Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-05
NOTES

/ The memory OF General Lew wal
II ,,co whose Ben Hur'' has never ior
II moment been displaced from lts
II smInence IN popular favor since the
II Harpers first brought IT out nearly 20
II ssars ago. has been further dlstln-
/ snIshed by the placing of statue IN
Il fhe Capitol Hall of Fame In Wasn.
/ lneton. Present at the exercises thu'
II accompanied Its unveillng by the Iu-
h thor's grandson, Lew wallace. 1I''
II were many representative citizens, the
/ governor OF Indiana, who accepted the
/ statue for the state. and James WHIT
/ comb Riley, who read specially pre-
pared poem There was a notable re-
nnion. too, of the Eleventh Indiana
Volunteers the generals old regiment
II was pointed out by certain veteran
comrades that the representation OF the
general in uniform showed MIN pare
headed. whereas Gen. Wallace was al
ways careful about wearing the nat,
nor could some of them quite regard
the statue as .lifc-llke with no head
gear to be seen.
Justin Huntley Mccarthy found In
Chaucer the title for The God OF
Love" his latest Harper novel. which
tells fictitious story OF the love OF
Dante and Beatrice. To those con-
scious of the influence eNerted by the
Italian upon Chaucer. the choice Is
not without a certain poetic propr1ety
In The knights Tale" Theseus look
Ing down uDon Palamon and Arctic
fghting in the garden. "spake these
same wordes all on hight
The god OF love a benedicite,
How mighty and how CRETE lord Is
hei
Again his might there gainen non OBJ
stacles,
He may be cleped a God for his mir
acles.
For he can maken at his owen gise
OF everich herte. as that him list de-
viae.'
o. Henry and Carolyn Wells are to-
gcthor on the Harper list of latest re-
prints, o. Henrys "Optlons." having
gone into another edition. and Miss
Wellss "Rubiyat OF Bridge"
The point has been made by an
English Reviewer. writing In the Lon
don Telegraph, that American novels
"tend to have at least one superiority
over the Brtish-the authors remem-
Der that the story is the thing, and
that the reader does not want SER
mon on a theory wrapped up in IL
unlesS IL is uulolueu ny liio S'oi "
in their doings." The particular
American novel cited in Illustration
which tho critic did not attempt To
over-praise was tale OF Georgia by a
southern novelist, VIII n. Harben.
Tho Redemption of Kenenth Calf
To the British mind Mr. Harden es-
capes sentimentallty" In his account
Of the redemption of his hero through
adeveloping paternal Instinct. and the
reader Ia deeply interesten In spite oi
tho fact"-and this is the true English
touch-"that It all happens In an un-
known part of tho world"
Josephine Daskam Bacon's admis
sion to the authorship OF the anony
nous "Maragrestas Soul" has com'
practically at the same moment thai
the Harper's announced her newes
book. The Biography OF Boy.
More than one reader remains almos
lncndulous of a single authorship TO
these TWO books, they are so utterly
unlike Tho Biography of Boy II
iaet is just a simple household stor,
iull OF the humor that naturally cen
ters about a healthy 6-ycar-old Will
such name as Binks. II Is clear
however, oven from this apparent con
tradiction in stories, that Mrs Bacon
belief In the home as the flnding-plac
or happiness Is at the heart of all he
'ternry expression
H. g. Wells, whose novel. AN
sfonica" now on the Harper pres
another edition. has been so en-
T'ainly Judged or misjudged by tn
'rary Journalists of two continenti
aid TO be nt work upon the drama
tion OF one OF his books, when tn
eper Wakes" This is the more In
sting because when Mr.. Well
stncr with Mr. Hardy. Mr. James
Barrie and others was asked re
,lS his opinion OF the effect OF IN
matte censorship upon authors, h
.wered. The Censorship. with II
''ll'e wanton power OF suppression
always been one OF the reasor
ny l haven't entered upto play-wrlt
One hopes that the dramatii
OF his novel may result In lntei
ing Mr.. Wells in tho drama sun
entity TO lead him as Mr. ellsworth
us led, to address himself at lea
nee to the stage.
A story is repeated by Marc'
frevpst OF Francois Coppee, II
gitted writer whose InImitable volum
: OF stories. entitled simply Ten Tales
Is perhaps the one Americans kno'
pest. NJ. Provost Is saying, writing
me January Harper's Bazar, IF l ha
the honor OF being professor OF Frenc
70 young American girls, 1 would b'
gin with tho following truthf'