WHITE SHADOWS IN THE SOUTH SEAS. The book is really a journey to the Marquesas Islands between cloth covers; it is atmosphere and incident and color-and human interest. Its appeal is, not only to the readers of travel books, but also to the thousands of fiction readers who delight in books of facts presented with the narrative swiftness of a novel. Frederick O'Brien tells the tale of a year's residence among the simple, friendly cannibals in the furthest islands of the far South Seas. The reader will find only the story of what he himself might have experienced and casually learned among these savage peoples, fast-vanishing links with the childhood of mankind. (Century.)

HOUSEBOAT DAYS IN CHINA.

one who has ever tried it, read of it, or heard of it knows, houseboating in any country is a fascinating occupation. Somehow the deck of a slow-moving houseboat making its way up a great river seems a peculiarly appropriate vantage-point from which to observe the ways of men and, writing with the whimsical charm. of the essayist, J. O. P. Bland in this book proves he has found the ideal method of studying tranquil life in the Orient. Willard Straight's unique pen and ink sketches of manchus and mandarians, eastern pagodas and Chinese rice fields, reveal the quaint charm of everyday life in that far-away land. (Doubleday.)

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SEEING PENNSYLVANIA. "Would that some kindly magician might bring new and undiscovered countries to our very doorstep!" one has often wished. This is what John T. Faris has quite literally done. He has rubbed Aladdin's lamp, and presto! familiar, prosaic Pennsylvania glows with the alluring color of a thousand and one travel possibilities. knows the bypaths and the remote nooks and corners, where natural scenic beauty has not yet been elbowed out by a too utilitarian civi lization. And if the artistic eye begins to tire. he is ever ready with an historic anecdote, or a line of verse, to bridge over the interval until a turn in the road reveals a new point of interest. Dr. Faris has traced the routes he describes on the map of the state printed in his. book and included many enticing photographs of the scenery. (Lippincott.)

THE BOOK OF THE LONG TRAIL by Sir Henry Newbolt, author of "Submarine and Anti-Submarine," "Tales of the Great War." etc.. is a record of stirring events in the life of, and glorious achievements by, some of the most notable British travelers and explorers of the past century. The books includes the explorations of Mungo Park, Franklin, Burke and Wills, Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Cap. tain Scott, Younghusband and Wollaston. There are many illustrations in black and white and a frontispiece in color. (Longmans.

FROM "THE PARIS OF THE NOVELISTS" BY ARTHUR BARTLETT MAURICE Doubleday, Page & Co.

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THE PARIS OF THE NOVELISTS. ling, Richard Harding Davis, O. Henry, Booth Tarkington-all these and many more have at one time or another turned the steps of their plots Paris-ward. Just where and when and how and what came of it all, Arthur Bartlett Maurice tells in this intimate, chatty, highly informal volume. In it also the people of "Monte Cristo," "The Three Musketeers," "Trilby" and all the other loved books of Paris take on new life. Beside being a book of literary illumination and anecdote, it proves to be a delightful travel book and a practical guide to literary Paris. (Doubleday.)

FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING. Edith Wharton, who is most familiar with France and the French spirit, has written an intimate, penetrating, brilliant study of the French. This distinguished American writer has chosen what she believes to be four salient qualities of the Gallic spirit-taste, reverence, continuity and intellectual honesty-as the basis for her study. These qualities she discusses from various points of view, showing how deeply ingrained they are in the lives and thoughts of every French man, woman and child and how universal they are in their applicability to many kinds of situations. The volume contains trenchant observations on the contrast between the Germans and the French and the Americans and the French, in which the errors in the veiwpoint of both nations are clearly and truthfully stated. There is also a delightful chapter on the New Frenchwoman, who is really not a new creation of the war, but a woman who has been brought into prominence by the war as her husband's real helper and partner in every phase of his life. (Appleton.)

PARIS VISTAS. A million or so young Americans have recently returned from France; not all of them got to see Paris, but all of them felt the ancient and ever-young city. How could they help it? For Paris is the heart of France, and you can't touch France without feeling the pulse and the warmth of its capital. Helen Davenport Gib. bons, an American who has lived there and the author also of "A Little Gray Home in France,' tells you about Paris, the look of it in recent days; catching its laughter and sometimes its tears, its heroic gestures, its color and movement. A feature of her book is sixteen fullpage illustrations over tint from drawings done in Paris especially for this book by Lester G. Hornby. (Century.)

A CHILDHOOD IN BRITTANY EIGHTY YEARS AGO. With the exquisite literary art which the reading public has known in "Tante" and others of her novels, Anne Douglas Sedgwick tells of a childhood in picturesque Brittany in the middle of the last century; a childhood set in a section of France rich in romance and rich in old loyalties to manners and customs of a gracious era that is irrevocably in the past. The author gathered her material from a dear old French woman whom she had known in her own childhood days. She has put into her book charming vignettes of character, delicate bits of description of houses and scenery and costume, and short stories in silhouette of pathetic or humorous characters. The thirty-two delightful full-page illustrations by P. de Leslie are thoroly in the spirit. of the text. (Century.)

THE BOOK OF A NATURALIST. The American reading public is rapidly atoning for its tardy recognition of the surprising genius of W. H. Hudson. Edition after edition of the books of this author-naturalist have been absorbed and the demand shows no hint of slackening. The fact is that W. H. Hudson, like such American nature writers as John Burroughs and Theodore Roosevelt, has taken a high and permanent place in our literary Arcanum. This book of the reminiscences of a nature lover has the same qualities which have delighted so many readers of his "Far Away and Long Ago." "Green Mansion," "The Purple Land That England Lost," "Idle Days in Patagonia," etc. (Doran.)

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HOMING WITH THE BIRDS. Near as the birds are we know little of their habits, of their family life, or of the comedies and tragedies which constantly are being enacted with these wee feathered friends as chief actors, until somebody like Gene Stratton-Porter writes a book about them. It takes a bird-lover and a true naturalist to quietly observe the songsters and ferret out their peculiarities and distinctly "personal" characteristics as Mrs. Porter has done in this work. There is, for example, the story of the Baltimore oriole who accidentally hanged himself in his nest material; and the story,

with the picture, of the other oriole, who built a window in her nest, made a mistake and had to rebuild it on the other side. Like all of Mrs. Porter's nature books, the volume is illustrated with photographs by the author, which are noteworthy not only for their intimate glimpses of our bird neighbors but for the beauty of their artistry as well. (Doubleday.)

PICTURE ANALYSIS OF GOLF STROKES. James M. or "Jimmie" Barnes, the golf champion, quite recklessly gives away the tricks of his trade in his complete book of golf instructions. It is just the book for the confirmed golfer to have on hand to defend his arguments and also for the amateur to improve his shots, for every detail of every shot is shown in photographs taken during the execution of a perfect stroke. The book is the next thing to a personal course under the champion. (Lippincott.)

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FISHING TACKLE AND KITS. number among your friends one of those persons who would grumble over waiting ten minutes in the theater lobby, but who would sit all day placidly watching a line in a trout stream, you may be sure that no Christmas gift would appeal to him (maybe her) more than Dixie Carroll's collection of fish lore. He tells how, when and where to fish and what kind of tackle to use for the various kinds of fishing. Mr. Carroll knows the habits and peculiarities of bass, trout, pickerel and walleyed pike, to mention not a few. As editor of the National Sportsman and fishing editor of the Chicago Daily News and other newspapers, he is responsible for developing the fishing bug in many hundreds of people. To those who want practical information that will make their fishing dreams come true this book will be welcome. It is fully illustrated from photographs. (Stewart & Kidd.)

STREAM CRAFT. A handy little volume small enough to slip easily into the fisherman's pocket is George Parker Holden's attractively titled angling manual. It deals with the selection, care and rigging of the rod; the art of casting; trout habits; lures and their use, including some stream entomology, suggestions on the angler flies and how to tie them, and descriptions of the most successful trout and bass flies. The numerous colored plates showing selections of flies will be found particularly useful. The book has an amusing dedication to Rev. Henry Van Dyke, whom it designates as a distinguished divine author. speaker, etc., etc.-but most of which he leaves behind when he goes fishing." (Stewart & Kidd.)

HINTS ON HORSEMANSHIP is a practical guide to every detail of skilled horsemanship. Lieutenant-Colonel M. F. McTaggart, a famous horesman offers the results of his knowledge and experience to the public in clear and explicit directions, illustrated with numerous photographs and drawings. (Lippincott.)

A LOITERER IN NEW ENGLAND. The title at once commends itself to those who love to linger over the beauties of any locality and enjoy each detail to the utmost. In her earlier book, "A Loiterer in New York," Helen W. Henderson satisfied this craving even with regard to a city where "loitering" is supposed to have become obsolete. In her new volume

she brings the same trained observation to a study of New England, its treasures and its romances, and any one who, wants to know about the best that New England holds for

a brief technical description of the fishes for the purpose of identification, the popular description and account of their habits, habitats and everything relating to their environment is full and complete. The book is copiously illustrated. (Stewart & Kidd.)

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THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S ADVENTURE BOOKS. It is now possible for the first time to have a uniform edition of "African Game Trails" (two volumes), "Through the Brazilian Wilderness," "Outdoor Pastimes of an Ameri

can Hunter," "A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open," and the "Rough Riders"-these remarkable volumes in which Colonel Roosevelt expressed the joyous adventures which, from youth to the end, paralleled his great public career. Here is the vigorous, manly, outdoor sportsman who made a remarkable appeal to all men no matter what their politics; in these six volumes are his great adventures which will continue to stir the hearts of young men everywhere. Here is the leader of the Rough Riders who was idolized by his men; the hunter of bears and mountain-lions in our West and South; the naturalist studying and hunting the great game of Africa thru the heart of the unknown continent; the explorer discovering to the world "The River of Doubt -called forever after "Rio Roosevelt." (Scribner.)

HOLLAND OF TODAY. The sturdy little kingdom of The Netherlands is delightfully described by George Wharton Edwards, who has lived and studied in its picturesque cities. and who knows its vigorous, progressive peop'e. The book covers the country from "The Hook" to the Zuyderzee, and will be prized by those who have been there and the many who will soon be traveling in Europe. One of its interesting features is a discussion of "The Johanniters," a secret order which is responsible for the refuge to William Hohenzollern. The many illustrations in Mr. Edwards' de ightful style are in color and monotone. (Penn.)

IN MOROCCO. Edith Wharton's rare descriptive and interpretative powers when applied to a country as picturesque and as little known to the average American traveler as Morocco could not fail to produce a book of more than usual interest. Mrs. Wharton went to Morocco in the fall of 1918 at the express invitation of the Governor-General at a time when, owing to the war. access to the count y was impossible to ordinary travelers. showing this exceptional courtesy to Mrs. Wharton General Lyautey's wish was to make better known to Americans the great industrial and agricultural future of the magnifi

cent colony, the important part it has played in provisioning France during the war, and it extraordinary and varied attractions as a fresh field for travel. A military motor was was at her disposal during her entire journey and she was everywhere accompanied by officials versed in the local customs, architecture. and history of the places she visited. She wa received by the Sultan of Morocco in his pal ace at Rabat, by the great chiefs of the cities she visited and by their harems, and had ex ceptional opportunities of witnessing cere monies and visiting monuments unknown even to most of the French officials. The account of her trip will appeal not only to those who always look eagerly for a new book from Mrs. Wharton but to others who want to inform themselves on this French colony. (Scrib. ner.)

ADVENTURES IN ALASKA. "When a man's actual experiences are more interesting than ingenious invention, he is wise if he avoids fiction and writes a straight narrative of his adventures. This is what S. Hal! Young, author of "Alaska Days with John Muir" has done in this illustrated account of some of his remarkable experiences during over thirty years work in Alaska. says the Outlook. (Revell.)