The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-07
LITERARY NOTES.

foreign thought and to keep IN toucn
with foreign authors, can do no better
than to read Littell's Living Age. It's
selections are made with the best judg-
ment, better than most people would
make for themselves had they all the
/ magazines and reviews to choose from.
| For more than a half century it has
| been republishing the best and most
important papers, biographies, reviews,
stories, verses and sketches of travel,
! to be found in the foreign Especially
! the British) magazines, Quarterlies and
literary weeklies. Hardly one of the
! eminent British authors of the past
| fifty years can be named who has not
been represented in these pages.
It's latest issue contains many ar
! ticles of present interest and perma-
nent value The following are worthy
of special mention: Gear and En-
/ peror," by Karl Blind: "Slatin Pasha
and the Sudan" by Captain F. d.
Lugard; Matthew Arnold by
Frederic Harrison; Mature in the
Earlier Roman Poets" by Evelyn Mar
tinengo Cesaresco; Jean Baptiste and
! his Language" by Howard Angus
Africa" by Olive Schreiner; and The
Story of an Amateur Revolution by a
! Johannesburg resident.
Published weekly, at Sc a year, by
Littell & Co.. Boston.
Track Athletics in Detail is the title
| of a book compiled by the editor OF a
department in Harper's Round Table,
| and published today by Harper & Bro
| theirs. From the introduction we eX-
tract the following sentences, which
! contain a clear statement of the design
| and scope of the work: These papers
! are rather to aid and instruct
! the young athlete who is so situated
| that he cannot secure the personal
! training and instruction available TO
! those who live IN large cities, or VINO
! attend schools and colleges where pny-
! steal instruction forms part of the reg
ular work. A majority of the illus
trations are direct reproductions from
photographs taken of the best and
most experienced opponents of each
special event, and the accompanying
! text has in most cases been revised By
| the athletes represented.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,
have just published will o the
Wasp" a sea story of the war OF lSlz;
by Robert Cameron Rogers, author OIL
'erhe Wind in Clearing"
Macmillan & Co., New York have
stThe Unknown Masterpiece by Bal,
zac. edited by &. Saintsbury and
translated. by Ellen Marriage with a
on the APPS by Alphonse Daudet,
translated by H. Firth and illustrated
bv Amanda, De Beaumont, Montenafd
and Others. Personal characterlstlcs
from French history by Baron ferul-
nan Rothschild.
T.ongmans. Green & Co.. New
York, have just published The Dipio'
matte and Other Correspondence Oh tne
Right Honorable Sir Arthur RAGE,
| G. g.. 1794-lSOf,,' with two appendices
! 1908 and 1S21-1S29. This publication Is
called 1.-The nPaget Papers and has
been arranged and edited by his son
the Right Hon. Sir Augustus y. PaSet
| G.. c. B.. late ambassador in Vienna
with notes by Mrs. ]. r. Green
Charles Scribners Sons, New York
have ready Robert Louis stevenson
weir of Hermiston,' the posthumous
romance, which has beel edited by
sidney Colvin, with note indicative
of its close. Also, Poems and Bal
| lads" gathering into one volume "A
| Chfld's Garden of Verses, Under
woods and Ballads"
! Dodd. Mead & Co., New York, are
soon to publish in their Feather LII.
brary' The Growing of Candance,
by Miss Katharine Pearson, story
which appeared in THE Churchman
early in the year. The story received
much favorable comment, and the
! authors style has been likened te
| that of Charlotte M. Yonge.
The j. B.. Lippincott company,
Philadelphia, has issued "a Marriage
! by Capture by Robert Buchanan
and translation by Florence Belknar
! Gilmore of Leon de Tinseau's III
Quest of the IDEAL" In preparation
"a Faithful Traitor by Effie Row.
/ lands, author of My Pretty Jane,
! The Truth Tellers," a new story by
/ John Strange Winter, author of 1.-The
Other Mans Wife" ETC.. etc; Auto
| biographical "reminiscences of Charles
Gounod, with family letters and notes
| of music, by c. Francois Gounod
translated by w. Hely Hutchinson
and 1.-The Veil Lifted, A New Light or
/ the Worlds History" by H. Martyr
Kennard.
The British and Foreign Bible So
ciety furnishes some striking figures
{ concerning the circulation of Bibles as
| whole or in part, for the year 1896
| 6. The figures are as follows: French
agency, 142,1s7; Belgian. 21,171; italian
| 145, 4O7; Portuguese. 1924; Spanish, 75,
| 1872; German, 2450S4: Swiss, 65.513
| Austria Hungarian agency, 15S194
Egyptian, including Syria, 2S,O71; Moor
| ish 1914; Algeria and Tunis, 1856
/ Persian agency. $685.; Turkish. with
Bulgaria and Greece. 3S,977 Russian
j 543, 109; Chinese, 232, 941; japanese. 257,
| 57S; India, 1882: Malaysian, 59,S45
/ This gives a total of something ovel
two and a half million. so that the
! "Old Book" has still the largest cir
/ culation" by very long way.
Mr.. Philip James Bailey, the vener-
able author Of "Festus,'' has just cele
brated his eightieth birthday in his ma
tive town of Nottingham, where ht
has now been resident for some years
! When DR.. Robertson Nicoll visited the
poet early last March he found him
wonderfully hale and hearty for hi:
years. Mr.. Bailey. it may be worth re-
| cording. purposed, as a young man
| TO qualify himself for the ministry II
| the church of Scotland, but relinquish
ed the idea on completing his curri
culum at the university of Glasgow.
TALES OF THE DAY.
Two of a Kind.