Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-03-01
NOTES

ui,vs We a Bourbon among UNy' ap-
,,.,eJ I'm Putnams magazine, II
aronsel much comment and interesting
SoeculatIon. AT that time writes
New York man TO Mrs CatherWood' II
vas clerk In the employ OF George r.
putnam Eleazar WllliGns visited the
store In Park Place frequently and !
SAW his several times and remember
perfectly his appearance
aue Mas q benevolent looking old
Gentleman with thin white hair a very
doTk complexion, but brown, not copper
colored and I'm no way resembling an
Indians ar half-breed's. His head was
large his face Mll--what I have since
recognized as the Bourbon Iuce- prom
Inant nose and blue eyes, lie had the
bIld and height of Willard Fillmore or
rlward Everett I have a lasting
memory Of faces, and can call up Flea
gar Williams appearance at VIII, !
,,os graatly Impressed by Lazarre. as
you call him. and have often thought Of
hs reality OF his being the dauphin who
ls nv no means proved To have died IN
the Temple prison 1 distinctly rcmem-
her lhe talk OF the visit which the
prince de loInyllc paid to Lazarrc IN
ihe vest and Of the attempt TO get "A
remuneration from him of his claim to
the French throne
Dr. Edward Egglestons principal
place Of abode, though he is very fond
Of MIS- Old home In Madison, Ind, Is ON
punhams Bay Lake George where Is
located the really wonderful library
which he has accumulated. Doctor Egg
pDes,ons books are in all languages, for
having In his youth by unaided efforts
acquired knowledge of Greek, Latin
ind French he promised himself that
whenever he found anything which he
wanted to read he would read 1t no
matter In what language IL stood. and
that promise he has kept His house
and library form rather curious struc-
tlre. being In fact three separate
houses Of ileldstone connected by an
aiier.ihought The surroundings are
wild and beautiful and the author, In
spite Of his govt, stlll takes long walks
through the country Doctor Eggles-
TONS manuscript looks like a Chinese
puzzle. crossed stetted and lnterlined
10 the verge Of madness, the hand
writing cramped and almost micro"
scope
Most adult American men are accus-
toned to think that they know good
deal about our own government, but II
they are asked to tell how our gov
enmental institutions arose or deyel-
0ped they are nonplussed and when
they consider the reason for their In
ability to answer such a question they
find that this phase Of history or Unit
ed states clylcs was not treated In the
Older textbooks that they studied. That
this no longer q neglected field Is welt
shown by Strong and SChafers recent
book on The Government Of the Amer
lean People In which those authors
have carefully traced out, step by step,
lhe growth Of our present institutions
from their very beginnings,
Mr. Harris Dickson, whose first nov
el THE Black VOLTS Breed met with
such pronounced success, has completed
q new story which the Harpers are
about TO publish. 1t is called THE
Siege Of Lady Resolute,' and is a
charming romance Of the long siege Of
a spirited girls heart by young
french marquis, who, having mortally
offended her early in their acquaint-
ance, rs still determined 10 win her.
hr Dickson has crowded his story with
sparkling Incidents and brave adven-
lures but the tale Is not Of the swash-
pucElIng Kind. Mr. Dickson Is young
man silll In the early thlrties, South
eIneF by birth and cosmopolitan by
experience He is a lawyer, but the
weaving OF romance has made a more
urgent appeal to his Imagination than
Ine preparation Of briefs, and the sue
cess Of The Black VOLTS Breed def
N''eIy outlined his future.
MISS Ellen Glasgow has written new
novel which viii be called "The Battle
gOuhl and viii be- published in Lon
uon N The spring Miss Glasgow does
HeI Produce novels as rapidly as some
Vi nrf young contemporaries, hut new
ICONS nave issued steadily from her
u.sA al intervals ever since her first
,,yu.'esIll novel THE Descendant
@hS glasgow Is Still very young woe
nal ana much Us expected Of her But
.duy concur IN the opinion that she
u9s never done anything better thaa
lne Descendant which Is q strong,
%ruhnit ana brilliant story. The au-
WV, southern woman, living at
SWhnond Va, In an old family man
s s,'n o. lhe type fast disappearing from
runll George Madden Martins little
-ui0y Lou made her fret bow TO the
,saueIs OF Mctures Magazine. now
, ,sue eighteen months past, the field
y, ,he American public school had been
VuI' overlooked by our story writer's
VOW MAT the little girl has pluckily
tWk'A mp through four readers and
~, virtue of her experiences under
Mss sadie ana Miss Lizzie" and
s Xt Irsl has developed into real up-to.
sa' heroine with history. peopl,
ndy De Interested 10 know how the idea
y. EnmN Lou and her public schoo
Eotress originated
4. 'NIny LOUIS biographer had original
no such design upon her. but hel
KEY Story "a Little Feminine Casa,
, '',,.l. so charmed the editors Of tbs
mHsa1lne that they wrote asking fol
, rV.e. but the author az first could SCI
~ more stories and FOR awhile Emm,
~. NV was threatened with as mortal
n1e aS The real Casabianca; until Mrs
o.un happening 10 read In another
lsat'"t am article on our publil
s. .uoi'. conceived the plan Of n gloricu
,..st M Though all the readers. Tn,
ull Is mat We have today one Of TN
Sn5 9' loFa0le little girls in recent fiction
Wu' more than that. a vivid picture O
W, lover grades OF our public schools
''A' '"s lssa true and much more real