Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-31

tciS It that large medical gentleman
colideG with me. and tonight | have n
black ankle on which cannot walk?
We had wonderful time, and we aro
going again for New Years" Mrs. Rine-
hart Is working. with such pleasant in
.terruptions, on new farcc-comedy.
Houghton Minlin Co. report that the
holiday sales have ncccssitatcd the fol-
lowing new printings: Fourth impress
slois OF Tho Corsican IL Diary OF
Napoleon and of The Life Of Mary
Lyon by Beth Il. Gichrist; second
impressions OF THE Digrcssions of ",
by t.lihu Vcddcr; Pages from the
Book Of Paris" by Claude c. WASH
burn; Tho Farm Book" by T.. Boyd
smith; Among Friends" by Samuel
Al crotllers. I'm the Footprints OF
Heinc." by Henry J. Forman: "In the
Ghtskiiis, by John Burroughs: Our
House aud the People In It." by Eliza
beth Robins Pcnncll. and the new illus
trated edition of "Rcbccca of Sunny
brook Farm" by Kate Douglas Wiggin.
In officially selecting Maj. McI.augh-
Inns MY Friend the Indian" for sup
Elemental reading in the Indian schools,
Commissioner Robert G.. Valentine
writes rs follows 1T is pleasure
to have this valuable contribution to
the history of the American Indian
given place on the library shelves of
our Indian schools and agencies II is
u book which | wish those in the In
dian service to study and endenvor in
Its suggestions to get nearer to the
human side Of the Indian, to more
thoroughly understand his character
istics and thus be enabled to devotion
mat which is best and good in him
in addition to any unitarian or eco
nomic viewpoint. The book should
prove an inspiration In this regard and
continue to spread the same Influence
for the Indian uplift which Maj. Nc
Lnughlins life and administrative work
have done and will continue to do for
him.
When II. j. Forman, author of I'm
the Footprints of Heine" CHoughton
Miflln COS was at Harvard university
and had some intentions OF taking up
teaching rs n profession. he went to
Prof. Barretto Wendell for Il letter of
Communications The latter refused
II Will not help to send one who can
do creative work into that sterile
field" was all he would say.
1t has been generally supposed that
Importance had already been published.
George Willis Coke, the biograplier and
photographer OF Emerson says in this
connection: II have been greatly sur
plised at the richness of the four vol
umcs of lImcrson's Journals now pub
lsilcd. They do not merely repeat
what is in his wcll-known volumes of
essays, which have made his world
wide reputation rs thinker ANA essay
In .,f
our knowledge of his inner life, his in
tcllectual and spiritual development,
and the literary power of his expression.
Here is almost anew Emerson In tho
many and important sidollghts they
throw upon this character and his
thinking. No one has found in Encr-
son Il master and friend. u guide for
those who would live in the spirit. can
afford to neglect these rich aud fruit
full volumes"
In ono Of the chapters of Prof Ed
ward Scribncr Aincs' Psychology OF
Religious Experience" has been sum
married the statements Of people in all
| Glasses as to whether or not they are
religious" The following is from
an active church worker ana Sunday
school teacher: Il do not know wheth-
or ! am religious or not. | have no
practical faith in God. get no strength
outside Of mysclf-cxccpt from human
beings: and have no desire for a per-
| sonnl life after death. ON the other
| hand, ! believe that n moral life is the
| only thing worth while. desire to
| work out my own salvation, here and
now: ana | wish Gin II half-hcartcd
way) to sec all people know the joy
| of right living. That seems to be re-
| ligIous--in theory" The book deals
with the history of religion its origin in
the race, its DEVELOPMENT in the indI-
vidual and It's place in the experience Of
| the individual and society.