Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-11-07

the Rocky Mountains ever made, took
his medicine like a man.
When Margaret Sutton Briscoe was Il
very small girl she had literary aspira-
lions which could not be suppressed,
and surreptltously wrote little verses
and stories, many of which went the
usual way Of loss and destruction in the
course of years But recently. in look
ing over some remaining MSS. of her
childhood, the author discovered the
following deectable bits OF natural-his-
tory verse:
1.-THE COW Ii a very beautiful beast,
And on sweet grass she likes to feast
She has calf every year at least"
Here is another:
See the little gosings play
ON the banks this sunny day.
Little goslingsl do but swim,
Each little her, each little him"
Evidently, to the young poet the
rhyme was the thing, But Mrs. Hop
kins long since abandoned the muse,
and has won fame as the author Of ex-
cellent short stories. Her last volume
of love stories, "rhe Change of Heart
was recently issued by the Harpers.
The dedication Of Nina Rhodes book,
"Silver Innings" is to Helen Keller a
tribute from blind girl to a blind
girl. Few people are aware that this
charming young writer has been blind
since early childhood, a fact that gives
an added interest to her book about "A
blind girls life, since II is the only ex-
preston of the life of the blind from
the inside.
The most praised book of the last
London literary season was Conrad's
Youth" and in strange coincidence
the most lauded picture exhibited at
the Royal academy was Mr.. Napier
Hemy's sea piece bearing the same IT,
tie. The idea Of the glory OF youth In
endeavor was the inspiration of both.
They We're created separately, but Mr.
Henry admits that his title was inspired
by Mr.. Conrad At first the picture
was called Young England, but when
Mr.. Hemys read Mr., Conrad's Youth"
he saw that the title Mr., Conrad had
chosen was just the proper and fitting
one for his picture Mr. Conrad and
Mr., Hemys are strangers to each 9TH
err, have never met or seen each other.
TT was immensely to the advantage
of Lowell as a direct human force that
he was so frankly a man Of the hour
Longfelow in his quiet scholastic life
and Holmes in his office Of urbane spec
tator seem a little remote, by COMPARE
son, from the more eager questions of
their day. Yet Lowelrs best work was
done i'm a field Of pure letters toward
the cultivation of which America had
before his time done very little,
There Is In the substance OF his best
prose work sound body OF criticism
such as no other American has yet
produced. For scholarship incisive-
mes and suggestlveness, such papers AS
the essays OF Dryden, Pope, and Dante
have been surpassed by very little crit
cim written In English. From Hig-
ginson and Boyntons Readers History
OF American Literature.
When Mr. Howells was our consul at
Venice he suffered In company with
many other diplomatists, from the In
trusion of strangers, who interrupted
his work upon the slightest pretext.
armed with remote letters of introduce
ton. On one occasion a certain rich
but solitary American, travelling abroad
and finding himself In Venice, resolved
to call on Mr.. Howels. whom he knew
only as rising American author, and
offer him the gift Of some fine old edl-
tions de luxe, purchased In his journey
abroad, which ne thought would be a
graceful gift from an American to his
foreign representative, when the latter
happened to be literary one morning,