Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-09
NOTES

Tho above poems are from little
4 ,olpme Of verse by Robert V. Carr.
d who has grasped some of the salient
and striking features and incidents OF
Lorcb and range and put them into
,ycslent expression. Every poem por-
,reys a Characteristic of the life he
4 describes and in a most happy way,
,ba funny and pathetic ranged side
! Nv side showing the phases of human
4 ne as they evince themselves In the
Characteristic atmosphere Publish
ed by w. h. Conkey Co, Chicago.
In the June number or the National
Magazine appears an article on the
he of Ina Donna CoolDrlth, 80 long
known as one of the eminent ntera-
tsurs Of the Pacific coast. Intimately
associated with the overland Month
h and the brilliant people who help
ed 10 make it literary monument of
the west. Miss Coolbrith's name Is
always mentioned in connection with
the galaxy OF brilliant writer's who
contributed to its columns--Bret
Hartc. Joakn Miller and others, whose
fna,nes have since become household
enames The interesting thing to
fTtahns, however, is the fact that the
gifted writer is Il relative of the
Prophet Joseph Smith, and of the
present president of the l.. ID. 5.
4 church, Joseph F.. Smith. Miss Cool
d birth was horn in Illinois, and in the
Z Emigration from that place to the west
x the families became sparated Miss
( Coolbriths parents going to the coast.
q President Smith in his first visit to the
a Sandwich islands stopped in Cali
foruiu and there saw the young rela-
Htivc Tor brief time. This was be-
* ore her advent into literature, and
IN their ways have since been far apart.
4Thc sketch given in the National is
b most interesting one, and viii doubt
NJ less be- treasured by local relatives of
81 TIE distinguished woman.
N Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 80 years
ago wrote The Gate Ajar," and at
A that time the story. because of
gentle, Straightforward unorthodoNy
In opposing the stiff church notions of
heaven produced something of the eff
feet that followed the Robert Els
mere" Of Mrs. Humphrey Ward. Now
MIS-. Phelps is offering. In a series of
articles which are being published at
The Instance of Miss Elizabeth Jor-
dan in Harper's Bazaar, her present
theories upon Immortality and the
future NE and those readers who
remember that II was this same inter-
est IN The Gates AIar'' that first
made Mrs. Phelps name so familiar
~ this country. are much absorbed In
her arguments. Then people tremb-
ed q bit at an unorthodox heaven;
now says Mrs. Phelps who expects
a' such a time "a stand in a row with
nlsleal ghosts around a throne? If
ne Gates Aiar" appeared as new
publication now, the author asserts
ihQl 1t would scarcely excite remark
VINO anticipates a white robe, de-
inands Mrs, Phelps, and palm
branch and n hymn book-but who,
on The other hand does not anticipate
me restitution of lost things?
Arthur Stringcr whose new book.
the Under Groove" is published this
pfek, Is at present making rather
loiel tour of the tropics Mr.. String
a eli New York a short time ago on
an Italian tramp steamer and his
Hsndcrings are taking him about the
goad towns of Cuba, Jamaica, and
oWeT caribbean points. 4 mates
,'''f ''''N'l N'h llltu w ny IL
OelF provides the novelist with
NoFktoom whore he VIII labor on hls
1naM book, and the main item In Mr..
s'nngtr'S ouiht. he reports. was six
POUNDS of tobacco and six volumes of
=, Following the publication of THE
Golden Ladder" Margaret Potter
,Mia John Ronald Black. of Chicago
n@ just sailed from New York for
,,,,ay' whore she win pass the summer.
ATE Potter has declared herself most
,n.t'reSlod at present In what she calls
we great American comedy" and
"'ni devote herself for n while to por-
ugSIhs phases Of contemporary AM
,cf'can lie The Princess" and "'rhe
5,uIus were both studies from the
, ,i5 Mrs, Potter is only % years
Oh ana The Golden Ladder" lust