The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-06
LITERATURE.

Mr. Rudyard Kipling is writing series
of 'Barrack Room Ballads"
monument to Richard Jetferies, the
English naturalist, is to be placen in Sails
bury cathedral.
Mrs Burnett's 'sSara Crewe'' has just |
been published in Paris following an adap- |
tation in French Of lie Petit Lord"
Sir William Frazer is making collec
ton for publication of anecdotes of Lord
Beacensheid, of which he has large NUN
Der.
j. S. Jeans, secretary of the English Iron
and Steel Institute, has book in press in
London, dealing with the great canals OF
the world
Mr. r. L. Stevenson is expected in Lon
don in October. He intends, after making
| various arrangements there, to fix his home
permanently on his island estate IN Samoa
At the annual dinner in London few
weeks ago, in connection with the news
paper press fund, Sir Algernon Bothwlck,
president of the fund, announced that the
institution had doubled its membership
during the past year, and that 1t now mad
more than 500, coo invested.
Mr.. Leslie Stephen has come to this
, country in hope that sea voyage will re
store his health. He sailed for Boston and
is to make short stay in Cambridge before
he returns. Mr.. Stephen is to contribute
7 the lives of Hume and DR.. johnson to the
coming volumes of the Dictionary of
National Biography"
Sir Morell Mackenzie, the English laryn-
3 gologist, is to lecture in the United States
4 in the autumn under the management OF
1 MIR. Pond, of the Boston Lyceum bureau.
: He is to give fifteen lectures, for which he
y will receive &C., 0,-over e130 lecture.
t Such terms are unheard of in Europe.
! The Shakespeare society of New York
u will Immediately begin the publication of
!, ''second SERIES" to consist of unexpur-
> gated reprints of the old English miracle
D plays, mysteries and moralitieS, as illus
= trating the growth of the drama up to
g Shakespeare, besides the least known al
edited English plays contemporary with
u Shakespeare's own work. These and all
~ other publications of the society will here
10 after appear in the scholarly and attractive
style of the Bankside Shakespeare.
During the year 1889 nearly 1900 diff
n ferent books were printed in Germany
n According to the popular impression il
# would be expected that France or England
70 would, as respects the number OF books
ar published, rank second to the German En-
81 plre, and with closely approximating fig
,e ures AS a matter of fact, however, sta
Mt tistics reveal the surprising truth tina
m Italy is second with 10,S63 publications
ID Even more astonishing is the fact tina
ne Russia, exclusive of Finland, is third witt
7.427 publications. England is fourth witt
TT 6,59l. The United States shows only 1881
or The always interesting Magazine of Ame1
,ol lean History opens its twenty-fourth volum
th with brilliant July number. a fine POI
nd trait of Sir William Blackstone serves a
ng frontispiece, its pertinehce apparent to WHIT
en- seever reads the leading article. 9TH
tn Golden Age of Colonial New York Fol
ne lowing this Roy Singleton writes briefly c
of Sir William Blackstone and His Work,
ge, ''The Indian College at Cambridge" ,
IN. Andrew McFarlane Davis, follows wit
ed valuable information on subject litt
as, known; ''Burgoynes Defeat and SUI
render, an Inquiry from an English Stan,
point,' by Percy Cross Standish, is vast
interesting; "a Curious and lmportal
ID Discovery in India" by ExLieutenan
- Governor Robertson, gives picturesql
ls, view of the links connecting the days
$50 chiyalry in France with those of adventu
aiy among the savage tribes of America, al
lc:. then comes president Lincoln's Humor
rs Is by David II. Locke T43 Broadway, Ne
iee York.