The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-20
LITERATURE.

AIMEE: A tale of the days of James the
Second. BY Agnes Giberne New York:
Hurst & Co.. Salt Lake: G. II. Parsons.
In writing this story, VIII le wearing
an Entertaining romance the author has
had in view the presentation of view of
France during the latter part of the reign
of Louis XIV. struggling toward the light,
and crushed back with an lrou hand into
darkness" and also a view of England
threatened with the same fate but steadily
manfully, and resolutely withstanding it,
Several historical characters have been
introduced, and on the whole the tale is
more in the nature of history than of
a novel. The pictures and descriptions of
the home the habits and the idess OF the
seventeenth century as coutrasted with
there of this century are strikingly in
teresting. The volume is neatly bound and
will serve as holiday book.
PINE NEEDLES: By the author of THE Wide,
Wide World" New York: Hurst & Co.
Salt Lake: C. II. Parsons.
This is collection of stories by Susan
Warner, which were first published dozen
years ago, and are now brought out in new
and pleasing form. They are tales of the
country, rural life running through them
all, and permeating the whole with a pure
wholesome atmosphere. They are essen
TALLY religious in characteristic and senti-
ment, and form instructive as well as en-
PERTAINING reading.
THE SWEET STORY OF OLD. life of Christ
for children. By Mrs. L. Haskell, with intro
duction by Archdeacon Farrar. ID. New
York: E. P, Dutton 81 Co. Salt Lake: Q. H.
Parsons.
This is charming little volume for the
season, being childs life of Christ, pro-
fusely illustrated with colored plates and
outline engravings. In the introduction
Archdeacon Fsrrar says: THE expert
ence of tens of thousands of mothers has
proved that even from earliest years, the
| heart OF childhood is capable of being
moved by that Sweet Story of DID, more
powerfully and more blessedly than by any
other. So far as | am able to Judge, the
sacred narrative OF the gospels is here re-
peated with a simplicity of style, and al
the same time with loving reverence
which seem to make it we'll suited for its
intended purpose"
MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE DE TALLEYRAND. Ed
tied, with pre- ace and notes. by the Due dt
| Broglie, of the French Academy. Translated
| by Mrs Angus Hall. Vol. ". New York: G
| p. PutnamS Sons.
This volume concludes Part x of the
Memoirs, covering the period, 1880 81, in
Guiding the exciting tines of the Revolu-
ton of 1880. IL is, perhaps, the most inter
esting of the series, giving, as 1t does, 81
much of the inside history of France dur
ing perious period in its career AS il
Vol III, an appendix is added, containing
private and confidential letters which con
tain special interest in connection with tn,
consecutive story of the Memoirs.
THE LOST COLONY. BY ames F. Raymond
Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers
Price, $780,
The author is brother of the late Henry
J. RAYMOND, of the New York Times, ant
he has written most exciting story
founded on the fortunes of a southern fam
lily. There are admirable descriptions o
southern life The most novel scenes ar
laid on a desert island, and centre arount
the account of the Lost Colony, a histor,
so astonishing as to suggest the belief tina
this part of the novel has, as the autho
intimates, some foundation in fact