To lovers of Kipling's " Jungle Books,"
any other good animal stories I would strongly recommend Kindred of the Wild," by Charles G. D. Roberts, illustrated by ©. Livingston Bull. It was recommended to me as "beautifully illustrated, but very scientific." I am afraid my friend looked at the pictures and skipped the letterpress, thereby missing a great treat as there is no scientific word in the whole work, but every story is full of charm and often of pathos. The scene throughout is the Canadian backwoods, the time usually winter. Every story possesses an individuality of its own and it is difficult to decide which one likes best. There are tales of big game and tales of rabbits, of the king of the air and the quaint—porcupine. The rabbit story is very pretty. It was a cold winter's evening and a man was going out to set some rabbit traps. A small boy pleaded to go too and was filled with infinite pride and delight when he was allowed to assist at the setting of the traps. Next day his small heart was just bursting with delight when he was told he might again go out and soe the result of the previous night's labours. Hanging above the first trap he saw a poor bunny dead and frozen—further on another, and yet another; then he found a trap which a fox had succeded in reaching and there he only saw some bits of fur and a mangled head, whereat he broke down altogether and vowed he would never trap another rabbit as long as he lived. The man smiled, but one fools the boy would keep his word. "The King of the Mamozekel" is another charming story, the King being a gigantic moose at whose education in the etiquette of moose life we are allowed to assist. "The Home-sickness of Kehouka" is very quaint. "Kebouka" -is a wild goose by nature, the egg having been stolen by a farmer out of a wild goose nest who took it, and fouriothers, home and got a tame goose to hatch them. Only "Kehouka" and one other bird were hatch Corelli had ed and the other was meek faint-hearted|the latter perhaps better known as "Corelli" creature who found nothing to quarrel Ellaline Terriss—on the Vaudeville stage.
with in his quarters. "Kehouka" however, pined for liberty; the farmer had cut his wings and they grew again unevenly so that he could only fly side-ways. How.
he escaped and eventually came to a sad end is most amusingly told; in fact, the book is delightful from end to end.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.