--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Anderson, Edward H. collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 6 number: 2 published: 1902-12 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Edward H. Anderson, "Book Mention—The Castle Builder," *Improvement Era* 6, no. 2 (December 1902): 152.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0602unse 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: improvementera0602unse start_page: 152 end_page: 152 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1902-12) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera0602unse publication_year: 1902 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 1902, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Book Mention—The Castle Builder Paul gives the Romans some good advice on this subject, which is very appropriate for the Latter-day Saints, and I trust we may all lay it to heart and learn wisdom therefrom: "Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple." Let us not be simple, but let us con- tinue to be united and to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. Joseph F. Smith. BOOK MENTION— THE CASTLE BUILDER. The Improvement Era has a limited number of copies, bound in neat paper cover, of The Castle Builder, which was printed as a serial in volume five. It is a pretty and appropriate Christmas present. Sent to any address for 50 cents. Of the story itself, Edward H. Anderson says: I read The Castle Builder with infinite delight. Its characters have many counterparts among the "Mormons," a people whose every member has wrapped about his life a wondrous mantle of romance under which, also, is hidden a store of heroic action. The Castle Builder, which was first printed as a serial in the Improvement Era, faithfully describes scenes, and explains life, in Norway, one of the nations that early gave stalwart men and women to the Latter-day cause. While it portrays to the life, the convert's early hardships, moral battles, and sacrifices, it also tells how his heart is thrilled with new and consoling religious doctrine, and fascinated with suggested dreams of Zion. The whole is interwoven with the old but ever new story of life —the love of faithful hearts. All this is well and good; but when I reluctantly parted with Harald and Thora, there appeared before them a still more romantic and fascin- ating career; — wished to go with them over the waters, and I plains, and mountains, to Zion; I wished to learn of their new hardships in re- deeming the desert, in rearing and educating their children in the midst of poverty; how, in building their castles as Pioneers in the Rocky Moun- tains, their souls were clarified in the furnace of heavy trial and sore affliction; and, typical of the Pioneers, how they yet conquered, and tri- umphed and proved faithful to the end, dying amidst their children's