Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-23
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THE Yoke Elizabeth Miller's ro-
nance Of the Exodus which is being
much discussed just now, Is IN general
ca faithful to the biblical record that
,one people have wondered why the au-
thor failed 10 make the Pharaoh perish
Win his hosts In the Red Sea. II has
heen fine traditional belief that he was
LOST with all his Chivalry, Nowhere
n the Mosaic account, however, Is his
death positively declared. And since
ms great lawgver went into minute
details Of the disaster to the army,
90 important an incident as the drown
ne N the king would not have escaped
bls notice. In the light of this con.
clusIon. then, the believer may read,
with undisturbed faith, that the Pha-
raoh withdrew from the pursuit of Is
raA and lived lorg enough afterward
10 nismanage his Kingdoms into ruin
before he died A few years ago Lo-
ret. the great French Egyptologist,came
upon a mummy In the debris Of crum-
himg tomb. The writings buried with
Id bore witness TO its Identity That
gl.y wsp Of humanity wrapped in old
cerenitnts was Meneptah, the Pharaoh
oi the Exodus
A surprising number ~ good books Is
being published this spring NJ the very
low price Of % cents THE Virginlan,
fCaumet H." The Crisis" THE
Choir Invisible" and other flrst-ratc
novels will appear In paper covers at
that price This week the Macmillan
company issues John Graham Brooks
velhknovn book, THE Social Unrest.
IN a paper.bound edition; and recently
they issued Palgrave's Golden Treas
my Of Songs and Lyrics IN a little vol
time bound In red cloth and published at
The same price. This is the best collec-
ton OF English poetry ever made.
Ms II. A. Mitchell Keays, whose
novel on the divorce problem, He That
Eateth Bread With Me-" has already
reached third edition, did little work
for the magazines before she essayed
novel writing. The training that other
people get by their short stories she got
IN different way. In my family Ne
are all great correspondents" she says.
Throughout my life I have written
many long letters, When | was
school girl An uncle Of literary taste
USED 10 demand OF me lengthy epistles
O The old school type every week. and
'hey had TO be Of tho kind that would
\ ha1t nNte
cassie writer's, like George Eliot, Char
lol'e Brontc and Jane Austen owed
great deal to the training they received
through their correspondence: train
lbs We never get In these days OF tele-
grams and two line typewriter notes"
10 sound the note of n profound life
ELcklng emotion and stin keep on the
zoe OF sanity avoiding hysterla, Is Il
great task for any novelist. Those who
nave read Mrs Keay's novel OF divorce,
Ne Ihat Eateth Bread With Me" are
unanimous in the opinion that she has
accomplished this difficult task. and
ua' especially because Of the authors
success IN This direction her book. as a
tr.e 81 artistry and as a contribution
y uougnuul literature, stands at the
"''l OF the years problem novels.
ne quest Of the appropriate title Is
W, ~ me most difficult tasks that fall
W 'no lo' OF the author and editor. The
mw Pall leicester Ford on being
p , one day by friend II a certain
sW0'y was ready for the publishers. re.
I i.r. 'hal one third of It was complete
ne loht Is finished" he added, but
haven't found my title. That repre-
.W i"o'ihrds Of The work, you
@t samuel MerwIn IL best known as
Su' author with Mr.. Henry K. Web
Nv, vi calumet X, one of the best "
b.Hu, stories for man. His new
.-"N taxes It's name from the schooner