Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-06
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Mrs. Margaret Il, sangster writes 10
the publishers OF the new novel by
the author OF People OF the Whirl-
pool" II have read The Woman En-
rant with the fullest sympathy. 1t Is
time that some one. with insight, genius
and the charm OF the clever story
teller should speak on the other side
Of a question which concerns not mere
ly our young girls but the well-belng
Of the fanny and the upbullding OF the
home. In Ivory steel" the author
describes a familiar type, and shows in
almost pathetic realism the unrest and
unwholesome craving for life of busl-
ness and Intellectual competition and
independence which robs too many
young women OF their birthright, The
book is peculiarly one for the reading
Of our rich girls, who. need not be
crowded into the struggle Of tho mar
ket-place, and who, gratifying a mis-
taken ambition, are likely to do n wrong
not to men only but to their poorer
sisters. The subordinate characters
OF the book are sketched with no I'M
certain hand, hut the interest ccnters
on Ivory Steele and her career us
Woman Errant,'
Mr.. Winston Churchill's new novel,
The Crossing" 20 said to be in course
OF dramatizatlon by his friend Mr.Louis
Evan Shipman, who dramatized THE
Crisis" Mr.. James * Hackett, who has
been camping in the Thousand Islands,
has announced that he will appear In
the play next season, first, It seems, In
Washington, then in New York.
Miss Margaret Sherwood, the author
OF "The Story OF King SYLVAN and
Queen Aimee ID associate professor OF
English literature at Wellesley, where
she had previously been for several
years an Instructor. Six years ago she
took the degree OF Ph,D., at Yale, hay
Ing graduated some years before nom
Vassar. In addition 10 her writings in
the magazines, Miss Sherwood IL well
known as the author OF IAN Expert
ment in Altruism," "A Puritan Bo-
hemia," and Henry Worthington,
ldeallst."
Dr. Frederic Taber Cooper says in
the course OF his review Of THE Woman
Errant" that writer's OF fiction are just
beginning TO realize what host OF new
and interesting complications arise be-
tween the sexes, when woman ceases TO
look upon man as a possible lover or
husband, and regards him instead as
Keen competitor In the struggle for life.
The economist Is concerned with the
effect which the presence Of women
may have upon business: the novelist
cares chiefly for the psychological
changes that business may produce
upon woman.
II is said that Mr.. Marion CrawfOrds
new novel, which the Macmillan COM
pany win publish In the fall, derives its
theme from one of the best known
passages In the New Testament Who
soever shall offend one Of these little
ones, II were better for him that a
mill stone be- hung about his neck,
and that he be drowned in the depths Of
the sea-"
In the two-volume edition OF Mrs.
Browning reprinted in the Caxton THIN
Paper Classics, there is a significant
preface written by the poet IN 1860 II
reveals the closeness OF her thought
with the political movements of her
time, especially with those upheavas
IN Europe which affected the happiness
Of a people and the life Of a nation.
II confess that l dream Of the day"
she says, when an English statesman
shall arise with heart too large for
England; having courage In the face
of his countrymen TO assert OF some
suggested polcy--This Is good for your
trade; this is necessary for your domi-
nation; but II VIII vex a people hard
by; II will hurt a people farther off; II
viii profit nothing to the general hui
mainly; therefore, away with it!-lt Is
not for you or for me- When a Brit
ish minister dares speak so, and when
British public applauds him speaking,
then shall the nation be glorious, and
her praise, instead of exploding from
within, from loud civic mouths, come
to her from without. as all worthy
praise must, from the alliances she has
fostered, and the populations she has
saved. And poets who write OF the
events of that time shall not need to
Justify themselves in prefaces for ever
so little jarrihg of the national senti-
ment imputable TO their rhymes" The
volumes, containing practically all of
Mrs. Browning's poetical work, appear
in the familiar and handsome limp
leather binding Of the Newnes series
OF imprints, the frontlspleces being
portraits Of the poet reproduced IN
photogravure on Japanese vellum from
drawings by Edmund J. sullivan, The
title pages are from designs by A Garth
Jones and decorative end papers en-
nance the typogra phical appearance OF
the work. 1t IL published in London
by George Newnes, Ltd, and is i'm
ported into this country by Charles
Scribner's Sons.
The new novel on which John oliver
Hobbies Is working Will be awaited with
special interest, FOR the Idea OF this
writer's undertaking TO portray such
characters as Napoleon and Warren
Hastings Is distinctly piquant. II Is
said that the book will be somewhat In
the vein OF 1.-THE School for Saints"
Henry James vii come TO this country
next autumn to remain here for year.
His purpose Is to gain an acquaintance
with the new social conditions and, OF
course, to write book thereanent.
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