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even the practicability of a reply. the general reader, that we at once set The dictum so uttered will, perhaps, it down as a fabrication, perhaps for a while occupy, as may have been as an injurious fabrication, nay, intended, the position of an unim- possibly as a malicious fabricapugned truth; but any such advan- tion, when its author is guilty of tage will have been obtained at the nothing worse than ignorance expense of fairness, and can be but of the characters of which he essays transient duration. While thus writ- to speak, and has most unintentioning upon what may be deemed rather ally done injustice to the subminute points of conduct, we are ject of his narrative! But here is a again reminded of the comprehen- book in which narratives and anecsiveness of the great principles of dotes of Friends are told or compiled, true religion. On two commandments by one of their own members; we "hang all the law and the prophets," may accordingly expect in it truthand the second of these two is but fulness to the spirit of the transacthe original of that golden rule which if accurately followed can lead to neither of the petty unfairnesses we have now briefly adverted to.-London Friend.

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tions, as well as in the facts detailed. It contains, on about three hundred pages, nearly one hundred narratives and anecdotes, collected by Mary S. Wood, of New York, and published, she says, "with a hope that they may be found entertaining and instructive to young readers." Many of them are "SOCIAL HOURS WITH FRIENDS." New not new to those acquainted with the York: William Wood & Co., 1867. writings of early Friends, others are We like the idea of letting people of more recent date. Not only speak for themselves. We should "young readers" but those of more hardly want a man's most intimate years will find this book an enterfriend to speak for him, or tell his taining and instructive companion opinion on a question of any serious for leisure hours. The anecdote of importance; still less would we want Joseph Carrington, on another page, one_comparatively a stranger to his is a selection from it, and may serve modes of thought, and who did not as a specimen of what the book consympathyze with his views, to at- tains. tempt to tell them. Not but that these men might be entirely honest THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY for Augand candid, but they could not fairly ust, has the following table of conrepresent that which they did not tents: The Guardian Angel, viii; fully understand or appreciate. So Hospital Memoirs, I; Dirge for a also no one is entirely competent to Sailor; Up the Edisto; Poor Richard say what are the beliefs and usages III; The Growth, Limitations and of a religious denomination, who has Toleration of Shakespeare's Genius; not entered into the spirit of that Longfellow's Translation of Dante's denomination, and been accustomed Divina Commedia; The Old Story; to its usages. We must let the mem- A week's Riding; The Little Land bers of a sect state its creed, if we of Appenzell; The Lost Genius; would know how they understand Cincinnati; A Lilliput Province; it; and even anecdotes intended to Reviews and Literary Notices.— characterize a sect cannot be well Among the contributors of prose or fairly told by one who does not articles are Dr. Holmes, Bayard Taysee the circumstances from the same lor, E. P. Whipple, Henry James and mental and moral stand-point as James Parton. George H. Boker and the actors. How often we have seen Alice Cary each furnish a poem. in public print an Anecdote of Boston: Ticknor & Fields. a Quaker," which, on reading it, so shocked our sense of the probable, by some incongruity unobservable to

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"THE MORMON PROPHET AND HIS in this volume; but they are farther HAREM; or an authentic History certified by many extracts from state of Brigham Young, his numerous papers and public documents, to wives, and his children," by Mrs. which she had access, and from the C. V. Waite: For sale by Hurd & speeches, letters and sermons of MorHoughton, New York, S. C. Griggs mon leaders. Those who, looking to and Company, Chicago, and Book- the welfare of our country, seek insellers generally, 1866.1 formation on this subject, will find in this book much of what they seek; those who wish simply to gratify curiosity, as to the peculiarities of

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If shutting our eyes and closing our ears to the enormities of a system so baleful to domestic happiness, so dangerous in its political aspect, so Mormonism, and the inside view of unscrupulous in its morals, and so blasphemous in its religious claims as Mormonism, would avail to avert the consequences of allowing it to grow up under our government, well might we instead of bringing it to more public notice, strive to keep dark this abasing portion of our country's history. But the existence of Mormonism within the territory of the United EVERY SATURDAY is a weekly jourStates is a fact, and in the course of nal of choice reading selected from time will have to be dealt with as foreign current literature, of 32 large such, unless schisms, apostasies, and octavo pages, published by Ticknor internal dissensions should destroy & Fields, Boston, at 10 cents a numits power, a thing indeed to be hoped ber. The selections are made from for, but with our similar delu- such English Magazines as Blacksion about slavery but just dispelled wood, Macmillan's, The Cornhill, in blood, not to be too confidently The Spectator, The London Review, expected; and we cannot too soon London Star, &c., and its pages are have the public mind enlightened as filled with interesting readable matto the character and workings of this ter. politico-religious despotism which has set itself above the laws of the land. The author of the book above named is the wife of Judge Charles A GRADUATE of Haverford College, B. Waite, who was appointed one of with some experience in teaching the Associate Justices of Utah in the wishes a situation for the coming Spring of 1862. The following sum- year. Inquire at the office of the mer she accompanied her husband to AMERICAN FRIEND. Salt Lake City; and she writes from a view of Mormon society, obtained by a residence of two years in its midst. The work contains 280 pages, embellished by several engravings. Of its fifteen chapters, five are devoted to the political history, and the remainder mostly to the social, moral, and religious condition, of the Mormons, in which Brigham Young, as their head, figures most conspicuously. To those who have the pleasure of her acquaintance the character and ability of the writer are a guaranty of the general reliability of the facts and representations contained Union Springs, Cayuga Lake, N. Y.

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