The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-05
LITERARY NOTES.

In the April Century Professor Sloane'a
Life of Napoleon takes up the Span.7
ish campaign. and there is an account.
Of the guerilla methods which take such
part in modern Spanish warfare. !.
The April number of the magazine Ro-
nance, contains articles upon the mys-
terious new ray, and one upon man
flight. the latter giving interesting Pho
tographs of Lilienthal as he appears
while soaring through the air with his
duplicate set of wings.
Since the publication of the witty book
for the young people entitled Tommy
TOddles the publishers have been some
what beset with inquiries in regard 20 it's
authorship. Valued correspondents have
taken for granted that it was the work
of John kendTck Bangs, and that AL,
bert Lee on the title-page, was a peni
name; and the question has been asked.
What reason had Mr.. Bangs for noe
claiming it?" 1t may therefore be stated,
as a matter of interest to the many kline.
readers of the book in question, that All.
bert Lee is as certainly a real person az
Master Toddles and his adventures
among the animals of Noah's Ark ard
certainly imaginary.
The British magazines and reviews
contain a great deal of interesting and
instructive matter of which no reader
can afford to be ignorant. 1t is the mis-
very best of all this literature and serve
it fresh to readers every week. This thin.
modest, fawn covered weekly volume OF
64 pages, is in fact the largest as Well
as the richest of American magazines:
single years issues aggregate 1923
double-cOiumn pages, forming four Oc4
tavo volumes of S24 pages each-more
than double that OF the most pretentious
monthly, and its quality is as good as it9
quantity is abundant.
The new subscription price of S. a year,
instead of S. brings the magazine more
easily within the reach OF all who desire
to keep abreast of the best, but who CAM
not afford to pay for all.
There is sin prevalent in our housei
holds of which we take little note, which,,
in fact, we encourage either by an in
difference to it, or by an active partici-
patton in it's folly and wickedness; the
use of the Word of God for the purpose
of making riddles. conundrums. puzzling
questions, anagrams, etc, etc, out OF
it If we really believe in the divine ORR
gin of the Bible can it be right to give
it to children that they may conStrue it's
words into odd connections. and mako
sport and laughter and mental legerde-
main from its pages? Is it likely they
will reverence on other occasions what
has previously been food for the amuse-
ment? 1t is not, and we need not be as
tonished if the boys and girls who have
been permitted to turn the leaves OF
their Bibles for pastine and entertain
ment, turn them in after years - find
pretext for their infidelity.-Amela e.
Barr in April Ladies' Home Journal
In a little dark room in the sub-base-
ment of the state, war and navy depart
ment building in Washington are stored
many of the relics connected with tho
assassination of President Lincoln These
include the fatal bullet, the many pistols
and daggers carried by the different con-
spirators, Booths boot that was cut from
his broken leg by DR.. Mudd his diary,
with it's theatrical statements and it's
pass that was used to guide his flight.
These relics are not open to public in
spection, and probably have not been seen
by more than one hundred persons du.-
ing the thirty years they have been in
possession of the government. By special
permission of Secretary of War Lamont.
the relics have. for the first time, been
photographed for use in The Century
the April number on THE -Four Lincoln
Conspiracies,' by Victor Louis Mason,
an attache Of the war department
ceedingly interesting work, which. under
the title Brother and Sister," COM
prises the letters that passed between
Ernest Renan and his sister Henriette
during the crucial period of Remains life.
The correspondence is preceded by an
exact reproduction of the Memoir of
Herriette Keenan," written by her
brother for private distribution just after
her death. Both memoir and letters ara
translated by Lady Mary Lloyd.
An article by Richard Harding Da-
Wis. published about three years ego
in Harper's Magazine, describing the ex-
plorating expedition in northeastern At
RIGA then being carried out by Mr.. Will
lam Astor Chandler, did much to arouse
public interest in the matter. Mr.. Chan
Ter has now completed book describing
on Ga Y,rff 1feha
Immediately by Macmillan & Co., under
the title Through Jungle and Desert
These articles have failed in their OBJ
Ject If they do not tend to inculcate in
the minds of American youth the i'm
portance of will-power and right aspira-
tons to the complete development of the
individual, writes General a. w. Greedy,
concluding, in April Ladies' Home Jour-
nal, this series of papers on 1.-The Per-
sonal Side of Washington" what are
the salient changes wrought by these
forces in the evolution of the man George
Washington. For money his indomitable
will sacrificed the exigencies of harsh
labor and uncongenial surroundings the
pleasures of home life. Later his nobla
aspirations valued gold only as a means
OF serving his country, Of alternating
suffering, and of extending charity Ris-
ing in an aristocratic community to the
apex of its social system he then eagerly
offered his assured standing and acquired
ious liberty to all grades of society. Bru-
tally and cruelty marked the contests
of his earlier day; in his mature years
he was one of the most humane warriors
of any age. The brooding curse of slavery
imposed upon him traffic in human lives;
later he rose above the race prejudices
of his time, and by his individual ac-
ton forestalled by sixty fears that in
evitable goal of Individual freedom,
which futurity deferred for America to
another century. His irreligious sur
roundings and youthful habits were such
as have Slapped the better character OF
thousands. Yet he came TO recognize that
his own evolutionary processes were no
safe guides to humanity but that the
only sure road is that pointed out by re-
ligious faith and assimilated action,
through the by-paths of sobTiety, in
dustry, charity and right living. The time
may come when experts can question the
superiority of Washington as a general,
or the entire wisdom of Us policy las
President. But, fortunately for his fame,
there is only one standard by which the
whole world measures an individual, and
it is certain that so long as equity,
honesty and charity are deemed the
highest attributes of human nature, so
long will the man George Washington
remain at the apex of American man
hood"
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