Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-03
BOOKS AND PICTURES.
New Books i'm LOndOn--NIr. Rohn,s
COllectiOn--SOme Lady Artists.

Lent is the London publishers feast
not fast, for reading then takes the place
of many debarred amusements. The
popular Lenten novelty is undeniably one
by Lady Gertrude Stock, sister of the
Marquis of Queensbury, Notwithstanding
its unattractive title-''Nature's Nurse.
ling" 1t is love novel founded on the
prejudices of Catholics and Protestants
which separate families and lovers. 1t
would equally delight Mr.. Beecher or
Mgr. Capel
Another popular Lenten novel is
Diana of the Crossways," by George
Meredith. Would any one suspect him.
as he does therein, of playing with his
pen on the whole gamut of passion :?
Diana is vivid conception, worked out
with great literary powers. Mr.. f. w.
Robinson has an eastern novel in the
hands of Messrs Hurst & Blackett. with
the melodramic title Lazarus in Lon
don." But the Bentleys next week will
match it with an anonymous novel called
Mrs. Keith's Crime" while Mr.. Craw-
ford, who began fiction with India, next
week crosses the Afghan frontier into
Persia with his new novel godfatherod bv
Macmillan's, and called "Zoroaster, the
Prophet
The Bentleys' Easter egg of novels is to
be GA Good Hater,' bv Mr.. Frederick
Boyle, which will contain yelled portraits
OF notable people, set in an ingenious
plot. The Blackwoods boast an aesthetic
novel by lady. The book has the pro-
sale title 'Miss Brown" Its hero, Lon
don clubbists say, is intended for Mr..
Oscar Wilde. 1t is a book of dramatic
interest and keen sketching of character.
Twenty-Five different volumes of verse
have recently greeted prosaic London,
the chief volume whereof is "Melchior,
an Epic" by Mr.. Wills, the dramatist.
Five thousand lines, alternated with
blank verse and rhyme, give staggering
sound to readers, but the dramatic story
and treatment carry the reader delight
edly through to the end. 1t is such a
poem as Lawrence Barrett might have
a play made from. Lord Byron's
great publishing house of Murray, who
was Tin such id hurry to set up an
Canto," issues during the com
ing week the first volume, with five to
follow, of Lord Lytton's (Owen Incredibly
new epic of "Glenaveril," which will be
savoring of his life in India He
mourns fathers failure in recent play,
but he may JOY in success as great as
Lucille" for himself.
Even brokers in oils, stocks and corn
are becoming literary. A committee of
business men in the city announce from
near the Herald offices a new magazine,
to be called The City Quarterly, giving
attention to mercantile matters, with
OF men who are something
in the city,"
LondC draws the line at lola, whom
the Society for the Suppression of I'm
calls the Opposite OF nastiness"
and the "Germinal" is being suppressed
Paris eXiles James Stel hens; London
exiles Emma lola. London backs up
Mr.. Hamerton, and his landscape book
yesterday de lure at ducat
price was largely bought at once. 1t con-
tains fifty-two engravings, or etchings,
with the authors pen eulogiums of
nature.
War has its new literature. Messrs.
Allen & Co. publish on the Afghan ques
ton, with a supplement to date, Mr..
Marvin's Russians at Merv and Herat
Their Power of Invading India" 1t is
based on Russophobic lines Mr. Unwin
to-day issues Scott's France in Ton
quin." 1t is narrative of the pending
with prognosis of the future
of Siam as conquered French colony.
Messrs. Blackwood published yester-
day volume on the South African war,
by Lady Bellairs. Blackwoods also pre-
sent volume entitled Madagascar and
France" which, besides its war lessons,
pays much attention to the Hovas, the
arstocratic caste or Normans of the
island. Illustratvely of the Russian sit
uation comes from Messrs. Smith & FL
der "Studies OF Russia" by the peripa-
tetic Mr.. Augustus G. Hare, who writes
with the swiftness of his animal name
sake.
The art collection of the late Mr.. H. G.
Bohn is now under daily auction sale.
Where are the American virtuosi, when
there are either going or gone thirteen
Watteaus, eight Teniers, thirteen Durers,
seven Hogarths, five Guides heading
1921 picture lots, including sprinklings
of Reynolds, Turner'S and Wouvermans?
Two Watteaus went yesterday for $3.50
and a Giorgione for $500, everything
being guaranteed. Mr.. Harper Penning-
ton, the latest American artistic accession
to the Whistler set, was at the sale. He
is enrolled in the Easter Royal Academy
exhibition with portrait of Mr.. Corn
wallis West, and is regarded as a coming
man.
Seven hundred and sixty works of wo-
men painters, collected from all Great
Britain, Germany and France, under the
of a society of lady artists, and
pretty evenly divided between oil and
water colors, comprise an exhibition
opened two days ago in the Marlborough
Street Galleries. A charming love scene,
entitled "All My Fancy Dwell On Nancy"
by Miss Katharine Bywater, appears the
most admired, because exhibiting so
much characterization. The members of
the society land large numbers do not