The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-28
LITERARY NOTES.

Ex-President Harrison Will discuss
our national finances in an article on
1.-THE Secretary of the Treasury,
which will appear in the August issue
of. The Ladies Home Journal. He will
tell briefly of the origin of our finan-
cial system: it's expansion or develop
ment: how the nation raises its reVe-
rue, and disburses- it's moneys; and
1etail the faults Of our system Of finan-
,iering.
The Harvard Graduates magazine
or June has as q frontiSplece Rad
yliffe college There are also portraits
of Francis Claiming Barlow and viii
lam Henry Furness. The leadlng artl-
Gle is university Grounds and Build
ings." A very timely article is The
Essentia; in Rowing" by H. R. Dana,
"a A very interesting one is "A Group
of College Presidents" with portraits
by E. E. Hale. SO. There is the usual
university news. No magazine or re-
view in the country has a better typo
graphical appearance than the Gradu-
ates' Magazine.
Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, who has
written the best field book we know OF
New England birds" Birdcraft, pub
lished by the Macmillan company, has
same firm an attractive child's story
called Tommy-Anne, or the Three
Hearts. It will give children an ac-
quaintance with nature in so healthy
and entertaining manner that their
friendship for her will be lifelong.
Among other books announced by the
Macmillan company is the translation
of book by A.. P. Tverskoy written
in Russian under the title of Sketch
es from the United States of North
America" The same firm also an
nounee as among their early issues an
elementary solid geometry, by Henry
D. Thompson, d. Sc, Pm. D., professor
Of mathematics in Princeton univer-
sity. The work is compact, yet covers
all usually included in the first year of
the college curriculum.
The third paper by James Bryce, NJ.
P, giving his Impressions of South
Africa" will appear in the July Cen
tury In this article Mr.. Bryce takes
up the struggle of the Uitlanders in the
Transvaal to obtain the rights of suf-
frage, and the continued opposition cf
the Beers.
In an article entitled "Glimpses of
Venezuela and Guiana which w.
Nephew King will contribute to the
July Century, the author says in refer
ence to the forty thousand British
subjects of Lord Salis5uu-y's state
nsnt, that there are not to exceed
twenty thousand Inhabitants in the
entire district. Nine-tenths of these,
he says, are wandering tribes of un-
civilized Indians.
General Fitzhugh Lee, consul general
to Cuba, has written for the July Cen
fury an account of 1.-The Failure of the
Hampton Conference which was held
in February, 1865, in the effort to bring
about peace between the north and
the south. General Lee introduces an
unpublished letter from Jefferson Da-
Wis, and one from Robert NJ. T. Hun
ter, who was one of the three Confed-
crate commissioners
The July number of Harper's Maya
zine Ito be published next Monday
will open with a paper on General
Washington and the period of the rev.
olution, by Woodrow Wilson. Rarely
has historic parsonage been made 50
real and human as Washington here
appears, in camp and on the battle
field no less than in the Virginia house
of burgesses or at his Mount Vernon
plantation. Mr.. Pyles illustrations of
historic scenes worthily accompany
Professor Wilson'S admirable studies
of colonial life and politics.
In conmemoratiou Of the centenary