Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29
BOOKS.

A mans true nature comes out when
he speaks TO children and dogs ne
cannot fool them as he can the rest OF
the world, so he doesn't try II ne Is
loving, they cling to him, II not they
run away. Their intuitions WORK IN
SANITY, automatically and with truth
More than this, the lover OF ehlldren
always shows his best side 10 them uh-
consciously. The world would OFTEN re-
gerse it's judgments II It could see lts
Great men at play. Here is a nttle
hook. "Children's Letters which gives
ne a neep and charming one, at many
famous men OF many lands. IL gives
letters and extracts, which they haye
written to children they loved. People
whom you have never thought OF III
connection with children hgure IN theim
like Martin Luther and Huxley, as wen
as men like Hans Christian AhuG ,,.t
ana Lewis Carroll, whose one delghl
1n zee was to make the little ones nap
NV in his own Quizzlcal way Indeed.
4, was tho great defect OF Carroll
rharacter that he shipped or tne
frendships 80 soon as the little girls
hogan TO LEI down their frocks and take
mn their hair, and the boys put on long
trousers and surreptitiously shaved. IN
these letters one can ind sydney Smlth
and Tom Hood joking and punnlng
with their little friends, just as they
aid with their big correspondents there
Is that ingenious letter of Lewis Gar
rolls. which he called lookingglass
letter because 1t had to be read back.
ward; Steyenson's gift OF his birthday
10 A little girl who was born on CHRIST
mas and thus defrauded out OF one
holiday, Is also given. Then mere -
letter from Lincoln 10 little glrl VINO
had suggested he wear whiskers In
which he says. las to the WHISPERS.
having never worn any, do you NOT
think people would call II a piece OF
silly affectation II were to begin II
now?" And this written when he was
the busiest and most harassed Of men
BESIDES these letters | have mentioned
YOU will find in this little book letters
from Walter Scott 10 his children. Hel,
on Keller's letters to her friends ano
their replies, letters from Benjamin
Franklin to his daughter, letters IRON
Edwin Booth TO his daughter, Genera
Lees letters 10 his little girls, letters
from Nathaniel Hawthorne ana M
wife to their children, etc. There u
constant temptation to quote from tni'
book. Opened at any place, u Is ue
lightful. Kinds Noble q Eidredse
publishers, New York. Price 81 post
paid.
"The Soul OF an Artist" TRANSLATED
from the Italian OF Neera, by Il. L
Murison, is a sort OF spiritual blogra
phy. recalling Amlel and Marie Basn
kIrtseff, but differing as much iron
both as each OF these self-revelator
differs from the other The heroine,
great actress, writes Of the inner III
as IL seems TO a woman OF the mos
exquisite refinement who has attaine
arts utmost heights. 1t has been as
sumed that this heroine Is Eleanor
Duse: IT might be any great tragl
actress. 30 thoroughly does the boo
ignore ali facts Of the outward hs
which would assist In Identification
The spirit of the book Is that or pur
idealism dellcately touched win sallri
humor. This Is the first book issue
from the New York Office OF Paul Elde
& Company, and with the one enceptio
of Keeler's ;;San Francisco Throug
Earthauake and Fire" the first boo
published by them since the san Fran
cisco disaster
Famous Hymns Of the World, b
Allan Sutherland. contains the histoi
OF the writing OF Is OF the most widel
known religious songs. There are ais
romantic stories Of the singing OF tines
hymns, of times when they helped
make history. Each chapter Is distinct
" entertaining and instructive "
Illustrations are many and good.-Ne
York, Frederick A. stokes & Co.
While Wilbur Nesbit was hnlshir
his humorous novel, The Gentlema
Ragman," he was spending a few weei
In a country town IN Indiana He nj
sent nearly all Of the revised man
script to his publishers, but certain q
tails OF the completion ~ the plot M
been the subject OF discussion betWe,
himself and friend connected with u
publishing house. one day teltgra
for Nesbit was received az the vllla
telegraph office. II read;
What are you going TO DO about A
ME Davis and Pinkney Sanger
Annie Is the heroine Of THE CENT
man Ragman:" Pinkney Is the yillai
II there is one In the book. The loo
telegraph operator personally deliver
the message, and Nesblt wrpe TINS
ply: -,
Plnkney Sanger as soon as l return
Chicago.
The operator stared az Nesbit wo
derfngly when he read the messal
but Nesbit did not fathom that sta
until the morning when he took Z
train home, when the village marsf
stepped up 10 him and said, meanin
ly:
'sMr Neshif. | would advise you,