---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 2
number: 7
published: 1899-05
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Book Review," *Improvement Era* 2, no. 7 (May 1899): 549.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera27unse
start_page: 549
end_page: 549
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1899-05)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera27unse
  publication_year: 1899
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1899, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Book Review

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BOOK REVIEW.

MORMONS AND MORMONISM— WHY THEY HAVE BEEN OPPOSED,
                                     —
       MALIGNED AND PERSECUTED INSIDE HISTORY OF
                 PRESENT ANTI-MORMON CRUSADE.

     Such is the full title of a pamphlet of some twenty-five pages
written by Mr. Charles Ellis, a non-Mormon of Salt Lake City. The
gentleman has resided among the Mormon people in Utah for some
ten years, and from intimate acquaintance with them and their
affairs, is competent to speak of them.  He treats his subject
under the following sub-headings: "Stoning the Prophets," "Fair