Reviews By The Editors
aVIagellam’s Great Achievement
CONQUEROR OP THE SEAS, by Stefan Zweig-This book
is one of the latest out' It tells a lot about Magehan and his
famous voyage that has not been generally known. .
Spices made Magellan try to go west to the Spice islands.
The king of Portugal refused to help Magellan so he went to the
Spanish king and got five ships for his expedition. One of the
captains revolted when Magellan wouldn't tell them where he
was going, but the mutiny was quickly put down.. At last they
came to South America. In a southern bay they laid up during
the winter, and endured all sorts of misery and mutiny
The captain of one ship was stabbed because he revolted
against Magellan. Traitors were marooned or beheaded in
South America. When summer came they entered the Straits
of Magellan There they lost a ship because it deserted and left
for home. The Santiago was wrecked on the coast of South
America. Three remaining ships sailed into the Pacific. On
the long trip across the Pacific 19 sailors died of starvation. The
biscuits Were a grey muck and alive with maggots. Rats were
especially prized as food. Finally, when they could not have
lived over three more days, they reached the Phillipines, where
Magellan was killed in a fight with the natives.
Joao Carvalha took command, and so ill treated Magellan’s
* Malay slave that the servant went ashore and incited the natives
to drive away the Spaniards. As there were not enough men
left to man the boats, the leaky Concepcion was fired and Sunk.
The Trinidad’s seams opened at Tidore, and the Victoria, laden
with spices, sailed for Spain. Again the the men suffered from
starvation, and when they finally arrived in Seville there were
only lb men left of the 230 Who had set out three years before.
Hruce Mokris.
-vi, . AJlventiuLres of a President
.. HUNTING TRIPS OP A RANCHMAN, by Theodore Roose
velt ^-This book is about the hunting trips of Roosevelt. He
has a ranch, and hunts as a pastime. He has a pet hunting
:horse with no faults to speak of. He does most of his hunting
within 30 miles of his ranch. He hunts grouse, deer and ducks
•there.
Once he made a trip to the Rocky ' mountains and stayed
there for several days He hunted elk. He shot quite a few be
fore he got one with a head that suited him. Then he hunted
grizzly bears He tracked the first one to within.a dozen feet
away. Roosevelt shot him between the eyes and killed him.
His partner didn’t think much of it because he didn’t have any
excitement. The next day, .they saw another bear, and Merri*
field, the partner, was going to shoot it. Before he shot he
said, “I’ll shoot him in the leg and see what he will do.” But
Roosevelt vetoed it right away. So Merrifieid shot ti e bear in
the neck. A few days later they got some more boars. Aftjar
that they started, on their 300 mile journey home.
The book is interesting because it was written by a presi
dent but the constant killing of wild animals for the fun of it
gels kind of tiresome after while. They never seem to do any
thing useful with the animals that are killed.
Prank Moruis.
Antics of a Monkey
MY FRIEND TOTO, by Cherry Kekrton-Thisbook Is
about a monkey. The author was taking pictures of wild ani
mals in Africa, . He very seldom saw any white people. One
day he was camping by some mountains. It was foggy. He
saw something coming. It got a little closer and he saw it was
a white man. He had a monkey. He asked the author if he
wanted him, so Kearton took the monkey. He got to'like the
monkey. He would see the author do something and he would
try to do it too. Once he saw the author smoking a pipe and he
wanted one so the author gave him an oid pipe. Toto took in a
deep breath and almost choked to death. ‘
When they left the mountains the first thing the monkey did
when he got on the train was to climb up on the racks and swing
back and forth on the lamps.
After they got to London, Kearton had to gioon another ex
pedition, so he left Toto in a zoo. When the author came back,
Tot-o had died of pneumonia. Lyle MottttiS;
Two Heroic Friends.
“INJUN” AND “WHITEY,” by William S. Hart-“Whitey”
wnose real name was Alan Sherwood, was a boy who went tb a
western cattle ranch with his father. . At first, every tiine he
saw an Indian he thought he was going to be scalped. But
when he got out to the ranch he met au Indian boy about bis
age and they became great friends.
One time when they were going out riding, Bill Jordon told
them not to go near the Cross and O farm. Thp men there had
stolen some of Bill’s cows. The boys went* ahead anyhow. They
found a big hidden chamber and they went on into it, lighting
matches and dropping tnera on the floor as they burned out.
Pretty soon they heard footsteps coming. They hid behind
a barrel. A man came in with a lantern and when he. saw the
matches he knew someone else had been there. He went over
to the barrel where Injun and Whitey were hiding but didn’t
see them. He finally left and went upstairs into a room .where
some men were playing cards. *
Injun and Whitey decided they had better do something.
So .Whitey said he would: rush in on the outlaws. He charged
in and broke the lamp and swung his stick and banged the men
and everythingelse that he could hit. Then Bill Jordon dropped
in and took the outlaws off to jail; Lyle Morris.
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; Oriental. - Storjf Collect
SHEN OP THE SPA, Chinese Stories For Children, by Ar
thur Bowie Chrisman-rThere are many* stories in* this book. ;
Some of them are very funny. The main story, called “Shen
of the Sea” tells about a Chinese king named Cbieh Chung.
Once the demons of the sea, called shen, conquered the —
king’s city by flood. But by a trick the king bottled them up
and d*ove back the sea.
Another story tells how a boy, by smearing jelly on plaques,
invented books. Wm. Humphe&ies.
People who slide generally^slip. ■