THE DAILY BRITISH PEI---- WHIG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1914. ARCADIAN ADVENZ'R wrrn THE IDLE RICH, By Stephen Leacock; Toronto, Beli ; &Cockbwn; Kingston, R. Ug. low & Co., $1.25 net. Prof. Leacock's latest book contains his well-known fhixiure of cyuman iu sight and belsterous joviality." "1t"i sometimes difficult to say why one laughs with him, but certainly few books contain more hearty and whole some laughter or are better for read ing-aloud, His latest volume is 2 series of sketches. of life in the city of Plutoria, in which the chief insti tutions are Plutoria University and the Mausoleum Club. Though the scene in apparently faid in the United States, some of the sketches dre so true to universal humanity that pro bably more than one of Mr. leacock's colleagues and friends .in Montreal will feel personally afronted. Such story as "The Great Fight for Clean Government," in which the wealthy city merchants, finding that the city government is "absolutely rotten, cor rupt and. fall of graft," to hold a clean election and to elect an enlightened set of aldermen, hich virtuous hody, as soon as appointed, gives to the Citizens' Light compan, a nee franchise for two centuries, will be read hy many people in Montreal with mingled. feelings. Here is a little sketch which of us at Queen's might" well take heart : "The meeting of the faculty that day bid fair to lose_all vestige of de cornm in the excitement of the mo ment. than the permission of ihe Of lead-pencils instead of pen and ink in the sessional examinations of the uni versity. Anyone conVersant with the resolve some to use inner life of mn college will realize that | to many of the professoriate this was nothing less than a last wild on slaught of socialistic democracy agninst the solid bulwarks of society They must fight it back or die on the walls. To others it was one more step in 'the splendid progress of de mocratic education, comparable only to such epoch-making things as the abandonment of the cap and gown, and the emission of the word 'sir' in speaking to a professor, "No wender that the fight Finally, Chang, of physiology, who was a perfeet dynamo of energy and was known Sfrequently to work for three or four hours at a stretch, pro posed that the faculty should adjourn the question and meet for its further discussio owiy 'Saturday morning. This revolutionary sugges- The proposal was nothing less | tion, involving wark on Saturdas , Te duved. the meeting Lo a. mere turmoil, + the midst of which Elderberry Foi uf the use of lead-pencils should he adjourned till that day six months, and that meantime a new special com- mittee of seventeen professors, with rower to add to their number, to cull witnesses and, if need be, to hear them, should raport on the entire mat. ter de novo. This motion, after the siriking out of the and the insertion of ab initio, w its chair We most heartily Leacock' hook rho wants Lighter, commend Prof to every tired soul plenty of good hearty which yet containg a rea onnble quantity of thought. . : W.L.G DELIA BLANCHFLOWER. y Mrs. Humph and, Goodchild find = Stew: Toronto, Publishers, Price ' Admirers of Mrs. Ward's work will find in this' latest book of hers considerable pleasiire, though it does not rank with her best The hero, Mark Winnington, is described as gs} kind of heroie creature," just the GIL tobe the guardian whom Sir rt Blanchflower chose for his tipetuous young daughter, Delia, So Sir Robert left him in full charge. uot only of his daughter but of her mimense fortune, until she should attain the age of twenty-five, when the property should become hers, pro vided that she entirely severed her nection w the "Daughters of Revolt," itant suffrage organi- Mark finds his ward quite 1 handful Her attachment to Ger- de Marvell, one of the leaders and reanizers the militant campaign, 0 wifom the her had taken a trong di ds Mark into many scene with Del The guardian, though he supposed himself to be mmune, develops into the lover, and itove friumphs over suffragist principals. The novel is probably intended protest against the ufiragist It pictures street the outrages, «4 mi on \ of slike, Ie even as a movement.. the meetings, raged. | the eommittee work and plans of the {vote-hunting women, The destruc- tion of a beautiful old English home provides a fitting climax. Delia, s finally convinced that not only is { militancy wrong, but that Mark is { perfection. The most impressive fig- re in the book #8 Miss Marvell, the { feminist fanatic who is ready to sac- le 'proposed that the whole question! words de novo |, finally carried, after which the faenlis | sank back completely exhausted into! ¢ Ward, MeClell- rifice herself for the cance There arc also other suffragists of oppusing types, and the anti-suffragists. The book Is interesting and will afford a teveral evenings' pleasure ! | -- | WHAT MEN LIVE RY, i i | By Richard €. Cabot, M.D., McCleils and, Goodchild, and. Stewart, Teronto, Publishers, 341 Pages. A stimulating, that lueidly "and con eis forth theé-deetrine of right 1 fing. Dy. Cabot, whe is connected with { the Social Service department of the Mursachuyssett's general hospital and | assistant professor of medicine at {Harvard university, is doing plen | did work for humanity by teaching jit how {the mind and the soul can {minister'to the oody. This book is a4 phys'eian's contribution to the con- { duct of life- A doctor knows that {people neéd more than medicine "or i surgery to put them on their feet. { He studies to learn what picks them! up when they have fallen down: He! all sorts of remedies tried | travel, solitude, breath | hook inei refreshing 01 gers marriage, divorce, deep breathif i the simple life, the st uous life and many more Out of the cures f tried by men and women in all a { i Dr.. Cabot selects four--work, pli y ove and worship--hocause in his | experience they have proved their] healing power He shows in detail | how work, play, love and wolship {should run side by side through | whole span of life, like four : the rainbow These four potent cures , are "what men ach of these gigantie writes, "I have partic I want to show the ¢& work and love;.I want {accessibility and the | pla and worship | secular habits we a s0 close to wor | Lip that we at any time fall{ [into i | { ne on , Dr. Cabot live by." * forces," lar. designs; | credness "of | to show the | universality of That despite our | states 'On he | may it; that play and art can bel closely woven into the fabric of work | tili- drudgery is pn mum; that work is our key ®¥ the sacredness of material nature, and, | that affection can be disciplined only! 1by congecration. These are my 'the- f wuthor hi stage | Work, the { He illustrate {of an old | from affection, forced him up He pined isi til allowed to tells 8 life, the whose theme drive r worl away v 0 to work aga { he recuperated marveliously | prived of work, declares, { ple exhaust themselves like | animals beating a their when the cage is their making. Healthy | ef the outlet and | are in danger of getting into one or | ano her sexual muddle. For we { | | { | whet "De-! ' peo crazed | be | own i deprived ! of work { zainst even ot people stimu IS | re | he { many of reatures who can i purified enly by motion. To find one's! work is to find one's place in the) world." Next the author takes up the sub- | | ject of play, whose use he skillfully | § He then passes to his | thject, love He calls our ention to the fact that, although it" cannot be forced, love ean and foes come very often vpon further us In many colors | i reduced top mini i es i jevery | jeondensation make it espeeiglly va- aequnintinee: We do - not know, | which the Germans have shameless- and, not knowing, do net love, "I {ly violated. we give = man every chance." he Writes, "he is almost sure to @is-|mity of opinion in Great Britain and clore some lovable quality. Kunow- | Ireland as to the justice of our ledge joined with faith is the way to cause, and outlined the support af- give him these chances." The policy | forded by the dominions and crown of looking for the best is one, which | colonies. Various other aspects of iI uaiversilly followed, would make the present situation are discussed in this a much pleasanter world to live | Prof. Grant's own inimitable style. in. Lovess-ol.a complex character. The quotations in support of his ar- ihe love of husband . and wife|guments are from authoritive sour- there is always something of the ma- | cés-- blue books, addresses by states ternal, This element enters also men, newspaper reports, extracts into neacly all loves: "We must learn | from German authors, ete, One in- to think of personal love." he de-|stinctively feels, on faying down this clares. "Not 50 much as a single! book, that here is a succinct and quality or impulse, but as a house of ! masterly survey of the situation, and rooms, Each room repres- that thanks are dpe to the author cils some type of affection----conju-|for giving us all the facts in such zal, paternal, filial or friendly. Each | brief yet convincing form. room cpens into those next it, =o vies that an impulse originating in one| WARS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND must pass freely through all. Move-! MERICA, over thé house '4s .ppen outwardly, ee Tarough its windows there is a per-| By T. C. Smith. The Home Univer- petual give-and-take between our af-| city Library, London, Williams fections and the infinite love of God." & Norgate, Kingston, R. Uglow The concluding subject is worship. | & Co. 25¢ Worship, the author points out, re- hr aia i news the spirit as sleep renews, the, In this book Mr. Smith gives an body. It fulfills what play, art and | excellent account of the interngtional love aitempt. The need of confes- | relations between England and Am- sion, petition, praise, are pointed out. | rica between 1763 and 1815, pre ork, love and play, while they rein-| ®®ded by a lucid summary of the old force each other, yet leave us rudder- colonial system under which the Am- les and unsatisfied without prayer. | rican colonies had grown up. It re- The harder we work and play and | Presents the latest views of American ("a more intensely we devote our- | scholarship, and cuts loose 'from the selves to whomever and whatever we | 01d tradition of the fourth of July Ie the mgge pressing is our need | Oration. The fairness shown to . reorienting, recommiting, refresh- (reat Britain, the faults pointed ourselves in an appeal to God.[©Ut in the American cause and the "What Men Live By" is worthy of | American leaders, would thirty years several readings. It i§ a guide to a| #¢o have made even an enlightened better, saner, happier life, penned by| \meritan stare and gasp. Thus the one who has studied humanity ear-| Poston massaere, on which such resthy-and devotedly. floods of eloquence and of tears have . been poured out, is for Mr. Smith merely "a riot in Boston between town rowdies ang the soldiers." In- deed, Mr. Smith, in common with ome other Americar? historians, has swung so far over that he is at times a little unfair to the colonies, hen he says that "in the seven war they hung back from & dull fear that their neighbor colon- ies might. fail to do their share, but Prof. Grant's small volume is to be! they were ready to let British sold- ore highly commended. [It is com- icrs do all the hard fighting." The prehensive, in that he has covered] VW: 'husetts politicians who won spect of the case; it is illum- | praise of their British governor, tive, in that he has presented his! the Massachusetts soldiers: who died ; clearly and consecutively; it is]af 1 iconderoga, their fellows who irable, in' that its terseness and | aiter that repulse pushed on to the capture of Kingston, deserved higher than this. Mr. Smith wisely points out that the real cause of the American revoluion and of the consequent bitterness was that a new nation had come to birth, a nation with diflerent political and social ideals, and different economie needs The author next shows the unani- OUR JUST CAUSE By Prof." W, lL. ant, Queen's Uni- versity, William , Heinemann, London, Publisher. There have been many books pub- hed concerning the causes of the sent war, but for conciseness and tematic. marshalling of facts, years 1s the luable as a ready reference. | praise Pref. Grant'answers the question, | "Why are we at war? follows: (a) Because of the swelled head of the German militarist classes, who | bave stampeded the country.. The | ruthless theory of these men consjd- cred war to be a blessing and the best | from those of the .mother country. means of advancing progress. His book may he commended as an (b) Because of our plighted word | impartial gnd interesting sketch of to France, in virtue of which she had the troubled period which ended one concentrated her fleet in the Mediter- hundred years ago, to be followed by ranean and left her northern coast|a slowly but steadily increasing defenceless, save for our aid. iriendliness, ? {c) Because of our obligations to It is a pity that this and several Deigium. . other historical works in the series (d) For the safety of Surseives | ope not be illustrated by at least one and of our Empire. |or two sketch maps. The books are (e) In the-cause of civilization and | ior the general reader, who is for liberty and of international law, { the most part inclined to laziness, and cannot be expected to have an historical atlas hard by. POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM BA. CON TO HALIFAX, ---- By G. P: Gooch. History of Scotland, by R. S. Rait. The Ancient Fast, By D. G. Hogarth. The Home Univérsity Library, London, Williams & Norgate, Toronto, William Briggs, Kingston, R. Uglow & Co,; 85¢ Each. Mr. Gapch's hook on "Political Thought from Bacon to Halifax' 'is an admirable sketch of the develop- Ing of English thought in the keen and bard thinking 17th century, one of the best books in. an extremely good series, worthy to rank with Mr. H. A. L. Fisher's "Napoleon," or the Hon. Maurice Baring's "Russian Lit- erature." Mr. Gooch is equally vivid, whether dealing with Bacon, Hobbs, Halifax, or when describing the views which swept through the crowd, such as those of the Levellers or the Anabaptists. Wide as is his . knowledge he never becomes obscure. It if interesting to note how the same thoughts recur in all ages; the quotatiens which Mr. Gooch gives from Bacon in the early 17th century might have.'come from Bernhardi in the early 20th. "The . opinion of some of the schoolmen is not to be regeived that war cannot be made but upon a precedent injury or provoca- just year of dauger, though there be tion; for there is no question but no blow, given, isn lawful cause of war." Let us hope that the paral- lel proves that English political thought is now three centuries ahead of that of Germany. The volumes by Mr. Hogarth and Professor Rait are adequate summar- ies. by competent scholars; but on the whole rather. uninspired, not to say dull. Mr. Rait's book is rather a running commentary on the history of Scotland than a history of it, and Mr. Hogarth is apt.to lose himself in a wilderness of geographical de- tails," only partially intelligible even with the aid of the sketch maps which he gives. These are;.how- similar maps were more widelysused in the series RUSSIAN LITERATURE. By the Hon. Maurice Baring. Home University Library of Modern Knowledge. London, Williams & Norgate. Kingston, R. Uglow & Co. Price 35c. This most interesting volume gives a great deal in a small com- pass It is concise and yet vivid, giving a good general sketch 'of the subject, with sufficient detail, yet never degenerating to a mere list of names, and is made still more interesting by a number of excel- lent verse translations from some of the greater Russian poets. The immense literary achievements of Russia is one of the marvels of the nineteenth century, for the lit- erary history can really be said to hegin with the year 1800. In one century they have produced Push- The ever, useful, and it would be well if- kin, a great national poet, indeed classic; Turgenieff a master of tion; the giant Tolstoi of international renown. as writers and as tesohers thelr in- fluence has been world-wide. They struck a new note, As Mr. Rating well says of Pushkin, "The | characteristic of his genius is its universality; there to be nothing that he could not under stand nor assimilate, and it is just this all embracing humanity, this capacity for understanding every- thing and everybody which makes him so profoundly Russian." All readers of Tolstoi know that the same note is found in him, the note bot world-wide lové and com! : the note which finds nothing human aught else than lovable." That a nation which has produced a litera~ ture of which this is the dominant note is in the long run doomed 'to remain ground down under a nar row and reactionary government we refuse to believe. Mr. Baring's vivid sketch of this brilliant development we command to every reader. Ch ---------- MARTHA AND CUPID. ---- $ By Julia M. Lippmann, McClelland, Goodchild and Stewart, Toronto, Publishais, The two "Martha" hooks - which preceded the present volume proved succeeded in creating in Martha =a bright and lovely character. . She became at once a favorite. In this third volume we have Martha mar ried. There were two rivals for her hand-- Sim Slawson and Peter Gil- i roy. The former, a hardworking {honest chap; the latter, somewhat of ia swell. Martha does exactly as we would expect one of her character to his mother, who was inclined grumble at almost everything. It was |not a pleasant situation that Martha . {found herself in at first, but she ul- timately succeeded in making a real home. So'much for tact and loyal love. We soon find the happy couple surrounded by a number of bright and entertaining children. "Martha and Cupid" is a wholesome, optimis- ti¢ story, full of human interest, Quoted From "What Men Live By." | "Jealousy is a consumption bred { within the structured house of love when all its windows are sealed. . . A woman may be jealous not only of herhusband'sfriends but of his work, and even of his religion. This means that she has kept her windows clos- ed and shuttered, so that she looks always at the walls of her house of |love," never through and beyond them." : "When marriage is late or unhap- py, because of poverty, because peo- ple cannot find their mates, or for less worthy reasons, love becomes impersonal, a blind, gigantic world energy, hardly a blessing, easily a curse. 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