The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-12-04
LITERATURE.
THE pEopLE,s pRoeRAN.n


The Rocky Mountain Agricuiturist, Utah
monthly, published some time ago serial
story by Professor Il. L. Everett, who was
then engaged at the Agricultural college,
but is now connected with an educational
institution at Buffalo, n. Y. The story
has been published in book form and Is
attracting some attention in the east, par
ticuiarly in labor circles.
1T is entitled 1.-The Peoples Program, !"
and is an attempt to formulate plan for
the unihcation of labor, the establishment
of universal peace, and the general ENJOY
ment of the rights of man, under the form
OF romance. Some Impossible relation
ships are formed by young American
student In Germany with the Imperial
family and through them with other royal
personages, and he has a love passage Win
a young American lady IN the same coun-
try, which he puts aside for ambitions that
he conceives, BUT in which he subsequently
fails, returning finally TO the object OF his
first affections.
Tnere is nothing very practical in the
| schemes advocated in the book as pre-
lude to the conquering of the tw entieth
century by the literary people. They may
be summed up in these, which students OF
political economy Will recognize as old
notions, some of them chimercal:
Government ownership OF telegraphs
state construction of necessary railroads
| woman suffrage; free coinage; taxation OF
large private inheritaDces; pensions for
| the aged SUNDAY closing OF stores, etc; In
vestigati0n OF insane asylums and charlt-
able institutions. A peace congress is
| perfected in which all the crowned heads
and presidents of the nations are to assem-
| bic, and plans be devised 10 parcel out the
world to each so as to bring about the re-
suits fareshadoWed in the book.
The work is readable enough, but The
! HERALD cannot endorse many OF the ideas
II conveys, and the literary merit OF tue
work, while passable. is not OF the order
which will stamp it as remarkable. it is
| published by the New York Workmen's
Publishing company, and half the pro-
'ceeds will be devoted TO the labor interest.
It is dedicated To Il. Y. Powderly and
Samuel Gompers as 1.-The worlds greatest
labor leaders,"
ESSAYS IN MINIATURE-By Agnes Repplier.
New YORK: Charles L. Webster q Co.
The modest title, Essays in Miniature, -
must not be taken too literally as a gauge
of the contents. Miss Repplier is a clever
and accomplished writer, whose omnivor-
Gus reading supplies her with continual
food for criticism and suggestive comment.
Her fancy flies on bird-like wings to the
amusing and ridiculous side Of many au-
thors and their works, and her shrewd
thrusts hurt no more than pin pricks, al
though they are uncommonly skillful In
piercing joints in the armor of self-compla
cency. The Oppression OF Notes. is q
lively skit, "Three Famous Old Maids
contains the latest and best word on Jane
Austen, but the most characteristic pro-
duction in the book is "a Snort Defence
of Villains,n plea for the return TO out
worn ideals in current fiction. Essays in
Miniature'' fairly scntillates with phos-
phorescent CLEANS of wit.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION.
The Youths Companion which claims the
phenomenal circulation of $780, 600 copies per
week, has lately moved lntoits palatisl new
building at the corner of Columbus avenue
and Berkley street, in the newer quarter of
Boston.
The history of this publication is too well
known to recapitulste at length. From the
day whom the first number was issued in
1927, under the editorship OF Nathaniel Will
lis and Asa Rand, until the present. time,
the Youths Companion has alwaye made its
influence felt not only in its own commu-
nifty of Boston, but throughout the United
States. 1t is true that its great financial
success has only dated from recent Years,
but the high endeavors of the early found
ers proved to be the foundation, even as the
shrewdness and ability of its present man
agement has been the keystone to it's great
and growing reputation. The prospectus for
the coming year shows that the future of
the Youths Companion will be as productive
of good and success, in an increased ratio,
as the past.
HARPEP1S CaRTSTNAG NtTMRER