Show LXTEEATUEE I HISTORY or UTAH Comprising Preliminary Chapters on the Previous History of Her 1 Founders Accounts of Early Spanish and I American Explorations in the Rocky Mount ei g a kt I sin Region the Advent of the Mormon Pioneers the Establishment and Dissolution I of the Provisional Gcv rnment of the Slate ofDeseret and the Subsequent Creation and te r g r Development ot the Territory In Four Volumes Vol-umes By Orson F Whitney Illustrated Salt Lake City George Q Cannon Sons company Vol I Two or three years ago when it was an I nounced that Oases F WHITNEY would j write the history of Utah Tun HERALD i j commended the undertaking and expressed I the belief that the work would bo well j done that is to say ably conscientiously and faithfully done I is one of the most I I difficult things in tho world to record history his-tory impartially when the writer and his friends have participated in the making mak-ing of that history To do so requires not merely good judgment and a discriminating mind but the intel gence to detect the bias which is a part of all our natures and the power and courage to disregard that bias and be fair as well as truthful There are two shies to every storyto the community story which we call history as well as to the controversies arising in every day life Motives actions and achievements are all viewed differently by different persons I it were true that one party one sect one side were 1 always right always correct always I actuated by proper motives and always moving along legitimate lines never making mistakes never committing blunders and never guilty of errors end 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 Utah there has been an almost incessant contest the controversy con-troversy involving every resident and tho I i minds of all have boen influenced and prejudiced to a greater or less degree hence the difficulty in recording what has taken place without partiality and without with-out detracting from the value of the history by permitting the bias and sympathies of the author to color the account f The first volume of Mr Whitneys I History of Utah baa como from the I press and in so far as we have read its pages the estimate of the authors ability truthfulness fairness and discrimination has been justified The author being a I member of tho Mormon church necessarily I his sympathies are with those people in places this fact manifests itself not so much in the way of an argumentative def de-f ensa of the Mormon side of some controversies contro-versies which have taken place here as in the assumption as a matter of course that h n n h Un iti UU Uvuvu bU uu v apparent that the author bus endeavored to divest his mind of tho partisan and religious bias and impressions which are natural to him by reason of his training train-ing and association and to record re-cord only truthful statements of fact Some will criticise and others condemn because a different coloring has not been given to the record and one which would have made the book valueless as n history cut we believe the author can successfully answer his biased critics I he cannot saltlsf y them We can only briefly refer hero to the contents con-tents of this volume which is a book of 736 pages and brings the history down tolbbl Fifteen of the thirtytwo cnapters are given up to the story of the founders and the founding Mormon church matter which is interesting and which is directly related to tho history of this territory for these people and their church are the founders and early builders of the Utah commonwealth Necessarily this volume deals almost exclusively with the Mormons Mor-mons who were about the only inhabitants I of the territory during tho period covered Beginning witu tne advent 01 tne pioneers in 1847 the story of Utah reads like 1 romance ro-mance so full is it of incidents out cf the ordinary so exciting the occurrences so full of event all the years Never before has the world witnessed cf state such a building uch a founding 0 buiding of a commonwealth And Mr Whitney relates the story with the vividness which it demands his pen never having done more brilliant or better literary worlt Having i had access to official aud other records and many of those who participated in the stirring events of tho early days being still alive the author has been able to make the history not only exhaustive but to verify it in detail thus making it extremely i ex-tremely valuable I THE HERALD wants to compliment the publishers and to say that in its opinion the volume is the handsomest and best from the printers and binders points of view ever issued in Utah The lisper is superb the type clean and clear and the binding artistic the book bcingcne which would do credit to the foremost publishing houses of the country I is profusely illustrated with steei portraits the frontispiece frontis-piece being a magnificent likeness of Brigham Young who is naturally the central cen-tral figure of the history HARPERS 1OAZtr Harpers Magazine for May opens with characteristic NOJV the first chapters of a churucteristc England novel Jane Field by Mark E lfl K n nnr nn 11 HUluua U ulluu I trations of the story are from drawings by W T Smedley An imptrtaut literary I feature of the number is an article by Anne Thackeray Ritchie on Robert and Eliza interesting beth Barrett Browning relating many teresting personal reminiscences of the two eminent poets LieutenantColonel Esner emient an in tho German service contributes contrib-utes a timely article on The Gorman Army of Today which is effectively illustrated by T do Thulstrup Julian Kalpb continuing con-tinuing his valuable series of papers on the great northwest gives a strikingly interesting inter-esting description of The Dakotas The fourth of the deservedly popular series of Danube papers From the Black Forest to the Black Sea is written by F D Millet and beautifully illustrated by Alfred Parsons Par-sons and Mr Millet Anna C Brnckett writes a trenchant and valuable article on The Private School for Girls and Eugene Eu-gene Lawrence contributes a short histon nni Tmnor on Amorico Vesnucci The fiction of the number embraces besides Miss Wilkins story the third instalment of Mr Howells novel The World ol Chance a humorous story entitled The Courtship of Jessekiah Brown by Ruth McEnery Stuart with nn illustration by A B Frost and another FrenchCanadian dialect story Maiouin by William McLennan Mc-Lennan illustrated by C S Reinhart Harper 8i Bros Now York THE ATLANTIC 3IOXTH1T Mr Scudder should ba congratulated on his success in obtaining for the Atlantic the brilliant correspondence of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thoreau which occupies the first place in the issue for the month of May The letters are edited by Mr F B Sanborn of Concord and they give characteristic charac-teristic glimpses of the life physical mental men-tal and spiritual of the two friends during the Dial period as the editor calls it in other words 1S43 A fit companion piece to these letters is the Roman journals of Severn the friend of Keats which give quite a thrilling picture of the events preceding pre-ceding the fall of papal Rome Apropos of Rome Harriet Waters Preston and Louise Dodge contribute the first of a series of articles on Private Life m Ancient Rome ana ivir urawiora continues ms Italian serial Don Orseno The short story of the number wita the odd title A Cathedral Courtship is furnished by Kate Douglas Wiggin Two papers remain which are more than usually valuable Prof J J Greonoughs article The Present Requirements for Admission to Harvard College and David Dodges semihistoric view of Homo Scene at the Fall of the Confederacy A few other papers some poetry and reviews including includ-ing of course the inevitable criticism of Mrs Warda David Grieve and Hardys Tees of the DUbervilles complete a strong number of this standard magazine Houghton Mifflin Co Boston OVERLAND MOXTIILl The Overland Monthly for May has a very interesting article on San Francisco Street Characters brings together the i portraitB and histories of personals whoso faces old San Franciscans remember well hut whoso personal stories have remained re-mained a mystery The portrait of Emperor Em-peror Norton is a surprise to all but the low who knew the Emperor when he had thrown off the cares of state with the epaulettes sword and plumed silk hat to smoke the pipe of good fellowship and tell stories around the fireside with the Bohemian boys The able article by an experienced and successful raisin grower Mr Joseph T Goodman is a valuable contribution con-tribution to the literature of the industries of California which the Overland publishes from time to time The paper by John Murray on Californias Discovery of Gold in ISll is to be noted aa full of facts free from guess or speculation The date of discovery placed as early as 1841 by the I incontrovertible evidence of United States I I mint documents i The Overland has well maintained its promise in the issues of the present year I thnt thft TArtunHnn I n nricn tn 25 rents should cause no other change except in the line of improvement Overland Monthly San Francisco Cal KOJIAUCE for May appears In a now cover which emphasizes Ito character as A Monthly Magazine of Complete Stories and by its skillful use of two colors not only challenges chal-lenges attention but commands admiration The contents of this number are upon the usual high level of interest and entertainment entertain-ment There are seventeen stories representing repre-senting writers of this country Canada England Ireland Franco and Germany Among the famous authors on the list ore Edgar Poe Alexander Dumas Charles Reed William Carleton Theodor Korner and Guy de Maupassant The magazine la issued Dy Romance Publishing company Clinton hall Astor Place New York |