Like all short books, it is somewhat sketchy and It seems a pity that it does not give a few references especially in that portion dealing, with diet) to more comprehensive books in order that the instructions, which seem good, can be carried out. IL may be perhaps that there is not quite the necessity for John Hay in the diet as the author considers, but this 1s a matter on which everyone has his own opinion, although it is now considered that' there are dis~ advantages In including the more indigestible types in a diet. diet to contain more calcium, ete, and in view of the importance of this matter, especially regarding the newer work fon the prevention of early earies, it be a pity for the advice con-{alned In the ook regarding diet during pregnancy to fall on stony The other impression is stronger, as it is assisted by the title Jof the book. Alaska is the cradle fof the storms, for it is here that the storms are born and here that the seasons of the year are influenced for better or for worse:
The volcanic Tt of the Alusks Upon these, to a very large extent, Jdepend the nature of the seasons in America and also of the rest of the Jworld. For instance, finding the Aleutian storms. forming normally was the basis of Father Hubbard's prediction of a normal winter with Jordinary storms—not "the coldest in sixty years," as widely announced by other meieorologists, Needless to say, the Glacier Priest was right; he ought to have known, es he himself says, as he got the information from {the Or the Storms itself! young man, and few older men, jean ead Father Hubbard's book without being, ina certain sense, inspired by this simple tale of advencing at crooed nfeety ik the breezes of the fan seem to be but the rst few puffs of the "wally," that tarrie Alaskan storm. With Father Hubbard and his doughty band, the reader visits the Valley of Ten [Thousand Smokes, discovers a huge lvoleante crater, climbs among the JAghiloen Pinnacies, and pauses with him before going on to each fresh dim culty or danger to say a, brief but heart-felt "Hall Mary." A pleasing, but not obtrusive vein of humour, together with the Glacier Priest's own unique brand of philo-Jsophy, runs through the core of the book," which presents Alaska really 1s, and as it should be known.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.