Down North on the Labrador. By Wilfred D. Gronfell, M.D.
(J. Nisbet and Co. 3s. ad. not.)—Dr. Grenfell gives us hero another selection from his experiences. Such books aro always welcome. We cannot hear too much of the fine fellows who wring a barn living from land and sea in those northern regions. What could be finer than the pictures drawn in " Given to Hospitality " ? Old Malcolm English brings the doctor a roll of notes worth seine £12. Ho is seventy-three : it is all he has. Whet does he want done with the money? Spend it in flour and molasses and butter, if it will reach to it. " But you have enough of these things," objects the doctor. So it comes out that ho does not want the stores for himself, but for stray guests who may turn up. "It wouldn't do not to have used that sixty dollars and have sent folks away hungry." We can say with our author, "I had once imagined that I knew what hospitality meant."
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