Cranes or rue Sromia—By, Bernard Mubbord. Harrop, London, 6/6.
Livery summer, Father Hubbard, who has earned the sobriquet of the Glacier Priest" as a result of eight years of successful and valuable exploration of Alaska, gathers together the hardy members of his party, collects his tain of dogs, Assembles his equipment, and is off {o the winds, 'A brave man, he has faced death in aeroplanes, in. small boats, in dog-teams, on foot, scaling mountain-sides, traversing. glaciers, foing down into the inferno of Active volcanoes, and battling with forms in treacherous waters: yet he mot a foolhardy man. He. faces danger because it has to be faced for a higher end, such as the solution of sclentife problem or for the exten: sion of human knowledge of th poorly understood forces of nature, ufc, it to say that he hag ight Alaskan expeditions, and never Jost a man of n dog. Indeed, as his Yatest book tells, he has bettered this record, Margie, his favourite malemute, had the indiscretion to present the expedition with seven puppies In the wilds of Unimak. Father Hubbard and his band of explorers lived up to their reputations and brought all seven puppies safely. back civilizeon—part, of the way in a "puppy Pullman" specially made out of an old wooden case.
To Father Hubbard, his malemutes, who seem to be more trouble than they are worth when the going. smooth, yet rise to wonderful heights of endeavour whenever thins set rough, are more than mere beasts of portage, He says:
The author, who had to say goodbye to hor native land at an early stage of her life, settled with her {father in Paris and was educated in a Parisian school. 'More. important. than the school was, perhaps, th elrele of artists, writers, painters engravers in' which " her father moved, and the daughter thus had the inestimable advantage of being well trained In artistic discrimination soon absorbed the atmosphere of the salon. Friendship with the great Sarah Bernhardt rapidly extended this Jeducation, and when her marriage tured out a failure she turned to the social life of the Paris which she had learned to love in order to find the equivalent of @ career. She was not just a social butterfly, but rather used her talents of sympathy, appredation and knowledge of art to sea the young painters, writers and musicians around her. This liber closely into contact with an Jamazing number of distinguished people, distinguished in the best sense the term, not because of their ae: cidental eminence in- the public eye, but because of their particular quallles which won for them a footing in a "society "highly critical, warmhearted, but unconventional and udfast_in accepting no one by inwards other than ils own.
Some Celebrities Through these pages fit Agures such a5 Anatole France, Jules Lemaitre, Maree! Proust, who has a whole chapter of over '50 pages to himself, and the inimitable Forain, whose fame as a cartoonist was at its height in the decade before the" Great War. Admiration for Parcel Proust is illuminated by the author's shrewd gift of character de-
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among men to doth Fishing Yield Two great impressions are left with the reader at the close of "Cradle of the Storms"the first is of Alaska's valuable fishing industry. It may come as a surprise to many, who The English in the Circle Into this French society came from time to time English friends, detightfully varied, There is a glimpse of the tragic last days of Oscar Wilde:
more extended and happier revelation of Lord Balfour in the time of the peace negotiations at Versailles. Mr. Balfour, as he was then, stood asthe incarnation of "tradition, Datriotism, national spirit, and that other thing greater than the Enélish themselves: England."
This is an engagingly written book of memoirs, quite unpretentious, and rendered into excellent English by the transiator—Em,
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