PEPPERFOOT OF THURSDAY MARKET

By Robert Davis '03, Holiday House, 1941, p.187, $2.00.

808 DAVIS has been around, and has packed into his lifetime the experiences of many men. While in Morocco on an assignment for the New York Herald Tribune he wrote this story of three Berber boys, Driss, Amroo, and Omar and their donkey Pepperfoot, and Holiday House has produced a fitting format as is its custom. Baldrige's illustrations add to the charm of the book.

In Northern Africa in the Atlas Mountains and on the high plateaus stretching from the Atlantic to the Red Sea there lived 5,000,000 Berbers, a nomadic race, much as they have lived for more than twenty centuries. With this fascinating country as the background Mr. Davis has told an excellent and informing story of the way of life of the proud and fierce Berber. Written for boys from 8 to 13 the story of Driss and Pepperfoot may be read by adults equally well. After reading the story I can only hope that Hitler's legions may not stain the way of life of these wandering nomads. The white man (Aryan) might learn more from the Berbers than they can, with profit, learn from him.

Bob Davis, having lost his property in France, is now a Professor at Middlebury College. I hope he favors us with more books.

HERBERT F. WEST '22.