The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-28
LITERARY NOTICES.

Godey's Magazine for June is a SPLEEN
did number. containing SO many attrac-
tons that we have not space to mention
them in detail Every department is re-
plete with interest, and while Gedeys is
eminently a ladies' magazine, it will be
found entertaining by readers of both
sexes, and of profit as well as pleasure.
The Illustrations are superb.-The Cooley
company, New York.
The Overland Monthly for June Is de-
voted to Hawaiian affairs. Everybody
who is interested in the Sandwich Is
lands will find in the various topics
treated upon food for reflection, and an
abundance of information pleasantly and
succinctly impaired Many fine engrav
ings and portraits illustrate the several
articles, and the whole number is val
liable and northumberland Pub
fishing Co., San Francisco.
Among the latest publicat tons on the
financial question is the interesting PAM
phlet THE Dishonest Dollar by Sidney
Dell. 1t is a timely story. treating on the
silver question in a popular manner, and
teaching the fundamental principles of
finance in style out of the dry and or
binary way. The history of events that
led up to the characterization act of 1873
full account of the rise of the RothS-
childs and the power they have exercised
in the financial policy on both hemis-
pheres, are among the interesting episodes
of the story 1t is worthy of wide circu-
lation, and costing but Is cents, may be
used as a silver campaign work.-Herald
Publishing Co., Salt Lake city.
John Muir. the California naturalist and
geologist, has written for the June Cen
fury an account of the discovery of the
largest glacier in the world, in Alaska,
which bears his name Mr.. Muir made
his voyage at the beginning Of the winter
season and was accompanied only by
missionary and a party of Alaskan In
dams They were called upon to endure
many hardShips and not a few dangers.
Mr.. Muir thinks that the rate of recess
sion of the glaciers is much more rapid
than is generally believed. He holds that
the great Glacier Bay is entirely the
growth of this century, as Vancouver's
chart made a hundred years ago, has no
trace of it.
new story by Rudyard Kipling, relat-
ing the adventure of an American in
England; a fantastic Tale of Revenge
by Robert Barr; and a brave story of
adventure by Stanley ]. Weyman, in
themselves give the June number of Nc
Clure's Magazine special distinction. But
there is no lack of other significant mat
ter. What men and machinery accom-
plish, and how they are sometimes blown
to pieces in the du Pont powder mills;
and how that "stupendous aggregation
of tents and wonders, the modern circus
gets planted in the field at daybreak and
crammed into the cars at midnight, are
the subjects of two illustrated papers by
Cleveland Moffatt. The conferences be-
tween Generals Moltke and Winlpffen,
and Napoleon III and Bismarck after the
battle of Sedan, are described by Archi-
bald Forbes. Some interesting pictures
accompany the article ''Napoleon's Re
lations with the United States by Miss
shows how. with the most friendly
attitude to the United States. Napoleon
diligently played it against England; an
of Grants weary search for mill
tary employment at the outbreak of the
war; Colonel McClure's account of 1.-The |
Night at Harrisburg" in 1861, when Lin
coin was making his secret journey to
are all notable papers. An |
illustrated paper on Sardou describes him |
in the way Of daily life. John Ernest |
McCann contributes a very clever poem /
5. S. Mcclure, New York.