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STARS ON THE SEA--F. van Wyck Mason--Lippincotf ($2.75). The season's most successful costume fiction and plenty of it, concerned with the fledgling glories of the U. S. fleet at Newport, Charleston and Santo Domingo in the brave days of '76. F. van Wyck Mason has the prettiest ear extant for racy Colonial speech; his sense of character is lively, though it is closer to The American Boy than to perfection; his yarns are rattling good, and if anyone wants to see where the romantic conception of an Indian fighter has got to in the last century, he need only compare Deerslayer with Mr. Mason's tough, wenching Sam Higsby.

LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS--Warren Angus Ferris--Rocky Mountain Bookshop, Salt Lake City ($3). At 19, Ferris joined a party of trappers that set out from St. Louis in February, 1830, and went to work north of Great Salt Lake. Ferris stayed alive for five winters. His journal, expanded when he got home to Buffalo and printed (1840-42) in the Western Literary Messenger, is one of the rarest and best documents of its kind; this is its first complete publication.

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