Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-17
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.,rhe Diary OF District Messenger,
nv the author OF Another Three
Weeks; Not by El'n-r Gl-n.' Paper
covers, "a pages. New York: Life Pub
fishing Colnpany.ssAny one who has
ever had to employ the services of the
kind of messenger boy here depicted
will find vast satisfaction and Il good
many laughs in this alleged confession
Of one of those precocious young rtis-
Gals. 1t takes the form OF diary OK
tending over month. ana IN ,llat pr'e e.
period Is concentrated all amount OF
youthful deviltry which would asst
most adults over a lifetime. The lad is
not SO much immoral as absolutely non
moral and his unconcerned and matter
3of-fact way OF doing the most uncon-
scionablc things makes them hlghly
laugha instead of absolutely shocK-
ing. The author of the Diary" wrote
the much-selling Another Inree
5:yVeoks,,5 which so laughably and effect
lively satirized Mrs. Elinor Gyms BOOK
with a similar title.
Swinburne's letters to Edmund Gar
5ence Stedman which the London Times
has had the privilege of laying open 70
the public eye, reveal the whole-sou i
admiration of genius that constituted
part of the poets greatness. In partlHc-.
ular Swinburnc makes mighty offering
AZ tribute to Walter Savage Lander,
whose literary antagonists were repre-
sented by Prof. Lounsbury of yale IN.
an article, afterward included in his
hook, ."rhe Standard of Usage IN Eng
lish." in which he referred TO 3L.andor
as zone of the minor gods OF the S5eors
ian era in whose honor cult mas peeh
instituted Stedman's own admiration
L trxrr n
study about which SWinburne is mere
apeaking: ",rhc only drop OF qualifying
bitterness in the pleasure with Whlch5l
| read and rercad it rises from the resret
| that it could not have come nine years
| before Instead of after heawent back 10
| the Olynpians; for L remember wei
how pleasant and how precious Tor az
| his high self-reliance. the sincere TIL
| hute Of genuine and studious admlra-
| la, was even at the last to the old
de,nicod with the head and the heaft
- !, lion. have often ardently wished
4 r could have been born (sayl but flVe
! wears earlier that my affection ana rev
knrenc, might have been of some use
4 and their expression found some ecno
while he was yet alive beyond ths z
4 5rooms in which he was TO die. tiie ei' CIV.
was very lonely and fear the ihs,
echo of any public voice that reacc ile.
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obloquy and insult.
George Meredith. who was wont y
i take cognizance of the lack OF syn.
4 nathy existing between himself ana .tlt
i English people. made. one very s ,,ll
E ,,tterance on the disputed questioli y
q universal army service Tor fllsi !.
Il which has been much quoted sliies ~
death 1t so precisely makes the pom
~ Major du Maurier In the latler
drama of German invasion Tile EnS
Is lirhnan's Home" which was puplishe'
I'd Nv tho Harpers in this country as
Nook following the furore created %
I, tbe NAV in London. that the coihc e.
is q tracing notice. Nothing snoIl
an invasion and the capture Oh lo,,
dom were Merediths words, Moua
49,, Enyland TO think of 1t universe
sa,.v;cels seriously. AS it is, SO,00O Ger
J, ,,,ans could march through I'm ia, J,
, r,n,,, and TO cnd.r But whereas vi
NIeredith asserted that the fear o. ueh :, .
: va. +l,e 4real cause of. the Eng hsn w
I ia1tion 10 conscriptin: Men come
!, ,ne aud say their trade wouid su iAe
! they could not spare two years
|, their real meaning IS tfat .i'es .t; T.,
afraid o. being called on. an, had had
/ a;fra,e,,t ;tlea-thnt the English cltiHc
} ID % Immersed in trivialtles OF ga,
! work. and sport that the idea OF pe',
(. shot at cannot even penetrate ms ne =,
IT is curious to note in TINS soiii ne,dis
that it is the novelist, not the he, $ !,
{ Who accuses. men Of being afraid az ~
the soldier, not the noVelis.' ~ ii''>
. fault with their mas.n !
2 ,rhe name of the author
!, King Alfred's Jewel, and NJ, M9r hs,
! victoria two poetic dramas that ia