The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-24


in preparation in Paris, which is said to be
the completest thing OF the kind ever pro-
! iected in France or elsewhere. 1t will have
fac SMILES of some 800 armorial bearings.
| The text is by NJ. Joaunis Guigard, high
authority in such matters.
| Mr.. A Wittemanu, IS and 80 Reade
street, New York, has issued collection Of
| illustrations of Salt Lake city, done from
photographs by the Albertype process The
pictures are artistically executed in black
and white, and include prominent buildings
aud well-known scenes. The tourist will
appreciate the neat little volume as
souvenir.
| DR.. Talmage's visit to the Holy Land was
in part undertaken for the purpose of col
lecting material for the Life of Christ"
on which he has been engaged for about
year past. Before proceeding to Jaffa he
will visit Rome Athens, Alexandria, Cairo
and the Pyramids. Among the illustra-
tons will be representations of celebrated
religious paintings.
| Nicholas Paine Gillman's work, profit
Sharing Between Employer and EN-
! ployee," now selling in its third thousand,
has received the unusual distinction of a
! gold medal from the Paris Exposition in
recognition of its merits as contribution
to the settlement of the labor problem
NJ. S. Langley, who was Thackeray's
PRIV SSCISldEs, htpJ uldFJ III loDO,
which has been offered for sale. The re-
cord of daily events is a full one Notes of
the great authors conversation and re-
marks have been iotted down day by day.
and his opinions on all sorts and conditions
of men are in the chronicle, and his per-
sonal peculiarities have also been noted,
Much amusement has been created in
Hartford over the rivalry between Mrs.
| Stoves biographers The controversy be-
MpS fa(1 and
Stowe, as to who should write the real
story Of Mrs. Stoves life, is well known.
The publishers Of the rival volumes have
had Il neck and neck race, each to get his
book out first. Mrs McCray's eagerness
is such that she has in her book twice
killed Mrs. Stowe, as see the statemt Mt:
Mrs. Stowe said to the writer, year or
two before her death" Mrs. Stowe pos
sesseS remarkable vitality for her years,
and is daily seen by neighbOrs and friends,
who are amused that she should thus be
consigned to the next world before her
time.
The London Times prints letter signed
by Grant Allen and others, announcing
that an influential committee is about to be
formed to secure subscriptions to the K A.
Proctor memorial fund. The affairs of Mr.
Proctor have now been settled, and they
regret to announce that "the total sum
available as provision for his widow ami
seven children-four of whom are daugh-
ters and one, little boy, permanently in
valided-is under g. 00C. To the small in
come which this will produce there is to be
added the 600 per annum, which is, how
ever. granted only during Mrs. Proctor's
life, from the civil list. Temporary as
sistance has been already voluntarily reu-
dered by several of the late Mr.. Proctors
friends, and as others have signifed their
desire to assist, it has been decided to start
a fund under the above name"
An old plan to solve the "a 3e question in
the South. namely, by promoting emigra-
ton to the West Indies. to Mexico, or to
Africa, is revived simultaneously by per
sons who approach the problems from many
points of view. The Mexican government
is reported to have the subject under con-
sideratiOn; colored man from the South
is lecturing in some of the northern cities
in favor of this scheme, and advocates of it
are presenting it in books and periodical
literature. Prof. Henry a. Scomp, of
Emory college, Georgia, who looks at the
subject from a southern point of view and
with sympathy for the colored race, has pre-
pared an article for the December number
of the Forum, in which he undertakes to
show that assisted emigration is the only
solution Of the negro problem, and affords
the only means of escape from dangers
hat constantly become more N 3nacing.
RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND PRACTICE. at law, in
equity, and under the codes. A treatise on /
American law in civil causes; with d gest OF
ustrative cases. By John D Lawson. san |
francisco: ncrof,- Whitney company.
The law publishers of the Pacific coast
h We undertaken nothing for long time |
which promises better for the profession |
than the issu lnce of this work, which will |
come out in seven volumes, the first two |
having already come from the binder. The |
work ID not merely extensive. but is com |
prehensive, being intended for every day |
use by the lawyers. In his preface the au-
thor admits the mas nit lde OF the undertak- !
ing to pres Mt a comple teview of A nerican |
civil law on every species OF right and |
remedy, but says he aims 10 cover ''the en-
tire field of Jurisprudence except criminal |
law, logically, methodically, thor
oughly, aud yet without such diff1se- |
ness as to unduly extend the work"
He Says the work is not only a digest of |
points, but a treatise showing all tho |
various branches of the civil law as a whole, |
and their bearings on and relations to each |
other: and il includes all the practical |
fe Itures of a digest. preserving the |
arrangement of q textbook, it |
adds to this full collection of the actual |
results of decided cases on their facts, as
illustrations of the text" No space has been
wasted IN showing the development of our
common law, It's history, or WnaJ IL mas
been, but the law is given as it exists to
day III the American reports and statutes.
The work is arranged in four divisions, as
follows: |. Persons and personal rights,
treating of principal and agent, attorney
and client, master and servant, and so on;
H. Personal rights and remedies, as CON
spiracy, false arrest and Imprisonment,
SANDER and libel, etc; III. Property rights
and remedies, and ". Public rights and
remedies, including constitutional law. tax
alton, municipal corporations, elections, and
public matters generally
The volumes are conveniently indexed
and are issued in the excellent style which
the publications of the Ban
croft-Whitney Company.
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