Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-15

/ lishcd dt once by the Macmillan cufl-
pany, This Interpretation Of the Japd-
neso, their history, and their place H.
The modern world has peculiar tlmell-
ness.
Booth Harrington. the author Of The
| Two Vanrevels' and The Gentleman
from Indiana" has returned TO America
! after nearly a years stay In Europe. Hb
| lived In Rome last winter and has been
spending most Of the spring and sum-
/ mer In Paris. lie win live next winter
In New York, and expects TO spend his
| time studying phases OF political lie
| and continuing the political stories
] which be has been writing for Me-
/ Cures Magazine. The stories VIII b.
( brought out I'm book form by Mcclure
/ Philips.
Bible reading may be on the wane,
| but there must stlll be a large number
| Of people who hold their interest In the
| good book and us stories, judging from
/ the number OF novels ana plays on bib
/ Heal subjects which have appeared re-
Gently one house, Mcclure Phillips.
| has this season brought out two books
/ based on Bible stories, Early In the
season appeared a dramatic poem 'Da-
| Wd." by Gale Young Rice, the author
I NJ Charles hi Tocca,' and later came
Florence Wilkusons book containing
/ two plays OF Israel David Of Bethle-
/ hem and MARY Magdalen The in
terest Of dramatists In Bible subjects
began with Stephen Phillips first re-
IIglous dramas but the fact that the
number of biblical plays Is Increasing
rather than diminishing shows that
there still remains a good deal Of re-
ligous feeling In play-goars and read
ers,
An unusual book win appear early In
October under the title OF Science and
Immortality by DR., William Osler
H0uehton. Mifhin & Coz bearing upon
the presant-day attitude OF scientists
toward the belief In Immortality.
The deep interest with which this
brilliant essay was listened 10 when II
was delivered az Harvard gives a fore
cast OF its reception by the larger pub.
he. The charm and simplicity as well
ass the eoQuence Of Dr. Osler's style,
and his continual echo Of the great
masters Of literature give the book an
enduring attraction.
Dr. Osler stands at the head OF the
medical fraternity in America. He has
been recognized as the most brilliant
orator I'M the ranks Of the professions
this essay viii place him very near the
FIRST among Is writer's He was given
the Harvard degree Of LII. ID. last June.
and has just been appointed Regius
professor OF medicine at oxford, ESS-
land
The popularity OF Mrs Wrights Re
becca Of Sunnybrook Farm" has reach
ed the other side Of the world A let
ter recently came from the head quar-
ters OF the Japanese army In Manchuria
which said "RebeCca won my heart
OF course / have laughed. but ] have
wept as we'll She Is real, she lives
The writer was Jack London, author OF
THE Son Of the Wolf" "Rebecca" has
already been translated into German
and j. Englehorn Of Stuttgart has the
exclusive rights for publication In Ger
many Mrs. Virgins Birds Christ
mas Carol ~ which has been translated
into so many foreign languages, has
Just appeared in a new Danish trans
latlon.
A correspondent OF the New York
Tines sends the following pertinent
query, Which Of these Is the original
and which Is the copy?
Oh We're | In the widest waste.
Sac black and bare, sac black and
bare,
The desert were a paradise
II thou vert there, n thou vert there.
lFrom "Oh Vert Thou in the Cauld
Blast Burns.
A book Of verses underneath the bough,
A jug Of wine a loaf OF bread, and
thou
Beside me singing In the Wilderness
Oh, wilderness, were paradise enow
lFrom FitzGerad's translation OF
Omar"
Had Burns any means OF reading
Omar" or aid FITZGERALD adopt
Burns Idea, and credit Omar with IL? !
This month occurs the elghteth birth |
day anniversary OF Mrs A, D. T. Whit |
ney whose latest story, "Rddys Epl- |
sodes Is TO be issued next month BY |
Houghton, Mif1in & Co. Mrs Whitney |
already has g books before the pub |
lc, her FIRST great success. Faith !
Gartney's Glrlhood." having appeared |
81 years ago In spite Of her advanced |
age, Mrs. Whitney is still actively en- |
gagged IN literary work. and there Is |
hope Of further stories from her pen. |
She has spent the past summer at her
home IN Milton, Mass
O. Appleton q co win bring out |
new story by Ellen Thornycroft Fow-
Ter In October. entitled "KaN Of Kate |
Ham, In which she has been assisted |
by her husband, Nh Felkn, to whom |
she was married about a year ago. Miss |
Fowler achieved her first success in this |
country with Concerning Isabel earn. |
ahy' Of which about so 900 copies were |
sold. II was followed by "a Double |
Thread and "The Farringtons" both |
Of which had large sales. place and |
Power was among the popular books
or a year ago.
The Times London correspondent |
writes -. J.. Bell. the young Scotch
man who introduced us 70 Wee Mac |
greegor," Is in London at present, hay-
ing come down with his prettv wife /