8ALYINI BAMA&IA. 



driven from Xauvoo, nnd wns originally governed 



by an ecclesiastical council. Tin- Slormon illllllrlu c 

 in still i:n-al. ami the city is divided into _'! cede- 

 ninslu-.il wards. Tin- limst public buildings an- iv- 

 liu'iou-, including tin- Mormon temple, the In lie. ma- 

 do, a peculiar huge o\al-shapcd structure, ac- 

 commodating over TlXKI i>crsons, ami containing an 

 OP.MII, second in si/.e only to thai f Itoston. 



There an- also line chnrche* of various denomina- 

 tions, including St. Mark's Cathedral. The huild- 

 iii'4>'f 1. -ri t I'nivcrsily was linishod in 1SS7. ami 

 there arc other educational structures. St. Mary's 

 Hospital is a handsome building. There arc many 



- of |inlilie amusement, the chief hoi. 

 Luke Theatre ami the Walker < >pera House. The 

 Deserot Mu-emn ami Salt Lake Mining Institute 

 show the vast mineral resources of the Territory. 

 Manufact m-in'.: has only recently been coanneneed 



. t Lake City. 



The Mormons have been industrious nnd (heir 

 patient labor has clleeted a wonderful change in the 

 naturaf condition of the city ami vicinity. The ex- 

 clusive policy which they pursued for many years 

 :. ami tbe adherents of Other religions are 

 increasing ill number. Evidences of the dillcrcnoc 

 in religious belief abound on every side. The news- 

 papers are ringed as Mormon and anti-Mormon. 

 There are four daily papers which issue also weekly 



mi-Weekly edit lOOt, and there are two Swedish 

 weekly papers. Some religious periodicals are also 

 toned. 



SALVINI, TOMMARO, Italian tragedian, was 

 Ivn-n at Milan, Jan. 1. 1*:M. He was edncateil 

 chiefly by his father, who was professor of literature 

 at Leghorn. His youthful predilection for the stage 

 rci-eive(l encouragement, and he was trained fora 

 time by the. celebrated tragedian, Gustavo Modena 



toil). Until his parents died when he was ]:, 



"Id, and in consequence he gave up theatrical 

 study for two years. Then he entered the lioyal 

 Conipany at Naples, but left it to light for Italian 

 independence. He was afterwards eiigai:< d ill the 

 troupe of Donienieo, with whom he spent six years. 

 Then he retired for a year from the stage to give 

 himself to serious study of the dramatic classics. 

 His principal characters in Italian tragedy have 

 been Knisto iu Allieri's JHerO}#, Paolo in J-'i-'iiinwii 



i ('HI; in French, especially Orosmane in Vol- 

 taire's '/.<i~irc ; and in Italian versions of Shakespeare, 

 H..IIICO, Hamlet, and Othello. In !S(i5 on the (MH)ih 

 anniversary of Dante's birth the four greatest actors 

 ofltaly were invited by the city of Florence to perform 

 i'l Silvio 1'ellico's tragedy, Fftint-r.-u-ii ,/i i. 

 The parts assigned were-, to Madame Ki^tori, Frau- 



. to S.ilvini, 1'aolo ; to Rossi, Lancclotto ; to 

 Maproni, (iiido. Ko i feareil, however, that he 

 would not be able at short notice to do justice to the 

 pirt of J/uieel'iUo, and Salvini, his senior, cow- 

 tcouslv a-snmed that part, nnd gave to HOSM the 

 m >rc 'important r'.le of I'aolo, in which he was 

 alrcadv famoii*. The result was that Salvini played 



lot to with Mich astonishing force as to attract 

 marked attention to himself. The grateful city of 

 Florence presented him with a statuette of Dante. 

 Salvini vi.-itod the United Stales in 1H74. nnd again 

 in H'1. His personation of Othello especially was 

 received with great enthusiasm. He played it at 

 times in connection with F.dwin IJooth's rendering 

 <>f I:ii_' o in English, nnd both actors shared the 

 triumph of impressing an audience under such un- 

 usual ditlioultie*. Saivini's but appearance in Eng- 

 land was in 1SS4. The elements of his success may 

 be summed np in his splendid physique, noble bear- 

 ing perfect elocution, dramatic power, and vehement 

 p-i ion. When in lsti^ he iH-rformed in Madriil in 

 ' irili', the audience carried away with the 

 intense realism of the death madid before them 



roahcd upou the stage to ace if the actor were yet 



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alive. Salvini received the honor of knighthood 

 from Kile.: Victor Kmmannel. 



s-AMAKIA \sn >A.M A1MTA NS. Samaria wns 

 tin- capital of the Northern kint;ili>in "f 

 Is '' !U ''i bllt J '''"' W - K-'I'-rt-oii Smith's 

 ''alcmeiil that " while it .^tond. Nunaiia 

 . and not .Jerusalem was the centre of 



Hebrew life" needs miHliliention. The 

 Northern kingdom was larger than the Southern in 

 territory and population, but its political importance 

 and its position as to wealth and civilization variid 

 at dillerenl periods. With the accession of Jehu, it 

 became tributary to Assyria. Idle, so far as appi ars, 

 Judith maintained her independence for some gen- 

 erations longer. Place as high an estimate as we 

 may upon such kings of Israel asOmri. Ahab, and 

 .Jeroboam II., they do not make more of a li-uic 

 than Asa, .lohoshaphat, Ji-hoash, and I'/xiah. Ac- 

 cording to the liiblical accounts (and there are no 

 accounts at all to the contrary'. .Jerusalem steadily 

 maintained from the days of David a inai:iiilic< nee 

 to which her northern rival never attaint d. The 

 Northern kingdom had, indeed, distinguished proph- 

 ets, but so had the Southern, and the Northern 

 prophets paid a iesp<( i to the kings of the line of 

 l)avid such as we have no account of their own M,\- 

 ercii:n- i receiving from the Southern prophets, i. ;.-., 

 2 Kings iii. 14, IIos. lii. 5. ef. Am. ix. 11. At 

 various points in the history, ami notably in the 

 reigns of Jeroboam 1., liaasha, Jeroboam II., and 

 Hoshea, we have intimations that citizens in the 

 Northern kingdom regarded Jerusalem as the re- 

 ligious centre of the worship of Jehovah, while 

 there is no intimation that Samaria was; ever so re- 

 garded even by her own citizens. 



1 1 is doubtless true that among the people nnd the 

 religious sect that, in later times, \\ere ealli d SA- 

 MAHITANS, there was a stronger admixture of tl.e 

 blood and of the traditions of ihc ancient Northern 

 kingdom than such Jewish writers as .losephus are 

 willing to admit ; but Ibis fact contradicts instead of 

 sustaining certain conclusions drawn from it by 

 Prof. Smith in the article in the Exr'ici.ur.MH.Y 

 BIUTANMI A. That article teaches that the priestly 

 law in the Pentateuch "was lirst published by K/ra 

 as tin- law of the rebuilt temple of Zion :" that the 

 completion of the IVntalcueh was later than this; 

 that the Samaritans, hitherto knowing nothing of 

 the IVntatcuohal institutions, nnd at I his lime being 

 at bitter feud with the Jews, vet "derived their 

 Pentateuch from the Jews after F./ra's retonn- 

 alter -111 n. C.;" and yet that in -i:i-J is. c. (his 

 "foundation of a community of the Law in the Sa- 

 maritan country, among (he mixed population whom 

 the Jnd:rnn leaders did not venture to receive into 

 fellowship," "a community bitterly hostile to the 

 Jews, ami yet constituted in ol edienco to Kx.ra's 

 Pentateuch," was an accomplished fact. The au- 

 thor is conscious that Ibis "must appenra very re- 

 markable exploit;'' that among these people \\lio 

 did not accept the historical and prophetic booka, 

 and who, therefore, could not, like the Jcs. he 

 reasoned with by arguments drawn from those. 

 books, "the acceptance of the Pentateuch implied 

 a tremendous breach of continuity ;'' especially 

 since, sudden though it was, yet "having got I ho 

 Peniateiich. they followed it with a fidelity as loyal 

 and exact as (he Jews themselves, save in the one 

 matter ol the change of the sanctuary." lie is cor- 

 rect in this. On the basis adopted by him, the ex- 

 ploit is so remarkable as to be impossible ; the breach 

 of continuity is too tremendous to be credible. We 

 must look for some more satisfactory account of the 

 matter. 



The statement that the breach between the Jews 

 nnd the Samaritans wns made absolute by "(he ex- 

 pulsion from Jerusalem in 4:t2 n. C. of a man of 

 high pricntly family who hud married n daughter 



