Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-07

him had Co Doe read.
To say that DE was not missed would
Boz neither complimentary nor true,
1ut our disappointment was soon FOR
gotten in feast that really might have
been arranged boy the fairies them
selves. Along the tables little brown
pathways were laid out with tiny sign
posts bearing the words. ITO the pep-
per" ITO the Mistress OF the Cere-
monies and so uu. and along these
paths were ranged little tin soldiers
and white rabbits and white and black
mice. and old women with brOomstcls
and an the other curious creatures that
from time 20 time immemorial have
dvclt in falryland.
DRANK ROWAN WINE.
The health OF the king was drank In
rowan wine. after which maids OF
honor went round and decked al the
women with rowan berries. and dec
grated" all the men with green ana
blue scarves with a quaint gold rabbit
attached. And, then. after we had been
RECALLED ON goldfish and roast goose
with ices from an Illuminated ice
palace. such as the Snow Queen must
have lived in, the telling Of the fairy
tales began.
When Miss Smedley gets to America
perhaps she win introduce the innova.
ton of stories about sprites instead
OF toasts; anyhow. II proved a most
happy one as tried at the Lyceum.
And though comparisons are Odious.
50 must be said that the most success
ful Of the story-tellers was Miss She'd
lock. whose rendering OF THE Wolf
and the Seven Little Kids" must have
delighted the Brothers Grimm If they
really were ln the next room. They
and hans Andersen were said TO have
driven away in a motor car just before
the dinner party broke up, and the
/ footing OF their horn In Piccadilly
brought TO an end a feast which would
/ have delighted the heart OF Peter
/ PANS creator and that the author
OF "The Golden Age" must now be very
! sorry 10 have missed.
| LETTERS OF LEIGH HUNT.
! Some interesting letters of Leigh
| Hunt have just come TO light I'm coun
| try newspaper 10 whose founder they
| were written. Some of them tell how
| he made a fairy-land out OF Newgate
| prison, where be mad been sent for two
| years because he had called King Will
| liam " a. coNComb. He obtained two
| vacant wards OF the prison inhrmsry
| "Thc larger ward he says Il turned
| into a noble room. 1 papered the walls
| with trellis q roses; I had the cell
/ ing covered with clouds and sky; the
/ barred windows ! acreened with Vene.
| tian blinds. and when my bookcase,
| were SET up with their busts and flow.
| ers and piauoforte made their appear.
| auce perhaps there was not a hand
somer room ON that side of the water
/ Charles Lamb declared there was no
| other such room except IN a fairy tale "
/ But prison life was not all so care-free
| Hearing that bis family had been fore
] ed 10 go down TO Brighton for their
/ health. he writes. 81 felt ready TO dash
| my head against the wall at not being
| able to follow them. ] would sometimes
| SIT iu my chair with this Thought upon
| me tin the agony of my impatlenct
burst out at every pore"
POOR ALFRED AUSTIN
Poor Alfred austin! As II It wei,
not enough In Itself for a poet Iaurest,
10 have TO accommodate his feet e
the empty shoes Of a poet like Ten
nysonl For ~ years he has boen jeer'
I'd ut because. taphOriCally speaking
his feet were not nearly big enough
| And now he writes pathetlcally I'm The
| Times. Some Of as have from tim,
/ Co time sought 10 rouse the slumberin.
spirit of the nation bv verse" But tn,
nation viii not be reused. the nation
slumbers ou-and so does his verse.
N AlllaII hHAFNA 80 AllaA Allt OH
! repeated assertion that he was dis
covered by Alfred Austin, the poe
laureate. ls a pure fable and nothin,
more. His own father discovered him
! he says. and paid the expenses Of hi
first two books of poems, OF which
not 90 copies reached the world out
side the circle Of HIS family and friends
But AIR. Watson has had no reason
fo blame the public since those earil
l days. for 'WordsWorth's Grave an,
/ other Poems has passed through
rearly % editions and Is still as great
ly Don deW0ua "a. ever. II have allowed
myself 90 Pc Tor once provoked" Mr.
VI teou eNuiaius "t1 print these mer
/ dutilc Ccts H. -0ul 7 take no grea
Z pleasure iu doing so uow-by the per
I uetlal aud wearisomo parrOt-Cry tina
| there are no readers of contemporary
poetry" MT Watson perhaps Nigh
have said that the oft-repeated asser
tion just alluded 90 discovered Alfre,
/ Austin.
CHARLES DEnENG