The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-12-05
OUR LITERARY COLUMN.


The Christmas number of Harper's
Magazine has a handsome cover and
is replete with literary gems. The
! Old Dominion" by Thomas Nelson
Page illustrates life in Virginia before
and after the war Thomas Power
(. O'Connor presents 1.-THE House of Com
MONS portraying it's structure, rules,
and habits Frederick Remington
draws picture of western life in An
Outpost of Civilization A number
of stories by well known authors cover
many pages of this interesting edition.
and form a special feature of the De-
cember number.
Scribners also has a special cover
for its Christmas number. It's con-
tents are varied and excellent The
Bachelors Christmas" byRobert Grant
( is the leading story, followed by sew
eral other bright short stories. F.
Marion Crawford gives the first part
of an article on Constantinople which
will be concluded in the January issue.
Other features are AN Unpublished
Work of Scott" "An Artist Among
Animals" by F. s. Church. and "A
Search for the Della Robbia Monu-
ments in ITALY," by Allen Marquand.
Scribner's, like Harper's, make q spec
ial feature of the short story in this
number of the magazine
Lippincotts leading feature for De-
Icember is a complete story in seventeen
chapters by Captain Charles King, en-
titled, Sergeant Croesus." AS it's title
indicates, it is a story of the military.
Other interesting articles are "A News
paper Sensation by Louis N. Megar-
gee. Literary Popularity" by Edgar
Fawcett, besides numerous sketches
and poems.
Approaching near the close of it's
fftieth year, Littelrs Living Age loses
none of its former vigor and ability.
but is as full of life, as rich in charac-
! ter. as correct in taste, as during any
period of its existence.
Late issues contain papers Of marked
value; timely. entertaining and instruc-
tive. Take the single weekly issue now
! before us and note the richness and
York" wonderfully able paper about
a city around which cling some of the
richest memories and most romantic
incidents of English history; "The
Comte de Paris; IAN English Woman
in Thibet," a more than ordinarily in
teresting bit of travel. THE poetry of
John Donne," by Edmund Gosse, gives
US a view of one of the later Eliza
bethan poets, or rather, perhaps, of
her immediate successor; "Dwellers in
Arcady," by Annie Richie, is de-
llightful sketch which all will enjoy.
"a Siamese Pageant" by David ker;
1.-THE Birth of the Mechanical Powers" ;;
Lines by Tom Sheridan
The most popular little boy char
acter ever created in story, Little
Lord Fauntleroy." lives again in the
Christmas Ladies' Home Journal. But
this time Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur-
nett begins TO tell How Fauntleroy
Really Occurred" while Mr.. Birch, the
original illustrator, sketches Fauntie-
roy again in his iniinitable pictures.
Frank r. Stockton. too, gives us back
his most delightful character "Po-
MONA" and in a deliciously funny way
this quaint girl begins series of let
ters to her former mistress of 'sRudder
Grange" telling her of her social boom
abroad with her husband amid the
aristocracy of England. William Dean
Howells begins his literary antobiog-
lraphy which he happily calls My Lit
erary Passions" and tells of the read
ing of his boyhood in his fathers house.
George w. ChiIds is likewise biograph-
zeal in brief narrative of My Christ
mas as a Boy" So too is Hamlin
Garland, who goes back to his boyhood
and describes "a Pioneer Christmas
which Reinhart illustrates. The full
piano score of Sousa's new Manhattan
Beach March" is given exclusively in
this issue of the Journal, and has all
the spirit of his famous High School
Cadets and Washington POST
marches. Mrs A. D. T. WIFI ~ writes
the first of a series of Friendly Let
tiers to My Girl Friends Julia Ma
gruder begins what gives promise of
being powerful serial "A Beautiful
Alien with superb illustrations by
III;
series is started, wives of Famous
Pastors, which sketches Mrs John r.
Paxton, with portrait. The humorous
Bob Burdette' is very funny in his
description of MY Christmas Shop
lping:" the Rev. T. De Witt Taimage
prophesies This Christmas In Amer
lica" based upon the present financial
lstringency; three of A. B. WenzeIl' s
most stylish girls portray Mrs. Mallon's
article on THE Art of Street Dressing -
while other writer's give eminently
practical advice on every point touch
ling the giving, making and sending of
holiday gifts.
The Christmas number of The Cen
tury will be one of the most beautiful
issues of that magazine ever made,
containing twenty-nine full-page illus
trations, the first of Mr.. Timothy
Coles engravings of the Dutch mas
tiers, the beginning Of Mark Twain s
serial story "Pudd nhead Wilson, and
contributions from Lowell. Aldrich,
Stoddard. Hopkinson Smith, Cable,
Phillips Brooks IA Christmas sermon),
lJoel Chandler Harris, Howard Pyle,
Kate Douglas Wiggin and many other
well-l1nown writer's.
The Christmas sermon by Phillips
Brooks, which is to appear in the
Christmas number of The Century
was preached by Bishop Brooks for the
last time in the Church of the Incarna-
ion, New York, on Christmas day. 1892.
The Christmas number of ST. Mich
olas contains Rudyard Kipling's story
of the dance of the wild elephants in
the jungle, and a multitude of good
things for girls and boys. The Novem-
Der St Nicholas has been out of print
two weeks.
Worthington's Magazine for Decem-
Der comes to hand filled as usual from
lcover to cover with good things
The leading article for December is
written by Hon. S. G. W. Benjamin.
upon the "Life-saving Service of the
/ United States" than which no other
institution of the nineteenth century
imore eraphatice1ly displays the humane
and philanthropic spirit of modern civ
lilization.
John H Whitson contributes an in
teresting article entitled, "A Day With
the Puebios at Nambe,' which is fully
and beautifully illustrated. MI whit
son gives delightful glimpses of Indian
rural life and describes the manners
land customs of the natives of New
MARY A. L.ivernore begins a new
serial story entitled. Zone of the Forty