The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-30
LITERARY NOTES.
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The Irrigation Age is one of the most
useful publications to the people Of
THIS region. Beginning with the Janu-
airy. 1895, issue, the price of the Irri-
cation Age will be reduced from 81 to
81 year.
Household News continues to keep
its place in the front rank as reli-
| able authority on cookery and all
household affairs. Mrs. S. t. Roberts
lectures are of immense value; she
writes exclusively for the Household
News. It is an excellent monthly for
housewives. Philadelphia, 420 Library
street.
Scribners for December is a splendid
number in prose, poetry and illustra-
tlon The serial stories grow in inter-
est and the new features of the maya
zine are timely and attractive The
reproduction of some of the chief works
of art by Laurens Alma-Tadema are
choice bits of engraving and the whole
number is first class. During 1896 two
special attractions will be the History
serial by President Andrews and James
NJ Barries serial Sentimental Tom
my" illustrated by Mr.. Hatherell.
Scribner & Co., New York.
The announcement of a reduction in
the price of Littell's Living Age from
So to 50 year will prove of more than
usual interest to lovers of choice litcra-
ture. This standard weekly is the old
est, as 1t is the best, concentration
of choice periodical literature printed
in this country. Those who desire a
thorough compendium of all that is de-
sirable and noteworthy in the literary
world will be spared the trouble of
wading through the sea of reviews and
magazines published abroad; for they
will find the essence of all compacted
and concentrated here. For the amount
and quantity of the reading furnished,
the new price makes the Living Age
the cheapest as well as the best liter
airy weekly. Littell & Co., Boston. are
| the publishers.
The Century for December has
number of special features. Among
the most prominent are these: Bern
hard Stavenhagen, Kappelmeister at
Weimar, contributes a short article on
Humperdinck's .Hansel and Gretel."
1t is illustrated with portrait and a
reproduction of a piece of the origi-
nal manuscript of Humperdincks new
fairy opera, not yet produced. +. Hop
kinson Smiths new novel, TON Gro
gam" begins in the Christmas num-
Der. The labor problem enters into it,
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have utilized some of his experiences
as builder C. S. Reinhart furnishes
the illustra tons. Rudyard kipling S
contribution is considered one of the
most powerful stories that has ever
come from his hand. 1t is called THE
! Brushwood Boy" and the scene is laid
in England. India, and the world of
dreams The Century company, New
| York.
Godey's, for December, is notable
with Yule-tide fiction and verse. be-
sides such seasonable articles as "doli-
day Decorations christmas, Past
and Present" and christmas Day in
a japanese Go-Down''-this latter
richly illustrated by G. D. Weldon.
Federation of Women's Clubs" is a
forerunner of the January issue, which
is to be special .'woman's number"
Beaumont Fletcher's dramatic critique
discusses the fine points of Hamlet"
as rendered by the great actors of his
toric and contemporary fame. The
musical article treats of II. w. Far
ker's compositions. A work of dignity
is a dramatic poem, 1.-The Ten,plar."
A new school of portraiture on wood.
and the Masterpiece of French Sculp-
ture,'' are two lavishly Illustrated arti-
cles. The liberal space given to the
fashion department is always notable
! in this highly entertaining magazine.
The Cooley company, New York.
The Christmas Ladies' Home Jour-
nal by far surpaSses, both In literary
and artistic excellence, any previous
issue of that popular magazine. Con-
spicuous among the contributors are
ex-President Harrison, who gives the
introductory paper of the series he is
preparing upon This Country of
Ours" Mrs. Mary Anderson de Ma
varro, who tells of MY First Appear
ance on the Stage;" and Mary r.. Will
| kins, who gives the first of Neighbour
hood Types papers. Rudyard Kip
Iing's latest and best romance, "Wil-
liam the Conqueror'' (richly illustrated
by w. L. Taylor), is begun in the
Christmas Journal, as is Julia Magru-
der's new novelette,, "The Violet, ;"
which Charles Dana Gibson has illus
trated. These are but samples Of the
numerous excellent features of the
Home Journal, which in poetry and
prose is a splendid number. Curtis
Publishing company, Philadelphia, 81
a year.
The leading article in The Forum for
December is probably the clearest an
alysis of the present financial situation
in the United States that has yet ap-
peared. The writer IS M. Haul Leroy
Beaulieu, the distinguished French
economist, who lays down the ''Condi-
tons of American Financial and Com
mercial Supremacy. He says that
there is much surprise throughout Eu-
rope that great nation like the Unit
ed States should allow it's development
to be trammelled by frequent and Sc
we're crises, and that it should be either
unable to discern their cause or lack
decision to remove them from It's pa tn.
Mr.. w. D. Howells has written a
striking paper for this number m The
Nature of Liberty" contending that
liberty and poverty are incompatible.
Hon. Theodore Roosevelt has contrib
uted an article entitled Thomas
Bracket Reed and the F'ifty-First Con-
gress''-highly commencing Mr.. Reed
for the course which he took in that
Congress to suppress fllibustering. The
author of Confessions of Literary
Hack" replies to his critics, and there
are a number of other interesting Ia
pers including that by Glen Miller on
the Utah question. The Forum, New
York.
I Of several new stories told of Lin
coin in the second installment Of the
new Life of Lincoln" in McClure'
Magazine for December, one OF the
most interesting is that, when Lincoln
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