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A pou, J for, -~ story of that epic of critics bave long reco: the poetic ot Dr, B.J. Professor of. Literature in sty Sovtomadiend-vorn and bred, ted to the sea from boy- he finds his inspiration in about its waters. . "The Cach- lot" was an amasing and original nce, telling of the very dations of time, but in his just published, "The Roosevelt and the | miches the surg (30 he stn, * Antinoe," ho makes a universal ap vith the foods o gone arou the world. And' tt rises to te great theme in narrative verse Shas sustained achiev ent on a e meng the godstos oderns with eid, os, that in their rugs Somer and, orgy note recall Mi Chis sounds pretty Hetty praise' for it puts Pratt, witty, lovable 'Ned' Pratt, at very top of the lit- erary firmament. Writing in the Mafi "and Empire' W. A, Deacon says ip part: "Occasion meets, her may, 'and history is made no less in. literature than in life. When a great deed strikes the creative im- @gination of the writer's art the deed is at once re-created and clothed , in immortality. As man has lived long, stirring deeds have been many; hut the perfect mat- ing of poet and event, out of which union come the noble lines of epic poetry, has been rare. Yet just this happened when RE. J. Pratt picked up a newspaper in January, 1926, and now, after four years of brooding and labor, we have the triumphant result in "The Roose yelt and the Antinoe." (Maemil- J these clamor for praise. ). \It is not only a Canadian' it 13 a = masterpiec. caught up and fused, and for the ranking among the greatest Eng-[Mrst time supremely into the sheer lish narrative poems of all time. "All the man's talents have been genfus of a single plece of magni- tude and power, Originality, gus- -- ------ to strenght, unerring taste In choice of the homely, idiomatic phrase, stark vividness of meta- phor never over-strained, skill of | -------- Rh ---- AI TIE - 4] re OUTSTANDING VALUE AND PERFORMANCE play among tecimical terms and modern words new to verse, rhy- thms that are the exact counters part of storm,, tie anxious thiee it, a ghip's engine and the, steady, whgeenduriog set of the heroic hearts of officers ®and crew---aii Bit the chief merit is that there is no' let- down from start to finish, © The whole thousand lines is poerty, The tensions are consistently rather than uniformly high, varying with- out break, from incident to incl dent, and binding them all inte a dramatic unit of remarkable {n- tensity. This, in. a poem filled with fact, and compounded of a multi tude of concrete detalls, has no precise parallel in literature." GAN'T COUNT ALL THE CHINESE GODS THEOLOGIST SAYS Newton Hayes Has Taken Years to Count Them Job Not Yet Completed terse. Shanghai, March 14.~The Chinese le worship so many gods that kn has taken Newton Hayes, noted theologist, many ~ars to count them As a matter of fact, he never actu- ally completed the job. In a recent survey of Chinese re- ligions, published after ten years of study, . Hayes quotes earlier con- temporaries who state that the In- dian/ divinities total 33,339, while the Greeks of anciedt time had 30,000. The Chinese, he asserts, can exceed even these figures, Besides thousands of idols, Mr. Hayes has found that the Chinese worship horses, cows, snakes, while even some insects which feed on the human body have supernatural pow ers accorded to them by human be- ings living in Cathay. Mr. Hayes has also found that one can search in vain for a supreme creator and ruler of the universe. All other nations have a supreme deity, he points out, but China has none that occupies exactly the same place in her category of gods, "Ten years' study of the gods of the Chinese leads us to feel that it is safe to say that there are probably even more recognized deities in the | Chinese pAntheon than in those of |* any. other race" he declares, "There are more images in this country than are found in the tem- ples and homes of any other land, Indeed, the number of gods is so great that De Groot not only char. acterizes it as 'linfinite' but almost Dodds Kidney Pills Ve Favorite for over Fhiree Generations EUROPE WILL SEE JAPANESE DRAMA Company of Twenty Japan. ese Will Tour Germany and Other Countries Osaka, Japan, March 14.~Kabu- ki, the classical drama of Old Japan, will be. introduced soon to Euro- pean theatregoers. A company of twenty, headed by Ennosuke Ichikawa, one of the outs standing stars of the Japanese stage will leave at the end of February for a tour of Germany and other principal cities of Europe. Dr. Wilhelm Solf, former Minister of Coloniés and former German Am- bassador to Tokyo, is chief promoter of the tour, which may be extended later to the United States. Negotia- tions to that end are now in pro- gress. Soviet Russia is the only foreign *f country to which Kabuki has been taken in recent years, Moscow and other Russian cities having given an enthusiastic reception to Sadanji Ichikawa and a supporting company two years ago. HEAD COLD? CATARRH? Do not tolerate a stuffy head or clogged breathing passages. Put an end to your ndse trouble by using "Nostroline." - Soothing, pleasant "Nostroline" stops discharge and re- duces inflammation---and so ends your cold. Price 50 cents from W, H. Karn, Drug Store. in desperation resorts to hyperbole, declaring that in the creation 'of new gods for their 'unlimited polytheism,' the Chinese are bounded by nothing but the circumstance that cven the human art of inventing gods has its limits. "There are gods of the mountains, rivers, seas and cities; gods of the living and gods of the spirit world. There are gods both good and bad, powerful and weak, handsome and ugly, kindly and cruel. There is a god to control nearly every phase of life. There are deities of the ele- ments, the sun, the moon, the stars and the constellations. UThere are gods of war, literature, wealth, mercy, medicine, and dis- case; gods of the home, gody of the farm and even gods of individual 1 streets and bridges. There are pods, too, for every important trade." TURNER WATER COLORS FADING IN TATE GALLERY Buchanan's IF IT IS NEW WE HAVE IT New Spring SUITS In pin stripes, oxford greys, Covert Clothes and navy and black Tricotines. All Flat Crepe lined. 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