Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-03-12
WILDE'S UNWRITTEN STOD9
LonIoa Literary Letter

Special Correspondence
ONDON. March Max Beer
bohm, the critic and essayist.
half brother OF Sir Herbert Beer
bohm Tree. brings 20 light an in
,ercsting fact aprt-'s Of the episode In
Rostands new play concerning Chautc-
cler's conviction that his Growing
cluses the sun to rise II seems that
oscar Wilde had the same idea % am
other form. but never worked ~ out.
Il remember" says Max. hearing
Oscar wilde tell "a story which he in
tended 10 write and which he called I
think. st Timothy OF the Desert n
was about "a hermit-s8int who. cvcry
night knelt and prayed GOD that the
sun should rise. when tle sun had
risen he always praised God for his
goodness .n having granted the prayer
ana youohsafcd the miracle. But ono
night m, saint. exhausted by some
exceptional penance that he had llid on
himself On the day slept a long sleep.
ins,mucl that when he awoke the sun
was shining into his eyes. For a while.
he was groItly prrplexed and agitat
strange doubts laid hold on him. Bat
pr, sently his face clrlred. and he knclt
down on the sand. and praised God for
that he had had pity ard had vouch-
safed the miracle that day Of his own
will
REUNION OF DESCENDANTS
quite a novel idea has hem hit upon
hv the Poetry Recital society for the
celebration Of the first anniversary OF
IT'S foundation. 10 is proposed TO invite
the living hereditary representative of
famous English poets 20 dine with the
society I'm April either on the birthday
Of Gwfrburua mr. Tgrgtgufup~
Several letters have been received
from people who claim 10 have the
blood of Shakespeare In their veins.
one correspondent. Mr. VIII Shake
speara. traces his descent from Shake
spoire's grandfather; while another, a
woman, says that Joan, sister of the
great poet. was her direct ancestor.
An American journalist wishes to be
present az the dinner because ne is Of
the lineage Of John Dryden A descend
ant Of Crabbc has come forward and a
nephew OF Matthew Arnold.
Up TO the present" Mr. Kyle. the di-
rector Of the society said yesterday
invitations have been accepted by Mr.
Oscar Browning and Mr. Marlborough
Shcrard, a grandson Of Wordsworth
We are doing our best TO trace de-
scendants OF all the great English
poets Chaucer is. ] am afraid, hope
A'7rs NNlN I'iNbhhAN hAlAblls hlAuOuAM lilf
society would feel that II had not ex-
listed in vain II we could uncarth a
living representative Of either"
The Earl OF Crewe. WHO is the son
OF Monckton Mines. the first Lord
Houghton. whose powers as a poet
were generally conceded. has consented
20 preside while the president OF the
society. Lady Margaret Sackville. Is
herself the descendant Of the two poet
Earls OF Dorset. who wrote in the six
teeuth and seventeenth centuries.
Few Of tho guests will have met be
fore the evening of the dinner
THE PERNICIoUs NOVEL
II is understood that a parliamentary
bill on the subject Of the pernicious
novel rs In course Of preparation last
Sunday morning the master Of the tenn
pie In his sermon. referred 10 the evil
being done by poisonous publica-
tons"
1T Ia a canker In our national life"
he said. doing incalculable harm 20
the young A parliamentary bin might
do some good. but the education Of
public opinion Is Of still greater i'm
portance. II only that would declare
Itself more widely. the evil would be
soon scotched"
Cannon Lambert said that it had