The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-18


is laid down with a keener appreciation
of the beauties and charm of the quiet
intellectual life.
AN Interrupted Honeymoon Jane
Grosvenor Cooke. Published by A.
S. Barnes & Co., New York. Price,
$3.50.
IAN Interrupted Honeymoon" by
Jane Grosvenor Cooke, is a story of
two fools who married after an ac-
quaintance of a lifetime and an I'M
usually placid and commonplace court
ship in a country town. There were no
rivals nor obstacles of any kind to.
break the monOtOny Of their happiness.
On their wedding day, after the cere-
mOny had been concluded and the rice
thrown, they set out for the furnished
home which had been awaiting them
for several months, for the equipment
Of which both had planned and con-
tributed. A few miles along the road
they quarreled. William wanted to din
card the embarrassing white stream
ers with which their jocular friends
had adorned the buggy, but Sally pre-
ferred to leave things alone. William
persisted and Sally protested. At last
Sally leaped from the buggy and
waded through the dust back TO her old
home. William, acting very sensibly
for once, drove COZ.
Four years passed while Sally took
in sewing. William prospered in a dry
goods business at the county seat.
Gradually he began to take notice of
young widow who was likewise lone
some. About this time Sally began
trading at Williams store, meeting
him occasionally, and greeting him for
mally. One day they got "chummy'
and went over to the house they had
fixed up for home. Together they got
up meal, but just as they were sit
ting down the widow arrived. The
wife retired to the pantry and the
widow was taken to the paTlOr, where
she reprOached William for neglect.
He told her he had about decided to
keep right on being married and, weep
ing, she went away. But Sally couldn't
be found. She had gone to a lawyer
to get a little information on the di-
vOrce question. William pursued her.
Having lost his widow, he wanted his
wife. Sally kept him at arms length
for another year, but after an amazing
lot of idiotic misunderstanding they
wandered back to the empty home one
night and storm came up, keeping
them there until morning. Sally was
greatly scandalized and wept hys-
terically in her shame. OF a sudden
she exclaimed, "Oh, William, I'm your
wife" He admitted it, ard in the last
words of the story she cried: Then
it's all right"
The story is not without interest, but
the hero and heroine are a brace of
stubborn, hopeless idiots who have
wasted five years of married life and
seem destined to continue petty and
unreasonable to the unwritten end.
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1.-THE Daughters of the Little Grey
House"-By Marion Ames Taggart
Published by McClure's. Price, $1.25.
THE Daughters of the Little Grey
House" is a restful story, in which the
author displays considerably more skill
IN portraying ideals than knowledge of
human nature. In the well written
chronicles of the Grey family and their
friends, one will look in vain for a plot
or a hero or a villain. The boys are all
clean and manly; the girls sweet and
refined; the old men generous and IA
therly, and the old women kind and
motherly. Not an unkind word is spo-
ken by any character to whom the
reader is introduced. Not an unworthy
act is recorded. Everyone is trying to
do good and to help his fellows.
Three young men-the Rutherford
brothers, students of Yale-buy a home
in the quaint old village of Fayre. They
are neighbors of the Greys, chums of
the Grey girls and friends of their
friends. They have good times togeth-
ef ana enjoy clean, wholesome amuse-
ments. But in time, after graduation,
the young people pair off and get mar
r1ed without opposition or regret, and
the stream of life flows on serenely
under calm New England skies. The
little house continues to be headduar-
tiers for family gatherings, and every
body remains so good and considerable
that 1t is inclined to make the reader
ashamed of himself
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Two Royal Foes'-By Eva Madden;