1857-07-23-New York Tribune-The Most Remarkable Book

The Most Remarkable Book

New York Tribune, 23 July 1857, p. 1

THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOK of the DAY.—Will be published August 1:

M O R M O N I S M : ITS LEADERS AND DESIGNS. BY ELDER HYDE. Illustrated with Portraits of the leading Mormons of Utah. One vol. 12mo. Price $1.25.

"We glanced through the manuscript of the work, and have no hesitation in saying that it is intensely interesting and admirably written, and though the subject is one which requires delicacy of treatment, the facts are given in language at once appropriate and plain. It is quite time that our Government took hold of these law breakers, who are sowing moral corruption throughout a beautiful territory, and who ought to be forever cursed. Elder Hyde's work will be read by all who are interested in the subject."

[Boston Gazette.

"The work is intensely exciting and interesting, and is the best expose of the corruption and horrible iniquities of Mormonism that we have seen."

[N. Y. Dispatch.

"W. P. Fetridge & Co. have in press a new work on the Mormons. It is destined to make a great stir. The author is the famous Elder Hyde of Mormon notoriety. He was one of the great Missionary apostles of the church. He preached in England and France, and succeeded in deluding great numbers from their homes to the fancied paradise near Salt Lake. He visited and made a great stir among the people of the Sandwich Islands and California. But he has recanted, and is now in New-York superintending this new work on the expose of the Mormons. It will be embellished with the portraits of the principal Mormons of Utah; will contain a full exposure of the crimes, licentiousness and bestiality of the Mormons, and certain hints to the U. S. Government as to the classes of people, and the best mode of putting down the abominations of Utah."

[N. Y. Correspondent of Boston Journal.

AN EPITOMIZED TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I—THE AUTHOR—Who he is and why he writes.

CHAPTER II—SALT LAKE CITY—Great Salt Lake; The City; The Inhabitants; Kimball's City Property; Brigham's Lion House; Mormon Theater and Dancing Hall; Tithing Office and System of Tithing; Communism and Consecration; Tabernacle and Sabbath Services; Endowment House and Temple; Capacity to Support Increased Population; Liquor making and Consuming; Iron and Coal for the Pacific Railroad; Weapon Manufactories; The Mormon Census and Lying.

Chapter III—PRACTICAL POLYGAMY—Family Arrangements; Favorites; Wife-Hunting; Mothers and Daughters Sealed to One Man; Half sister Wife; Effects of Polygamy on First Wives; Temperance; Adultery; Jealousy; Brigham on Connubialities; Proportion of the Sexes in Utah; Effects of Polygamy on the Children; Early Marriage; Divorce; Mrs. M'Clean and Parley P. Pratt; Mrs. Cobb and Brigham.

CHAPTER IV.—MORMON MYSTERIES—Sealing for Eternity; Women Sealed to one and Married to another Husband; Spiritual Wives; Cause of Smith's Death; Smith's Widows; "Proxy Doctrine;" Marriage and Sealing for the Dead; The Endowment; Washing and Annointing; Degrees of Priesthood; "Behind the Vail;" Obedience; Sealing at the Altar; Murders; Sealing to Indian Squaws; Selling Daughters.

CHAPTER V.—EDUCATION.

CHAPTER VI.—BRIGHAM YOUNG AT HOME—His Biography; "Modus Operandi;" Personal Appearance in Council and in Pulpit; His Manners; Style of Oratory; As a Husband and Father; Domesticities; His Wives; His Favorite; Women Courting the Men; Occupations and Property; Universal Confidant and Adviser; Secret of Success.

CHAPTER VII.—BRIGHAM THE PROPHET—Intention of Mormonism.

CHAPTER VIII.—CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF MORMONISM.

CHAPTER IX.—ANALYSIS OF INTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.

CHAPTER X.—EXTERNAL EVIDENCES OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.

CHAPTER XI.—REAL ORIGIN OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.

CHAPTER XII.—THEORETICAL POLYGAMY.

CHAPTER XIII.—THE SUPPRESSION OF MORMONISM.

Address W. P. FETRIDGE & Co.,

No. 281 Broadway, New-York.

A liberal discount made to the trade. Any person inclosing $1.25 will receive a copy postpaid.