loneliness, giving, taking, doing." And, though illness claims her, she still sees herself "always going on, . . . always straining forward for something that has not been but should be."

THE LIFE OF SAMUEL J. ELDER. By Margaret M. Elder. The Yale University Press, New Haven. $5.

The career of a Massachusetts attorney whose notable cases included his representation of Mrs. Eddy; his defense of Dr. Eastman of Harvard, charged with murder; and his appearance as counsel for the United States in the North Atlantic Fisheries Arbitration.

Accounts of trials for various crimes, including one for witchcraft and a number for murder. The dates of them range from 1380 to 1879, and they are mainly English, with two New York cases added. The author has made only a fairly interesting book out of material which was very promising. He is not always a good narrator, and, as he seems to believe that "capitalism" is to blame for most crimes, it may be that his narrative would be clearer if his thinking were straighter.

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STEAMBOAT DAYS. By Fred Irving Dayton. Illustrated by John Wolcott Adams. The Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York. $5. Mr. Dayton's book is richer in statistics relative to the business of steamboating than it is in those qualities of interest and picturesqueness one naturally looks for in any account of an occupation now almost extinct. Nevertheless his book is interesting because of the many facts he has so laboriously collected, not to mention a few striking passages descriptive of the Mississippi River steamboating days that have long since been embalmed in a nation's fiction. Of special value is his colorful account of the floating theater, a feature of ante-bellum entertainment. These theaters occupied a barge towed by a steamboat, and they made regular trips up and down the river, announcing their approach to every town by means of a steam calliope whose shrill sounds brought the population to the river-bank ready to storm the gangplank for admission. Melodrama, in which virtue triumphed and villainy was punished, was the favorite form of entertainment offered. There are many still living who recall the initial trip of the steamship Great Eastern to American waters, and these will read with interest Mr. Dayton's account of the enthusiastic welcome accorded to that vessel, 680 feet in length, when it entered the harbor of

New York and proceeded up the North River. The steamship had a capacity for 4,000 passengers, but her great size aroused fear of her seaworthiness and after a few voyages she was broken up. Mr. Dayton has much to say of the steamships that ply on Eastern waters, largely between New York and towns on the Hudson River and Long Island Sound, and also of the traffic on the Great Lakes, which has since grown to an enormous size. On the whole he has written a book that is well worth while.

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HUNTING IN AFRICA EAST AND WEST. Charles P. Curtis, Jr., and Richard C. Curtis. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $5. Killing big game and small in Africa. Told in an unassuming, informal, and thoroughly pleasing manner.

TALES OF FISHING VIRGIN SEAS. By Zane Grey. Harper & Brothers, New York. $5.

A picture book of good hunting for big fish. The novelist photographs whales, dodges sharks, hunts sailfish, swordfish, tuna, and many other tremendous fish of the Pacific. Many photographs of all of them.

WINGED DEFENSE. By William Mitchell. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

This is Colonel Mitchell's book on the air defenses of America; what they lack and what should be done about it. If you were a member of the court which tried him, you know the book, because it was read aloud to you. It is a finelooking book, with good photographs and a handsome portrait of the Colonel, whose breast is covered with well-merited decorations. Here is his side of the case, presented with vigor.

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OUR SUSSEX PARISH. By Thomas Gearing. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $3.

Thomas Gearing, of Hailsham village, Sussex, was first a plowboy, then a shoemaker, inheriting from his father a pleasant house and comfortably prosperous business. He was entirely satisfied with his position in life. In Hailsham there were no great folk, and its business men were the recognized élite, imbued with a sturdy self-respect and modest pride. He was intelligent and observant; he loved both printed books and old wives' tales; he loved Sussex and its people and to remember the days of his youth. He was past sixty when he wrote this book, first published in 1884, reprinted in

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JESUS OF NAZARETH. By Joseph Klausner. The Macmillan Company, New York. $4.50. The work of a living Jewish scholar, translated from the Hebrew.

THE ROMANCE CHURCHES OF FRANCE. By Oliver E. Bodington. Houghton Mifflin Com pany, Boston. $5.

A manual of church architecture in the twelfth century.

FACTORS IN AMERICAN HISTORY. By A. F. Pollard. The Macmillan Company, New York. $2.50.

Lectures by a professor at the University of London. These discussions of American history were delivered on the Sir George Watson Foundation for American History, Literature, and Institutions.

DEVONSHIRE CREAM. By Eden Phillpotts. The
Macmillan Company, New York. $1.75.
A comedy in three acts.

THE TWILIGHT RENDEZVOUS. By Milton
McGovern. Buffalo Catholic Publication Co.,
Buffalo.

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WISH I were a child again. Not that I'm tired, or disappointed, or unable to eat apples and plum cake.

I want my lizard back.

He was an excellent lizard. Lizards had been the fashion for the last few weeks of the school term. Every boy desired them. I caught mine under a hawthorn on Clifton Down-Clifton Down, where a beacon burned when the Armada was sighted.

"And ere the day twelve hundred horse had met on Clifton Down." That is part of a long poem by a man named Macaulay. I had to learn it by heart, which rather spoiled Clifton Down for me, though it was a good place for lizards. If you liked the game known as cricket, it was a fine place for cricket too. I loathed cricket; but once, on Clifton Down, shook hands with W. G., the most famous cricketer of England and the Empire.

Speaking of lizards, there were many on Clifton Down. You'd find them sunning on rocks whence might be seen Lundy Island and the waters of the Bristol Channel-famous for the sails of Oxenham, Salvation Yeo, and Amyas Leigh, and, in turn, for slave ships, Irish cattle steamers, and the operations of U-boats. It was there too that on my first night at sea I had the fear of God put into me by one of his hurricanes.

But speaking of lizards, there is something wrong with the boy who does not desire pets. I've had magpies, jackdaws, white rats, jet-black mice (two for a shilling in a London animal shop), guinea-pigs, rabbits, snakes, hedgehogs, beetles, caterpillars—well, you know how it goes. And lots and lots of dogs.

It was breaking-up day at my boarding-school. He who has never known. boarding-school has missed a heap of sorrow and of joy. I know no delight comparable to breaking-up day at boardcomparable to breaking-up day at boarding-school.

To-day I never see a fly. A fly was a one-horse covered-over affair with seats for four. The driver often had a very red nose. Flys took small boys from the boarding-school to the station, their boxes beside the driver and their tickets for home in their pockets. In my pocket I had also my lizard. He was in a small cardboard box with some wet grass. Had I not damped the grass lest he go thirsty, all would have been well.

I was alone in an English railway carriage. "Seat five each side." There were five passengers seated each side, and I was one of those on one side. A small boy is most alone when surrounded by grown-ups. But, of course, I had my lizard. Only one cannot play with one's lizard in a railway carriage full of grownups. It was very boresome, though I had a window seat; which helped, for I could see the apple orchards, the rabbits and pheasants on the embankments, and the red and white cattle in the fields. If one has imagination and can see things, life is not so bad.

They were a very dull lot of grownups indeed. There were two clergymen. The amaze that I yet feel at sight of a clergyman was even stronger then. All healthy children regard the clergy with wonder; wondering if it be really so that of such are the kingdom of heaven. No one has ever proved it.

There were several farmers. For stolidity commend me to the English

And there were west-country farmer. several women. One sat next to me. I am coming to my lizard.

Between Gloucester and Micheldean, which is on the edge of the forest of Dean, where the big coal mines are, I put my hand in my pocket to fondle my lizard. My lizard was gone! The damp grass had melted his box.

I felt terribly alone. The sorrow a small boy feels at the loss of a pet is sorrow indeed. If being crossed in love makes the heart any colder, it must be a very cold feeling.

I sat quite still, and, looking carefully about me, presently saw my lizard. He was on the coat collar of the stout lady seated at my side. With a fore foot lifted, he was about to step onto her neck.

I raised my hand and picked him very gently off her coat collar. Dear lizard! He was my own again. But the stout lady had felt my hand. Turning and looking down on me, she asked if she were in my way. What grown-up was ever anywhere but in a small boy's way? But, as a small boy, I was very polite.

"No, thank you," I answered her, and added, "I was just getting my lizard."

Truthfulness has got many children into trouble. It is, or was, commonly known among the grown-ups of the English west country that lizards, as well as toads and newts (which also make excellent pets), spit fire, bite, and sting.

When I look back upon that clamorous English railway carriage, I feel that I was meant to be a sailor; for I kept my head and refused to throw my lizard out of the window. of the window. I proved, by earnest demonstration, that he did not spit fire, bite, or sting. It was all in vain. One cannot change the English mind, save very, very slowly. It is sot in its ways.

At the next station the two clergymen took another carriage. The farmers and the women hurried out. Only one stayed. The woman beside me had for some reason taken a fancy to either me or my lizard. She would not sit close to us, but she did not go. I talked to her and demonstrated my lizard. She was very kind to us both. And I think that she was foolishly sorry for my lizard. I came to almost like her. It was for her sake, at her gentle request, that I by and by dropped him out upon the long green grass of the embankment.

I want my lizard back, my childhood again.

But yet I do not think that Pan has ever really died. Somewhere, perhaps, he sits and pipes to my lizard. We shall go back. Old friends will play together where no grown-ups are.

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News of the week includes the report of a divorce decree granted in Chicago within nineteen hours after the filing of the first papers. Even in Yucatan one must wait fifteen days. . . . A scheme has been devised to completely disorganize world finance one thousand years from now. It is to put $10 out at interest and allow it to compound for that length of time, when it will have grown to $5,374,523,952,824,329. . . . Gloria Swanson, film star, has had a new apartment built for her on top of a Park Avenue Building in New York City. For a five-year lease she is said to have paid $250,000. An elevator, with three shifts of uniformed operators, is maintained for her exclusive use. With a reported income of $500,000 a year she can afford it.

When the mayor hurried into the auditorium and exclaimed apologetically, "I am sorry to have kept you waiting, but I've been addressing a board meeting," it was rather impolite of a voice from the crowd to say, "I can well believe that it was."

An amazing instance of news suppression occurred recently in Boston. The arrest of a man who had been throwing heavy missiles nightly for ten weeks. from the balcony of a Keith theater into the crowded auditorium below was the first newspaper mention of the affair. The press knew of the mysterious missiles which endangered the nightly audience and of the bewilderment of the

A contrast in movie advertising and a moral: A St. Louis theater advertised a recent picture in the local press with the explanatory caption, "Oh, Baby! Barred by the censors of Chicago and Ohio because it is 'naughty,' other cities call it nice. . . . When she kissed she had a style that was all her own-Learned how to do it in Paris and then practiced it everywhere else-Men?-She turned men into slaves with just one scorching glance and a tropic smile." This theater lost business. . . . C. J. Latta, movie theater proprietor of Shenandoah, Iowa, recently advertised that the show at his theater for the coming week was not a good one, and, for his people's protection, he warned them to stay away. "Next week," he added, "we will have a good He had picture, worth your money." congratulations pour in from far and wide and a record attendance at the "next week's" show.

Press reports state that Sarasota, Florida, contains 69 square miles. It claims a population of 10,000, but only 211 votes were cast there last year. One can drive eight miles in any direction from the City Hall and still be in the City of Sarasota, but then "city lots" do sell for higher prices.

The story is told of a man who bought a Florida lot for $4,000 from the map in a real estate office. He carefully paid in cash and demanded his deed. He then asked that he be shown his property. At first the agent was hesitant, but the purchaser insisted, and they went to the beach, where the agent pointed out the lot about four hundred feet from the shore. "Just what I wanted," said the buyer. "And now that it belongs to me, I want you to see that nothing is put on it." "But," protested the agent, "we're going to fill in all that part, and in three months we'll have your lot high and dry, like the rest." "Not mine," replied the owner. "If you put a cubic foot of dirt on it, I'll sue your company." That afternoon the company bought back the lot for $20,000.

Answer to last week's puzzle: Braes, bears, saber, bares, baser.