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THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... hardly one of his most gluttonous tastes which the volumes are not likely to satisfy. In the third there is much about the Mormons. We cannot stop to speak of them, but it strikes us that their importance is somewhat ridiculously overrated. In conclusion ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... enough to hold the states of La Plata together. The back-woods of North America have been found favourable to the growth of Mormonism, and to the excesses of camp meetings and revivals. In the secluded districts of Brazil also fanatacism flourishes ; though ...

THS LITERARY EXAMINER

... not out his hand, but making a rude hen, lie exclainmed,-' ot a dimae, sir: good afternool. mr Lanman saw the far-famed Mormon city of IfTaunoo. It was built six years ago, and is now a ruin. Hardly five hundred inhabitants remain of up- wards of t ...

THE THEATRICAL EXAMINER

... escaped through a back door to Springfield.-Fenimore Cooper, the novelist, was on his death-bed. Some new revelations to the Mormon Church are announced; the portion of the golden plates withheld from Joe Smith having been exhibited mysteriously to Elder ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... journeying in such straightforward company. The reader shall make his acquaintance; he is now cook and waiter to a Yankee Mormon, proprietor of the hostelry of the Bull's Head. My daily duties were most multifarious: I was the I Handy Andy' of the es ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... to the Mormon presidency. He is the Great Prophet of the Mormons still. Brigham Young has shown much shrewdness in the use of his position. He saw that the pure despotism-and this, too, a despotism of the basest kind-which is the essence of Mormon government ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... each parish of an ecclesiastical system for the management of church affairs by parochial synods and diocesan conventions. Mormons and Teetotallers are the topics of the two succeeding articles, each furnishing illus- trafions of a fanaticism which the ...

THE MUSICAL EXAMINER

... failures made by amateur associations in former years, I could scarcely have witnessed the successful settlement of a body of Mormons in that musical region with more surprise. I confess, sir, that I was much pleased to find we could boast of an amateur band ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... first book printed in the United States to the days of Irving, Hawthorne, Emerson, Prescott, P. T. Barnum, and the Book of Mormon. The first publication Was, An English version of the Psastis of David1, done by several of the toast eminent divines, including ...

BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... Charles Mackay's little book upon The Mormons, or Latter Day Saints (1), brings down the strange history of that sect to the present day. The narrative is succinct and sufficient. Even if ill told, the story of the Mormons would be very interesting; here it ...

CHRISTMAS READING

... en book upon the topic it discusses. It is free fromi all vulgar exaggeration, ani maokes only simple and fair use of the Mormon doctrine of polygamy for the narration of a story that might easily bie taken for a truth, perhaps is literally true. A good ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... regarding Mormons or Spaniards-the latter paltiecularly with a considerable amiournt of salt. One of the chief Mormon merchants, who has just now [Nov. t856], it appears been sent on a mission, as a punishment for rescuing- a Gentile from some Mormon assailants ...