the efficient scheme of extorting money from the people by
imposing taxes on the Catholics. In their natural resentment to
this extortion, a handful of bold spirits concluded to
overthrow the government. Finally the plotters were arrested,
and the King put to torture Guy Fawkes and the other prisoners
with royal vigor. A very intense love story runs through the
entire romance.

=THE SPIRIT OF THE BORDER.= A Romance of the Early Settlers in the
Ohio Valley. By Zane Grey. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J.
Watson Davis. Price, $1.00.

A book rather out of the ordinary is this "Spirit of the
Border." The main thread of the story has to do with 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.

=RICHELIEU.= A tale of France in the reign of King Louis XIII. By G.
P. R. James. Cloth, 12mo. with four illustrations by J. Watson Davis.
Price, $1.00.

In 1829 Mr. James published his first romance, "Richelieu," and
was recognized at once as one of the masters of the cr