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

MANY renders will probably recall me
legend of .The Passion Flower me
vine and The Oak." 10y palores Watts.
Which vas published IN the peseret
NewN two years ago. IL is noNy bslhs
nuhiished I'm folder style for Easter
cards The paper is heavy ahuQuV,
hun with old English type, illuminated
letters and deckle edge, IL VIII ne ol
sale In Salt Lake at the peaeret NEWS
hook store IN n snort TIME 5uu ~
sell as an Easter souvenir at ~ cents
New York literary critics haYe pro-
nounced the story IAN Idyllie prize
roem.f and In its attractive form IL VIII
make a beautiful Easter token
II was Inevitable that "Buchanana
Wife" the successful novel py JusluA
Miles Forman. published by the Harp*
ers a few months ago, should be drama
tiyed. for IL possesses the dramatle
quality In high degree. There have been
n number of applications for the urI~
matte privileges. and Miss Alberta Gal
latin, AT present starring In 'Dor"thN
Vernon has been fortunate IN secur~
ing them, and viii appear IN me prlhcl"
pal role IN the new play on us hfst pre-
sentption in April.
Justus Miles Forman, author or 'Bu~
cha mans Wife" lives through far more
ADVENTUROUS situations thar he ever
writes about. He spends six months 81
each year in getting into unusual places
in all corners OF the world-and there
fore. New Yorker though he IN, " seems
only natural that he was in san Fran
cisco at the time of the great earth~
quake.
He ESCAPED from his hotel without I'M
Jury, but lost all Of his baggage 9pti
clothes, excepting such things as ny
could hastily put on. The brst nlght
he proved that earthquakes make
TRANCE bedfcliows, for he slept under
tho edge of a Chinaman's blanket, and
was profoundly thankful for its
warmth. He paid for the privilege with
what he terms q 'horse-hoof sand wicl,"
which the Chinanlan eagerly ate.
Next morning, fiercely hungry, For
man and a companion broke open, on a
pier, q box OF oranges deserted there,
although they knew that by so doing
they were liable at any moment to be-
come ri6e-targets. Later he "refugeed'
TO the northward and thus got away,
Many an amusing incident Of army
life Is given In Lew Walluce's recently
published Autobiography For eN-
ample, he writes thus Of a tented Par
adise." which was lost and won al the
battle OF Shiloh.
within our lines there Was a drink
ing-tant, on which was written Para
disc II was taken by the C~ontederates
IN the first days fight, and the ~vietors
Mrote beneath its name Lost BY
Boauregard's order all camp furniture
Mas left intact. as he expected TO pos
sess the whole field IN the morrOW's
struggle. The Union army recovered
their ground by the second days bat,
lie: the pleasure-tcnt was rotakcu, and
10 the Two names was added the word
'Regaincd.
llamlin Garland, loyal WesteIper that
ho Is. finds the charms OF New York, as
compared With the charms OF Chicago,
not to be sufficient to induce pcrn1a-
nont residence. Mr. Garland has herl'
hesitAting between the W. cities. and
for s time was on tho point OF deciding
for the east, hut the call Of the west
vas too strong. lie has Just purchased
a house at 6i21 Greenwood avenue,
Chicago, and Will make his home there.
He also has u farm IN oklahoma, be-
sides a country house at Madison, ln
his native state uf Wisconsin,
Tho publication of a new snbscriptior
edition, by the hampers. nf the com
pleto works Of George Eliot, is one OF
Ihf many indications uf the rCaN4kon-
Ing % interest in that remarkable nov
cilst.
An English author nj "a volume oi
"reminiscences has just sat iorth an inc
grnious theory I'm explanation of hri
chnlcs NJ "A p~scudunynl He says that
Some time itl tho iprti,F t Nouug cav
airy onlccr named George Domuithnrn'
Elliot was drowned iu u lflmRlaSat
lake. and ho not only points on TN,
'Gcorgc Eliot" nj this. but calls alton.
ton 10 the fact that "punulth0rne' u