ing in that, they joined with right good will and with powerful voices in the splendid chorus. "Yet it must be remembered that these are not wild lions, as they were all captured when very small kittens and kept together in a stone house at Juja Farm. Their splendid growth and development can be attributed to their having been born wild, of free parents, and having always been fed on the best of perfectly fresh meat. "On learning of the generous gift of Mr. MacMillan it was decided to send Mr. A. B. Baker, Assistant Secretary of the Zoo, out to Nairobi to bring the animals home. It was a trying task, requiring the utmost skill and patience. The journey consisted of a twenty-fourmile wagon trip from Juja ranch to Nairobi, six hundred miles on the railway to Mombasa, and then the long ocean voyage via Naples to Philadelphia. of the animals (there were twenty-four in all) showed any signs of seasickness. They suffered greatly from the heat during the first part of the voyage, but the cold they did not mind at all." None "AT AN ANCIENT WORK-BENCH WHERE HIS FATHER WORKED BEFORE HIM that infinitesimal spot with red ink, for fear it might escape you. Undeserving as you felt yourself in view of the Paris episode, Providence certainly favored you, for a two hours' journey away you found the elusive Mittenwalde, all the time so near, though seemingly so far. It nestled at the foot of the huge Karwendel Mountains, apparently fast asleep the morning of your arrival, so quiet were the village streets, but you learned ere many days that long before you arose of a morning all Mittenwalde was astir and making violins. All Mittenwalde, observe, for of the 1,960 inhabitants the majority who are old enough pursue the craft of violin-making. Perhaps the follower of the gentle art of lutherie has only just toddled from the cradle, but even so the smallest Kinder must take some part in the work, if it is only holding the glue-pot for mother or big sister, or shooing' the flies off the violins already drying from Giebelstübchen to Küche. If it is summer-time, you will not find Mittenwalde so quiet, for its fame as a hot-weather resort has long since gone forth the length and breadth of Germany's domain, and no wonder, for there is no more attractive place in the Bavarian Alps. But in any event you will have plenty of opportunities to watch the villagers pursuing their hereditary vocation, for such it really has been since the days of Matthias Klotz, generation after generation following in the footsteps of their ancestors. You will hear the story of their industry over and over again in every atelier you visit, if you care to listen-for does |