M. MABEL BELL: ALEXANDER'S SILENT PARTNER. Toward, Lilias. Toronto, Methuen, c1984. 220pp, cloth, $24.95, ISBN 0-458-98090-0. CIP Grades 10 and up Reviewed by Marion Mintis Volume 13 Number 2 1985 March This interesting biography, actually, the story of both Mabel and Alexander Graham Bell, touches on their loving relationship and family life, as well as on their contributions to science and education and their lives in Europe, Canada, and the United States. The text is liberally sprinkled with excerpts from Mabel's journals and her letters. Their involvement in teaching the deaf, in invention and commercial success of the telephone, in hydrofoil technology, and in the development of heavier-than-air flying machines, through the Aerial Experiment Association (AEA), are all fully documented, as is Mabel's interest in the Montessori philosophy of childhood education. The book offers an insightful portrait of Mabel's father, Gardiner Hubbard, a leading nineteenth-century industrialist, who helped found the National Geographic Society and played a major role in Bell's early work on the telephone. Told in a scholarly but conversational style, this is an engrossing, informative, and entertaining study of some of the movers and shakers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The preface is by Hugh MacLennan. Marion Mintis, Bonar Law Memorial School, Rexton, N.B.