Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-15

play, "The Servant in the House" DIR
Hale reviews It as a book, the form
in which it has been placed by the
Harpers, and while maintaining that
IT is "a very fine thing, with noble
aim and excellent dramatic irony"
takes exception To MIR. Kennedy's idea
of the way Christ would act in a
modern English vicarage. And |
cannot see why. in arranging the
play says DR.. Hale, lit was necessary
to have all that about a brother who
had wronged a brother "a worldly WOO
man using religion for her own pur-
poses, "A church built over a charnel-
house. and Socialist drain-cleaner
who should arouse the vicar to hec-
tic self-sacriflce." one wonders what
DIR. Hale would have the play made
of, since his objections practically
cover the plot. Yet the spirit of the
appreciation is SO sincere that many
people viii no doubt be won by it to
judge the book for themselves. The
review appears in the Dial.
Since the death OF w. l.. Alden. the
author in whom children and grown
folk seemed equally to delight, his
books have been again sought by
many of the old readers. 1t is their
demand, not less than the call of the
present day children. which explains
the new editions of Mr.. Alden's stories
on the Harpcrs press recently there
have been reprinted THE Cruise of
the Canoe club" Moral Pirates, 50
and the. famous Adventure of Jimmy
Brown"
Valdez, Alaska, where gold was this
week announced in the financial world
to have jumped to $50 the pan, is n
settlement about which Rex Beach,
the young author of two Harper best
sellers, THE Barrier" anu THE Spoil
ers.' tells a good story. Mr.. Beach
was in camp there on one of his Alas
kan trips few years ago, and his story
concerns man named Amy, distin-
suished as the last man in camp to go
to bed, AT least" says Mr. Beach.
everybody thinks he's the last. al
though nobody Is sure. because nobody
ever saw him go--not for long at a
time. anyway 1t was a long while
before they discovered how Amy man
aged II, I've got "A little thing. to tend
to up at the hotel, I'll be back I'm a
minute and what he used to say, until
people found out that the little thing
he tended to was a nap, whence he
woke up fresh as "A youngster. The day
they began to suspect they urged ten
derfoot into the sleeper's room for the
purpose Of removing Amy's garments
while he slept and the crowd waited
below to catch them from the window
Sure enough they dropped when sud
denly cry went up: Why. those
don't look like Amy's clothes!' They
weren't. And ever since that time,
whatever may have happened to the
tenderfoot, Amy has slept In peace"
DIR. Louis Honore Frechette the hon
ored poet of French Canada whose
death was recently announced. was re-
lated to William Dean Howells. a sis
ter of Mr.. Howells being Annie Howells
Frachette. Mrs. Frechette is not how
ever as has been somewhere stated, the
wife of the dead poet, but of his broth
er, Leonard Achille Frechette, transla-
tor of the Canada house of commons.
DIR, Frechetts distinguished work in
poetry and letters was crowned by the
French academy and by the London
Imperial Institute, and he had received
several marks of royal honor Among
the TRANSACTIONS which he made into
French is included Mr.. Howells' "A
Chance Acquaintance"
Mr. Charles A. Conant, author of
THE Principles of Banking" has pre-
scented to New York university IA copy
OF the French translation of his book,
which the Harpers print in this coun-
try. The translation was made by