The Mormon Poetic. By the Rev. It. W. Been, (Funk
and Wagnalla.)—Mr. Been states the conditions of the problem to be solved very fairly. He is not captivated by the Mormon system, after the manner of Mr. Phil. Robinson. On the other hand, he does their sincerity justice. But how does be propose to deal with them The stringent measures of repression which have been either enacted or proposed he does not approve. "Law cannot be an effectual remedy," he says. This people in in bondage ; but the bondage is voluntary, and you must move their wills, before you can set them free. He proposes, therefore, to act upon them by educating and evangelising influences. The practical remediee which he suggests are a" National Colonisation Scheme," and the "Establishment of National Free Schools." Of course this is coercion, too, though of a mild type. Suppose the territory does not want " Gentile " colonists and "Gentile" Boohoo's, are these to be forced upon them ?
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