Adventure Books for Boys Ax American firm, Messrs. Appleton, have
sent us a collection of really good boy's books at $1.75 apiece (about 7s. ed.), a challenge which, we hope, our publishers will accept. The Tamer of Herds, by F. Rolt-Wheeler, is a story of Chaldea, some 8,000 years ago. Ur-toum, the hero, is graphically described in the first lines of the book, " His body protected from crippling bites by two full-length boar-skins, (he) stood alone in the gloomy entrance of the cave of Wild Dogs, throwing pieces of raw flesh to the pack of savage creatures." Ur-toum was the first tamer of dogs in the world, and his fights with wild animals, and even wilder men, make really thrilling reading. A story that is perhaps of special interest to Americans, but which any English boy would also enjoy, is Three Boys in Alaska, by Everett T. Tomlinson ; it has plenty of exciting adventures in it, while at the same time it teaches anyone (old or young) much about that almost unknown part of the world, with its fields of ice, its snow- capped mountains, and its gold. Another exciting tale of Alaska is The. Gold he Found, by Carl H. Claudy, while Three Wilderness Scouts tells of more blizzards, this time, however, among. the American Indians in the 18th century. Sea Legs, by Alfred F. Loomis, is the best boys' guide to yachtsmanship that we have yet come across, while Drumbeaters' Island, by Kent Curtis, tells, with plenty of American schoolboy slang, such as " you long-nosed, gander-necked, four-eyed old wise-cracker," the story of two boys who set out on a yachting cruise with a rajah. Renfrew Rides the Sky, by Laurie York Erskine, is an exciting story of war in the air, while The Giant's House, by Harford Powell and Russell Gordon Carter, will give English boys some idea of what it means to be suddenly plunged from school into a great American city.
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