The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-30

..rhe Airship Boys in France, or the
 Flight of the Flying Cow by Il. L.
 sayIer. Reilly & Britton, Chicago. Sl.
 The summit of a boys interest.
 The height of a. boys ambition.
 zsAre is the story of the old brindle COW which jumped, not quite over the moon, but over Niagara
 Who has a COW to risk on such Nen- turef
 Here are ,two.boys, Alan Hope and Ned Napier, who out-do all the famed aero nau4s of the earth. Beside having aa- venture and invention for fairy god mothers they have q millionaire :. Tor 1 friend and backer-just plain one mil- lion man. not a multi-Morgan-!n !nilllonaire that is to come later. One million MT. Osborne and one Major HoneyWei are the best sort of partners boys could nave. With their aid. sympathetic and hnallclais the boys top all the wonders Of the new science of aerostatics. They reach the night of air navigation and the helght or higs finance in securing the partnefshlP of Morgan & Co to underwrite ,helr com pany. The Universal Tra1Sloi iatlon' They ask for a backing of one mi4loh and get five million-and we leave them thus on the high road 10 faRe and Ior- tune. ,
 A fine book and boys will have nlgh old time" at devourng it. The boek mas solid sense for its basis MT. Fl. l.. Say Ter has a special knowledge ot aefohaut- ics every prominent aviator in the land is his friend and such men as Wright, r.,,rtlss and T4ougheed make haste 10 read his hooks as they are issued, Tor lhese bird men give Mr Sayler credit for man" and useful ideas in the new held oi science and in truth many of the ideas in this series of airahip books have been adopted
 ..Tae Boy Scouts of Birch-Bark Island,
 by Rupert Sargent Holland. Lipplncou
 Co. Philadelphia a.&.
 The scout movement in England begins to reach to America. Here 1t Is mingled somewhat with Indian life-as found Tn c-ooper's rornanees. Ii is a healthtul move and one that will be needed the more as our country becomes more thickiy popu- lated and as we live further anu thfthef from the open. Very interesting account Is here given Of how party or boys un- der a scout master learned the lore or the woods: lore that not so long since our forefathers were -practicing for livelihood: How to follow trails through the woods how to build a fire in the open, how to do oarnn cooking how to handle skln, maybe how to make a 'dug-outs these scouts learn. Learn also how to cut the logs and build log hut, fine dwelling Tor the scout This group of boys were the ..Rlack Hawks and they had each one To learr to give the hawks cry as signal to the rest of the band as to their where- abouts and to sketch hawks head on the sand or on the rock to inform the rest of the band which way each Hawk had made new trail. At night the scoutmaster gathered these boys about the camp fire and taught them the con stellations and how to find the way Ill forest or prairie by those shiningt heaven. ly guides. set high over all earthly ob- stacies Interesting tales he told them of the Indians and their forest and folk and star lore How the star at inc bend of. the bandle of the Dipper is called Mizsr. the Horse and the tiny star above 1t, AIccr, the Rider; but the Indians call the two stars t'Old Squaw and Papoose on her back" and by the small star they test the evesight of their little boys: Gan you see the papoose ?' ask the In dian fathers of their small sons. "Yes,'