The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-05

contained IN 6ffe OF MIS-. WlgSln 5
Graphic stories, s"The Nooning Tree
A group of Carlyle's letters not before
printed, is given by his friend Sir Ed
ward Strachey; there is a paper on
American Railways and American
Cities and another F'The Scope of the
| Normal School, Houghton, Mifflin &
| Co., Boston.
| Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
June is rich in matter of personal con-
| tenlporaneous human interest, having
a cosby article upon characteristics
| Of Congressman" illustrated with no
less than forty portrait sketches from
| life. and some delightfully."- intimate
"reminiscences of Gladstone, by Howard
Paul. The second of that graphic and
entertaining series of memoirs of a war
artist, by Joseph Becker, Special for
| Leslie's,'' is devoted to the siege of
| ling pictures. Alvan S. Southworth
contributes a paper of extensive in
terest and value upon Horses in
Trade, Traffic and Transportation. :"
"a Study in Agriculture" by M ".
| Moore, is an account of the largest
diversified farm in the world, that of
the Hon. James M. Smith, of Georgia.
Other seasonable illustrated features
in this number are: "Grasse,' by Helen
Bessie B. Croffut; can Inland Fisher
man. by Martha McCulloch Williams;
and contributions by j. Carter Beard,
Tudor jerks and J. William Fosdich.
Whoever is curious to know why it
is that few or no old men are found in
the great Carnegie steel-mills at Home
stead, will get his curiosity satisfied
| by reading a remarkably vivid and
! life
and work there which Mr.. Hamlin Gar
| land publishes in the June number of
McClure's Magazine. There is wonder
full short story by Kipling. The OBJ
stacles that stand in the way of the
discovery of the North Pole, are sug-
gestively discussed by General A. w.
Greedy. NJ. de Blowitz, the famous
correspondent of the London Times,
considers the threat which the immense
ornaments maintained in Eur0Je con-
stantly offer to European peace. Julian
| Ralph, appears in the new role of a
poet, supplying a quite striking bit of
verse. The peculiar dangers that at
tend the care and handling of wild
beasts in captivity, are the subject of
an interesting article by Cleveland
Moffett. The human documents" in
this number are portraits of Cardinal
Gibbons, Lord Rosebery and Richard
Harding Davis. There is an excellent
short story by Richard Thanet; a
further installment of the Stevenson
Osbourne novel; and charming war
episode-the story of how General
Gordon gave aid and comfort to his
enemy, General Barlow, at Gettysburg.
Mcclure, New York.
The mother of Americas favorite boy
hero, Little Lord Fauntleroy," Mrs.
Francis Hodgson Burnett, writes to
the mothers of boys in the June issue
of The Ladies Home Journal upon
! when He Decides" in which she
/ points out to what extent mothers
! should influence their sons in regard
to their choice of an occupation. Ny
| Literary Passions. by Mr.. Howells;
Have Women Found New Weapons;
Pomona; The Game of Golf for Women
| The Apartment Houses Of Paris; The
! Berries in Summer; Milestones in a
Married Life; Summer Evening Gowns,
biographical sketches, portraits, songs
and music, and a variety of interesting
matter fill up this fine nunber.-Curtis
Publishing company, Philadelphia.
In The Forum, Mr.. Morton, the secre-
| tary of agriculture, writes on Farm
ers. Fallacies and Burrows" to show
| that the agricultural unrest is caused
less by agricultural distress than by
| political and economic fallacies by
which certain noisy proportion of
| farmers have been led away from their
| burrows. Mr.. E. L. Godkin asks who
will pay the bills of socialism," and
| points out that all the socialistic
| leaders of every grade and kind who
are promising us a far better state of
society, fail to tell where the money
will come from to pay the bills. Argu-
ments for and Against Woman Stuff
! rage; The Taxation of Church Pro-
perty; The Conflict with Romanism
International Bimetallism; Christian
Missions in Bombay; Statictics of Sex
| Marriage and Divorce; What to do
with TraInps and many other live
topics are discussed in the June Forum
| by some of the foremost writer's in the
CONTEMPLATION Square. New York.
My Summer in Mormon Village is
book written by Florence A. Merriam.
1t contains some graphic pictures of
rural life in Utah and not little of
exaggeration and inaccuracy in refer
ence to the belief and practices of the
people among whom the writer passed
! short time 1t is readable, however,
| gossipy and contains touches of pathos
and humor.-Houghton, Miff1in & Co.,
Boston.