The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-26
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Don Jose Gorilla is to be crowned Poet
Laureate of Spain, at the Alhambra, on the
eve Of his approaching siXtieth birthday.
Mr. Herbert L. Aldrich is about to pub
lish book of travel descriptive of his re
searches and adventures in the northern
regions of Siberia and Alaska.
| A number of authors are to give read
! ing at Hartmann hall, New York, on May
81, to aid in raising the debt of 500 on the
Paul H. Hayne memorial. church at Grove
ton, Ga.
The largest circulation on record is that
attained by the volume Hymns, Ancient
and Modern" Twenty million copies have
! been sold in the eighteen years of its ex-
istence.
Rev. S. F. Smith, author of My Country
It's of Thee" was rendered public re
ception in Chicago last week by the Illinois
Veterans club. Mr.. Smith is elghty-one
years old.
The important work upon i'Black and
White upon which Mr.. Joseph Penneil
has been engaged for several years, is now
nearly completed 1t will be the first sys-
tematic treatise on the subject ever pub
lished
Mr. Walter Besant will publish shortly
a volume of stories with the title ITO Call
Her Mine, presumably following the
awkward modern fashion of naming book
after small and disjointed portion of its
contents.
1.-THE Plague and the Printing Press,
being photographed Record of the Lit
erature Relative to the Plague, printed in
England since the Year 1902 with intro
duction and numerous notes, by Henry r.
Pioneer, is the title of book which Mr..
Elliot Stock is about to publish by sub
scription.
At meeting in London of the Matthew
Arnold memorial committee, held on the
18th of April, Archdeacon FalTer in the
chair, it was stated that Ct, so was in hand,
including q 900 from America OF this
sum, 81, i63 was for the general purposes
of the fund. e4,902 for Mrs. Arnold, and
el74 for bust in Westminster Abbey.
A work that promises 20 be of consider
able fresh interests 1.-THE Ice Age of North
America and its Bearings on the Antiquity
OF Man. by Prof. G. Frederick Wright,
which is announced for publication at an
early day by ID. Appleton & Company. II
will be illustrated very fully from photo
graphs taken by the various members of the
United States geological survey during the
last ten pears. Prof. Wright has already
become an authority on the subject of the
great ice fields in Alaska.
The Richmond state thus hits the nall
and Mr. Howells-''on the head and
might have hit them harder without over
doing the matter: ut is stated now that
w. D. Howells does not admire Sir Walter
Scott. We believe that it was reported
some time ago that he was not fond of
Dickens. 1t is not surprising that these
classics are not pleasing to writer whose
highest art seems to be achieved when he
gets man and woman together and makes
them talk each other-and the reader-tO
DEATH
Joe Howard says: "a clever rogue re
Gently fooled me well selling me pile Of
matter he had copied from McCabe's ad-
mirable book, Sunshine and Shadow in
New York The trick reminds me of an
other equally successful 1 paid Young
writer $50 for serial and used it. One
day my Office boy said: Why don't you
publish this story the same week the Fire
side Companion does!' Investigation
showed that the scallawag copied each
weeks installment from a popular perio6:
ical. We are not all dead yet
THE REPROACH or Amnesty. BY Maxwell
Gray. author OF The Silence 81 Dean Matt
land" Chicago Rand McNaily x Co. Price
- cents. $500