The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-18
LITERATURE.

"Corn and Poppies," a volume of verse
by Cosmo Monkhouse, best known to
American readers as an art. critic, viii be
published shortly in London.
Mr. Henry Carey Baird, Of Philadelphia,
has caused portrait of General Meade to
be painted for presentation to the military
academy at West Point.
A Welsh dialect society, with Prince
Luclen Bonaparte as president, has re-
Gently been established in connection with
the University college of North Wales at
Bangor.
Mr. Ward McAllisters forthcoming book,
Society as l have Found tn will be pub
hshed in the early autumn.
Arthur CUTLER Couch is the name of the
author of the fine novel called 1.-THE Spleen
didSpur, J" recently anonymously published.
Some good judges attribute this book to
Mr.. Besant.
Mr. Fourde's ''Life of Lord Beaconsfield''
in the Queens Prime Minister series is
quite ready, but will not appear until au-
tumn. The first of the series will be Dr..
Henry Dunckley's volume on Lord Mel
bourne.
The project of a grand monument to Vic
tor Hugo in Paris seems to languish. Only
$4,000 has been subscribed in all the time
since Hugo's death, and this is but small
part Of the sum that will be needed, accord
ing to the original plans.
Mr. Oswald Crawfurd, British consul at
Oporto, has book in press in London. en-
titled Ground the Calendar in Portugal
dealing chiefly with rural life, folk lore,
and the manner and habits of the Portu-
guese people. This should be an excep-
tlonally interesting volume; the subject is
both fresh and attractive.
A series of striking memoranda on the
life of Lincoln will be printed in the June
Century, accompanied by full-page illus
tratlon, showing the exact appearance of
the stage and proscenium boxes at Ford's
theatre as they appeared on the night of
the assassination.
The Springfield Republican thinks that
Thomas A. Janvier in some respects "out-
Riders Haggard" in his romance of "The
Aztec Treasure-House,n which has just
been concluded as a serial in Hdrper's
Weekly, and is soon to, be issued in book
form by Messrs. Harper & Brothers.
Three cash prizes of $50, $50, and $40
respectively, are offered by Public Opinion,
the electric weekly magazine of Washing
ton, D. c., for the three best essays, no t
exceeding :, 900 words, on the subject: The
Study of Current Topics as Feature of
School, Academic and College Education. J"
The papers must reach Public Opinion prior
to June Is, and the award will be made by
a committee of three well known educa-
tors, to be selected and announced before the
close of the competition The prize essays
will be published over the signatures of
the writers July 9Th. Particulars of the
contest may be had by addressing the
editor of Public Opinion.
A portrait of Murat Halstead, who regu-
larly contributes a review of current
events of the day to the Cosmopolitan mag
azine, appears in the frontispiece of the
June number. This is followed by an ar
ticle by the late minister to Persia, Mr.. S..
G. w. Benjamin, on Farm Life and Irri-
gating'' in that remote and interesting
country. Mr.. Lafcadio Hearn contributes
a study of the 'Half-Breed Races in the
West Indies,' and an extremely popular
article, entitled ''Side Chances at Ameri-
can Beauty" by Eleanor Waddle, is illus
trated with reproductions of photographs
of some of the most beautiful women of the
United States, selected from the NOR e
prominent cities, Memphis, Baltimore,
Boston, New York, Leavenworth, and
many others. Full descriptive personal
notes accompany these engravings. The
complete short novel of the number is en-
titled "a Ghost at His Fireside," and is by
Mrs. Louise Chandler Moulton, with illus
trations by Mr.. Albert E. Steiner