The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-05

plough Of Intellectual work The tender and
friendly eyes were overShsdowed ~ the great
mouth was framed In a long, silvery white
beard. The noble expression OF tho whole
face, the ensy and soft voice. the slow and
careful pronunciation, the natural aud simple
tenor Of his conversation took my heart by
storm at the first reading. ] seemed 10 have
before me a venerable sage of ancient Greece,
n Socrates or an Aristotle
An episode Of the honeymoon OF the young
spanish sovereigns WAS literary reunion
and Victoria sat on small, raised platform
and listened 10 recitations by The most dis.
Echegaray. The poets Of the day read
poems writton especially to celebrate the
royal marriage.
The story Of queer coincidence is told
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. While travelling
upon tho continent, he visited certnin mem
tain inn, which was In winter, he learned
occupied only by two men These men,
prisoned in waste Of snow md ice had for
NIL that period no communication with the
world below, Hero WAS situation for
novcistl And the novelist accordingly be
gan 70 let his imagination play about the
possibilities OF tragedy surrounding the two
mon ON the mountain height But the story
never written, for happening to come
upon, volume by Guy de Maapassunt
which which wa MAS new to him he found therein
story he had meant TO write
Apropos Of Tcnnyson's sruTness is n
story repeated by the London Chronicle
''Tcnnyson In his last dnys, gave audience
to nn Amercau-a friend of Longfellow and
Lowell--who came armed with credentials.
old poets first remark. NO, my Lord. and
| don't talk was the swift reply. This
sponse set Tennyson at his ease, and ho at
least talked TO his susp's vast content
ment.'
An edition Of Goethes poems has just
hah .1,,I Ia, L.. al.. ia A..
there, The Jspnnsse editor has added
critical appreciation
John whishaw was n clever and wealthy
young Englishmnn who, appearing in London
about 1859, became the friend Of tho most
famous people OF his day. lie was dog
called ''tbo Popo OF Holland House. A mass
Of letters exchanged Gsl31sde) between
him and Lord aud Lady Holland, Lord Lans
downe, Halam. SismOndi. Sir James Mack
iutosh, Marie Edgeworth and other import.
ant pcrsonages has lately been found among
the effects OF ono Of his contemporaries. and
has Just been published in London, The title
OF the book, which is full Of more or less en-.
iertaining gossip is that which Whishaw's
dogmstism earned for him. On his own part
he Is always cautious. Here is what he says
concerning tho Byrons:
1T is quite determined that Lord and
Lady Byron are to separate, though 1t is vcry
His conduct according to every account has
been very culpnble What Ia TO be said. for
instance, OF his never sitting down to table
with hte Wife. alleging thot he dislllcd
lug woman eat; OF his taking no notice Of
her friends, and not asking her father
and mother to his house whom they were liv-
ing at tho hotel fow doors OF for some time
Inst springi / am afraid there mover was
any real affection between them
Tho venerable Justin Mccarthy has not
given up literary work, though his depart
Ing eyesigh, leaves him dependent upon tho
eyes and hand Of his daughter and OF soc.
retary. lie lives in quiet seaside place.
Prof A. T.. Kennedy Of Harvard uni.
verst,y is putting the finishing touches to a
which brings this fascinating subject to its
last dcvelopment, scientific and commercial.
He makes the whole subject absolutely clear
to the unscientihc mind. sketches its history
and dwells in some detail on it's development
in America. The book is illustrated inform
ingly with diagrams and plans. II will be
published by. Moftat, Yard & Co.
Let the literary man call down blessings
on the Lamport Holt line, which sends It's
ships from Glasgow TO Liverpool, from Lon
For in It's fleet are sturdy steamers nnmod
Scrvantes, Byron, TennySon, Horace, Virgil,
Chaucer, Rosscth and Voltsire. The line
also pays ito respectful compliments 10 art,
for othors Of its ships are named after Titan,
NclasqueE, Tintoretto, Rubeus. Raphael and
Romngy. Anothor pleasant bit of nows is TO
tho effect that the London County Council
has nhmod some of its penny steamboats, Of.
ter distinguished mon Of letters.
A French officer, Charles Francois. who
was with Napoleon throughout his cam
paigns, wrote diary describing his hdven-
lures and his observations. and portions Of
this diary arc about to bo published in Eng
lsh. The book, which is to bear the title
From Vhlmy TO Waterloo" will have n
preface by Jules Claretic.
larger number of persons visited Shakes.
peare's birthplace last year than ever before.
That number was actually 8i,i0S. Dovo
Cottage, the homo Of Wadsworth, also re-
corded its largest number Of visitors, A25o
tickets OF admission having been sold IL
appears, therefore, that the commercial
epoch' still nolds some enthusiasm for great
poetry.
Tho most famous story Of Fontenoy has
been discrcditcd by tho latest student OF the
OF chivalry that the officer OF the English
Guards cried. 'Gentlemen Of tho French
Guard fire Arst!' Whatever words were
usod thcy were meant 30 convey taunt, "it
being The commonly accepted theory" says
Mr.. Francis II. Skrine, that the side firing
first was beaten
In Henry w. Nevinson's now volume "Thc
Dawn Of Russia, published by tho Hnrpcrs
this wcck, occurs worry interesting account
OF visit paid 20 Tostoi at his Bright
Home the famous Russians country
place is called. Hr Novinson found him
engaged upon book TO be called Tho End
OF nm Age
The present movement in Russia ia not
riot ho told Mr. Ncyinson 1T ia not
cvon a revolution; il Is tho end of age,
And that age that is ending is the ago Of
ompircs--thc collection OF smaller states un.
der one large state. There is no truo com
munty OF hoort or thought between Rus.
ala, Finland, Poland. the Caucasus, and all