Show Liter Literary rw Notes and nd d ReVie Reviews u RACIAL n. ROOK nOOK AND SD II HISTORY unusual value alue of ot This Is a volume and arlan arrangement compilation being a forSse for tor historical data anti and of ot genealogical and members mcm of oC the tha students use by Church of of oC the the Relief nellet society of oC Latter day Saints prepared prepared pre pre- Christ j Jestis us the tho auspices pared and published under Relief so- so of ot the general l board of or the tho board of oC the with the tho approval 1 of oC Utah of ot lio the tho Genealogical Society lonGfelt long longfelt longy or organizations Students Stu of o those reference book bool In y felt the need of oC n a connection their study of ot B ur- ur r- r of oC Baring Gould's Story Stor names J. J and Family Names am s was recommended in tho the beginning as ns a n reference hook book but hut tho the small sn all edition of this book exhausted and no Ir print was soon other surname book boole suitable to their theli needs was WS on the market Thon Then the present work was t written Mrs oIls Susa As the editor and compiler oung lung Gat Gates Gates' states In tho preface Our aim has hns been lecIl to be begin ln our study stud with t some acquaintance acquaintance- with the brief racial anti and hl historical informatiOn re- re b bv by the ordinary student who In the tho takes take up tiP his genealogical studies subject of the evolution e of surnames as today Especially do doVe doWe doe we know Ino them e We Inquire Into tribal and racial be ho- ho gInning ginnings The matter given gl concerning concern concern- lug ing Hindu pedigrees Ices and amI name nam customs first appears here and will both enlighten en- en lighten and Interest students of ot surname sur sur- name beginning beginnings Thus the work Is of or widespread and I Inot appeals not merely local Interest It to students long these lines the world over Q and Is o of or gre great value owing to totne I Itile tile tue accuracy vim which 1 iho work ork was I Ilone done O Of paL particular cUlar Interest is the tho I chapter Racial Beginnings In Eu- Eu opo ope wherein the Thins Huns are described bed for Instance The Huns who later overran O parts of Pr western Europe were Asiatic Tartar Tartar Tar Tar- tar or Mongolian Jon olian stock akin to the iho and Turks These fierce marauders overran 0 Europe in eirl uJ centuries They Thoy nr are ars almost black or skin with broad ll shoulders flat nit noses hoses and small maJl black eyes ees burled in 1 their heads almost destitute of beards they had a ferocious expression and were Wele devoid old of ill all I 11 graces races These rhese were wereth th HIP enemies of If the Goths and aud the the- goths ol lis The history of Jr family famil names Is especially espe espe- daily interesting and the entire subject sub sub- jot jOlt Is treated not only in a fa fascinating ing lug but a scientific manner as well velI The alphabetical index is a valuable feat feature fea fea- t ture ure Jre of oC this volume which should find finda a widespread circulation not only in Salt Lake 1 ail Utah hut but ut al also o wherever students of oC genealogy Gen wilier Gen General eral Board of C the Womans Woman's Relief Reller So Society so- so I again for the sake of or a a. feeling cling o ot of lI lightness and exhilaration similar to that caused b by a reduction In lit atmospheric atmos atmos- pressure I constantly experience expert expert- ence enco this sensation on stepping out o omy ot of m my office In Fifth FUth avenue just because as I T do so my attention is Invariably In drawn upward b by the lofty building I did not believe o It possible to handle such Buch enormous masses of or material am and produce such perfect grace race and ease case until I came to New ew York Some ot of the skyscrapers are arc as simple and firm as a n Doric Done column from Hom the Parthenon while others with more elaborated base I and upper story stor are a as t graceful as an anIOnic anIonic anIonic Ionic column from th I I 1 II I have a 1 photograph before me mc of or Broadway Broad Broad- J I wa way looking south from the postoffice This is 15 not only a splendid eX example of or sky area as ns accentuated by form fonn of ot which the foursquare foursquare four four- tho the way out for Cor the tho eye 00 square plan offers and also of ot the crushing effect of or a horizontal treatment treatment treat treat- ment as seen geen on the left of or tho picture but It illustrates in addition the wonderful won won- perspectives which the c skyscrapers sky shy scrapers build up The rhe possibilities the they afford from the point of view of ot architectural architectural archi archi- effect arc are almost unlimited I Ican Ican can n imagine lne domes towers lowers monuments moult- moult ments menn rising rising- one above the other as In Ina Ina Ina I a city cHy of dreams dream and I ask ak m myself what would woul the Statue of oC Liberty be if Ir reconstructed now From An English Architects Architect's Impression Impression Im Jin- of New York by T. T II IL L Lyon Lyonn on Ii In n the August number of ot Architecture Charles Scribners Scribner's Sons publishers I |