Show I BOOK BOOK REVIEWS 1 11 VANGUARD OF THE PLAINS LIKE to those of the West Vest and A ALIKE to those whose hearts are In Inthe Inthe inthe the Vest West rand and especially in the latter case in the old West West- there is a tremendous appeal in Vanguards of the Plains a ro romance romance romance ro- ro mance of the old Santa Fe e trail with all heroic adventures by Margaret Hill McCartor McCarter also author of The Price of the Prairie It Is published by Harper Brothers New York and London A hint of the love and adventure to follow in the narrative Is found In Inthe Inthe Inthe the dedication This story of the old Santa Fe trail would do honor to the memory of ot those stalwart men who defied the tho desert who walked the tho prairies boldly boldly bold bold- ly and who died bravely bravely vanguards vanguards in the building of a firm highway for forthe forthe forthe the commerce of a Westward moving empire Is there a a. Utahn mindful of the early history of or his his- state and of tho the rigors and sufferings s experienced by Its pioneers In molding It from the into desert desert Its present rich and fruitful fruitful fruitful fruit fruit- ful condition whose heart does not echo some such sentiment Then listen to a fragment of ot the tho theauthor's theauthor's authors author's foreword The glamour of the plains is before before be bo- fore my eyes the tingle of courage danger clanger born is in m my pulse beat the soft foft hand of love is touching my hand I 1 live again the drama of life wherein there are no Idle a actors tors no nc stale unmeaning lines With skill the author has told a astory astory astory story of adventure In the tho days das that are no more more more-a a story replete with danger with love and with the Sp spirit which has been the West Vest which will willbe willbe willbe be the West Vest and which IS the West although its outward semblance changes with the years Read Vanguards of the Plains Pains and learn something of the people who are so well described In this couplet from A Song of or the English Deeper than speech our love stronger than life lite our tether But Hut we do not fall fail on the neck nor kiss when we come together JOANS JOAN'S CALIFORNIA SUMMER I as it should be be Utah and Q QUITE Salt Lake City receive recel their share of attention In Joans California Summer written by Caroline E. E Jacobs and Lucy 1 M. M Blanchard and anti Just off oct the press of George W. W Jacobs Co publishers Philadelphia Early In the volume is found round this description of the approach to this city Soon the train brought them Into sight of ot the great Wasatch and Oquirrh ranges their snowy peaks I towering Into the sky The desert had had given place liace now to Irrigated lands and broad spreading orchards of or I many sg varieties ri of fruits Passing I along t the Jordan river tall Lo Lombardy poplars in the distance made macle one think of or pictures of or Italy The spires I of the Temple rose majestically into view and In a few moments more mor- I they were were- In the City of the Saints From rom Utah with its beauties Joan I and her party continued to California California Califor Califor- nia which they inspected from north I to south giving more attention to the wonders e of the southern u part of the I state than a ft to those to tou of the north h They r enjoyed every inch of Los Angeles geleK Jit Mt It Lowe Catalina island the beach resorts and but and but what's the us use I There isn't space enough to tell all they enjoyed in the City of the Angels and the district of which it is the center Suffice It to say perhaps that a reading of Joans Joan's California Summer is among the things next best to visiting that state for oneself one one- self elf |