The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-07

"Primavera," volume of poems by Ok
ford undergraduate has made consider
able talk and has passed into second edi-
ton.
Arthur Goddard is engaged upon work
dealing with the contemporary stage in
England, which is to be illustrated by lead
ing artists.
The next volume of the z'sBook Lovers
Library nearly ready for publication, will
be Studies in Jocular literature" by
William c. Hazlitt
George Meredith is taking holiday after
| finishing mis- novel, 1.-THE Journalist" on
years. This is the ordinary way of work
| ing of novelists.
! A telegram from Ottawa states that
Dayie Christie Murray, the English novel
ist, who disappeared in Mexico some five
months ago and was supposed to have been
murdered, is living in Samoa and engaged
in literary work E
''The Emperor's Book; Eight Centuries
in German History: from Charles the
Great to MAMMALIAN l." by DIR. Charles
| Herrig, is the title of new historical word
to be published in ten monthly parts, by
Muckenberger, Berlin.
| A novelty in publishing is announced by
J Thomas Nelson & Sons,-an edition of the
long, one inch wide, and third of an inch
thick, yet containing $50 pages, and every
word of the text a magnifying glass
should go with each copy, as tampering
with toys of this sort may be damaging to
the eyes.
Charles Lamb, like De Quincy, after a
period of unmerited neglect, is again
becoming fashionable, with the result that
enterprising persons have been trying to
foist on the public as his productions mat
ter which he did not write. With view
of putting stop to this system of impo-
sition a collection is being made of all his
authentic articles, however short.
Prof. James Bryce, M P, author of
'The American Commonwealth" has ar
rived in New York. For the present his
time will be spent in visiting his friends.
To reporter he said that the British pub
| lie was woefully ignorant of the merits OF
the Benring sea controversy, and that even
if there were anything new in connection
with the Irish question, he would not care
to speak of it, for the reason that Ito dis
cuSS English politics away from homo
would not be good form on the part of al
English traveller"
In the August number OF the Forum
Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire
wrote an argument in favor of law for thu
national control Of elections, directing hi
attention chiefly to political aft airs in tn,
Southern States. In the September mum
Der of the Forum Senator Morgan, o
Alabama, replies to Senator Chandler
After pointing out what he conceives to b.
the revolutionary character of the propose,
law, Senator Morgan presents grea
mass of facts and opinions to prove tina
the federal control of elections is 10
desired in any section of the country by th
masses of the people He defends tn
merchants and manufacturers of the borde
states against the accusation of Senate
Chandler that their trade relations with tn
south have made them cowardly.
When Johnstown was overwhelmed by
disaster whose awful terrorS have hardly
parallel in history, it was a common fea
, that many of the survivors might be craze
, by their Affections. But the percentage O
lunatics among the survivors has not bee
unusually large. The secretary of til
Pennsylvania State committee on lunacy
commenting on the returns, says: SIN re
!; viewing this very small total the convictio
, is strengthened that the great and oyel
whelming trials Of life are much less liabl
to overthrow the reason than the continr
, Gus worry and attrition of minor evils, an
unavoidable contact with depressing SUI
roundings." In fact, the presence in GU
, midst of such un-American Americans q
Mr.. Ward McAllister and such exaspera
ing fanatics as Mr.. Anthony Comstock is
more imminent menace to the sanity of tn
community at large than Johnstown foo
, or a Chicago fire.-Thc Illustrated America
LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.
The number of The Living Age for A,
gust 23d and 30th contain Tho Origin {