RIM OF CHRISTENDOM :
A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kin°, Pacific Coast Pioneer`
By, Herbert Eugene Bolton Father Kino, though much less well known, is worthy of comparison with Fray Junipero Serra, the great Franciscan pioneer of California, and the Jesuit has found in Professor Bolton a most enthusiastic as well as learned bio- grapher. His book (Macmillan, 25s1) will chiefly interest historical geo- graphers and American historians, but it is well worth reading by all who can appreciate a great man. The results of Kino's labours were not as full of cinema interest as were those of Serra's (after all, Hollywood is close to the settlement of Our Lady Queen of the Angels, and California is a great tourist centre with an interest in selling her past) ; but Kino was a predecessor of the more publicised Franciscan missionaries. He was learned (if wrong-headed), capable of great physical effort, and full of courage and of zeal, that zeal that took him from -a village of the Trentino to the deserts and the savages of what is now Arizona and northern Mexico.
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