Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-22

thor himself Is not great on speech
making outside his books In
fact he told the Authors Society
which entertained him at dinner
the other night, that he previously had
perpetrated only one solitary speech
That effort having been made at the de.
batting society at Cambridge. Mr. Benz
son went on 20 assure the authors and
their guests that the existence OF a
writer OF fiction was a dogs life. lie
had always got TO be doing tricks aud
as soon as he had done one trick, he
had to begin thinking about learning
another, whilst the public might be rep-
resented MS so many masters with
WHIPS cracking at him and on him IL
he should do them badly. Though It
was a dogs life, however, Mr. Benson
SAID he rather liked II, and so he pro-
posed going on doing those tricks, al
slonally.
There was q special attarction about
The Dlscoyerle OF Gaping Gulf" ono
Of the antique books disposed OF last
week at the sale Of the John Scott H.
prary, This volume was printed In the
reign Of Good Queen Bess, and on ac-
count OF II both the author one John
Stubs, and the publisher had their
right hands cut or. stubbs shouting,
God save Queen Elizabeth during the
operation
No little interest has been aroused
here by the Rev. a. Austen Leighs dis
coNery that one OF the signers Of the
Declaration OF Independence was edu-
Gated at Elton school, This announce
ment Is made by Mr.. Austen-LeIgh,
who Is provost OF Kings college, Cam
bridge, ana an acknowledged authority
ON matters connected with Eton, IN
letter on Americans at Elton in CO.
lonial Days addressed to the Elton
College Chronicle, lie points out that
II was no uncommon practise I'm the
eighteenth century for Americans To
send their SONS to England for their ed
ucation, Some OF these boys naturally
found their way to Eton, but In the al
[ most complete absence Of any records
/ II Is difficult to discover their names. A
I Few, however have been rescued from
/ various sources. The most important
Of these names traced by MIR, Austin
leigh, is that Of Thomas Lynch, The
following Is his record as established
/ by Austen Leigh's researches:
| Lynch, Thomas, son of Thomas
! Lynch, Esq, Of Prince Georges Parish
| Winyah South Carolina; o.. Aug 5th
/ lli9 school, Eton, years under Mr.
| Barnard, age rs; admitted Fellow Com
/ moner AT Caius Coli, Cambridge, May
! 18th, 1867, admitted at Middle Temple
| 1850; Captain Continental Army l775-
! lG6; Member Of Congress l776-l771;
! signed the Declaration Of Independ-
! ence; was lost mt sea, 1879
Etonlans have taken part in many
! great events remarks Mr.. Austen
! Leigh, "but II will probably be news to
most Of us that one of the signers OF
the Declaration Of Independence was
educated there"
II is not often that current book ia
| either praised or condemned from the
pulpit of Westminster abbey. Guy
Thorne's novel when II was Dark"
was, however, commended not long ago
! by the Bishop Of London, preach
ing in the abbey and now literary
folk in London are discussing the
vigorous attack made there by
Canon Beeching upon the late Oscar
! Wilde's DE PrOfuudis An attack
which is especially significant as show
| ing the religious point of view The
canon, who has been at the Abbey since
1892, Is. however, also writer, having
published several original volumes and
edited both Milton and Shakespeare,
or DE profundis' he said 1T pre-.
sents a cariCature of the portrait Of
Christ and especially a travesty of His
doctrine about sin, that Is quite aston
ishng. If that picture were true, the
Pharsees were right when they said
of Him that He cast out devils through
Beelzebub, and the priests We're right
in sending Him to death as a perverter
of the people,
"Thp writer Of the book, who Ia
dead" continued the canon, was a
man Of exceptional literary talent who
fell into disgrace; and whether 1t IL
pity for his sad fate or admiration Of
his style i'm writing that has cast a
spell upon reviewers and blinded them
to his meaning, | cannot say; but ! do
say that they have not done their duty
to English society by lauding the book
as they have done without giving par
ents and guardians some hint that II
breaches "a doctrine Of sin, which, II
taken into romantic and unreasonable
hearts, win send them quickly down
the road TO shame, The chief point on
which the writer fixes is Christs be-
havior to the sinners, and his theory
Is that Christ Consorted with them be-
cause He found them more interesting
than the good people, who were stupid
May God have pardoned the sin Of the
man who put thins stumbling block In
the way Of the simple, and may lie
shield our boys and young men from
that doctrine of devils that the way t.
perfection lies through sin"
The latest thing in newspaper enter
prise Is reported from the Fatherland
The Generalanzeiger Of Berlin has just
published an editorial announcement tC
the effect that In future two Of its daily
editions will be printed with ink which
will not iujure any meat or butter
which housewives may wrap up IN
them, HAYDEN CHURCH,
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