years after the war. There are startling scenes and specular happenings in this land of Aristokia and the high cost of living and the labor unions are very cleverly satired. An ardent love story runs through it and can you imagine the hero of a love story being named Smith? He was not like the man who said "his name might be Smith but it wasn't." His was really Smith, Smith the hero of love's young dream. Is not that enough to pique your curiosity? "Aristokia," The Century Company, New York; cloth, illustrated, 12 mo., 214 pp., $1.50. "Seneca Fiction, Legends and Myths." The "Handbook of American Indians" states that The Senecas,-(a place of stone) are a noted and influential tribe of the Iroquois, or the so-called Five Nations of New York. It is the traditions, the folk lore and the mythology of these peoples that is embodied in the present volume edited by J. N. B. Hewitt from material collected by him and Jeremiah Curtin. "We have now in North America," says Mr. Curtin, "a number of groups of tales obtained from the Indians which when considered together, illustrate and supplement one another; they constitute, in fact, a whole system." These tales we may describe as collectively the creation myths of the new world. In substance these tales show the primitive Indian mind as it is, its fixed principles and its supreme devotion to its spiritual ideals. "Nothing that an Indian has is of human invention, all is divine." The following version of the Dipper gives an idea of the lore of this remarkable book: "The Seven Stars of the Dipper." Long ago six men went out hunting many days' journey from home. For a long time they found no game. One of their number said that he was sick (in fact he was very lazy), so they had to make a litter of two poles and a skin, by means of which four men carried him. Each man had his own load to bear besides. The sixth member of the party came behind, carrying the kettle. At last, when they were getting very hungry, they came on the track of a bear, whereupon they dropped their sick companion and their burdens, each running on as fast as he could after the bear. At first the track was so old that they thought merely, "We shall overtake the bear at some future time anyway." Later they said, "The track can not be more than three days old," and as it grew fresher and fresher each day, they finally said, "Tomorrow, it seems, we shall overtake the bear." Now the man whom they had carried so long was not tired, and when they dropped him, knowing that he was to be left behind, he ran on after them. As he was fresher than they were, he soon passed them, and overtaking the bear, he killed it. His companions never noticed in their hurry that they were going upward all the time. Many persons saw them in the air, always rising as they ran. When they overtook the bear they had reached the heaven, where they have remained to this day, and where they can be seen any starlit night near the Polar Star. The man who carried the kettle is seen in the bend of the Great Dipper, the middle star of the handle, where the only small star near any other of the Dipper stars is the kettle. The bear may be seen as a star at the lower outside corner. Every autumn when the first frost comes there may be seen on the leaves of the oak tree blood and drops of oilnot water, but oil-the oil and blood of the bear. On seeing this the Indians say, "The lazy man has killed the bear." The book is published at Washington, D. C., under the title of Annual Report of the Bureau of American Enthnology of the Smithsonian Institution. "The Diamond Pin." Ever since Conan Doyle's detective stories became the vogue there have been innumerable writers of this class of mystery-fiction while none of them can approach Dr. Doyle in felicity of expression and character delineation there are yet many of these stories readable and likeable. None are more so than "The Diamond Pin" which goes to make an Pioneering Wireless Speech On the morning of October 22, 1915, an engineer speaking at Arlington, Virginia, was heard at Eiffel Tower, Paris, and at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian Islands. This was the first trans-Atlantic and trans-continental message ever sent by wireless telephone. It was an achievement of the Bell System. During the Fifth Liberty Loan nearly a million people, in throngs of ten thousand, heard speeches and music by wire and wireless. The loud-speaking equipment was a main feature of "Victory Way", New York. Wireless messages came from aviators flying overhead and long distance speeches from Government officials in Washington. Messages were often magnified several billion times. This demonstration was the first of its kind in the history of the world. It also was an achievement of the Bell System. Historic also were the war time uses of wireless telephony, giving communication between airplanes and from mother ships to submarine chasers. All these accomplishments and uses were made possible by the work of the research laboratories of the Bell System. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System Universal Service other volume of Carolyn Wells' detective series. We have followed Fleming Stone, the great American detective, through all the plots and counter-plots that are a detective's portion in the web of fate and we like his skill in gathering up the threads, his cunning weaving of facts out of fancy and his lucidity of thought and expression. The story of "The Diamond Pin" shows him at his best. The mystery concerning the death of a wealthy widow who was found dead in a locked room with no means of egress and the search for her jewels puts him on his mettle. The dead woman's niece and her late husband's nephew are the leading actors in this many cornered drama and yes, too, the love that makes the world go round is there. "The Diamond Pin," J. P. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia; cloth, mented, 12 mo., 300 pp., $1.35. "Why Joan." orna Eleanor Mercein Kelly, fashions her stories out of simple, wholesome Kentucky life, but there is a harmony of thought and a reverent strength in simplicity and she has caught it and woven it into the web of fate which she spins in "Why Joan," her new novel. The story is, in a way, unique as it has no particular heroine or hero either for that matter, but the characters all bear well sustained parts. We are inclined to think the woman with a past, the woman who came back, is the strongest figure of the story. Her little individualities and quaint cheer do much to liven things up and she has the enduring strength of the unfortunate. Joan, fascinating and fair, self-centered and selfish, serves the good purpose to bring out vividly the composite qualities of the others. There is a shifting of scenes and a touch of "Over There" which will please you. "Why Joan," The Century Co., New York; cloth, ornamental, 12 mo., 406 pp.; $1.50. "A Daughter of the Northwest." This story, by Irene Welch Grissom, is of unusual freshness and charm. It is written in the first person from the heart of the great Northwest, "where rolls the Oregon and hears no sound but its own dashing." What a pity that noble river's name was ever changed from Oregon to Columbia. But Columbia it is and there, in the forest primeval, at a big red sawmill on the banks of this mighty river the tale unfolds. 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