Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-16

cldents In question were precisely those
which We're the most original in ma
ture, and were so described by review
ers Which only goes TO confirm the
remark Of wise old DR.. Samuel John
son, that there is no fact which may
be conceived that is not true Of some
particular person.
Are American short stories becoming
more and more admired abroad? II
would seem so. Harper & Bros. state
that they have received within the past
few months more applications from
foreigners for permission TO translate
stories from Harper's Magazine than
they have ever had before In the same
length Of time. The latest request
CONS from Austria, and asks leave TO
translate into German a story, "The
Callfornians Tale" by Mark Twain
which appeared in the Magazine for
March.
William Winter has written an intro
duction to j. II. Stoddard's reminis-
cences. which the Century company will
publish under the title "Recollections Of
Player" Mr. Stoddard played last
season in Ian Maclaren's Bonnie Brier
Bush" His stage experience extends
over a period OF 50 years and should be
full of interest.
To. Mr. Swinburne has been accorded
the honor Of preparing the first signed
article which the Quarterly Review has
ever printed; II is a paper on Charles
Dickens. Another piece OF work, one
which its author. well-known novel;
list. prefers not 10 sign, is the introduce
ton to the forthcoming abridged trans
lation OF the Memoirs of Casanova"
The four Shakespearean follos
offered for sale by Pickering & Chatto
Of London are held at Si2,b0O, The first
folio has been before this sold at auc-
ton for $3.50 and the second for more
than $1,000. The COPY OF the third folio
is In perfect conditional rare thing
with this folio. The binding of the four
volumes is crimson morocco n copy Of
a seventeenth century binding.
The following death notice Is to be
found in the London Times OF June 2s:
David Barrie, the father OF J, NJ, Bar
rle. died Yesterday In his eighty-elghth
wear. Mr.. Barrie died az his house
Strathyiew. Kirrlemuir. adjoining the
one made famous by his son In a Win
dow In Thrums He was knocked down
by a vehicle about two months ago
and never recovered from the shock"
Labouchere Is much irritated because
Austin Dobson has been appointed to
receive a pension Of e250 yearly out Of
the First Lord Of the Treasury's small
annual allowance Of 1900 for such
pensions He declares that Dobson Is
not poet but only a meat yersiler.
and already receives n pension from
the board of trade He recalls that
Peel granted Tennyson pension Of on
~ f2ee yearly.
Doubleday. Page & Co. are engaged
IN launching an English edition OF "The
Worlds Work" Henry Norman, the
well known English journalist VIII be
the editor. Mr.. Norman resigned from
the staff Of the London Chronicle In
1899 TO devote himself to literature and
politics. The English edition Will be
conducted on lines entirely though
there viii naturally be correspondence
between the two Offices.
The Sketch. in referring to the recent
knighting Of Gilbert Parker, says he
has been called THE Kipling Of Cana
da." and this because h. introduced
The people OF Great BENZ 20 their
Canadian brothers as Kipling intro
duced them to the Indians.
Miss Mary +. wilkins story "Jer-
ONE; a Poor Man" unlike many novels
OF the day, has been dramatized with
extreme care and elaboration, and VIII