Recently I came across a book published in 1927 by Knopf entitled Book Reviewing. In it Wayne Gard writes that a “review must be presented in non-technical, natural language, combining brevity with wit, so that…
Reed Smoot had become a U. S. Senator, and the “Y” a university, when I began kindergarten at Brigham Young Academy, with Ida Dusenberry as my teacher. Ida Smoot Dusenberry was a younger sister of…
Joseph Smith once wrote of the Bible: “I believe the Bible as it ought to be, as it came from the pen of the original writers.”[1] Unfortunately, none of the manuscripts penned or dictated by…
General History Allen, Edward J. Second United Order Among the Mormons. New York: AMS Press, 1967. $12.50 Reprint of 1936 edition. Bennett, John C. The History of the Saints: Or an Expose of Joe Smith…
Woodrow Wilson, while still a professor at Princeton, told his students in 1900 that he “would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who…
Expanded from Monte McLaws’ doctoral dissertation, Spokesman for the Kingdom is a terse, well-researched biography of the Deseret News and Mormon journalism from 1830 to 1898. The book is thematically organized around the topics of…
The Peoples of Utah, edited by that able scholar, Helen Z. Papanikolas, and published under a grant from the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commisson, provides a welcome reassessment of Utah’s many nationalities. It comprises fourteen…
Obi-Wan Kenobi, that ancient warrior, knight of the Jedi, resembles in many ways Don Juan, the hunter and warrior (and sorcerer) of Carlos Castarieda’s books. Even their names are similar, and both live in the…
As an indulgent and unrepentant reader of novels, I grew tired of the absurd, the pessimistic, the despairing years of the anti-hero. Thus it is heartening to find many of the best novelists now writing…
Homespun suggests ways for women of today to practice pioneer crafts. Individual chapters on log-cabin cooking, preserving and drying foods, homemade remedies, needle arts, quilts, patchwork, dyeing, producing cloth and clothing, rug making, soapmaking, candlemaking,…