Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-02-08
NOTES.

1t IS the settled belief of many critics
that Agnes and Egerton Castle are tho
chief writer's In English in this day of
the pure romance, Their new book.
which Is TO be published this spring,
with the title Flower o. the Orange"
will display them in their most romans
tic mood. 1t is collection of stories
ranging in time from the latter part of
the sixteenth To the beginning of the
nineteenth centuries, but all stories Of
action and adventure, placed in strange
or unusual settings that appeal to the
imagination. II is promised that the
volume will contain tho pick OF the
short stories these authors have writ
ten since 1900.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
author of that splendid book. "The
Shuttle" (Stoltesl is in common with
most of the great writer's of today, ire
mendously interested in occult and psy-
chic phenomena. That there are powers
which We cannot grasp or explain, but
merely sense from afar of, she feels
perfectly sure, and that we are on the
verge Of making great discoveries about
this practically new world of ours, she
is convinced. She has certain faith
In and tolerance for Christian Science,
because she believes it is at least
step in the dtreotlpn ot important
things. Anyone who read "The Dawn
of Tomorrow" and THE Closed ROOM
VIII appreciate her attitude. There are
many passages in "The Shuttle" which
will be much more interesting If read
with these facts in mind.
Think of one blind and deaf from
early childhood who finds the world
alive, ruddy and satisfying" That
is Helen Keller's own expression; and
certainly 1t is unique and IMPORTANT
human document which is promised in
her essays on Sense and Sensibility,"
the first TO appear in the February Cen |
fury. Here she tells. to the world for |
the first time, how she sees and |
'hears:"
How can the world be shriveled
when this most profound, emotional
sense, touch, Is faithful to its service? I |
am sure that If a fairy babe me choose
between the sense of sight and that of |
touch, ! would not part with the warm.
endearing contact of human hands or
the wealth of form, the nobility and
fullness that press into my palms"
President Theodore Roosevelt has
written Il foreward 70 rthe late Jerc-
miah Curtin's THE Mongols," an i'm
portant historical work which Little, |
Brown & Co. are publishing. In which |
ne says: THE death OF Jeremiah Cur |
TIN robbed America Of one of her two |
or three foremost scholars. lhe
extraordinary facility with which he
learned any language, his gift OF style
In his own language, his industry. shls
restless activity and desire 10 see
strange nations and -of-the-way
peoples, and his great gift of imagina-
ton which enabled him to appreciate
the epic sweep OF vital historical events.
all combined TO render his work of be-
ouliar value His extraordinary trans-
lations Of the Polish novels ~ Stem
kiowlca would have been enough TO
establish first class reputation for any
man, But nothing that he did WIS more
important than his studies of the rise
OF the mighty Mongol Empire and its
decadence. In this particular field no
other American or English scholar has
over approached him"
II Is occasionally said that the way OF
the illustrator Is hard along the roud
whose gonl Is high art, Among the
names 10 Con1ure with on the opposite
side of the argument is that Of Henry
Wolf, whose worlS"as am ongravcr-he
has been called the last great American
wood-engaver-has taken him 10 tho
eminenee OF master workman and FIRST
rank landscape artist Whilo the mag
nzines notably HarpeTs gave Wolf his
first avenue TO the public. thoy have
served not 10 limit his field. but 10 Wild
on H. owing % his own progressive
ideals, Such artists as Sargent Com
slant John w. Alexander ANA Cecilia