E. Alexander Powell, author of By Camel and Car to the Peacock Throne" and other travel books, is now traveling in America. He started at Abyssinia, where the king of the country entertained the American, then saw Madagascar and Megambique, and crossed Africa on the trail of Stanley. Along the Gold Coast north to Morocco and then a final motor dash across the Saharah, will finish his formidable and not exactly hackneyed expedition. He has a travel book partly written which The Century Co. will publish.

Here are Dr. Henry Van Dyke's impressions of Dr. Fitch's novel, "None So Blind" (Macmillan). He says: "Last night I stole some hours from sleep for a quick 'first reading' and was well repaid," The book is full of life and vigor. I do not know of a better picture of 'student life' at Harvard; which, I guess, is not essentially different from the life at other Eastern-American universities. The particular quality of the book is its insight into the personal nature of the development of a boy into a man in college years."

During the printing of Volney Mathison's book, "The Radiobuster" (Stokes), it became necessary for the publishers to consult the author concerning the proofs and his reply was a radiogram sent from 4, 400 miles from New York. It was transmitted by Mr. Mathison himself, who was at the time radio operator on a steamer in the Pacific. Mr. Mathison is perhaps the youngest possessor of a license coveted by professional radio operators--that of an Extra First-class American Rario Operator. Less than fifty of these licenses have been granted up to the present time, and it is the highest certificate of radio skill issued in the world.

"The Radiobuster" is characterized by its publishers as the "Dere Mable" of radio literature