Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24

Britisher, and he was quite puzzled I'M
til he inquired Of Il by-stander what the
excitement was about. The man looked
at him with All air of surprised as
tlain and said. "Why, sir Miss Marie
Corelli' 50 taking a drive this morning.
if she We're a popular minister, or even
the queen herself, paying spontaneous
homage to her talents and personal
character.
BY far the most important book
which Stokes issued this month Is a
new novel by Beatrice Harraden, tho
author OF "ships That Pass in the
Night" Interplay" it is called, and
in a style which shows Miss Harraden
at a richer and more mature stage of
development. it tells charming love
story. infused Will, the ideas that arc
moving modern women. or especial
books. "Chats on Oriental China, by ].
f. Blacker. "Chats on Miniatures" by
+. +. Foster, and "Chats ON Old Lace
and Needleworle." by Mrs. Loves. They
are profusely illustrated, and are tli-
umphs of delicate book-making. Some
Old English Abbeys" in the Old Eng
land Series. Is an inexpensive and at
the same time delightful little volume,
we'll illustrated. For children Stokes
will publish "Fimiar Nursery Jingles."
illustrated by Ethel Franklin Belts.
with many line drawings, and five
splendid color pictures It Is a COM
panion book to "Favorite Nursery ,;,
proved SO popular last year "Ani-
mails of the World for Young Peonlc,"
by Tudor jerks and Charles r. knight,
is simple. well-written and compre-
f,ensive. illustrated with colored plates
of nearly 200 animals.
Tho Editors Study and his Easy
Chair are never far removed. Mr.. Hen
ry Mills Alden. occupant of the Edi-
tors Study in Harpers Magazine, and
William Dean Howells. who fills so
comfortably the Easy Chair, are about
to present the public each with a book.
Mr.. Howelrs sketches, called Roman
work. Magazine Writing and the New
Literature. are to be issued on the
same day-the first day of October.
The Macmillan publications include
"Helianthus," by Ouida; Abraham
James Morgan; Mater" comedy, by
Percy MacKaye; THE Science of Ju-
risprudence." by Hannis Taylor: Along
the Rivieras of France and Italy"
written and illustrated by Gordon
home; "Herculaneum, Past, Present
and Future by Charles Waldstein
and Leonard shoobridge: Economies"
by Scott Nearing and Frank d. Wat
son; 1.-THE Administration of Public
Education In the United States" by
Samuel T. Dutton and David Snedden;
5"Chaucer, a photographed Manual"
nv Eleanor P. Hammond: and THE
Story of the Pharaohs." by James Bal
kie.
Frederic S. Isham, author of 1.-THE La
dy of the Mount" who Is taking a
three-years trip around the world, tells
of the amusing experience of a young
missionary in China. He was a good
man, but new to the orient--an enthusi-
asst. AT the time when other mission
aries were "summering," with admir-
able judgment. in cool places. to re-
cuperate for the fall work, he continued
to labor among sweltering humanity
below. His mind was full Of the need
joint, with brutal deliberations; he had
heard of the horrors Of the prisons:
the lashings. the boxes, the boards. the
cages. and so on. He had seen photo
graphs. taken from life at Hankow,
OF women being cut to pieces, joint by
toint, with brutal Deliberations; he had
been to beheading and witnessed the
blood squirt five feet from the headless
trunk. Filled with all those barbara
ties, he had the zeal of Don Qnixote
anybody. One day, passing through
the Japanese quarter of a great city,
he saw a great pot; beneath it, a great
fire; around it four or five Chinese:
from it popped a human head! Great
heavens! the flends We're boiling the
man alive. He rushed forward; he
scattered the burning wood; he brushed
the pig-tailed devils to the winds. The
head arose from the cauldron; the
man stood up; he was Jap, who spoke
English with the Oxford accent. tI
beg pardon, sir; but may I ask why
you disturb me at my bawth?" Tho
missionary had never before seen a.
japanese bath-tub; his reply is not
chronicled
Your modern novelist is connoisseu.
In revenges, particularly your writer of
mystery novels. When Mrs. Mary
Roberts Rinehart began to contribute
stories to the magazines. there was q
young lawyer who used to scott at her
efforts, yea, even jeer. He was rela-
tive. and a friend of her husbands. He
thought himself privileged to laugh the
scornful ha! ha! Then Mrs. Rinehart
wrote "The Circular Staircase" Re-
venge was sweet and the temptation
too great She did the unforgiveable
thing. She took his name and used
it. Said lawyer Is a rather husky.