Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-03-28

word. The waiter got broom. swept
up the pieces of glass, and cleared the
table | asked him II the gentleman's
intellect was little in need of repair
on no. sir, said he. That's nothlnk
unusual with I'M sir WY. 'e's broke
MADE 'undred glahsses since e's been
a-comln' TO this 'Ousc n don't know il
when e does It. Els a-thlnkin', and IL
seems like Ms e got mad at somethlnk
was thinkIn' about Who is he?"
Lord Maucaulay sir"
The revised variorum edition of"Mac-
peth mas Just been issued By J. B. Lip
plhcott company. II Is the first vol
ume OF the yariorum Shakespeare pro-
pared under the Joint editolship of Hor.
ace Howard Furnoss and his Son Uor.
ace Howard Burness. Jr. The latter
hopes to be able to complete the monu-
mental work begun by his father over
a generation ago.
Prof John Ward Stmson's lonr.ex-
pected work on art and The philosophy
oI beauty, The Gate Beautiful" is at
iast announced for early publication
py Albert Brandt, OF Trenton, n. j. Ii
WIZ be quarto, Of $50 pages, ana is 10
contain several thousand illustrations
ana TWO colorcharts, one being printed
In "a colors.
truth Is sometimes funner than fc-
uon; and people who order books from
publishers do some very funny things
so funny that they do not sound true
Harper q Brothers received an order
the other day for some copies Of a book
entitled "A Vacation in Buggy" The
| order clerk was puzzled as no such title
Is on the frm's list He filled the Or
! ger ON venture by sending Mr.. Bavnes
| On an irish Jauntng-Car THROUGH
| Sonhehara. II proved to be the
book that was wanted
Since the appearance OF Frederic S. |
! Ishanl new novel. Under the Rose" |
I the publishers have had many innuiries
IN regard to the origin of inc pbrass |
and the Latin SYNONYM sub rosa Whom |
| IN the year Az i. c., pausanias ma |
| NerXes were plotting for the subiuga. |
! ton OF Greece 10 Persian rule. tho I'm. |
| ulgue was carried on in a building |
| whose roof was a garden and n bower |
| OF roses NerNes in cautonmg silence |
| haphazardly referred TO the roses |
| aDoFe them, so that between these men |
| the significance OF the flower came 10 |
be secrecy. II afterward became tho
custom of the Athenlans TO wear roses |
IN their hair whenever they wished the
communications among themselves TO
| he Kept inyiolate. Then an anciont
myth has 1t that Cupid gave Harpo-
crates the god Of Silence. a rose Far
brlbe not 10 betray the amours of
Venus. Thus the rose has become an
tnnlem OF silence and things done and
said Under the Rose are secret and
confidential
For the last twenty years hardly a
spring has gone by that has not Wei.
coined new volume of short stories
from the pen Of Bret Harte. His death
last May brought many expressions of
regret that this annual contribution TO
good llcllon could no longer go on. Mr..
iiaries literary executors have found,
however that he left material ready
LOT one more book, which will be pub
ilsned IN April under the title of
"Trants Trust" II contains seven
stories, in which some Of Bret Harte's
favorite characters have one more word
TO say.
Arthur Sherburne Hardys latest
novel, His Daughter First" which Is
arousing Keen interest during its serial
publication In The Atlantic. win he
ready In book form IN May.
A twelfth edition OF "The Riebt
Princess' Is announced. The populari-
" OF Mrs. Burnhams story is made on
~ the more pronounced BY the appear-
ance or other novels in the field of
christian Science. II Is In its 2ist
thousand. Mr. Alfred Farlow. one of
the most prominent Christian Sci
entists, says. The Right PRINCESS
Is the most Christian story. in fiction.
II has ever been my pleasure to read
II sets forth the pure ethics of Christian
Science In most emphatic manner and
is very true TO its logic and faithful
70 It's principle and conclusions. Its
leadlng character Is crowned with an
unbroken succession Of spiritual tri-
umphs, Illustrating that God is indeed
a present help In all times OF trouble,
and thereby affording its readers great
comfort II came to me as refresh
ing breeze waited from the very pres
ence Of divine love"
The books sold on railroads uuouv
consist Of the newest popular novels
ana publishers understand that hooks
several years old are not desirable
stock for this purpose Occasionally
there Is an exception. owen Wister's
Lin Mclean Is one For some rea-
son-perhaps because OF its snap and
sparkle ana truly entertaining quality
III holds It's own with the railroad
readers and so the railroad news com
panles buy II steadily, although the
book was published several years ago.
Most English literary men and wo-
men do not live In London when thew
can possibly avoid II. Mr. Anthony
Hope, author OF "The Intruslons OF
Peggy Is one Of the few who have
stationary quarters in town. Mrs.
Humphry Ward lives at Tring. Henry
Seton Merrimqn author Of 1.-THE Vul-
lures In Suffolk. Il. Nosbit IN Kent, ,
Elinor Glyn. author Of "The Reflections
of Ambrosine, at Harlow, in Essex,
ana go on through a long list Of coun-
try-dWelling authors The habit Is
growing IN America. and already many /
OF our best-known authors live outside | !
the city Mr. Ilowells Is an exception.
beng a resident OF New York, but he I
escapes from the city as early in the /
season as possible Mark Twain has | s
W.. " ~ A'N'l hdlti on tut iludHunJ Just |
outside the limits Of greater New York: /
Mrs. Mary T.. wilkins Freeman. whose i
six Trees has just come from the I
Harper press has always dwelt In rural \
but since her marriage Z
has removed TO Metuchen, n. j. h
In recently published life Of vii \
liam Hamilton Gibson, whose nature
bOOks-"Eye Spy" "HaDpy Hunting
Grounds and the others-are now
standard In their class. the biographer,
John Coleman Adams, tells how Glib
SON began life as an Insurance agent. 4
and drifted into picture-making In the !,
most incidental manner. I'm the course =
Of business call he observed a man {