Salt Lake Herald | 1901-02-20 | Page 4 | Willie Wallie's Book

WILLIE WALLiES W L lES BOOK OOt London Critics Are Having Sport t w York k Journal our l J o Astor whose alose literary tt h seem em to to keep pace with his social aspirations has just j st before the th public pu once more ore with t a book k which he has published through Ma on Oft the express understanding that it t be te not produced ed or r even put on sale by the house hom e of the firm firmin in the United States Apparently he heas was a afraid of uC the criticisms Which his volume of short stories would receive at the hands of review ersin JS hi the land kand nd c e his bis birth The crit cri critics t tIes ics Ice however in I the land of ills his JUs Uon that country for sake of which 16 be relinquished his proud birthright of American citizenship are treating him quite as cruelly as any an of their trans transAtlantic transAtlantic Atlantic confreres could c uld have done For they are axe lavishing every kind of ridi ridicule ridicule cule cute and aroused amused contempt on Pha Daughter Daught rand and Other Stories They eXPress their deep obligation to Mr Astor for his kindness in turning both Exodus and Shakespeare into lit literature t declaring that his treatment of The Merchant of Venice and of Otheo is te so successful that their own father er would not know them Of f his story stor about Mme te Js included i in the book they de declare clare elre that he develops an unpleasant conjecture tUJe as to the secret of her life with precisely the amount of delicacy that we e expect ex from such ouch a aman man Much fun tun too is hi I made of Mr lIr As tors tars misuse suse of French in his ibis stories w Is asserted to demonstrate the advantage of jf a knowledge of modern languages this is the citi criticism cism that ha hag ted ed Mr Astor most deeply For himself as a brilliant French b scholar as a skillful and when he ws envoy of the United States at Rome he de devoted devoted voted his leisure hours to the tion U n not in English but in French of ofa ofa a 8 sort of guide book ook and manual of eti etiquette quette luette for ambassadors