realized how they had been duped.

3. Lombardy and Venetia. Provinces in northern Italy, which are noted
for their beautiful scenery and places of interest to tourists.

4. Tagliamento. A small river in northern Italy. The Italian army made
a stand here in a bloody encounter with the Germans.

5. Piave. Another river in northern Italy, south of the Tagliamento.
Here the Italians brought the Germans to a stand and held them for
several months. They did this by a system of lagoon defenses from the
lower Piave to the Gulf of Venice. This is most interesting to read
about in any of the histories of the World War.

55, 1. Bersagliari. Italian sharp-shooters.

* * * * *

KATHERINE MAYO (Page 68)

Katherine Mayo was born in Ridgway, Pennsylvania, but she was educated
at private schools in Boston and Cambridge, and her home has long been
in New York City.

She is a contributor to our best periodicals, _The Atlantic Monthly_,
_Scribner's_, _The North American_, _The Outlook_, and _The Saturday
Evening Post_. Her stories are almost all founded on facts. The story
"John G." in this collection of short stories is selected from _The
Standard Bearers_, which is a group of true narratives concerning the
Pennsylvania State Police. These tales are told by Miss Mayo in a
finely distinctive way which makes vivid the gallant deeds of these
brave men.

Miss Mayo's interest in the history and deeds of the Pennsylvania State
Police was aroused by her personal experience of the helplessness of
country districts in New York state to prevent or punish crime. Miss
Mayo had heard that Pennsylvania years ago had acknowledged its duty to
protect all its people, and to that end had established a rural patrol
known as the State Police. Finding little in print concerning this
force, she went to Pennsylvania to study the facts first hand.

The results of her investigations she published early in 1917 in her
book, _Justice to All_, with an introduction by ex-President Roosevelt,
in which he declares the volume to be so valuable that it should be in
every public library and every school-library in the land.

In _The Standard Bearers_, she tells of some of the special feats of
early members of that now famous force. No detective stories, no tales
of the Wild West can exceed in thrilling human interest these true
narratives of events that have happened in our own time and in our own
country.

Miss Mayo dur