Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-05-25

DO Readers What gentleman Is.
Generally Study suing from his libra
Tho Classics? ny, where he has
them IN handsome
bindings. viii boast at the head OF his
dinner table that he reads them
through. and makes a point Of It, once
every year? They are partially read,
OF course, In the schools and colleges.
but they are not read there SO willing
ly and gladly as they could ask to be
read If they had their say. There arr
people who, II sworn to tell the whole
truth, and nothing but It, must own
that there are one or two darkling
plays Of Shakespeare himself prince
among the moderns which they have
not read and only the other day Pro-
fessor Brander Matthews was intlmat-
ing that most of the Elgabethan dra-
matists were, for the most part not
worth reading. But do many persons
now go about with pocket editions Of
the Had or the HIneid and lie down
under summer trees, enjoying thom--
From morn tin noon, from noon tin
dewy eve?
We arc not saying they do not. or
might not do IL with the Odyssey, or
the Battle OF the Frogs and Mice,
OF a NirgillHn Eclogue or So Of i'm
mediate agricultural interest; but ii
epcs, in which the fame OF the poets
Is supposed 10 be mainly lodged. The
doubt intimated attaches Itself even TO
the Divine Comedy" earliest of the
great achievements of the moderns.
Have many gentlemen with libraries,
or others. read It from cover to cover
more than half dozen times? or
IL they have 1t about them. are they
presently reading 1t in course or are
theN staying here and there upon
faNorite passage, with which they as
ISOLATE the rest of that work? TO name
the epic that follows In the deathless
order next after the Divine Comedy"
Is Paradise Lost" familiar, save again
~ certain beautiful bits. 10 any multi
tude Of impassioned lovers? II n faith
ful census were made OF the Chicago
readers of Sponsors "Faerie Queen"
must not the ascertained number fall
50 far below the claim of st. Louis that
the Chicago papers would cry out on
u for q mlscount2~-W. d. HoWells, IN
Harper's Magazine.
Happiness, In cur lax and casual
What IL Is and hapha2ard way
And How Found we are very apt to
think OF happiness as
matter to be influenced by some ex-
ternal change. But 1t is an interesting
fact that into our altered circumstances
we advance with the same spirit. The
temporary VestmentS of life, its ac-
cretions and casual trappings. enwrap
the unchanged habitant, and he who il
nervous and impatient under the cross
es of poverty is nervous and impatient
over the responsibilities of wealth; who
succumbs to a depressed and hopeless
resignation in Affections Is not likely
TO become sudden heir to a high cour-
age and fine endurance In the larger
events which attend fame and brilliant
position. The truth is that though all
the mutable courses of life we are
haunted by our own spirits. Clothes
and trappings cannot hide them, money
cannot buy anodynes to put them 10
sleep or tonics to change them, and the
business of happiness is somehow COM
ing to terms with our own spirits;
learning to bear with them in as far as
II Is impossible to better them and to
the best OF our ability never to give
over charging and strengthening them
If thought and prayer do beckon events
to us, as individually they do; If trust
brings out the best quality of our neigh
Dor, and the human being indeed offers
us what In perfect faith We demand,
then We must concern ourselves, not so
much with desire. but with the strength