Oh, by the way, Swan "proved up" as soon as possible on his homestead and sold out to the Quirt. Lone managed to buy the Thurman ranch also, and the TJ up-and-down is on its feet again as a cattle ranch. Sorry and Jim will ride for the Quirt, I suppose, as long as they can crawl into a saddle, but there are younger men now to ride the Skyline Meadow range. Some one asked about Yellowjacket, having, I suppose, a sneaking regard for his infirmities. He hasn't been peeled yet--or he hadn't, the last I heard of him. Lone and Lorraine told me they were trying to save him for the "Little Feller" to practise on when he is able to sit up without a cushion behind his back, and to hold something besides a rubber rattle. And--oh, do you know how Lone is teaching the Little Feller to sit up on the floor? He took a horse collar and scrubbed it until he nearly wore out the leather. Then he brought it to the cabin, put it on the floor and set the Little Feller inside it. They sent me a snap-shot of the event, but it is not very good. The film was under-exposed, and nothing was to be seen of the Little Feller except a hazy spot which I judged was a hand, holding a black object I guessed was the ridgy, rubber rattle with the whistle gone out of the end,--down the Little Feller's throat, they are afraid. And there was his smile, and a glimpse of his eyes. Aren't you envious as sin, and glad they're so happy? THE END [Illustration] NOVELS BY B.M. BOWER * * * * * =THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE= A ringing tale full of exhilarating cowboy atmosphere, abundantly and absorbingly illustrating the outstanding feature of that alluring ranch life that is fast vanishing.--_Chicago Tribune_. =JEAN OF THE LAZY A= A spirited novel of ranch life in which the fascinating heroine poses for film pictures that she may make money necessary to prove her father innocent of a crime for which he has been convicted. It possesses all the popular ingredients--a quick-action plot, color and picturesqueness aplenty, and an unflagging interest--to be found in Bower's earlier successes.--_Philadelphia Public Ledger_. =THE PHANTOM HERD= Another western tale in which the Happy Family become real "movie" actors. There has been so much truck written in the last few years about motion pictures, that it is a positive relief to find a book by an author who knows exactly what to talk about in an entertaining manner with a knowledge of actual conditions as they exist.--_Boston Post_. =THE HERITAGE OF THE SIOUX= A Flying U story in which the Happy Family get mixed up in a robbery faked for film purposes. Altogether a rattling story, that is better in conception and expression than the conventional thriller on account of its touches of real humanity in characterization.--_Philadelphia Public Ledger_. =RIM O' THE WORLD=