Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-15
White Fawn' Is Mill
ed Exactly Right. 1t
Makes Cook Chuckle
With Delight"
SALT LAKE & JORDAN MIL
& ELEVATOR co.

land are giving eager welcome to the
new stories. Their fall novels. too. have
| practlcaly all been reprinted, and even
tnose more solid books like Curtin 8
Journey In Southern Siberia" have
gone TO press second time Admiral
Mahan's THE Harvest Within" has
gone Into the third English as we'll as
| tne third American edition. Janet Nc
kenzie Hills book for young house
| keepers. Cooking for Two" has de-
manded another large edition and Mary
caroline Crawford's charming book on
Old Boston Days and Ways" has also
just come Into a second edition, though
us initial appearance dates back but
a few weeks OF the spring books, An
thony Partrldge's Kingdom of Earth"
mas won popular favor to the extent of
six editions, and Rowland Thomns's
The Little Gods" has been printed five
times. Mrs. Fcnollosa's 'Red Horse
Hill' has six large editions to It's ia
vor, and of her older books the seventh
edition Of Tho Breath of the Gods
and new editions of both the reprint
and Illustrated edition OF Truth Dex-
tor" have como from the binders with
in two weeks. Mary w. Tileston's
Daily Strength for Daily Needs" is a
perennial favoritc. with 81 editions al
ready printed. and Curtin's translation
vi NRdO etulS WuOSt SdlCS lOIdl UP INTO
the hundred thousands. has just como
from the press again. Aunt Jane of
Kentucky" by Eliza Calvert Hall, has
demanded II editions In America, and
though brought out in England within
a few months, has gone into four Eng
llsh editions.
Annie Payson Calls books have
helped thousands of weary readers to n
49, t,rt.
explanations of the ordinary nervous
strain of daily life, and instructions for
its relief Power through ReDose." her
first book, has gone into 81 editions;
LAS q Matter Of Course" which fol-
lowed several years later. has reached
II editions and "The Freedom of Life"
the third book, has had six printings
Every Day Living" and Nerves and
Common sense" which have been is
sued this year by Little. Brown, &c
Company. publishers OF Miss Calls 9TH
er works, are both In their second
editions. In all these books there is not
one word OF suggestion OF advice which
Is not applicable to the case in point,
and which is not based on working
principles gained through wide knowl-
edge and experience. They arc quito
In line with the recent movement
throughout the country for the elimina-
tion of unnecessary nervous strain and
for life which shall produce the
greatest peace and happiness with tho
minimum amount Of worry and suffer-
Ing.
The most curious difference between
the ancient heroines and their modern
successors is that Callirrhoe and An
thia, at least. are married when tho
story begins. Therefore, instead of
tho old business of the lover seeking
his beloved. wo have husband and
wife, separated, and faithful, and long
ing for each other unspeakably, and |
reunited at last. And that seems to |
give a different and peculiar charm |
and tender plquancy, which makes |
ono wonder that modern novelists have |
not been tempted by the theme more |
often. Callirrhoe, sold into slavery and |
about to become a mother, hesitates
between death and second marriage,
but finally decides on the latter alter
native, as the only means of saving
her child. Her prayer to Aphrodite
seems to be singularly touching in its
absolute simplicity: "T beseech thee,
sweet lady, be kinder to me In the
future. I have suffered enough.
nave died and come to life again. I |
1ave been afflicted by pirates and more
afflicted in escaping from them. And
low have been sold into slavery. and
I'm to enter upon second marriage
which IS to me the worst evil of all.
Yet. in return for this, 1 ask only one
'avor of thee and through thee. of all
he other gods; spare my child She
would have said more, but her tears
would not permit"
Other characters besides the heroes
Ind heroines there are in the Greek
novels practically none; shadows. pup
,ets, figures of circumstance. playing
heir part in the action. nothing more.