Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-12-04

the old stage driver. and Marie T..
Day AS Aunt Miranda Sam Colt as
simpson, and Harry c. Browne as
Mr.. Aladdin, all played their parts
well.
Just before the nrst performance of
''Rebecca,' Kate Douglas Wiggin the
author, presented each of the mem
bers of the cast with handsome
gift. Little Violet Heming Olebecca.
received an exquisite coral necklasc.
which she wears in the final act.
Tho anonymous writer OF the article
In the Atlantic, THE Confessions of Il
Best Seller" which has set the writing
and reading worlds to wondering. is
now said to be Meredith Nicholson
one person who ought to be Interested
is o. Henry. whose latest book II
storieg Options" tho Harpcrs have
just announced. In n recent Interview
MI. Nicholson is quoted as saying, 70
Henry has the truest eye for American
life OF any writer I know. l don't read
much fiction any more except o. Henry
and Balzac." .N -.sltsz
q SsiA.@ ~
The Princess Troubetzlsoy, IA melle
River, who, with her husband, tho
Prince Troubetzkoy. arrived I'm this
country from Europe a few days ago,
Hill. at Gotham, Albemarle county. The
princess Is said to be at work upon
new manuscript. Her latest story.
''TriX and the-Moon." was pub
lished by the Harpers less than month
ago.
Helen Kellcr's book. The World 1
Live in." has been adopted by Welles-
ley College as textbook In English for
fEn ola
More of Maria Edgcworth the Travel
CT and student of foreign lands than
Of Maria EdScworth the writer of nov
els appears in Constance IIilrs volume.
entitled Maria Edgeworth and Her
Circle in the Days OF Bonaparte and
Bourbon. II is a record of her jour
neylngs through Franco and England
rather than of her life at Edgcworth-
town in Ireland. although In the midst
of all her wanderlngs she never forgot
home and kindred. How happy we are
to be so fond OF each other; how happy
we are to be independent of all we see
herel How happy that we have our
dear home to return to at last" Tho
period OF Miss HIS volume Is the first
20 years OF the nineteenth century. and
its incidents and characters travers1
the momentous hours of the French
England was trembling in the fear of
n Bonapartean invasion.
Many doors were opened to Miss
Edgeworth during her stay In Paris.
and she wrote In enthusiastic terms OF
her liking for Partisan society and tho
French noblcsse. OF its great distinc-
ton OF the contrast with the nouveaux
riches. She met Nine. Recamier and
was duly impressed by her. and at a
dinner In hpt. ho11ce one room Of which
she mentions as having cost 10000,
she found herself In company with
tragic and comic poets. metaphysiclans.
bankers and the richest man in Paris.
'I must further inform you" she wrote
TO her cousin at home. that we have
boon at the opera with Nine. Recamicr
and at one of her balls. She is very
pretty and graceful. but nothing mar
velous-except what Is marvellous in a
beauty who has been born and bred in
hattery, and nursed In the lap OF lux
ury, she Is good in every sense of the
word. She is obliging in her manners
and seems TO think OF others more than
of herself. She produces a great sem
sation whcnevr she appears in public"
Other pictures of Nine. Recomier are
given from the standpoint of numerous
appreciative observers. and from chap
ter to chapter are chroniclcd Miss
Edgcworths views of and comment
upon the varying aspects of French
society and art. Eventually the grow
ing political difficulties arising from
Bonaparte's activities compelled a flight
from Paris. and the spring OF 1903
found Miss Edgeworth and her COM
panions back in London.
The publishers OF Gertrude Atherton's
next novel are keeping secret both It's
nature and its name, telling us merely
that 1t will be largely cosmopolitan in
tone" and that it will be ready for pub
lication In February.
An adventure story OF the Robert
Louis Stevenson kind-an historical pic
ture and n chronicle of thrilling incl
dents with some foundation of actual
facts-wlll run through St Nicholas
during 1910. under title OF 'The Ref
ugee." The author Is Capt Charles GIL
son OF the English army.