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SINNERS AND SAINTS. A Tour across the States and around them, with Three
Months among the Mormons. By PHIL. ROBINSON, author of "Under the Sun."
16mo. Cloth. Price, $1.50
"Although he has won a reputation as a humorist, Mr. Robinson is one of
the most faithful of descriptive writers, and his pictures of life in
the United States, as seen through the eyes of the cosmopolitan
Englishman, may be accepted as trustworthy and instructive. His humor is
of the sort that never wearies, for it is never extravagant or forced."
"Mr. Robinson had peculiar facilities for an inside view of Mormon life,
and his impressions are altogether different from accepted statements.
His book will amply repay perusal."
"Mr. Robinson is the fortunate possessor of a rich and racy vein of
humor, and the account he has given in the volume before us of his trip
across the continent, and of his adventures in the territory of the
Mormons, is entertaining in a very high degree. The larger part of the
book is given up to a description of what the writer saw in Salt Lake
City and the vicinity, and upon this subject he has much to say that
will take most people by surprise. According to his story the Mormons
have been very much maligned, and Mormonism, so far from being a
pernicious and reprehensible institution, which ought, in the interest
of the public and of morality, to be suppressed by the exercise of any
force that may be needed to accomplish that purpose, is a praiseworthy
and beneficent system. This differs widely from the prevailing idea, but
Mr. Robinson is earnest and evidently sincere in his statements, and as
a non-resident Anglo-Indian he certainly has no object to misrepresent
the facts. His report is well worth a careful and dispassionate reading.
Mr. Robinson's humor is of much the same order as that which makes the
Mark Twain books so amusing, but it is wanting in that grave stolidity
which distinguishes the American article, and is strongly flavored with
the Dickens quality of fun."--_North American, Phila._
RED CLOUD, THE SOLITARY SIOUX. A Story of the Great Prairie. By
LIEUT.-COL. BUTLER, author of "The Great Lone Land." With 24 full-page
illustrations. One volume, uniform with "The Two Cabin Boys." Sq
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