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They will .be bis to use and to keep-and, mine te mourn, for despite the tact that 1 have manty and many "a book," these have been tascinating to me and useful:,over, and over again in -both- protessional 'and ,entertajnment value, and I, already bave becone. attached to tbem for contents. as welLas, stunning decera-, tive appearance. .One smnart thing, that the people have done who have published this set of books together is to build .them on a plan of operatien which is, as it were, parent-proof. Tbey make it se easy te use that a child will be drawn to it naturally without the urg- ing or particular assistance of the parent. Non-essential and statistical niatter bas been eliminated, and its editors bave enlisted in its prepara- tion a nuniber ot the best children's writers and educators of the da" là/ (ot U ~A gold ad ilver) ; a adiig machine was invented by Pascal in 1642; we owe to> Liebnitz (1700) the importance now attacbed to the sub- conscious; the practice of lite insurance dates frin the l6th century. Tbe ancient Greeks and medieval tArabs were well acquainted with magni- fying glasses as.well as bïiriglass es, and tbeý compound microscope ýwas in- veixted in 1590 by a Hollander; a. suc- cessful public water. supply system was in use (in Augsbrg) in 1É558;la ste m engine was erected at Vauxhaîl about 1663. These points are culled f rom a fas- cinating History o! Science Teclmzology and P/iilosop hy. in the Seveiiteenth 'C'ettries, by Dr. A. Wolf of tbe Uni- versity. of London. Beginning with Copernicus and Galileo, Dr. Wolf tells tbe story of scientiflc discovery an4j invetio inmany fields-Mathematics,* Mecbanics. Astronomy, Pbysics, Mete- orology, -Cbemistry, Geology, Geo- grapby, Biologey, Psychology, $cQflo-, rhics ' etc-Wth interestfing iogra phical notes and dozens of reproductions of old prints of the men and machines. N. S. Woman Writes Sfory for CMiren Mrs. Frank Barrett (Leon Barrett) of 61 5 Essex roaci, Kenilworth, is thei author of Buffin, a stery for cbildren1 .of 6Ç to veRs A -x .:hiaih. -a , Admirera or joseph C. Lincoln have a real treat ini store for them in i hs new novel, Stor-m Signais. Here they will find joe Lincoln's Cape Cod-the surf -wasbed beaches, the quaint white villages and tbe cdean sea breezes. Here, also, are -thé picture.sque Cape Codders, 1Witb thieir twangy and laconié native speech and their strikiîng amalgam ation. of. gruffness and amiability, of1 down- right cantankeroôuisess in small tbings and warm-heartedness in large things., But Joe Lincoln here has a, surprise for bis readers. Heretofore, he, bas treated of Cape* Cod's more recent period;' but now lie has taken for background the. colorfu!. period of the days of 'the Civil War- flot in, its more immediate bistorical aspects but ini its backwash, as it were, as-its influence permeated the lives of the inhabitants of a New. England sea- ,ide village. Basing bis background upn.. tbe study, of periodicals, letters, and otber documents of tbe tirnes, Mr. Lincoln indicates that there were many Soutbern, sympathizers vociferously present on Cape Cod, and be gives a marvelous picture of the lusty and heat- ed arguments that took place at the village post-office. In Stormn Sigitais, bowever, the> grand story that the autbor bas to tell holds sway. Th~is concerns the fortunes of young Captain Ben Snow, who re- turned to bis bometown of Bayport, crippled and under a cloud of suspected cowardice and neglect of duty following the sînking of the bark Pearl in a A . A ovel 'by the. author of 0SUADOWS ON THE ROCK"' and UDEATH COMES FOR THE .ARCHSISHOP" needs littie intro- duction. 1 wiil comment only as t. place and time: it is Romantic - Western - Modern, a story of the passionate enthusiasms of youth, which- triumph even when they mein to fail .. OUT TOMORROJV 82 tneugh to put, it into every home wbere there are children wbo have sat under their tutelage. Theyin clude Carleton Washburne, Edna Dean Baker, Nelle Oison, Rosette Reese, Beatiice Sawyer Rosseli, Hel- muiz Washburne and others, and among the other writers are, sucli familiar persons as Rabbi Wise, Ida M. Tarbell, Vilhijalmur Stefansson, r u auyIgzuei Âvry, Who is now a Young lad of 16. The stery was sent to tbe publishers as an experiment Mrs.. Barreet says, and its acceptance was as mucli of a surprise as a joy. During the Iast few years the writer bas been doing a. good deal et creative work for charity. She is very active in the Kenilworth Gar- den club, and Iast Year did a series of dioramas at A Century of Prog- ress. Mrs. Barrett calîs her book "this vear's chrbntv uriet. ê ;t isl ter of the mian ini wbose death be is sup- posed to have been concerned. The story opens just before tbe Civil War, and gradually neigbbor becomes' opposed to neiglibor. Among the chief characters are: Captain Cyrus Snow, a devoted, tather; Alice Evans, loyal, deligbtfulgirl, torn between lovýe for father, a wonderful old overbearing Cape Coclder, bonest enougb underneatb it aIl tn make. in the end. nJhlic -ndý ture in reference bockis is Wal-ter with a big pack full of Yust of Winnétka who was for some books, and how 1 wish years iterary editor 'of -the famous child I know aight as. hiaePhiaEvenn Ledger. Their access te thei» bc mue ais anuuy portrays the writers oft tevery each period and their products flot only tf have in the, light of their own imie but ini the perspective. cf the present. i