Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-07

Special Correspondence,
ONDoN, April 2I--For three
months A. Henry Savage Lander
| has been in London and yet not
one Of his large circle Of friends
has known Of his whereabouts. At
Westminster hotel, where this grand
son of the poet Walter Savage Lander
always lives when in the metropolis
he has been shut up, denying himself
all social pleasures 80 that he might
write his long projected BOOK on inc
Philippines IN peace, undisturbed by
callers. Gems of the East Is to he
the title OF this book on the Philippines,
where Mr.. Savage Lander has just
snent a whole verifying among the
most savage tribes to be found In the
islands.
Now that Lander has emerged from
his seclusion ne let's little bits OF ms
experiences in this archipeaBo-WH eIe
he had several close shaVes-sscape
him and Is especially loud IN ms
praises Of the courtesy Of the United
States government which not ohly
placed vessel at his disposal but
every facility for the explorations
which occupied him for more IMAM q
year.
tribes Mr. lundOr got on WOndrilully
well with those of the Philippines ana
returned TO London looking as youth
nul ag ever and conlessing that he
thoroughly enjoyed his adventures. re
says that though he let the saNaRes
geo that they couldn't scare him, he ana
not bully them, and only were lhey III
desperate fright ut him when he want
cd To measure their heads. Then they
thought he was trying To WORK spell
on them. cut In the end he suc'ee9eu
I'm disarmng their fears and mas pc
| aide many measurements brought PACK
n number Of skulls for anthropoloBlcal
| ourposes which are To be presented To
| Inc natural history section Of the BRIT
| Ieh Museum. Beside the book, which
| js to haze red cover, adorned win
| tho stars and stripes and which IS 10
| he unfinished simultaneously IN London
| Now York and Berlin, MI landor l5
| comnillpg no less than 80 dictionaries
! of The words used by 80 different tribes
| I'm ne ISLANDS. This explorer VINO IN "
vora IA linFu'st In European lan
! Ian pick up one of these prlmi-
! a.. uagcs I'm am mcommonlN short
| uu Id thus make himtell p'll'' "'
| home win amy savage tribe,
| Mr. Lander speaks English with "
elirht foreign accent, Tor his mother
| was IAN Italian and II rs from her mat
| ne has Inherited "a charming hllIt
! estate i'm Italy with vineyards ana owe
! rroyeg near Florence. I'm which tlly
| dwell his father and mother one sls-
| fer and two brothers all quito un'
! touched with the spirit Of adventure
| that cNcltcs the author IL " TO lHa
| estate, his real home, that MI Lane
| dor viii repair later This month.
Lander never smokes, never drinks
| alcoholic LIQUORS, and hardly knows ln'
| meaning OF fatigue. Ns one cNaIll '
| of HIS endurance when M" NHl We
tween. china and japan broke out IN.
explorer fulAlled q publishers suddc,
| demands To- complete the writing Nn'
Uustratlng Of I'd book ON Korea IRON
! whence M had just then returned
within one month. That month me- mac
| promlyad 10 stay I'm Scotland with Luu
! Gh.nesk md ~ there was royalty stay
| ing I'm the house he was not only uh
able t. cancel his engagement nut h
had To- join I'm yerylhiuE thal N'
going on all day so that nus Hilllls
had u be done during the hours %
nieht To only allowed himself three
hours sleep eaCn night and ut the ere
| of rs DAVIS hts work, Including tN
Illustrations and covers, was g1mpiel
ed ana IN the publishers hands,
Guy Thorne's novel "Whon il Wa.
/ Dark" the unusual plot Of which wat
.oscrlbed. In these letters, and review
which / see are now appearius
the United States, got q handsome
"Frnd of" at the hands of the hlthol
| Of London, the other day II is seldom
| mIgoi that reference 90 "a Wolri'
| work Of fiction ie made from the pu,pl
| brrc-aud compliment 90 Guy
| Thornc was a greater from the il,
| Tint tho B,aNup of London praised nN
| wo.S In "A sermon o. Westminster Ao
i bty
| II wonder" said Mr. Ingram
| "yhcthcr any ~ you have read thAl ~.
markablp work of fiction, When !
Was Dark" II paints, u WoudgrIu
! colors. what II seems 20 m' tho Wor''
would tc IT, for six months, us ln th
story IL ~ supposed to be- the ease
owing 20 a gigantic fraud, the resur
rection might be supposed never q
| have occurred
Although in her time Frances Pos ol
Cohba both wrote aud spoke on Cha
subject of v0mau's rights with an
,nerp. ur Susan b. Anthony hers 10
the Wide attention which her death at
hncfad tine other day was due prln
cjpaUy to Tho unusual commands con
taincl An her Will She evidently hod
horror of being buried alive, for sh