ast-time. Just then there came the most blood-curdling scream I
have ever heard, and it seemed so near us that we all jumped to our feet
and made a dash for the guns. Our old guide reassured us by saying that
it was only a "painter," and he was "across the river." In the morning
we went over early, and there, sure enough, were his tracks in the sand,
looking very much like the prints of the palm of a boy's hand, with a
row of little holes on one side where the claws stuck in. I am sure that
if the author of "Wild Neighbors" had been with our party he would not
have been so sceptical about a panther's ability to scream. We will
forgive him because he tells so many good stories in this interesting
book of his.

"OLD MOTHER EARTH," by Josephine Simpson and "THE STORY OF WASHINGTON,"
by Jessie R. Smith.

The first-named book is without doubt one of the very best in its line.
It adopts a simple, direct, natural way of unfolding the subject, and
cannot fail to interest the children in all they see around them.

The "Story of Washington" is a little gem. The children would be
delighted to read it for themselves, and the illustrations are such that
children understand. It is beautifully bound for such a cheap little
book, and surely ought to find favor wherever it is carefully examined.

INVENTION AND DISCOVERY.

TYPEWRITER FOR BOOKS.--We have for years had typewriters that would
write on loose pages of paper, but the making of a perfect machine that
could write in bound volumes has not been successfully accomplished
until the present time.

A typewriting machine can write much more quickly than any penman--and
the work it does has the advantage of being easy to read, whereas very
few people write a clear and legible hand.

In office work much of the writing to be done is making entries in books
and copying into ledgers.

All this has had to be done by hand, and it has of course taken a much
longer time to do.

By means of this new invention books can be kept and entries copied with
the same neatness and speed of an ordinary typewriter.

The great difficulty in making a machine to do this work properly was
that it was not possible to have the paper move back and forth as it
does in typewriting machines generally. For bound books the paper must
remain still, and the type moves over the page in the same manner that
the pen does.

The new book typewriter has mastered this difficulty. The page is held
firmly i