The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-27
LITERATURE.

Mr.. Cyrus w. Field is likely to bring out
volume of "reminiscences, which should
be of unusual interest.
William Morris is engaged on prose
romance having adventure as its character
1stlc feature. Arrangements for its pub
LEGATION do not seem to have yet been
made
DR.. Francis Warner has prepared for
publication his lectures on Growth of
Intellectual Faculty. and the book
will be issued shortly by Macmillan &
Co.
The partnership of Friedrich A. Stokes
q Brother has been dissolved, Mr.. Horace
>. Stokes retiring. A corporation, called
the Friedrich A. Stokes Company, has
been formed to carry on the bust
ness.
Lieutenant John P. Finley OF the United
States Government Signal Service will
shortly publish volume on tornados,
which in addition to previous informa
tlon, Will include data for 1888. He is also
preparing the tornado record for 1882
The period of forty-two years for which
an American book can be protected by
copyright having expired in the case of
''Webester's Unabridged a Chicago
house has reproduced photo photography
and put upon the market in cheap form
Ine prlmlt1Ve ed1tl0n or 1917.
t. L. Timayensis, of the minerva Pub
fishing Company" author of ''The Origi-
nal Mr.. Jacobs, "etc., has been brought, says
The Publishers Weekly, to law by Anthony
Comstock, on the charge of issuing al
legged Objectionable literature.
1t is stated from ST. Petersburg that
very comprehensive and important work
has been arranged for under the editor
ship OF General Leer. 1t is intended to
present thorough history of every war
in which Russia has been engaged from
the time of Peter the Great. The highest
experts in military affairs are enrolled
amongst the contributors. Several of the
volumes are nearly ready.
Henry M. Howe, son of Julia Ward
Howe. has completed a scientific work !
of value called 1.-The Metallurgy of
Steel"
Vasih Verestchagin, the Russian pain
ter, has written novel entitled 'sXenia
Repnlna," which has been translated into
English by B. MacGahan, and will be
published by Messrs Routledge.
Mr.. Charles Lanier, of the banking house
OF Winslow, Lanier & Co., has ordered a
bust of his cousin Sidney Lanier, the poet,
to be presented to the Public Library at
Macon, Ga. Some time ago he made
similar present to John Hopkins Univer-
sity.
A "History of the Dominion of Canada
by Reverend w. P. Gresswell, is nearly
ready. There is a growing interest in
Canadian affairs, and this book will doubt
less have a welcome.
No story which THE HERALD has pub
lished, with the possible exception of
Taken by Siege" has excited so much
widespread interest and admiration as
1.-THE Deserter," which comes to a conclu-
sion to-day. For it's next serial THE
has secured the new story of ex-
citing adventure, laid in the times of
Charles H., entitled 1.-THE Splendid Spur
1t will commence in next weeks SUNDAY
In the current number of The Illustrated
american Gribayedoff has anumber ofpen
and ink sketches which hit off to a nicely
the popularity of pose and gesture of our
statesmen. There is Wade |
Hampton, white whiskered and content;
Frank Hiscock' in his LATEST pose; Sen
ator Reagan, with that dumpy argumenta-
tive finger; the thin, hard hand of SEN |
ator Sherman in discussion; ingalls,, |
his finger joints in scornful de-
r1sion of his opponents argument, and !
the benign expression of Senator Sawyer,
caught during his afternoon nap. In the
House the portraits of Reade, Mckinley
~A@Ne
excellence of these two pages lies in the
skill of the artist in catching many of the
which are distinctive of the
men. A breezy article by Blakeley Hall
accompanies these illustrations.
The Illustrated american is doing an inter-
esting work in it's series of articles of
Historic America" 1t is also doing some
thing of great value to future historians
The record of the great cyclone which de-
Louisville is presented in the cur
rent number of this great journal in man.
ner which no mere words could ever con-
vey to posterity. But for it's large and
splendid collection of scenes taken on the
spot by its special artists and photograph
crs Immediately after the catastrophe, our
children would know little more of the de-
tails of the great Louisville cyclone of 1890
than we do of the destruction of Pompeii.
1t devotes six whole pages to these scenes.
covering the whole event pictorally in a
splendid manner, and telling the whole
history the only way 1t could be told
The DANvERs JEWELS. Chicago: Rand,
81 Co. Price, 25 cents. The
author is not named, but he is an enter
tanning writer and knows how to cons truct
a clever story. He purports to relate the
tale as told by retired Indian officer. A
thief makes many attempts to steal col
lection of valuable Jewels, but is uniformly
foiled, the gems being invariably at another
place than where the crook expected to find
them. There is much rich humor in the
story, making it highly entertaining.
The April number of The Writer has in
teresting and instructive articles on 1.-The
Ideal Country Paper" Foreign Phases of
English Composition" 'sAdvice to a Liter
airy Aspirant." Literary Symmetry
From the Publishers Point of View,u
'sWhat is Book Review Worth!' besides
the timely editorial matter and the well
filed departments. The periodical is of
great value to literary workers. Address
The Writer, Boston, Mass.
THE AMERICAN STATE REPORTS, containing
the cases of general value and authority, sub,
Sequent to those contained in the american
Decisions" and the American Reports Bv
A. G. Freeman, Vol. XII. San Francisco:
Bancroft Whitney company.
This is the eleventh volume of these re-
ports, showing that the work has nearly
completed the second year. The usefulness
Of the reports is demonstrated by their
they finding their way into the
libraries of progressive lawyers An in
teresJing explanatory note from the pub
fishers accompanies this volume as follows
The new series of American State Re-
ports" is no rival to anything yet pub
lished. This series has no quarrel with