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The LIONS OF THE LORD. "A TALE OF THE
OIL DWEsT. By Harry Leon Wilson. Illus

THE LIONS OF THE LORD. "A TALE OF THE
VI INVEST. By Harry Leon Wilson, Illus
trated. Boston: Lothrop Publishing com
pany. |
The author has made his tale out Of
the weary journey along the old Salt Lake
trail OF that peculiar people, the Nor
mons, from Nauvoo, I'LL, whence, they
were driven by their Gentle. :neighbors
across the mississippi to- seek. like Israel,
a promised land toward the sunsetting, He
mas rooted the story from historic fact
The whole history of the Mornons Is
strongly favored with romance from Nau-
VOC to Salt Lake CITY, and the author
portrays in strong coloring the deadly ia
nallc1sm OF the Danites, the ilnpervious
hypocrisy and. animalism. of BRIGHAM
Young, and the duplicity and mendacity
OF the elders. the real heroism and the
simple. faith of the unsophisticated in the
lmposture. Such individual characters
as the Wild Ram of the Mountains, tho
Little Man of Sorrows, the, Lutte of the
Holy Ghost were real personalities and
FACTORS OF the enthusiasm which enabled
this people to establish their hierarchy
under the shadow Of the Rockies and defy
successfully the power of the United States
and American public opinion, for they yet,
by various subterfuges, in spite of laws,
maintain their organization and have not
removed from their system the essential
point OF 1t-polygamy. In this story the
author has shown an effective power to
depict love and hate. The affair OF Ruel
Follett and Prudence Carson is an ex-
traordinartly well developed love episode
the fearless. muscular, aggressive, open
air hero and Gentle, who won the mai
den who made the Book of Mormon her
Bible, yet refused to accept the marriage
code contained therein, and believed in
one wife only for each man.. The story
Is didactic In a large sense for, Incidental
~. the tenets of the Mormon church are
erought out plainly. The young elder,
joel Rae, a specimen of the strongly con
sc1entious Mormon, is one Of the most in
teresting characters In the book. 80.
THE sAMAR1TANs. A TALE. OF TODAY.
BY John Alexander Steuart. Author of wine
On me Lees Etc Chicago: Fleming U.
This story shows that all the heroes are
not Of the fields Of battle smoke, blood
and bullets. The heroes like Rev. Per-
cival Emmett, and Mira, lowly born, and
| others in this book, are those who make
any sacrifice to rescue and save humanity
from degradation. The locality Is the
slums of London: st.. Emmanuars the
| rescue headquarters. Emmett went down
into the moral darkness and among the
[ starved souls and bodies and, with brave
and devoted assistants like Mrs Roy, rich
but esteeming her wealth entrusted tc
her by God, and the other consecrated
people he wrought to save the submerged
until he closed his eyes in death. -s'~.o
DR.. Jopley said Of Ernrnet: Men give
their lives for others, and the others are
not one whit the better--a noble folly
evidently, and no more That is no
true, however. Emmett did not expect t.
transform the slunns In a day or year
At the close of his work he saw as tn,
author says, but a tiny ray Of light, 81
, tiny that only the expectant eye coult
, discern 1t on the smothering thickness O
the neither, murk; but within the yer,
little circle the forces Of Justice and mere,
were beginning to move, stimulated b,
the memory Of those who were gone VIII
understood at last that the travail, tn
; pain, the pangs of sorrow and OF love wer
not altogether lost
, The author has introduced many touch
,, ing incidents and the whole story /
, stimulating to faith and hope In such res
: cue work as is detailed.