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make it a poem quite as much as "a ro-


Xenia and Vera: the married daughters
and their husbands-are all alike of the
family and yet individualized Strannik has
succeeded in reproducing the atmosphere
of deadly conservatism in which these all
move and have their being and in which
Helen stiles and rebels. The girl-lives of
Helen and of Lily, her dearest friends. are
given with charming intimacy. Sougoutfne
the egotistic. unstable sentimentalst whom
Helen marries. is revealed with admirable
restraint but with piti1ess truth. 1.-The
Shadow of the House" is a novel of dis
tinction.
CAMP FIRES IN THE CANADIAN
ROCKIES. BY William T. Hornaday,
logical Park. Illustrations By John
NJ. Phillips. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
Mr.. Hornaday insists that his sight drafts
upon the reading public have been by no
means eXtravagant He wrote one book
twenty years ago and now he essays an
other No apology was necessary. He has
taken 50 many trips into what he calls
1.-The late lamented wild west that he is
peculiarly fitted to speak of it. OF Brit
ish Columbia. where his latest hunt has
been made, he seems compelled to write.
The land" he says, looms up so grandly,
it's wild creatures seem so interesting and
Mr.. Phillips pictures so fine, it would
seem churlish to refuse the labor that will
place them before those who care to enjoy
them. The book Is delightful. Merely 4
story of recreation with big game, with a
whelming desire to go west and find vlgor
and health and joy in the mountain fast
nesses where the big game turks. The
pictures are wonderful and the book is
packed with unalloyed delight.
DAUGHTERS OF DESTINY. By Schuyler
Crown etc. Illustrated with color
reproductions of paintings by Thomas
Mitchell PIERCE and Harold Delay.
Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co.
In the modern craze for foreign countries
in which heroines of fiction may find po-
tentates to control and policies to direct
Baluchistan has up to this time escaped.
But Mr.. Schuyler Staunton has discovered
it and pressed it into service. The result is
an interesting, If improbable connection of
travel and intrigue.
RAMDLEs On THE RIVIERA. By Fran
els Miltoun. author of "Rambles in
Normandy, etc. With illustrations
by Blanche McManus. Boston, l.. c.
Page & Co. Washington: Woodward
4 Lothrop.
An account of journeys made en- auto
mobile through the fair land of Provence
and illustrated from paintings made on
the spot, should prove alluring to any
who has felt the urge of the wanderlust.
The book makes no pretenSe at being a
work of historical archaeological i'm
portance, but it is just surely not the
conventional travel story nor glorified guide
book. Provence is one of the most beauti-
full touring grounds of the world, historic,
romantic and picturesque. Reported as is
here done by the author and the artist, not
a ~ h n he
caught even in the indirection of picture
and Isord. Here at last may be read of the
country back from the freuuented resorts
of pleasant byways and delightful petits
pays very much worth the exploring by a
genuine traveller. Pictures and text have
a real element about them and a personal
viewpoint that give them keen interest.
A BOOK OF ENGLISH GARDENS. Writ
ten by M. r. Gloag. Illustrated by
Katharine Montagu Wyatt. New York:
The Macmillan Co. Washington:
Brentano's.
Since Bacon first wrote his charming es-
say "Of Gardens the dignity and beauty
of the formal setting of great houses has
been theme of poet and artist. Indeed,
before him there had been garden lovers.
The essay opening this new volume, in
which the splendors of many old English
gardens are recorded, is a worthy sue
cessor of that great beginning. Here not
the general nature of garden, whether Of
Italian type, freer Saxon statelier Nor
man. is explained, but the actual condi-
ton at Abbetsbury Hatfield Sutton Place
Holland House, Beckett and many other
worthy specimens from parks to cottage
plots. Bacon says: God first planted a
garden" Certainly they have been the
delight and solace of all men who have
risen to the culture and refinement of ma
ture. which their making implies. 1t is
perhaps not too high praise to say that the
book gives a very adequate treatment of
very noble subject.
THE PITFALLS OF SPECULATION. BY
Thomas Gibson. New York: The
Moody Corporation.
80 great" says Mr.. Gibson, ARE the
opportunities offered by speculative changes
that, with proper methods and self-control,
the poor man cannot afford to overlook
them The author, with this idea as his
germinal topic, has arranged in logical
manner the reasons for the failure of 80
per cent of all spectators, and makes an
exposition Of the methods by which the
minority have succeeded. Speculation he
considers not only a legitimate but safe
procedure when business methods of ap-
proved types are applied to 1t. Only mar
ginal speculation is treated, and that Is
presented with clear knowledge of the SUBJ
ject and much common sense. Thirteen
basic principles are made out as pertinent
10 marginal speculation, ana eaCh is at
tested by precedent. In his chapter on
Intelligent Methods Mr.. Gibson is both
outspoken and full of real information. His
book must be of service to even more than
the embryo Spectator.
MARS AND ITS MYSTERY. BY Edward
s. Morse, author of japanese Homes
and Their Surroundings" Illustrated.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
Mr.. Morse has been attracted, he says,
l.;
opinion as to the nature and Interpretation
of the curious markings on Mars. He writes
for the general reader. believing that the
question of intelligence in other worlds is
of perennial interest to every one. The
question, he further believes, may be set
tied by an unprecedented study of the neigh
boring planet. The many known analogies
between Mars and the earth justify the in
quiry into the real conditions on that
planet. Mr.. Morse, though not an astrono-
mer, has studied the mysterious planet with
the great refractor at the Lowell observ-
atory. and he believes that if one is gifted
with some imagination and is free from
prejudice he or any student with fair
acquaintance Of the surface of the earth,