The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-03
LITERARY NOTES.

| ated Tor Easter, appropriately opens the
April Ladies Home Journal Easter
| Morn in Colored Convent and Easter
Mondays Egg rolling in the Presi-
dents Big Yard though differing
widely, are also timely and interesting.
A notable special feature recounts the
eccentric and dazzling career of The
Magnificent Madam Rush." the most
famous social leader of her day, and
another portrays The Life of Jap
anese Girl" Three articles of peculiar
| interest are entitled How to be Pretty
Though Plain About Mer, empha
sizing the evils of flirting. ana What
It Means to Be a Housewife showing
| the demands and requirements of the
| vocation. The fiction of the number
! includes the opening chapters of Mrs.
| Charles Terry Collins new serial, "A
| College Courtship.' the conclusion OF
| The JamesonS in the Country" and d
short story by Ellen Douglass Deland,
THE Girl on the Boston Express. John
! Kendrick Bangs contributes a sketch,
The Booming of Acre Hill,' which is
| extremely humorous.
The Booknan for April has It's usual
complement of interesting and timely
matter can Uninterrupted Dream"
| from an incompleted picture by Sir
E. Burne-Jones, is the frontispiece.
| Frederic Taber Cooper has a story on
Edouard Rod; Leon Mead contributes
! "reminiscences of Eugene Field and Bill
Nye; Alice Meynell discusses the love
| letters of the BroWnings. These are only
a few of the good things.
General Greenes paper in the April
! Century, 1.-The Capture of Manila" will
give picturesque account of an inter
| view between himself and Admiral
| Dewey. Long anxiety has made the
| admiral subject to insomnia, and he
| found it difficult to get to sleep before
2 or 8 o'clock in the morning. He was
always up soon after sunrise and in or
der partly to make up for this loss of
! sleep he was in the habit of lying down
| in the afternoon. I was extremely
sorry to disturb him; but he received
me with the utmost cordially" The
| general had ridden nine miles through
| the mud and crossed the bay in a heavy
| sea. and the mud ,dripped on the deck
| from his cotton uniform. His appear
ance was equally disreputable when he
presented himself among the freshly
| uniformed Spanish and American Off
GERS with whom he had to arrange the
| terms of surrender after the attack of
! Aug. 10. Moreover, he was so weak
| from enforced fasting that negotiations
had to be suspended till he had eaten
some bareback and washed it down
with draught of good American
whisky"
The April Overland contains several
articles of more than passing interest
| and value. Among these is a paper by
Dr. John S. White of the Berkeley
school of New York on the require
ments for admission exacted by Amer
lean colleges. He pleads for uniform
| standard, showing that the present mis-
cellaneous requirements subject the
secondary schools to an enormous ex-
| pense and loss of energy and the stu
dents to much loss of time.
| DR.. r. w. Shufeldt has a scholarly ar
! ticle upon Chinese Pagodas and Other
Architecture" Herbert Bashford, state
librarian of Washington, contributes
paper on ''The Writers o. the North
west" Captain John A. Lockwood, U.
S. A, tells of the experiences of the
cavalry in patrolling the Sierra forest
| reservations. Lon V. Chaplin writes
| about 1.-THE Last Days of Old John
Brown" having obtained much valua-
old abolition leader, who now makes
her home in California.
Professor John Fiske, whose treatises
on "rhe Destiny Of Man" and 1.-THE
Idea of God" have attracted SO much
attention, opens the April Atlantic
with a profound and impressive paper
in the same line of thought. The toLic.
of his powerful article is 1.-THE Mystery
of Evil the question which in ell re-
corded time has been the burden of the
minds of men. Professor Fiske in his
paper institutes an inquiry into this
engrossing subject, making use of all
the historic, philosophic and religious
literature on the subject, and endeavors
to show what the place of evil is in the
economy of the universe, reaching the
conclusion that unless we had come to
know good and evil, we should never
have become fashioned in Gods image.
Ainslee's Magazine for April has
distinct flavor of original investigation
and discovery. The editors have
thought it timely to present to the pub
lie the man who built the wonderful,
fast-sailing Oregon, Irving M. Scott.
How he rose from poverty to wealth
and how he organized the great system
which turns out vessels like the Oregon
is related in charming narrative fash
ion and illustrated most profusely. In
the same number is a curious article
on some Indian picture writing recent
ly discovered, which tells the story OF
the Custer massacre as it appeared to
the Indians. The strange and intricate
workings of the United States secret
service have been studied and mastered
by Mr. Arthur Henry, who contributes
to the magazine the story of this great
system. There is a graphic study of
Joseph H. Choate, our new ambassador
to England, by Theodore Dresser, and
paper by Chauncey NJ. Depew upon
What the Twentieth Century Offers
to the Young American" Fiction by
William lie Queux, w. w. Jacobs (the
writer OF humorous sailor stories). and
Richard Marsh complete the number.
Major General Wesley Merritt con-
tributes the leading article, entitled
Our Flag in the Philippines" to the
current April number OF Frank Les
lies Popular Monthly. f. Marion Craw-
fo1ds Romance Of Rome" also pro-
fusely and beautifully illustrated, is
another notable feature of the April
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. The
number also includes Illustrated arti-
cles upon "Aguinaldo and the Filipino
Enjoys" Bethlehem, the Headquar-
ters of Moravianism in America by
John p. Ritter; Our New Colonies aid
Sugar" by NJ. w. Mount; Through
Mexico i'll q Private Car" by CAPTAIN
C. H. Wilson, and Women in the Pull
pit" by the Rev. Phebe A. Hanford;
complete short stories by Olive Harper
and Walter Malone; a delightfully."- face
tious Heart to Heart Talk" by the
Marquise LAMA, and poems by Jean
Rameau illustrated by Victor PerarO,
Louise Chandler Moulton, Minna Irv-
ing, Ethel Morse and Guy Scott.
Among the features of the April issue
of Universal Brotherhood is the COM
ing congress of the Universal Brother
hood organization, to be held at Point
Iona, San Diego, Cal, on the site of
the School for the Revival of the Lost