Show I TCIrnHSE8 S QUARTERLY MACA I IJfE II I I bAtter a delay extending over nine I months another number of TulHdacs Magazine presents itself and as one 1 I glances over its pages he is forced tot to-t pause and express surprise that the I i periodical is given to delays and such j I irregularity in making its appearance I The editor and proprietor knows the whys and wherefores and so also do I others and because of their knowledge dc they wonder The delays are due to no lack of energy on the part of the editor to no want of industry Ito I-to no waiting for matter to fill the pages the difficulty is one that no effort of the editor can I overcome It consists in a lack of that i J t support which would move obstacles aside and achieve success in spite i > opposition op-position Inplainwords the magazine is struggling along without money the poor overworked overtaiedj editor having to glit againstanj adversity that would crush Ono less earnest industrious in-dustrious and devoted to a purpose Why this condition of things should exist is hard to understand when the value merits and character of the work are taken into consideration In the matter of literary merit very little of the current literature excels that of the Quarterly but tfio value of thepublication is found greatest vatuc u mo JJL n w L Pin in its historical sketches which are its distinguishing feature Of the many books and accounts that have been written and published of and about Utah nothing can compare with the articles ar-ticles in Tullidgct for correctness fairness fair-ness faithfulness and coherence i and only In this work has anything likea record of events been attempted in connection con-nection with their bearing upon what in future will be regarded as the real history of the Territory and its people I Everything that occurs is related to or has an effect upon something else and the pcinting out of this relation and the designation of the effect ef-fect is the clever and careful work of the thoughtful scholar and true historian Mr Tnllidge possesses the faculty or ability in a large degree hence the value of his research as illustrated and recorded in his magazine The future historian will not only gladly draw heavily from the pages of this periodical period-ical but he will necessarily do so for the reason that he can get the required re-quired information nowhere else We sincerely wish that the publication would receive the financial encouragement encourage-ment that it deserves The present issue contains a most valuable paper giving the history of Utahs formation wherein much information is giVE that has never before appeared in type The inside politics of early days is most 1 interesting and in the light of modern systems judicial rulings and popular l sentiment in connection with the Territory Terri-tory in its relation to the Federal Government is valuable and instructive as showing how the ideas of statesmen and jurists undergo radical rad-ical changes in brief periods fA large part of the number is given up to a history of Utah County which includes sketches of its representative men Boththese are by the editor as also is an article on Napoleon Bonaparte Bona-parte Other contributors to the number num-ber Hannah T King John Lyon H W Naisbitt Win Gill Mills and W H Shear 11an This closes Volume III of the Queterljt |