The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-23
NEW BOOKS
AND MAGAZINES
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Richard Croker. BY Alfred Henry Lewis
81 PIP; Illustrated New York. Life
Puohshing COMPANY s..
NO more picturesque character than
Richard Croker is TO be found in Ameri-
can Ire. His career and personality are
-, 49, $500 " AiiIeO 1enry Lewis
IN, IN the biography just issued by Life Pub
hshlng company. 1t not only follows the
man man from the beginning of mis- life
through all the vicissitudes which have
ATTENDED him as q politician. but gives a
cioSe study of the sensational events OF
MS private life, including the story of the
murder Of which he was accused. Besides
lhat ms personal AMI political associates
go tis tulS described and a thorough in
slght IS Slven into the organization and
methods of Tammany hall.
MT Lewis has an original and powerful
style and the story loses nothing in his
way of telling it. He viii be remembered
as the author of '.Wolfville" and sand
sale, ana more lately as the editor of
me NSrdlct, the illustrated weekly
congress in the last campaign Mr.
Lewis has had the advantage of close
personal association with Mr.. Croker and
the other leaders of Tammany and writes
as one having authority
The coming municipal campaign in
Cookers life. and Mr. Lewis book will
enable its reader TO follow the contest
with fun understanding.
The God of His Fathers" which Nc
cure, Phillips & Co. has recently pub
aroused by the authors first book. Those
familiar with Mr.. London's work will be
glad TO get back into his world again to
Ieel the great white silence settling over.
them. to catch the creak of runners the
snarllng OF the dogs, the cracking of the
mental loves and hates the lust of gain
the grimmest of humors and the bleakest
of deaths.
Mr. London has a vigorous foreseeins
manner of narration, telling the thing as
ne knows 1t with force that goes home.
a "a n Ell cd arfc Il
water sailor, sealer. and longshorenlan,
ne passed one year in the north. to which
which the scurvy drove him. This alone
mas gripped his Imagination as no other
phase OF his life has done. and because
OF its hold on him we. too, are SPELL
/ bound by 1t.
The Salt Lake Business college starts
With handsome booklet of nearly 100
pages. printed on enameled book paper
with autographed cover. The text is IL
showing the home of the school, exterior
and interior. including the various reel
ing departments, Office, bookkeeping de
partment, and assembly room At the
back Of the book are half-tone cuts OF
SAT- Lake business houses employing
graduates of the school. The text ex-
plains the various courses of instruction
figures on cost Of attendance, Including
tuition and living expenses. Altogether
ton.
A distinct history of the Indian in the
ten until the present time. The north
west proper consists OF Illinois, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, North and South Da-
kota, Iowa and Nebraska. Michigan
was once included under the title, but
many features Of the Indian history of
that state are quite distinct from the
Indian occurrences in the northwest be-
tween 1900 and the opening of the twen-
tieth century. A volume has appeared
l |,
II is a compilation OF the essential
facts in Indian history taken from An
bureau, Larned, Sehoolcraft. the Jesuit
relations. Bancroft and other authori-
ties 1t treats req Of the three, great epochs
between 1900 and 1900 in the northwest.
First epoch. Toe Red Man: second
epoch The War Man; third epoch, The
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
publishes this Indian history as a tribute
but to the religion. the customs and the
strength of the red man in his day. The
first epoch opens with the lines from the
old Sioux song;
"AIl that grows upon the earth is mine"
The song is sung just before Champlain
visits the Hurons in 1915, and gives
name to the now Lake Superior. The
course of the Jesuit priests, voyag gers
and trapPers following in his footsteps
/ draws back the curtain from the Indian
! and other wars of the northwest The
I of the third epoch:
"A railroad was to give the coup de
grace to all Indian DretensiOnS in the
| northwest; to end the days OF aboriginal
( rule and disturbance; TO make the white
/ man supreme, when Tecumseh. Pontiac
and Little Grow had hoped to humble
| him forever. True, the red map pro-
/ tested in the massacre at New Tim. at
| the fall of Custer, at Wounded Knee;
/ but these were no more than episodes
/ last resistance of the conquered"
| The illustrations present Black Hawk
/ Sitting Bull. Indian games, the Indian
gambling implements, pipes, drums,
game traps, wampum, weapons, canoes,
! the ghost dance pictures. eating utensils.
Red Cloud, Oshkosh, the New Tim
/ monument the Sioux hanging at Man
/ katO, Clusters battle ground. Rain-in-
| the-Face and a reproduction of Leutze's
painting, Westward the Course of En-
! pire Takes Its Way" The volume may
/ be commended to any student, any lover
/ of that past which has given way to the
present The story is tersely yet graph
/ ically written. and an immense fund Of
/ information has been gathered into an
/ exceedingly convenient book form Is
{ sued by the traffic department of the
! Chicago & Northwestern Railway com
! pany, Chicago, Ill Price, 80 cents.
The Inn OF the Silver Moon by Her
| man *. Niele, is charming idyllic rO-
| nance, a little impossible in its plot.
/ style and finish to more than atone for
/ its extrava gances. The story centerS in
/ the adventures of a young Frenchman
/ who goes afeld in search of excitement
/ and accidentally meets at a country fair
! the woman who had been destined for