Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-24

kOll-CHll OF w Westminster Ahhe9' $3.50
a book as this has been long needed.
Il Is beautifully illustrated with many
half-tone reproductions OF the mohu-
ments Every visitor 20 westminster
has felt the lack Of Trustworthy IL
Illustrated account OF the more FAMOUS
tombs II win be an octave volume Oh
about 400 pages exclusive OF me many
illustrations and plans the book VIII
he plblIshed sometime during May. II
Is written In a chatty, historical VEN,
vim much curious Information about
the people 10 whom the monuments
we're made. 1t is not only an account
Of the more important Abbey monu-
ments hut Ia an entertaining volume OF
historical gossip and personal lore con
nected with the people to whom the
monuments were erected.
Mary Anderson the American ac-
tress. was a warm friend OF William
blacks, as we are told by Sir Wemyss
Reid in his new biography of the nov
elist. Black always called her THAT
Beautiful Wretch" the title. as every
one knows, OF one Of his most inter
esting books. Through Miss Anderson
influence Black once essayed q think
ing part" In performance Of 'Romeo
and Juliet" given at Glasgow, appear
ing IN the ballroom scene IN blue
domino and mask. Sir Wemyss tells
us that according TO Miss Anderson
no more lgnominlous first appearance
was ever made. Black planted hlmselI
in a rather prominent position on the
stage. with his back 20 a pillar. Here
he remained, absolutely motionless'
speechless from stage fright When
he should have made his exit, ITO MISS
Anderson's horror, Black stuck to MS
post until Miss Anderson's broth
err and a fellow actor returning
TO the stage. succeeded by sheer force
in dragging the paralyzed super rom
It,"
Harper & Brothers will publish
marion Manning" the first mover Oh
Mrs. VIM, Corcoran Eustis dauBn-
ter of ex-vice president and Mrs Lew
=. Morton. AS Miss Edith Morton she
WAS prominent In Washington society
She is now the wife of the third secre-
tary TO the American embassy at Lon
don. Mrs. Eusts has written very
clever story of American life, In when
many OF the scenes are laid In WASH
lngton, Her heroine Is young high-
bred Virginia girl, who marries poll-
tician of INSCRIPTIONS AMBITION HOW
his temperament acts upon hers, anu
how. later on, she comes TO know
man of wholly different fibre ana 70
marry him, makes a story OF dramauc
intensity and charm,
w. u. Henley, author Of the new vol
ume az poems Hawthorn and LaVen-
der" pays this tribute 10 Cecil Rhodes
IN the last issue of the London Sphere
"As | write there is the scantiest hope I;
but the chances are ninety 10 one that
before what | am writing gets INTO
TYNE the force that was known among
men as Cecil Rhodes Will have slipped
into the past and the British empire
will be the richer by a notable memory
and an heroic example, and the poorer
by a great Englishman. He had NJ
faults no doubt as who has notY Ana
no doubt he made Mistakes as what
heroic trafficker In man and circum-
stance, from Hannibal and caesar
down, has not? But he loved his Eng
land. and he did whatever lay IN him
10 keep her great, and TO make hei
greater and he has writ his name
across the map OF South Africa In char
acters that II will take some centuries
Of human dealing to blur, ana very
many more to blot"
Among the four women who came In
| TO Hamllton's life, It Is with his re-
markable mother, and TO the peculiar
circumstances of Hamilton's birth that
Gertrude Atherton opens her new book
1.-THE Conqueror which The Macmii'
Ian company has published. The 9th
| err three women whose influence Is felt
throughout the book are his wife, Eliza
| beth Schuyler. one of the most notable
girls and famous bellies of revolutionary
| days, his daughter Angelica. and Mrs
| Crolx, or Mime. Jumel az she after
| wards became. Nine. Jume may be
said to have almost dominated Hamll
tons life.