The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-23
THE MANHATTAN.

Two Americans have reason to be
satisfied with the appearance they
make in The Manhattan for April
Edwin Booth and Mr.. Cropsey, the
Landscape painter. Both the portrait
of Booth, which is the frontispiece,
and the portrait of Cropsey are the
work of Velten. and are master
pieces of wood engraving, while ell
the beauty of the cuts is preserved by
the richness and delicacy Of the
printing. Au article by Matthew
Arnold on ''Litereture and Science
is a strong plea for keeping to litera-
ture, in its broadcast sense, as the
foundation of education. The paper
on Cr0psey, which relates many in
cidents of his life not generally
known. has, besides his portrait. g
view of the interior of his studio in
his house in Orange County, New
,ork, Of the north and south eide of
the house, and of the Elevated Rail-
way station at Fourteenth street end
Sixth Avenue. Which, as well as sll
the stations on the Sixth avenue line,
was designed by Cropsey. Another
illustrated article is on the quaint
old town, Rothenburg. ia Bavaria,
described by Elizabeth r. Evans in @
very readable and entertaining way.
The newspapers will not all like
Recent Tendencies OF American
Journalism" by E. V. Smslley, who
gives his opinions about American
journalism in general, and the effect
of the late reduction of price in
newspapers in particular, in frank
and unhesitating way. Kate Sans
born attacks in lively fashion the
Chauoerisn maniscs and their wor-
ship of Dan Chaucer, who, according
to them, was born at foar different
places ct different dates, was blessed
with three fathers, and was both very
fat ard very lean. The fiction
comprises "An Autographed Ro-
nance, an original and we'll wrought
short story by Julian Hawthorne;
IAN Easter Egg" short story with
q simple theme, but sweetly and
easily told by Mrs. Mary e. Bradley.
and q further alluring instalment OF
Edgar Fawcett's thinking Gym.
balls" There is q stirring poem by
Edna Dean Proctor, full of fire and
Oriental color. supposed address OF
"El Mahdi to the Tribes of the
Soudan," of which the sentiments
will. no doubt, meet Ell Mahdi's ap-
proval, il he can read the lines.
Among the other poets of the number
are Ella Wheeler, Roee Hawthorne,
Lathrop, Thomas 8. Collier, 81. G.
Fou!kner and J. A. Macon, with IN
"OId Time Plantation Song" in the
ante-bellum negro dialect, which
there are only two or three persons
living besides himself competent to
write. The departments of Recent
Literature, Town Talk and Salma.
gundy are well defined.
The BIRTH AND GROWTH OF MYTE.
By Edward Olodd, r. A. r. 3. Price,
Is cents, post-free. j. Fitzgerald, Pub.
Usher, 20 Lafayette Place, New York.
This work forms No. 81 OF the
Humboldt Library OF Popular Science.
1t comprises twenty chapters, With
an Appendix, and given Q very in
telligible account Of the origin and
development Of neurological stories,
from the scientific point of view. The
chapters entitled Nature as viewed
by Primitive Man: Personifcstion Of
the Powers OF Nature; Metempsycho
els and Transformation: Aryan Mvth-
olegy; and Survival of myth in His
toriesl Narratives. are singularIy 10
teresting. and present In popular
form the results OF the most reosnt
researches in Mythic Lore.