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appears among these visitants once in a while, but who would ever know him as the author of ''Hamlet?" He does not exhibit decent common sense, to say nothing of genius. Bacon , Gladstone and everybody else suffers the same fearful eclipse. There must be something in the atmos- phere of the evergreen shore fatal to intelligence. George Washington and Little Bright Eyes both gibber nonsense. If anything Bright Eyes has the best of it. By making heaven out to be a sort of vast asylum for the simple-minded spiritism has injured religion incalculably. At best, celestial joys are none too alluring. Few people whom we have ever seen really prefer them to terrestrial satisfaction. But when to perpetual harp-playing and dancing the decay of the intelligence is
added, the place becomes positively repulsive.
The Genealogical Society of Utah.
The Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, No 1, Volume 1, made its appearance on January 1, 1910, with an inter- esting table of contents. This is a quarterly of 48 pages, pub- lished by the Genealogical Society of Utah, and exclusively devoted, as its name implies, to genealogical and historical matter. The society was first decided upon November 13, 1894, and on November 21 incorporated, Franklin Dewey Richards, president. Since that time, and mostly in the past two years, the society has grown to 257 life and 410 annual memberships, with a library of 1,600 volumes. Officers for 1910 are: Anthon H. Lund, presi- dent; Charles W. Penrose, vice-president; Joseph F. Smith, Jr., secretary-treasurerand librarian; Joseph Christenson, Anthony W. Ivins, Duncan M. McAllister, and Heber J. Grant, directors. The new magazine is the organ of this society and fills a place hitherto vacant, in the western part of the United States. Its
work will not only cover Utah, but the whole intermountain coun- try, "and more if necessary." President Anthon H. Lund is the editor, and Joseph F. Smith, Jr., associate editor. In the salu- tatory editorial President Lund says of the mission of the magazine:
We are not publishing the magazine with the idea of furnishing the