Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-04-29
The Idea Of "Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under The Sea-"
4soUR, LONDON LITERARY LETTERS

has derived from his romances at time
Of trouble. 81 have only one regret
she says that ! have finished them,
and that there are not a dozen more for
me to read" And she adds: Il hope
you will presently conduct us to the
depths Of the sea, making your charaC-
tiers travel IN such submarine vessels
as your knowledge combined With your
imagination win enable you 20 invent
Evidently Verne lost no time I'm taking
the hint and the result was his great
story OF Captain Memo, which almost
every American boy has read,
Roger Pocock, whose books, "The
Frontersmau" and Curly were most
~ written from his own experiences i'm
the far west, is secretary and one OF
the leading spirits Of so-called lie
gion of Frontersmen' which has just
been formed In London, This body
which is intended 20 be useful to the
British empire In case Of war, will ne
much on the lines Of the American
though Riders the chief qualification
for membership being experience either
I'm shooting, mining or prospecting. The
idea originated with PocoCk, who has
succeeded I'm interesting a lot OF In
nuential men In it,including Lord Ions
dale, Sir Gilbert Parker the Earl of
Meath and Sir n. Seton-Karr, the big
game hunter. The first meeting was
held at Lord LonsdaIo's town house the
day before yesterday. II Is PocoCk =
idea that In the time Of peace the legion
shall be simply union Of sportsmCn
for organized amusement,
Matlde Serao, the Italian authorizes
g ID 4 hose ala oaf
of Rome and The Land Of Cockayne,
found SO many English and American
readers. is now hard at work on her
first play which has heen commissioned
by Ele1nora Duse, II Is called After
the Pardon and consists of only four
characters "a husband and wife and
their friends, an engaged couple, The
husband and the betrothed girl fall deep
ly in love with each other and disappear
one day leaving great anguish behind
them. Three years pass, at the end Of
which the runaway pair are miserable
They have separated two or three times
aud then been reunited but there Is no
more hope, love being dead, So they
separate definitely and return 10 those
who wait for them, The husband is
forgiven, and the tin3Cec is married by
the man she deserted. But the pardon
extended cannot be forgotten, The hus.
band sees rcpronah IN each unfinished
sentence OF his Wife'a, while the girl
sees the COndcsccnsion Of forgiveness
lu her husband. 3 Carasses as well as iu
his restraint They endure until the
tension becomes too great and then
reaction comes, ana the lovers reuuitt,
Coldlv however, and without love.
merely because that other life was AN
Inferno, because they prefer existence
without passion 90 forgiveness which
cannot be forgotten. Madame SerUo
has great hopes Of this play with
which Duse fen iu love as soon as the
scenario was read % her Before she
commenced novel writing, the author
oss helped her husband to found two
italian newspapers the Courier and
the Mattmo,' both published I'm Ma
pies, which Is Madame Seuo's home,
II seems that, I'm this country at
least the family Bible is going out"
Henry Provide who ,s the head of the
oxford University press, said the other
day that whereas from 1875 the yearly
sale of Bibles I'm general had risen from
100000 To 1000 OOo, his association was
now selling only one family Bible for
every 10 sold 30 or 40 years ago. Folk
who read Bibles prefer the smaller
book with large print to The formal
heavy volume of holy writ. The of
fetal registration of births, marriages
and deaths has also dealt heavy blow
TO the sale of the family Bible I'm which
these events used 20 be so consciouti-
Ously recorded by humble folk
By the way, one of the newest curi-
osities On biblical publications rs an
edition OF the New Testament m Scotch
dialect Here is n sample Of the text: