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Show THE CITIZEN 9 UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUlillllHIIHIIMIHIIIIIIIIIIIMUHIIIWMIWilliiHHiiiilWHiiMiHWiiiWMIWIUWWMIllWIIIHHIWimiUlWimmMIIMmilimillUUlimillllUlHIMIHIHIMMIII AMONG THE NEW BOOK, More than ever beforev successful business 1IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII re- THE BRANDING IRON. By Katharine Newlin Burt. Book by courtesy of D. A. Callahan. quires Banking Service of the broad perma nent character we give. H'CorailCKt CajANKnnD CAPITAL AN! SURPLUS ESTABLISHED ISZ3 9000001)0 :jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiti!iiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!!iiiiiiii:iiiii Every Dollar Paid For Insurance in I 1 1 2 The Guardian Fire Insurance 1 j I Company 2 of Utah I Stays In Utah 1 I 5 The Agency Company Managers 1 334 South Main Street SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 3 iv riBiiBiiBiiaiiBiiaiiaiiiiiiiiBiiBiiBiiaiiBiiiiiiiiiiiaiii'ii'ia'ii::i:'i:ii." Tel. Wai. Apen All Night UNDERTAKERS AND 5518 sin-buster- EMBALMERS S. D. EVANS Modern Establishment New Building Salt Lake City 48 State St. 'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'j This Buk Identffied With Erery Forward Htnment The enviable reputation of this bank has boon acquired by Its adherence to the policy of enter- prise, honesty and courtesy. Our patrons know the benclits of connection with such an in- stitutlon. W. S. McCornlck. ......... .Pres, 1st Vice Pres. Anthon U. Lund... A. Smith.. 2nd Vice Pres. George Cswh er Mlchelsen M. F. Asst. Cashier D. i E. Judd Perhaps you have read how this work has taken the outposts of criticism by storm. It is a first work; remarkable for its dramatic qualities, its literary aroma and its original treatment of the oldest plot in literature the eternal triangle. It is pronounced by many the most promising first novel in years, and it is just that. As we write of it the fear makes itself felt that the author will not be able to continue her flight so far above the arid plains of the average. The weaknesses of the novel are quite as apparent as its merits. Sometimes an author, with the art that the French know so well, can make the atmosphere better than the characters, but usually the characters color the atmosphere. For the most part the characters of The Branding Iron are a bad lot. It does not cure matters, from an artistic viewpoint,, to say that they are intensely human. The book reeks with immoralities, but the author has no purpose to idealize sin. The denouement, with astonishing power, places the branding iron where it belongs. A girl of the wilds these western wilds of ours that seem so tamely civilized to us is wooed and wed by a good man of the plains a cowboy. Her father had shot her mother for her dealings with men and had thought, in his narrowness, selfishness and cowardice, to keep his daughter from contact with men. There shall be no men in your life, he had said. When she runs away and is married he curses her and predicts that she will go the way of her mother. And she does. Her husband grows jealous of a who has taught his wife to read and to enjoy literature. In an excess of rage he brands her on her branding shoulder with the white-ho- t A on cattle. his stranger, iron he uses into rushes hearing the wifes cries, the cabin, shoots down the husband and takes the woman away to his cabin. She thinks her husband dead, but asks the stranger to return and bury the body. He returns to find the nursing a wounded man back to life. He returns to his cabin and does not tell what he has seen. In time he claims this girl of the wilds but there is no marriage. Then the shadow of an old love crosses his path. He, a writer, has taught the beautiful Joan about inbeauty and art, but he has also stilled into her his own degraded Marideas of human relationships. riage, he tells her in one of his fits of sophistry, is mans greatest insult to women. The play shirts to Now York. By a strange fortune, which is ns fascinatsin-bust- i a 1, er ing in fiction as it is false in life, all the characters ultimately come into contact in New York, where Jane Joan is leading lady in a West play written by an unidentified turns out to be who author, Prosper Gael, her rescuer and betrayer. Fate has kept him separated from the woman to whom he fled when he deserted Joan, and he seeks to resume the old relationship with Joan, who spurns him. LADI Get the habit of lunching and dining at ROTISSERIE INN We serve Fine Salads, Cold Chicken Consomme Jelly, Sea Foods and all kinds of Hot Weather specials. Special attention accorded our guests by C. Rinetti and F. . After a complete unmasking of Prosper and several others of the bad lot, with here and there a revelation of the nobility of human nature, the husband finds his branded wife branded body and soul. The false loves burn themselves out; only the true love the love that forgives all remains. THE 8PELL OF THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS AND THE PHILIPPINES. By Isabel Anderson. Boston: The Page Company. more delightful books of travel can be found than those of the Spell Series now in course of issue. The present volume contributed by Mrs. Isabelle Anderson is fully equal to its predecessors. Each volume is intended to convey something of the spell of the cases the author succeeds well in a pleasant task. The Hawaiian and the Philippine Islands are already fairly well known to the American tourist. They ought to be even better known, and to this end Mrs. Andersons new book measurably contributes. NO THE POSITION OF PEGGY HARPER. By Leonard Merrick. Introduction by Sir Arthur Pinero. E. P. Dutton & Co. Sir Arthur Pinero writes the introduction to the revised and limited edition of The Position of Peggy Harper, the fourth of a thirteen volume edition of Leonard Merricks works to be published in this country. This romance of the stage was originally published here by Mitchell Kennerly 323 HUN SOUTH More than 15,000 STREET in- dividuals, firms and corporations representing every western industry, have accounts with Brothers Walker Bankers. For the reason ask our customers. Walker .Brothers Bankers Founded Resources Over 1859 1,000,000 $1 When Buying or Selling Stocks See H. B. COLE, Broker Room 1, Stock Exchange Salt Lake Bid, in 1912. equipped story writer desiring to' treat of the theatre, Pinero writes, could, without great expenditure of mental effort, conceive the story of Peggy Harper. But, having conceived it, nobody, I am convinced, could unfold it in such a consumately natural unforced way as Mr. Merrick unfolds it, nor people it as he peoples it. He will reveal in a seemingly caree less what another writer will take a page over, or will heavily underscore. He does with his pen what a fine etcher does with his needle. Perhaps it is the spectacle or the sombre figure of Tragedy tugging at Comedys sleeve, and holding his (Continued on Page 14.) Any half-sentenc- ordinarily WE PRINT THE CITIZEN OUR CRAFTSMANSHIP SPEAKS FOR ITSELF Century printing Company J. Q. RYAN W G ROMNEY CENTURY BUILDING 231 EDISON STREET Phone WiBatch 1801 Printers. Binders, Designers, Linptypers |