CHAFFEE, ALLEN. Lost river. il $1.60 (3c) Bradley, M.
A story of two boys lost in the Maine woods. Ralph Merritt, a city boy on his vacation, and Tim Crawford, the guide’s son, wander away from their companions in search of raspberries. They lose themselves in the thicket and are unable to regain the trail. Reaching a river which they mistakenly think to be the stream their party is following, they start in the wrong direction and go further and further away. The story tells of their adventures with animals, of their means of finding food and shelter from cold and storm. They touch civilization again on reaching the cabin of a forest ranger, and so enamored are they of life in the open that they decide to prepare for the forest service.
“In addition to its first purpose, that of being an entertaining story, ‘Lost river’ abounds in practical information about wood-life that will make a summer vacation more enjoyable.” H. L. Reed
+ Springf’d Republican p7a N 28 ’20 120w
CHALMERS, STEPHEN. Greater punishment. il *$1.50 (2c) Doubleday
20–11075
Following five years of vagabondage, the hero of this story returns to his home in Glasgow. He has not made his fortune and is not ready to pay back the five hundred pounds his father had given him on his twenty-first birthday, but he returns with a clean record and a good name. He is about to announce his return to his family when fate throws him in the way of an old ship mate, Joe Byrnes, alias “Shylock” Smith. He knows this man to have a criminal record but he is tolerant of his faults and the two make a night of it. He is later a witness to the murder of Byrnes and when arrested cannot clear himself, for to do so would involve the girl he loves. The deep mystery surrounding Daniel Bunthorne, Jess’s father, finally clears away; by a miscarriage of justice the hero’s life is saved. His parents are spared knowledge of his near approach to death and with Jess, he sails away to Canada and a new life.
CHALMERS, THOMAS WIGHTMAN. Paper making and its machinery. il *$8 Van Nostrand 676
20–17582