The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

e. Over Bemerton So with its Ella.
like point of view; and "Thc Cara
vaners, which has come to prove
to us that the anthoress of Elizabeth
and Her German Garden has lost 10
Morgan's "An Affair of Dishonore, /"
which is bit Disappointing, albeit
noteworthy.
AS to short stories, 1910 is to be
thanked for kipling's "Rewards and
talries,' in which a good man is at
MI his best, and Davis,'s '.Once Upon
before yesterday, and O. Henry IS
posthumous "Whirliglgs, which make
1t hard to realize that their brilliant
author Will write no more.
A Score of Titles of Note.
When we read that the publications
OF the current year will exceed $4,000
titles we wonder what becomes Of them
all; the old question as TO what be-
comes Of all the pins falls to second
airy interest. it would take gifted
or an ultra-diligent person to account
for all the important books of 1910,
but no year, even the most remark.
able, has long list, and one may,
with reasonable safety, propose score
as most worth recording.
Roosevelt IS ''African Game Trails, -
announced everywhere and paid for at
the rate of dollar a word. mnst
rank there, as must, too, Peary's ''The
North Pole, each in way in class
by itself and each not to be disrc
American Commonwealth OF James
Bryce, book safely to be set apart
as one Of kind; as is also. in it's
different sort, General Kuropatkiu IS
history Of the Manchurian campaign.
Biography, offers an even dozen titles
of real value, led by what may be con-
sidered the literary event of Che entire
Life of Benjamin Disraeli. J" The re,
views of this would themselves make
up respectable body of litcra-
ture, Viscount Morley and Justin Nc
Carthy being but two of the many men
of note who have considered the vol
ume.. The following also are note
worthy; "My Mark Twain" William
Dean Howells; "Seven Great States
men Andrew p, White; "The Digres
Cleveland: A Record of Friendship"
Richard Watson Glider; "The Life Of
Tolstoi," Aylmer Maude; "My Rem
ories and Impressions, Helena Mod.
leska; Life and Letters of Edmund
G. Stedman," Laura Stedman; Mo
Iiere," Brander Matthews; tJohn
Garrison Willard: f'Louise Chandler
Moulton: Poet and Friend,'' Lillian
Whiting.
Mr.. Howells's Imaginary Inter
views also, must be mentioned. and
the scholarly work Of Montrose Moses
on "The Literature of the South. -
along with the essays which have come
Gilbert Chesterton. BY all means. too,
let word be said. for good "Mr.
Dooley.' American letters would lose
much IN losing the least Of him
In Library Alcoves
Some Of these days that philosopher
of the Arcbey road Will have his say
Of the Libraries; of those that censor
novels, putting dubious ones on the
high shelves, and Gas Boston S self has
done this year of grace) cataloguing
such as Frederick Cook IS accounts of
polar discovery (O under " fictitious
narratives, -
In connection with library aIcovcs,
be it recorded that Marion Crawford s
books have been sold: that Mark
Twain g have gone III toto TO the. New
York shelves; that Professor New
combs arc to become the property of
the college of the same city. and that
Harvard university gets both the rare
Morris Morgan collection and the I'M
paralleled Leffert's collection Of the
works of Pope, upwards of 500 vol
umes and pamphlets. The University
of California has spent the better part
of the year cataloguing the 400 folos
and Photographic which came into its
hands on the death of II. M, Stephens.
gathered during his studies of the
great Pacific coast commonwealth,
Recalling the Great.
Nineteen ten g centenaries have been
as compared with those of