The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-02-23
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LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY NOTES.
The edition of the works of Bishop But
Ter, upon which Mr.. Gladstone has for
some time been engaged, will be published
during the spring by the Clarendon Press.
.'The Perils of Small Talk is the title
Of brief essay by DIR. Allan McLane
Hamilton, to appear in the March Cen
tury. The author sets forth the relations
OF slang and effortless speech to cerebral
deterioration.
The Clarendon Press are about to issue
a collection of the traditional hymns of
the ancient Gaelic church in Scotland, by
Mr.. Alexander Carmichael of Edinburgh.
Mr. Carmichael, who is in the excise, is a
very learned Celt, with an extensive ac-
quaintance with the old customs of the
western isles.
A translation of the Textbook of Cen
era1 Pathology and Pathological An
atomy" by Prof Richard Thoma of Dor
pat has been made by DR.. Alexander
for sick children at Edinburgh. The work
will be published in two volumes, with 426
Illustrations.
: Canon Anger has undertaken to pre-
pare an annotated edition of Hoods
poems on the same lines as his we'll
known selections from Lamb. The work
VIII form two volumes of the "EversIey
series, the first containing all the seri-
GUS and the second a selection from the
humorous poems. The poems will be pre-
faced by biographical and critical intro
auction, and the serious poems will, for
me first time, be arranged in chronology
ical order.
Macmillan & Co. will publish in the
spring THE Pilgrim, and Other Poems"
by Ellen Burroughs name well known
70 poetry-loving readers Of the Century,
Scr1bners and other magazines. Ellen
Burroughs. it appears is the nom de
plume of Miss Sophie Jewett, an instruct
or IN English literature at Wellesley col
iege: Critics have recognized in her scat
Tered songs rare constituencies and ar
tistic grace, and this, her first volume.
IS awaited with much interest.
The January number of BurrelIe's
Monthly Magazine of Events has been re-
ce1Ved. 1t is indeed a valuable acot1isf-
ton to recent periodical literature 1t
presents chronological arrangement of
all the prominent happenings of each day.
during the month Of January since the
history of the world began, carefully com
piled from authentic data, and when the
twelve monthly numbers shall have been
issueq, che possessor of them will have at
hand, for ready reference a complete re-
cord OF important events of history.
Many persons are still living who re-
member the widely scattered lfthOgraOhs
representing the Arkansaw Settler whose
lack Of hospitality to a traveller is trans
formed by his visitors ability to play the
famous backwoods tune. These crudely-
drawn Autographs confront the reader of
the March Century, in which Prof H c.
Mercer of the University of Pennsylvania
gives an account of his researches "On
the Track Of The Arkansaw Traveller "
Prof. Mercer makes a practical cOntribu-
ton to the history of American music in
his lively account of the tune, Of which
the music and some of the variations are
given.
McClure's Magazine for March will con-
tain interesting passages from a speech
made by Abraham Lincoln in the Hi
nois legislature in January, 1S37-undoubt-
edly the earliest speech of IincoIn's of
which any record remains and one hither-
TO unnoticed by any of his biographers. It
is in his most attractive vein-that min
Cling Of genial candor with perfectly
Clinching argument for which he after
ward became so noted. Along with these
passages will be presented some entirely
new anecdotes and "reminiscences of Lin
coins service in the legislature and of his
humble beginning as lawyer at Spring
field. And there will be full quota of
Lincoln pictures. among them four por-
traits of Lincoln, two of which have
never before been published. and view
of his first law Office.
General Greely's article in the March
Ladies' Home Journal upon The Per
sonal Side of Washington will show that
Washington was largely influenced by
his environments. but also that he stead
lily tended toward the higher standards of
the present age, especially as regards his
habits and ideals. OF the first election in
which he actively participated General
Greedy writes: I'm his younger days
Washington extended at his first election
the usual pest-election hospitality, which.
in those days, consisted in the minimum
amount of food with the maximum
amount Of spirits. We find him paying an
account for such an entertainment for
some 400 voters, where the account was
shillings for food and 81 for liquors. The
capacity of the average drinker may per
hapS be placed at three quarts at a sit
ting, as derived from this account, which
covered one hogshead of punch, one bar
rel of punch, forty gallons of punch, nine
bowls of punch, forty-five gallons Of
wine and forty-Seven gallons of beer.
Washington, who was not present, ex-
pressed his surprise at their moderation.
and wrote his agent that he feared he had
not been liberal enough, and expressed the
hope that he had not neglected those who
had voted in the opposition