The great advantage of expository narrative is that it is usually the most readable form in which to present the material for which it is suitable. Dr. David Starr Jordan’s story of the individual salmon, though quite as scientific as the generalized explanations in biology textbooks, is much more attractive to the average reader. Such stories as “A Medieval Wedding” and “The Peasant Bodo” escape the dullness of most histories, and bring before us these medieval people in their habits as they lived. “A Day in an Oxford College” is both interesting and clear in its explanation of a mode of life which is so different from that in an American college that American students find it hard to comprehend. In his very interesting little book, “America at Work,” Mr. Joseph Husband uses expository narrative to show the romance and fascination of such work-a-day tasks as running a locomotive, making telephone connections, and even manufacturing coffins. In writing expository narrative, the beginner may find the following suggestions helpful: 1. Choose a subject which has a good deal of action inherent in it. 2. Present details which are not too technical for the lay reader, and use whatever description is necessary to make them clear. 3. Look for the human interest in the story--how the process serves people, or how people are affected by the environment you are presenting. F. del P. THE STORY OF A SALMON DAVID STARR JORDAN In the realm of the Northwest Wind, on the boundary-line between the dark fir-forest and the sunny plains, there stands a mountain, a great white cone two miles and a half in perpendicular height. On its lower mile the dense fir-woods cover it with never-changing green; on its next half-mile a lighter green of grass and bushes gives place in winter to white; and on its uppermost mile the snows of the great ice age still linger in unspotted purity. The people of Washington Territory say that their mountain is the great “King-pin of the Universe,” which shows that even in its own country Mount Tacoma is not without honor.