Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-20

graph? he inquired In all seriousness.
laughed and replied In the negative.
We'll. | ask dollar apiece for mine
he reJoined. They are worth II, Mr..
Whitman. said /, and much more But
| could not help wondering a little at
this peculiar thriftlness Of the good
gray poet, until he went on To say. I
have pet charity In town, which
needs all the money II can get. When
people write for my signature, ! send
them circular stating that they can
have II for dollar, the money TO go
TO the charity Just mentioned. ! am
thus able TO do some good with my
poor old autograph, for a good many
respond with the money"
Miss Mary Johnston, Author Of "sir
Mortimer" Audrey" ITO have and to
Hold" plans TO sail for the Mediter-
ranean this month, and expects to
spend to year or more in Sicily
Edward Stanwood's American Tariff
Controversies In the Nineteenth Gem
tury' has Just been published In Eng
land, where Mr.. Chamberlains tariff
campaign makes II very timely read
Ing
The eighth printing is reported Of
Clara Louise Burnhams latest novel
Jewel" bringing It into its twentieth
thousand. The publishers, Houghton,
Miiilln q Co., also report the sixth
printing Of Education and the Larger
Life, by c. Hanford Henderson, author
OF John Percyneld; and the second
printing Of Bradford Torrey's CLERK OF
the Woods. published last autumn.
BJornson Is at present al work on a
new novel, which he intends finishing
during his forthcoming stay in Rome
Lord Tennyson has been telling some
stories about his father to literary so
ciety In Australia. To poet of that
country the late laureate once wrote:
II have received your poems, but, UNI
like John the Baptist, | cannot live on
locusts and Wild honey" What in the
world did he mean? The other story
runs as follows; "a gardener was con-
verslng with friend OF the poet. That
Shakespcarc's a great poet, isn't he"
said the gardener, and he was answered
Yes And that Tennyson s great
poet, isn't he?' asked the gardener
again, and was again answered In the
affirmative, Then, says the gardener
digging his spade angrlly into the clod,
then I don't think nothing Of naythcr
Of them
Sigma" the author Of "Personalla,"
was invited 10 meet Swlnburnc at
lunch. The poet did not arrive until
lunch was over. Before entering the
house he engaged In prolonged diff
ference with his cabman, who eventu-
ally snatched up his reins and drove
rapidly of, as IL glad TO get away
THE poet Is got the best Of II, as usu-
al drawlcd Howell 1.-THE hosD. He
lives at the British hotel, in Cockspur,
and never goes any place except In ham
SONS, which, whatever the distance he
invariably remunerates with one shill-
ing Consequently when, AZ today, it's
a case Of 10 miles beyond the radius
there's the devils own row: but In the
matter Of imprecation the poet Is more
than a match for cabby, who, after five
minutes Of It. gallops of as though he
had been rated by Belzebub himself"
Swnburne always emerged from these
disputes giving no sign Of trouble on
this occasion he entered the room calm
ly
Another large printing Of the "popu-
lar edition" Of Dwight Tllton's Miss
Petticoats" has been ordered for the
early spring trade by the c. NJ, Clark
Publishing company,
The health OF Henrik lbsen is report