Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-23
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and the Bases Of Hope In the Life Be-
culture, the Supremacy Of Goodness,
yond,
David Relasco, the versatile manager
playwright, has elaborated with
| Charles A. Byrne in compiling an UNI
usual series OF Fairy Tales, These
have been published in New York
with the imprint OF The Baker & Tay-
lor Co., under the unassumlng title ot
"A Book OF Fairy Tales As might be
| expected. the book has the well-knoNn
| Belasco touch. and Is copiously illus
trated by George Bleekman.
1t is a unique situation tina lies at
| the base OF the new novel by Mary r.
wilkins Freeman, BY the Light of the
Soul. which was published by the
Harpers In January.
Maria Edgham. the heroine, is charm-
ing. high-strung impulsive. exception
| ally pretty, and of the finest fibre.
Through the mistaken impression OF
a young minister that he is saving her
from disgrace, he precipitately marries
| her to Wollaston Lee, both she and her
\ fortuittous husband being SO youthful,
so inexperienced, so agitated by a sud
den predicament, that they scarcely
realize what Is taking place, and yield
to the ministers foolish impulsiVeness.
bllIeTly nullllld ltus thhAAo 0''p
thought is 10 keep the entire matter Sc
cret. Lee acquiesces, n remains
silent. The marriage remains unsus-
pected, And then como the complica-
tons Of Maria's falling In love with
another man and Lees falling in love
with another woman.
The story is worked out with Mrs
Fresman's finest skill. and not nly
pictures love. but the highest and finest
type OF self-abnegatiou.
That a great part Of the action OF
Mrs. Mary wilkins Freeman's new
story, BY the Light of the Soul. takes
place in New Jersey, instead of in the
familiar New England region with
which her fame is principally connect
ed. and that this New Jersey setting
gives her the opportunity for some ex-
c~eptionally fine delineation of village
life in that state, has delighted her host
OF readers.
AZ write OF New Jersey she said. a
few days ago. in conversation with a
friend. because I have been subjected
TO some criticism for writing only New
England stories. and because 1t is mani
testify as absurd that ono should write
always in the same vein as that one
should always wear the same costume
or eat the same food.
"I find New Jersey to be an unusual
and interesting field, and have now
lived there for some years. 1t is a Held
which has not been worked, IN a liter
airy sense. TO any extent. It IL a curious
state. partaking of the nature of both
the north and the south. and having an
oddly independent character OF its
own"
This has been a year Of quaint and
striking literature for children. Puck
of Pook's Hill' has established a new
modelror fairy tales; The Roosevelt
Bears created a furore which does not
abate: and Lady HOllyhock n Her
Friends: A Book of Nature Dolls with
It's quaint Illustrations n careful IN
structions for making dolls from fruit.
vegetables and common household ma.
1 ~terlals. has been received with srea1
enthusiasm In country, town and city
A new Seld tn American fiction is
opened IN THE Sowing Of Anderson
Cree" by Miss Margaret Prescott Mon
tsgue. who VIII be- remembered by her
charming idyllic novel. 1.-THE Poet, Miss
Kate and IT, In this later work Miss
Montague tells "A feud story different
from its predecessors In similar fields
I'm that the scene is laid in the West
Virginia mountains and the fued, begun
under a misrepresentation, ends In a
dramatic situation totally unexpected.
-rhs book win be published In the early
spring by The Baker q Taylor Co.