Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-20
NOTES.

After the rather excessive adula~
ton Of Tolstoy as a great thinker. tho
following from AS The Hague Or
dalns." a book dealing with tho Jap
anese- Russian war which has recently
appeared. is refreshing: our great
reforner and humbug, Count L. Toll
stoy. l wonder why the procession OF
foreign visitors who go to Yasmaya
L>llyana. who lavish aduletion end
historical praises upon that Grass 500
calist and mischief maker of his day,
never think to look around them and
use their reasoning powers"
A dramatization by George Middle-
ton Of Meredith Nicholson's popular
story The House of Thousand Cam
dies" has been tried OUT with great
success by stock company in Wor-
cester, Mass. 1t will be put on the
boards regularly next fall with a com.
pany of Its own.
Edwin Lefevre. author OF Sampson
Rock OF Wall Street. is we'll known
TO all Wall street men as an able and
peculiarly independent newspaper
man, of years OF experience in the
financial district. He comes natural-
ly by his Independence. too, for when
he was young man Of is or there
fusing to pretend to like chest IT
Is game for which he has always
had strong dlstaste and he refused
TO pretend otherwise to please a
wealthy relative with whom chess was
passion. and who Intended to make
him his heir.
The Mystics," by Katherine Cecil
Thurston, has figured for several
week. az alternately the most popu-
lar and next to the most popular book
In the New York public library The
success of this book has naturally
called renewed attention to her previ-
Gus great success. THE Masquerader."
and the London papers tel, of case
In court, in that city. which shows
that there may be In real life situa-
lions such as the central one of '"rhc
Masquerader," for poor woman APP
peared in court with the curious claim
that there had been an attempted ex>
change of husbands. and that the man
who claimed TO be hers was not he in
reality, but one who remarkably re-
sembed him.
Mrs. Wilson Woodrow received the
following letter from an admirer of
her new book. Tho Bird of Time"
MY dear lady. II any woman OF SO
years and garden and a growing
soul writes to you on reading your
own Indian Summer book. then are
You both bored and flattered by too
much truth. Ever since Prof Shaler
put his scientific stamp on my age
and energy in delightful chapter
have been looking for your book, even
thinking I might try to write 1t my
self and lo!. yon have forestalled us.
] have only inwrapped you and read
70 the fifteenth page. but you are
descended from The Autocrat OF the
Breakfast Table, and your garden has
holding acquaintance with his trees,
which are to this day burrowing ami
mails with their tails left sticking out
while our generations come and co.
The Harpers have Issued a new
edition Of "a History of Mediaevai
Art by Franz Won Reber. The
book is comprehensive In scope and
abundantly illustrated.
The English set such difficult stand
ards for American books that II II
Interesting TO lind one Of the highest
English authorities enthusiastic In
praise OF book by an American and
set In American scenes. 1--WE recom-
mend the novel very cordially as
piece OF delicate and understanding
work, and also ms an interesting
STORY" declares the London Times In
regard to Mary Il. wilkins Freeman's
latest novel, by the Light OF the
Soul"
Mrs, Julie Opp Faversham, tho act
ress. has made novel out OF Royle's
play, The Squaw Man" in which she
ana her husband have acted. She has
supplied the necessary descriptions to