The sketches are especially faci. ating and all, whether humorous or tragic, are very elucidative of the immensity of that great struggle and acquaint us with the men who were responsible for the successful dull ding of a great and powerful country. There is something table and touching about} in, Cataline, who og the a ninety was still. making the uible trip up the Yukon Telegraph Trail with his pack train of a. hundred horses, to keep the lin men and operators supplied with necessities of life, admirable in *he tardiness expressed in this achieve. ment—touching in the way he hobbled out for the last time, to watch, the pack train of his beloved horse mules start, had disappeared turned and said, "When the leaves fall T die"
When the leaves fell a won died, a great and simple man who devoted his strength, while it ested, to his duty and his hearty until {ts ase beat, to his horses and mules, the only other things that counted in his life. He was one of rose hardy, big hearted, unsung heroes who built the empire.
The outher is also to be congra-lated upon her happy descriptions, Asthough all the beauty spots. of, British Columbia are of the moun-twin ous sort with sky-blue lakes stung in them or with roaring to rents winding their tortuous paths among them, the author has drawn euch one of her pictures with ing seen another gorge-Dbut we pass on having seen a particular example of ni tre's handiwork which we know will recognize when face to face with it,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.