Show CURRENT PUBLICATIONS I Time Magazine of Art for July has two I full PHRC colored prints Hoghton Mill and Tho Cast Shoo and It i haa I wealth I of beautiful pictures In delicate black Among them aro At the Drinking Place and tho Illustrations of the international exposition at Glasgow showing noblo structures At the Royal Academy Exhibition Exhi-bition carries pictures of the late Queen of the Duke of Somerset of court ladles and 0 eminent gentlemen The pictures celebrated artists studios form a grand series Art In Belgium In Edinburgh and in Italy are all fine lie latter enlivened by the fight over the Fountain Del Termini Ter-mini In Rome on account of time opposl tion by tho clericals to tho fnuik and undraped figures The New Gallery The Old Salon Recent Acquisitions of Our National Museums and Galleries and a wcaltli of art drawings and text 1 make up a number of very high excellence excel-lence Casacll Company publishers Nov York A brilliant publication I Crams Magazine for Juno has on Its I tltlcpago a good portrait of ExGovernor Plngreo of Michigan treats of Art and I Nature in Schools has A Thought or Two by Geo F Cram on social and domestic relations gives In Washington Corridors a keen gossip by A Logan has a strong treatment of The Chinese Problem by Charles E Aaron describes I A Vast Railway System tho Chicago Northwestern and has a fine review of The Worlds Doings durinG tho month J Is a magazine of Instruction Ceo F Cram publisher Chicago A supplement to The State of Columbia S C of July Sth printed In colors tints and handsome block Is worthy of special commendation I la I an Industrial and Art Edition very full and detailed on the climate resources Industries trade education art and progress of South I Carolina but more especially of Columbia and its Immediate vicinity The number cannot fall to bo of great service In attracting at-tracting attention to that city The Mormon Monster Embracing the History o Mormonlsm Mormonlsm as a Religious System Mormonism as a SocIalS Social-S stem Mormonlsm as a Political S > s Urn with a Full Discussion of the Subject Sub-ject pf Polygamy By Edgar E Folk A M D D editor of the Baptist and Reflector Nashville Tennessee with an introduction by George A Lofton D D PublJied by Fleming If Rcvcll Company Chicago The work has an endorsement by Salt Luke pastors R W Wake of the M E church T C IlilT Presiding Presid-ing Wider M E church I n Steelnian First Baptist church Wm r Pndcn First Presbyterian church and II H Mc Creery pastor at large Utah Presbytery who say under date of this city Sept 24 1CCO Wo have looked over tho proofs of this book and find that It Is replete with Important Information for those who arc unacquainted with the history teachings and tendencies of Mormonism And so the book certainly Is I Is a large work comprehensive In character thC sources of which were hail In many and widely different publications and conversations con-versations ns much as possible being Mormon Mor-mon Tlio chief standard publications of the church are put first and the other authorities comprise rely much all the mall literature of tho subject The book Is based on personal Investigations bytho author In Utah ho wrote his conclusions Ula1 and facts first to his paper where they attracted wide attention and caused the demand for their preservation In more permanent form Tho result with revision re-vision and addition appears here To say that It Is an honest effort to get at the bottom of the business Is but the truth and to say that this effort has met with a great degree of success Is but a proper acknowledgment the whole truth Is not told however nnd probably never will be told but this volume deserves tho confidence of the public In the main It Is well written sincere able and accurate save for a few slips hero and thero of no great Importance I Is J a valuable compilation of tho general facts and history his-tory of Mormonlsm and the acts of the leaders An appendix contains Observations Observa-tions and Experiences In Salt Lake City The Itulallon o Sidney Ulgdon to tho ttbok of Mormon I The Temple Service Some Experiences of a Mormon Woman Wo-man Mountain Meadows Massacre Complete Confession of John D Leo Mormon Morals u Recent Experience Everyday Thoughts In Prose and Verse By Ella Wheeler WIlcox Published by W B Conkey Company Chicago A collection col-lection o short articles on a large variety va-riety or subjects appuieiitly contributions contribu-tions to newspapers and now bound together to-gether In a book They form n curious medley of platitudinous pretense and airy Inllffercnce of flippancy and good sonse of helpful advice and preposterous rubbish The nrtlclts number one hundred hun-dred ard four brief essay ranging from pkitnnlc love to religion from penurious husbands to unfaithful wives As wo said tho quality of these essays Is widely variant but nil are pungenlly written und auiely In the mass there would Ind slely be a word for all i In Scirch of Mademoiselle By Georgo Glbbs llustralcd by the author Henry T Coals Co publishers Philadelphia A r Dergo Co Salt Lake A romance mnamicoof the good old mance o ort with somo lovemaking a glut of lighting and much of savagery murder and lowdovu ras calities The action Is rapid and Intense I from Hint to last and the author manages man-ages to keep up tho readers absorbed Interest 1 In-terest to tho very end The nerveless King o France the rage of patriotic Fronchnon at their contemptible court the Insulcnl presumption of the Spanish court aid the treachery and cruel rapacity rapac-ity of tho Spanish soldiers and their cornniaiders In Florida aro all well j j brought out Tho time chosen brolhht tme by Mr I Glbbs f > r his romance Is tho fierce contention con-tention between Franco and Spain In the slxtooriU century for the east coast of Florida The characters used aside from j the mOl figures put In for the purpose i of the pot are historical and time events are nariated as history tells them but briefly ind mainly for their bearing on the romincc It Is good work well and Ingeniously done FamllUr Trees and helr Leaves By F Schiylcr Mathews A beautlfjilly printed lUL illuHtraicd vork colored prints of trees being given llquldnmbcr tupolo assufraswhite birch chestnut J white oic sugar maple black walnut hickory Ur balsam red spruce and red cedar In natural colors and shades besides be-sides over two hundred drawings by tho author printed In black Thero In a commendatory Introduction by 1rof L I Bailey of Cornell university and u special preface to this edition dated May 1 101 An admirable work fitly printed and published by D Apploton Company Com-pany New Yorli Theauthors style la at once clear concise and graceful what facts he elves about tho tree and Its life arc rendered doubly alluring by the way In which they arc presented Thus In speaking of Tho Leaf na n Builder the author says The life of a tree Is I not only Interesting but It Is of moro value to us than wo can easily estimate j rhe loss of large areas of alrvIvlfyliiK leaves IB a menaco to our health Forests forecast sudden chunics of temperature t In all seasons of tho year they decrease the frequency of destructive frosts In early autumn and they maintain an I eonablo climate In winter they absorb and give out heat more slowly than the eDen flelds and they ict as a screen to land lying 1 to the leeward of blasting Inter I In-ter winds When wo Interest ourselves In tree life we begin to realize how great I 1 worker and builder tho leaf Is I builds tho tree and It works for our comfort So Intimately Is It connected with tho tree life that from It proceeds n tiny channel or nerve so to speak down the I trunk to tho very root of the tree Tho author tells of the tremendous force of tho growth of a tree of the fg growth many transplanted trees made In i ten years and gives other facts of I great Interest Ills studies of trees their I differences their uses their loaves trunks and limbs shows lila accurate knowledge of somo two hundred species and Ills great love for tho tree world A fine and most m charming book It Is one well worthy of the enthusiastic approval of time reader reucer |