1842-11-01-New York Tribune-Review of The History of The Saints

Review of The History of The Saints

Source: New York Tribune, 1 November 1842, page 1

THE HISTORY OF THE SAINTS: or, an Expose of Joe Smith and Mormonism. By JOHN C. BENNETT. New-York, Bradbury & Soden, 127 Nassau-street.

This book has been made up to sell��but we shall be somewhat disappointed if even this low aim be reached. That there is iniquity of all possible shades and degrees very partially concealed under the Mormon cloak, we have no doubt��and we have as little that Gen. Bennett is fully competent to speak of it from the best possible acquaintance. This book may all be true��but it is nothing more than a collection of all the newspaper trash about the Mormons that has been published for the last few years. More than three fourths of it is too stupid and heavy ever to be read by any body; and the other part is too disgusting, not so much from what is told as from the manner of telling it, for any decent man to look at. It is in every respect a wretched attempt at bookmaking.