The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-06
LovE-LETTERs OF THE GREAT

Love Letters OF Famous Poets ana Novel
lists: Selected by Lionsi strachey, 1.ni rrf-
| Ter Iittefeld Published by The John
Mcbride company, New York
This is a fine large volume, filled
with expressions of lovers who had. III
the highest form. the gift of cxpres
sion. to. tne women that they loved. y
great variety Of love affairs and Of cN.
presslous are brought forth in these
letters, matters interesting TO every
body. particularly if the romantic epl-
sodc refers 10 persons of note, or TO
some one whom the reader has heard
, of or known. 1t offers good reading
to any one interested in this form of
literature, as indeed who is not?
Some of the characters whose 'rela-
tions with one another were very close,
but not Illicit, are;
Victor Hugo and Adele Foucher, who
married;
Walter Scott and Charlotte Carpenter,
Who married.
Alexander Pope and the Blount sisters,
who married
Friedrich Won Schiller and Charlotte Won
Lengefeld who married:
John Keats and Fanny Brawne. WHO
were engaged to be married.
Others are letters showing the r,ela-
tions Of Byron with Lady Caroline
Lamb. Anna Milhanke, Jane CLAIR
mont. and the Countess Gmccloll; let.
tcrs from Poe to Mrs. Whitman; of
Congreve to Mrs. Hunt; Victor Hugo 10
Juliette Dronet. and Clairs; Goethe TO
Augusta III Stolberg. Frau Won Stein,
and Bettina BreDtano; MerImee to the
"Unknown: Stcrne to Elizabeth Lum-
lev. Catherine t'ourmantcl, Lady Percy
and Mrs. Draper; Heine 10 the Fly;
Balzac to Madame Hansla; Pope TO the
Blount Sisters: Lamartine from Mad
anne Charles; George Sand and Alfred
de Musset: Burns with Ellison Begbie
and "Clarinda. - These letters arc very
entertaining. and some of them are real
literature, allowing the highest and
purest possible sentiments. and others
are merely ridiculous gabble. hike Lyt.
ton 10 Rosina Wheeler. whom he called
gelist Poodle and signed himself
: :Puppy.' Full Of twattlng baby
talk, this is probably the most ridleu.
Ions stuff ever seen in print. The let,
jers that passed between George Sand
and Alfred dc Musset, however, are
ardent and devoted and have something
of human character and high human
motives in them The letters of Keats
TO Fanny Brawne are such good litera-
ture that any passing slip can easily
be forgiven. The letters of Balzac 10
rather bored tone running through them.
Byron. of course, was the prince of let
fer writer's. His efforts excel in fervcr
and beauty of expression, but there Is
an evident want of sincerity in them,
and a straining after effect.
The volume is most interesting one,
showing as il does, along with the
genius of most ardent humanity. tho
foiblcs and mistakes Of many who were
great. 1t comprises 10 Letters Sc
lected from the authentic correspond
euce Of seventeen literary celebrities
with their wives, sweethearts, OF para
mours; introducing every set of letters
is page or two Of explanatory matter.
calling attention 10 the circumstances
which called forth the letters. and Civ
ing information about the writer's Of
them. A distinctive feature is the con.
siderable amount Of special translation
en- bodied. including some of Goethe s
dainty, daily little billets douX 10 Frau
Won Stein. wife 10 the Duke of Wei.
mars Master Of the Horse. In reprc-
senting so many phases and varieties
Of 'tcnder passion as expressed by
noted persOnagcs. in the cpistolary vein.
thus volume affords fresh and deliciously
plquant gllmpses into the private lives
OF welI-hnown historical characters -
The demand for this volume will surely
be heavy, because 1T viii be sought af.
ter by every private library owner. as
well rs by the managers OF all public
Libraries. 1t IS book that is sure TO
live, and be in demand all the time.