Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28

that serpentine invention, though?
It's like arguing on behalf of your pris-
oncr that he must have been an honest
man or he wouldn't have stolen the
money! No wonder juries get mixed
up--and--and-all of us. | wish Col.
Harvey would take to the law and use
some of his diabolical arguments from
Women etc. Then somebody could an.
swer back!''
Edward Pcplo's exquisite story, "The
Mallets Masterpiece" has been done
into a gift book of a great deal of beau
ty which Moffat. Yard & Company will
bring out at once. The Illustrations are
by G. NJ. Burd. The text is printed in
two colors
Crittenden Marriott author of "Unclo
Sans Business," the new Harper book
which tells about government enter
prisps, besides being himself in the gov.
eminent service, has n family history
of government connections behind him.
Mr. Marriott Is descended from an aunt
Of Thomas jefferson and from an UNI
Gle of Zachary Taylor, He Is equally
proud of his relationship to Light
horse Harry Leo of the Continental
army, a relative Of Gen. Robert Z.
Lee. He is also q great-grandson Of
the well known Senator John j. Crit
tenden of Kenucky.
Katherine Jewell Everts. author Of
"Tho Speaking Voice" Is q young Min
ncsota woman who has hor studio in
Boston, and who. nevertheless, spends
much of her time In New York. Miss
Everts, who is best known for her gift
Of interpretative reading, chiefly dra-
matte, was trained for the platform at
the close of her school days, and has
been upon the stage, notably in Miss
Rehan's production of 'The Tanning
OF the Shrcw,'' and in more modern
dramas of Browning and Macterlinck.
1t was the experience gained in all
three phases of her art-reading, teach
ing, and acting--that led Miss Everts to
write The Speaking Voice which the
Harpers have just published OF rars
interest is this authors assertion that
she learned more about beautiful tones
than the most gifted human voice could
convey to her through listening to tho
wind In the pines high up In the Colo
RADIO Rockies, 5000 feet above the sea.
my story" Hall Gaines new book
which the critics are finding especially
useful for its material on other men,
contains an incident relating to Wilkie
Collins The Woman in White" which
Harpers OF this famous story Collins
and Mr. Game became acquainted while
the former was living hermit life in
a large dingy house in Gloucester
Square. and there it was that the for
mer related this incident. Shortly aft
err the publication of THE Woman in
White" q lady came to him and said:
The great failure of your book is your
villain Excuse me if | say you do
not really know a villain. Your Count
Fosco is q very poor one. and when
next YOU want a character of that de-
scription trust that you viii not dis
dain to come to me. I know villain
the man Is alive and constant
w under my gaze. In fact, he Is my
own husband The lady. adds Mr..
Game with candor, was the wife OF Ed
ward Bulwer Lytton.
An important new contribution to the
literature OF psychical research is an
nounced by Small, Maynard & Goa
discussion of "rhe Coming Science, by
Hereward Darlington. author of The
Physical Phenomena of Spirituallsm.
A distinguished member of the Ameri-
can Society for Psychical Research who
read the book in the manuscript pro-
nounced it "thte best, finest, shnest.
and most telling book in defence OF the
subject yet penned.