The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-11
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.


Tho new head of Harper & Brothers
publishing concern has evidently decided
that the way 10 bring the embarrassed
house into smooth sailing again Is to
keep up the literary excellence OF Its
publications. The December number of
the North American Review. slightly de-
layed by the assignment, is out at iaSt
and is one Of the best numbers ever issued
by the publishers. Under Colonel Har-
vey'S supervision the public need have no
fear of deterioration. There is nothing
which is attracting such general interest
these days not even our own Wal In the
Orient. the South African war. which
is treated with unapproachable fullness
and authority no less than six articles
by writer's of worldwide distinction, from
as many different points of view. being
devoted to it.. The Ri. Hon James Bryce;
whose paper is accompanied by colored
map of the seat of war. writes OF The
Historical Causes of the War Kari
Blind. an intimate friend of President
Kruger, treats of The War and Euro
pean opinion:" Francis Charmes. d repre-
sentative French pub.icis.. discusses the
question "Will the Powers Intervene
Max Nordau deals with the Philosophy
present conflict: Andrew Carnegie. an
alyzes the South African Question. and
Demetrius c. Boulger a we'll known
specialist on international questions. Elk
ton of an anti-British alliance OF conti-
mental powers.
The last number of Golfers Weekly
contains a number of authoritative and
most attractive articles on the news of
the day. The leading article is a scholarly
presentation by Ramon Reyes I1ala. a
native of Manila and author of The
Philippine Islands" of the salient features
of the autumn campaign in l.uzon. and
explains the actual military situation in
the islands. the present situation and
chances of Aguinaldo. and the probable
outcome of the fall operations. Mr.. Lala
il an impartial writer and. IL anything.
rather inclined to advocate the cause of
the United States. but in his article finds
occasion TO criticise the mode of warfare
adopted by the American leaders in the
islands. and supports his arguments with
a strong statement of incontroveTtib.e
facts.
The first place in Appletons' Popular
Science Monthly for December is given 10
a carefully written article on Exact
Methods in Sociology by Franklin H.
Giddirgs. Reviewing the aims and meth
DDS of sociology. the author considers the
application of statistics in it and the value
of their results. and suggests means OF
making them more exact. In Niniand
presents. with several Illustrations. the
proofs from geographical. typographical
and archaeological data, that lend support
to the theory of the late Professor HOrs-
ford that one of the principal settlements
of the Mortimer colonlsts of North Amer
lea was on Charles river, Massachusetts,.
President David Starr Jordan. who likes
nothing better than to show up windy
nonsense exploiting Itself in the name of
science presents in THE Education of
the Neminist an admirable and very
amusing satire upon the. pretensions of
the Christian Scientists. A history of the
development of the American newspaper
during the past 100 years is contributed.
with numerous illustrations. by Walter L.
Hawley. an experienced journalist of the
New York SUM-
A bright entertaining Christmas num-
Der of the Young Wonan's Journal is out.
It opens with poetic romance. The
on an historic incident of ancient
America, and is illustrated by original
drawings. BE With Me-" by Annie Pike,
is a hymn of rare beauty and depth of
literary gem. AT Christmas Time in
verse which has an Illustration executed
by Utah artist. Other Christmas fea-
lures are: Christian Church Services of
the Twelfth Century" Zone Christmas
Reality" a qulzzical story of pioneer life.
with pen and ink sketches. and an
editorial on Christmas gifts ard Ideals.
spective,' which is creating much favor-
able comment. is concluded. Divine Au-
thority," is the subject of the lesson in the
Guide department. Specialists write un-
der the following titles: The Militarism
of Frederick the Great Thoughts on
the Spirit of the Law and the Gospel;
EARLY Day Art in Utah. and Russia.
Young Woman's Journal, Salt Lake
City.
HENRIK Sienkiewicz. the well known
author of Quo VaGis' has prose poem
of great strength and beauty in the De-
ceInber Century. DR.. O. Meara, author of
the famous volumes Napoleon at st.
Helena left journal of his daily in
tercourse with Napoleon in exile. less
than half Of which was drawn upon In
his published work. The original journal.
containing upwards of 10000 words. was
beoueathed by Dr. O'Mesira- to friend.
By whose heirs it has been placed in the
hands of the editors of the Century. The
Century Magazine will soon begin to
publish copious extracts from this
Journal.
The Critic is a handsome number this
month. One fine feature Is the cover.
which is of white paper. and bears a
bookish design in black and red. made
by Everett Shinn. The same. artist has
drawn the frontispiece. printed in color,
of Sir Henry Irving as Robespierre. MIR.
SHIN made his sketches from life. There
are also published in this number the
words and music of the famous Christmas
song. ''CanSique pour Noel" A portrait
of Adolphe Adam. the composer. is given
Following this is. threse-page poysn.
The Century TO the Centuries. by Miss