Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-21
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,gnes and Egerton Castle have again
..,ishorated I'm a romance, which tho
w'rr,illan company will publish this
~onth under the alluring title, III Youth
pn, Knew I'm charm spirit and at
nosphere the story resembles ''The
prlds Of Jenlco" more than the authors
Amer books. II is freely Illustrated, In
gre and hlaf-tone, by Lancelot Speed.
~
A correspondent has sent TO the Bak-
AZ & TAYLOR company "A story anent the
Sarp criticism Of Ivanowskis portrait
lead Of Folly" which is used on the
hack and title page OF Miss Ricketts,
hok: A man went into taxidermist's
,hop and gazing about said; What's
hal supposed to be. an owl? Never
ww ain owl like that. To much round
A front. The head Is too square. The
all Is not at the right angle. The man
gho stuffed that owl did not know his
uslness." And the owl turned his
ned slowly and looked at the speaker,
The story is made apt because of Miss
Glckerts statement that she was posi-
lively startled when she first saw the
portralt 1T was she said. "as II
Folly herself had walked Into the
pom"
AN extraordinary renewal ~ Inter-
al in Lord Byron Is being ma nlfeStcd
A the present time. Two editions Of
Ms poetical works, both carefully edit
d. have recently been issued and "A
Rg Byron novel is being widely dis
sassed The latter entitled Maid Of
Athens" is the work of Lafayette Ne
laws, whom some readers believe TO
b a man until her picture II shown
hem 10 prove their mistake. In Thyr2a
Riga, the heroine. Miss McLaws, gives
IDENTIFY 10 the beautiful Greek girl to
whom Byron wrote one of his sweetest
love songs. Taking an authors prlvi-
eyed liberties with what purports to be
history, the Thyrza in Maid of Ath-
ms dies in a convent whereas the
alleged real Thyrza Tor Theresa Is said
70 have died in poverty at the age OF
v Whether the appearance of the
Maid Of Athens In Byrons home aft
q his marriage 10 Miss Milbanke. as
plated IN this novel. was the real rea-
0n for Lady Byrons separation from
ter husband, Is a mooted question.
The Byron in Maid of Athens" IS far
tiferent character from the carica-
ufe OF Mrs. Humphrey Wards crea-
'on
The people OF jefferson. o., are re-
oned to be elated by the story that
W. Howells, while on "a recent wish
here, expressed a desire TO return and
spend his old age In his boyhood home.
TIE old Howells homestead Is today the
iesldencc OF n nephew, who bears the
same name as the gifted novelist and
'"aylst Mr.. Howells began his ca
'ecr as a typesetter for his fathers
newspaper the Ashtabula Sentinel In
Jefferson, and was noted for his celeri-
" II was his custom when writing an
article for the Sentinel TO set II up di.
lecty at the case. without first prepar-
ing copy. Though his earliest serious
lolnallstic work was done for the Gin.
qnhau Gazette and the Columbus
Sale Journal. his literary activity dates
oeck to the age Of nine, when he pro-
iuCed an essay bearing the sonorous
sna iar-reachlng title OF Human
LIE"
Wuon. Mr.. Warren Cheney has dis
covered them In his remarkable novel.
lht Challenge just published by
ne Bobbs- Merrill company. lie cams
upon them by accident. An eastern
magazine had given him commission
% write up the Russian Fur company.
arg It's successor. the Alaska CONNER
al company, In the lines in which the
hudson Bay company has been ex-
yoled on the other side. He had ac-
~. .ss to the Bancroft Library and the
oa post records and put IN about two
Ears Intermittent work, preparing for
ne TASK. But at the end OF that time
" had become so tremendously inter-
,Sed IN the human side OF the oues-
Uh-there had developed such n
,,ea,tn OF new and picturesque material
WI ncuon-that he threw aside the his