The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-21
WITH The WRITER'S.
another of Amelie Rives' HySter-
ical Productions.
A CURIOSITY IN JOURNALISM.
A Forthcoming Work on Sir John Franklin's
Fate-Popular Interest in French Fic-
ton - Literary Notes.

The venerable historian, George Dan
croft, has been compelled by his waning
mental powers to entirely cease his literary
work.
It is reported that 900 copies of Prof.
Bryce's F'American Commonwealth" have
already been sold in England, and 5000 in
the United States,
Macmillan 81 Company will issue soon IN
the Temple Library ''The Poems and Plays
of Oliver Goldsmith edited by Austin
Dobson and illustrated by Herbert Railton.
The American Publishing Company an
nounces "A Companion to the Holy Bible y
a concise and comprehensive concordance
to the Scriptures. 1t has been in careful
preparation for several years.
An authorized translation Of "Garibaldi' s
Autobiography, as recently published IN
its final form, will be issued IN London TINS
month with fac-similes Of some of the gen
erals letters.
M. Gaume. the Catholic bookseller of
Paris. who recently died at the age of
eighty-nine, was one of the last survivors
of NapoleOn's armies and took part in the
expedition to Moscow.
The appearance of Matthew Arnold's let
tiers seems to be awaited impatiently in
London. It is said that in the hands OF an
other Froude Arnolds letters might be
found to vie even with Carlyle's IN frank
criticism Of his contemporaries.
b. p. Shillaber ("Mrs. Partington'O
while confined to his house near Boston by
serious illness for a long time has been en-
gagged on a volume of personal reminis-
cences extending over fifty years.
Thomas Seymour Denton has coined the
word ssmanuprint," noun and adjective, to
describe the work of a typewriter. He
calls typewriter manuscript manu-
print" and the pages are designated as
s'manuprint-page l, ,, 3, A. etc.
Mr. F. Marion Crawford is trying his
hand at biography. He is writing a volume
for the series OF English Men Of Action
on Sir John Hardwood. The series, by
the way, promises very We'll Walter Be
SAINT, Clarke Russell, and ArchlDall fofOes
are writing for it.
His Fatal Success" by Malcolm Bell, IS
a startling story which purpOrts to be a
warning to those who are ''blindly cropping
in the specter-haunted gloom Of spiritual
ism and theOsophy.n The story is wei
written. and the working out Of the plot,
nv the aid of supernatm g. and occult
means, is extremely original.
Mr. John Morley's Universal Library
having reached the limit designed for it
sixty yolumes-Mr. Morley has projected
another scheme of similar kind, called the
stCarisbrooke Library to be composed OF
fish versions. Swift's Tale OF a Tub and
Other Works" has Just opened the series.
Routledge 81 Sons are the publishers.
The Forum of May will contain an article
bv Mr.. E. L. Godkin, editor OF the New
York Evening Post, on ''The Republican
PARTY and the Negro" in which he points
out the impracticability of any special
southern policy" and reaches the conclu-
sion that the southern states are dong
more to elevate the negro and consequently
"to make the corruption and intimidation OF
voters difficult or impossible" than the
northern states.
A work will shortly appear on Sir John
Franklin's fate. claiming to show that It's
discovery was through a revelation made
to little child seven years of age, to whom
was revealed the locality where the ShlPs
were found, and how they could be reached
and that after the great expeditions OF the
Government, extending over period OF
seven years, had proved frultless, the Ell
forts Of Lady Franklin, guided solely by
the revelations of the little chlld, were
crowned with complete success.
The popular interest that IS felt Just now
in French fiction will doubtless aItfacI at
tan+iop to the new edition OF the Erck-
mammoth atrian historical romances, winch
the Scribners have in preparation Tor early
publication. The popularity OF these
stories has always been great; ana TINS
new edition. which will be made every way
attractive. will doubtless extend their pop
MARTY to a still larger circle OF readers III
this country.
1.-THE Witness of the Sun IS another OF
Amelie Rives' hysterical productions. One
Tnnst confess that it shows talent, but the
Ito. has not learned vet to put that talent
toits highest and best use. There IS not Sc
much of the verify and hushedIy, inc
Hame and shame. the bitter bllsses ano
cIinoing kisses element as IN some oil hel
otbe,. works. but it is still far from free
from the Objectionable features winch
characterize most of her writings.
One of the curiosities of New York Jour
nalism is a small sheet printed entirely IL
Russian for the dissemination OF nlhllsm
i'm the land of the Car The people WhC
road Russian in New York number nc
more than the readers of Sanskrit, and this
naner depends entirely for its usefulness
1nnn secret entrance into Russia IN horse
Collars. sleigh-runners, and other ingenious
devices A fac-simile of this paper, Zndmid
with its EDITORS portrait and It's modest
little office, are part of the illustrations IN
the articles or 1.-The Nihilsts OF New Y ork
in the April Cosmopolitan.
John Ericsson desired that if any biog-
,.anbv of him was undertaken 1t should be
irtynsted To his friend, Colonel William C.
Church. editor of the. Army and NduI
,TouTnaI and the executors of the estate ac
eordingly have turned over to ,Colonel
Chnrc6 all the papers which could be use
mi in such work. While it is true thu
CAPTAIN Ericsson destroyed his diary, al
his documents since 1860 were preserved
In private letters and other papers has beer
found abundant material reiaUTe 10 ~
Youth and the Influences which shaped his