Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-02-25
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There we're many distinguished peo-
,ls present al the Ceryantes tercenten-
s,y dinner AT the Hotel Metropole In
Iondon on Jan. 49, among them being
up Craigie. Anthony Hope Edmund
Gosss clement shorter, Austin Dobson,
yrmund Clodd, Sidney Lee, Justin II.
Mccarthy Sir Henry Irving, Professor
nav Lancaster, and George Tramp
ton The Spanish ambassador In re-
lpondIng IN his native tongue to the
ioast Of The Immortal Memory OF
bon Qulxote," pointed out the idealism
mai Quixote had destroyed and not left
spaln without noble ideals and high
aims But these had been brought In
Ia accord with the demands of modern
He and progress. The Spain of today
was not as some travellers thought, a
country OF Missionaries or OF vain
dreams, but OF practical people who for
he most part were iourishing and
prosperous Some years ago some
amount Of dlstrust existed between
Spain and England, but now he was
saA to say that the most cordial ana
happy relations existed between the
two Countries In proposing prosperity
10 the lIteratures of England and Spain,
NJ GOsse declared II had always been
Mo opinion that II was Spanish infu-
N,e which implanted upon the plain
and iather duh stock Of Elizabethan
drama It's love Of splendor color and
thnderous music. Sir Henry Irvine,
probably the only actor who has ever
played Don Quixote, replied for the
drama. IN the course Of his speech
he mentioned that THE Merchant OF
Venice was written In the lifetime Of
Ceramics. And there was another
great English play which was associat-
cd In point Of time almost exactly with
The tercentenary. "A certain announce.
ment which appears today" he said,
reminds me Of all the years that have
passed since first | essayed the inter-
pretaton Of Hamlet--a glorious task
which, as l learn from the newspapers,
I to be committed to a young actor in
whom take a pardonable interest, and
whose career has already won so large
measure OF your sympathy" This
reference was OF course to his son,
Henry B, Irving,
Fiction nowadays often masks a SER
ous Intent Who would imagine, for
Instance, that Mrs. protheroe, Booth
Irklngtons delightful story In the
current McClures, was the product OF
ne althor-lgislators desire TO deal
WIN me problems Of clvics2 He In
. Unaed at llrst to make series OF es-
@ys out Of what his political expert
ehee made him burn to say. Then
recognizing that his power lay In the
medium Of fiction, he wisely modified
ms purpose, and the short stories of
Nllllcal life are the result.
IN the course of discussion Of mod
VA ,,i lllerary conditions which he con-
p p.,ses to Golfers Weekly, Robert
Drlges holds that there is little differ
eilue between the modern journalistic
s%,uu,.ehuons OF England and the United
,t lie claims that the Western
el'or mas done not a little for Ameri-
SA Writer'S by allowing degree OF
n'suom ana spontaneity not tolerated
.g eastern states, II do not be-
W'e' ne writes, that there is an old
". 'ui9ned newspaper In the east that
sgu'u nave given Eugene Field, or RI
ID, Of Ade, or Dooley, or William Allen
Il "u o chance TO let himself 60"
N, oRp9sluon TO the general opinion.
Az. bridges asserts that precocIous
aSolo,pihent OF the critical faculty Is
bo,ra .'''g a'ally to n writer OF creative
M me young man, he reasons.
Tm -" y ever conscious OF Lowell ana
-uelson looking over his shoulder,