The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-30
LITERARY NOTES.

The June number of Harper's Maya
zine opens with "A Visit to Athens"
a vivid descriptive sketch by the Rt.
Rev. William Croswel Doane. the
illustrations, by Guy Rose. indicate pic
turesquely the antique setting in whicn
the modern city reposes. John Ken
drick Bangs is the author of "A Re-
bellious Heroine" a short serial with
a new and Enthusiastically humor-
Gus theme, the first part of which Is
| given in this number, with 1llus<ra-
lions by w T. Smsdley THE Great
est Painter of Modern Germany Is
the title of a paper on Adolf Menzel by
DR.. Charles Waldstein, illustrated with
examples of the artists work, several
OF which have not been reproduced
| hitherto E. d. 7. Chambers contrib
utes an enthusiastic paper on the de-
lights of fishing, under the title The
| Ouananiche and It's Canadian ENVIRON
| ment." Another outdoor article, the
second of Howard Pyle's papers, de-
| scribing an unconventional journey
| Through Inland Waters" depicts
| quiet life on canal and Lake Cham
! plain, with many illustrations.
THE Introduction to Public Finance
by Professor Carl c. Plehn. of the Uni
versity of California. 1t treats OF pub
| lie expenditure, public revenues, pub
lie Indebtedness and financial instruc-
! ton. BY far the largest part OF the
book is devoted to a discussion OF the
| different forms of taxation. The treat
ment is historical and analytical.
! A volume of short stories by Henry
| James is shortly to be published by
Macmillan & Co., under the name En-
barrassments The studies are en-
titled 1.-The Figure in the Carpet,
| Glasses, the Next Time and the Way
1t came" and are sketched in Mr.
lanes usual minute and clever man
ner.
Zolas new volume, Rome will be
published about the middle of May by
Macmillan & Co. The book will be of
interest to every student of religious
systems as giving an exceedingly mi
mute account of the inner life OF the
heart Of the Roman Catholic church
the papa1 court
"a History of Elementary Mathe-
mates" by DIR. Florian Cajori of Col
orado college will soon be published
by Macmillan & Co. This little book
is a popular history of those parts OF
mathematics which are taught in pub
lie schools and high schools. 1t is in
tended for teachers and aims not only
to supply historical information, but
also to point out how the study OF the
growth of mathematics leads 20 valu-
able suggestions on methods of teach
ing it.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co. propose a
Riverside school library embracing a
series of fifty books pertinent to the
name of the series. Franklin's Autobi-
ography, Andersen Tales, the Vicar
of Wakefield and ''Uncle Toms Ca
bin" among others, will enter into
this collection.
The great and rising west, past or
present. is always of interest, and we
note with pleasure that Captain
Charles Kings book. Sunset Pass; or
Running the Gauntlet Through Apache
Land" which has for time been out
of print, is to be re-issued, in paper
covers. (American Publishers Corpo-
ration, so cents.) There is no better
writer of realistic military fiction from
Far West point of view than Cap
tain King, who was an officer of Uni
ted States cavalry, and of artillery. He
knows whereof he writes. Sunset
Pass is typical, spirited story; one
that is enjoyable by young and old.
The book is illustrated with about
twenty full page pictures.