Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-12
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Literature worthy TO endure is Helen
keller's "a Chant Of Darkness'-cer-
tainly this remarkable blind girls
most notable achievement. The lines
| were originally a passage in the first
| draft of Miss Kellers Sense and Sensi-
bility," published In the Century for
February and March; but as Miss KEEL
Ter developed the thought her style be-
came dlthyrambic, and made n poetical
chant which stood out from the prose
| This passage gradually shaped itelf
into complete stanzaic structure
| enriched with quotations from Job and
| from some of the modern poets-a re-
| markable and exquisite chant of faith.
| OF peculiar personal interest also Is
Tho Prince of the Power OF the Air."
| the article upon which Edmund CLAIR
| ence Stedman was engaged at the time
| OF his death. printed from a full, but
| not final draft, of which the first
paragraph was Mr.. Stedman's last
written words. The individual note is
sounded again in the first of DR.. George
f. Shrady's papers dealing with his
memories of General Grants Last
Days" DIR. Shrady having been one OF
the consulting surgeons. And DR.. w.
A. N. Dorland follows up his interesting
and suggestive discussion of THE Ago
OF Mental Virility" in the April Gem
fury by What the World Might Have
Missed" brilliant showing of the
great work wrought by men over 40
The 5ext of Tn. Benton (Madams
Therese Blanc) and drawings by An
DIRE Castaigne make the leading fea-
ture of the issue notably strong. 'Ilt-
erary Rolls of Honor in France" is
picturing of the Academic Franchise,
the Academic des Goncourt and the
committee of women Of LA Vie Heu-
reuse" Another of Mr.. Sigtsmond de
Ivanowskis brilliant portraits, repro
duced In color, Miss Mary Garden as
'Mellsande," is the frontispiece of the
number; with a sketch of this distin>
guished American singer by Henry I.
Finck
Richard II. Edmonds OF Baltimore,
editor of the Manufacturers Record,
and probably the best authority on the
industrial resources and interests OF
the southern states, contributes to the
Youths Companion of April 80 an artt-
Gle on "The Undiscovered South" He
predicts, that the south will some day
be able to duplicate the entire iron
and steel industry of the United States
of today, and that the southern farmers
in the world The facts from which
these conclusions are drawn are pre-
scented in a way to convince as well
as interest and their circulation among
Ine IildIy luOuSiiiA
lilies that read the Youths Compan-
ion may perhaps turn the eyes Of
some from British Columbia to the far
more inviting and equally profitable
southern states Of their own country
Boston, Mass.
Anyone who is interested in studying
anarchism from original sources should
read DR.. Paul Eltzbachers book of
Anarchism, recently published In this
country In translation. 1t gives Eltz-
hackers theories on law. the state, and
property, and. what Is still more to the
point It gives copious quotations from
Proudhon. Stirner, Bakunin, Kropot-
kin Tucker, and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. r.
Tucker, New York.
Mamie Walters" is the title of a
novel, In which free masonry, 1t is said,
will be interested. because 1t contains
n petition TO the Order of the Eastern
Star that the ritualstic ceremonies be
so amended as to permit candidates or
the Jewish faith to subscribe to the
obligations of the order. The author
prefaces her book with a prayer for
guidance In the writing OF It. This Is
novelty. There is description of
visit to Salt Lake City that will be
of some local interest, though the con-
versations reported evidently contain
great deal of fiction.-7J. s. Ogilvie Pub
fishing Co. 81 Rose St, New York.