Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-18
NOTES

N,cssrs. Harper & Brothers have re-
ceived a cable demand for three new
cautions TO Australia "'rhe Barrier
by Rex Beach; Nam Linda by WIN
n Harden: and king Spruce, ny
Holman Day. Another English cdl-
ton has also. been ordered OF me
Barrier
The attitude toward dramatic litera-
ture OF those who are opposed tn the
stage is sometimes a question. Appar-
entity there Is no prejudice, even among
the orthodox when a Methodist Jour-
nal, reviewing Charles Ram Kennedy's
book, The Servant in the House, says
If IL. The Servant is drawn to sug-
Scst the Master as He might Conduc,
Himself with keen yet loving repioof
for the unworthy representatives In
the modern church. The moral effect
Is unquestlonably good; and. If plays
of this sort We're exclusively given at
The theater where this purpolts to have
heen presented, no one could we'll object
10 the presence of the clergy" There
is nevertheless, an almost legal adroit-
uCss in this phrasng The writer does
not say, IF plays of this sort were
given there could be no objection" but
IF plays Of this sort We're exclusively
given. There is. OF course no thea
ter devoted exclusively TO religion or
spiritual plays. THE Servant i'm the
House" however, seems To have es-
caned prejudice on all sides. II is Tho
BOOK for, which the house OF IIarpers
reversed time honorod. custom not 20
publish plays.
In England they are using the name
of Mary Il. Wilkins Freeman to com
pare with English writer's who are
writing of the English country dis
tricts, which is quite a reversal OF GUS
tom. She has the quality of Miss
Mary wilkins at her best" said one
critic recently IN estimating an Eng
llsh author Maude Goldrlng, whose
stories are about the Yorkshire country
and the Yorkshire folk. Mrs. Free
lnan-even though the English critic
does prefer to call her Miss Mary VIII
Elhs--is wei known on the other side.
she recently enjoyed the distinction
of having an English public already
Hwaitlng her novel. The Shoulders of
Atlas on the very day when the
Harpers issued 1t from the press.
How Improbable thing may he The
colnranonship OF the great is llustrat-
tu py some anecdotes told by a writer
Ia the current Harper's Weekly. There
are people, he observes, who have
known Intimately Alcott and Emerson
ana yet can remember no single saving
OF thelrs which might not have been
uttered by any chance Acquaintance. "A
lifelong acquaintance of Ibsen could
i've no more interesting record than
ihdt the genius was extremely regular
~ ms habits and drank a large tum-
pier of Scotch and soda at given hour
Vach afternoon. a so-called writing
Iady' CHANGED in Winchester To take
an apartment kept by the former
Rousekeeper of Miss Charlotte Yonge
a,'a when she begged for news of her
,uiluhoods idol she got nothing more
lniere sting than lively description of
me pattern of Miss Yonge's silver
hlllVes ana forks. These worlds have
spuh along within sight of one another
hueso mad seen the outer surfaces
th -. SLOW no more of each other reilly
IAN 'ne earth knows Of Mars. There
NY nua,shl lines on the surface, aud
We mink they may be canals con-
ntrncled by highly developed intclll-
bohoes' Dul We know nothing"
Mrs' A. NJ. Williamson the we'll
SHOWN authoiess who with her hus-
na'u - ~ Williamson has coIlatorated
vi ~ many successful works Of fiction.
uu'ntly phld a short visit to this conn
.iy' partly To see some old friends for
,nIs' Williamson is an american nv
nlrth aud a native of Sent,,clsv ani
partly TO get some local cnIor cor ~
NV poph upon which she and her hus-
, "anu are engaged and which her r,'ih,
"'"''' 'hP Me' lure company, promises