Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-11

as literature. 1t will be found invalu
able as a work OF reference and running
commentary on the entire Victorian
era.--Harpers Publishers.
The Love Sonnets OF Car Con-
ductor" is the title of Il new volume
by Wallace Irwin and this is the pub
iShers notice: Are you on? Then We re
OFF Do YOU remember that cluster OF
real refined music, THE Love Sonnets
of a Hoodlum ." DO you remember
how 1t batted such line OF yellow Ian
guage into the family circle of higher
literature that professors of English
and professors of pugilism ribbered at
the hole in the sky till their lamps be-
gan to smoke? And do you remember
how, when Wallace Irwin, the boy au-
thor. saw the sales slSy-hooting upward
TO the extent of about 100000 copies ne
got scared and promised never To do 1t
again? Well, that Irwin boy is sure
a welcher! When he heard that barrel
organ muse tuning up In his head IL
was him for the inkstaud, and before
he realized the full extent of the crime
he had finished another passionate
pamphlet. and this time II was called
The Love Sonnets of a Car Conuuc-
tor" Say. it's the tuneful trolley, al
right, all right, 1t rings up the frst
fare at unrequited love, switches AT
jealousy curve. transfers To hope cor
ners. takes long run down st. Val
entine's street till 1t reaches the car
barns at Paradise park. And there it's
all out TO hear the merry bells, while
Charley. the handsome car conductor,
swings tight to pansy the peach ana
the gospel referee ties holdfast knot
in the marriage license. But the course
of true love isn't any gondola llue
for Charley the car conductor, NIX nix,
IL h OIL
home breaker that ever came over the
rails. almost gets Charley's goat on
the girl proposition. When Gill invites
Charley's queeneTette to the carbarn,
the trolley boy has a brainstorm and
tapeIs off thus:
If this keeps upI think I'll finish swell
Among the jabbers in Il padded cell,
Why didn't Charley drag his dearie
TO the barn dance himself? Ask me!
II YOU really want to know blow your
SELF to q copy of the book, II only costs
80 cents to try il. II you don't Ike
the language send your copy to Ger
many where they don't care The clanS
is up-to- date, the sonnets are up-to-
snufi-the car conductor is up-to-
everything till cupid rings Off. and
it's all over but paying the rent. THE
Love Sonnets of a Car Conductor
ought to make as big a hit as THE
Love Sonnets of Hoodlum.' If It
does, the state militia can't stop the
sales
As descriptive title Stories of
Wagner Operas Told for Children.
doesn't quite do justice 10 Mrs Wheel
ocS's book For not merely does she
tell the stories but she gives the very
spirit OF the operas, and interprets
them so clearly and so fully that you
can "see the things happening" The
stories are trimming with interest not
merely for children but for grown-ups
as well--or all, in fact who want their
opera lore put in n simple, concise
ana entertaining way. They have a
SORT OF vocal directness. because they
arc actual conversations, set down
exactly as they have been many times
talked or by the author to children
of all ages.
There can be nothing but admiration
for the skill and sympathy Mrs.
Wheclock shows In putting into story
singer Bobbs Merrill Co., Publishers,
Indianapolis, Ind.
The novel of the month is a big,
buoyant bracing story Of straightfor-
ward love and adventure in the gold
country Of the north The new novel
Is The Barrier, by Rex Beach. with
the scene laid in Alaska, az It was IN
Tho Spoilers, the story that gave the
young author his first fame. without
doubt the special virtue OF Mr. Beachs
work is that he tells good story aud
tells It we'll, and makes no pretense
Of doing anything more. a quality tina,
viii win many readers who. so fal
from wanting anything more, ask just
exactly this much Of " novel. II seems
that young Lieut., Meade Burrell sent
to Plauiheau on the Yukon 10 main
tain order. falls In love with Necia
Chile daughter Of the lost trader, But
"Old Man Gale" Is a squaw man, and
the lieutenant, with mis- proud Ken
lucky traditions, cunnot marry q
breed e" Burrall fights down, frSt
his passion and then his prejudice, and
makes honorable love to Necia. but
the girl renounccs him when she learn,
the havoc a union with him would
work OH his career. Then Gallo step,
in and sacrifices himself for the girls
happiness. He tells the lieutenant