The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-04
LITERATURE.

Jo.-A Christmas tale of the Wasatch. BY
Alfred Lambcurne Chicago: Bedford-Clarke
comp any; salt Lake: ID. NJ. McAllister & Co.
The local public is mora or less familiar
with Mr.. Lambourne's descriptive writ
lngs, through his contributions to the
magazines and the newspapers, and all
that he has written has been eagerly read
and greatly enjoyed, the gentleman being
as entertaining and artistic with his pen as
with his brush. In this little story Mr..
Lambourne has strolled into another part
of the field Of literature, that of romance,
and has given US story which
entities the author to take rank
above many of the writer's of fiction
OF the day. The tale is a delightfully."-
pleasant one. and it is so carefully and
artlsucaly constructed that the interest is
sustained through all the pages the de-
nouement being as happy as it is clevely
concealed until the final lines. The authors
descriptive powers are frequently employed
In the dellneatlng of many vivid and charm
Ing pictures which the frequenters of the
majestic and awe-inspiring WasatcheS will
at once recognize. We are certain that
many OF our readers will want TO follow
the rising young artiSt-author through his
first novel, and we know that all who do
so Will be delighted with the story. The
volume is published by the Bedford Clarke
company, Chicago, and is so handsomely
gotten up as TO serve for gift book
IHE AMERICAN GIRL IN PARIS. A Novel of
Auectat1on and Fashionable Life. From the
french OF Alexander Dumas, the younger.
translated by H. Llewellyn Williams. Chi
cage: Donohue, Hennebery & Co. Price, 80
cents.
IL ls possible there are such American
girls as Dumas here describes, but if so
they do not develop in this country, but 90
abroad to display their wildness and do
those things which would be frowned upon
IN America quite as much as in the French
capital. 1t strikes US that it is an alto
gether impossible American girl who, after
a month of married life with rich miner
would leave him, save the life of worthless
FRENCH aiventurer, and going to Paris
orlng ABOUT the marriage OF the girl the
fellow loves to q decrepit duke; then bring
ABOUT duel between the duke and her own
ex- husband; then marry the Frenchman
whose life she had saved to the widowed
| duchess, and then remarry the man from
whom she was divorced. The story is in
teresting solely on account Of the grotesque
Ideas which the author entertains of Amer
leans and their life in the far west
THE CORPORATION PRoBLEM.-The Public
! Phases OF Corporations. their Uses, Abuses
Benefits, Dangers, Weatl and Power, with
| Economic and Political Questions to which
they have given rise. By William w. Cook
! OF the New York bar. New York: G. p
! Putnam's Sons. Price, s15O.
The six chapters into which the work i:
divided are entitled "Introductory, u
Various Controversies to which Corpora
tons have given RISE Remedies for tht
Railroad Problem" "Corporations as tht
| Owners of Natural MOnopOlies u TRUSTS :
and Corporations and the Republic" anC
these titles best give an insight to tht
scope of the treatise. The public phase;
and business methods of corporation.
rather than the law bearing upon them arr
here discussed, and remedies are sug
gested for the evils which have grown III
as the result of these creations of modern
times.