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 Mrs. Kingsland has collected and sug- gested nearly four hundred different games and entertainments for the di- version of young and old on almost ev- cry imaginable occasion where they would be appropriate. They range from the old familiar games of childhood's s happy hour, such as "Postofiice' and Going to Jerusalem to the "Myste- ries of Cheiromaney." There are im- promptu games of thought. wit and memory and others to be played with paper and pencil or requiring even more elaborate preparation; card games, pro- gressiye games, singing games and Sun, day games. The latter half of the book is given up to suggestions of entertain ments for special occasions. Some of these are grouped by months; New Years Resolution Party for January, Washinaton's Birthday celebrations for February. Poverty Luncheons' for Lent. down to Twentieth Century Christmas" for December. These are mostly for grown-ups, but there is a special list for children's parties.
 Of the book the New York Tribune says: "After chapter devoted to din- ners, dances and luneheons, and anoth- CT containing hints for getting up tab leaus, there is final one on wedding anniversaries, the names of some of ..,ioT, xt;1J a I,eyT t r ,,,rc.L ,,aa dave n,e, first anniversary, we are informed, is the cotton wedding, the second the pa- per wedding, the fourth the leather wedding, the seventh the woolen we'd ding. the twelfth the china wedding, the twentieth the linen wedding. Adding to these the more familiar wooden, tin, crystal and silver weddings, the mar ried people who observe them all should certainly be able to keep well stocked with household goods and chattels. The subject of presents, however, is one which, with a wise consideration for the guests, Mrs. Kingsland keeps fin the background. Her suggestions are for the host and hostess, to aid them in ar ranging an appropriate entertainment, One of them, that is sufficiently anus ing is that at wooden wedding each guest should be provided with a bit of wood and knife, a prize, preferably made of wood, being offered for the best whitfield boat, doll or what-not.
 Mrs Kingsland might incorporate in a future edition of her book the varia- tion of Japanese gGobang," which was devised by two college students to while away the dull hours of an uninteresting lecture course. It was played on the tit-tat-to, one player making a cross and the other a circle, the winner being the one who first got five of his marks in row in any direction, up and down, across or diagonally. It took two years of constant practice to make the play CTS so skilfuI that the winning of the game depended simply on the question as to which Of them made the first mark. Treating of card tricks, Mrs. Kingsland describes one of them as fol- lows:
 A really curious card trick, which yet is not a trick but comes nearer to yeri- flying the claims of mesmerism than anything have known, is the follow ing: Choose five cards from the pack, select some one of them in your mind, spread them out fan-fashion-their faces turned down. Now hold the right hand of some person, tell him to shut his eyes and command him to draw the card from the fan of five which you hold out to him. Without any action or your part to further 1t, he will nine times out of ten take the card which you have chosen that he shall, There is no explanation-it simply happens.
 The explanation really is very simple, and will at once be apparent to any one who has any practical knowledge of tricks with cards. The person with his eyes shut necessarily gropes for the cards, which the person holding them must place within his reach. This Is naturally, even if involuntarily, done in such a way as to present the chosen card most prominently. If there is any hesitation, an unconscious muscular signal passing from the performer to the subject, through the clasped hands, settles the matter. One of the easiest of all sleight of hand tricks is to force" a selected card from full pack OH d SpeCpdLOF sW1lO lldS HIS eyes .opSIl and who is not in physical contact with the performer. It is, in fact, the foun- dation on which the majority of sleight of hand tricks are built"
 "Some Successful Americans" by sherman Williams, New York State In- stitute conductor, and formerly super intendent of schools at Glens Falls, N. Y. This book Is intended for supple nlentary reading in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades. It is during this pe- riod that pupils are beginning to think about what they shall do in life. Many of them are sure to feel that there are now but few opportunities for those who have to make their own way, and that it is impossible to succeed with out assistance. In order to stimulate such pupils this volume has been pre- pared It contains sketches of the lives of many famous Americans who have achieved success in the face of what are generally called adverse conditions, Abraham Lincoln, Louisa Alcott, Corne- Illus Vanderbilt, Mary Lyon, Peter Coo- per, Eli Whitney and Horace Greeley era among those taken as examples. Both men and women are included, and they have been chosen so as to repre- sent different callings and various sec Hons Of the country and thus iterest thle