The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-06-10
AMERICAN HISTORY.

AMERICAN HISTORY.
The Magazine of american HIS
tory for June win interest all read
ers IN every part Of the country. 1t
is prOfusely illustrated. Mrs.
Lambs second paper in the series
"Wall Street in History" covers the
exciting period of the revolution,
together with the six memorable
years while Wall street was the
seat of the national government;
one Of its pictorial features is an
original sketch, a winter scene, by
Alfred Fredericks. Theodore F.
Dwight, librarian of state depart
ment, Washington, contributes an
able and authoritative article of a
dozen or more pages, describing the
recently purchased Franklin papers,
a contribution which will be well
coined with delight and preserved
with care by all who are interested
in our national archives. 1t is IL
Illustrated with engravingS after
photographs made by the new
editor. George Carey Eggleston
discusses the Historical Status of
the IndianTerritory in cAarmingly
readable essay, and with perfect
mastery of the facts. DR.. David
Murray, secretary of the board Of
regents, contributes timely and
important paper on the University
of the State of New Y ork, which
will furnish information to many
benighted minds. The Honorable
George Bancroft, in a letter to the
editor, settles some notably interest
ing mOoted points in relation to the
early voyages; and Alexander
Brown, of Virginia, contributes a
communication from the Honorable
L. S. Sackyille West. The original
documents are siDguIarly full. The
curious will of Count Frontenac,
from George Stewart, Jr., f. r. S. c.,
of the Quebec Historical Society
and two unpublished letters of John
Adams lin which he criticises his
colleaguesand everybody generality,
| will attract wide attention. The
notes, queries, replies, societies and
book notices are exceptionally good.
| Publication Office, 80 Lafayette
| Place, New York City.
Hot PLowsHAREs. A novel By AL
bion w. Tourgee, Author Of "a FOOLS
Errnnd," etc, $40 psgas, illustrated,
Cloth, $3.50, New York; Fords,
Howard s. Hubert; Salt Lake: James
DwYer.
| Without doubt Judge Tourgee is
bold man, and a persevering one, to
have conceived nearly twenty years
ago the idea of a series of fictitious
narratives which should help to
| give a true idea of the tremendous
era of our civil warts southern
and northern elements-its causes
and consequences; and to have sue
| ceeded in accomplishing it. More
over, without the added touch of
genius his bOldness and persistency
would have served him but lamely,
as the first requisite for success in
| literature is to win readers,-and
| he has abundantly secured to him
self by his vigorous originality, his
keenness of observation, business OF
thought, and remarkable powers Of
description and dramatic presenta'
ton. His public is a large one, and
deservedIy so.
A few words from the Preface
show Judge Tourgee's ideas OF
fiction, which are incisive and GER
tain in their character:
"History gives only the outline;
of the worlds life. i
| traces the movements of races, ma
tions, and parties. 1t is concerned
chiefly with nouns of multitude
taking no heed of the individual
save when he becomes connected
with the general result in the rela
ton of cause and effect. Ruler
and leaders are noted as types o
great events; the mantle human
atom-is only an incident.
Biography both supplements an
obscures hiStory,-supplements D,
showing the relation of great event
to particular individual, and 90
scures by magnifying his causatlv
: relation to them. BIC
, graphy covers the whole area c
history with private landmarks
4 ICIlOu ldUO1o OiAuNA a.
such disadvantage. It fills out tn
outlines history gives, and color
and completes its pictures.
shows what manner of men the
were who wrought its great event
7 1t WHITES the past, of which hi
= tory only gives the record. -,
= Slot Plowshares' completes tn
notable series of novels, but does
by going back TO an era and reglo
but little exploited hitherto, an
thus-while really finishing the HI
torical background of all the other
and intimately related to them
underlying thought-has pecl
liarly fresh and novel effect
scene, of character, of incident az
plot-differing not only from Tn
authors other works, but frol
those of any authors who have a
tempted to render American llf'
While, as a matter of personal +
nance, the strong characters al
their novel complexities OF actlC
and fate form narrative that pu
safes with intense dramatic interes
the historic view of the growth
new practical and moral elemen
in popular thought, political ma
a0enant and Industrial and Socl