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in the bewitching, tantalizing, elusive girl who, after a great 

 show of coyness, succeeds in landing Piscator with as much 

 skill as ever he displayed in landing a savage six-pounder. To 

 be sure the Peri says " Fancy ! " and travels with " luggage," 

 and consequently does things in an un-American way. But she 

 is lovable and — real? There is room for suspicion that the story 

 but thinly veils what often is stranger and better than fiction, 

 and that the beautiful woman who looks out from the vignette 

 tailpiece is the reality. 



" Fergy From the same publishing-house we have received 



THE Guide " ^^^^y Guide, by H. S. Canfield. The sub- 

 title fairly describes the book as a collection of 

 " moral and instructive lies about beasts, birds, and fishes," with 

 this exception, that the lies are neither moral nor instructive. 

 But any one who is looking for what Kipling would call " un- 

 mitigated misstatements " will find them here in profusion. 

 Among the products of Fergy's imagination are porcupines that 

 shoot quills at a target, a muskallonge that drinks whisky and 

 swims amuck, a malodorous quadruped that imitates chickens 

 and kills them by the hundred, a monstrous woodpecker, and a 

 woodchuck orchestra. One cannot help wishing that Fergy had 

 mingled a little more wit with his loquacity. If he is not allowed 

 to do all the talking he will prove good company at an evening 

 camp-fire. One might, in David Harum's phrase, say of Fergy 

 the Guide: " If one likes that kind of thing, that 's the kind of 

 thing he would like." 



" The Among those who added to the comradeship and 



Passing sood cheer of last summer's outing was Miss Harriet 

 gjjQ^ „ Monroe, of Chicago. Her " Ballad of Ritter Moun- 

 tain " helped to make the last camp-fire at Lake 

 Eleanor especially memorable. Although her recent book does 

 not deal with outdoor life, we gladly make unsolicited mention 

 of it here on behalf of her many friends in the Sierra Club who 

 will find in The Passing Showf an interesting quintet of modern 

 plays in verse. They are choice and serious in form and thought. 



* Fergy the Guide, and his moral and instructive lies about beasts, birds, 

 and fishes. By H. S. Canfield. With illustrations by Albert D. Blashfield. 

 i2mo. 342 pp. $1.50. 1904. Henry Holt & Co., New York. 



t The Passing Show : five modern plays in verse. By Harriet Monroe. 

 125 pp. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston and 'New York. 



