Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-03
NOTES

Robert Herricks Together has
been barred from the shelves of the
public library III new England town
The same library has banished the
works Of George Meredith. No one but
the autocrat of a New England library
could conceive SO subtle q compliment
to Mr.. Herrick,
Tucked away in Il secluded nook, Lock-
crbie street Is so far away that almost
apart from the passing play 1t sees
the shifting scenes OF. events, says Ma
bel Potter Daggett in the September
Dellneator 1t is so near that almost
across the curbstone of the next
square, or the next, is the eddyng
throng of the commercial district. More
live There fame and the tourist have
followed. Now the soft brooding
quiet OF the little green lane is broken
by the blatant bawling of the sight
seeing autos that announce. Ladies
and gentlemen. this is Dockerbie street
and Riley's residence!"
Yes, and once on a Sultry Summers
day as, on the front porch he refreshed
himself with a cooling glass of inno-
cent lemonade, the climax OF dramatic
interest was reached when the mega
phone doomed Historically, Ladies
ard gentlemen behold James Whitcomb
Riley drinking a high BALL"
oh, la beled and looked at like the
star freak of a circus tent!-or, as he
himself whimsically protests, One
might as we'll be white mouse with
pink eyns!''
1t is only that the American nation
knows now that some time ago in the
middle west unto them was born the
greatest poot OF u generation. So they
are coming to indianapolis to bring
him the laurel wreath of their admiril-
ton
Perhaps you might not think that
this would be where a man would
want to live who is reputed to have,
made a half million dollars from his
verses, 1t is quite apart from the
Fashionable district. 1t is narrow and
quiet. There is 50 little hurrying that
thai the grass finds time to grow soft
green fringes between the red bricks
OF the humpety, bumpety sidewalks.
The dark, cool branches of the trees
lock and lovingly interlace above the
tiny Dame Trot cottage, standing
right in its path at the end of the sin
gle block. And some of the houses nes-
tie close to the sidewalk, and some
have picked fences to set them apart
They are not shiny, new and express.
sionless. They are all houses that say
something. They are mostly weather.
beaten ana worn with the lives lived
In them. and they are all SO humon
that you can almost hear their hearts
beat. ANYHOW, n poet caH.
He lives ut the large house, where,
in spite of the well-kept lawn that u
negro servant tends with care. there
is an air of faded gentility about the
brick residence that seems its apology
to the rest for having terraccd stone
steps and flower urns that they lack
People call 1t the Riley house.
Miss iona Gale is said to have sur
prise in store this year for her readers
who imagine that the only style Of
writing at her command is that Of the
delightfully."- impossible romance of
.aThc Loves of Pellas and Etarre.
Her now book. "Friendship Village
which is to be published in October, Is
said to reproduce the life of q small
American village with almost photo
praphic fidelity. Miss Gale herself,
although she has been a New York
newspaper woman lives in small
wisconsin town, and II may be sup
nosed that she has had ample opportn-..
nifty for observing the kind OF life OF
which she writes in her new novel.
FOR the third consecutive month
that is. ever since the date of publtca-