The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-05-04
LITERATURE.

Sidney Cooper, the English artist who
paints animals, Is writing his autobiog-
raphy.
1t is announced that Canon Farrar will
dedicate his new book "Truth to Live By"
to Mr.. George w. Childs
w. j. Dawson. a well-known Wesleyan
minister in England, has written ''Hand-
book of the Greater Poets of the Century,
Dom Pedro, ex- Emperor of Brazil, had
agreed to write his biography, to be also
review of forty years of the history of
Brazil, but his serious illness has probably
put an end to the project.
Miss Jewett has selected from her vari-
Gus delightful books eight of the best
stories, which will shortly be issued in the
Riverside Aldine Series under the title
| ''Tales of New England"
| The English Society of Authors has ad-
mitted a publisher to membership on the
ground that he is an author as well asa
publisher This looks very like admitting
the wolf into the fold.
George Wesley Atkinson, the new mem
Der of Congress for the first district of
West Virginia, is the author of 1.-THE West
Virginia Pulpit" "After the Moonshin-
ers,' and various other books. He has
now in press an extensive work on prom
inent Men of West Virginia"
Professor Henry Drummond is preparing
volume dealing with Christianity in the
light Of Evolution work somewhat in
the nature of a sequel to Natural Law in
the Spiritual World" 1t will be published
in the autumn.
DR.. Bernard Volz, who was employed in
| the family of the late Emperor Frederick
as tutor, will shortly issue a History of
Germany in the Nineteenth Century,"
The work begins with the Peace of Lune-
vile, and will conclude with the death of
William L
Mr.. Henry c. Lea has now in press a
volume of studies to be entitled, Chapters
| from the Religious History OF Spain" The
principal subjects treated are the Censor
| ship of the Fress.n and ssSpanish Mvstics
and Illuminate followed by some shorter
essays reprinted from various periodicals.
Mr. Clinch of the British museum, is
writing monograph on bloomsbury and
st. Giles, Past and Present. with his
torlcal and antiquarian notices of various
places in the vicinity. The history of ST.
Giles will include that of the foundation,
in 1101, OF the Hospital of Lepers, and it's
subsequent history until the time Of it's
suppression. The whole record is likely to
have peculiar interest.
The poets of Europe have been invited
to contribute sonnets of homage to Bea-
trice, all of which will be read at the Bea-
trice celebration in Florence in May and
June. The autographs of the sonnets will
be framed and hung in perpetuity in the
new Sala Dantesca, which is now being
added to the National library for the pur-
pose of concentrating the festival. Swim
burne, Edmund Gosse, Andrew Lang, and
Lewis Morris are among the British poets
contributing.
The Rev. William S. Rainsford, d. D.,
rector of st. Georges church, New York
city, can fairly be classed in the denomina-
ton known as muscular Christians Stand
ing six feet two, handsome, keen eyed en-
thuslastic, courageous, he is as much
every inch man as he is parson He is
fond Of athletics, excels in many sports,
and is a mighty hunter of big game. He
invariably spends his vacation in the west.
for he says there is no land where nature
recreateS man as she does there. But
he is hard worker in his profession
ALSO, and dearly beloved by the crowded
congregation which his eloquence and win
ming ways have gathered in ST. Georges
church. A large picture Of him in his
study, by Gribayedoff, appears in this
weeks Illustrated american.
The Magazine of. american History for
May presents an appetizing table of con-
tents Its frontispice is a superb picture
after the celebrated pain ting of Sir David
Wilkie, r. A. of Columbus, explaining his
theory of New World to the Prior of the
Convent where he stopped to ask for bread
for his little son. The hand somely illus
trated opening article is entitled ''Spanish
. Pioneer Houses in California" by Charles
Howard Shinn. 1t followed by the ssPor-
trait of Philip Livingston, the signer.,
One of the longest and best articles in the
number is ON 1.-THE Constitutional ASPECT
of Kentucky's Struggle for Autonomy,
1!S4 1892, y by the president of Miami Uni
versity Ethelbert ID. Wariield. This is
| foil
on "The Old Town of Green Bay. Wiscon-
: SIM by John Carter. a sketch of Colonel
, William Grayson," of Virginia memory,
by Roy Singleton, is most readable and in.
forming THE Massachusetts Bay Psalm
Book, 1640,'' by Clement Feguson, is a
choice bit of history. "a Century of Cab
| met Minister'S by George NJ. Pavy,
is a novel and important statistical con
tribution and Mrs. Lambs description OF
the frontispiece, is truely delightful. Pub
lished at 743 Broadway, New York