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

Pl"NSiDH' lhey are really condenSa tons
OF shrewd pithy stories illustrative of
native life and philosophy. The
volume will have frontispiece in col
or after an oil painting bv Will Jenk-
ins.
A Ball Of Yarn, composed of four
skeins of three yarns each including
the Yarn of the Two Tailed Pointer,
the Yarn of the Sinner Stung and
others. BY Robert Rudd Whiting. An
nounced for fall publication by Paul
Elder and company. The volume will
have several illustrations In color by
Merle Johnson.
September 6, 1907, d. Appleton &
company will publish Who Killed
Lady Poynder? by Richard Marsh.
Ornamental cloth. A thrilling love
story of battling mystery. Yoland of
Idle Isle, by Charles Van Norden. d.
D.. LII. D. author of 1.-THE Outermost
Rim and Beyond" "The Psychic Fact
or" etc. A novel of action and adj
venture, the scene laid in Bermuda.
Evolution and Animal Life, by David
Starr Jordan, President of stanford
University, and Vernon Lyman KEEL
logg, Professor of Entomology and BIZ
onomics In Stanford University. A
popular discussion of the facts. pro-
cesses, laws and theories relating to
the life and evolution of animals.
Wilhelmina Margarine of Baireuth.
by Edith Cuthell. Profusely illus
trated with two photogravure plates
and many half tones. Ornamental
cloth, royal Svo, 2 vols II is n strange
coincidence that the sister of one of
the greatest monarchs in history
should be one of the greatest letter
writer's In history. The two hand
some volumes are very fully Illus
trated. Antoinette Sterling and Other
Celebrities. by NJ. Sterling Mac Kinley.
M. A. Deny svo, cloth gilt and gilt
top, with is Illustrations, and interest
ing facsimlles in the next. Reminis-
ceuces of the famous singer. by her
SON. with many personal recollections
and anecdotes of other celebrities.
Robert owen. by Frank Podmore,
author of Modern SpIrltualism,"
Studies In Psychical Research" etc.
vols. with numerous illustrations.
DENY Svo, cloth gilth and gilt top. The
first serious attempt TO recount in its
entirety the fe-history of Robert
owen the great Socialist.
The new annual catalogue Of the
Macmillan company, which has just
been issued, is prepared on plan
that makes II reference work OF
some value. II contains a list of all
the books kept in print or carried in
stock by this company. arranged al
phabetically both as to subjects and
authors names. Inasmuch as this in
cludes nearly 5000 titles, covering al
most every conceivable subject in
literature and science, the value of
the catalogue for reference purposes
in evident. In this connection 1t Is
recalled that when the American LII
brary association issued their 1904
catalogue of about 1000 books for a
model library, nearly 20 per cent
of the books listed were publications
of tho Macmillan company.
The title OF James Morgan's book
about the president. Theodore Roose-
welt: The Boy and the Man lndi-
Gates that in preparing this biography
ne has had in mind especially the
youthful reader. But the fact that
there Is actually no complete and im-
partial life of the president In exis-
tence may make this book welcome
| TO older readers as well. Mr., Morgan,
| who Is a we'll known newspaper man.
has aimed AT telling the story Of the
Presidents life as simply and obJec-
| lively as possible, allowing the events
| of his career to speak for themselves.
| The work VIII be copiouslY illustrat-
| ed. largely from photographs Of the
president and his family and OF tho
places with which his life has been
associated.
Messrs Samuel Merwin and Henry
| X. Webster. who have published moth
| ing IN collaboration since the appear
ance of Calumet ~ about six years
ago. have Just placed IN the hands
| of their publishers their new novel
"Comrade John" This book, which IL
TO appear In tho early fall, promises
some sensational features II advance
reports may be trusted. II Is said
that the principal character Il the
powerful leader Of semi-reli gious'
m-industrial community insti-
tuition resembling at the same time
Dowie's Zion CITY and the homes OF
some OF the recent arts and crafts en-
terprises
The new edition Of Miss Mabel Wag-
nails stars OF the OPERA now in
preparation. contains contiderable
amount OF new matter, Including IN
terylews with Madame Melba and
Geraldine Farrar and a new analysis
OF Madame Butterfly The volume
contains many interviews with sing
ers, all of which We're submitted In
proof 10 the singers before publication.
DR.. Isaac X. Funk's volume regard
ing his latest experience In Investigate
Ing various phenomena OF splrituallsm,
entitled The Psychic Riddle" ID al