Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-23

the name Of the principal male charac-
ter OF Adam Bede." Whereupon he
adds the romantic suggestion that
George Donnithorne Eliot was a
"name' or Ideal of youthful Marian
Evans, who imInortalized his name
when she began to write. Such a sup
position Is certainly interesting; but
one wonders whether, after all, the
name Of the soldier Was precisely that.
and 10 the drowning was really In the
forties. and one reflects, too. that a
woman who wished 10 ideallze a be-
loved ideal would scarcely picture him
as George Eliot pictured the character
of Donnithornel And, too, II was some
Years after the beginning of her devo-
ton to Lewes that she assumed the
pen-name. and this alone would seem
10 show that she was not thin king OF
an early love.
Her own expis nation of how she came
10 adopt her pseudonym was e~ninently
mattcr-of-fact. ut was merely because
George was the first name of Mr..
LeWes, and Eliot was a good. mouth
filling, easily pronounced word" she
said.
Mrs. Deland. author of 1.-The Awaken
ing of Helena Richie" and the Old
Chester stories, not only loves TO de-
scribe old-fashioned gardens In her fc-
UOll, pUA iDNth lu'lu liz I@'t fr we'll
AT her summer home, IN Maine, h
has a remarkably beautiful garden, and
oultvates rare and beautiful tonquils ms
her special Joy; and in her Boston house
she il careful to keep flowers blooming
throughout the winter.
Lillian Whiting. whose new book. The
Land Of EnchAntment.' offers the most
plctortnlly vivid and the most synipa-
thetic and comprehensive Interpretation
Of the great Southwest, from Pixies
Peak TO the Pacific that has as yet APP
peared. including, as it does. the data
Of agriculture, of the great scientific
progress in engineering and reclama-
ton, the scenic glories. md the primal
life of these regions-has gone to italy
where after some visits TO Naples and
Capri, and excursions to Tschia. Sorrento
and Pompeii, she win pass the winter
In Rome, engaged on a new book. Miss
Writings study Of the life and poetry
OF Mrs. Browning and her other Ital-
ian book. THE Florence of Lander"
have touched into life and light phases
of the vanished past I'm the Flower
CITY, and In the latter work the years
of Landor's life In Florence lS2I-64) are
wrought into a drama OF the rich and
Significant social NE of that period,
a magazine reader not long ago in
AlNANl IL iHt y iilhA 9AN Z dultibl
OF THE Wire Tappers, whose new row.
81. phantom Wires" is now in press.
is in any way related to the man Of the
same name who wrote poetry, 1t so
happens they are one and the same per-
son. In fact. Mr.. Stringer had pub
llshed three volumes Of verses before
he thought Of turning to underwriting.
He also has two more books OF verse
under way, but as he does this for
pleasure, and not proft, no date ear be
set for their appearance, One Is n
! translation into English blank verse OF
Ferdinando Fontana's La Leggenda
D'Edipo.' which embraces the entire
pcdipus cycle, and the other is a drama
dealing with the life of Sappho. This
latter work The author hopes to conf
plctc during a projected visit to the
Island OF Lesbos, this winter,
A good story is told IN regard to II. @.
Wells. whose pungeut and advanced cri-
liCisms OF p~resont-day conditions, in
his most recent book. The Future In
America and elsewhere, have mis-
Dakenly caused some people 10 consider
him m extreme Socialist.
Tho story IL that OH his late visit to
the United states he was one OF the
guests AZ a Boston club, one evening,
ana found that he was to sign the reg
istor immediately beneath the signature
90 Jack London, who, IL Is said, had
signed with a flourish. yours for the
Revolution
Whcreupon M. Wells wrote. in hi'
npc. small handwriting, There sin't
going to be no revolution and care
fully signed his name tn the sentiment
This week The Harpcrs are PUBLISHING
Christian ScIcnCc.' by Mark Twain
"rhc American SCENE by Henry
James; "Grod Hunting In Pursuit o