Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-05-21

Special Correspondence.
7 ONDON, May Something GER
tanly win have 70 be done-every.
body says soto prevent what
famous manuscripts this country
has left from going TO the United
states, Tho question is, what? The
FOLK here who own such literary treas
ures arc mostly glad enough TO sell
them, American collectors have the
WhcreWithal to outbd those I'm this
country SO there seems nothing for II
but law such as Italy has made IT.
regard TO masterpieces Of the painters
ort-forbldding their being sold out OF
the country Wrath has broken out
afrcsh here over the announcement that
the purchaser Of the Qlarto Shaker.
pcare-part second Of Henry the
Fourth'-which was Knocked down for
Sjl15 at Sotheby's the other day--is an
American and most people feel that
as London dealer secured the warrant
for the arrest OF John Bunyan offered
at the same sale, IL is only question Of
how soon that document win cross the
atlantic. too. This was an uncommon
ly interesting sale. several quarto plays
by the minor Ellzabethan dramatists--
Ben johnson, Chapman, Cooke and Dek-
ker-bcing sold at thousand times
their cost price, as well az a copy ol
John Wesley's hymn book published IN
1877 during the preachers mission 10
Georgia, one Of Martin Luthers own
Bibles published at Wittenberg In l5ll
OF sold for Sl7O), and the original agree
meme between John Dryden and his
publisher for the translation Of Virgil
IA Lob t.tN a a
bibliophiles were amazed at the price
paid for the quarto Shakespeare, for
only u few years ago this sum would
have been considered eXtrayagant for
a first folio. The edition thus secured
for America is I'm 43 leaves, and II has
been washed" and cut. The printers
names appear as Andrew Wise and
William Apsey, 1900 Another impor-
tant sale took place at Sothcby's only
yesterday the feature of 10 being two
pages and six lines OF the original auto
graph OF Sir Walter SCOTS "Wayerley,"
which sold for SEAS.
What Herbert Spencer thought Of
Carlyle We learn from the Brighton
philosophers recently published Auto
biography and a correspondent Of ono
Of the London revewes points out that
according 10 carlyle lllenu, Ut, lttdl-
tie Crozier, the opinion which the Sage
Of Chelsea held OF Spencer was little
more ilattering Says Beattie: "He
went of into peal Of derisiye laugh
ter as he thought Of him o. 60 Spencer),
and after q pause, and I'm allusion per-
haps To the extent Of Spencer's writings,
he exclaimed contemporary, An Inn
measurable ass!'--'And so We have been
meddlng with Spencer have ye? lie
was brought TO me by Lewes and a
more conceited young man / thought /
had never seen. He seemed TO think
himself a perfect owl of Minerva for
knowledge"
And then looking fiercely at me,
'Yell get little good out of him young
mani"
Private advices from Hall Caine. who
is now putting the finishing touches to
his new novel, The Prodigal SON." are
to the effect that this romance will be
much shorter than most Of its authors
other works running to about 10000
words IN ALL The scenes are laid In
Iceland, Paris and London.
The unwilling hy Eden Phllpotts Of
the tablet and window which have
Just been placed IN Exeter cathedral to
the memory Of r.. u. Blackmore, au-
thor Of Lorna Doone,' attracted no