The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-29
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Mines, Miners and Minerals of Utah.
BY II. w. B. Kantner and published by
r. W. Sloan, author and publisher
| both of Salt Lake city. This is a
little book, 16 mo-, of some BAG pages,
that is replete with information about
the subjects of which it treats. Some of
its distinctive features are a list OF the
mining corporations of Utah. giving the
name of the company principal place
of business, location of mine, date of
incorporation, capital stock, ETC.. pros
pectors assays; a mining parlance, Civ
ing the definition of mining terms;
mining laws; proceedings before the
land Office, and other features. Here
will be found a sketch of Utah's lead
ing mines, and here will also be found
the faces OF Utah's leading miners.
Views of various mining towns are
given, and also of the geological forma-
ton at Mercur. To all Interested in
Utah mines the book will be OF the
greatest value, while no better adver-
tisement of the states mines and min
ing resources could be sent abroad
Author and publisher alike are to be
congratulated.
An Honest Dollar. By President E.
B. Andrews, of Brown Uniyersity-This
is a discussion Of the silver question by
President Andrews is an authority on
the question, and was member of the
last, or Brussels, international none
tary conference. Because of his advo-
cacy of bimetallism he has earned the
condemnation of the gold press of the
country.
The book consists of nine papers upon
the following topics: l. An Introduce
tory chapter on The Fall of Prices
silver. q An Honest Dollar. 8. Bimetal-
lism. f. Money as an International
Question. 5. The Monetary Experiment
in India. 6. Tariff Reform and None
tary Reform. Z. The Future of Silver
Production. s. The Monetary Confer
ence of 1892. 8. Giffen on Bimetallism
He gives a very interesting account of
the International Monetary conference
of 1892, the history of which is now for
the first time written by a member of
the conference.
The Student Publishing Co., Hartford,
Conn.
A. R. Derge & Co., Salt Lake city.
Price, 81 GEMS.
Bimetallism in History. By Henry
LOOMS Nelson-This is one of the semi
monthly publications of the Sound Cur
rency Committee of the Reform club of
this committee it is in the interest of
the present gold standard. 1t will be
found interesting, with much of value,
by silver men.
Sir George Tressady. By Mrs. Hum
phreys Ward.-A new work by Mrs.
Ward has come to be an event in the
literary world. This new novel has
been long and anxiously awaited; but
those who have waited will not be dis
appointed. In this new work will be
found some old acquaintances. notably
Marcella, now Lady Maxwell. Time
has improved her, and she is not the
same self-conceited, self-willed and
disagreeable person chat she was. The
theme of the book has to do with in
dustrial conditions. 1t will be found
a more interesting work tlan was MAR
celia
The Macmillan Company, New York
Price. 81. Two volumes.
Litters Living Age, No. 2,725-The
leading article is 1.-The Letters of Ed
ward Fitzgerald" Other article are (
THE Bondage of George Berkeley by |
Harriet W DAILY; Matthew Prior |
by Edward Monson; Goethe on the |
Panama Isthmus." The number con- |
tains the index to volume Cox.
The Living Age company, Boston,
Mass.
The Harvard Graduates Magazine for
September-The frontispiece is a. view of |
st. Saviour's church, Southwark, where
John Harvard was baptized November
20, 1907. The number starts off with
the Phi Beta Kappa GRAFTON of G. L.