The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-24
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the book will be the elimination of the
great family in the person of William
Douglas, the boy of q who held all Scot
land south of the Tay in the hollow of
his hand, who coined money at his own
mint. and rode abroad with a more than
regal train Mr. Crockett adds: I may
say that this final tragedy of the Doug
las is the only Galloway romance COM
parable in popularity with that which L
have alreacy told IN the pages OF the
Raiders There will, however, be less
dialect in the book, because the date OF
the historic time of Scottish literature,
which contains the names of Dunbar,
Gavin Douglas, Sir David Lindsay"
Ny readers viii not overlook, fancy.
the hope held out by Mr.. Crockett in the
last sentence; for the Scot dialect, in
getting itself diSliked. 1t has great
charm and piquancy in the hands of a
fond master of it, like Mr.. Crockett and
when kept within limits; but when not
kept within limits-well, 1, for my part,
prefer German, OF which there are al
ways good dictionaries at hand.
Mr.. Han1lin Garland, who has been in
New York for several weeks making the
last arrangements for the publication of
his Life of Grant left a few days ago
for his Wisconsin farm, where he will
spend a few DAYS with his father and
mother. and then set out for the Klon-
dixie He doesn't go for gold-at least.
not directly, but for observation and ex-
lions was his own portion until within
quite recent years, and it is, probably in
consequence of this. the kind that most
Appeals to his imagination. For a num-
his back on Chicago (Which, after the
Wisconsin farm. he accounts his home)
and goes off into the plains and the
Rocky mountains and lives with the
miners and hunters and Indians And
he declares. with a CLEAN in his brown
eyes and an emphatic pluck at his
brown beard, that this is the only life
worth living. Nevertheless, he has his
effeminacieS. like the rest of US. He
can travel day after day on horseback,
wading streams and climbing mountains,
sleeping on the ground and eating the
rudest fare, and yet he can write only
in a room heated up to Is or so degrees.
He will go into the Klondike about May
l. by one of the Canadian routes, and
will remain until toward the end of Sep
TENDER.
Mr. Garland's Life of Grant" already
mentioned, is q. work OF devotion. Mr..
Garland inclines naturally to make his
studies in the open air, directly from peo-
pie rather than from documents, in con-
fined bureaus and libraries. But the char
fascination for him. and, in his zeal to
amply portray ii, he has shown himself
capable of Flooding through books and
archives as faithfully as any dry-as-dust.
But even here his preference for learn
ing directly from men has had ample eX
erciSe. He has followed Grant tenacious
ly from birth to death, almost in his own
footsteps, talking with the people who
personally knew him, and studying the
scenes of the various incidents of his life.
The result is a book of comparatively
small size, that contains Gf 1 may judge
it by such parts as 1 have been permitted
TO read in manuscript more about Grant,
the man, than any book yet published.
The papers on Grant published by Mr..
Garland in McClure's magazine give an
ntimation of the general character of
the book, but only an intimatiOn, for the
papers became in the subsequent treat
msnt merely an outline or general plan.
Representatives of the Illustrated Bible
company, limited, Amsterdam, are now
in New York making arrangements for
American cooperation in the largest and
costIiest enterprise in the way of an
edition of the Bible ever undertaken. The
Bible has been the favorite book with the
printers of succeeding ages wherein to
exemplify the highest capacity of the
printers art in their several times; and
what these Amsterdam publishers are
planning is an illustrated Bible that shall
embody and typify the full. perfection of
nineteenth century illustration, typog-
raphy, printing and binding. 1t will be
issued in English. German, Dutch, French
and perhaps other languages. The text
will be, in each instance, the authorized
version. and in it there will be no aim
at novelties; but the illustrations will be
of a kind never before attempted. All the
great artists of the present time who
have bent toward such subjects have
been enlisted to draw or paint a master
piece on some biblical theme. Thus the
work will be an aSsemblage of great BIZ
BILE pictures by such men as Burne-Jones,
Alma-Tadema, E. A. Abbey and Nun
kacsy.
I learn from a friend of Mr.. Rudyard
Kipling's that Mr.. Kipling will return to
England in a month or two, from South
Africa He was accompanied to South
Africa by his entire family, which con-
sists of his wife and three children, and
also by his father, J. Lockwood Kipling
There have been various speculations re-
garding the occasion of his going-as
there always are when he makes a move
but the motive is really very simple-he