The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-07
with THE WRITER'S.
The Principal Magazines Recently
Received.
SECOND RATE WORKS DYING OUT.
10. Jeiferson's AutobiOgraphy-Mr Cleveland's
DeniaI-A New Celtic Magazine
The Carlyle Letters.

After labor of fifteen years the printing
Of tho Malagasy Bible has been completed.
Where is talk in Chicago of reviving Lit
eraTy Life, Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
magazine.
A new magazine for the blindin ''Braille''
type, is announced in London, TO be called
Santa Lucia.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland denies some cur
rent newspaper gossip, saying that she IS
neither writing book, translatlng trehcn
novel, nor doing any manner OF literary
work.
NJ. Taine's health permits him to resume
literary work and a series OF papers py
him on 1.-THE Reconstruction OF France IN
1880" are to appear in the Rerue deS DeuG
Nondes.
The second volume Of Rev. DR.. Marvin
r. Vincent's ''WOrd Studies IN the New
Testament is in the press Of Scribners. 1t
relates to the Gospel OF John and the
Epistles.
Mrs. Margaret Z. Sangster has accepted
the offer Of Messrs. Harper & Bros. to be
come editor Of Hayper'S BGzar. Mrs. Sang
ster has been long the ''pOstmistress'' Of
Hdrper's Young People.
DR. Woodrow Wilson will soon have
ready an extensive and serious study OF
governmental functions called THE State:
Elements OF Historical and Practical Pol
tiles" The work has been IN hand Tor
ssSeral years,
Fhe fourth volume of Prof. Henry Nor
ley's English Writer'S is devoted to the
fourteenth century, and contains the usual
elaborate accounts, each of which is prac-
tically a scholastic monograph OF the more
prominent authors. Another volume Will
be necessary to complete the story OF the
century.
Joseph Jefferson, the distinguished actor,
who has been engaged for number OF
years upon his autobiography, has finally
arranged for its appearance IN me Century.
Its publication will be begun in November,
and win probably extend over twelve
month The "reminiscences will be abund-
antly illustrated.
A new magazine is promised in London,
to be devoted mainly to Celtic subjects, and
entitled The Highland Monthly. Several
periodicals Of this character have been pub
lished in the course Of the last quarter OF a
century, the longest lived being The Celtic
AIqazine. which was discontinued some
motNhs ago. The new venture Will be
edited conformity by Mr.. Duncan Campbell
and Mr.. Alex Macbain. NJ. a.
A volume of unpublished letters by Mrs.
CARLYLE is announced from an unexpected
quarter They were addressed to a relative
Of d. G. Richie, of Oxford, and Will be pub
lshed under Mr. Riches editorial super
VISION. his TGldLlNt tLS til
of Mrs Carlyle's in girlhOOd and after.
The letters were written before the mar
rage and while the Carlyles were living at
Craigenputtcck. The latest Of them are
dated in 1884, the year at which Mr.. Froude's
collection of Mrs. Carlyles letters begins.
ALondon publisher-one of the FIRM of
Frederick Warne & CO.-discussing two
recently famous books is quoted thus:
Theological and religious books have an
enormous sale nowadays. There IS an
enormous set of readers who love book Of
the goody-goody type-ladies read 'em after
church; they don't call them noYels-but
there is a tremendous Improvement IN the
Rlste Of the reading public for books OF the
thoughtful order, ike Robert Elsmere' and
John Ward AS these grow more popular
Ouida and Miss BraddOn's second-rate
works viii die out. Taste in books IS
higher now than it has ever been, and
t1Kpk it viii get better year by year"