The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-03
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
In McClure's Magazine for December,
Miss Tarbell's second paper on Ma
poleon treats of Napoleon's passionate
love for Josephine in the early period
of their relations, and of Napoieon's
swift rise to fame and supreme power
through his brilliant achievements in
the Italian and Egyptian campaigns.
Professor Henry Drummond, fin Some
Impressions and Facts" regarding Mr..
Moody, supplies much interesting infor-
nation about man known to every
body in his public words and works, but
hitherto scarcely at all known in his
private life and history There is also
a series of portraits of Archdeacon
Farrar, who contributes a Christmas
article, THE Christ-Child in Art" en-
bellished with reproductions of famous
paintings. Then there is an excellent
Christmas story. and a dramatic story
of the Napoleonic era by Conan Doyle.
More dramatic though, than any story
is Cleveland Mofat's history, drawn
directly from the archives of the Pin
kerton Detective bureau, of THE Over
throw of the Molly Maguires'' through
the fundamentally of Detective James
MCFARLAND. Bret Harte relates his ex-
periences as gold digger, express mes
senger, school teacher, and editor in the
early days in California, and tells how
he came to write the stories which have
given him fame A series of portraits
of Mr.. Harte and other pictures accom-
pany the article.
The Atlantic Monthly for December
contains a memorial article on DR..
Holmes, by the editor MIR. William
Sharp gives certain letters of Walter
Pater together with some interesting
personal "reminiscences. Am Old-Time
Sorosis is an exceedingly entertaining
account of a Ladies Literary society in
Norwich, Conn, early in this century.
Mr.. Franklin Eastman" whose pun
gent Letter to a Western Friend at
tracted good deal of attention,
contributes an equally plain-spoken
epistle to an English friend. Miss
Agnes Repplier considers Ghosts
in her most delightful manner
The study of Reginald Pole is
concluded A Christmas navor is given
to the number of Sir Edward Stracheys
Christmas at an English Country
House, and the graceful tale, The
Christmas Angel. Mr.. c. Howard
Walkers Suggestions on the Architec-
plea for greater beauty in such struc-
lures in America. Mrs. Foote'S very
striking novelette,, The Trumpeter, is
concluded, the second part dealing with
a fragment of Coxey's army in their
far-Western march. Houghton. Miff1in
& Co., Boston.
Romance never looked 50 inviting as
now With the December number a
change has been made in its front
cover, which renders the table of con-
tents more attractive than ever. Among
the authors represented are octave
Thanet, Francois Coppee and Julia
oh paci6oc talAS
there are a story of adventure in China
by Henry Willard French, charming
social study by Hughes lie Roux, a
powerful Russian sketch by Ivan Tour
gueneff, and a ludicrous Irish ghost
story by Urania Locke Bailey. a sam
pie copy of recent issue may be OBJ
tanned by sending three two-cent st ,mps
to Romance Publishing company, Clin-
ton Hall, Aston Place, New York.
In the character of Napoleon there
was little room for the gentler passion,
but Professor Sloane's Life of the
Emperor, in the Century, brings out
the one element of love there was in
his early days-his affection for Mile.
du Colombier. That this could not have
been very deep is shown by the fact
that Napoleon himself laughed at it
five years later. In his Dialogue on
Love" he says, 81, too, was once in
to decry the sentiment as harmful to
mankind something from which God
would do well to emancipate it."
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
December is one of the most brilliantly
attractive, of the illustrated Holiday
magazines. The leading paper is an
original contribution from the famous
Psychologist and romancer DR.. George
Ebers, entitled My Tomb in Thebes,'
profuseiy illustrated with views taken
inEgypt expressly to accompany it. 9th
er notable articles in this number are:
Living Pictures on Broadway" '"The
Old and the New Japan timely pa
per, Ghosts of Ravenna," with some
highly artistic pen drawings and
aquarelles, "A Sabine Sanctuary" (Su-
biaco, the cradle of the Benedictines),
by E. C. Vansittart; and 1.-The Historic
Hudson with a score of beautiful
wood engravings. There are complete
short stories by Eta w. Pierce. Mar
tina McCulloch Williams, Grace Stuart
Reid, Virginia Ballen, Henry Tyrrell
and others, and poems by Minna Iry-
ing, G. A. Davis, Lillian Whiting and
H D. Rawnsley.
The Christman number of the Cen
fury Magazine is a splendid issue of
this popular monthly, and will be found
of unusual interest in all its depart
ments. The illustrations, too, are I'M.
surpassed in beauty of design and ele-
gance of execution. The Century is al
ways good The December number is
of unusual excellence. The Century
company, Union Square, New York.