Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-03-09

Chase letters and papers in private
hands as possible, for copying with
speedy return; or exact copies In de-
fault Of the originals being lent. MIR.
FrIedenwald may be addressed at No.
1900 Locust street, Philadelphia. dis
torical Society Of Pennsylvania.
After many wanderings the remains
OF Dante are preserved In a case In the
National Central Library Of Florence.
Signor Chilovi, the head of this institu-
ton, has IN mind TO give the precious
relic fitting monumental place In the
contemplated new library building,
where Dante gallery will be provided,
A deputy, Giuseppe Poscetu looking 10
this end, commissioned the sculptor
| Prof Rinaldo BarbetH TO make design
for an urn. which was duly offered last
autumn TO SignOr Ch0yi The librarian.
however, felt under obligations TO pre-
Ter design made by the sculptor En-
! rico Pazzi In 1899, on occasion of turn
| ing over to the library the bones which
had been in his custody since 1865 This
splendid opera" Sgnor Chlloyl
trusts, may be duly executed by the au-
thoritIes
The New York Times Is the authority
for the statement that a new. collected
deiinltiye edition Of the works Of John
Ruskn ia in contemplation Ever since
the return Of Prof Charles Eliot Norton
to this country communications have
! passed between him and Ruskln's liter
AIRY trustees in England. which have
now reached point which makes the
edition certainty II merely remains
to arrange the details. and that an ON
cial announcement may be expected in
the early spring.
| Henrik lbsen has been living for half
year In great seclusion at Sandefiord.
| Norway, preparing the material for a
new work. Asked II he intended to re-
| nam IN Norway he said yes in all
| PROBABILITY. My correspondence Is so
extensive that this alone would make 1t
announcement to change my address,"
A piece Of Huxley literature that has
| never before been published I'm this
country makes up an article in n re-
| cent number Of the Popuar Science
Monthly It Is Prof Huxley's address
before the British association FOR the
advancement OF science some twenty
one years ago and give an admirable
account OF anthropologlcal science at
that time.
The illustrated South IL a new South.
ern magazine published in Louisville
ana edited by Charles O'Malley
bJornson, having recovered from a Sc
we're illness. has been spending several
weeks In Tyrol finishing his drama
laboremus.
Joaquin Miller has written a volume
~ True Bear Stories which viii shortly
be published by Rand, McNally & Co.
Much has been written about Maurice
heWletts style-Here is Frederic Har.
rlson's view. Mr. Hewletts STYLE Is at
any rate his own; II is part Of his very
SKIN and bone, as completely part of
ms nature as We're the styles of Car.
Iyle or Macauey. There is no trace Of
lllck or imitation about It, 1t is a STYLE
or singular terseness OF bold imagery
VI Keen stroke. 1t admits phrases ar
tlfcal harsh, obscure; II you please
forced metaphors, obsolete and new
coined words not a few l cannot deny
that this constitutes mannerism; and as
nave said, loath mannerism as do
the reek of stale tobacco. But that
nannerism which Is a real part of the
mans brain, bred from laconic TEN.
per native turn for imagery. and q
personal SAVIOUR In the toothsome
phrase-ths we have 10 take as we find
II even as We take the epigrams of
lacitus the euphuism Of Sir Thomas
browne, on the tropes and nick-names
of Carlyle. do not pretend that Mau
nee Hewlett has earned the right OF
These great masters OF language t.
force upon us his linguistic fancies: but
/ mt even In many Of them which /
frankly regret, and almost personally
resent being ask to unrddle, scholar.
snip, a wealth Of diction, and a pic
turesque personality which 1 am
forced to admit are extenuating cir |
cumstances, even at the bar Of an aver !
age jury with conventional canons Of |
English prose.
The weekly magazine called Science |
has become the organ Of the American |
Association for the Advancement Of |
Science, Although established in 1883 |
the magazine was reorganlzed six |
years ago, and has since been under the |
NHbl 50 VI uH ihI ibllllilllltt, WIN |
Prof j. McKeen Cattell, head Of ths |
department Of psychology and anthro. |
pology Of Columbia University, as It's |
responsible head,
Already the first edition of Lord |
Rosebery's Napoleon: The Last Phase |
consisting Of 10000 copies, has been ex, |
hausted in England To peculiarly |
large extent English criticism is in |
splred by the political position of the |
author. The Athenaeum utters many |
disparaglng walls over the book, ana /
says that II Is written IN a style not |
historical, but rather adapted to that |
of diter-dinner speaking.
over a thousand hitherto unutilized |
Heine Manuscripts and letters have |
been acquired by Professor Hans Meyer |
of Lelpsic. Among these Is the earliest
manuscript of Alta Troll, embracing
two hundred sheets, containing many |
corrections. The letters addressed to
the poet by relatives and friends throw
much valuable light on phases Of his
life.