The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-09-20
LITERATURE.

CHURCH AND CREED. By R. Heber Newton !
rector of All Souls church, n. Y New !
York: G. 2. Putnam's Sons. Price, IS cents. |
DIR. Newton, in this neat volume, breaches |
three sermons which were called out by Dr. |
Potter's ''remonstrance against the alleged |
uncanonical practices of certain clergymen |
inviting non-eplscopally ordained ministers
to speak at special services in their
churches" This remonstrance, setting
forth grave evils which must follow from
such usages, was signed by about one
third of the clergy of the diocese and by
some fifty laymen. DIR. Newton, who is
one OF the most profound thinkers in the
field Of religion, treats the matter under
three divisions. a. Fold or tiockl Chris
tianity not ecclesiasticism. (2) The Nicene
creed a franchise of freedom and charter
Of comprehension. 81 How to read a
creed; the principles OF creedsl interpreta-
ton. The sermons are followed by few
pages Of vigorous notes.
MICHELINE. BY Hector Malot Translated
from the French by Hettie E. miller. Chi
\ cago; Donohue, Henneberry Co.
| The author being French, this story nee
essarily possesses more or less of that
quality which is popularity called Frenchy,
yet 1t is not so pronounced as to make it
offensive to the average reader Of the day.
The novel is what may be termed artistic,
the story being ingeniously woven and
| cleverly told. The men in the tale are
unimportant, almost Insignificant, but the
female characters are verltable studies. A
rich woman loves and marries man much
younger than herself, and he loves the wife
| of an engineer who is absent, child being
the result of the illicit affection. The hus-
band sending for his wife she cannot
take the baby with her, and by clever
scheme it is placed in the care Of its father
and his unsuspecting wife. The father
being killed by accident some time after
ward. the widow rears the child until the
latter is ten years of age, when the mother
returns, herself widow, becomes govern
ess of her own child. From this point the
story is extremely interesting, tracing as
1t does, The contest between the two women
for the love of the child.
JOHN AUBuRNToP, NOVELIST. His develop
ment in the atmosphere of fresh water col
lege. By Arson Uriel Hancock Chicago
Charles II. Kerr & Co. Price, 80 cents.
While this is not markedly brilliant
novel it Is an unusually interesting one be-
cause Of the naturalness with which the
author treats home and college life
Minerva jackson, the heroine, is charac-
teristio western girl, Just such darling
creature as the west delights in, although
she would shock the staid and dignified
east; and Auburntop is just the kind of a
doit to let some good fellow marry her and
be proud and happy ever thereafter
RUSSIAN TRAITS AND TERRoRs. Faithful
| Picture of the Russia of to-day. BY E. B.
Lanin, the collective signatures Of several
writers in the Fortn,gttly Reriew. With an
ode by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Boston
Benz. R. Tucker. Price, 50 cents.
!, The title explains the character of this
! highly interesting volume. Chapters are
t devoted to Russian lying, fatalism, sloth,
! dishonesty, prisons, sexual morality. the
Jews, and finance. Altogether it is terri
Bile arraignment Of the Russian government
and people.
THE WRITER.
An exceptionally fine portrait of James
Russell Lowell, made from recent photo
graph, forms the frontispiece of the Sep
temter Writer, which is q Lowell memorial
] number. The magazine opens with de-
liehtful article on Lowell in Private
: Life,n by John H. Holmes, of Cambridge
brother of Oliver Wendell Holmes. and fol
years an intimate social companion of Mr.,
: Lowell Following this are personal trib-
utes to Mr.. Lowell, written at the request
of the editor Of the Writer, by many Of the
|, leading literary people of the day. An in
teresting comparison between Lowell ani