h the work of the Moravian missionaries
in the Ohio Valley. Incidentally the reader is
given details of the frontier life of those hardy
pioneers who broke the wilderness for the planting
of this great nation. Chief among these, as a
matter of course, is Lewis Wetzel, one of the most
peculiar, and at the same time the most admirable
of all the brave men who spent their lives
battling with the savage foe, that others might
dwell in comparative security.

Details of the establishment and destruction of
the Moravian "Village of Peace" are given at some
length, and with minute description. The efforts
to Christianize the Indians are described as they
never have been before, and the author has
depicted the characters of the leaders of the
several Indian tribes with great care, which of
itself will be of interest to the student.

By no means least among the charms of the story
are the vivid word-pictures of the thrilling
adventures, and the intense paintings of the
beauties of nature, as seen in the almost unbroken
forests.

It is the spirit of the frontier which is
described, and one can by it, perhaps, the better
understand why men, and women, too, willingly
braved every privation and danger that the
westward progress of the star of empire might be
the more certain and rapid. A love story, simple
and tender, runs through the book.

=CAPTAIN BRAND, OF THE SCHOONER CENTIPEDE.= By Lieut. Henry A. Wise, U.
S. N. (Harry Gringo). Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson
Davis. Price, $1.00.

The re-publication of this story will please those
lovers of sea yarns who delight in so much of the
salty flavor of the ocean as can come through the
medium of a printed page, for never has a story of
the sea and those "who go down in ships" been
written by one more familiar with the scenes
depicted.

The one book of this gifted author which is best
remembered, and which will be read with pleasure
for many years to come, is "Captain Brand," who,
as the author states on his title page, was a
"pirate of eminence in th