Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-07-22

7 oNDON July l2.-john Bunyon
wouldn't recognize hIe own "pll.
l., grim or his Progress cllhor
uflcr certain changes which that
famous character and mir adventures
have been undergoing mlolN Tho re.
liglous Tract society which distributes
reading mottor among natives the
world over has been ddaptuE BunWu's
famous work nr understanding by
the Molubclos of South AhiU ana n
truly STARTLING transformation ip the
result Instead Of wearing the armour
Of knight Of the middle ages chris.
tlan has become poor konIr armed
with a knobkerry, shield and Ossogub
he sets out from Il native kraul which
takes the place Of the city OF Uosuuc.
,loni the Slough Of Dospcnd IN a mud
hole IN tho yeldt while Evangelist H
represented by Hn English missionary
one might have thought thut To pro.
vide q South African substitute for
Vanity Fair would hayo Htumpud tho
Ndapter but II didn't (or he hus nude
" ~ N'll NNll'' l'NAlNhh y lllNllNH l'lNIAN
IL pictured ~ trying 90 tempt chris.
tian ana Hopeful TO enter a gold mine.
Tho thing guggosts b0undcaR and some.
what nffrlghtlhg posslbllltioB Think,
Tor instance, Of pygmy SANFORD
ana Morton or llausn "Algo IN
Wonderland"
Is too much spnco devoted TO Dickens,
ThACkcraN Lamb and their COntums
porarigr2 r. :, Warren Bell, who
wrote "Bnohcorland' and Tho cub
IN Love- thinks that thoro ~, Ia lct.
ter TO n literary Journal Mr. Bell main.
lUinH that these authors have had their
day Whereas hundreds pr modern writ.
rrH are wpplng at the editorial doors
uul asking lol notice, Dickens and
Thuckouy wrote supremacy Wol for
their own generation" says Warren
Bclh nut do not present day authors
cater with equal SKIN fer iheirs2 Lot
the precious literary circle etillo that
hyeiorloul shrek " Joy with which they
greet hitherto unpublished letter
by Mrs, carlyle, When do we not i've
IN fear Of being threatened with an.
other Issue Of Lamb volumes edited by
some bright NounE humorist2 II " the
province of some people TO edit ana NJ
others 10 create when | ma one Of
NC latter usurplng the functions ~
the former ! can only compare hig
l0Dors T. those u n sculptor ~ croi-
two genius furnishing up LandsccrS
lions IN Trafalgar square,
II have been spUrrod on To- utter this
protest by remark recently made In
my hearing By publisher Said he, MS
the dead 'uns that pay us And the
dead ,uns' VIII continue 10 pay better
than the live 'uns an long 40 the prott
goes on deVotlng columns TO doWlrt
authors which should be reserved for
the exploitation of the thought ana ON.
erey Of writer's who are not only alive
but-hungrN"
After that II seems almost prcsump.
tuous 10 remark that Charles Dick
ems letter. which II 20 be sold IN Lon.
don this month, Is Of special interest az
an Indication Of the excellent relations
which existed between the author and
his various publishers, This letter was
written by lickcns 10 r. NJ Evans M
March, 1893, ana IN the course Of II the
writer said,
~ have gone through the accounts
and ilnd them In all respects intolllgl
bic, explicit and plain, II II indeed Ii
glorious balance, and expanded m,
chest considerably q don't mean ans
pun nj breakfast this morning, FIJI
teen hundred pounds today and thC
rest on the 10th of Apnl win suit mn
perfectly ! can most heartily say that
an our Intercourse has been one Of
pleasure ana satisfaction 10 me and
mat ] have boon very happy In H.
hopo we shall never terminate ON
business engagements unill that print.
Ia. nEh ..Hll a.
ploye1 at last, shall set hnis over our
last binding In boards
All Americans who read ohio Little
white Bird" VIII be Interested IN hear.
INK that j, NJ, Barrie possesses spec.
iUl E'v 10 konslngton Gardens, the
fascinating regions IN Hyde Park
which Mr., Barrie made tho scono Of MS
modern fairy story A friend Of tn,
noHrlists tells me that soon after the
publication Of "Thc Little White Bird
Il WAS read with delight by the late
Duke of Cambridge, who was rangcl
Of Hyde Park A few days afterwards
tho duke who was, Of course, Queen
Niriora'S cousin, sent a charming note
90 Barrie oNprossng the pleasure hC
| had taken In the book and enclosing a
key 20 the gate in kcnsIngton Gardens
opposite 10 Mr. Buwlo's house I'm the
| BnysW0tor road saying he thought II
nuIng glft FOR the author OF ro laY.
| clnatng u work That the present wa,
valued " shown By the fact that Mr.
and Mrs Barrie are I'm the habit of us.
INK the Key ana going In the garden,
ON summer evenings
II seems that Americans ON thch
| travels viii do we'll not ~ depend upol
the accuracy Of memorial tablets,
| Somebody has Just discovered, lor In.
stance, that such tablets ON two diltor'
ont Duldinge IN Paris inform the sight
seer mat ne N passing the houte Whom
Mulluro was born one " IN the Rue
do ronl NruI the other I'm the luy
| Sauyal Moreover one inscription dee
cllrcs that the dramotlsl Was born IN
| 1890 ,ht other thal he saw the liant N
1899, Oddly enough, unlll a compare
lively short time ago, Paris contained
| Two houses IN which Molicro was said
to hayo died Both of them llkoWlF,
bore memorial tablets However, eomu'
ono WHO was interested I'm literary ma
ters und endowed WIih uncommon pu'
tloHoo and persistence eventually sue
| cced'd iu getting the municipal author
| tiles ia rrmuVo ono Ot the inscriptions
| 20 perhaps IN time the place IN Whlcr
| the g,rul playwright rc1lly was bow
| VIII be- authorized lNeE. identified,
II ~ hoped IN his country that d
| Wordsworth unthuHiuW may become Nh,
| purchaser ot the dowhaWoW estate
| which IN FOR sale, II Hes ON The norm
| .N la t..l a.