Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-10

amid It's cares. The authority for the
work, considered as portrait Is q
bust soulptured by Pierce about the
year 1854 The earliest known posses.
sor OF this bust was Vertue, the cngray-
er, who describes Pierce as ~ sculptor
OF good, reputation IN those times, the
same who made the bust IN marble OF
Sir Christopher Wren which Is IN the
Bodlelan Library" II is an interesting
circumstance that the next owner OF the
bust was Sir Joshua Reynolds He ~
said 10 have purchased II for 60 l2s
u afterwards passed TO Mr. Thomas
Hollis and finally II found us way to
Christs college, Cambridge Milton s
own colege), where It Is preserved with
other priceless relics Of the poet II
was natural that sculptor should take
n sculptor's portrait as bis model; and
Mr. Mon,ford's choice was a happy one
In that his beautiful statue represents
Milton in the prime OF life, when the
plan Of Paradise Lost" was more and
more filling his mind For although It
was not until 1858 that Milton began 10
write his great epic, the prayer with
which the first book opens must long
have solemnl2ed his quiet hours. The
pedestal Is inscribed with the words
o Spirit what IN me Is dark
lllumlne, what Is low raise and support;
That to the hlghth OF this great argu.
ment
] may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways OF God 10 men.
Thus the statue represents Milton In
the supreme enterprise Of his life and
in the deepest working Of his spirit
An oxford edition Of Shelley's poems
is nearly ready for publication In Eng
land. IL viii contain mSterial never
yet printed, the early poems first pub
llshed In Professor Dowden's Life OF
Shelley" but omitted from his edition
OF the poetical works, and all Other
poems which have appeared I'm any
previous edition and the important
fragments recovered by Mr., c. u, To-
cock from the BodIelan manuscripts
The volume will contain about 1000
pages, " three collotype illustrations,
one the Bodleian portrait OF shelley. the
other Two facslmlles Of his handwriting.
Mr.. Thomas Hutchinson editor Of the
oxford Wordsworth has seen the new
Shelley through the press, and he has
supplied footnotes where the variant
readings are important In addition to
longer notes and general preface,
The following letter. appearing In
recent issue OF the Academy Ii certain
~ TO be commended for LIS brevlty and
expllcltness sir In noticing my story
Love IN Chief your reviewer has been
misled into thinking me an American by
the publishers name on the title page.
America is really quite innocent In the
matter. The story Is English. ths
characters are English, the author Is
English, has always lived IN England.
and has not spoken 10 half a dozen
Americans IN the course Of her life.
Yours, etc, Rose X, Weekes,"
This week the Macmillan company
publish "rho Road IN Tuscany" by Nj.
Maurice Hewlett, in two volumes, With
200 Illustrations by Joseph Pennelli
Thomas Mast, HIS period and His Pie
lures" by Albert Bgelow Paine; "The
Christian Opportunity" by Thomas II,
DavIison. nrchbishop OF Canterbury:
"Tho Quest Of John Chapman the story
hl "a y NiEVli'l iltNht ~ NDNFl ~ ~
Newell Dwight Hlllls "The Women OF
America" hy Elizabeth McCracken,
Beethoven and Hig F0rerunnera," by
Daniel Gregory Mason, the author OF
From Grieg 10 Brahms" "pathhnders
Of the West by Miss Agnes c. Laut,
Photography for the Sportsman Nat.
By Mr. l.. w Brownell; a new
and enlarged edition Of Hamilton "
Mabie's backgrounds OF Literature"
Europe and the Far Fast" By Sir
Robert X Douglas; and SCOTS Tails.
man" In the Pocket Classics Series.
Mr.. Howells has loft England, and Is
now with his family at San Reno, Italy.
where he has taken a villa for the wii-
ter His book about England viii o.
cupy him FOR some months During his
stay there he went as Jar north as
and was struck with many
between ils ueOple ana
Americans. his visit TO that city belns
agreeable While there Mr.
Howells inquired was was the clty's
chief industry and received the reply,
printing
a varlorum edition OF the works OF
Beaumont and Fletcher is 70 be pub
lished IN IL volumes by the Macmillan