Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-14

u Bella's Blue Book" by Marie Calm, she
has faithfully maintained her former repu-
tation.
Blue Book " is the name given to the
diary OF woman who seems 10 have
all her happiness in her girlbood
with the idea that because she had wealth
and no beauty no one would love her for
herself alone. Her marriage 10 man who
loved her devotcdly seems only to have
cast moro clouds on her horizon, and
brought again disaster and tears, but hap
PLY at the close rainbow arises.
The authoress presents her heroine to us
as very interesting person, though not
Interesting In person, for according to her
own account, she Is hideously ugly. Bella's
knowledge OF society and the humorous
way she depicts the people and tho events
that have impressed her, are remarkably
well written while her self analysis is
especially entertaining. II Is not that ex-
haustive and exhausting self analysis
which has such a wonderful charm for the
novel writer's Of the present day. On the
contrary. Bella's diary Is what one would
Imagine tho average girl or woman would
have kept, not that they would he able to
express their ideas in the easy and grace
ful style Of Marie Calm's heroine. In which
the chief charm of her narrative lies. The
whole story has n wonderful freshness and
cannot fail TO please all persons who enjoy
a bright or wholesome book.
According to George Makepeace Towle--
whose name, by the way, should be stuffed
tho habits of Tennyson are steady and
industrious for man OF eighty. He docs
the greater part of his literary work In the
morning hours, between breakfast and
luncheon, and sometimes breaks the back
OF his work before break fast. His in
variable habit is to take u long stroll before
luncheon, accompanied often by q friend,
and always by two of his dogs. Tho
afternoon and evening are given up to rest
aud social rocreations. Mr.. Towle writes
about Whittier, Holmes and Tennyson
In Frank Lestic's Monthly, and quotes Miss
Thackeray as thus describing Tennyson's
reading of his own poems, q pastime of
which he Is very fond. at is "A sort of
mystical incantation, chant in which
every note rises and falls and reverberates
again. AS we sit around the twilight room
at Farringford, with its great oriel window
looking to the garden, across fields of hya-
cinth aud self-sowed daflodils toward tho
sca, where the waves wash against the
rock, we seem carried by n tide not unlike
the oceans sound 1t fills the room, IL Gibbs
and flows away; and when we leave, II Is
with a strange music in the ears, feeling
that we have for the first time, perhaps,
heard what we may have read hundred
times before"
THE HISTORY OF UTAH, by Hubert
Howe Bancroft. The History company,
723 Market street, San Francisco, Cal. This
volume has provoked great deal of severe
criticism because of the white washing
which II seems to give TO the Mormons and
1t certainly gives the impression of an ella
borate defense rather than history. This
may only be because the historian has
found that the general detestation of Nor
monism has fostered erroneous views as tc
the people and their history, and Il
he has courageously decided to sol
forth the facts regardless of publ,
opinion he il worthy of all praise
Tho story he tells of tho early struggles
and mistortunes of the Mormons, is "A won.
derful, and would be an inspiring, tale II
every page of tho record did not seem tc
carry broad, black mourning border fol
"A murdored reliyion- th, ,,,nuIoa ,',,;,
,ianitv tba, has seryod =, i,s,,i.a,h' ;,..
ant ro,lower. or Sn,iih an5 vo o 80, ..t,,
fervent but fanatical and degrading zeal
Mr. Bancroft gives an apparently thorough
Mountain Meadow n,,ss,oro an, I,,,n,,
| that the Mormons cannot bo Justly blamed
| for that horrible atltir, which has usual,
been charged 10 thoir diroct in,,ioa,;nn
uo cannot. however romove ths I'm,
preston that the attitude or IN,
| Mormon leaders was SO openl,
hostile. and their influence owe,
the Indians so complete that they must b,
held responsible for tho massacre even i
| they did not directly order IL. That il ,
| black spot in their story, and If the bistor,
| of the westward sweep of our civilization
| should ever be well written, no doub
many another border tale of Mormon
scheming would loo found TO support IN,
| natural theory that the Mormons sought I,
| check the advance, and hoped to remain a,
| independent nation. Whatever NAV h,
| their virtues--and il must be remembered
that very large faction oppose polyramy-
they were in position of hostility to tn,
United States and were only preyortec
from open defiance and independent actor
by their hopeless weakness. Mr.. Bancroft
gives great deal of space To an attacl
FMpon "the gentiles," as the followers n
Brigham Young are wont to call tb,
rest of the people of this country. Thi,
seems to be entirely unwarranted and i,
certainly not history. Mormonism mus
stand or fall by its own merits regardless,
of the failngs of the votaries of othe
creods, and II is Ger tainly falling.
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