The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-12
SOMETHING TO READ.
A Resume Of Valuable Books and
Magazines.
STORY OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.
Some of the Leading Writers of the Day-Ella
Wheeler WilcOx's Say-Liter-
AIRY Notes,

'rhe Peril of Richard Pardon is by B. L.
Farieon.
Howells has started another novel This
IS 'Orful.
Frederick Saunders has written STRAY
Leaves of Literature
The Serpent Tempted Her. is the pro
duct OF Saqui Smith. 1t is probable that Saqui
kaOWs
James Morris Whiton's Law of Liberty
and other discoUrses is among the new pub
locations.
Hector Malot is in the throes of a new
novel called Justice" a sequel to La Con
science"
Mr.. John Brisbin Walker, the millionaire
purchaser of the Cosmopolitan, was educated
ut West Point.
Edgar Sallus is writing new novel IN
der the curiOusly suggestive title Trans
actions in Hearts"
Margaret Lee, an American writer, has
written a novel on the marriage question.
Gladstone is to review it.
Walter Besant, in his last novel, For
Faith and Freedom - sends d character to
New England as early as 1887.
BY common consent, Cardinal Newman
: the great ''living master of pure,
idiOmatic luminous, elegant English style
Mrs. Humphrey Ward viii soon be out in
been called for because of attacks upon that
novel
The Christian 1drocafe is of the opinion
mat no book, except the Bible, makes so
large a return for careful study as the Eng
iSh dictionary.
The second volume of Ernest Remains
History of Israeli has been published. 1t
covers the period from the reign Of David
to the faI of the northern kingdom.
AID L -,
claims: Weary me no more, for this hour
with your shades Of theological opinion; let
me be happy with that God of the old
French tale, that God that loveth lovers
The second series of Matthew Arnold's
essays in criticism, published by MacNil-
Ian, contains papers devoted to the study of
the poetry Of Milton, Thomas Gray John
Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, TOlstoi
and Amiel.
AlphOnse Daudet has published with
Hlammaran an edition Ofhis Souvenirs of
4 Man of Letters beautifully illustrated
by the same artists who furnished the
plates for his Thirty Years of Paris - and
which Will form a part of the Collection
Gui1aume
Richard Watson Glider, the editor of the
entuTy, Is described as - cOmDaratiyeIy
EOung man, not over forty three years of
age, somewhat below the average height
with dark hair and eyes" He is one of the
popular lights Of literary circles He is a
married man, and president of the Fellow
craft club.
Count TOlstoi talks of writing a novel. a
romance, exposing the conventional illu-
sion OF romantic love. He is disgCsted be
cause of the too frequent failure of mar
rlage and charges the depravity of the re
lations to the fact that Christianity has
been word and not u thing.
It is charged that Tennyson is spiritu-
allst, but not in the table-rapping slatl-Trit-
ing sense. He writes of himself as having
had waking frances in which to him things
became the clearest, surest and utterly
beyond words, ''the loss of personality iii
so II were) seeming no extinction, but the
ONLY true life"
"Oulda' appears in the March Cosmopo3i-
tan as the author of a charming chapter on
Birds" She writes of her favorites with
a grace and holiness that are in her ost
captivating style, defending them from the
criety and ignorance of their prosecutors. |
aud unfold ng their beauties in prose poem. !
The article Is part OF series written spec
tally for the Cosmopolitan, and shows her
close observation of bird-life.
The publication of one Of StOcl5tOa's |
stories by a newspaper, before il has
reached the booksellers shelves, is, we be |
lieve, a feature of journalism hitherto IN |
known in the west. This is one Of the |
however, and represented for the undOubted |
delectatiOn Of its thousands Of readers Sun |
day, the first consignment of the latest |
story by the author of The Lady or the |
Tiger"
The New York sun, answering a cor
respondent, says: The six works of con
temporaneOus interest, and which must
also be models for a student of style, we
will name the Bible in King James version, |
n book of eternal and therefore Of cOntem-
POraneOus interest; Cardinal Newman's !
.'Apolgia;" Matthew ArnOld's Literature |
and Dogma" William Ellery Channing's |
essay on Napoleon BOnaparte; Daniel |
Websters speech in reply to Hayne and |
Abraham LincOln's speech at the Gettys- |
burg battlefield"
In bitter and brilliant novel, 1.-THE Phil |
istines," Mir. ArlO Bates has burnt up the |
BostOnese current literature He says
THE Philistines' fairly whistles with the |
egOtism of the writer and the vanity of his |
clique. There is much in the book that is |
clever and much that is cruel and Mr. Arlo |
Bates should have added a bit to his title |
and called his entertaining work THE Phil |
iStjneS-by a Pharisee.' The work is a |
drive ut artists who prostitute talent for |
money, and those who affect art tastes.
The story of the Book of Mormon. by |
Elder George Reynolds, and with illustra- |
lions by G. NJ. Ottinger, w. T. Armitage, |
JUN A4Gtu, W. ~ AftOLLlo anu OLuCE5, IS !
meeting with a large degree of favor in the |
community Joseph Hyrum Parry, the |
publisher, has had a heavy force of can |
vasserS out working for the publication, |
and as it is work which somewhat simpi- |
fies the original and tells the story in an |
easy and modern form, it will doubtless |
continue to grow in popularity, especially |
among the Young.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox has come out in |
syndicate letter in which she defends Mrs. |
Amelie Rives- Chanler for the Quick and !
the Dead" She charges that in the history
Of the world there has never been an
author 50 grossly misc0ustrIed, and calls
Amelie the girl with the soul Of a Sappho
and the brain Of Shakespeare" Her,
defense certainly puts a new light in the
character Of Barbara, and she has the char
ity to look at the Quick and the Dead
with a clear eye and to read it with a pure |
soul. Strange that Ella should be the one |
10 come forward with this defense.
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