Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15

as experienced by o. Henry and him
self. In Marriage in America" Robert
Haven Schaulfler gives some interest
ing figures founded on careful in
Ncstigation of the attitude of college
girls toward marriage. In an article
entitled Whats the Matter With
Our High Schools? 2" BENJAMIN. C.
Gutenberg shows the present trend
of education and the increasing scope
Of the school in directing and forming
the life interests of the pupils.
The fiction numbers of the month
are THE Thread" a very strong story
of the Tropics by James Francis
DIVER. "a Swap in Physiques." by
Wallace Irwin, is an amusing story,
original in plot and whimsical in de-
velopment. THE Rube." by Zane Grey,
Is baseball story ful OF exciting
thrills for lovers Of the game. Jack
and the Checle Book is the first of
series of Wall Street fairy stories by
foot Goes Alligator Huntlng,'' By
Harris Dickson, is in that writer's
usual entertaining style Robert G. Nc
Elrary contributes poem "'To An
Acceptance" Orison SWEET Maraen's
editorial for the month is entitled
Change the Thought. Change the
Man.,
Rex Bench begins new serial in
the October Everybody'S. a story of
the big ditch we are cutting across
the 1sthmus. 1t was in this magazine
that THE SFoilers'' was published, five
years ago, and Mr.. Beach's
position as an American novelist be-
came assured. In the new story THE
Ne'er- Do-Well." the author turns
from Alaska to Panama. from Bcring
IA l,a ", It'll, ~
plot and romance. The magazine Is
uncomnonly varied in the tyne OF it's
article. Lincoln Steffcns continues his
study of organized business and the
virtual monarchy under which it has
fallen. Let's Play Indian" by
MCready Skyes. tells how the Seton
Indians and the Boy Scout movement
are making new American boy
through woodcraft, William Hard
writes OF Love Deferred" in his series
on The Women Of Tomorrow"
making it a most human and vitality
interesting subject. The Poison Buga-
boo" by Samuel Hopkins Adams. is
challenge to the long list of alleged
Venomous reptiles and insects to face
the truth at last. Those who have
been passing snake-stories along will
do well TO read IT,. "Lassoing Wild
Animals in Africa" by Guy II. Scull
tells how tho Buffalo Jones Expe,li-
ton caugh: rhinoceroa after long
hot fight. "a Mixing-Bowl for Ma
tons" by Ernest Poole, IL a sylnpathG-
tic study OF the various foreign
colonies in Chicago. their work and
play and spirit. Then there is Il talk
on Il Frans Halls portrait. by Sir
Caspar Purdon Clarke. and the usual
departments, Straight Talk" Under
the Spreading Chestnut Tree" with
EvcrNbody's Publishers" and Little
Advertising Stories" In fiction. besides
the big serial, there are five short
stories, Il balloon story by Albert White
Worse. n war story ny Donal Hanil-
ton iiaines, new Kind OF a business
story by Richard Washburn Chill. "On
Christmas Day in the Evening"" by
Grace S. Richmond. and simple bit
of romance by G.. w. Ogden. With
good illustrations and n picture cover
this Is one of the most attractive num-
bers OF the magazine.
A FRENCH DISCIPLE OF WALTER
SCOTT.
The creation In Franco OF the roman
de terror Barley d'Aurevilly, is thus
described by William A. Bradley in the
October number OF Tho North Ameri-
can Review:
He is a disciple Of the Wizard OF tho
NOTtD, nut not mere lnlt1t0r, His
books are filled with the spirit of a
peculiar past. and with Impressions of
things seen and felt with marvellous
emotional responsiveness and freshness
of poetic insight The full measure OF
his originality may be perceived in his
style, which is like that of no other
French writer though its framework
is the rhetoric Of romanticism Thus II
is elaborate, oruato and often tortuous-
ly involved. but it Is at the same time
nervous. sinuous. ana expressive in
every phrase. There Is in It's slow and
measured movement n note of hauteur
and hatred Of the vulgar, yet tho inten-
sity Or the life that inhab!ts 1t is shown
by tho power II possesses of generating
images In these, the material for
which Is supplied not merely by wide
reading but by n penetrating obscrva-
tion Of the minute and curious concrete
facts Of physical life, the scnsibilty
OF the man Is completely Incorporated
All that was truly satanic in his soul
tinsinunted itself into words which
writhe like n nest OF snakes and hiss
Ike the coil Of n whip welded by one
of his thounn heroes. Wherever it
falls, this lash. wrapping itself around
the firm flesh Of n fact, leaves n livid
line or trail of blood. It is this style
TINT imparts most life to d'Aurevilly's
books today. and will cause them to
be read most eagerly In tho future by
all for whom tho perfect crystali2at!on
or n rare and exotic personality always
presents an Irresistible appeal"
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