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

set over Cervera and the watch kept
on Calnara" Miss Tarbell relates the
story of Lincoln's attitude and conduct
in reference to emancipation, giving
much new "Reminiscences of Lincoln by
Charles Summer, Carl Schurz and other
of Lincoln's close friends. 1t also con-
tains short stories by Rudyard Kipling
and Sarah Orne Jewett, and a story of
American political life by a new writer,
Walter Barr.
Brooks Adams writes of the new prob
lens in International commerce and
politics raised by the new position of the
United States.
In the American Monthly Review of
Reviews for April the editor reviews
the work of the fifty-fifth congress, ex-
amines the present status of the various
plans for inter-oceanic ship transit, dis
cusses the latest developments in the
Philippine situation and comments on
the other news topics of the day in
home and foreign politics, including the
cabinet change in Spain and the al
tered relations of Germany, England
and the United States.
The average life of patent medicine
is only a few years, but the j. C., Aver
company of Lowell, Mass, has just is
sued a Red Book" handsomely gotten
up, that tells of fifty years of deserved
success for their remedies. The secret
of their success, outside of the virtue of
their medicines, is told in one word
advertising.
The Red Wagon" animal route book
of Ringing Brothers show has just
been received. 1t is a splendid piece of
work, both in text and press work,
while the Illustrations, both in colors
and in line, are as profuse and artistic
as those presented in the great maya
zines.
Scribner's Magazine for April is an
Easter number with a special colored
cover, designed by Maxfield Parrish. 1t
contains poem for Good Friday, by
Mrs. Dorr, with decorations by Henry
McCarter; Easter in Town" a poem
with a picture by W. Glackens, and a
story with a great deal of religious feel
ing in it by Henry Van Dyke, entitled
"A Lover of Music" This is one of sew
eral stories of life in the woods, which
every reader of Little Rivers" knows
that DR.. Van Dyke is we'll fitted to write
by reason Of his long and ardent com.
partnership with nature. The illustra-
tons by Walter Appleton Clark confirm
that young artists position as one of
the leading American illustrators.
London by Nephi L. Morris, is the
leading article in the April Young
Woman's Journal. Facts, figures and
historic features are woven together in
a style elegant and pleasing, making
even the prosey phases of the subject
highly interesting. In this months
writing on George Eliot, Alice Louise
Reynolds discusses the intellectually
of the great novelist. The Song" a
tender lyric written by one who gives
promise of being numbered among the
sweetest singers of America, is exquisite
in form and thought. Though the mel
is gentle and soothing. Reflections
from a Maidens Mirror" is very inter-
esting story, told in a quaint, effective
manner.
A striking feature of the April Critic
is a fac-simile of the first stanza of the
"Recessional' in Mr.. Kipling's auto
graph. Mr. William Nicholson's famous
portrait of Mr.. Kipling accompanies it.
The frontispiece portrait of Mr.. Henry
James is alone worth the price of the
magazine. 1t is reproduction from
Mrs. Anna Lea Merritt's fine painting,
and has never before, to our knowledge,
been published. Miss Cornelia Atwood
Pratt's essay, of which 1t is apropoS, is
a clear-cut bit of writing, appreciative.
yet critical Mr.. A. S. Van Westrum's
review of 1.-THE Cruise of the Cachalot'
has much of the breeziness and knowl-
edge of that popular book. Another
interchangeable article, though in quite
different vein, is Mr.. A. 1. du P. Cole
mans England in the Nineteenth Cen
tury," with it's wealth of portraits.
Thackeray, Mrs. Browning, Grote the
historian, and Charles James Fox. Mr.
w. II. Shelton's paper on Some New
York Book Plates profusely illus
trated is q notable article