Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-16
Literary Ceremonies
In the Latin Quarter

that the manuscript. which had been
lost was recovered muny years after
Balzacs death by that famous collec-
tor of autographs, the Nicomte do
spoelberch de Ioyenjoul.
king or OBSERVERS"
Comparatively unknown to the gem
cral public. Henri Fabre Is the author
~ 10 volumes Of chronological Souve-
Mrs" which win form his enduring
literary and scientific monument At
the little village OF Serignan IN Pro
yencC.. Fabre Is about TO celebrate his
eighty-seventh birthday II genius is
a CAPACITY for taking infnitc pains. this
cutomologist. once called by Darwin
the King of Observers" may lay claim
to tho title. Furthermore. the power
~ description which induced Victor
Hugo 20 term Fabre the Homer OF
Insects" has enabled him 20 invest his
observations with singular interest.
Insect life. as Nacterlinck says.
seems 20 belong 90 another planet,
more moustr0us. energetic. insensiblC.
atrocious and infernal' than our own
world. Fabre once amused himself by
placing around a circular stone basin an
uuhrOkcn file uf professional c-lterpll-
lars For a week they pursued their
grim game Of follow my leader" never
cadsiug tlu they dropped dead In their
tracks Ferocious energy seems 20 char
actcrlza every Incident Of insect life
The L8ngued0cian scorpion promenades
with his iuamOratl claw In claw They
pause like human lovers and approach
their heads n a chaste salute So far
AN is idyllic But then the bride makes
short work OF her lucklcss spouse. Her
terrible iuiuted tail thrusts the mortal
dart into his unrcsisting carcass and
hcr brief romance terminates with
umptuous feast of the dead body of
her late admircr
SWEDISH FEMINIST.
In n preface 10 the French translation
OF Ellen Keys work on Individual
isW.' ~ dc Quiricllc says many inter
cstng things regarding the talent and
character Of the celebrated Swedish
feminist
According to de Quiriclle, she is both
democrat and aristocrat; she has very
advanced ideas but her sentiments are
rcaCtonary; she clIugs tightly TO ten
denotes, the consequences OF which she
combats cnorgetically; she defends
causes with ardor while az every turn
she shocks the habits of long standing
and the familiar preiudiccs % their adj
horents
81 do not know" he says. that any
one has drawn better and more com
III.NNlN NIl AI' ANNn NA llAII NAlIuIt ITO
contemporary democracy. not n single
vice rs loft out. For her there is only
one kind OF culture, the scientific. and
this culture must hc iu flower The SUI
perfuous alone SIS the necessary thing.
We should cultivate nothing but
roses
He goes ON 20 say neither Ronan nor
Nietzsghe, though more disdainful, is
more absolute than Ellen Key Being
naturally optimistic. she looks 20 the
future 90 cultivate roses. Meanwhile
sno loves the past ms she loves the fu-
ture and while she prophecies concern
ing things TINT arc 90 be-, She rCtires for
weeks together to little medieval towns
bon italy and "this democrat draws de-
liciOus scenes of an elegant and polite
society which she endoWs with an the
moral virtues merely because IL played
talked and listened with elegance and
good taste
WALTER ROLLINS.