having
a large sale. 1t was the New York
Sun that said of this volume: "A little
book of poems, OF feeling and delicacy,
which tells a story" The title reflects
a sacred gloom OF monastery life, The
first poem tells how a lover kneels In a
Francisco chapel with the lady whom
he loves, while three monks are chant
ing the service In the twilight; and as
they kneel the man knows that the girl
by his side IL praying for him. Years
pass. His lady love Is dead and as he
cannot turn to another, even the fair
est OF women, he seeks the same mon
astery In which they two knelt that
evening. The next poem shows him
years after, when, "ln cloisters dim, he
l. Than fOI1auFg the
TO his lady love in which he sings
that for her calm face he better
grows; and later still years after, the
priest. still faithful to the love of his
youth. kneels in the cloister, and press
ing his crucifX to his lips, says
"Naught else kiss In this great world,
Ny heart Is wrapt in Thee;
But the pain within my wounded side
None but my God can see
Under the odd pen name, "The Man
Who Heard Something Is hidden the
IDENTITY of him or Of her who wrote
"Tne Slaves Of Society," which IL fur
thei designated as "a Comedy In Gov.
ers." The book Is cleyer-too obviously
clever II might have been, and per-
haps was, written for ultimate use as
a play: there are not many people In
II the scene changes are few and their
setting within the possibilities Of any
fairly equipped theater, and the dia-
logue of which there Is a good deal, is
crisp. cynical, epigrammatc and thor
ougnly up to date. For instance, De-
spencer. the parasite Of the book or
play. speaking of the desirable sutton TO
the match making mother, says, THE
sort Of man that takes ballet girls to
Richmond?"
Sne replies tartly, THE sort Of man
that every mother In England would
welcome as a son-in-law."
pespencers retort is; "Oh, quite so.
There could be no possible objection to
him as a son-in-law. | thought you
meant as an acquaintance"
Then there are some reflections out
side the dialogue which strike sharply
upon the shady sports of London %
ciety such as this concerning the rich
but untitled man Of the story:
He knew that he lived In an age
when the homage which birth pays to
wealth is open and unashamed, He had
seen peers bringing their wives to
wait in the halls Of African Jews. He
had heard OF mysterious checks re-
ceived by men Of Norman lineage from
who sprang up In a night
like monstrous toadstools and decayed
leaving the air poisoned all around
them. He had seen the noblest blood
of England in the dock and the oldest
blood of Scotland warned off the turf.
"The Man Who Heard Something"
has a plain way Of putting matters that
touch the morals of that society at
which he aims his satire, but he mar
rles the poor but good young woman
TO the rich and good young man in the
end OF rather starts them fairly up the
al. le TO the altar. leaving the poor young
" omans noble father as the only sinner
In suffer for the detestable crime OF |
being found out. II will be surprising II |
THE Slaves OF Society" be not speedily |
staged .-(New York: Harper & Broth |
ers)