Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-29

the governor to be state examiner. In
tegrity and worldly success are iden-
tined, and one feels that there is deep
truth In the point of view. The young
senator who loses his ideals gradual
~ loses also his power to make 4 con-
vincing speech. becomes habby and
goes to pieces. This is rather an I'M
usual ethical note and ono which de-
serves the emphasis that Mr. Whitlock
places on 1t here. 1t is u heartening
creed, for 1t says that man need
not wait for another life to find that
doing well pays.
Tho stories are graphically written
with firm touch that Invariably car
ries the reader forward Into sympathy
with the authors characters and their
situations. Humor prcdominates, al
though there Is not little pnthos. too.
The author is fully alive to the alb
surdities in the game OF politics ana
brings out sharply the inconsistencies
of such persons as the church member
who would not buy votes but who
candidly admitted that money ought
to be used SO as to produce votes.'
Idenlist though he is. Mr. Whitlock
sees the weak points of new booTs. or
the older ones, self-deceivcd, he re-
marks amusingly, "They did their re-
forming chiefly at banquets. In this
case the buyer of n Gold Brick" will
for the first time in history not find
himself sold" on the contrary he Will
consider it one of the best investments
| he ever made.
"The Science Of Poetry" Is the title
of a book by Herbert Maxim which
| aims to give Il practical plan for criticize
| ing and Analysing poetry. The main OBJ
| iect OF this book says the author, Is to
provide IL practical method for literary
| criticism and analysis, and standard
| of uniform Judgment for determining
| tho relative merits OF literary produc--
| tions, and further. to supply more
practical and efficient means than we
| have had heretofore for the standard
| jyatlon of poetry. whereby any poem
| may be assayed and the amount of It's
poetic gold determined and separated
| from the Stag and dross.
Whatever the subject Of any investi-
cation may be. whether poetry. biology,
| ethics or torpedo warfare, the same
| scientific method of procedure must DO
| followed We must first unravel tho
| complex and heterogeneous back to first
principles, and then reason forward
| from the simple to the complex. from
| the homogeneous to the heterogeneous,
| from what we know to what we would
| learn. Such are the methods pursued
| by all successful inventors, scientific In
vestigators and discoveries.
| Poetry must necessarily be natural
! phenomenon, for there can he no SUCH
| things MS supernatural phenomena.
Like all effects. poetry must he a natur-
| al effect, subject to laws which may be
investigated and formulated.
| The more ! have studied. the strong
CT has grown my conviction that no
other subject of equal interest and im-
portance to mankind has been SO neg
| lected by science, so abandoned TO the
chaos OF misunderstanding There u.s..
indeed, no general agreement as TO
what constitutes poetry. There are as
| many opinions as there are critics.
| Often the worst poetry Is pronounced
| tho best. and often the best the worst
| by some who are considered leading
| authorities. G
Never heretofore. to my knowledge.
has tho truth been discovered that
our ability to distinguish the quality
Of n speakers emotions depends en-
tirely upon this tone-color or quality
! OF tho voice. Nevertheless, others have
| made discoveries that have helped mo
| immensely in finding out this truth
and some have come very near Its
discovery. preceiving that timber
gives color to the expression OF
| emotions Two sounds may be uttered,
| IDENTICAL IN pitch, duration and loud
ness, but one may be made to mean
| grief. and the other pleasure, accord
| ing to the tone color. For example.
| repeat: O-o-o-oh! O-o-o-on! rs you
I would do II In great pain; then. In
the same pitch and with the Il same
loudness and duration, repeat the ex-
clomation as you would II greatly
pleased, and you VIII very easily
provc for yourself the truth of the
| above statement; for pitch, duration
| and loudness being the Same In both
cases, the only difference In the sound
! uttered Is due to change IN It's tone
There are two kinds of oral tone
colors--the emotional and the non