Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-06

announce that the first edition Of THE
ship OF Silence and Other Poems" by
Edward Ellington Valentine. Is entirely
exhausted Mr.. Valentines verse has
been reviewed seriously and praised in
high quarters and the poetry loving
public showed It's appreciation by It's
purchases. The book is temporarily
out OF print, but the publishers hope
to offer a new edition within a few
weeks.
Albert Levcring, who made the un
usually clever and original Illustrations
for John Kendrick Bangs Olympian
Nights, il a southern Indiana man who
started in the west, doing work on the
Minneapolis Times and Chicago Trl-
bune, and finally settled In the east.
With sole view to illustrating, lie
studied art at the National Academy,
Munich AMI finished that portion of his
study by spending four months In Italy
on a bicycle, investigating all sorts OF
delightful by-ways and out-of- the-way
corners Mr.. lowering was educated 10
be an architect, and In choosing an
art lists life he ran counter to his faith
ers wishes. In Illustrating Olympien
Nights his knowledge of architecture
proved a valuable help. But his quaint
and humorous figures of the gods and
goddesses In their ridculously modern
environment are unique and mirth-pro-
yoking.
II has been the fashion for some years
now TO give q illlip to the tagging de-
mand for the works OF standard au-
thors by the issue Of a new edition with
an Introduction written by some ac
ciedted writer with far sounding
lame. In many cases the predatory
work has been undertaken for the sake
of the publishers bride. and has addcl
little or nothing at all 10 our knowledge
OF the author and his work. IF / were
asked to write an Introduction to Oar
wins Origin of Species wrote a well
known English editor and critic the
other day." although the subject Is one
on which | am grotesquely ignorant,
] should not hesitate were I tempted
with the magnificent honorarium with
which | am sure Chapman and Hall
heguiled Mr., Lang TO Introduce Dick
ems" This is the sort OF introduction
that Is In the main meretricious AMI
worthless. The introductlons that do
w
Mrs. Humphrey Ward for the novels
OF Charlotte Bronte and by Mrs Rich
mond Richie for the Biographical Ed
lion Of Thackeray, published by the
Farpers. "'ro the exquisite genius, the
tender devotion. the faultless taste and
the unfailing tact OF his daughter
says Swinburne Of Mrs Ritchie's 10
Productions, I'VE owe the most perfect
memorial ever raised to the fame and
to the character OF any great writer on
record"
Recent fiction would seem 10 indicate
that the coast OF Maine. with its quaint
~ picturesque comedy OF human life. 4
Turing other writers than Mrs. Sarah
l.. Mclean Greene into this charmed
circle. Up to now Mrs. Greene has
he'd the Maine coast as her own special
claim In American territory. and after
perusing the work of those who have
come after her. Il Is cafe TO prophesy
that she will still continue to hold her
own against all corners with her Vestry
OF the Basins and Flood-Tide The la'-
ter novel vas published last winter
and Is far and away the best work "
fiction she has written. Thousands of
copies OF Vestry have been sold since
lie publication in 1892. and the Constant
demand for Flood-Tide shows how far
and wide Is the appreciation OF her
stories.
Peter Newelrs funny book OF Pictures
and Rhymes has been for several years
a prime favorite as Christmas gift
for grown people. but the children have
found II out, and II is suggestive fact
that the humor OF the book. intended
for adult minds. appeals with direct
force 10 childish readers. One woman
who gave the book 10 q friend last
Christmas subsequently as'rsd bar how