Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-31

drama IN that II treats this myth as
lite Satyr-play centered about a
worship OF nature. II is expected that
the idy Will be produced IN Boston and
New York this winter.
The Macmillan company has just
sent Mr. Robert Herrlcks new novel,
The Common Lot" to press for the
sixth time,
The ideal model library Is set forth
IN the new American Library associa
ton Catalogue for 1904 issued by the
government printing Office at Wash
ington The New York State Library
and the Library Of Congress Joined
forces In selecting out Of the whole
range Of American and English litera-
ture the books that should go TO make
up an Ideally good small public library
for the genrul reader which would also
serve the neds OF most special stu
dents II Is Of interest TO know that Of
the 1920 volumes declared by these
authorities the best for the purposes OF
the library and the general reader,
1881. or a little more than lSS per cent,
are published by the Macmillan COM
pany,
The tltle-pn- u Me Girl and the
Kaiser recently Issued by the Bobbs-
Merrill company, shows the author as
Pauline Bradford Mackle. This rs the
maiden name Of Mrs, Herbert NJ Hop
kins whose husband is professor OF
latin I'm Trinity College az Hartford,
Both Prot Hopkins and his wife have
made places for themselves among the
modern novellsts of America The
Torch. Prot HopkI book published
last year attracted considerable at,en-
ton as on lncisive attack on CONNER
clal Influences IN university lie Mrs.
Hopkins has quite a long list Of stories
10 her credit. The Washlngtonians and
The Voice IN the Desert being per-
haps the most important The Girl
and the Kaiser Is noteworthy FOR Its
intimate. friendly and unexaggerated
picture Of Emperor William the sud
den. For the first time IN fiction we
have d portrait Of him, not carlcature.
on Dec. Miss Nance O'Nell gave
the first New York production OF
judith Of Bethulia" the new play
written FOR her by Mr. TNomoe B'uov
Aldrch. ON the same day the play
was published IN book form by 10 gh-
ton. Mifnln e. Co with a fine photo
Rravure portrait Of Miss O'Neil IN the
part ~ the heroine IN this tragedy
the Hebrew heroine Is portrayed as q
woman fun Of tenderness mercy, and
refinement. who Is compelled by rellg-
lous fervor and love OF country 20 90 a
deed OF great daring. The title,
judith OF Bethulia" marks the work
as IN part q dramatization OF the au-
thor's narrative poem, Judith and
Holofemes.' Although Il contains lines
and passasges from the story. the
drama Is essentially q distinct work
dealing with characters, incidents and
situations not 10 be found in the poem
or In the apocryphal episode upon /
which both pieces were based.
The work has just appeared I'm book I
form through the press Of Houghton,
Mifnin & Company and contains spir-
tied portraits Of Miss O'Neil In the
character Of Judith,
In a long editorial on the years
books the Boston Transcript calls at
tenton 10 the faact that Tor the notable
novels OF the present day we do not
look 10 the older writer's but rather 10
the men who, practically unknown
few years ago, are now winning their
way 10 fame through work which bears
all possible evidence Of sincerity and
permanent value. II Is not by their
names but by their work, that they are
known. When such novels as THE
Sea- Wolf" THE Common Lot" and
three or four others are mentioned,
there are few or none Of equal rank
TO be added. Such novels show not
merely the art OF the modern novelist
They exhibit more than all else his
scope and variety, for they deal with
every phase OF human ac-
.iylty and social life"