The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-27
LITERATURE.
The COmstOck Club.

Judge Goodwin's book is now on sale
Its title will go straight to the heart of ey
cry miner and mining man from the Rock.
les 10 the western ocean; and it is to then
ana 1or them the story is told-the story O.
The Comstock CIub.n
IL Is one OF the most original books eve,
written: 1t can be likened to nothing else
although there is a flash here
that reminds you of Mark Twain
and a something there of IpgersoI
IN the thrilling pathos of tender Sentiment
OF the best he has written. These lines
1or instance. make you think of one of thu
great orators funeral o%rations; but it is 3
thing even more exquisite in sentiment and
coloring, the words of virgins two friends
over his coffin lid:
brewster" said Alex, your balance is
disturbed TO- night.
You say from out our darkened chamber
we cannot see the light, and then Won on
on TO assert that Wright is happier than
when here. You do not know; YOU home
SO, That is all. So do 1, and by the calm
that mas pressed its signet on his lips. / am
willing to believe that all that was of him
Is as much at rest as is his
throbless heart, and that the mystery tn +
so perpleXes us-this something which one
moment greets US with smiles and lovino
words, put which q moment later is frozen
into everlasting silence-is clear to him
now. hope so, else the worlds were made
In vain, and the sun in heaven. and all the
stars whose white fires fill the night are
worthy OF as little reverence as a sage
ofuSh lame; and it was a cruel plan which
permitted men to have life. to kindla IN
their brains glorious longiugs and in their
hearts to Waken affections more dear than
life itself" ~
1t can hardly be called a novel for II ia
almost pIo less so far as a connected story
goes, and yet, that being the case. il con.
talns the most dramatic situations. In
DEED, so great are its possibilities in that
me Inae one OF the surest predictions to
make IN regard to it is that it will some dav
DE dramatised. With a few changes Il
would MAKE a great play. AS has been
SAID OF Dickens works, whole PAGES
might be pvt on the stage without fhe
changing of a word. With Corrioan
ana oid lack Taylor to sup
Ply the comedy parts; with
the fresh, bright witticism of
It's dialogue; with the thrilling scene at the
shaft when the mine Is on fire and REV
ster's friends are supplicating for the Driv-
elege OF sacrificing their own lives to save
that OF their friend; with the love story a
little more fully interviewer: with MilIer,s
hazard at STOCKS worked more defniteIv
into the plot; with that scene of Sister
Celeste In the moon light where the tinsv
miner drops on his knees before the sad
gaze OF her pure eyes, and where with
heaVen-ll1ted finger she murmurs this re-
proach: IF your mother is watching there
what Will she think of her son2n
Inc BOOK is a cleaning and weaving to-
getner OF uhe "reminiscences of that lunar
aiied period IN the west, the 'sold flush
days" IN Nevada and California. No one
can oeIuer tel tue story than he who tells
1t line Comstock Club" He was one
OF the men who made it and was nv M
means a small factor in its DEVELOPMENT
The strongest sentiment in it. and Won
cannot read 1t without feeling it to he inc
absorbing passion of the mans life is the
appreciation and love he expresses for his
feilow-men and his immense admiraIon
Tor a noble and generous act. You read
through IL all, how the mans thoughts and
sympathies have run toward suffering
ana now he has put on record
every deed of generosity that has come
within his ken. 1t is a broken tale of the
sorrows and the heroism of the western
a%rgonaut. 1t might be called not exactly
"Ihe knights OF the Round Table, bnt
1.-THE liners of the Square Table.n Over
their pipes, and before the whistle sounds
for the night shift, they tell the story of
the workers under Mt. Davidson. their
terrible hardshlps and splendid achieve
menus, their love and laughter, their afiic-
ton and distress.
The book is filled with names that were a
power In that day and it will 20 down to
the next generation, and the next. as a
well-told chapter in history.
The author touches on one of the sub
lects nearest to his heart, the silver cues
ton, and in one paragraph gives a descrin-
ton of a sunset in Salt Lake that entities
him TO a rival position with Sunset Cox.
The story of Sister Celeste is a gem that
will find many a setting in the time that is
to come.
1t deals but little with love but the few
pages written are matchless. What could