Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-26


600 pages, it covers Il period of no
more than two years, 1892 and 1899
LIKE It's predecessors, however. .he
volume, the sixth in the series. is
crowoed WIN what Andrew Lang de-
scribes as the humor, the goodness OF
hearI the Overlooking joy III life, which
make the charm OF the novels In
! 1871 Two small volumes Of extracts
| from these memoirs were published.
but 1t Is surprising that this is qhs first
tlme the English speaking world has
llad a real opportunity to become ac-
/ duaintcd with a work which critics
| agree IN asserting TO be the equal in
interest of the famous romances them
| selves. Mrs. Waller. the translator
| says a writer in the Atlantic Monthly,
her publishers, and Mr. Andrew
Lang IN his graceful Introduction, have
unqnestionably rendered a considerable
service To English literature"
| An ncurable boy all his life the
memoirs overflow. us Mir. Lang says.
with Dumas joy in life, but they on-
tam, in addition, an inexhaustible mine
| of information for the student OF a
| past age. The whole of hotheaded,
| Visionary, enthusiastic Paris passes he
( fore us in these pages With their Pro-
! fusion of anecdotes. their narratives Of
| tt'thIl'hf' 1ilti
! cal plots and riots, friendships and
hatred, the whole tumultuous, rich
| fascinating life of a young genius
| mounting rapidly to his great fame
| And II these volumes are invaluable to
= the student 10 the average Anglo
| Saxon reader they will open Il new
world as allurng as the world the
| great romancer's imagination created
for us.
ne Bride of the Mistletoe," James
| Lane Aliens new novel, was published
on June "a. OF this work, the first from
his zen in several years, Mr.. Allen
himself says:
"One point on the field of human
nature Is located: at that point one
subject Is treated, in the treatment
one movement is directed toward one
cliilaX.
| Adherlng rapidly to this complete ar
| tistc unity, Mr., Allen has treated OF
Theme vital to the Alner'ica of today.
7 "A Gentleman From Mississippi,"
| rounded upon the popular play of the
same name by Harrison Rhodes an,!
| Ihomas A. Wise
IL IS q pleasure to read book
iounued upon a successful play, where
IN inc noVelizer has sufficient grasp
and knowledge Of his subject to pre-
sent TO the reader an evenly written
1latfatlNc that retains the central idea
and action Of the play, but which, at
the same time, gives the reader a
truthful portrayal of the background
upon which that action is founded.
Senator Iangdon is picked out by
dishonest men IN Washington to be
used IA as their tool in the senate, But
the tool proves to be sharp at both
ends and cuts the men who mean TO
d.
Honesty attracts honesty, and Lang
don, The honest man, draws to his
side as his secretary, Bud" Haines.
one who is as shrewd as the dishonest
senators who planned to use the plant
er Langdon
One of Senator Lansdon's daughters,
in love with one of the conspirators,
tries 10 blncken the name of her father
and his secretary. But the plot fails.
and Langdon, the good-natured man
from Mississippi proves more than n
match for all the rascality III WASH
ington.
Just how Langdon accomplishes his
ends is one of the most interesting
parts of the book-and even Langdon
himself doesn't know how he is going
to win out until the last moment-then
he wins by simple honesty.
Needless to say there is the love story
throughout the book of Bud" Haines
the secretary, and the senator's daugh-
The story is one OF American ideas,
American interest, American politics,
and American honesty II is amusing,
full of laughter and sentiment fro:n
beginning to end. but above all in
structive.
Cloth bound, with eight full-page
illustrations, 60 cents, j. S. Ogilrie
Publishing company, New York.
Jane Hamilton's Recipes Is the III
tie OF volume of recipes of dclicacies
from the old Dominion. preserved and
compiled by her great-niece, Charlotte
Mason Poindexter. This work is ut
once cookery book and Il plea thai
change does not mean progress, ana
that the good old days" have not been
bettered. For these recipes are four