Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-28

self His father was President John ?
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
around the top OF the mint leaves, and
then --
But the visitor Is suffered to say no
more; the colonel rises, takes or his hat
and grayely welcomes him to his house,
Poems Of Christina Rossetti' and
London Lyric by Frederick Locker
Lampson are two new ISSUES IN the
Golden Treasury Series. Admirers OF
Miss Rossettis verse have often re-
marked on its unevenness; ana for THIS
volume her brother, Mr., william NJ.
Rossetti has selected only the best.
Mr. Austin Dobson has supplied an in
PRODUCTION and notes for the famous
book by MI Locker Lampson.
The event Of the week is the issue Of
the American edition OF the Com
pleto Edition OF the Poems Of Algernon
Charles Swinburne," by Messrs, Har-
per & Bros, I'm six octave volumes,
Swinburne dedicates this edition to
his best and dearest friend" Theodore
Watts Dunton In Il "Dedicatory Epis-
tle," from which a few passages may
Wen be quoted;
1T is now 81 years" begins Swim.
hurne, since my first volume Of mis-
cellaneous verse lyrical and dramatic
and elegiac and generally heterogene-
Gus, had as quaint a reception and ne
singular fortune as / have ever heard
or read Of. / DO not think you will diff
fer from my opinion that what Is best
In It cannot be divided from what Is not
80 good by any other line of division
than that which marks of mature from
immature eyecution--in other words,
complete from incomplete conception
For its author the most amusing and
satisfying result Of the cl0tter aroused
by x was the deep diversion OF collat-
ting and comparing the yariously mac
curate verdicts Of the scornful or
mournful censors who insisted on re-
garding all the studies Of passion or
sensation attempted or achieved In u
as either confessions OF positive fact
or excursions Of absolute fancy. There
are photographs from life In the book;
and there are sketches from magma
ton Some which Keen sighted crit
lcsm has dismissed with a smile as
ideal or imaginary were as real and ac-
tual as they well could be- others which
have been taken for obvious transcripts
from memory were utterly fantastic or
dramatic
Approaching his dramatic work,
Swinburne declares
III the fortunes Of my lyrical work
were amusingly eccentric and accilen-
tai, the varieties OF opinion which
have saluted the appearance Of my
plays have been or have seemed to my
humility. even more dlverting and Gu
rlous. have been told by reviewers
Of note and position that single one
OF them Is worth all my lyric and 9TH
erwlse undrnmatic achievements or at
tempts. and I have been told on equal
or similar authority that whatever
may be IN any other field as a drama
list 7 am demonstrobly nothing, My
first, II not my strongest ambition was
to do something worth doing and not
utterly unworthy Of young country
man Of Marlowe the teacher ana Web
'eter the pupil Of Shakespeare, In the
line Of work which those three poets
had left us a possibly unattalnable ex-
ample for ambitious Englishmen And
my first book bore evidence OF that ann
bitlon I'm every line. ! should be the
last 10 deny that II also bore evidence
Of the fact that IT'S writer had no more
notion Of dramatic or theatrical CON
structlon than the authors OF Tambur-
laine the Great King Henry VI and
Sir Thomas Wyatt
"Chares Lamb, ms need remind you,
wrote for antiquity continues the
poet: NOR need YOU be assured that
when | write plays Il is with view to
their being acted at the Globe the Red
Bull or the Black Friars. And what
ever may be the dramatic or other de-
fects Of Marine Faliero or "Iocrlnep
they do certainly bear the same rea-
tlon to previous plays or attempts at
taIa ha 4 tvs
Henry W TO The Famous Victories
II not as King Lear a poem beyond
comparison with all other works OF
man except possibly 'Prometheus' ana
'Othello' 10 the primitive and infan-
title scrawl or drivel Of King Lear and
His Three daughters The fifth act of
Marlno Faliero,' hopelessly lmposs-
Bile as Il is from the point Of view OF
modern stage craft, could hardly have
been found too untheatrical too utter
" given over 10 talk without action, by
the audiences which endured and ap-
plauded the magnificent monOtony OF
Chapman's eloquence.
Gertrude Atherton, whose "Rulers Of
Kings shows such an intimate knowl-
edge Of European politics, Is a loyal
Californian Yet n great part Of her
life has been passed abroad Her first
stories were Of California, and IL was
through these that abe was invited to
contribute fiction 10 such sober and ex-
acting English publications as the |
Times the Speaker, and the Saturday |
Review II WAS something OF the same |
spirit ne prompted the writing OF them
that lmpeled Mrs, Atherton TO reply 10 |
Henry James, when ne asked her n she |
was not an American like himself |
mo; ] am a Californian"
In every community there IL newly |
rich man on whom they fasten the |
story that he went TO the book store |
and ordered seven yards Of books TO m |
his shelves II remained, however, for |
an ingenious idiot with plenty OF time |
on his hands to discover that II all the
copies Of "1n the Bishops Carriage"
which have been sold were placed side |
by side on a shelf, the shelf would have |
TO be a mile and a quarter long.
A child IN Germany was recently sem
fenced 10 six months imprisonment In |
a fortress for rejecting on the kaiser.
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