The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22

it must be from friends whom he had forgotten somewhere, he accepts and gocs forth to make tho visit. AS the train was passing a little station he sees a finely dressed young lady witA c babe in her arms about to leap from tho now moving ear, excited over fear that she was being taken past her sta ton. Alarmed nt her peril he sei5eS tho baby and jumps of(, telling the young mother to follow, but snc hesi- tatcs from fear and tho train dlsap- pears with frantic mother on the steps and tho bachelor with q baby on his hands, and wtn not soul in sight but the station master and with several miles to walk In q clustering wintry day to reach the dinner party, Tho complication which arsc arc amazing and delightfully funny, and amusing and arc told With much skill. ROY AND RAY IN CANADA. By Miss
 Mary Wright Hummer author Of
 Roy and Ray in Mexico" etc, Pub
 lished by Harry Holt X Co, New
 York, sl.l1 net at Judd's.
 Mss Mary Wright Hummer, dlrec tor of the Pratt Institute library school follows up her successful Roy and Ray in Mexico, already ln It's third printing. by Roy and Ray in Canada Tho splendid picturesque past of eastern Canada, and it's nu- man interest has led the author to devote her book to that part of Eng lands great domain on this continent, | (wherc she spent q summer rccentlyl. rather than in the wild and more opened western Canada,
 | Tho book will receive no doubt the hearty welcome 1t well merits. It is of exceptional interest and value to young people advanced in their stud ies, as it Is packed full of information concerning Canadian history, manners and customs which few children know | about, and all presented in such at tractivc and readable style as to be | thoroughly enjoyable. The descrip- tons given are clear and comprehen- l sive and there arc twcnty-three fine Illustrations from photographs most | of them full-paged. Several If tho chapters are devoted to the Canadian Indians, the JesuIts and their mission ary work and a simple explanation of Canadian politics. Tho book is suit ablc not only to the grammar and high school pupils but to graduates who need freShcning up in their geo graphical Knowledge. Roy and Ray, twin brother and sister, accompanied by their father. their sister Dora and their brotbcr Gilbert. journey through ontario. Quebec. New Brunswick and as they journey along bring them much real information about tho places they visit while in this connec- ton they learn much about the llud- son May companys territory and about Newfoundland and also as to the historic relations between Canada and tho states and their present com mcrcial relations, ties and mutual in- tcrcsts. How the provinces are gov erned is told in connection with their visit to the chief government edilices and altogether when the reader has finished this interesting book he will feel like thanking the author for the fund of useful information ilnparted and the happy. delicious way in which the book Is written. Besides tho pie lures there are small map, table of dates, lists of thc governor generals and prime ministers of parliamcnts supplementary to tho text, and words and music of Canadian national songs