The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-13
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

pirate Cold" by F. J. Stimson. Pub
hshed by Houghton, Mifiin & Co.
j. S. of Dale. for so Mr.. Stimsen has
] styled himself in number Of well writ
ten novels, gives the public a readable.
pleasant story in Pirate Cold" his latest
work. There Is a quaint old bank clerk
as the center of interest, a sort of Pere
Carrot in his sacrifice of himself for his
ward, Mercedes, the daughter of a pirate
captain. The head of the banking house,
Mr. Bowdoin is a delightful old Boston
Ian with the flavor of family and a sense
! of humor. The story runs through the
stormy scenes Of the abolition time, and
touches incidentally in its closing pages
the years of the civil war.
Miss Pullman by Mrs. Ross Forward
Published by J. s. Ogilvie Publishing
The author in her introduction to Miss
/ Pullman presents the characters that
| Dgure In the story and gives the reader
/ her reasons for writing the tale. It
I aboundS in eXcitement-there is a gypsy
camp, there are abductions, men come to
] violent deaths. one OF the characters be-
comes morphine hend, infants are eX-
changed in twin cradles, the story of John
/ Wilkes Booth is made TO do duty, and in
/ the end, as in all well regulated fiction,
! the tangles are Strengthened, each Is re-
| stored to his own, the wicked suffer and
the virtuous triumph.
"a Kent Squire" by Frederick W.
! Hayes. Published by the z. NJ. Lupton
Publishing company.
A tale Of exciting adventure, with real
! hero as the center of the action, comes to
/ the reader in "A Kent Squire" The
/ story transpires in the stirring times to-
| ward the close OF the reign Of Louis XIV
] Of France and the Kent squire in his
/ career jostles against most Of the distin-
! guished men and women Of the period in
England, France and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Marlborough, de Torcy and the great
monarch himself. The tale carries the
! reader, from one exciting episode to an
other and the suspense is unrelieved until
] the very last pages Indeed, the author
would have added to the artistic finish Of
| MS book had he let the reader come TO
/ the earth more gradually, instead of with
a Earring brevity Of final detail.
w. D. Howells in Werner's Magazine
! for May presents some thoughts about
the Heroes and Heroines of Fiction
the summary of q lecture recently de-
! livered in Brooklyn. Henrik Ibsen is the
| author of the month in the Study Club
! department, and Shakespeare's lectures
! on voice culture receive further attention
in a critique by Louis Russell.
Harper's Weekly gives the space of
/ several articles and numerous interesting
illustrations to the Paris exposition. We
( have the Opening Ceremonies the
/ United States Building" Sport at the
/ Paris Exposition" besides Mr.. DOOley S
4 reflections on the subject, and drawings
/ by Albert Steiner, Peixotto and Blumen-
schein.
Three Men on Wheels by Jerome K.
{ Jerome. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co
Jerome X. Jerome has turned back TO
/ the friends that entertained so large an
audience in Three Men in a Boat and
/ carries the reader with Harris and George
and himself on a trip through Germany.
I FITa rvbo
/ and they have not lost the sense Of hui
NOR or the facility for getting into ridic-
uleus situations that characterized them
| when they Travelled in a boat The chap
| ters on their preparation for the journey
are not the least attractive in the vol
ume. The bicycles have a number of
pages devoted to them, in the course of
which Mr.. Jerome Sagely remarks:
There are two ways you can get eXeT-
else out of a bicycle; you can overhaul
| it. or YOU can ride it, The comments
on the Germans and their system of trav-
cling are interesting; indeed. the book is
clever and readable throughout. There
are a number OF satisfactory illustrations
by Harrison Fisher.
"a United Order of Labor" by ]. H.
Midgeiey. Salt Lake City.
Mr.. Midgeley's pamphlet comes not
only as an Exposition of the Causes of
Poverty" but suggests an Effective
Remedy" In the course of its pages
touched upon: Banks, interest. gold and
silver. the press, politics, mining, etc.
In conclusion there are given model ar
fieles of Association of a limited Order