2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 22

SERGEANT SILK, THE PRAIRIE SCOUT. By Robert Leighton. (Jarrolds. 5s.

net.) So long as solitary red-coated North-West Mounted Police- men tracking cattle thieves across uninhabited prairies and fighting hordes of howling Injuns have any appeal to the boy approaching his teens, Mr. Leighton's straightforward tales will be in demand. Wolves, carbines, bags of gold, and logging camps stream through his pages, and Sergeant Silk bestrides them all—a combination of Sir Robert Baden-Powell and Sherlock Holmes in a red military jacket.