Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-01

| y goe1 to The male heirs who cannot
De 'hld 70 be- $50 ardent 100 their pur.
sul OF literature as In their fondnes,
,V' money 70 VIII probably he sold,
lI ON Ihe Jthcr hand Sutro's daughter
b, hmml Suuo Merritt "a physician
InOeiis the library, ia WIN doubtless ba
I gwen to the city on 10 the university
! stanford would like 10 have ,he colcc-
! zion Already Dr. Andrew d. White
mas refused a PROFESSIONALLY there bee
| cause o. research library was lacking
me attractions of such "a library would
oDrlate this objection. not only DO tlr
case OF Dr. White, but with some olhu
scholars as wen Meanwhile. the books
are perched in The very section OF tho
! Guy where The worst fires take place.
IN one building over a blke5hop. which
l' VIGOROUSLY n $40, demanding a worry
high Insurance
Comparatively llttlc rs known about
the Sutr0 library. Gwen Che mcfiell
have only had lcotIug hon, TO pore
over the books The mayor wns ID
faolot as q collector and there arp pro-
badly moro than 22j.OOO titles. but ne
Waa not ass discriminating as he mlght
nave been su nearly half OF the collec.
lion. and this applies 10 nearly an IT,
blprIas ig ancient trash. Tie word
ancient o. used udvlsadlv because tine
major portion OF the books date before
100 ana perhaps q third. before 1000.
There are forBerles among them. and
thc other monuments TO- thp wics prac.
Used by the bookseller upon the un-
suspoctng cnthusiaft but % docs NOT
take % holf-h0ur 90 run across dozen
curosiucs and @ finger count of some
%. lhe greatest treasures known 90 the
blhliophilc
The Shakespeuyrap1 is alone of con
sumlng interest Sutro had agents con.
stantly ut work n England, and some
of thc books and documents produced
by them were sent out Of the British
lf'eH under strong protes. Of certain
BRUSH scholars. In the Sutro library
one finds the Rent Rool OF Shottery
Meadow The original entry book with
vast number of facts about Shak.
speHrc's Kin and tive blood relatives Of
ms wIfc-it Is only one Of the many L..
gal documents which bear on the he
OF the great poet, and here also are the
-four Folios Of the Plays, perhaps the
most interesting volumes Of English
print
The rest Of the books. bearing upon
the various masters ana sc0ols OF Eng
llsh literature are most interesting.
but two things are particularly note
WOrtfy-the lack Of Chaucer collection
and The amount of attention that SUI
tro I'd his agents paid TO Ben Jonson.
II is pleasant to read Drink TO Me
only with Thine Eyes from the first
DlifIRu Int ppa urluR,l tk.t H.. ..t...
more Chaucer and more Dryden.
Sutro made a pretence 10 stick 10
English books. In the middle eighties
the Bayarion authorities, after n per-
secution OF the monks, found a tremen-
dous collection Of M0nastic volumes
upon their hands. Literally the dust
OF centuries was In their clasps and
though, without a doubt. their pages
were full OF new and original lights
OF medieval history, and though sutro
purchased them In carload lots TO bring
to America, they have yet 20 be ex-
plored.
These books, from convent and mon.
astery, form the greatest collection on
medieval history I'm this country a
mine Of romance, a storehouse Of mar
yellous literary wares.
The luck Of Sutro did not end. Not
far separated chronologlcally from his
Bayarlon purchase, came the acquisl- |
tion OF ponderous collection Of manu- |
scripts and old chronicles from Mexico |
but as far as can be learned, this H. |
brary has never been moved from the |
boxes in which II was shipped, and |
Of Mexican and California |
history OF Aztec and Indian ethnology. |
OF the Jesuit movement IN the south |
west which these old volumes contain.
Is stu nailed down under pine boards. |
Just at present California. especially |
southern California, Is taking a renewed |
Interest In her own history In the early
days Of the mission, in the era OF coll |
onization, In the subsection OF the In