Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03

gar Allan Poe in the Beacon Biogra-
piles, is now living, at Brunswick, Me-,
having retired from his work as asso-
ciate editor ofstha Youths Companion.
x Mr.. Macy recent wrote to the pa
pers inSthe namr pSllis wife, who was
many years of Miss Helen Keller.
denying the statement that the late
Henry II. Rogers was responsible for
having rescued Miss Keller some 25
Years ago. ar. Macy shows that. as a
matter of Il & Nh Rogers was first
taken to see Miss Keller in 1896, by
Mark Twain, his bcnefactions begin
ming soon thereafter
The tercentenary exercises on Lake
Champlain this summer, while hardly
wing in international interest with
those that Last year celebrated the
founding OF Quebec, will draw great
crowds to the shores OF the beautiful
lake, that separates Vermont from the
Adirondack region. The Muse as well
as the summer girl will be present at
the celebration, for among the public
exercises on Burlington day" July s,
will be the reading OF a memorial poem
which Bliss Carlnan IS writing at the
invitation of the Vermont Lake Cham
plain tercentenaly commission A ca
madam by birth, an American during
the major part Of his professional ca
reer. no poet could more suitably have
been chosen to commemorate the In
|strepid French discoverers heroism than
the author or Low Tide on Grand Pre-"
and Songs from Yag abondia.D
Miss IONA Gale. tile author Of
"F'riendsihp Village and 1.-THE Loves Of
BPeileas and sEtarre," has returned to
sher Wisconsin home a fter a long stay in
New York. This summer Miss Gale
expects to complete n new hook which
the Macmillan company is to bring out
in the fall.
Jeanette Marks and Julia Moody, the
Mount lJolyoke College Instructors who
have undertaken the most difficult Of
4 labors, a series OF nature books for
children, are IN q fair way to have the
children on their side, i one may judge
from the way the young folks are adj
dressed in the beginning OF little.
Busybodies," which is the first of the
series to appear ON the Harper list.
Peter" say the authors, is not all
WAYS good. But do you expect a child
always to be good? We do not. Some
times, too, the flp!ics turn into a
scramble to catch a dragon-fly that
will not lie caught. and there are ac-l
cidents. Also, Betty and Jack work
hard to win a prize which the guide
gives to the child who learns most
about ants. Or course 1t would be I'M
nossibleffor five children to so in search
Of locusts. Srasshoppers, crickets. katy
dds, dragonflies, May-hies, leafhoppers,
lace-wings. caddisworms, butterflies.
beetles, bees, wnsps, and so many 9TH
or siX-legged creatures that among
them they have wings and legs enough
to fill "A new Pandora's box, without
having a good deal happen And a good
deal does happen.
William Dean Howells has opened his
cottage at ISittery Point, Me-, where it
has long been his custom to spend the
summer season.
William Dean l1owells pays compli-
nents to the novels of Robert Herrick
in the current North American Review.
The elder novelist and critic pronounces
the younger zone of the greatest Amer
leans now writing felton,. and depre-
Gates that the serious critics have not
noticed his novels more closely. '1nfel7-
or names says Mr.. Eowells, are more
constantly the praise Of the unani1nity
which is not the lasting majority: that
is not so bad; but his name has not
been of that thoughtfuller mem
ton which his work has merited.
THAT is 1t seams so to me-: but !, " con-
cludas Mr.. HoWells with some hunlorr
lam of the passing generation whose
sight and hearing are not SO good as
they were
Elinor Mccartney Lane. whose ro-
nance .'Katrine'' is Just through the
Harper press for another edition. used
to tell a story to Illustrate the convic-
ton she preferred to cherish that the
supertIuous word in a story is q blemish
and a disappointment. Up at Glou-
cester one summer, said Mrs. Lane, y
remember the eternal amateur sat on
the beach and produced q picture which
included sea, sky, rocks. wagon, and
people, for a great artist to criticlse.
The latter looked at it q minute. and
then said quietly. Why didn't YOU put
in the city of Chicago think most
of us in our work today" Mrs. Lane
concluded, try TO put in the city Of
c.hica go. "