Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-17

| While she hath breath, no other dares
to breathe,
Not Cesar. even.
Nero-This breath to her owe
Tigellinus cautiously and slowly
watching Nero, as do the others) -
Cesar there Is a region Of exile
Whence none hath yet returned-your
pardon, sir
Nero starts and turns away)--No, no,
no! ! remember very clear
How gently she would wake me long
ago.
Burrus-Then be thy mothers son sim
and surrender
This toy Of Rome to her; she bought y
you;
Now, wearled. give It back!
Nero-Ah, patience, sir.
| cannot In one moment grid myself
To murder all these kisses, and she hath
a vastness In this narrow world so rare,
a sweep maiestical about the earth
True, that she hath no ear for verse---
The Nov York Tribune of Feb. 10
gives list of books most called for IN
the Congressional library at Washing
ton for the week previous.
The House Of Thousand Candles. ="
by Meredith Nicholson, is first on the
list, which includes, also, Octave Than
cts The Man of the Hour" and Har.
old MacGrath's Hearts and Masks
Among the letters that she prizes
most highly, Mrs. Myra Kelly Mae
Nnughton has the letter President
Roosevelt wrote TO her upon reading
one OF her stories that appeared in
McClure's after the publication OF her
Little Citizens The letter shows not
ma al has 4
story. but II tells Myra Kelly that lhe
Little Citizens" are all known and al
mired by the whole household at Saga
more hill. 1t expresses the presidents
appreciation both Of the literary char
acter OF her work and the valuable light
she Is casting upon East Side life and
its Ideals and its strange AmeriCanism
Curiously enough, unknown TO the pres
ident, the Kelly's summer home has for
I ONE time been at Oyster Bay, not
more than mile from Sycamore hill.
Perceval Gibbon. author OF "vrouw
Grobeloar and her Leading Cases" aft
er closing his term OF service as corre-
spondent In South Africa for the Lon-
don Standard went to Russia for the
London Daily Mall, He writes to his
paper some very interesting letters.
showing how closely Russia. from end
TO end, II verging upon anarchy ana
how terrible the conditions are. He says
that there is no government and no
law. one battered, bruised and bloody
peasant whom he met on the road told
Mr.. Gibbon how he had been set upon
by gang OF men from a neighborins
settlement hich was an actual rob-
Der village, one of many that has taken
90 that trade as an alternative to star
walton. The return OF discharged SOL
diers from the east has crowded the
country with desperate men hardened
by war and weaned from al respect for
the sacredness of life and property
They are desperate AMI without means
of getting liylnS. Many % them
are cripples who have lost their limbs
or eyes They travel In company. and
as they ask aims close around and beat
and rob their victim.
one of the early volumes to be
brought out by McCnre-philips this
season Is Lady Betty Crosses the Wa
ter" an Anglo American romance by G.
n, AMI A. NJ, Williamson authors II
"My Friend the Chauffeur" and Tho
Lightning Conductor" Lady Betty IL a
bright little English girl OF noble fam
ily. who comes 10 America under the
chaperonage ~ leader OF the fashion,
able set I'M New York ana Newport.
The book Is a diary ~ her Impressions
" American people and American Gus
toms. The firm name OF Williamson Is
guarantee OF the vlvaclous and bright
duality Of the tale.