The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-26
LITERARY NOTES.

The League of American Wheelmen
will send "Patter's Country Roads" to
any road officer for one cent Address
/. B. Patter, Patter building, New York.
The work is a valuable little COM
pendulum on the subject of road build
ing and maintenance apd would be of
service to the selectmen of our several
counties.
Loyalty to Church and State" by
his eminence, Francis Cardinal Sa-
TOLL, archbishop Of Lepanto and dele
gate apostolic to the United States, is
a book of go pages, including a pre-
face by Cardinal Gibbons This book
has short biography of Cardinal Sa-
TOLL, followed by speeches, letters and
addresses of the eminent prelate The
wide range of subjects treated of
makes the reader wonder at the re-
sources of the mind of one man.
American orations, from the colo
NAL period to the present time,
selected as specimens of elo-
quence, and with special reference to
their value in throwing light upon the
more important epochs and issues of
American history. Edited with intro
auctions and notes by the late Alexan-
der Johnston, professor of jurispru-
dence in the College Clf New Jersey.
Re-edited with new material and his
torical notes, by James A. WOODBURY..
professor of American history and
politics in Indiana university. -Four
volumes, each complete in itself, and
sold separately.
The publishers of Frank Leslie's Pop
uIar Monthly have brought out a most
excellent portrait in colors of General
Robert e. Lee, which serves as front
ispiece to the May number of that
magazine. The portrait is pronounced
by the friends of General Lee to be the
best likeness ever published. 1t is is
sued in connection with the great Lee
series of articles now running in Frank
Leslie's Popular Monthly, and which
are attracting such widespread atten-
ton. The series began in the February
number with an article, by Mrs. Roger
A. Pryor on General Lees ancestors,
and will be continued for some months
yet
With some beautiful reproductions of
paintings by Jean Francois Millet, in
McClure's Magazine for May, Mr. VIII
H. Lowe provides an excellent study of
that painter, whom he visited several
ACSNA
and of whose manner of life and con-
versation he gives some very pleasant
personal recollections. In the same
number DR.. W. w. Keen considers the
Rontgen discovery in photography
with reference to its use in medicine
and surgery. DR.. Keen is one of our
highest authorities in surgery; he has
himself been experimenting diligently
with the Rontgen x rays, and his pa
per is of especial value. 1t is illus
trated from photographs taken by the
new process.
Sir Edward Thornton was British
ambassador TO Russia at the time of
the coronation of Alexander III, hav-
ing formerly represented his govern
ment at Washington for many years.
His daughter. Miss Mary Grace
Thornton, contributes to the Century
for May her journal describing 1.-The
Growing of a Gar" The illustra
lions of the circle are from the official
record which was issued by the Rus
sian government. Miss Thornton says
that the most imposing moment of the
entire coronation was when the car
alone stood in the vast cathedral at
Moscow, and all the rest within the
edifice and all without as far as the
eye could see, knebt and offered up
prayers for him. The ceremonies at
tending the coronation of Nicholas II,
next month will be almost identical
with those described.
Macmillan & Co. have in press a
small volume on the Interpretation of
Literature" by w. H. Crawshaw, AM.
professor of English literature in Col
gate university. The work emphasizes
the conception of literature as an art
and seeks, not to examine it from with
out, bat to interpret it from within. 1t
endeavors to outline, briefly but com,
prehensively, a method for such study.
1t is in no sense a book of vagaries. but
presents a logical and sensible method
based on fundamental principles. In
four preliminary chapters the author
gives an exposition of the nature of lit
erature, it's various classes, its several
elements both Of substance and of
form The remainder of the book is
devoted to the application of these gen
eral principles to the several literary
types.
The Forum for May will have for
its leading article a brilliant analysis
of 1.-THE Political Situation by Mr. e.
Evening Post. Mr.. Godkin declares
that the two problems which at pres
ent constitute the sum total of our
politics, are the tariff question and
the currency question. With regard to
the latter he thinks that what the
champions of a gold standard really
demand sis not so much the gold
standard, as assimilation in currency
matters to the other great commercial
nations, and the absolute abandon
ment of the currency question as po-
Iitical issue" That we shall secure
these things at one election he does
not consider likely, but "the election
of a president on a sound-money plat
form will be a step toward it and a
great ONE This work of currency