Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29

Harper's Bazaar on The Woman In
Love" In her first two papers Mrs.
Atherton discusses those women in
history whose love episodes have been
the most striking things about them.
In her third paper, however. not yet
published, she makes some predictions
concerning the place that love will
take in the future. Mrs. Atherton does
not go so far as Mrs. Belmont, who
predicts that there Will be a war be-
tween the sexes. due to the fact that
men will not give women the SUI
frage Mrs Atherton believes and
states, however, that from now on the
love element will be a far less vital
thing in women's lives than it has
been heretofore. She thinks that the
broadening out of feminine interests,
the entrance of women into new leids.
the intellectual development Of women.
are all factors which will fill women's
lives to the comparative exclusion Of
that other factor which heretofore
has been supposed to be 'her whole
existence"
It is now announced that the music
for "Trilby." the operate rights of
which were recently arranged for be-
tween the Harpers. who published Du
Maurers novel, and Mr.. Charles Dill
lingham. VIII be written by leslie stu
art. The adaptation of the story is
being made by Harry r. Smith from
the novel. and from Paul Porter's play
which is based on IT.
The proud and sinister features Of
Edgar Allan Poe may we'll remind the
imaginative beholder OF Mllton's Lucl-
fer. His chief sin, like Lucifer's, was
intellectual pride; his one obsession, the
beauty of corruption. Like the Lucifer
In Marie Corelli's Sorrows of Satin"
he held a peculiar fascination for wo-
men. Professor Woodberry, in his
life OF Poe" dwells upon the "magl-
cal" character Of the poets voice. He
appealed to sentimental women by his
figure, his history and his actions, and
TO kind hearted women by his suffer-
ing. Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, one
OF the poets loves. in poem unearth-
ed by Eugene L. Didier describes his
nortrait in words that suggest the
nrince OF darkness as Hauff and Hoff-
mann have visioned them.
Mrs. whitmans plant for the de-
parted poet thrlllingly suggests Cole
ridges "maiden waillng for her demon
lover" Poe himself believed In
demons. He was afraid of going out
I'm the dark for fear of invisible and
malevolcnt presences. Likc SWIM
burne's heroes. marked cross from the
womb and perverse" his life was one
long reiteration OF failure. He was
thwarted in everything he attempted.
Whenever he scared heavcnward. he
fell. An incxplicable gloom oppressed
his life like a nightmare. In the olden
days people would have said that he
was possessed by the devil And II Is
more than coincidence that the arch
priest of literary diabolism. Charles
Raudelaire, author OF THE Flowers Of
Evil" was his first disciple and prophet
In Europe.
Australia's demand for American fic-
tlon Is a continuous surprise. From
The records for one week OF a single
house. Harper & Brothers. are taken
tho following notices of new Austria
Ian editions. all of them large The
largest two are of Rex Beach's THE
silver Horde and VIII n. Harben's
..The Redemption OF Kenneth Gait"
Others are "The Moccasin Ranch" by
Hamlin Garland; Options" by o.
Henry; "Trix and Over-the- Moon" by
AmclIe Riyes; Lost Borders.' by
Mary Austin. ''The Image OF Eve" by
Margaret Sutton Briscoe: THE Inyol-
untary Chaperon," by Margaret Cam
Gran; Peter. Peter" by Maude Rad
ford Warren THE Real Thing" by
John Kendrlck Bangs; 'Beasleys
Christmas Party" by Booth Tarking-
ton, and Captain Storrnfield's Visit to
Heaven" by Mark Twain
The largest free circulating library in
the world is that connected with the
New York public schools, according to
DIR. Leland. superintendent OF libraries.
This fact and many others in regard TO
the use OF general books in education
are developed in The Library and tho
School," a little volume printed by the
Harpers for the benefit OF their educa-
tional friends. In IL leading educators