The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-08-23
story, whether Intentionally so or not /:
in reality strong study of heredlty.

story, whether Intentionally so or not, is
in reality strong study Of hered1ty.
TaEoDoaIc. THE GOTH the barbarian cham
pion OF civilization. BY Thomas Hodgkin, ID.
! c l.. New York: q. p. Putuam's Sons.
Price sl.s0.
In the popular Heroes OF the Nations"
series there is no more entertaining volume
! than this, which is careful study Of q
/ period n the worlds history Of which We
know so little and yet which is so interest
! ing. Prof. Hodgkin is perhaps ore of be
best Informed regarding the period Of liv-
| Ing authors, and in this work he has con-
densed his informal on and given US q con-
sistent story OF the career of Theodoric.
whom he designates as lone of the great
might have beens of history The Goth
/ had the elements of greatness within him,
and was leader of men almost from mis-
boyhood and then the conditions were
ripe for the work which he undertook
and accomplished, the Roman empire of
the west having passed its zenith, and
swiftly drifting towards its death. AS
/ the author says: There was everywhere
unrest, and, as IL were, prolonged moral
earthquake. The old order of things was
destroyed, and none could forecast the
shape of the new order Of things that
would succeed it'' The student and the
lover OF history will both be interested by
reading the story of the Goth chieftain
who became the Emperor OF Italy.
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! There is not much Of an entertaining
J character in this little book, and yet it is
not unpleasant reading. IL is story OF q
smoker who tells now &c learned to smoke,
what a comfort and what a nuisance the
! habit became, and how be broke off the
practice
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| In this volume are collected fourteen
/ sketches, most OF them relating to some
I little known legend add each conveying q
/ lesson in the human virtues. as gentleness.
| self sacrifice, courage, purity, sweetness,
/ etc. The attractiyeness in the tales is
their quaintness and their excellent Eng
lish.
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FRANK LEsL1E's POPULAR MONTHLY.
The numerous exciting events in the
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tine portrait of the late Edward Burgess,
the lamented designers OF the Queens cup
defenders, etc. This number Of the maya
zine also contains illustrated articles upon
the Mare Island Navy yard, by Ensign j.
M. Ellicott; Under Four Flags" (oid Ca
hokia), by M. G. Williams; Through Cen
trail Asia in War Time" by David ker;
The Short and Simple Annals of the
Poor" by d. V. S. Eyres; ''Feathered
Gems" drumming Birds, by Nelly Hart
Woodwork; the conclusion OF Scott Camp
BELLS serial, John Maggs, Barbarian"
etc, together with numerous short stories,
sketches, literary and scientific miscellany
and poems