Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-02-07

most striking modern instance for
neither Dreytus nor the French army
appears In the pages Of the story. lola
attacks In IL what he considered q far
greater enemy CT France that the army
ring, namely, the Society Of Jesus and
the system Of education Of the Roman
Catholic religious orders; therefore, IN
his story q Jesuit teacher In Jesuit
school commits a horrible crime, and
is aided by his order In fastening suspi-
con upon the secular schoolmaster OF
the district a jew. The hero, Mare Fro
mCnt-a name remembered by all read
ers Of the trilogy "LOurdcs, Rome,
"Paris'-sets 10 work 10 prove the in
nocence of the wrongly convicted mar,
The subscription list for the memoir
i1l in Exeter cathedral to Il. d. Black
more, author of Lorna DoOne," has
just been closed. The sum actually
subscribed amounted to over 81 600 but
additional contributions are promised.
1t is an interesting fact in connection
with BlackmOTe that he was only sur
prised by the success OF Lorna Doone"
ard considered 1t Inferior 10 his novel.
Springhayen Yet on both sides of
the ocean Lorna Doone" is the most
popular Of his works.
The Lothrop Publishing company Of
Boston will bring out in February
Richard Burton's new volume Of verse
entitled Message and Melody" THIS
cook OF poems Is the fourth which MI
Burton has issued and contains his lat
est and most mature work In the lyric
and ballad VEN, gathered from many
magazines or written especially for this
volume Tho book is rich and attract
I've In both topography and binding.
and no doubt will Increase the audienc"
which Mr. Burton's earlier books have
gained for him.
Contrary to the common belief. IA
win Markham thinks Kipling's art has
grown ana matured OF late I'VE hear.
he writes In the Literary Digest. in an
o. Kipllng's poems the shrill note ~
individuality, and there Is a marked
Increase OF power In his poetry as the
years 60 by. The ditties of his earlier
period are the mere strummlugs on the
banjo the ballads OF his middle per-
led ere the melodious chords OF the
street haIp mixed With the noises %
the crowd, while the poems OF his thir2
rcri0d rise into the splendid reaches Of
orchestral brass and silver
Ellen Glasgow who Is spending tie
winter in New York. SAYS that she IN q
roundabout way owes the publication
~ her first published novel 10 Harold
Frederic She had already brought one
novel IN manuscript % New York and
10 D.. q Na
qLother book and brought e here His
tory repeated itself Publishers were
stony hearted At last. I'm sheer dcs-
pair. she sent the manuscript anany-
n,ousy 10 Well-knONn firm Ii was
accepted, because the reader into whose
hands u fen was sure that be had a
bcok'hy Harold Frederic and that the
firm couldn't afford 10 miss 1t. This was
the beginning Of the very successful
career of the author OF "The Voice of
TIE People Doubleday Page x Coz.
7rd % volume NJ nor n1ems printed IN
luxurious style by De Winnie
The first noteworthy event I'm the life
~ Conan Doyle. we are told hy Mr.
Holder Williams, "wa5 literary
achievement az the earb age Of sis. a
story Of adventure, Of terrible adyen-
ture, written In a bod hand on fools
cap paper four words 70 the line and
accompanied 10y original psn-and-ink
Illustrations There was a man IN e
and there was tiger he writes of ihls
youthful production. Il FORGET which
was the hero. but u didn't matter
much. Tor they became blended into one
about the time when the tiger met tie
man ! was o realist In the age OF the
romanitclsts / described al some
length. both verbally and pictorlally
the untimely end OF that wayfarer But
when the tiger had absorbed him |