Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-22
MRS. SEYMOUR B. YOUNG, JR.

music dear to West Point and
Annapolis framed in eight pages of
drawings by John Wolcott Adams.
The frontispece of the number will
be a reproduction In color of William
Nj Chase's distinguished painting.
which takes it's name. THE Red Box"
from the object hold in the hands OF
the subject.
Thirteen at table, that most widely
dominant of all supcrstitions. is the
motive of the story to be given lead
ing place in the June Century. The
tale, "SVith the Coin Of Her Life
l., one of three OH the same theme
to appear in early numbers of the
Century, and how they came to be
when discussing the influence of a
point of view on human judgments. 1t
was suggested that two or more writ
ers be asked to write separately each
a short story on a chosen subject.
DIR. S. Weir Mitchell. Margaret Del
above subject: and the stories were
finished without any one of the thre&
having knowledge of what the other
two had written. The editors declare
that guesses as to the author of this
talc are likely to miss the mark.
Jason" is to be the title of the new
< novel by Justus Miles Forman, which
+ the Harpers are to bring out in May.
Z The title has a classic hint, but only in
symbol; the actual setting is the con-
temporary world Of society. in which
Mr.. Fornlan has thus far seemed to find
his happy field. Jason" is said to read
almost like a. detective story.
The enlarged edition, recently printed,
of Sir George Otto Trevelyan's Life
and Letters Of Lord Macaulay (en-
larged by the addition of the "Margina-
lia' the name given TO the notes writ
ten by Macaulay on the margins Of his
bool.s as he read them, and to various
appendices and personal re1niniscences)
directs attention TO some interesting
publishing history which is now made
public for the first time by the Messrs.
Harper & Brothers, who We're the orig
inal publishers In this country
Few essayists or historians have ever
attained the degree OF lasting popular
reputation accorded to Thomas Babing-
ton Macaulay; yet his popularity
sprang not from aiming at the tastes
OF the many, but from an amazing in
tellectual brilliancy which the many
could not fail to perceive. Even among
those who know little of his actual
writings, his name stands for definite
qualities. His versatility, his prodi-
gious memory, his om1ivornus reading
habits. have become proverbial. These
are among the things that ''evcry
schoolboy'' remembers, and the trad-
ton of them is as strong in America
as in England.
peter, Peter Maude Radfori War
ren's romance of a millionaire New
York couple who fall out Of the fire OF
the honeymoon into the frying-pan OF
money lost, and remain fncurably
happy in spite of it all and twins be-
sides. was announced, will be
issued in book form for about
the middle of May, coincident with its
final instalment in Harper's Bazar.
Additional attention has been directed
to Mrs. Warren's story serially by tho
great number and ingenuity of draw
ings furnished for it by Rose o'Neill
Wilson. These are al to be included in
the book.
The more daring OF European scien-
fists will hardly be daunted by the pro-
posal of Professor William IA. Pick
ering OF Harvard university that a gil
gantic mirror be constructed for the
purpose of signalling to Mars. Already
the versatile Camille Flammarion.
whose book, mysterious Psychic
Forces" is a piece of special pleading
for recognition of the existence of vital
forces playing all about us, has given
his enthusiastic communication to the
American astronomers scheme. Cecare
Lombroso is still TO be heard from.