Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17

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brought no little attention to tn ,e1,l
selves, il now disclosed by her publish
ers, the John Lane company. She Is
Mrs. Spencer Trask, other literary sa,a.,
works OF hers being play, The 8 l.'Il
Town of Bethlehem" acted last winner winner
by the Ben Greet players, ana ~
matte poem, Night and Morning & fo
the pageant to be held at Bath n n lesS.
month";. Mrs Trask has been lhNitea -
contributcs to its text an episode III non non
or Of American towns of the same name.
Dorothy Garfield. the author oil many
charming short stories, and 5daug h. 'l "
Flavia A. G. Garfield. VINO wrote lile
Kidnapped Campers recent Harps.
hook for children returned recently
from d soin,irn in France and is again
settled at her home in Arlington. Nerf
| mont, where much Of her literary "ork
| Is done.
! On the south side of Fleet street; N
| London, there is an unobtrusiye gate
| way with the effgy of a lamb above =,
| which the unwary traveller might pass
| u dozen times and not notice. Sut II
| he does notice it. and If he enters. nc
| viii pass at once into another age. FOR
| this is the entrance to the temple, ana |
| in all London there Is nothing rlcher
| in memories and pictures OF the past
| than these courts and gardens ana an
| cient buildings in the heart OF tne Wy.
l How they and their neighbors oil itlh-
| coins nm cirays Inn. and the Inns
4! Of Chancery look today, with some
1 thing OF their history and associations,
is told in the latest addition to the
| well-known Macmillan Color BOOKS
/ Inns Of Court. The twenty full-page
/ paintings In this volume are by Cor
|
author. The origin Of the Inns is dis
| cussed there is u chapter on the
knights remplar, and another on their
famous Round Church, still in use
within the temple. The rest OF the
book is devoted to the Middle and m
ner Temple and to the other inns
4 Jason" a new novel by Justus Miles
Irorman, who wrote "Buchanan's Wife,
and "A Stumbling Block VIII appear
about the middle of July. Jason" was
formerly announced for an earlier date,
but was postponed b yagreement of tile
author and his publishers, the Messfs'
Harper until the midsummer season
William Dean Howells' "a Little
swiss Sojourn' echoes the call to for
Il eign travel With timely reprint IN the
Harper BLACK and White" series,
pocket size. The experiences OF whlcn
i L. sppS'Ns
several delightful weeks spent III Tue
Canton vaud, at Montreux, Vevay, and
Villeneuve.
Few literary biographies have recely-
ed as immediate and as hearty fecos-
milton as the Life and Times or Lev
renee Sterne,' BY Prof. Wilpur y.
Gross. In review of this Important
work. the New York Tribune declares
that "Sterne was nothing If not pei
} sonality, vivid engaging flgufe' a
creature of originality. 1t IS IN nus
constant recognition OF TINS 1aci t.'at
prof Cross most clearly shows ms au
thority as Sterne's biographer. He mas
got under his hcro's skin. This IS, m
| decd. a book making for better un-
derstanding of its subject, Quietly,
steadily and with delightful poise, u
delightful freedom from the tololes ~, VI
the latter-day compiler of memoirs,
: Prof. Cross discloses the characteristics
: and the incidents which make his nero
, attractive and that hero's career SIM
: gularly picturesque and interesting"
8 He has produced a portrait OF Sterhe
@ no less artistic than Neracious.
: TT shows, to begin with, right M
k stinct for the man. and with this q
sure command over perspective Il
Sterne is here painted for his own
: sake he Is also studied with reference
9 to his surrounding The background
o Is filled IN WITH UNCOMMON Soou !uut'
d ment We breathe the air OF the elEh-
Il |teenth century and are helped to per-
), ceive its reaction upon the tempera a.
81 ment Of one of the most impresslonaDle
. ~ human beings. -. Prof. Cros.
/, neither extenuates Sterne's shoftcoln'
n ings nor places undue emphasis on us
Is better traits. He seeks, rather TO CIV
: his portrait a just balance.
= A correspondent writes to inqur
n what .trhe Greater Mischief Nigh
n mean as a literary nomen Inc phrass
n was used by the young English Writer
re Margaret Westrup, whose novel IN
u Harpers publishe1 about a year ago
I and is undoubtedly derived from tn
ct verses which follow. The question o
rs authorship has been left open
to "JJncertain Ways unsafest are,
~ y, And doubt a greater mischief than des
I. pair"
IA In "How to Identify the stars,
~ which the Macmillan company is bring
al ing out this season, Prof. WI
% lis Milham has provided exactly til
~ information which amateur astronn
" mers wish to find at hand. With TIL
- aid of the charts and plans at the bat,
~ Of the book, the identification OF III
"a consultations becomes a simple III
at dertakng, and in the text is TO !
"A i found much compact information. VI
~ every valuable feature is the inclusio
of the recently completed work of tn
Harvard observatory in determinir
~ the magnitude of the stars These fig
~ ures, representing the latest results
", astronomical research, have not htl
~, ~, erto been readily obtainable. Alt
nT gether the book provides a convcniel
~, and agreeable introduction TO know
&c edge of the heavens.
Int
"a The many readers and admirers
,p-g those masterpieces of American Il
,ed ton, "a Kentucky CARDINAL 'Tl
!, Choir Invisible" etc, tales which stal
~, peculiarly alone in their description
~ OF the borderland between north al
of south. and which placed Mr.. Jam
Lane Allen in the front rank of Anne
IA lean rovclists. will. after silence
u '.ai six years, welcome story equal
saa charm and interest, The Bride Of t
"a Mistletoev Artistic in their settins
wy. ~, realistic and true to nature and i
NJ in their descriptions, dramatic, patf
ath tic and tragic in their incidents, n
op- Allen's works have become classics
70 American literature. The scene OF
fer, latest story is laid in his favor
state of Kentucky and breathes t
are happy spirit of Christmastime.
ing equally great success may be sal.
predicted for this new work by Il
zen fayorite author as that achieved by
ally PREDECESSORS from the same pen.