Books: Professor After Jesuit

RIM OF CHRISTENDOM—Herbert Eugene Bolton—Macmillan ($5).

Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept....

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