Book excerpt: "Benton of the Royal Mounted" is a memoir of Ralph S. Kendall in which he recalls having those good fellows with whom he served in years gone by. They were men of a type fast disappearing, with whom anyone would have been proud to associate and call "comrades." No longer do those once orderly grounds resound with the clear notes of the trumpet call, the neighing of troop horses, or the harsh-barked word of command.