The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-26
NEW BOOKS.


"The Worlds Best orations." the Sec
ond volume now being published with
Justice David j. Brewer of the United
States supreme court as editor-in-chief
IF. p Kaiser, ST. Louis, 1S9s-ten vol
umes) sustains the promise of the first
that the collection will be, among other
things, "a documentary history of civ
ilization.r Professor Edward a. Allen
OF the chair OF Anglo-Saxon and Eng
lish literature IN the University Of Mis-
souri,, who is one of the editors asso-
ciated with Justice Brewer in the work.
says in lis preface .'On the Oratory OF
the Anglo-Saxon Countries:
Wherever the principles of Anglo
Saxon freedom and the rights of man
have been at stake, the discriminating
voice of the orator has kept alive the
sacred flame. In the witenagemote OF
the earlier kings, in the parliament or
the LATER kings, in the Massachusetts
town meetings, in the Virginia house
of burgesses, in the legislature of every
state and in the congress of the United
States, wherever in Anglo-Saxon coun-
tries the torch Of liberty seemed TO
burn low, the breath of the orator has
famed 1t into flames
Nothing could illustrate or JUSTIFY
this eloquent tribute to the effects OF
the hereditary free speech of the Anglo
Saxon race more effectively than the
magnificent speech of Edward Burke,
opening the bribery charges against
Warren Hastings. Feb. is and 10, 1ISS.
In spite of its great length, the speech,
which, for modern times, is what De-
mosthenes "On the Grown" was to the
classical period is given in full in JUS
tice Brewers second volume.
Another "Best Grafton of "a different
kind ia this volume is that of "Blaine
On Garfield delivered in the hall of
the house of representatives, Feb. q,
1882, when, for second time in the
history of the country, all departments
of the government were assembled 10
do honor TO the memory Of a murdered
president.
Thomas H. Benton's speeches ION
the Political Career of Andrew jack
son." and ''On the United States Bank,
given in this volume, illustrate another
of its important purposes-to collect
the speeches which have done most to
make history in America. in England
and in the world, ancient and modern.
In the second volume, also, are
speeches of Elias Boudinot, president
of the continental congress and de facto
the first president of the United States;
Tristan Burgess. John NJ. Berrien, .Jere-
miah 5. Black, John A. Bingham, at the
trial of the assassins of President Lin
coin; Francis Preston Blair. Phillips
Brooks, "On Lincoln as Typical
American" George S. Boutwell, Jim
peaching Andrew Johnsonj; William j.
Bryan, William Gannaway Brownlow
(the celebrated fighting parson'D;
James Buchanan. Preston s. Books
ION the assault on Sumner); Richard P
Bland Con the Parting of the Ways');
and others whose speeches, If taken in
chronological order, would illustrate the
If Arfa
history from the colonial times to the
present.
As to Illustrations, paper, binding and
general mechanical make up, the work
is a credit to the modern school of
American book-making. As is usual in
the case of works which require such
large outlay and extensive research in
their preparation. it is sold only by sub
scriptfon. 1t is said to be meeting with
the greatest favor from the public-a
fact easily accounted for If only on the
ground that it is the pioneer and sole
possessor of its field. No such a collec-
ton was ever before attempted in Eng
lish. and probably not in any other lam
guage.
"Predicaments." by Louis Evan Ship
man, is a collection of short society
stories told in Mr. Shipman's best vein.
His darcy of the Guards" which is
now being uramduzed, VIII De reInem-
bered as one OF the literary successes
of last year. Mr.. Shipman uses for
the environment of the stories in
''Predicaments'' the social existence of
New York's smart set and the
episodes are all within the bounds of
probability and elegant convention
ality. The illustrations are in the most
characteristic style of Charles Dana
Gibson and T. X. Hanna, jr.
"A Short View Of Great Questions
is a discussion of metaphysical ques-
tions by Orlando ]. Smith. The volume
opens with a few basic propositions on
such subjects as justice, religion, the
creative theory. etc, and then the
author proceeds to a discussion of
these and other similar abstract prob |
lens. The three theories Of mans |
origin and destiny: the materialistic,
the theological and theory of reincar-
nation are all treated in a manner that |
no doubt will be of great interest to |
students of the subject. From the !
authors standpoint, the whole theory |
of the universe, of the race of men, |
and of the soul, is at variance with !
the trend. deductions and demonstra- |
ticns of modern science. Natures
ways, the universe has been and will