5 DECEMBER 1903, Page 9

Poiniuk : a Prince of Labrador. By William Forbush. (Marshall

Brothers. 29. net.)—We have a very graphic picture of Esquimaux ways in Labrador, of the energetic efforts that have been made to help the people and to raise them a little in the scale of well-being, physical and moral. In this connection the name of Dr. Grenfell must be mentioned with special honour. The story of Pomiuk himself is a sad one, at least in some respects. He was taken with a number of his countrymen to form part of the Chicago World's Fair. There he met with a serious accident in the course of an exhibition. There can be little doubt that this shortened his life, a thing the more to be regretted because the boy seems to have had qualities and capabilities uncommon among his people.