Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-23

Special Correspondence,
ONDON, Sept. l3-It will be long
time, according 20 an authorIta-
tive announcement, before Eng
lish folk Will have another op-
portunlty Of listening TO a public re-
cital OF THE Human Epic" the great
life work OF John Frederick Rowbot-
ham The poem was reclted by Nine.
Roland, the sister-n-law of the poet
whom injudicous friends have styled
the Modern Homer" The audience
actually yawned over It, and In high
dungeon Nine. Roland, accompanied by
the poets daughter has betaken her
self to Germany to try it on people
whom she believes are far more intel
lectual than the English. The epic
contains 10000 lines It's composition
has occupied Mr. Rowbotham twenty
six years, which works out an average
OF ono limo day. at the end Of THIS
time" says MIR. Rowhotham, 81 may he
permitted TO believe that ] know some
thing o. NJ epic poetry and that after
writing thousands of lines l know how
To write IT, Here are a couple OF
lines, which show how he writes IL:
Here cravled the scallop there the
shining clam
with everlasting Mapping Of his paddles
swami
Surely there IL something tragic I'm q
life time devoted To- the production OF
stuff Of this sort, There are Jhings, no
doubt, which Mir Roybotham can DO as
we'll as other men.
According to Robert Ross editor OF
Oscar Wilde's posthum0us work DE
Prohndis," the unfortunate author had
long been better appreciated in Ger
many than by his own countrymen, MI
Ross says he was prevailed upon TO
bring out "a German edition OF the
work By its learned and enthusiastic
translator, DR. MeyerAeld who was
speaking for o German public which
rightly or wrongly. had long ace
claimed oscar Wide as one Of the most
distinguished English men OF letters
m the nineteenth century. Indeed,
adds Mr. Ross. Germany for the last
ten years has accorded him a position
which even ln the days Of his prospprl-
ty was never yielded 10 him by his
Eugllsh critics, nor by his own coutem-
porarlos only d few OF our younger
writer's anticipated foreign opinion and
their views We're regarded Gs Illusions
Of youth
II was because the more phi1e0ph
German readers made a discrimination
between the man and tho writer which
the British public seemed iueap-
able o. that The German ali-
ton contains a more complete
reproduction of the original manuscript
than the ENGLISH edition or the Amer.
can one But the reception accorded
tho English edition here has shown tnat
lon Wllde's clae, as 70 has been win
many other suporhly sifted, but ill-bal-
anccd man,
"Nsught 20 Wins q life from blame,
Naught 90 sanctinc7 name,
As TO De written dead
Mr. Ross has now announced his iu-
teutlon Of bringing out another Eng
llsh edition OF de Pro,undis,' which
viii contain the omitted passages and
letters that appear in the German book.
French, Hungarian swedish and ltal"
ian TRANSACTIONS OF II have already ap-
peared ana have been well received.
English publications, IN the last few
years have had 80 many guessing conf
petitions, as "a means OF increasing
their ciroulations, thnt one would have
imagined their possibilities had been
exhausted. But an enterpriaug Span
ish paper has hit upon novelty. II
has started a guessing competition as 20
the princess who win be eventually
chosen as the consort Of King Alfonso.
This Is the list Of prospective queens
given in the order In which they are