Stanford J. Layton

STANFORD J. LAYTON is editor of Utah Historical Quarterly.

It Bears the Arrington Hallmark | Leonard J. Arrington, From Quaker to Latter-day Saint: Bishop Edwin D. Woolley

From Quaker to Latter-day Saint is an unfortunate title. Neither interesting nor particularly descriptive, it combines with the design and size of the volume to suggest one of those wearying biographies of a minor figure…

Advice to Book Reviewers

Articles/Essays – Volume 11, No. 3

Recently I came across a book published in 1927 by Knopf entitled Book Reviewing. In it Wayne Gard writes that a “review must be presented in non-technical, natural language, combining brevity with wit, so that…