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 ary style is adequate. When one considers the loyalties of boys to the books that they like one may reasonably predict a long-time popularity for Mr. Masters' book.

The Pacific Northwest Quarterly, April, 1936, contains the following articles and documents: "Native Villages and Groupings of the Columbia Basin," by Verne F. Ray; "Party History in British Columbia, 1903-1933," by Edith Dobie; "The Nez Perce War: The Battles at Cottonwood Creek, 1877," edited by Dorothy O. Johansen; "A Journey Across the Plains in 1866," by Cora Wilson Agatz; "Historical Materials at the Southern Branch of the University of Idaho," by Harold C. Vedeler; "Samuel Benn," by John L. Christian.

Program of Conditions to Govern a Competition for Selection of an Architect for the Oregon Capitol Building, issued by the State Capitol Reconstruction Commission in March, 1936, has a Foreword on "Oregon History and Background," by Charles H. Carey, president of the Oregon Historical Society.

in Oregon in 1852 are shown in a letter of Thomas S. Kendall, of the Associate Presbytery of Oregon, and first printed in the Evangelical Repository, September, 1852. J. Orin Oliphant has reprinted it with introduction and notes in "Agricultural History, volume IX, October, 1935.

1936 Pulitzer prize for the best novel of the year was awarded to Harold L. Davis for his book, Honey in the Horn. Mr. Davis was born in Oregon, and his novel deals with the homesteading period in Oregon in the early 1900s. The same book also received the Harper's prize last year.

Beaver, March, 1936, prints a history of the famous Beaver Club by Clifford B. Wilson. The club was founded by the North West Company partners in 1785 and flourished till 1827.

gives the origin of the story that the fortune of John Jacob Astor was founded on Captain Kidd's treasure in "Myths after Astor," printed in the Bulletin of the Business Historical Society, February, 1936.

"," by E. R. Yarham, in United Empire, April, 1936, is a historical sketch of the founding and growth of Vancouver, British Columbia.