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wumen W]10, a larger group about him, who were convictions wlling to lend bim, financlal an& Moral support. From bere he was forced- to, go on into. Missouri, and thon to. Illinois, and et Nauvoo, on ~ the banks of tbe Mississippi river he founded bhis church. Eere .be. built the city he 'had deamed of, a cooperative city, whose center was a great temple -in .wbich he banded bis 'people the precepts of Mormon- Iomet7 À "fJnd".for children "POT LUCK WITH LOBISTIERS by Margaret Feiskey llusfrêt.d byLucia Pafon WIs. Moanwblle tbis Joseph Smnith badý married a womýan Who was insym pathy with bis ideas, but was sbrew- isb' and practical,. and, in order, to escape, ber scoldings be turned- to oth er women. Consulting bis visions, he evolved a scbeme of "«celestial marriage", basing bis ideas on Abra- ham, witb his number of wives,' and Solomon witb bis hordes of the same. l4his,.h *believed woul- ensure hr Wie everlasting because be would have so many children, but it as- sured bini, at the same time the at- ention of the Wederai government. and altbougb there was a young man named Lincoln, and another named Douglas who believed he should be allowed to teacb bis people what he yisbed, the United States objected to plural mnarriages. Buchanan sent, jiie- Pletro di Donato, the twenty- eight-year-old author pf the novel, "Christ in Ccmcrete,"' is a brick-: Layjer. with a- gramfmar school education. ýLater he took three vears of n ight* courses in bui1d- ing construction. Ini a sense autoiorphical, the book concerns the lives of men who work with bricks and mortar ýor a living. Beyondthe pale of pure liter- ary style, At has an inriate natural- ness and power of expression wbicb have made it a sensation of the sea- son. The first chapter of the book ap- pèareil as a short s to ry in 'Esuir,"and then was. selectod for, inclusion in the O'Brien col- lection of the best short stories of MOCLUT à; % r W *By Gèorge R1. Stewart., Random lHouse, *The memnory of a bachelor's com- prehenslve examination was not suf- ficiently a thlng of the past for this revlewer- to prevent a certain amount Of symnpathetie -jltterlnrig dur-, lng -the..reading o.f George. Stewart's novel, Doctor's ^Oral. Thot this not altogether pleasant attack of. nostal- gia, should' take place is .a credit eitber to Mr. Stewart'as litèrary skdll or to the lethal qualities. o! final ex- amiinations as adminlstered at the University of!«.Ch icago, Aid to givre credit where credit is due is a some- what difficuit matter, for Mr,, Stèw- art's opus is certainly not a paragon of Uiterary viirtues. Doctor's Oral, as you may.have guessed,,is a description of one day i the life of a graduate student in English literature,' the day, in 'fact,' on which hie takes his oral examina- tion for the PII.D. It is a work of the type. wbihihseveral de4des ago might have passed for a psychologi- cal study, but wbicb today, in the light of earnest literary delvings in- to the cerebral cortex by .Mr. Joyce and those similarly inclined, must be, described simply as an account of' a man's experience on a, certain day, related as the man himself migbt have related it. .Probably the two nicest things about, Mr. Stewart's novel are the a" .. ndonur ervc Suit ,Of consttimpr les unnwe"-y-mmdi ion.d-to Sufer "ex unexpected demandef whenymcanborrow ver ampl midpleai muidni àsch ravcy. Pesond iLOinS aiD l and ne «ecided to build bis klngdom tbey proceedéd westward, by ox-. outside of the jurisdiction of the tearns and covered Wagons. IJnited States. Like Josepb, ho had There bave been1 many stories visions, and bis favorite vision w'ax written of that journ.ey but noneý of a land surrounded by beautiful more vivid or dramatic or startling hills. So hie gatbered bis followers, than this one o! tbe almost unbe- some twenty thousand strong, and lievable bardsbips these people en- AMERICAN BOY MAGAZINE dured. But Brigbam was a good COMPANION TO THOUSANDS psychologist and bis people sang and Hundreds of thousands o! 'boys and danced and told stories s0 that von,fl n a ..aA4'hAMPrfPYCnAW tI most universities. Where Mr. Stew- art bas fallen clown,, 1 feel, is'in bis attempt to introduce certain extra- curricular phases of bis bero's life. The most striking of these is the tact that bis sweetbeart announces hier pregnancy on tbe day. of, the young man's examination, an event calculated to upset even the most detacbed devotee of Spenser or Pope. And in bis picture o! graduate stu-- dent lite tbe author bas contented ',1novet, 18 long ana zialQisile citement and. it proves that men be led into, the jaws of death ir leader assures them power- enough. that God is on their EOOKSHOP IM~ LED CAEDS Il mat 1 -_ i,'ànd 1 sidë.