Show SCENIC UTAH perhaps the authors introductory remarks to the beautiful work before us are am most moat appropriate to begin our review of the production he says the scenic beauties of utah are but comparatively little known those of colorado have been delineated by skilful artists and heralded abroad by eloquent writers until they are familiar to all so too with those of california oregon and washington arizona also and the northwest por wyoming utah aloneo fall the wild regions of mountain lake and canyon bad received scanty recognition this to is surely not because there is a paucity within its ite borders of landscapes fair or grand but rather because heretofore they have been away from the beaten track aside from the paths of those that go forth to look on the hanai handiwork work of nature when it is shown show n in some specially beautiful or magnificent cantway cen tway way Howe however the time is fast approaching in truth is at hand when the scenery of utah will receive the attention it deserves with this set of views and descriptions the author hopes to point out at least its more noble parts the mountains of utah show every expression of the higher picturesque among them are wondrous scenes heaved up in pale masses towering high in dark quartzite peaks and ridges rising in vast waves of many colored sandstones with cliffs and ledges and precipices of slate of limestone of lava of conglomerate and clothed with forests of pine of fir and of spruce with river by the course of the young canyons and with the upper heights holding in their deep seams through all the heated months of summer the winter sun they challenge comparison with any other mountains of the west of which there has been much vaunting I 1 nahe the wasatch range is as beautiful as an any that portion of it seen from the sari bait lake valley is almost able while the uintah mountains though seldom seen or described contain nevertheless a class clam of scenes of the wildest grandeur among the mountains of the south there is a complete transformation from the scenery of the north the scenes are sterile weird and almost unearthly there it is that the sedimentary rocks are of such a variety and brilliancy of color as to make inake the canyons through them strange indeed by the word canyons we are re minded of the distinctive features of utah scenery they differ in many respects from those of the sierra nevada on the west and also frow from those of the wind river the and other mountains to the east and south the canyons of the wasatch Waa atch the uintah those at the headwaters of the rio virgen the Kan kanaras Ka narras arms and those among the vermilion cliffs are all stamped with individuality and yet not one but shows peculiar and local modification arrayed in their sumptuous robes of autumn cool and green with the wealth of summer foliage fairylike fairy like with the linous flowers of 1 spring buried beneath sparkling snow I 1 wreaths of winter in sunshine calm and storm to this we can point with pride in treating our subject in detail it naturally falls under four headings the uintah range the wasatch mount mountains airis M the rock scenery of the south and the shores and islands of the great salt lake 11 the plates are twenty in number and are reproduced from the original drawings by the J dewing company of new Y fork ork they are 1 bald mountain from the upper weber canyon 2 grizzly bear group of lakes 8 3 mount agassiz 4 a rustic water mill 6 5 old aih enill bear near lehl 6 at rock port 7 the narrows ogdon ogden canyon 8 after a storm logan canyon 9 lake mary 10 snow sheds depths of little cottonwood 11 lake minnie 12 cradle of A mountain stream 13 utah lake irom from springville spring ville canyon 14 provo canyon falls 16 15 mount nebo 16 temple of the rio blo virgin 17 at all black rock 18 pavilion garfield beach 19 chite white bock bay 20 on qun gun isol island thus it will be seen that the subjects comprehend all varieties of scenery in this thia territory each being a depre tive of a class clam the pictures are pre preceded cedea by a sheet of desow descriptive ti e letter press and to t this part of the work the author has devoted the same care and time as aa to we the other parts of the volume the rhe book is original from begin beginning ding to end tiie the sketches were made expressly for the work and have never appeared in any other shape the letterpress letter press also appears for the first time so that all is fresh and new in several instances a single plate of scenic utah cost the artist two or three weeks sojourn in mountains the thea mountain the subjects for the second and third plates were especially hard bard to obtain and to reach gunnison Qun nison island eland the subject of the final picture required one hundred and fifty miles of sailing in a yacht plate 16 made necessary a wagon trip of two hundred miles while that of no 12 was reached only at a very considerable risk of life and limb so that the amount of work preparatory to virtually beginning the volume was very great entailing many months of arduous labor the book is sumptuously prepared in white scarlet and gold the material Is s of the very best beat both inside and out the plates were prepared by the J dewing co of new york who published the work and the binding bawling Js is by gabbie of philadelphia the artist roof proof edition sells sella at 50 and the india tint at 25 mr Lam bournes canvassers will be out next week and we hope his big asplen did lid work will meet with the encouragement which it dea deserves evex from tha he citizens with the enthusiasm characteristic act of the genuine artist and poet he possesses the genius of both he has staked much upon the result of this enterprise every lover of the beautiful who can possibly do so should manifest appreciation of a work do 0 o creditable and a devotion so striking by patronizing this high class production there is nothing much more commendable in men of means than to encourage struggling genius which Is too often passed by without com notice especially of a substantial character every person with the least capacity to perceive the beautiful in art who has examined scenic utah has expressed u unqualified aall delight in contemplating it but Nom something ething more than renunciations enunciations in words is needed in cases of ef this nature |