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will have his fingers cut Off some dark
night. and then later may be startled.
Wherever he may he in the world by
having these severed digits laid before
him. possibly at dinner maybe in his IL
brary. by crafty representative of the
tribe This Is what happened to an en-
terpris1ng gentleman who went into the
mine and got out enough gold to enable
him to go over into London and engage
In coming scheme. TO the great con-
fusion of the authorities or course there
was woman tangled up in tn situation
or there would have been no real de-
tective story. But there is enough blum
cering detective work i'm the course Of
the thirty chapters of this tale to fit out
almost dozen ordinary stories of crime
and mystery. 1t seems as though the
amateur and professional detectives were
In competition to do the stupidest things
imaginable. In the end the arch criminal
gets away. and all the young people in
the story are perfectly happy, and the
sole survivor of the Mexican tribe. his
vengeance completed, vanishes, never to
appear again.
THE EVACUATION OF ENGLAND, tho
Twist in the Gulf Stream. BY L. p
Gratacap. author of The Certainty
OF a Future Life in Mars" New
YORK: Brentano's.
President Roosevelt has been reelected
for third term by the American peo-
pie There was no opposition to speak
of. and shortly after his Inauguration, the
subject of the Panama canal being then
uppermost in public mind. the reelected
President attends lecture at the Smith
sonian Institution, in which a scientist
predicts the collapse of the Panama
tsthmus and the destruction of the canal
works. This Is as far as the President
comes into the situation. except to make
a speech at Gettysburg after the canal
has been knocked into a cooked hat by
the earthquake. What really happens OF
Importance is that the change in the
shape of the American hemisphere gives
the gulf stream a chance to leak out
through the new gap and lose itself in
the Pacific. This causes Great Britain
to turn cold. A great cold wave de-
sends upon IT from the arctic regions
and the British isles become Icelandic in
their chill and snow. The author de-
scribes the evacuation OF Edinburgh and
finally the departure of the English peo-
pie for Africa. Australia and the United
States. AS a story Mr.. Gratacap's offer
ing Is poor excuse for book. but as a
suggestion of what might possibly happen
in tho event of such cataclysmic ch-nges
as he ConceveS IL is interesting. There
may be some readers to conceive that IL
he Is no better as prophet in the matter
of the seismic changes than he proved
to be in the case Of the presidency. the
people of England need have no fear as to
the future temperature of their country.
THE LAMB SHAKESPEARE FOR THE
YOUNG-A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS
DREAM. illustrated by Helen STRAIT
ton With Songs set to music by T.
Maskell Hardy New York: Dufheld
& Co.
THE BISHOPS EMERALDS. BY
Houghton Townley. New York: w.
]. Watt & Co.
CHINESE FABLES AND FOLK STO.
RIES. By Mary Hayes Davis and
Chow-Leung. With an Introduction
by Yin-Chwang Wang Tsen-Zan.
New York, Cincinnati and Chicago:
American Book Company
BORDERLAND STUDIES, Miscella-
ing to Medicine and the Medical Pro-
fession. and Their Relations to Gem
eral Science and Thought. Vol. 2.
BY George NJ. Gould. MD, formerly
editor of the Medical News. author
of q series Of Medical Dictionaries.
Philadelphia: p. Blakiston's Son &
Co.
A COMMENTARY UPON TENNYSON'S
IN MEMORIAM. BY Henry E. Shep-
herd, MA. LID. author Of Life OF
Robert Edward Lee" New York and
Washington: The Neale Publishing
Company.
BEYOND THE BLUE GRASS q Ken
lucky Novel. BY George Cresswell
Gill New York and Washington:
The Neale Publishing Company.