Show T QUARTERLY the april issup N ti vilier ex ix cellena utah magazine the best magazine ever published 1 in the intermountain inter mountain region is undoubtedly quarterly 21 magazine agazine which is its third year a and lid vo volume lurne from issue to issue this publication has gained in interest and influence in kal cidot copic variety it presents the various historical religious political social commercial literary and artistic features of that most marvelous of modern commonwealth com men weal th the people of utah with tho the historians bist fidelity and the philosophers impartiality partials parti alt tho the editor and a nd publisher p isber 17 air E IV passes in in review the men who have formed the destinies and the events which have characterized the development of the dwellers in the shades of the wasatch I 1 mountains fountain A and sand around the alkaline aridity of the shores of great salt lake each eucce seive number has ha s added to the usefulness of the series and swelled d the valuable volume of interesting chronicles and records otherwise inaccessible to the masses but the climax was reached with vol ill III when the gifted author began publishing the history history of salt S jt lake city a history which w ich in in thrill thrilling in g interest surpasses that of any other town in america this is an of the of a gibbon or macaulay but the atilus of mr ig is nt n anade duato to the task this he has hits peeved most eminently in the second instalment installment of the grand historic panorama which itell to tho the unbiased oli oo server in the story of the foundation and growth of salt lake city the he tiu nucleus cleus and pivot of the community comm community unit y of the latt latter erda er da day y saints of the april number of the quarterly just issued pages are devoted to the authentic narrative of the so called echo ca canyon U on war ivar or the buchanan Bu blu blunder niler 1 the story is not only told in the authors well well known graphic style but its truth is abundantly supported with numerous doc documents a ments of the days which so illus illustriously trio us I 1 exhibited the greatness re atness of th the e fl lato ate pa president es ident E brigham young who made a treaty of peace with the president of the great republic as though he lie had wielded the combined p ower of france russia and E england capt burton these chapters XIV will be read with attention from first to a last ast they are the life till by br ua u finel finely engraved portrait of the late jedediah M grant the first half of the number the xa lagazino lag agazine azine more properly is replete with the selections of ex cellena cel 1 reading matter the editor himself a magic to teem with inexhaustible fertility contributes good life sketches ketches of of counselor D 11 wells accompanied 11 campau nied 1 aed by beautiful steel en ani graving san an extensive history of spanish fork and two of his big inimitable historic essays coliver oliver cromwell and charles I 1 of eng land the latter two eviden evidencing ang his exquisite tact in character reading and eminent skill in char acter writing in no mean degree president woodruffs autobiography og raphy continues as full of proofs 0 of the divinity ivinity of the doctrine and church of the latter day saints as the first installment and gives the record of man of god whose faith was superior to all tribulations thomas job has contributed another of hi hit instructive and barly original scientific articles on the Ilien phenomena orsena of the rainbow while george A acears in his pe culiar style so difficult to define but so easy to appreciate shows the folly of gentile hostility to Morn mormonism in a it lengthy but entertaining article on gentile exodus A quaint phenomenon in medieval history is depicted by leo I 1 he feli in the prototype of don Qui quixote rotc and a promising 11 11 historical won talc tale is begun by hannah T king ond one of most gifted poetesses poet esses seg poetry is not forgotten we have stanzas full of fire an and d fancy molded in masterly meter and mellifluous melody b by 0 P F whitney Whit ncy H W Nai naisbitt abitt 3 1 W 9 S godbe julia bowring maltese jas 11 II wallis joha lyon and aud by our ogden worshiper of A apollo pollo and 2 dr AS A S condon wo we have dwelt somewhat t at length on mere features of tul ledges quarterly for april 1884 but of its merits we have been unable to give more than the faintest idea the tile book must be read to be appreciated and then the editor will find his highest reward the thanks of his delighted fellow men |