Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-12-24

at Eastbourne and was the result Of
consumption.
Gay responsibility rs not q quality
which lovers Of "Omar Khayyam'
have associated with its best trans
later, Edward Fitzgerald but he must
have had a large streak OF IT, judging
from the stories which his old friend,
Sir cuthbcrt Quilter, told at a dinner
the other evening Sir Cuthbert declar-
ed that he had begun his yachting ca
rcer with % l2-ton schooner purchased
of Fitzgerald The poet named this
craft The EmetIc. and proylsloned her
originally with apples behring's, and
bottle Of gln' Sir Cuthbert added that
10 was told OF Fitzgerald that one day
he was ON board the Emetlc In his
usual tam hat and frock coat, reading
the Times, when the boat gave a
lurch and the translator Of Omar
went TO the bottom II was a most re-
markabc fact and not a bit Of east
ern imagination that when Mr. Fitz-
gerald came up again he had his pipe
ln his houth his tam hat upon his head.
and the Times IN his hand II was fur
ther stated that when me got back on
board his little craft he calmly finished
reading the article that was previously
engaging his attention
There are few more enthusiastic
hookmen In Great Britain than Lord
Rosebery and the earl was at his hap
pieat the other day when he opened the
new Carnegie library at West Calder
Among other things he made a witty
reference 20 'the index which existed
IN the Roman Catholic church--a list OF
books which in the opinion OF that
church II was not well for people to
read, and then said that he wanted
several Indexes he dld not want one
for Objectionable books, for so great
| was the force VI human curiosity that
he was afraid those were the first books
that great many ill-consttuted minds
would seek He wanted, IN the first
place, an index free from all private In
hucnce Of authors and publishers, 10
tell them what were the books they
ought 10 read and the books they ought
TO buy. which were not by any means
the same thing The amateur adviser
as TO what and what not 10 read he
had found an intolerable person Such
fAA y lN' AfAN hlNh'll w NlNNN 1T lfllNH
ships. The man who was recommended
10 read a novel and after getting a
hundred pages into II found II impossl-
Bile TO 30 on, and yet, after having read
so much. found II improbable TO lay II
down, swore an eternal enmity against
the man who recommended 10 him that
book, No limitation Of means could
I'm these days excuse anybody from not
buying books, but he distinguished be-
tween books TO be read ana books TO
be bought They read IN order to see
whether the book was worth buying
lie found two further classes of books
the books that they borrowed from
friends and returned, and the books
they borrowed and dld not return The
uon-returning OF books had ended more
friendships and terminated more affec-
tons than any other cause Of which he
was cognl2ant. The man who borrowed
one volume from set and never re-
turned II was a man who should be
treated like yermln. trapped or shot al
sight, or any other OF the punshments
which might Doe extended 20 the least
ana West Of mankind His ideal index
would be That which told them The
best book 10 read on any subject that
they might ask for, but his fear was
that they would get nobody 20 frame
any such iudey because his NE would
not De safe Authors and publishers
who did not find their names and their
books on the list would seek his llft
and he might have 10 ST. Ike the news.
paper editor IN the western states Of
America, with n couple Of revolyors IN
hts drgWnr ro4dy % shoot af elght tb.
first complaining person that should mp