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R<'vi y Esthmer 00.1<1 "The Deepening Streani" is thie ornest, tbougbtful, carefully written tory of "Matey" Gilbert's if e f rom cbfldhood te .middle age. The part of the story dealing with ber child- hood is doue probably, at too great length-it might bave been bandled îii-Iretrospect-ýbut.it is reallv done te iestablisW thé' mistrust of life wbich. thme bickerings of father and mother 1 .ve their three children. Matey 'is Çie offly one wbo ever conquers that *ustrust, and she, does it tbrougb !ov- mkg and heing loved by a goÔd man. Mrs. isher bas mdean attemPt< ta depict this great and all-powerful love, a difficuit tbing to do, and one in which she partially succeeds, ýyet ilips at 'imes into-shalwesay the dreadful word?-sentimefltality. Tbe outstanding part of. the book %A .hat Part dealing witb the opening *f the World War. Matey is shocked ýônc.e more into mistrust, and feels that she must do something to help. Shiee and her husbandd and two sual chilidren take their nlot very large nest-egg of capital and go te France. * They. go primarily to belp a Frencb family with wbom - Matey bad stayed ia ber yotb, and wbo is like a sec- p~d family te ber. This part is se ed1 and se realistically doue that one uw~ld know without being told that t parallels Mrs. Fisber's own experi.- After the disillusions that fotlow the war Matey repays ber busband's griift to ber by bringing him back to faith and happiness. TRE BLACKTHORN WINTER. By Philippa Pow..-Sm...ith. Tbere must l4 ave. been othei# * English families who love the.English countryside as deeply as the Powys es, ~ut they have not been writem5 LleweI-, lyIn Powys writej of rivers and plains ind his as, anotber -might write of a * beloved.: holding bis, "Thirteent Worthies" ini one's band one bolds English eartb. John Cowper PowyS ýees behind the lovely surface of bis »n.qthie ark powers and forces In bis biograpby Major Kipling tells bow the king rules, bow bis bousehold functions, of the quaint and ancient ceremonies and customis wbicb exist side by side witb modern business.,melbods. He expounds, the, mysteries of court eliquétte, the wearing of orders, the mçgning of the elaborate ceremonial, of the cor- onation. He presents a -vivid picture of tbe bistoric trooping of 'tbe color on borse guards parade. He shows us.'the king as king, receiving in state, a monartb among monarcb,. and as a private gentleman witb bis -fan-. ily, bis borne and his hobbies. As a cbild, as -a naval oficer, as ,beir .te, the tbrone, and as king, George V stands revealed. TRAMPING, THROUGH AFRICA. By William J W. Roome. ,Newý York: The Macmillan company. In perusing this book, one is im- presse.d iith the tenmendous anieunt of territory that the, writer bas covered. He bas walked across equatoriakAfrica twelve limes and in addition bas m ade side trips nortb mbt the Sudan as well as soutb te *Southern Rhodesiat The book is taken from a journal and is the sim- ple account of Mr. Roome's travels ini the interior as well as along the Africax> coast. It is written f rom the standpoinl of a inissionary wbo makes safaris of many months mbt the interior te visit: and inspect mis- sions where be represents the British an>d Foreign ' Bible societies. During the course of bis travels Mr- Roome visils 'Lake Victoria, Lake Nyassa, Zanzibar, Dar es Salaam, Mombassa, Uganda, Zande.rland, and the Pygmy country; be travels down the Congo, and, at the end of the book, visits Victoria Falls en mtute te Chitambo wbere tbe book ends. Chitambo is indeed a fittinçi place tb terminiate Mr. Roogne's travlis1ôv'i i..is here that Africa's greatest nissionafy Diavid I4ivingýtone, died. people, and he.bas written a sage in- troduction in "Shbort Talk on PoetrY." Moreover the decorations of .James Daugherty which embellisb Ibis vol- ume fit the text like a glove. Daugh- erty is suddenly . recogni.zable as Sandburg's ideal illustiator,. the illus- trator 'he sbould bave bad ail along. For' these reasons w e cail thfe book. asuccess and hope that it will go int many'Anierican, hom.es. h is one of the books worth buying. APRIL FOOLS. By Compton Mac- kenzie. 'Doubleday,, Doran.' Iti arlef to find that s0 spright- ly a writer as Mr. Mac.ken'zie bas -ersuaded himself to forget bis war- timeé adventures in the secret service ind return to' fiction. In "April Fools" be bas ivritten a story that is alvays amusing and often riotously funny. John 'ouchbod, successful writer of romantic plays, being Plagueci witb, a collection of more or less worthless brothers and sisters and i-loews, -invites them to a birth- day dinrier, marries bis secretary, and sails for' America on a boney- moon. At the dinner a letter is read from the absent host inforniing bhis relatives that lie bas deeded to them bis country estate, one-fifth to eacb. birother or sister and their families, together witb s ufficient money for the' upkeep of the place. So there tbey are, the wbole lot of them, settled dowx> at Ambles, most of tbem cordially disliking the otbers, and eacb plottin' to get the rest out -)f tbe way and enter, lato possession of their sbares. The humorous pos- 'ibilities of the situation are obvious, and Mr. Mackçenzie bas a tboroughly good lime. dealing witb them. The reader bas just as good a time fol- lowing tbis unusual experiment in joint bousekeeping and its unexpected denouemefit. BIOGRAPHY WAR LETTERS 0F FALLEN ENGLISHMEN. Edited by Law- rence Housman. Dutton. jUvnury. Flaving written capable lives of Kit Carson and Frémont for boys, Mrs. Seymour is well equipped to deal with the Southwestern hero, Samn Houston. It is a rapid narrative that she present'S. In, littie m ore than two hundred well written pages she spreads the whole panoramna before hier readers-Houston's adventurous boýyhood, his adoption by the Chero-. kees, his, service with. Andrew. Jack- son in the Warof 1812, and aite rest, culminating in bis leadership of the republic of Texas. Her pages show familiarity with the best recenit material on the subjeot, including ,Marquis James'. biograplxy,ý and ilhey show also a, keen sympathy.with ber hero, Houston, does -not commend hiinseif so easily to the boyish-,beart as, Daniel Boone, Kit, Carson, and John C. Frémont. There were polit- ical complexities in his career.,wbich youngsters ind it bard to understand, and',after the great fight at San Ja- cinto, when he ran his last gauntiet of physical danger, bis life'lacked the kind of action which boys enjoy. He was flot a mani of the simple elemen- tai character that Boone and Carson showed, and some of'tbe complexifies of his nature are flot at ail amiable. Nevertheless, hie was an inipressive and an important figure, and he should be more familiar to American. youth. Mrs. Seymour has given us the one good juveriile life of 1dm in existence, and it deserves a' wide cir- culation. GEORGE WASHINGTON: THE SON OP HIS COUNTRY. By Paul van Dyke, formerly Pyne Pro- fessor of History at Princeton~ uni- versity, autborof "'Ignatuius Loy- ola," "Catherine de Mèdicis," etc. 'bis is a colorful account of tbe formative years.1 Its- emphasis is upox> tbe_ American 'background and environmn*~t.of the period, and upon the younser Washington as a product of tbat environment, ratber tban upon the leader wbo later was to PffT OF RIS MA- murd Ça GEOPIGE V.- B>ý 1rs. ï Kipling. and V was traiued as a temnP ted to his profession, banal niUseiiis çauc upuii u iii-- -..-1 in order to save the in nocent LAZARE SAMINSKY.> By Dome- f rom arrest on a charge of nico de Paoli, Leigh Henry, Leonida The author (in private 1if e Sabaneyeff, Joseph Yasser, and illiam Beebe) bas Skilfully Leonballas Block. cefully avoided tbe manifold *CA'I..FORNIA GRINGOS. By H. A. ons to lapse into farcical Van Coenen Toréhiana. Sa'n Fran-i es wbich ber story b.arbored. cio:Eer try for several years be-forebe-j-oineéd the forty-niners bound for Calif or- nia and gold, and his pictures Of early life in the midwest are inim- itable. The story of the long trail to California ïs epic in proprios