Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-06

| Murray VINO lhNucu I've NOlulntS, pIlUls
a poem by the writer Of the love let
tiers. This disposes OF the fiction Of
| geuuneness. but does not diyuge the
! authorship. As 10 the reason for which
| the lover broke of the match the con
| sCnsus Of opinion Is clear no lover
could possibly have stood any more
such preposterOus letters. In the light
of the popular success of this much
! taked-of silly volume, and OF that 80
much better book, and It grows proba.
| bic that the device Of concealed author
| ship viii be more and more practced.
Messrs. ME. Mansfield & Co. are now
bringing out IAN EngllshWoman's Love
| Letters the work OF clever persons
age habituatlng. the literary world, who
goes at the matter like this "Of course
| tine poor Ophdian mothers auXeties In
| such connection their contemplated
| marriage) are prep0rstorous. | rca-
! soned with her. | said, Mamma, even if
| she were literary, is there not another
| side 20 the question: Miss Ellen
| Thorneycroft Fowler Is literary. Miss
Beatrice HaTaden II literary. II you
look into the Irish anthology Of English
verse you viii find that Miss Althea
| Gyles Is also literary And II II comes
TO that, are not Miss Annie Swan, Miss
| ChOlmondeley, and Miss Marie Corell
as literary as you make EN-? Yet
| which OF them q excellent mother
mine has yet brought her husband to
the workhouseY Dearest, this was
sophistry; but IL baltled the mother.
| heard her humble something about
1901 900 copies sold before the day Of
publication and believe that she went
Off half convinced"
At a ball given by Senator and Mrs
| Gwin Of California, In 1858, IN Washing
ton, Mrs. y. ID. Gillespie, the author
Of "A Book Of Remembrance (Lippn-
cotts), went arrayed as Quakeress
Her cousin appeared In the same kind
OF a garb, At the ball was President
Buchanan, not in costume and the
| Quakeress constantly addressed Mr.
Buchanan, as "Jeems," much 70 his ap-
! parent amusement. Once, when they
We're near him and the crowd was
great. he said shall ! make room for
you TO pass" One Of the Quakeresses
answered promptly, "Jeems, thou art
In a tighter place than We are"
Brentano's Of New York issue n
paper covered edition Of the authorized
French version OF Rostand's LAG
lon" Those who saw Bernhadt In this
great play and who read French Will
find It interesting 10 90 through the
play carefully and note the splendid
verse Of the foremost French dramatic
poet Of the day,
All interested In the work Of Frank
Norris the young San Francisco nov
elist whose stories "MCTeague" and A
Mans Woman gave him wide reputa-
ton, will be pleased to hear that Dou-
bleday, Page & Co., have In press the
first volume Of his new trilogy on the
apotheosis Of wheat" II Is entitled
"The Octopus" and Is founded on the
bloody Mussel slough fight Of the San
Joaqin settlers against the railroad
!
Miss Harriet Stark, the author OF
The Bacillus OF Beauty, issued some lit
tie time ago by the Frederick Stokes
Co., has written the following letter to
her publishers explaining the origin Of
the story: Three years ago ! spent
day with Prof. f. w. Conn Of Wes-
eyan University, who was applying
bacillus culture methods to buttermak-
|
matchmaking It with microbes Of fer
ment from older, better cream | could
see with my own eyes I'm his test-tuhes
the little cluster Of spores which not
only FASTENED rlpening but made the
new cream richer than 1t would have
been Ii left to nature. or course ba-
cillus culture is a dairy commonplace
now, and drummers hawk rival butter
germs all over the country; but the idea
was newer then, and It made upon me
a deep impression, That night ! took
q way train from MiddletoWn To Hart
ford. At one station, midway, group
of factory girls came aboard, Nearly
all were very pretty; their bright eyes,
their merry chatter made everybody In
the car more cheerful. The very lamps
burned more smiingly. The strange
alchemy | had seen, the beauty before
me--was Ii any wonder that the idea
flashed upon me- What If there were
a Bacillus of Beauty Would not all
the world be at the feet Of its discov-
erer? What would happen to his first
client? Forthwith | resolved that there
should be In fiction at least, one per-
fectly beautiful woman, one creature
so radiantly lovely, so glowing with
health and happiness and color, so rare
I'm face and unapproached in form, that
all should marvel at her. And there
after | failed to notice My thoughts
had begun to weave the story Of Helen
Winshlp,'
An Indiana girl-baby has been chris
ened Alice of Old Vincennes, and the
publishers have performed the god
fatherly duty of sending the child a
silver cup properly inscribed In view
OF the volumnnous character OF recent
Hoosier literature. the incident suggests
the delightful possibility of a pretty
custom which may make It no longer
possible. as now II Is, to tell the age
and politics Of a citizen Of Indiana by
his initials Most of the children OF
that commonwealth have hitherto been
named after Andrew Jackson. William
Henry Harrison, O. p, Morton, Blue
jeans Williams, or Thomas Hendricks.
The Rev. II. II. Haweis. whose death
Is reported, was not only a remarkable
and very unconventional preacher; he
was all his life a prolific writer, and
when one considers his frail physique
and the demands OF his church, his
literary production seems enormous
There Is scarcely a newspaper or mag
azine In London in which he has not
signed his name. He found time, too,
to edit Casselrs Magazine for a season.
He wrote best upon his favorite hob
by music. Great musicians, old vio-
Inns, and church bells gave him mate
rial for many volumes Those who
have attended his services at st.
James. Marylebone, will remember that
he occasionally illustrated his discourse
by a solo upon the violin.
Andrew Lang has called Marion
Crawford the most versatile Of modern
novelists Since the appearance Of Mr..
Isaacs nineteen years ago. he has writ
ten thirty novels distinguished for their
variety Of subject and treatment. A
| glance at the work Of these two score
OF years will not be without interest.
especially as his latest novel. In the
Palace OF the King is already one OF
the most popular OF the season. Mr..
| Crawford was born in Bagni di Lucca.
Italy, August 2. 1854 He is Of mingled
ancestry. His father, Thomas Craw-
ford the sculptor, was a native OF Ire
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