The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-05-01

anu HcnleVem0nJS are all View ed CluerSntly |
by different persons. If it were true that
one party, one sect, one side were
always right, always correct, always
actuated by proper motives and
always moving along legitimate lines,
never making mistakes, never committing
blunders, and never guilty of errors, and if
it were also true that the other side were
always wrong, it would be easy enough to
write history, the facts being known. But
this Is never the case. In Titan there has
been an almost inces5ant contest, the con-
troversy involving every resident, and the
minds of all have been Influenced and
pre1udiced to greater or less degree;
hence the difficulty in recording what has
taken place without Partially, and with
out desracting from the value of the history
by permitting the bias and sympathies Of
the author to color the account.
The first volume of MIR. Whitney's
"History of Utah" has come from the
press, and in so far es we have read It's
pages, the estimate of the authors ability,
truthfulness, fairness and discrimination
has been justified. The author being a
member of the Mormon church, necessarily
his sympathies are with those people; IN
places this fact manife5ts itself, not so
much IN the way OF an argumentauye de-
fense Of the Mormon side OF some cOntrO-
versies which have taken place here as in
the assumption, as matter of course, that
the Mormons were right However, 1t Is
apparent that the author has endeayored
to divest his mind OF the partisan and
religious bias and impressions which are
natural to him by reason of mis- train
| ing and association, and to re-
cord only truthful statements Of fact.
Some will criticiss, and others condemn,
because different coloring has not been
| given to the record, and one which would
| have made the book yalueless as & history
but we believe the sutnor can successfully
answer his biased critics, If he cannot
satisfy them.
We can only briefly refer here to the con
tents of this volume, which is book OF T3t
pages, and brings the history down TO 1861
Fifteen of the thirty-tWo chapters are
given up to the story OF the founders aDC
the founding of the Mormon church, matter
which is interesting and which is directly
related 10 the history OF this territory, fol-
these people and their church are th'
founders and early builders of tue Utai
commonwealth. Necessarily this volume
deals almost exclusively with the Nor
mons, who were about the only inhaoitant
of the territory during the period covered
Beginning with the advent OF the pioneer
in 1S47, the story of Utah reads like d rC
nance, SO full is it of incidents cut CT Tn
Ordinary, 50 exciting INC OCCuLlSuCS
so full of event all the years
Never before has the world witnesse
: such founding CT q state, such oulidin
of a commonwealth. And MIR. Whitney
relates the story with the vlyidness Whlc
? it demands, his pen never having done NOR
brilliant or better literary work. Havln
had access to official and other records, an
$ many of those who participated IN Ia
\ stirring events of the early days bein
ri1 oliu
. make the history not only exhaustive, bu
to verify il IN detail, thus making II ex
tremely valuable.
The HERALD wants to compliment To
publishers and to say that in lis oplnio
il the volume is the handsOmest ana oes
s from the printers and BINDERS points c
Il view ever issued in Utah. The paper
superb, the type clean and clear, and Ia
binding artistic, the book being enc hlc
d would do credit to the foremost pubhshin
u houses of the country. 1t Is prOtusel
@ illustrated with steel portraits, the fronts
piece being a MAGNIFICENT likeness
p Brigham Young, VINO is naturally the Gel
d trail figure OF the history.
1t HARPER's MAGAZINE.
Harpc,'s Magazine for May opens wit
q the first chapters of characteristic Ne
d England novel, Jane Field, by Mark
d Wilkins. The frontispiece and other illus
1t trations of the story are from drawings
W. T. Smedley. An important Hteral
feature of the number is an article by An
Thackeray Richie on Robert and ELF,
beth Barrett Browning" relating many
teresting personal "reminiscences OF the w
eminent poets. Lieutenant Colonel EXne
an officer in the German service, contrib
utes a timely article on The German Arm
of To day." which is effectively illustrat
by T. de Thulstrup. Julian Ralph, CO
tinuing his valuable series OF papers on u
great northwest, gives q strikingly int
esting description of THE Dakotas." I
fourth of the deservedly popular series
Danube papers, Prom the black FOREST
on the Black Sea-" is written by +. d. Mill;
and beautifully illustrated by Alfred Pi
=. sons and MIR. Millet. Anna G. Brackf
~ writes a trenchant and valuable article
1.-THE Private School for Girls" and L
in gene Lawrence contributes short hlsto1
cal paper on "Amerigo Vespucci." i
an fiction of the number embraces, oesic
Miss wilkins story, the third instalme
of MIR. Howells' novel, 1.-THE World
ne Chance;n a humorous story, entitled IT
Courtship of Jessekiah Brown" by Ru
're McEnery Stuart, with an illustration
A. B, Frost; and another French Canadl
ed dialect story 'sMalouin," by William
Lehman, illustrated by c. S. Reinha
- Harper & Bros, New York.
to THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY.
Mr.. Scudder should be congratulated
his success in obtaining for the Atlantic
brilliant correspondence of Ralph Wa
Emerson and Thoreau, which occupies
M first place in the issue for the month
IT, Nav. The letters are edited by MIR. F.
,ak Sanhorn, of Concord, and they give cnar
90 teristic glimpses of the life, physical, m
lty tai and spiritual, OF the two friends dur
no adj
ia in other words, 1S43. a ut companl
,ty piece to these letters is the Roman journ
,tv of Severn, the friend of Keats, which g
res quite thrilling picture of the events l
I've cedins the fall of pspal Rome. ApropOs
om Rome. Harriet Waters Preston and Lot
red Dodge contribute the first of q Berie!
csc articles on Private Life in Anci
me Rome,n and Mr.. Crawford continues
ure Italian serial, 'Don Orseno," The 81
inc story OF the numoer, WIZ the odo TUE
at Cathedral Courtship, is furnished by K
Douglas Wiggin. Two papers rem
r. which are more than usually valual
Prof. ]. ]. Greenough's article, :"
Present Requirements for Admission
Harvard College" aud David Dod
,. semi historic view Of Home Scenes at
cen Fail of the Confederacy.n A few OF
on on papers, some poetry, ana reviews, Incl
que ing of course the inevitable criticism
de- Mrs. Wards "Dayid Grieve," and Hart
low Meas Of the D,Uberyines, compile
ace stroug number of this standard magaz
pet, Roughton, Mifflin s. Co., Boston.
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lot OVERLAND MN N
ngs The Overland Monthly for May has '
interesting article on 'San Franc
r. Street Characters" 1t brings together
portraits and histories Of persons
whose faces old San tranciscans remen
ioor well, but whose persona sso..os n nS :.
ock. NAMED mystery. ine pot - - e ar ~ ~,
rec peror' Norton 10 SUI ktioo " ~
ting lew VINO knew tne n - 80 49,