Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-11-27

more daring than anything OF the kind
before written in this country.
The personal experience OF MIR Car
rett r. Serviss, whose new book, Curl
osities of the Sky" the Harpers are
about to publish. seems to indicate that
the heavenly bodies are indeed curiosi-
ties. 40 a greater degree than is sup
posed 4 prominent New Yorker for
example. once wrote TO Mr. Serviss re-
questng him to adjust a difference of
opinion as TO the nature Of the light
seen i'm the southwest In the evening.
one held that IL was star, the other
that il was a brilliance artificial. AS
a matter of fact" said Mr. Serviss i'm
telling the story, lit was neither star
nor electric glow, but the planet Venus;
scores OF times 1 have had similar I'M
ouirIes about her Nobody seems 10
believe il possible for a star 10 shine
so bright 4" Many people may not Dc
aware, either, that the present proNlm
ity Of the planet Mars to the moon has
been a source Of CONSERVATION TO 9TH
ers. who believed that 20 produce such
a singular contact something must
have slipped out OF place in the SKY
The English poet-uat uralist, Rich
ard Jofferies. is gradually coming into
his own. For score Of years MS name
and reputation have been the center OF
controversy Sir Walter Besant admir-
ed but patronized him. Henley re-
garded him as a kind of literary
Leatherstocking,' and SAID ne
thought. poor fellow that he had the
world in his hand and the public AZ
his feet. whereas the truth 10 ten,
he had only the empire OF klhu OF
hack garden" only the other day, so
authoritative a literary organ as tue
London Athenaeum registered us con
Viction that he was not a great writ
err" But the tide OF critical le ing
Is now running overwhelming. lh mug
favor new biography pA kuM"I1
Thomas has been published Ia Fms
land new edition of some OF ms
ESSAYS has appeared I'm this country
supplementing the earlier pubhcatioha
Of Thomas b. MOshcr. The Ealhpui6h
Review. in a lengthy ANALYSIS sums
rim nm as the poss essOr of a grit oil
the rarest order
lie is 70 England what Thorcau is
10 America" on critic declares Ihe
Characterization is at the same time
ettge sstiNe and misleading. WIN
Thoreau's intense enthusiasm for ma
ture and genius In delneauhs
mods. Jefferies has, indeed, much ia
common. There is SO I'm both an IA
teuectual intensity. a degree OF phllo-
sophic insight. that belongs only TO
minds Of the first order. Al DINER
points. however, the two present CON
trast rather than likeness. Jeiirles is
passionate and emotional; Tho eau l-
rather the cool thinker Jeuerlts y
utterly pagan, Thoreau is more IN p
Puritan.-Current Literature. tNoN'in-
Der.
Robert Barr. whose Cardiac ias
49, t.,,, ,,,sg,Ii -naI nv Stokes D. Well
known a. one of the most popuiai
authors of the dag. His long ust OF
successful novels includes fuch uu' s
a. .erolla." "A Woman lnterNen s..
"Over the Border etc. Mr.. Barr was
wears ago known only as humorl1''
and newspaper writer His ingenuity
OF riot is wen illustrated by am an'c-
dotc which he tells ot himself
"He visited a national political CON
vention at Chicago as correapohue
for his newspa pea. having generous
Isl given away his admiss iontickct 90
a lady Of his acquaintance, he was "a
IA loss 10 get into the building Al
length he went 10 neighhoring shop,
borrowed a tattercd coat ana PAIR
OF ovoralis, and with an Did pail fuii
OF sloppy water walked triumphanLy
past tho dOorkeepers, who thought ne
was am attendant He meant % keep
the pail as a souvenir, but II became
lost In the crowd.
Mr. Barr has had many interesting
experiences IA many capacities. HIS
recent years have been spent as col
tor OF THE ldler' and he has de-
voted most OF his time 10 the writing
Of short stories. Now, however, he
has gone back 10 novels. and "Cardil-
lac" Is splendid example OF his
ability In this direction.