Beyond the West: containing an account of two years' travel in the other half of our great continent far beyond the old West, on the plains, in the Rocky mountains, and picturesque parks of Colorado. Also, characteristic features of New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho ... Oregon, Utah, Nevada, and ... California, the end of the West ... the great continental railroad, together with the ... most wonderful natural scenery in the world .../ by George W. Pine.

BEYOND THE WEST.
apartments, take care of their own household, and
are, to a large extent; separate families. Here, as
in Turkey, the grandees, the great officers of Church
and State, and all whose wealth will admit of it,
have their seraglios. Here a marriage ceremony
is performed each time a man takes a wife; but nmarriage, as uinderstood by a Christianized people, has
no place in Turkey.
Mr. Young's family does not n',mber more than
a few hundred, while that of the reigning Sultan
amounts to as many thousands.
By the religion of Mahomet and Young, women
are not considered as having souls of the same grade
as men, and are admitted into His paradise on high
only as men take them along.
We have thus briefly run a few parallels between
these two systems, not for the purpose of favoring
either, but because they are in many ways so much
alike, and leave the good Christian reader to make
his own conclusions as to the unnatural, unholy practices of these people-forbidden of God and common
humanity. Such a domestic life is like an island with
a stream of cold water flowing all around it-not a
part of the mnain land, fragrant with the holy associationjs of one father and one faithful mother.
If thou hast crushed a flower,
The root may not be blighted;
If thou hast quenched a lamp,
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