Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-10
NOTES.

Rumor has it that the affairs of
4 Gabrielle d'Annunzio have reached that
4 stage which wilkins Micawber was
went to describe as "a crisis" The
author of Francesca di Rimini'' has
received immense sums for his writ
Il ings. but large as his income is he
4 spends more than he makes and now
he is to be sold out He has extrava-
giant tastes in most things, especially
in matters sartorial. Here is a little
4 inventory of his wardrobe which APP
peared in a Neapolitan journal:
Shirts, 70; socks of all kinds, IL
dozen. hats, evening suits, smoking
coats. shooting jackets. innumerable;
gloves for walking, As pairs; evening
gloves. "a pairs umbrellas, of violet
hue. s; parasols, green, 10; handker-
chiefs, 20 dozen; cravats, resplendent
and varied, $50: waistcoats, 10; shoes
for walking, IA pairs; slippers, soft,
silent and tremulous," pairs.
When d'Annunzio went to Egypt his
boxes contained among other things
As night shirts and $50 neckties. while
he also carried with him 10 green sun
shades and eight violet umbrellas.
He liked Egypt, but the camels OBJ
jected to him, and he almost moved
the Sphinx. In the gay set with which
he consorts in Florence there have
been two suicides this season due to
pccuniary embarrassment. D'Annun-
gio is a pessimist of the pessimists,
but II is imagined he finds too much in
life to minister to his vanity to con-
template putting an end to his exist
cree because his creditors are after
him. But 1t Is rather ominous that
one of his latest fancies was to order
costly marble tombstone for him
self
For the young folks pleasure and
profit this winter the Century COM
pany announces fall publication Of am
other of Frances Hodgson Burnetts
fairy stories, "The Cosy Lion" new
story of school life. tom. Dick and
Harriet" by Ralph Henry Barbour;
cant. June" by Alice Hogan Rice,
and "Abbie Ann" by the author of
the Emmy Lou" stories, George Mad
den Martin.
The Australian market is becoming
INCREASINGLY important to Am arican
publishers. who are beginning . wrest
the field away from the mother coun-
Il try The new novel, "The Younger
Set" by Robert Chambers, now run
ming serially in Appleton's Magazine
and TO he published in book form TINS
fell, has broken all American records
for advance orders in Australia:
Through its publication date is still
several months removed the sale has
been over 5000 copies This is said to
hc the best advance sale yet of an
American novel in Australia.
One Of the great London journals
comments on the striking fact that
Sir Oliver Lodge, ID. Sc, LID, dis
Itinguished man of science, to whom
investigation and logic and proof are
absolute necessities before he forms
his conclusions, should deliberately set
forth his personal creed as follows,
in his recently published book. Tho
Substance of Faith. Allied with Sci
cnce."
II believe in some infinite and eter-
nal Pcing, a guiding and loving Faith
er IN whom all things consist.
II lelieve that the divine nature Is
specially revealed to man through
Jesus Christ our Lord, who lived and
taught and suffered in Palestine 1870
years ago. and has since been wor-
shipped by the Christian church as
The immortal Son of God, the savior
OF the world.
- believe that the Holy Spirit Is
over ready to help us along the way
towards goodness and truth; thai
prayer Is n means OF communion be-
tween man and Cod and that II Is
our privilege through faithful service
10 enter into the life eternal, the com
munion of saints. and the peace OF
God"
Turgeniefr Cor more correctly, Ivan