The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-08-30
LITERATURE.
The Century Magazine


OF greatest public interest among the
contents of the September Century are
General Grants articles on 1.-The Siege
of Vicksburg;;r the forcible frontispiece
portrait, after photograph taken when
General Grant was President with
which is given a fac simile of his first
signature on the army pay-account as
General Retlred'D; and communlca-
ton from General Grant, dated Mt. Nc
GregOr, June %, which is printed with
Memoranda on the Civil War" and
in which he withdraws what was SAID
by him in the Century Of last February
in regard to the conduct OF General
Lew Wallace and General McCook at
Shiloh" An editorial in Topics of the
Times" explains why General Grants
article on Vicksburg is printed without
illustrations, and also that the subject
will be resumed, with pictures. at an
other time. A. supplemental article OF
great interest, in the same number, IS
"A Woman's Diary If the Seige OF
Vi .ksburg." which gives an inside view
of the hardships and anXieties suffered
by the besleeel 7. The Mem oranda on
the Civil War" besides General Grants
communication, embrace, Who Pro
jected the canal at Island No. l0?' by
General Schuyler Hamilton; The
Charge of Cookies Cavalry at Gaines
Mill" in reply to General Fitz John
Porter, by General Phillip ST. George
Cooke, with 'Recollections OF a Particl-
pant in the Charge" by Rev. w. ID.
Hitchcock; and a continuation OF the
discussion in regard to general Beau
regards Courier at Bull Run, by MAJOR
Campbell Brown.
Wendell Phillips Garrison, in an Illus
trated paper, describes the Prudence
Crandall persecution of 1888, and the
encouragement given by VIM. Lloyd
Garrison to the brave school mistress
who wished to educate young ladies of
color" The article is very suggestively
entitled, Connecticut in the Middle
Ages"
Lieutenant Schwatka's paper on ''The
Great River of Alaska" which has
special interest, is profusely illustrated.
1t describes the journey OF the govern
ment party OF exploration commanded
by him over the coast mountains of
Alaska into British Columbia and their
raft journey from the head-walters of
the reat Yukon River down to the
ruins OF Fort Selkirk. The second
paper in the October number will con-
tinue the Journey TO the mouth OF the
Yukon. Mr.. Hovells continues his
charming and beautifully illustrated
italian papers with a second article on
"Panforte di Siena." Miss Alice Maud
Fem describes the pastoral attractions
of England in 3 paper entitled, Among
the Red Roofs of Sussex" which her
father, Harry Fem. has profusely Illus
-trated.
Edmund C. Stedman completes his
important series of papers on Ameri-
can pos IS with an article on the young
er writer's entitled, the Twilight of the
Poets" George W. Gable takes up the
discussion excited by his paper on The
Freedman's Case IN Equity" with
forcible rejoiner entitled THE Silent
South. Short essays of general inter
est in Topics of the Times" are "Hud-
ding in the Town and Living in the
Country, ""Some Causes of the Present
Depression" and "The Sensitiveness of
Cities and in "Open Letters"
Family Religion" by Washington
GLADDEN.; political Education: What
II DHOulu Dc, ny j. u. eISIoOul va
the Printing of the Century, by Theo
dore l.. De Winnie Recent Inventions"
by Charles Barnard; "A Plea for Ma
tional Aid to Education" by C. NJ. Jen-
kins; women and Finance" by Miss
Emily f. Wheeler; "The Serial Story"
by Miss Charlotte Por 81; g >ew +
ution of the Indian Question, by
Eugene V. Smalley; and correction
regarding 1.-The Indian Schools of New
Mexico by r. W. D. Bryan.
The short story of the number is
war story by Mrs. Burton Harrison, en-
titled. Grows Nest" containing two
full-page illustrations. This number
contains the eighth part of Henry
James serial, 1.-The Bostonians.'
Poems are contributed by Owen
Innsly, Dora Read Goodale, Amanda
T. Jones; and in "Bric-a-B rac, I" by Mrs.
Helen Jackson (H. H., Miss Jennie E.
T. Dove, Frank Dempster Sherman,
John Vance Cheney, and others.
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