The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
LITERARY NOTES.


lately issued. "The Second Boys Book Of
Model Acroplaues." is an enthusiastic
model aeropIane expcrmentcr; and ne
and his young son spend most OF the
fathers leisure in working on new mod
els attending mcets. etc. They Will sail
for england and the continent soon To
carry OH the study which has 10 date
resulted in these two popular books and
many magazine articles.
II the commission form OF government
fad IN municipal politics which will
gradually disappear or is it based on
sound principles which Insure ~ sue
cess and "A permanent hold on the gov
ernmental good sense of our people Are
the cities which have tried 1t typical
American municipalities? What erect
has II upon the personnel OF officials?
Does the plan lessen or stimulate that
a democratic form OF government? Is it
likely 10 succeed in the larger centcrsD
These and other questions are being
asked ny many citizens today and tho
answers depend upon careful study OF
many related facts. \ book which makes
possible such study is Ernest s Brad
iord's Commission Government In Amer
lean cities" published November -, To
inquire as To- the rise OF tho commission
government, tho reasons FOR its adoption.
tho degrees OF success attained where
II has been tried, and finally 10 analyZe
the idea into its clements and to ac
count for certain of the results which
have followed its Introduction, Is the pur-
pose OF Or. Bradfords volume.
Maud Howe Elliott, the daughter OF
the late Julia Ward Howe, continues 10
make her home nj the summer residence
Of her mother in Newport. X. I. Mrs Ell
lott. who has written a book called The
Eleventh Hour IN the Life OF Julia Ward
Howe" is a frequent speaker before
womcn's organizations ON the topic OF
Mrs. Iipwc's last days.
Care, Garrett in bis new book. Where
the Money Grows Gnlla one chapter
has seized with satisfaction upon the Idea
that spcculator involved in the Steel
Corporation invcstisaiion Is the original
moro than one touch of realty, but
the street has taken good nsturedly the
book that M Garrett meant for out
siders a. a picture of Wall street ana its
people. drawn from a now angle,
Jeffrey Fsrnol. tho author Of "Tha
Broad UlEbWay" one Of the conspicuous
Iitcrnry successes OF 1911. H. planpiuc
visit 20 this country just az soon as lie
completes his new novel The History
he published I'm book form by Little.
Brown & CO.. the publishers OF '1hc
Broad Highway
which Professor Edward Alsworth Ross Z
The Changing Chinese Is based, proics-
soT Ross was twenty three days beyond
the telegraph. and forty daSs beyond
coined silver money. Some OF tho time.
he wrote from the Upper Naustse 10 Pro-
fessor l.. w. Ward OF Brown university, |
the distinguished professor 81 sociology,
"T fclt I was walking through Europe or
the thirteenth century Same nHllcd
cities with cIcualul"d hattlcmcuts and
fortified gates. sanc reliance on tho pack
animal. same UnEiaZc1 windows sud
smoke -b'arkenod walls. same water car
riers supplying raw river water 20 horses
same StenCles and absence OF sanitation.
same handicrafts ana craft guilds same
use Of charcoal 1ua neglect " coal. Same
i~pers ana waysdC hr'.-arS., same .ariv
marriages anl animal birth Ialc, sam.