Mounted Police Life in Canada. By Captain Burton Deane. (Cassell
and Co. 13s. net.)—A detailed and interesting record of thirty-one years' service with the North-West Mounted Police. Existence on the prairie and among the growing, struggling townships of earlier days meant some exciting incidents for the police—lynchings, wholesale cattle smuggling, and trouble with the Indians being some of them. The most picturesque event described by Capt a n Deane is that of " The Crooked Lakes Affair," in which the names of Yellow Calf, Little Child, Osoup, and Penni-pa-ke- ale remind us of the thrilling serial stor:es of our youth. Quaint, too, is the language in which Captain Deane addresses the Indians accused of stealing provisions: " • The Great White Mother' had sent him to ask what they had to say about it. The Groat White Mother' is very sorry to hear that her Indian children have done this wicked thing. She keeps a store of food on the reserve so that her Indian children shall not starve. . . . She feels quite sure that her Indian children would not have stolen her goods unless some bad men had put bad thoughts into their hearts, and she expects that those Indians who led the others in this bad act will give themselves up to be tried in her Court in the same way as white men are tried when they break the Queen's law."
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