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1WICKFORD POINT By-John P. Marquand, $2.50 'Author of The Late George Apiu ed after reEaaUU £ eBTÇaa oI'J a- let (Houghton Miflin compazay>, a new novel of Nantucket durlig the War of :1812. "I cannot .vouch for 1812 privateers, but I do know when the nautical feeling of a tale is right, when shipa do the right tbings and go the right way. I couid not fnd a single hole in the picture." -Pwoaiereus Isiamd in 1812 the Island of Nantucket was proud and prosperous - the home of Quaker captains and sturdy seamen. Two years later, the starv- ig Isianders w e re combing the beaches for firewood, plundering wrecked vesseis for food, and Nan- tucket itself had aimost seceded Vlitjalmur ous cir cumstances, advancedi witn possible1solutions to these mysteries, have qualities stili more intrigulng to the imagination. Stephen Leacock'introduction to Unsoved Miateriea of the AreCUC ýby Vilhjalmur Stefansson, aiso the au-.; thor of "The Northward Course-of Empire," "The Friendly Arctic," and "My Life with the Eskimo," telis how the book came to be written and gives> Mr. Stefansson's qualifications for a job of this sort. Officiai records of. ail kinds lîterature about the terri- tory, and the writer's, own experi- ences in the North are his sources of service photo information. son ive gw Ive Mysteries -- "Unsolt'ed Mijateriea of the Arc- tic," published by the Macmil- lan companh,. Stephen Leacock wTote the inrtouction. 4-rets, long i. His five t, the dis- Greenland of the lost the strange fourth, a Problems Even, night school and lived at one time in can- Glenccie. -Mr, and Mrts. Bowman spent many trm- months last year in a beautîful es- New tate called Terry Hill on the isiand ginal, of Tobago in the Caribbean. Thçy In one tionn a ' because iact ana no: (the F'ranklin expedi- et! vmh a p1Avnn-, asse~ I i a caUiII Ames M n was rim s"e sea. The