Show LITERARY OrES HISTORY OF UTAH There is no section of the great west that has been more fruitful in historical incidents of a peculiar and interesting character than the territory of Utah Its early settlement was really the opening of this whole region to civilization and the people who pioneered the way are worthy of more credit than is generally accorded them in consequence of the prejudices which their peculiar religious views and customs arouaed Exaggerated Exagger-ated and distorted representations of their belief and conduct have placed them in an unfavorable light and it is pleasant to contemplate the prospect of a better understanding in the world both of Utah and her psople The History of Utah written by O F Whitney and published by Cannon Sons of this city may be relied upon to accomplish this object The first volume received universal praise both for the reliable data it contained and the manner in which the facts were presented The 1 handsomely printed and bound book i which was furnished to the subscribers I was a surprise and a delight The second volume is just out and is even better than the first It is full of interest From beginning to end the story of early times in this region re-gion maintains the readers attention and the thrilling adventures and striking occurrences related have all the charm of romance while the assurance that they are not fiction veritable history adds to their attraction and stamps them with no ordinary value Tho period embraced in the new volume is from 1861 when Nevada was lopped off from Utah to1877 when Utahs founder Brigham Ypnng passed away from this life It would DO impossible to give here even an epitome of the prominent occur rences treated upon All the remarkable events of thatperiod are related with as full attention to detail as is desirable The advent of the transcontinental railroad affords opportunity to give a succinct suc-cinct account of that project from the beginning be-ginning the accuracy of which is vouched for by prominent railroad officials The noted Morrissite war the opening of the assault on polygamy the Indian campaigns cam-paigns the woman suffrage legislation the organization and work of the Liberal party the McKean judicial regime the Mountain Meadows trIalswhich introduce intro-duce a complete and correct account of the noted massacrethe mercantile organizations or-ganizations the political disturbances the sensational arrests of prominent menthe men-the last important acts of President Young are a few of the themes dwelt upon up-on in this volume Absolute accuracy has been the aim of the author both as to dates and to incidents inci-dents and he has endeavored to relate Without bias all that occurred of public interest during those exciting times when opposing parties contended with fierce vigor and Utah was in continual turmoil The style of the work is superb su-perb and while it is sufficiently ornate rhetoric is not attempted in place of the plain narration of facts The nortraits and other steel engravings engrav-ings are in the first style of art The likenesses are true to naturo and tho mechanical me-chanical work of the volume ia unexcep tionable It is a magnificent work ol 860 pages beautifully bound and being a home production should be a source of pride to every resident of Salt Lake Two more volumes will complete the work and if they ar6 approximately equal to those that have been published the History His-tory of Utah will bo one of the finest productions pro-ductions of the kind ever issued in the United States WORTHTSQTONS S ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE With the June number Worthingtons Illustrated Magazine completes its first volume under the most favorable auspices Its table of contents printed with this number shows a remarkable variety of timely topics most of which will be of rqoro than temporary value and the names of contributors are such as would do credit to any magazine ten times its age It has been enlarged by sixteen pages and shows steady advancement in every thing thatlielps to make up an exceptionally exception-ally bright attractive very entertaining and instructive magazine Indeed in genuine interest no other magazine excels this ever > welco eTisitor to our table r I < I < I r > j > The June number is rich In well written leading articles of timely interest inter-est in shortstories essays and poemS while tho charming illustrations beautifully beauti-fully reproduced and the fine presswork press-work render it as satisfactory to the eyo as it is refreshing and stimulating to the mind It is in fact to our mind the best number of a magazine that has been exceptionally attractive and interesting from the start BELFORDS MONTHLY Tho June issue of Belford j1ontllly is entitled to more than a passing comment for both in its artistic and literary makeup make-up it is of the best This months Bel fords contains the first chapter of Mrs Lindon W Bates humoristic story of the Pacific coast entitled A Frontier Fiction The corning corn-ing intercollegiate baseball tournament tourna-ment offers President Rogers of Northwestern North-western and Francis W Color < an occasion for a splendid fully illustrated article on college athletics in this country and Europe Hubert H Bancrofts unique library of Americana one of the great treasures of San Francisco is happily described de-scribed by pen and picture Humor and sentiment mingle in three very readable sketches entitled respectively Rachael and Elias I An Idle Dream and The Honorable Frederick Finally the defense de-fense of spiritism with phantom pictures interspersed is graphically undertaken by M M Dawson Altogether a great number ROMANCE 7 FOftJUNE With a fine senso of appropriateness Romance presents this month a Special Scandinavian Number with wbiclx to temper the heats of June More thiin half the contents of this issue are characteristic charac-teristic stories the land of the mid bight Run J 1 by its most noted writers such ns Bjornson Boyoson Kielland Sigurd Peter Toft and Anna Wahlen berg The rest of the number is made up of American English French and Italian Ital-ian tales several of which as especially adapted lor summer reading are delightful I delight-ful love stories Arnongthe authors hero I represeptcd are Guy de Maupassant Lady Lindsay Julia Schayer Alphonso Daudet and Prosper Merimee Thin periodical comes from Romance Publishing Publish-ing company Clinton Hall Astor Place New York 25 cents a number 250 a year JENNESS MILLER The June issue of Jenness Hitter Illustrated Illus-trated Monthly is replete with entertaining entertain-ing teatures One of the most interesting interest-ing articles describes a visit to Sir Frederick Fred-erick Leighton There are stories poems po-ems fashions and articles describing dainty work for women in summer Ten cents a copy 1 a year with premium Jenness Miller company 927 Broadway New York city TALES FROM TOWN TOPICS Tales from Town Topics No8 including in-cluding a l 000 prize story entitled Six Months in Hade is just published and proves to be rich with the humor and spice characteristic of the society journal from which it takes its name The special novel is a very absorbing and bright work and the selected matter is most agreeable summer reading Town Topics 21 West Twentythird street New York THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS The leading articles in the June number num-ber of the Review have a wide range ol interest in-terest and the editorial department the progress of the world will attract attention atten-tion from its lucid discussion of the business busi-ness and monetary situation in the United States and other countries It is illustrated with perhaps even more pictures pic-tures than usual the number exceeding 100The The Review for June is a number which nobody who intends to go to the Worlds fair at any time can well afford to be without However attractive tho other departments may be it will be true of this Worlds fair as it was of the Centennial Centen-nial in 1876 that the great majority of the visitors will derive more pleasure from the pictures in the art department than from anything else The article serves as an excellent general guide to the art department de-partment and as an auxiliary to the more formal catalogue which gives the names and numbers of the pictures MCLURES MAGAZINE The first number of cCluresMagazine would certainly indicate a disposition on tho part of the publishers to enter into active competion in aji already wellfilled field The exhibition of popular writers is at once attractive There are stories by Gilbert Parker Mrs Stevenson and Joel Chandler Harris interviews with Carl Hagonbeck Thomas Edison and Alexander Alex-ander Graham Bell and essays by M de Blowitz and Professor Drummond R H Sherard describes the Count de Les seps of today and H W Massingham gives an account of a day with Mr Gin stone Eight letters from James Parton showing his rules of biography are contributed con-tributed by Alfred Conkling Two new and interesting features are the Real Conversations and the Human Documents Docu-ments series IThe conversation for June is written by Mr Boyeson and has taken place between himself and Mr Howells The HumanDocuments are portraits of famous personages taken at different stages of their lives THE JUNE CENTURY The Century for June opens with a reproduction re-production of a cast of the Juno of Argos discovered last year ny the American school of Athens and now printed for the first time The number has two seasonable season-able articles relating to sports an article on the condition of the Russian peasantry peas-antry some new facts concerning the death of the French prince imperial in Zululand a variety of literary contributions contribu-tions an illustrated paper In Cowboy Land etc The editorial departments are all full and interesting UIn Lighter Vein has nine contributions mostly by wellknown and popular writers The Century for June in short maintains its worldwide 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