her and the men of his time.

GARLAND, HAMLIN.
The Long Trail.
Harper. 1.25

Develops from a conventional and unpromising opening into a vivid
realistic story of an ambitious youth's perilous journey to the
Klondike. Author writes from personal experience of the overland
route, and principal characters reveal qualities of
unselfishness, perseverance, and pluck.
NEW YORK STATE LIBRARY.

GASKELL, E.C. (S.).
Cranford.
Illustrated by Hugh Thomson.
Macmillan. 1.50

Mrs. Gaskell's masterpiece, which Lord Houghton described as (p. 226)
"the finest piece of humoristic description that has been added to
British literature since Charles Lamb."

Calm and composure breathe from every page of this picture of life in
a small English town during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Have we not all in imagination visited Miss Jenkyns and Miss Matty,
played preference at Miss Betty Barker's, and helped the Honorable
Mrs. Jamieson into her sedan chair? Many girls of fourteen are quite
able to appreciate the book's charm.

IRVING, WASHINGTON.
The Alhambra.
Illustrated by Joseph Pennell.
Macmillan. 1.50

It will be strange indeed if these fascinating and romantic tales fail
to stir the imagination of any young person who reads them and to
arouse in him the laudable ambition of some day seeing for himself the
three palaces, the mosque, the chapel, and the halls, of the
marvellous Alhambra.

The work was the amusement of his leisure moments, filling the
interval between the completion of one serious, and now all but
unknown, history and the beginning of the next.... And thus his
name has become so closely associated with the place that, just
as Diedrich Knickerbocker will be remembered while New York
stands, so Washington Irving cannot be forgotten so long as the
Red Palace looks down upon the Vega and the tradition of the Moor
lingers in Granada.
E.R. PENNELL.

IRVING, WASHINGTON. (p. 227)
Bracebridge Hall.
Illustrated by Randolph Caldecott.
Macmillan. 1.50

"The reader, if he has perused the volume of the Sketch Book,
will probably recollect