--- 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: 16 number: 9 published: 1913-07 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Alfred Lambourne, by Mahonri M. Young," *Improvement Era* 16, no. 9 (July 1913). source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse 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: improvementera1609unse rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1913-07) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1609unse publication_year: 1913 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 1913, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Alfred Lambourne, by Mahonri M. Young ALFRED LAMBOURNE, BY MAHONRI M. YOUNG. The bust in bronze of our poet-philosopher is considered by Mr. Young as among his best works. It was exhibited at the National Academy of New York, and was engraved in the Chicago Art Journal, and in the International Studio. It was much praised by the Eastern critics. It was purchased by the State of Utah and is a part of the Alice Art collection, which will ultimately be kept in the Capitol Building. The bust is highly finished and minute in detail, the expression of the eyes fine, and the treatment of the hair masterly. From different points of view, the bust exhibits the versatility of our home author as shown in the many contributions to this magazine, and the Christmas narrative poem of Plet, the lovestory of Metta, the descriptive philosophical work, Our Inland Sea; The Rose, a Rhapsody, and the beautiful and learned Memorial volume, The Cross: Holly and Easter-Lilies. mm °^fl ■w WiwSm ; -Wk0 ym m 1 $W^c&k m WJr Jk Q D. H. CHRISTENSEN, SUPERINTENDENT SALT LAKE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS Mr. Christensen has supervision of a system of twentynine schools in which there are six hundred teachers and about twenty thousand pupils. Dr. A. E. Winship, of Boston, in a prominent place in the Journal of Education, recently said of him : "He is one of the most complete masters of the school situation in theory and practice, in detail and emergencies, I know ; and 1 know his work as well as that of any superintendent in the country. Times out of number I have been in his schools during the past ten years and my admiration has grown steadily."