The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-15
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.

The National Geographic Magazine for
ADrll contains a valuable paper by Mar
Gus Baker, photographer of the United
states geological survey, on The Anglo
Venezuelan Boundary Dispute" The
article goes fully into the history of the
dispute and is embeIliShed with maps
ana Illustrations Other articles are
Korea the Hermit Nation by Com
nander H. Webster, United States navy;
Lake Nicaragua, by c. Willard HAYES;
The lsthmian Canal Commission TN
ternational Arbitration Helping Navi-
cation geographic literature and data.
National Geographic Society, Washing
ton.
The United States Geological survey
has lust published folio 81 of the Geologic
AtlaS OF the United States, relating TO
the Telluride quadrangle. in the San Juan
mountains of southwestern Colorado. This
Iolio differs from the earlier ones in that
the descriptive text, III pages, is practi-
caIly a full report upon the geology of
the quadrangle, not d condensation from
such report. The text is in two parts:
the first. by Whitman Cross, relating TO
the general geology of the quadrangle:
the second. by c.. w. Purington, referring
10 the economic geology. The latter is
an abstract from the detailed report in
the Eighteenth Annual Report of the
Survey, part III.
The folio contains, besides the descrip-
tive text, topographic map; a geologic
map IN strong cOlOrs. an economic map
III ISHlcT COlOTS. showing the principal
mines and ore veins. aUriferous gravels,
etc: Structure-Section sheet represent
ing the inferred relations of the fOrma-
tons below the surface: and three sheets
OF views from photographs. illustrating
the phvsieal features of the region which
are described in the text. The price of
the Telluride folio is % cents.
Ex-President Cleveland's two addresses
on the Independence of the Executive"
at Princeton. April 9Th and 10th. will be
notable contributions to political litera-
ture. They will appear in authoritative
form only in the June and July issues of
the Atlantic Monthly, fully copyrighted
by Houghton. Mifflin & Co.
In his usual brilliant fashion Emile
lola talks of War in the April North
American Review. He believes the pres-
ent crisis in the affairs of Mars the last
the world is to see. He says: THE chief
reason for the eventual disappearance Of
war IS that IL will have become useless.
Wnen speaking thus, l have in mind the
democratic movement, the great social
ISL movement which. within the last hun
Qred years. has made such advancement
l am convinced that now, in our day,
there is in progress as important and de-
cislve a social transformation as took
place in olden times, when slavery was
abolished and paid labor introduced. > .
the contention that we witness is really
between capital and labor and will
eventually lead us to that other state
winch. as yet IS not clearly defined, but
which VIII surely exact a. total reorgani-
cation of labor and bring about a new
distribution of riches" Senator Foraker
has an article on 1.-THE United States and
Porto Rico" outlining the reasons for
and the purposes of the Porto Rican bill
and defining the opposite positions upon
the principles involved. The two literary
articles of the month are characteristics
OF English Fiction by George Moore and
John Ruskin' by Professor Waldstein.