Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-09-19

concessions that was full OF absurditles
and yet contained many things which
revealed strong originality and now
appears with a second book, entitled
MY Friend. Annabel Lee" and by
means OF this. one may gauge the
ern girl during the last three
years. Much OF this time she
has spent In Boston and In
the portrait OF her, which appears In
her book, and in nearly every chapter. It
is easy TO see the sophistlcation that
has come over the once wild, untrnm-
meled damsel from Butte She no
longer apostrophlzes the sweet deviW
or INDUCES In sentimental rhapsodles,
but this new hook lacks much of the
vigor and originality Of the other. II
is restrained, and restraint has not
been good for this Montana girl. she
sets up a Japanese Image as her COM
panion and calls II Annabel Lee Much
OF the book Is devoted to imaginary
conversations between herself and An
rabel over LIES problems and the
things that she has seen I'm Boston.
Occasionally she INDUCES In reminis-
cences Of her old life in Butte. and
these chapters are by far the best.
This book Is full of affectation, OF i'm
mature cynicism and OF self-conscious-
Itess; but between patches OF rhetor-
zeal rubbish one comes upon fine
thoughts, often put In Language that
is remarkable for one of this girls
years. One of the best chapters Is on
Boston, and the finest thing I'm this
chapter Is the authors visions, which
are conjured up by study OF the mural
paintings IN the Free Library. Here is
a bit which shows the young authors
powerful pictorial maginaton
And tines | said, Il sit on one of
the window seats of the stairway OF
the public library And | look at the
walls. A Frenchman with marvellous
fancy and great skill IN his finger ends
has worked on those walls. lie painted
there the emblems Of all the worlds
great material things of an ages. And
over them he painted thin gray veil
OF those things that are not material,
that come from no age, that are with
us, around us, above us-as they were
with the children OF Israel, with the
dwellers in Pompell. with the fair cities
Of Greece and the inhabitants thereof.
II have looked at the paintings and
have been daz2led and transported.
What Is there not upon those walls?
Il have seen, IN truth, the vision OF
the world and all the wonder that
shall be-
Il have seen the struggling OF
the chrysalis soul and its bursting into
light; ! have seen the divinity that
doth sometime hedge the earth have
looked at conception Of Poetry and
have heard the thin rhythmic sounds of
shawms and stringed Instruments.
and | have heard low, voluptuous mu-
Sic from within the tempie--human
voices like sweet jasmine; have seen
the fascinating idolatry Of pagans-and
have seem pale I'm the evening by the
light of a star the wooden figure of
the cross; ! have leaned over the edge
or chasm and beheld the things of
od-the army Of Hannibal before Car
thage-the Norsemen going down to
me sea IN shlps-the futile savage
iighting of Goths and Vandals; have
seen science and art within the walled
cities, and have seen frai little lambs
gamboling by the side of the brook. |
have seen night shades lowering over
occult works, and / have seen bees
lying hoaVy-laden to their hives on "A
me summers morning; ! have heard
a lutte played where a tiny cataract
leaps, and the pipes OF Pan mingled
with the bubbling notes of a robin I'm
mint meadows; ! have seen pages and
pages of printed lines that reach from
worlds end to worlds end | have
seen profound works written centuries
ago I'm inks of many colors; | have seen
and been overwhelmed by the marVels
Of scientific things brstling with the
accurate kind OF knowledge that | shall
never know; withal ] have seen the
complete serenity of the worlds face
as shown by the brush of the French
man Chayannes.
And nNpr all tba t,abt,la,,. -.
of the long, ignorant silence"
The book is worth reading as a
study In the Intellectual development
OF peculiar mind, What the girl
VIII do In literary work is problemat-
lcah II she can get rid of her self
Consciousness she may do some genu-
Inc work that Will live, as she has n
vivid imagination and unusual power
Of expression, Chicago: Herbert S.
Stone a. Coz
AS one of the notable phenomena of
modern life is the advancement of the
millionaire into the Millionaire, a book
treating Of the Millionaire as monarch
or society will be received with inter-
est The j. $. Ogilvfe company have
In press on the subject "The Monarch
Billionaire," by Morrison !. Swift.
which Is study of the bearing of the
unfolding Millionaire upon American
liberties, and upon the ideas OF equal
opportunity for which the nation is
supposed to stand. 1t offers those who
have secured so much wealth plan
for making themselves benefactors of
the race In large sense. The author
shows how the trust may be used as
an agency of evolution for removing
every element Of servility from the la
borer while on the other hand avoiding
the tyranny of an inlnsirlnllznh elnln