The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1899-10-07

r,ents are fully adequate to his task;
| Mr.. Clemens. the author, comes OIL So
! literary stock, being a nepne~
MARK Twain" His former WoIh- 81
titled "A Ken of Kipling,' has aItd l-IeII
much prominence. and this later "orh
will fully establish Mr. Clemens do 4"
writer of worth and ability.
A handsome portrait of Admiral
Dewey, in colors. is given on the cover
of the October number of the LeuSer
Monthly The Dewey Triumpnal Arch'
erected in New York for the DeWey
celebration, showing the maSnlIIceIl
scuIptured ornaments by J. y. a. w ara
and others from a drawing Dy w dTTeil
B. Davis. forms the frOntisplece Ac-
companying these pictures IN TINS
Dewey number of the Ledger monthly
are articles on the Return OF the &c
tors" by Rowan Stevens. How the
Admiral Left Manila. ana an Illus
trated article entitled In Old Mania,
very interesting sketch OF the CITY
and its people Eben e. Rexford con-
tributes an interesting novelette, emit
tied THE Dunbar Pride" and Dorothy
Deane a gypsy story, The Brand OF the
ROmany."
With the fall fiction number of the
Saturday Evening Post. of Philadel-
d.,
sixteen TO a twenty -four-page weekly
magazine with double number every
fourth week. The Fall Fiction number
has a handsome colOred cover and
thirty-twO pages of short stories and
entertaining articles by we'll known and
popular writer's. The price has not been
raised.
The invigorating bTacinE air of au-
tumn is typified in the warm toned.
cheerful cover design of the October
Woman's Home Companion. and peep
within proves that the contents are just
as attractive and spirited. Nothing has
appeared IN all magazine literature
this summer more diverting than John
Kendrick Bangs papers on The Idiot
at Home" and in the present number
his droll consideration of the artistic
laziness of the hired man is irresist-
IDLY funny. A ripple of humOr runs
through other stories. notably in q
story by Albert BigelOw Paine.
Laird & Lee of Chicago bring out.
under the attractive title of Dreams
and Omens," a most curious book COM
piled from ancient documents and adj
illustrated. A belief in the
meaning of dreams is still very general,
not always acknowledged.
and many men and women in all walks
of life are guided more or less, in bust
ness and family affairs, by these mys-
FERROUS warnings concerning which no
scientific explanations have been fur
nished- Even as a. mere recreation,
this dainty volume deserves recOgni-
ton.
1t has been decided to place a tablet
upon the house in st. James Square.
in which Dickens was wont to
reside on the occasions of his visits to
the old city whittier Pickwick retired
after his memorable trial. As it was
at this house that the novelist created
Little Nell,' the tablet is peculiarly
appropriate. H. F. Dickens will prob
ably be invited to perform the unveil-
ing ceremony.
Stevenson's works have taken a great
slump" in the market, according to
the London correspondent of the New
York Times. He attributes it to over
putting, and especially to the policy fol-
lowed by his publishers of printing
every schoOlboy scrap and piece of nom
sense verse they could obtain. until
The public, between expensive editions
and cheap editions, became "satiated
Ind nauseated.
Fifty thousand dollars having been
voted by the National Memorial Com
mites for the erection of a suitable
library at Hawarden for Mr.. Glad
stones collection of books stored by
himself after months of labor in tenn
lorary structure near HaWarden
Church, the trustees have arranged to
20 on Immediately with the work. The
oundation stone laying of the library
will take place with very little cere-
nOnial.
Mr. w L. Alden writes from Lon
on that David Harun" has reached
second edition there, but can hardly
e called popular. He says: People
apparently buy it to find out why the
-ook has had such d run in America.
he dialect and the people OF David
Iarum' are too foreign to be appre-
lated by the English reader. You
night as we'll expect an American to
ppreciate a story written exclusively
4 the dialect Of Somersetshire.