The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-04-27

LITERARY
OUTLOOK.
BY B

There must be something about
Washington which inspires writers
similarly. The following deadly par
allel cannot be explained in any other
waE:
From The city of.From Washing
Washington, BIZ ton: The Capital
John 4 q a 5 o al city qy huIus
j D. T t er Johns Rockwell wilson.
H0nkins It pages 1928. Pub
veTsity Studies. iished recently.
Page Il. Pub After the first in
lished i'm lSs5.A flax Of spectators
.Rfter the first in-- a N o whom
lux Of spectators none bougat more
- a m o n z whom largely and lost
none bought more more heavily than
largely or lost Robert Morris. tho
more heavily Observation-Disclosures of
Robert Morris-the finance and friend
ssuperintendent ofof the government
finance and friendlin the dark days Of
of the government l7Sf-the sale OF
during the dark real estate Lam
days Of. T7M-thel guished. Foreign
sole OF real estate ers had more con
Ianguished. r -fidence than ma
eigners seemed toitives in the success
have more confi- of the experiment
dence than nativesiEngraVed plans of
in the success oflthe city were VIDE
I b e experiment ii v distributed
Engraved plans of a5road. congress
the city had been passed a law al
W e distributed lowing aliens TO
abroad; congress hold land in the
passed a law al city; and for a
loving aliens toitme lots brought
hold land I'm theta b 8 u r d high
city. and for aiprices in London.
time lots brought The home trade.
a b 5 urd y high however. ceased al
prices in London. most entirely after
But after I7s4 the 1874. while many of
II o NJ G "a i elthe earlier con-
ceased almost en- tracts for lots we're
tireiy. There were r~epudiated by buy
some legal difficult ers unable to fulfill
ties IN transfer-ltheiT agreements
ring real cstate. or who had taken
one Of she main alarm from the
reasons. however. hurtful Famor, in
why the city did dustriously spread.
not grow faster. that C o n g r 2 5 s
was that cOngresslwould never remove
could not rem0vsfto the Potomac. but
thither for 4 NUM- would remain IN
er OF years. Philadelphia,
A complete anthology Of Russian
literature which viii. 10 use an old ex-
preston, fiji a long felt want, viii soon
be published In this country OF re-
cent years no foreign literature has
come to be of such close interest to the
English reading public as that Of Rus
sia: the great authors of that country
are almost household words here. and
yet there has not existed any history
which attempted to treat Of this lit
eraturE IN a comprehensive manner
The authoF, Professor Leo Weiner. is
an experienced anthology maker. Many
Of the minor Slavic languages have
been treated thus by him. He Is also
the authOF Of q History OF Yiddish Lit
eratuTe. and Songs From the Ghetto"
Writing OF Russian novelists calls 10
mind a legend Of the Russian peas
ants which IS 0 being published in
this country from a translation made
by George KEENAN,. The tale is a story
Of Napoleon Bonaparte. which has eX-
listed as a bit of folklore among the
peasants for a long time. Il was re-
Gently put into literary from BY Mr.
Alexander Amplitheatrof, and pub
lished in a st. Petersburg paper. Mr..
KEENAN, says Chat he has translated
this form of the story with great diff
ficulty. because it is presented in the
language OF the common Russian
musbik. According to"a recent cable
report. Mr.. Amplitheatrof (which
can easily believe is an assumed name)
has just been exiled into eastern Siberia
for the publication OF another peasant
story called "Obmanoh." The St.
Petersburg paper iR which it appeared
has been surprised. as the authori-
ties regarded the story as an attack
on the imperial family of Bomauoff.
The suppressed newspaper now com
mands a premium OF twenty-five TubIes
a copy for the issue containing this
particular story.