The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-29
LITERATURE.

There is enough love, sensation, improb-
ability and twaddle in this little book TO
supply half dozen volumes of legal size,
and then the reader would think too much
remained. It is matter for wonder, not
why such stuff is written but why it is
printed.
SCHOOL AND COLLEGE RECITER.
New York: Hurst & Co.; Salt Lake: C. h
Parsons Price S1.25.
The title expresses the character of this
volume Of more than 300 pages. The selec-
tons have been made with care and excel
lent discretion, the collection being one of
the very best ever issued, embracing
not only the favorite and familiar
pieces of the past half century, but
many that are new to the school and COL
lege boys of twenty years ago. There is
great variety in the collection, as to
thought, sentiment and style, and the ad-
dresses and writings of many of the best
known orators, poets and authors are made
to contribute. The book, while intended
for the school, will be found interesting by
the lover Of good literature
''Transplanted Shame'' is the title of a
symposium by minister, doctor, a law
yer and a society leader, on evils and
abuses of modern conventionality and GUS
tom, which menace the better interests of
human progress. 1t is easy to guess what
portions of the book are written
by each OF the contributors. NJ
merous matters are discussed, such
as divorce, hypocrisy, the political
machine, chaperonsge. and so on, and each
is spoken of with a boldness of expression
which would hardly have been allowable
a few years ago. In the Introductory
chapter it is stated that the "book was
written because it's authors were unable to
maintain further silence because of their
implicit belief that the condition of the age
imperatively demands its publication Z"
and in note the publishers say
the book was written 'for whom
soever believes that woman deserves
to be treated as sentimental being, for
those who are sickening of the pompous
pretenses and manifest evils of conven-
tionality-in short, for all persons who
desire to face the fact that substances can
never be made a safe secondary to form,
and thai there can be no true morality in
any social, religious or civil system which
shuts its eyes to motives and only consid-
ers deeds.n The publishers are Lew Van
derpoole 81 Co., 245 Broadway, New York.
OUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN.
The June number of Our Little Men and
Women contains stories, poems and pic
lures as sunny as the month itself. "a
Boy and Girl,' "Joker and His Rela-
tons" TALKS by Queer Folksn and the
Studio Doll, regular features OF this lit
tie magazine, are especially clever, while
the shorter stories, poems and jingles
sparkle with real life and hint at such fun
AID merriment as is the true boy and girl
diversion and sport. The pictures are in
themselves work of art. D. Lathrop
Company, Publishers. Boston.
LITTELL's LIVING AGE.
The numbers of The Lifting Age for May
IA and q contain "On the Dissipation OF
Energy" and Mr.. Meredith in his Poems,
Fortnightly; "a Royal Governess: the
Duchesse de Goutant," 'Winter Shifts,''
Italian Poets of Today" and THE
Nitrate Fields of Chilli" BIackleood: How
the Egyptian Monuments were Read, u
CornhiH; 1.-The Charterhouse of Tyrol -
Good Words; patchwork in Black and
White" National; Sir Henry Wotton
Gentleman and Schoolmaster, Gentle
mans; "Humor," and "Thermidor, ~
and "Labussiere," Temple Bar; 'St.
Francis of Assist" Revue des Deu
Mondes: History in a Stable Loft,
Leisure Hour; "Wild Fowl in Sanctuary, y
Spectator; Agra" Queen; with 1.-The
Strange Story of Beethoven Koffsky, )
1.-THE Scarlet Hunter" .tShameen," anc
poetry. Littell & Co., Boston, are the pub
fishers.
CURRENT HISTORY.
The Quarterly Register of Current Htstori
is entitled TO rank as the nc plus ultra O
condensation. In this periodical which be
gins its second volume with the May mum
Der just issued, the reader will find The
cream of the worlds news presented in 6
style not dry or statistical but attractive
and pdQNl riYino i'm oia "a
a wider grasp than he can get by any
other means Of the great movements and
problems of the day in which he lives. The
great care with which Current Histor1 is
edited, eliminates as much as possible
the chances of the creeping in of errors
and causes the magazine to approach the
ideal OF an impartial and reliable record OF
facts. The present number is an excellent
one, presenting in clear light what to sc
many readers is all muddle, the lnterna
tional diputes Of the time the ecclesiast-
icel questions in Europe, the political
social, and labor problems in Europe and
America, the famine and Jewish questions
in Russia, the Irish problem, the work OF
the American Congress, the Canadian and
Newfoundland questions, etc., etc.-Cur.
rent History, Detroit, Mich.
HARPER's MAGAZINE.
Lbo Ouu0 VI I1ufQ6T'S lhQuQzine
is rich in illustrations and in the extraor-
binary variety of its contents. Its most
striking literary feature is the beginning
OF the series os papers on 1.-THE Old Eng.
lish Dramatists, by James Russell Lowell
papers which will attract universal at
tentioD as representing the maturest criti.
cal thought of their distinguished author
upon a subject which was to him
lifelong favorite. Another arti-
Gle which will elicit the espec.
ial interest of thoughtful read
ers is DIR. Charles Waldstein's Funeral
Orations in Stone and Word,p suggested
by the recent discovery OF remarka ale
base-relief in the excavations on the Aero
polls at Athens. A minute and compre-
hensive description of 1.-The Austro- Hun
garlan Army" is contributed by Baron
Won Kuhn and appropriately illustrated by
I. de Thulstrup. The popular series Of
Danube papers. "From the Black Forest 10
the Black Sea-" is continued BY F. d. Mil
let. Several articles have a predominant
American interest. THE Birthplace of
Commodore Isaac Hull" by Jane de Forest
Shelton, accompanied by portrait of the
famous hero (from the painting by Stuartl
and by several other illustrations, is a
valuable contribution to the history of The
country. So also is the paper in which
George w. Ranck, apropos of the CEN
tennial Of the admission of the
first western commonwealth to the
Union, tells "How Kentucky be.
came a state" The poems are by
Archibald Lampman, Geogre Horton. ana
John Allen Wyeth. The Editors Easv
Chair and the Editors Study are con-
Quoted as usual by George William Curtis
and Charles Dudley Warner; and the
Editors Drawer is opened with humor-
GUS Southern sketch by Thomas Nels ON
Page. Harper 81 Brothers, New York.