The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24

children. a COOK DOCK Tn the form or a story but with practical, clearly stated recipe on almost every page. It Is meant for children who like to do interesting things. Girls of IA. like Mildred. can learn from it how to make good things for home and school lunches, for Sunday night suppers, and for parties. Little girls, like Brownie. will discover that even 9-year-olds can set a table prettily and make cool drinks for summer nights and candy for all kinds of occasions.
 And even if 'sboys don't cook they may perhaps be glad to know something about picnic suppers in the woods with
 a channg dish and what to do out camping when there are trout to fry and
 flapjacks to make. ''The Fun in Cooking
 is in fact, book of adventures and a
 primer of very important ari May we
 call your attention to ehe decorated oil- cloth cover?
 Caroline French Benton. the author. lives in Brooklyn. Her principal inter ests are in her children and her chll- dren's friends, In outdoor summer life, and in books Her Little Cook Book for a Little Girl, has been in part trans lated into Chinese and is used in some of the schools of China. Her Margaret s Saturday Mornings'' is used by the Wood land and Camp Fire Girls and also in set- clement classes for little girls. She has
 also written "The Complete Club Book
 and many stories and serials for chill dren.
 THE RAINBOW TRAIL"
 By Zane Grey. Harper Brothers, publish CTS, New York
 Returning in his new novel. '"rhe Rain bow Trail" to the scene of his earlier fiction, Riders of the Purple Sage and "The Heritage of the Desert Zane Grey 1 has succeeded perhaps more fully than | ever before in conveying through the medium of thrilling story, the strange
 and overmastering spell of the canon country. To this locality the author has been drawn back by an irresistible at.
 traction. T see the veils,. like purple smoke, In the canons." he writes, land
 feel the silence And 1t seems that agair
 must trp to pierce both and to get at the strange, wild life of the last Amer l lean wilderness--wild still, almost, as il
 ever was" In point of fact the reader I will be struck by two distinguishing qual-
 ities in this latest story of MT. 0rey's l "The Rainbow Trail''-freshness of at
 mosphere, and the entire sincerity of its
 romantic feeling, The environment ir
 which the story has It's setting is fol I the most part. one of wide spaces anc
 virgin scenes.
 From the moment when Shefford, tho 1 hero of The Rainbow Trail, makes his 1 way over wild bare flats and rocky desert l benches to Red Lake, the reader enter
 with him an unknown country-a veritablt l material faryland of painted desert. bil lowing rock and mysterious canon. Shef l ford has come hither upon quixotic mis | slon--a mission, however, which, despite 1 its quixotism, means liberation for his soul and healing for his hurt personality A young minister driven to despair by
 the narrow prejudices of his congregation
 he has become a wanderer. without prac.
 tical purpose sustaining faith. He has heard from a friend a strange story o1 a man and a woman and young gir forced by Mormon pursuers to take ref
 uge in a mysterious valley, the sole en' trance to which was sealed by the fal 1 of a great stone. Those who have reat 1 Riders of the Purple Sage" will re i member the conclusion of that tale-hov l the Norman woman. Jane Withersteen 1 the gunman Lassiter, and the girl, Fla, l Larkin were shut up in Surprise val l ley. "The Rainbow Trail" though { l story of entirely independent interest. is s far a sequel to Riders of the Purple l Sage" that it takes the conclusion o | the latter tale as its starting point. Tn story of Fay Larlxin has gained a strong
 hold upon Sheffolds imagination. and il the defeat of his more practical aspra tions, and in the absence of any othe directing motive, he has resolved to dis