The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-30
LITERATURE.

MY OFFICIAL WIFE A novel BY Colonel Rich
ard henry Savage. New York Home Pub
Hshlng company. Price, 50 cents.
The fact that this story was published by
Mr. A. G. Gunter, the author of those pop
ular novels, "Mr. Barnes of New York;
and 'Mr. Potter of TeXas,n is a sufficient
guarantee that the work is clever my
Officlal Wife. is not merely good story
judged by the standard of the novels of the
daJ, but 1t is a telling satire aud rich in
humor. 1t is issued uniform in style with
Mr. Gunter's books.
THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND THE SEXUAL RE-
LATJONS An Address to an Unknown Lady
Reader. BY Karl Heinzen. Boston: Benia-
min 4. Tucker.
The preface to this address is by Ger
mar scholar of Detroit Karl Schmemann,
who commends 1T in praise which is little
less sthan lavish. There is undoubtedly
much in the lecture that is good, but there
is also much that could have been omitted
with propriety. To state truth it isn't
necessary to descend to the vulgar and OBJ
scene. Another fault is that the author
teaches openly atheism, if the immediate
object was not to do so. Thus he says
Even though Christ pardoned adulter-
esses and magdalens, the story of His or
lgin, HIS abstinence morality, His prom
ises of heaven and the consequences of
Mosaic barbarism which permeate Christ
lanlty, Ut ID disgusting to treat these things
at large,) have prepared q lot for women
which can only be traced to a suppression
or nature, want Of sense and barbarity.n
THE FORUM.
Mr.. Henry Cabot Lodge undertakes to
play the role of political prophet in the
September numuer of The Forum, in an
article on 1.-The Political Issues of 1892"
and he predicts that the most prominent
issue in the next presidential campaign will
oe not the tariff question, but the question
of the free coinage OF silver. The tariff
question, he maintains, is one that is
always with US, and is not settled now, and
will not be settled at an early date, but
that the agitation of the free coinage of
silver has now reached so acute a stage
that 1t is not going to pass away before
some definite action is taken, and that the
popular feeling is such that this is obliged
to come to crisis in the next years cam
paign.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
We are accustomed to associate the name
of Rudyard KiplinR with stories of Indian
military life, but in his nautical story, 1.-The
Disturber of Traffic, " which appears in the
September atlantic, he has struck an en-
tirely new vein. The story is related by
an English lighthouse kesper, who tells of
the experience of another lighthouse keeper
in little-known part of the world, who,
half maddened by solitude and a certain
curious optical delusion connected with the
tides flowing by his light, becomes to an
alarming extent 'disturber of traffic"
Mr.. Kipling has never done any thing of
the same kind before, and has never been
mo ore vivid and astounding than in the
present story. Another short story, IAN
Innocent Life" is contributed by Lille b.
Chase Wyman, whose Poverty Grass is
remembered as collection of powerful
short stories on social questions. Mr..
Stockton's blouse of Msrtha'' is continued
by long installment, and Mary Hartwell
Catherwood gives US four clever chapters
of 1.-THE Lady of Fort st. John" The rest
of the number is made up of collection of
remarkably good articles, and one hardly
knows how to pick out the chief plums
from the pudding. Houghton, Miftiin g.
Co., Boston.