Show LITERATURE POLITICS AND PROPERTY OR PHOSVERACY A compromise between Democracy and plutocracy plu-tocracy By Slack Worthington New York G P Putnams Sons Price 4150 This is a book by a political student for political students The author proposes a scheme for u rule of reason prudence and understanding his idea being the formation forma-tion of a party which would combine in its creed the best principles of the Republican and Democratic parties and which would occupy the middle or conservative ground between the two old organizations The evil or danger of great wealth accumulating accumulat-ing in tho hands of individuals is conceded and as 0 remedy the author would establish 0 system of cumulative taxation by which the greater the wealth of the person the more of the burden of taxation should be xaton imposed upon him He claims thatpoverty can never be eradicated from society but tbat it may be ameliorated by the enactment enact-ment of proper laws Many of the leading lead-ing questions of the day are thoughtfully and intelligently discussed from the standpoint I stand-point of a conservative thinker and the result is an interesting and instructive volume vol-ume and a timely one in view of the radical radi-cal socialistic literature of the day The frontispiece of The Illustrated American Ameri-can for the weak ending August 15is a pencil pen-cil sketch of the pretty face and figure of a Narragansett belle which is accompanied by a fullyillustrated sketch on the social life of that famous resort The number as usual is full of interesting matter An ariicie on me wagner jestivai at weyreuin is most timely and gives an interesting account ac-count of the production of Parcifal which is a story of the search for the Holy Grail a subject that Tennyson loved to deal with The article is fully illustrated one of the pictures being the uncovering of the Holy Grail The first of two interesting interest-ing articles on the naval reserve operations at Fishers island is accompanied by a lull page picture of the firing of a big gun on the Chicago and an interesting story about the baby King of Spain and the use of mortars in coast defence are some of the many subjects sub-jects treated Littles Mlrlne Age The numbers of The Living Age for August 1 and S contain Prince Napoleon Westminister Influenza by Sir Morrell Mackenzie M D and Bulgars and Serbs lori 1UI The Locust Plague in Algeria and Italy aud France Contemporary Con-temporary The Gurkhas a Fighting Race Yew Review Richard de 10 Pole White Rose A Night in a Haystack and Ways and Whims of Freshwater Fishes Blackicood John Brights School GentJemanss Monckton Mines Temple Bar The Kings Luck Corn Hill uA Publisher and His Friends Leisure Hour L E L Bclgravia Essays in the Obvious Murals with installments of A Philanthropist The Woman in the Morgue and a Little Love Affair and poetry Little Co Boston are the publishers The Young IFomens Journal for August is out with its usual quota of entertaining and instructive reading With Mrs Susy Young Gates as editor and Mrs Ellen Jakoman as business manager the magazine is being pushed in both 1 literary and a financial way with great rapidity I Is the evident intention to make it first among the literary works of Utah |