--- 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: 20 number: 10 published: 1917-08 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Books," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 10 (August 1917): 920.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse 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: improvementera20010unse start_page: 920 end_page: 920 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-08) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera20010unse publication_year: 1917 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 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Books Books Outdoor Life in the Rockies is the title of an attractive booklet just issued by the passenger department of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad. In it are described and illustrated the hunting, fishing, and pleasure resorts of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. A map showing the location of Na- tional parks and monuments, principal scenic attractions, cliff dwellings, and Indian pueblos, is a valuable part of the book. The Young Man and His Vocation is the title of a book by Franklin Stewart Harris, Ph. D., of the Utah State Agricultural College. He is a bachelor of science as well as a doctor of philosophy and has lived in Utah, Mexico, Canada, and New York. He has taught a large number of scientific subjects and is a member of twenty-three scientific societies. He is the author of Principles of Agronomy, besides 65 periodical articles and 150 editorials. He is therefore considered competent to deal properly with this subject. The volume will help the young man to find his place in the world and to show him how to make the most of himself. Modern de- mands of life in industrial affairs is shown and explained, and opportunities and requirements in each kind of work are discussed in such a way that the young man is aided materially in electing his life's work and in preparing himself for it. As a book on vocations it is well worthy a careful reading by any young man who desires to know more of the important sub- ject of choosing his life's vocation. Price $1.25. The Era has received, with the compliments of J. A. Hogle & Co., in- vestment brokers, Salt Lake and Ogden, Utah, a copy of their 1917 Hand- book of Utah Securities, industrial, banking, and financial. In the book are listed forty-four leading industrial institutions concerning which prac- tical information is given for investors. Similar information is given of eight realty and insurance companies of the state. Important information is given in the case of one hundred twenty-two banking institutions of the state of Utah, with the names of officers, the resources, and other statistical