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Ibis Test olve R Travel, advénture, his- tory, biogra pky- for father and th. boys. o A good n o v.1, bridge book, a book of. ver'so for moiher or sistor. o volnmes. "The Turn ot the Century" and "America. Finding Herself". was the name of the first two, volumes. More persons cbuckled .at the ref- erences to "M cGuffy's Reader"ý and the Gibson girl and one thing and another in that first volume. The borselçss carrnage and- songs of thé tfimes found in the.seconid book de- lighted readers. Tbis last book covers the. era of Taft and Roose- velt's presidency., And wbat a lot there was, to write about 1 ,Among-the happenings tbat created a stir..during Roosevelt's administra- tion was tle Equitable insurance scandai. Tbe spelling reformicame to life wben. Andrew Carnegie gave money to the cause and Roosevelt or- dered the printing office to reform, its dictionary. Some of the- proposed changes have stuck; color for colour, theater for theatre;. wagon for waggofl. Roosevelt's difficulties with the senate over tbe railroads, somewhat comparable to the Presideîlt's difficul- ties with congress today, are relatéd in full. One excellent tbing about Mr. Sullivan is that he is extremely careful to annotate all his statemnents and bas had the chapters carefully read by various authorities in a sin- Picture books and:Aa ~N and p-ricosi for the. children.. Byes that have bs criininals, ail are recoraeu linj.Ue book* It is human, it is funny, and it is trutbful. Wbat more could one want of recent history? Every young per- son sbould read, it, for the bistory and every ýolder pe ho s Iud read it for, thé memiories and cbuckles it wil! bring. N BY E. By Rockwell Kent. Brewer & Warren. Mer. Kent bas been illustrating otber writer's books since'he rose to faine; j ustly bie comes back now to bis own. 1 have read and. reread the, splendid narrative of bis Patagonian journeys wbicb gave bJi bis first honorary degree.as an artist in'botb prose and black and white. His mountains in the pictures, of tbat book bad style; his prose badl style, also,, a broken rhy thm of straighit lines and curves like bis drawings. It Was the prose of, a man -more eager t. tell than to write. In "N by E~" be bas grown more literary witb a conscious impressionism, but more articulate. also. It is wbat Morley would cail a "bigh-hearted!" book, reading like good talk, with every now and4 then a passage quite iyric-in..its- eauty. But most of al it is a painters attempt to get into words the sensations of a country iliat moved himn strongly by its beau- ty and macle him glad by the human- ity of its primitive people. MASEFIELD'S NEW BOOK Tbe first book by'John Masefield tbe published since l'e became Poet Laureate bas j ust appeared under the titiè14e of "The Wanderer of Liverpool." "A full-rigged ship, unutterably fair"-so Masefield described. The Wanderer in one of his early poeims. Now. hee bas written a true and stir- ring accoutit of thé* building, the lauinching, -the ten voyages., and the sad end of this samne: sailing-ship,' "the finest ship of ber year." H-e bas drawn bis material froin old records and newspapers and from the .meni- ôries of mien of The Wanderer's ARY everyofle nin the uUauiora mei we didn't have the "World Boole' to settle our fights about information and misinformation. The thirteenth volume is a complete cross-reference with the study courses on various subjects outlined therein. The ýmost interesting thing -in the book. is a st udy outline on cbild character, training made byr Miss Nelle . L Moore of the Laurel school of Wil- mfette and Miss Mary G. Kelty., Miss" Moore is an authority on her sub- ject and. bas won local f ame with bier. work of bringing parents and teachers itogether on individual child problems, and it- should be a source of' some pride and, satisfaction to north' shore residents to have such a rising authority on, youth in our mfidst. Mothers and fathers will find zthis outline of. a great deal of value for Miss M oore's tecbnique is more: than a tbeoretical proôject',its is emin- ently practical- as she bas so often proven in bier work in the scb ools. Since we are ail concerned with giv- ing practical Christmas presents this year, may I suggesÉthtat experience bas shown tbat this is one of the mnost valuable assets one can bave. AN IMPORTANT BOOK It was nearly a century ago that de Tocqueville, tbe F~rench observer, wrote bis account of democratic gov- ernment in America, and it is twenty years since Lord Bryce revised bis great wàrk on "The American Comn- m-onwealth." Now Charles A. Beard and bis son William Beard eresent a: new côtninientary on democracy, a broad survey of the Republic with. çpecial emphasis on tbe new forces which the last decade has, brougb into play, in "Tbhe American Leviathan: IThe Reèpubli'c in the Machine -Age," Beard the, political scientist and Beard -the, technologist show .bow, our govern- Ment operates now that science andJ mnachinery have revolutionized the conditions in whicb it is carried on. In tbe course of the discussion im- I kxewa rom new than in d by thei )ne to J tt, Anne: and