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Dîtrove the rieLh Ouvor .of Wanzer'a MAILý Sidney Wanzer & Sons Est. 1857 Chicagos Oldest Milk Company JOAN 0F ARC. By Mabel Dodge Holmes. Illustrations by Edwitp Johin Prittie, Philadelphia: johin C. Winston *Comnpany. This life of joanof. Arc repres.ent-s an ambitious undertaking.' It isan attempt to tell her.story.with, fide-lity to history but in a manner sui table folryoung people of about higli schoo! age. Such an undertaking is hesel ýwith dificulties. It calls for critical judgment',and:literary, ;skill of .thle highest, order. 'There are.pitfalls for the unwary at every point in the extraordinary career 'of, tbe Maid of France. Even a- fair, degree of' suc - cess in an.enterprise of so'muc 'h diffi-' culty would be 'no small achievenient.ý That the author of this volume bas done something more seems* to the reviewer beyond question. Professor E. P. Cheyney,' in an ad-' mirable introduction, bas. indicated the nature of tbis achievemènt. He- tells -us >The task of discovering lnw, far Joan's visions- were due to her own imagination, of explaining hN much of ber success was dlue to the changing circumstances of the time and how much. to her genius, of wvrit- ing stili more learned books about lier mnay be lef t,,to the, learned schoiars. It is, after ail, herself'anid the Ipeo- pie and thîngs that surrounded ber, wl at she wvas like and what she said and did, that the life of Joan of Arc ineans to most of us, and it is -a book of thîs kind that the author bas ýrit- ten. The liter.ary style is admnirable. It is clear, simple, and, grips one's at- teution. There i s nothing. about it that even temotely suggests m-ritinjg dloN, to the understaiiding of yoiîth- fui readers. The illustrations Iy EI- win, J.,Prittie are excellent. both his- torically and artistically. MYSTERY ISLAND. B Rap Henry Barbour. Centur3y. A mysterious theft, oný Mystery Island off Maine offers fine sport to' amiateur detectives: This book cornes from the reel as expertly as ail of Mr. Barbour's, .and is clever reading. Wol mNL 2ke a s As treê's in'coi, And peo ple standing in their. shade Out of, a shozîer, undoubtedIv, Would hear .n.ch music as is njade Upon aà rouitr3'trcee. Oh, littie leaves that are so dumjjb Agaitist thc ýshrieking City air, I watch yort wlaen the t4ind has co>n- 1 know iwhat *sou,d isthere. -"Second April" Edna St. Vincent Millay TAXki. Dv Alice -Duer Miller, Dodd Mead & Co. 'This ýpopular ýauthor dîsplays a very sure tou.cb in describing modern so-, cial lif e,- in thrèee>gay and, smart novelettes, and like number of short. stories,, whicb comprise this 'volume. Angela, wbo is assistant' editor of. a . magazine. called "The Woman of the World" is thé central 'figure in the first nove lette,, "Taxi." After an, accident i the pompoiis car of lier fiance, a very, dependable appearing taxi driver, Fergus'Mack, bandage 's ber wounds and takes lier home. She is impressed by bis strikinig person- àlity, bis idea, of boping to'show ber an old Tudor bouse- in Surrey, a salmon river in Scotland, the> Backs at Cambridge, and a Park belong ing to somne friends of bisin Ken t. Sonie days af ter, she reads- in tbe paper that a British Peer was discovered, by representatives. of bis fatber's at- torneys, driving a New York taxi; that the son of the late Baron Drouthmore would sai on the Eç0ip7. tic the nex-t day. Sbe knows it 'is Fergus Mack. She goes.to the boat to see bun once more. As tbey sat on a; luggage truck he tells, of bis quarrel with. this bitter and cantankerous Barop, wbo ini a burst o-f batred -bared the fact that he was. only bis adoipted son"-wo rsc yet., the son of the Baron.'s gardener. A , succession of decisions follow; wbetber or not. le loses tbe. title, wbetber or not be mar ries.1 Angela, sustains the interest to the last.. TIn "Ml,5.,. Al" t. ifft, tnr I WILD GRIZZLIES 0F ALASKA. By John M. Holzworth. New York: IG. P. Putnam's Sons.. For twenty-five years and more we have been awaiting thearrivai of a- ,wortbwbile :book, on - thie big brown and grizzly bears of Alaska. ýAt last it bas arri ved, by t.he strong right. arm. and battery of cameras, of Mr. Jo hn M. Holzworth. It portrays the bigh adventures of a big be-mati iit abig and rough >country, in' quest -of sociability witb 'the *biggest carniv.or- ous animaIs of this world. Take them pound for .pound, and those Alaskan bears- completely outclagss the lions end tigers of the old world. We rejoice in the fact that ait Arnerican bas thus explored for, and exploited iii this fine volume, the ail- too-little known bear nionsters of Alaska. W e rejoice exce edingly. that Mr.1 Holzworth went out on tbree very savage trips, not to shoot up )a lot of bears, -but to photograph then, at ail sorts of hair-raIsing close-up ranges. We rejoice that this -man bas brougbt back an ar.m load' of ocular proofgs, Wbich nobody can, deny, of the mentality, temperamients. and moral characters of' about 150 big grizzly and brown bears!1 With commendable. zeal. for. tbe scientific side of :the Alaskan diver- sions, the author sets forth7the W.holc' Of the latest determinatiois 'and classifications of the terribly, nunier- ous and bewildering species and- sub- species of .Alaskan -brown and'grizzly bears.. It is no surprise to the reader tlîat th.e Ulysses of all this comes out with, a fine, dark-coiored Alaskan grizzly subspecies duly named -ini hionor of its unterrifieci discoverer and côllector; and it is to us a. joy to know that it bas been bestowed utpoti and within the admirable National, Collection-of Heads and- Horns, at New York's zoological Park. THJE MEANING 0F THE GLORI- OUS KORAN:,Explanatory Trans- lation by Marmiaduke Pickthall. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. This translation, whichi is accom- panied by a brief meh:oîir and cr-t- »Ia'atr note- is an aO**Pto re*n 1-f Engraving of superier quality 14 Orrington Avenue, Evanstoi OrriugUn mRote. idEI. A~ translation by Margery Bianco of this readable narrative of the. French in America. The early part of the book has to do with first dis- coveries and settlemients on the St.. Lawren.ce and in. the West, as, back- ground f or t 'he story of Spanisb and French Louisiana. A full biography is includled, but. thé book is written for the' general reader. oiJ Line ., Lanc.4GiU ninAsp~iriten tIl 4I Jlations made chie fl.y from the Italian in this period. Mr. Mathiessen bas. made a care:u1 survey in compari.. son witb the originals, b-ut in doing se lie. has nlot forgotten that, the main purpose Pf' bis scbolarsbip, is to,'indicat e the. n ature of Elizabethan literary quality, and bis book is botb well documented and intereiting. SI: 1 ww--w-mý m