The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-02-07
LITERATURE
The February Century.

If this issue of the magazine has an
inhospitable look to foreign contri-
butors. who happen to be wholly and
by accident excluded, they may find
reeompense of courtesy, in the plain
speech from forty-five American
writers, on international Copyright. "
spoken in the "Oprn Letters" de-
partment, and Whittier at the
end speaks few words OF
Quaker scorn of the American attitude
to the subject more bellicose than
avowed warfare. The leading article IN
Topics of the Time expresses the ed
itorial view of 1.-THE Demand of Amerl-
can Authors" A peculiar interest
attaches TO General Grants Preparing
for the Wilderness Campaign. Here
he is dealing with his plans for the last
grand campa gn, extending from the
James round to Nashville, Atlanta. and
the sea, and which gave the Confederacy
the death hug. Anecdotes of McClel
lan's Bravery. by one OF his officers who
was companion in arms as far back
as the Mexican war, lends additional
interest to the wartime portrait OF
Mcclellan, which is the frontispiece of
the number. Under the laconic title,
Our March against Pope" General
Longstreet gives the Confederate view
of the Second Bull Run camp iign, with
some caustic criticisms and amusing
anecdotes The paper is profusely
illustrated, as is also with Jack
sons 'Foot.cavalry' at the Second
Manassas" by Allen c. Redwood,
who describes the humorS and hard
ships ola private. In Memoranda of
the Civil War" General William F.
Smith and others offer Comments on
General Grants Chattanooga and
General Erasmus d. Reyes describes
the services of The Rear-Gaurd After
Malvern Hill. "''Antonio Louis Barge"
the French sculptor, is the subject OF
the opening illustrated article, by
Henry Eckford. George W. Cable CON
tributes a paper on The Dance in
Place Congo" City Dwellings" attrac-
lively illustrated, is the subject OF Mrs.
Van Rensselaer's fifth paper on Re
cent American Architecture" In fiction
there are the opening chapters of Mr..
Howel's new story, The Minister'S
Charge" the minister being the Rev.
Mr.. Sewcil. whose acquaintance was
made in The Rise of Silas Lapham,"
and the hero a country youth who goes
20 Boston in seach of a literary career,
and is undeceived in many things. The
fourth part Of Mrs. Mary Hallock
Foote'S story of Western life, John
Bodewin's Testimony" deals with the
meshes of a tragedy and abounds in
character sketches. The short stories OF
the number are the first par. of a humor-
GUS novelette,, 1.-THE Borrowed Month,
by Frank R. Stockholm and a dialect
sketch of Georgian life, IAN 'Onfortunit
Creetur,' by Mat Grim. Edmund G.
etedman contributes a notable poem,
"Hebe." The other poems are
by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, the
late Sidney Lanier, and others.
A second part is given of the shrewd OBJ
servations of an anonymous writer, en-
Titled "Zweibak; or, Notes of Profes
sional Exile" Twill the Land Become
a Desert?" is a question discussed by
Joseph E. Chamberlain in thoughtful
essay. In "0pen Letters" Bishop Dud
ley and the Rev. J. H. Hop
kins express Episcopalian views in
regard 10 Christian Union" and H. G
Fuller's comments on the Rev. Lyman
Abbott's recent article discussing So
cialism under the title, Danger Ahead"
a prose sketch of negro humor, "Out
on 'Scurgeon,i by Eva NJ. De Jar
nette is a feature of Bric-a -Brac.
New York: The Century Company;
Salt Lake: Margie Dwyer.