LIFE ALONG THE CONNECTICUT RIVER.

. . Introduction by CharlesCrane 'O6. Text by Marion Hooper..... Stephen Daye Press, Brattleboro,Vermont, p. 119. $3.75.

Life Along the Connecticut River is a large page book of 200 excellent, informative, and artistic photographs taken from the source of the Connecticut to its mouth. Stephen Daye Press secured the services of six excellent photographers to take views of the sections of the river they knew best. These views are by Newell Green, Ralph Day, R. D. and M. E. Snively, Lewis Brown and Cortlandt Luce and to them much credit should be given for producing for us a beautiful book. Marion Hooper edits the book and is responsible for the captions and paragraphs of information scattered throughout the volume.

. Charles E. Crane writes the historical introduction to the book and because of his familiarity with the region has given us an excellent picture covering the 350 miles of the river from Pittsburgh, New Hampshire to Saybrook, Connecticut. In this introduction Mr. Crane tells us among other things of The Indian Stream Republic, Rogers Rangers, Dartmouth College, Steamboat Days on the river, Old Deerfield, Springfield, Hartford, etc.

A previous book on this region put out by a metropolitan press contained many errors of fact. Mr. Crane, however, knows his Vermont and New Hampshire and has apparently familiarized himself with the regions in Massachusetts and Connecticut through which the river flows.

The photographs range from landscapes and buildings to individual portraits. Among the latter, especially noteworthy are the photographs of the "Ely Hermit" and the Polish woman of the Holyoke area. The Stephen Daye Press are to be congratulated on this excellent appearing book.