The sun., 1918-11-10

at the neiml Tive MIN cndce!
And later, the behavior of the pursued: ''He
wGves us to eeward Nth has drawn Stcord, calls out
'Amdtn' for the King of Spain, and springs has
laf, which, as our author explains, means that he
brings his vessel close to the wind.
Of course the principal theme Of the book is
HAWKINS and DRAKE and the eliminating glory of
the defeated Armada. The voyagiHgs and adven-
lures and exploits of England's fighting traders"
are related with spirit and clearly, unencumbered
by detail. Mr.. WooD gets in the important things,
such the discovery of reand-aft sails and tack
ing by FLETCHER of Rye, and likewise the interest
ing things, such the vessel the Great Harry (de
scrlbed in his short appendix but we would have
had him remind us how to this day we swear upon
the wonder of that ship, calculating: ''By the
Great Harry!'
Crusaders of New France"
WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO, writing of Crusaders
of NeW France, has to deal with LA SALE and his
companions; but the finest part of the book comes
in the last half with chapters the SeigneurS of
Old Canada on The C0ureurS-de- Bots, and on the
French habtants. We have not seen so concise
and so considered an account of these breeds of
men anywhere else the description of the habtants,
how they lived, worked or idled married, ate and
drank, danced and dressed is almost cinemato
leave you in the least puzzled As for the coureurs
the forest runners-there is unhappily no room
for stories Of individual exploits. But the breed
of them is brought out and their methods and
French trading policy are explained with rare
simplicity and clearness
Pioneers of the Old South"
Very naturally the editor turned to MARY JOHN
sToN to write the volume on Pioneers of the Old
South, in which is treated the earliest history of
Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
Were this book anonymous it would easily be den-
titled as the work of the novelist, whose prose has
a stamp of its own.
"Spring came again with the dogwood and the
honeysuckle and the Strawberries, the gay return
ing birds, tie barred and striped and mottled SER
penis The colony lat Jamestown was one year
old. Back to England sailed the Francis and John
and the Phoenix, carrying home EDwARD-MARA
W1NaF1ELD, who has wearied of Virginia and will
return no more"
Miss JOHNSTON refuses to take sides about PocA-
HoNTAs She has, as shown above, sentence for
flowers and beasts; she has also time to enumerate
the names of families and to suggest in terse para
graphs the lives the pioneers led, their peculiar
hardships Biography that she found dull she does
not leave so. She can be poetic and compress a
tragedy into few words, as where she says of
Jamestown winter:
"The cold grew worse. By midwinter there was
famine. The four hundred already noticeably
dled-dwindled fast and faster. The cold was
severe; the Indians were in the woods; the weak
ened bodies of the white men pinned and shivered.
They broke up the empty houses to make fires to
warm themselves. They began to die OF. hunger as
we'll as by Indian arrows On went the winter, and
every day some died Tales of eannibalism told.
This was the Starving Time.
"When the leaves were red and gold, England
n-America hsd population of four hundred and
more When the dogwood and the strawberry
doomed, England-in-America had population of
put sixty
The Conquest of New France" g.. 81
GEORGE NJ WRONG writes The Conquest of New
Frunce. In 1743 the brothers LA VERENDRYE babe
farewell to Indian friends and set out on horseback
,or Fort La Refine after burying tablet asserting
he sovereignty of King LOUIS XIV. over all that