The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-26
LITERATURE.

A number OF Mr. H. G.. Burners recent
stories are to be put within covers, with
the title "Short Skies"
Mr.. w. D. HowelIs new novel is called
IAN Imperative Duty'' 1t will make its
| hrst appearance as a serial in one OF the
Harper periodicals.
Edmund Gosse has secured the English
| and American rights in Henrik lbsen'S
new drama 1t is TO be published in Nor
way, Germany, and England simultane-
ously
Thomas Ball, the Boston sculptor, has
written an account Of his life, called MY
Three Score Years and ten,'' and the book
will be published by Roberts Brothers.
MIR. Benjamin Hill is writing biography
| OF his father, the Georgia Senator. An
| other southern biography, soon to be pub
llshed, is that of Robert Toombs, written
by the editor of the Augusta Chronicle.
Mrs. Emily Pfeiffer, the well known
English poet who died recently, by her will
bequeaths, with the exception of few
legacies, the whole of her personal estate
OF e630 to charitable and educational
establishments for women.
Jean Ingelow. who has an honored place
IN literature lives in retirement with her
mother in kensington, England. She is
! fifty five years old and has never married.
She writes but little now, and devotes her
time and spendslnef income in charitable
work. o 60
Miss Katherine Pearson Woods, author
of 'Metzerott, Shoemaker, ETC., deserves
to make a mark, if only for her industry
She has completed a new book called IA
Web of Gold.'' 1t is said to be strikingly
dramatic.
Mrs. Anna Nathan Meyer has edited
| ''Woman'S Work in America" 1t Is the
the joint composition oil several capable
women writers. and embraces such topics
as achievement in education, literature,
journalism, medicine, politics, law, and So
clal industry.
A bust of Sidney Lanier, the poet, was
unveiled recently at Macon, Ga. 1t is OF
bronze, mounted on a marble pedestal, and
was presented to the Macon Library as
ISOLATION by a New York admirer Of the
poet, and is similar in design to the one
presented to the Johns Hopkins university.
Mr.. Edgar Saltus is talented and inter
eStlng young gentleman who wrote an eX-
tremely nasty book which enjoyed large
sale. When asked why he did not write
clean novel, he replied with perfect candor,
because clean novels do not SELL" Other
authors have discovered this, and the re-
suit is an output of nastiness which does
not speak well for the public. The Illus
trdted American.
Dickens is to be made the corpus uiIe of
series of English literature reading books
for usein schools and evening classes, as
well as for the home circle" He is to be
edited with introduction and notes. Large
omissions are TO be made in the text, but
continuity of narrative is preserved by
the insertion of occasional summaries in
italic type" "Dombey and Son. 1.-THE
Old Curiosity Shop even David Copper
field" have already been subjected to this
sinful process.
A very useful little volume in paper
covers, has been compiled and published
by j. H. Parry, 27-29 w. South Temple
street. The title is Constitutional and
Governmental Rights of the Mormons,"
the contents consisting of the Declaration
, of Independence, constitution of the United
States, Washington's farewell address, the
organic act of this territory, the several
anti-polygamy laws, the United States
statute of limitations, the poor convict re-
lease act and the Idaho test-o oath law, to
which is appended a digest of the United
States supreme court decisions applicable
to Mormon cases. The whole makes book
of 116 pages, and the price is 80 cents.
RIGHTS. REMEDIES, AND PRACTICE at Law, in
Equity, and under the Codes. A Treatise on
, American Law in Civil Cases: With Digest
of Illustrative Cases BY John d. Lawson.
In seven volumes; Vol. VII. San Francisco;
Bancroft Whitney company.
In unlS Une maj volume OF Nlf. Lawson S
exhaustive work continues the title ''Rem-
edies and Procedure devoting chapters
to pleading and practice at common law
and the different remedies and their form
attachment, garnishment, replevin, tres
pass and trover, account stated, assumpsit,
Injunction and ejectment The final divis-
ion of the work-Public Rights and Rene
dies-is then treated under the general til
tie of Constitutional Law, this division
being presented in eight parts, as follows
General Principles, Legislative Powers,
Judicial Powers, Public Offices and OIL
GERS, Civil Rights, Contracts and Property,
Eminent Domain and Police Power. Next
comes the important title, Municipal Cor
porations," the volume closing with an ex-
haustive chapter on Public Remedies. This
is most valuable work, presenting as it
does fairly complete view of American
case law on the various species of action
and defense, and covering, as the author
expresses it, s'the entire field of jurispru-
dence, except criminal law, logically, meth
odically, thoroughly, and yet in an abridged
form" A practicing attorney cannot well
do without the work in his library.