Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-18

suffering We're drawn with sharp WIil.
hlos in his face. He managed To gel
about his library by taking the back pf
a small chair in each hand, and pushing
item along as one might use canes.
He shufied painfully over to his desk
high one, such as boobkeepers stant
up to in making entries IN their heavy
hooks. He never SIT down 20 his writ
ing. he said. once before his desk he
could stand there leaning on II and
write for three or four hours at time
bat It was a great task for him to go
from Il to his easy chair by the window.
Before Murdoch went away, he menl
toned that the next winter he hoped
10 see the south Of France, where the
great authors childhood had been
spent
"But you shall not go south for some
time. you saw" asked the author.
mo, cannot 20 before next winter
answered Murdoch.
"Ah. | am so sorry" said the author
with a sigh. ~ may be dead then. |
had hoped that you would be going
soon, so that might make some pleas
IRE out Of you. | have lately made
much out of one countryman OF yours
1
tales about "Tartarin de Tarascon w
Yes? You have heard Of them? | an
glad. Well. your countryman was max
lng-a-what we might call pilgrim
age de luxe 10 Lourdes | knew that
ho was going to the south or france,
and as he came to me with a letter
from a friend, did for him what l
could, l gave him some letters OF IN
PRODUCTION to people whom | once kne"
In Tarascon, ! once knew them very
well, indeed, so well, in fact that
used them as the lay figures for the
characters In 'Tartarin.'
"The devil must have been In Oh
Daudet that day" he said, smiling
theerfully. Yes, am sure that the
devil must have been In me when !
selected the ones TO whom | should
give him letters, You know that have
,een TO Tarascon only once since
wrote the little sketches, and that that
time / was both stoned and rotten
egged Well, gave him letters to those
who had been most violent to me lie
was very grateful TO me, but when ne
presented the letters the people down
ll.ere almost Killed him. laugh about
K many times. | had so hoped that
you were going south. | could have
given TO you letters which might have
made your journey very interesting 10
YOU"
Perhaps the most attractive volume
in The Literatures of the World series
of the Messrs. Appleton viii be the
one devoted to American Litera-
ture." 1t has teen written by Prof.
William p. Trent and embraces the
whole period from the first settlement
down TO recent times. Prof Trent's
previous writings and the chair he
holds at Columbia give ample assur-
ances that this work will be construct
ed on broad and interesting lines, and
that il will be adapted TO - needs of
those who desire wise guidance In their
study of q subject heretofore treated
in a fragmentary. Ineffective, or other
wise inadequate way.
HALLE Ermnie Riyes, the author OF
Hearts Courageous ha been spenc-
ing the summer at White sulphur
sprIngs, West Virginia, hard at work
on n new novel A friend of hers tells
a good story of her stay there.
The authoress on all her walks was
accompanied by fat gold-and-eather
book. which never left her hands on
the back was Inscribed THE Poems Of
Robert Browning"
How outrageously fond Of Browning
that girl is" lady remarked one day
on the hotel piazza. "She must have a
half dozen different copies. The day
she came she sat out here with blue
covered one. and last week II was
gIay."
one afternoon, however the author-
ere was caught mapping. She left her
Browning in the chimney corner ara
4, was pounced upon. A glance inside
the covers and the secret was out. The
precious volume was only a blank book,
and each leaf was covered with notes,
memoranda, bits of misunderstanding
and the usual pot-pourri OF business
like authors notebook.
Miss Rlves appeared, out OF breath
while the finder was fluttering TIRE
nages. and captured IL, 10 the dismal
of The inquisitlve group that had gatl'-
cred And as she bore II away she
hoard a voice say emphatically How
Gpcoitful, To pretend that book was
poetry. And III bet a pound OF choco-
Totes she has got Us all In the horrid
ting, too!'
Kotto: Some japanese Curios' with
Sunday cobwehs. is the CHARACTERISTIC
title of Lafcadio Hearns new booK
which is to be Issued ms month, ineIe
&c nm lndfscrlbable charm in all that
this author writes, a charm which
springs partly from the exotic nature
OF his subjects, but chiefly from the 1el-
icacy OF his fancy and expression. BE-
ginning as a spectator Of the Masque
OF the East. he became lover OF tne
east. He visited her secret places /
prayed her prayers. saw with her eyes, 1
and translated what he saw for our F
slower comprehension. In his wrluhe
are passages as delicate as the crepes.
OF China and as rich as the lacquers OF
japan. Born Of a Greek mother ana
an Irish father. the vivacity and INTEL
lectual fiueness Of his genius probably 1