The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-03
LITERARY NOTES.

LITERARY Mules.
Macmillan & Co. have in preparation
a History of American Literature, for
use in secondary schools, by Professor
KatharineLee Bates, of Wellesley Col
lege. The book consists mainly of the
literary narrative, but an appendix
presents a scheme for study and class
room WORK.
Macmillan & Co. will shortly issue
work by Mr. Herbert ]. Davenport,
entitled Outlines of Economic Theory:
While adapted in subject-matter and
manner of presentation to advanced
work in schools the book will be par
ticularly directed to specialists in
economic studies. Mr.. Davenport has
attempted to assimilate economic
theory to the broader principles OF
modern science.
Messrs. Harper & Brothers published
on May 1, Personal Recollections of
Joan of Arc, by Mark Twain; Madelon,
a novel by Mary E. wilkins; and For
King or Country, story of the Ameri-
can Revolution, by James Barnes.
These will be followed, on May 8, by
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn new
edition.; The Cavaliers, by S. r.
Keightley; and Mark Hebron, a novel
by Alice Ward Bailey
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has
written a stirring article for the May
Forum entitled Our Duty to Cuba,
painting in dark colors the story of
Spanish tyranny in Cuba, and advo-
eating the recognition of Cuban bel
ligerency. In the same number of the
Forum, Professor John Bassett Moore,
professor of international law and di-
plomacy, Columbia university, New
York, contends that the Cuban insur
gents are not entitled to belligerent
rights.
Harper's Weekly for May 2 contains
an article on the Squadron Drill OF
the vessels Of the United States navy
at Hampton Roads, illustrated by
doublepage and a front-page drawing
by Carlton T. Chapman. There will
also be a preliminary article on the
coming general conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, with a
page of portraits of the most import
ant bishops, officers, and delegates;
and an especially timely paper will be
devoted to the development of the
garden-truck industry in the south.
Women in English Life, from Me-
diaeval to Modern Times, by Georgiana
HILL gives a most interesting account
of the place held by women from the
days of the Saxon race down to the
present time The various phases of
social life, the influence of great forces
like the church and feudalism, the
renaissance and the great industrial
revolution, which began in the last
century. together with the educational
revolution of modern times are all
Tod che
the great changes which have taxa
place in the position of women, and
which have rendered possible the wide
expansion both of her responsibilities
and her influence in this last decade of
the nineteenth century.
A short treatise on The Education of
| Children at Rome, by George Clarke,
FIJI. D., principal of Jarvis Hail
academy, Montclair, Colorado, is soon
to be published by Macmillan & Co.
The subject is one which has not
hitherto had special treatment by Eng
| lish or American writers, the work on
| Pre-Christian Education. by Professor
S. S. Laurie, published last year, be-
| ing so far the only attempt in English
| to deal adequately with this period in
| the history of pedagogy. The object of
DR.. Clarke in this little book has been
| to place within the reach of teachers
and others interested in education a
clear. and, so far as the limited
sources of information allow, full &C
count of the methods used in the moral
and intellectual training of children
at Rome in classical times.
The Outlook company has arranged
with Mr.. Justin Mccarthy. the famous
historian, novelist, and political leader,
to write for publication in the Outlook.
a popular life of the Right Hon. Will
| liam E. Gladstone. Mr.. Mccarthy has
had an intimate, personal and political
acquaintance with Mr.. Gladstone for
many years, and is peculiarly fitted to
undertake this work. The personal and
| social sides of Mr.. Gladstone's life will
be thrown into strong relief Mr.. Nc
Carthy's skill in graphic narrative and
in imparting to history the attractive
| qualities that many readers look for in
fiction only, are well illustrated in his
book, 1.-THE History of Our Own Tines
Few books of our generation have had
wider reading on either side of the
| Atlantic. The Outlooks life of Clad
stone will be profusely illustrated with
portraits, reproductions of drawings,
and other pictorial material gathered
! from many sources. 1t will form a
| principal feature of the Outlook's illus
! trated magazine numbers during 1891
The Werner company is about to
publish 1.-The Story of Cuba" written
! by Murat Halstead. 1t is to be a
! handsome volume and a true story of
Cubas struggles for liberty and her
cause, crisis and destiny. In the ca
pacity of current historian remarks
Mr.. Halstead in a letter announcing
| the work, Il arrived in Cuba in Janu-
airy and came away in March. Letters
| of identification from members of the
cabinet, the supreme court, the chair
man of the committees on foreign af-
fairs of the senate and the house, and
from the Spanish minister, were
honored by the highest Spanish Off
Gals in Havana, who gave me polite
and distinguished consideration and
diplomatic information. [ was inter