Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-08-31

The number of novels that have re-
Gently been written dealing with the
problem of dual personality indicates
that interest IN this fascinating subject
Is not confined TO the medical profess
sion. For this reason the announce
ment of a new book by Prof. Pierre
Janet is significant bit of literary
news, Prof. Janet, who was pupil
of the great Charcot, and Is now the
director of the Psychological Labora-
tory of the Salpetriere IN Paris. is prob
aoly the most distinguished living stu
dent of hysteria and kindred diseases
His book, which is entitled The Major
symptoms of Hysteria" is based on
a course Of lectures given last fan at
Harvard university. An interesting fact
in this connection is that Prof. Janet
has mastered the English language 50
thoroughly that these lectures were de-
liVered and the book has been written
In English American students will
therefore have the rare experience of
reading the work of a distinguished
French scientist before the French
themselves.
Having disposed of the mature writ
crs,' Messrs. Long, Robert, London, ct
| al, President Roosevelt now advises
| the reading of certain books of pure
fction that have, as he expresses It,
the prime quality of being interest
ing" In his speech at the semi-cen-
tennial of the Michigan agricultural
school at Lansing, Mich. President
| Roosevelt said:
You Will learn the root principles of
self-help and helpfulness toward others
from Nus. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch. just as much as from any for
NAL treatise, on charity; you will learn
as much sound social and Industrial
L nOcf fing from off
OF farmers and wageworkers as from
| avowed sociological and economic stu
| dies; and l cordially recommend the
| first chapter of Aunt Jane of Kentuc-
| ky for use as a tract In all families
| where the men folks tend to selfish or
| thoughtless or overbearing disregard Of
| the rights of their womenklnd."
| On account of the popular welcome
! given to Mark Twain at oxford and
! london. they are telling many stories
| over there about our greatest humor-
| list. a good one is told by Andrew
| Lang, although il has to do with one of
| Mark Twain's books and not with Mark
| Twain himself.
| 1t was some years ago, and Andrew
| Lang was in railway car on his way
| from Edinburgh TO Oxford. In the
| same compartment with him was the
mighty scholar, Benjamin Jowett, mas
| ter OF bhlllOl.
| Lang had picked up at random, as
he hastily boarded the train. little
book entitled The Celebrated Jumping
| Frog" and as he read It he was over
| come with merriment. He exploded with
| laughter so he tells the tale and his
| eyes were filled with tears OF joy.
| The great Jowett looked at him with
| sort OF solemn curiosity, and Lang,
| coming to the last page handed him
| the book.
Jowett took it, read it patiently
| through from beginning to end with
| absolute gravity and without finding a
! suggestion OF amusement, and then
| solemnly handed II back without a
| word
one imaglnes with what mingled feel
| ings the great scholar, we're he now
alive, would have looked on as his
| beloved oxford, with enthusiastic adj
| miration. conferred a doctors degree
upon the writer whose charm nc was
SO unable TO recognize.
Among foreign authors now talked
| of in Italy Is the famous ELLEN Key"
Both In Germany and Italy this Swed-
| ish writer and exponent of the wo-
mans cause Is hailed as prophet.
| She lccturel lately at Milan and was
received with lively applause. At
| present sho is at Rome whore she Is
| detained by a slight accident which
| interferes with much walking. She
expects to spend next autumn in Flor
! ence.
Among the authors who have spent
part OF the year IN Florence was VIM
! field Scott Moody, whose stories OF life
| among nrt connoisseurs ana purchas-
ers are running. In scribner's'
Mrs. Anne Crawford Flexner, who
dramatlzed Mrs. Wigs OF the cab
bage Patch" and who began her ca
reer by arranging Miranda OF tho
| Balcony" for Mrs, Fiske. Is living now
! I'm Berlin. Her husband, Prof. A. Flick
| her. brother of DIR, Simon Flexner OF
| the Rockefeller university and discov-
erer OF the cure for spinal meningitis,
Is pursuing studies In that city Mrs
Flexner Ike the author OF Mrs.
Wiggs,' Is from Louisville
Few outsiders know that there IS
| still living in Florence the American
| author, whose fame was made by ono
| single little book, and at q word from
Ruskin, Some twenty or more years
ago The Story Of Ida" was read
] everywhere. The author. Miss Alex
| ander, always known as "FrenCesca,"
| 10 now an elderly lady, ana with her
| mother OF 90 lives In n wonderfully
| artistic apartment In the Piaz2a santa
work on art Illustrated by herself Is
| her chief production. but the world
knew her only as "Ruskin's "Fran-
eesca."
Among the American writer's resid-
| Ing In Florence Is Miss Eva Madden
| OF Louisville, author Of "rhe Little
| Queen" Little Crusaders" and other
| historical books Tor young people. She
Is sister OF Mrs, Atwood Martin,
] Author OF Emmy Lou" Miss Mad