THE WAILING ROCK MURDERS.

Clifford Orr '22. Farrar & Rinehart.

In THE WAILING ROCK MURDERS, Clifford Orr has gone far beyond his first book, THE DARTMOUTH MURDERS. It is more interesting, the style is finer, clearer-cut, the plot more baffling; altogether, a story that a writer of mysteries would be proud to have to his credit, and that the amateur of detective yarns will enjoy reading.

The scene is laid on the Maine coast, a place that Mr. Orr knows so well that he makes you feel its October desolation: the wind, the grim Victorian house, tall on the cliff, the lonely sea, sound the first note of tragedy. I am not going to tell you the story; you should get the book out of your library; better still, buy it, and add it to the growing group on your detective shelves. A wonderful thing a Ghost-Mystery collection! Not only for an increased popularity among your friends, but what more pleasant, when a gale is abroad, and the shutters are creaking, than to lie, snug in bed, and read tales that curdle your blood, occasionally asking—just for friendly re-assurance—if the cat has been put out and the clock wound.

No, I shan't tell you the story, but may I quote a few phrases, word-pictures that make you see at once the person or the thing that Clifford Orr presents for your mental vision? CREAMER FARNOL—"a tall man, thin as a rolled umbrella, with a great pile of fluffy white hair. In fact, I can think of no better way to describe him than by having you imagine eyes, nose and mouth painted just beneath the tangled head of a brand-new dish mop." THE SINISTER HOUSE (strangely masculine) "And on his head he wore the travesty of a crown, fashioned of rusty iron, and set with blind isinglass."

So beg, borrow or buy THE WAILING ROCK MURDERS, and see if you don't agree with me. And if you can guess who killed Philip Masterson, why, then you are far cleverer than I was!

W. A. Breyfogle '28 is the author of a story in the November issue of the NorthAmerican Review "The Captain at the Inn."

"Joel Barlow: Patriot and Prophet" by Frederick A. Rainey '10 appears in the Philadelphia Forum Magazine for July, 1932.

The issue of Travel for November contains an article by Henry K. Norton '05 "The Heirs of the Incas."

"France's Champagne Capital" by Sydney A. Clark '12 is published in the November number of Travel.

Dr. Ernest F. Clymer '96 is the author of "Presidents of the United States, Conventions, Elections and Parties" published as a pamphlet of 63 pages.

A second edition, very much enlarged and revised of "Cases on Civil Procedure" by Roswell Magill '16 has been published by the Commerce Clearing House Inc., New York.

S. Prentiss Baldwin '92 and S. Charles Kendeigh are the authors of a monograph "Physiology of the Temperature of Birds. This is contribution No. 21 from the Baldwin Bird Research Laboratory, Gates Mills, Ohio, and is issued as volume three of "Scientific Publications of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History." This monograph of 196 pages is illustrated with numerous diagrams and tables.

E. Everett Clark '06 is the author of a pamphlet "Adult Avocational and Educational Advisory Services." This pamphlet of 21 pages is published by the National Commission on the Enrichment of Adult Life. Mr. Clark, who is Supervisor of Adult Education of the Massachusetts Department of Education, has prepared a mimeographed bulletin "Tentative Courses of Study in Adult Intermediate Education." Two other mimeograph bulletins by him are "A Study of Fees and Deposits in Adult Education" and "Adult Education, Avocations, and Vocational Advisory Services."

Edward C. Kirkland '16 is the author of a book "A History of American Economic Life" published by E. S. Crofts, New York. This book is reviewed in the November issue of the MAGAZINE in the department Hanover Browsing by R. H. Bowen.

The November number of Current History contains an article by Ralph D. Thompson '25 "Who is Sir Basil Zaharoff?"