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Show JUDGE GOODWIN'S BOOK. No man ought to write reminiscences till he has passed the ago of eighty years. That rule is established by C. C. Goodwin, and books will bo belter if the precedent be observed. Judge Goodwin's now book, "As I Remember Them," has just been issued, and it is a distinct addition, a position enrichment of IJie literature of tho west. Many of tho chapters have appeared appear-ed in earlier numbery A the Weekly. They and all in tho now comploted book deal with tho big men of this western region, the men who made the states of the coast group, who laid broad and doep and strong tho foundations on which mighty commonwealths can permanently and consistently stand. It is written in that pleasing stylo of personal per-sonal narration in which Judge Goodwin excels, and the charm of tho manner is almost as highly to be prized as is the matter itself. There is no suggestion of sycophancy tho easy way in such a work. For the most part Judge Goodwin finds tho big men great. But ho finds some of them distressingly small. His estimate of Adolph Sutro is a case in point: But oven to that eccentric eccen-tric Gorman is accorded the credit due. One finds our own 0. J. Salisbury fittingly remomborod; and big, blessed, offoctive Harvey Scott wins dosorvod tribute. There is poetry enough in this volume to sot tho mountains singing and truth enough to warrant many monuments. No man now living has known so many of tho pioneers of Utah, Nevada and California as has Judge Goodwin; and no man living or dead has had tho will and Iho ability to so sot down this best of all biographies. |