CANADIAN WOMAN'S ANNUAL. By Emily P., A. E., and E. C. Weaver {lighiheartedness which is often shown | SUDPOse fell for these | by the rank and file even of death. McClelland, Goodchild & Stew- art, Toronto, Publishers. Price, $1.00. R. Uglow & Co., City. "The Canadian Woman's and Social Service Directors" is a new book dealing comprehensively with numerous matters of interest, and especially with social, educational, pelitical and sociological movements and institutions with which women are concerned, This book will be a great help to many women who take an active part in social and educational movements, and will be a valuable addition to any reference library. A great deal of research work must have been necessary to the pre- | There is | paration of this volume not, we believe, an organization in Canada' of interest to women which has been emitted. The these many institutions, a synopsis of their constitutions, a list of thelr officers, ete., is given. Sabjects such as postal information, immigra- tion, political status of womén, child welfare, education, employment, journalism, agriculture, health, tem- perance, purity; religion, soefil agen- cies, the war, are convisely dealth with from view, and with the idea of present ing such facts as will be beneficial and informing, tq Canadian women The volume is a splendid compen dium of all matters relating to wo men, It is well written, and the facts have been carefully and syste- matically arranged, #0 as to make them very get-at-able--if we may coin a word To the many thous- ands of women engaged in social, philanthropic and kindred work in the Dominion, this book should be sladly received. It will prove most 156ful and handy to secretaries, fc contrihitors and to writers generally \WWe [eel' that the public generally, and women in particular, owe a debt oi gratitude to the painstaking edi- tor, Emily P. Weaver, of Toronto, and her collaborators THE GREEN CURVE. et By Ole Luk-Ode (Lieut Col. E. D. Swinton, D.S.0., R. E). Double. day, Page & Co., Garden City, N, Y., and McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, Publishers, Price, $1.25. R. Uglow & Co; City. ' Col. Swinton, who is now acting as Chief of the Pritish Intelligence Staff at the front, and writer of the "Eyewitness" dispatches from the al- lies' headquarters, wrote the sket- ches that constitute this book origi- nally for the entertainment of sol- diers. AS & larger section of the general public now appears to be. in- terested in warfare than was former- ly the case, he decided to republish them in collected form. Some of the stories; notably "The Kite," "The Joint in the Harness" and "An Eddy of War," deal with matters which have a close counterpart in the pre: sent war, though they were all first published in cither 1906 or 1907. These stories are to-day intensely interesting Inasmuch as they reveal the methods of actual modern war- fare. tary leader, they make up in precise- ness of detail whatever they miay lack in literpry grace. Here we have the trai connaissances and battles. Green Curve™ the story Which gives the title to the book, gets its name from: a food-chart that hung upon tae wall dn the office of the governor of a besieged fort. Various colored curves on this chart Indicated the time the food would last under cer- tain conditions. Only by following the green curve, and turning out the useless members of the population to freeze and starve, could the belea- guered town have a fair &hance of hanging out titl fresh supplies were - received. he story 1 allo Puts us in close touch with the sitya- tion of a besieged city and the I Son of the non-combatant popula. tion. 5 ; In the last story, "The Limit," the author pictures the sad plight of weary and wounded men, their feelings during an engdgement. It is a sad picture, and brings home to the reader the awful hofrors of waft. Through the supposed conversation of two British soldiers, Col. Swinton gives us his views on voluntary en- conscription. Other stoties tell of ngineers, airships, explosives, y There are some amusing inci- "The generat | a woman's pcint of | Written by a recognized mili-! soldier's version of sieges, re- | dents to brighten the puges, ang which serve to throw into relief the in the face -------- THE RIGHT TRACK Annual! : [By Clara Louise Burnham, MeClell. and, Goodchild & Stewart, Tor. outo, Publishers. Price, $1.25. [7° RR. Uglow & Co.. Citys "The Right Track." That sounds encouraging. So many of us get on the "wrong track," and are shunted off thé main liné onto despairful sid- ings. where. we. lie (meaning. in the | sensze of reposing, not of prevaricat- ing) unnoticed and deserted, that we are glad to learn there is still & "right track." James Barnes, a successful grain dealer, was a widower with two chil: { arregant and imperious. He meets | Mabel Ford, who belonged to a fath- | erices family living in cheap apart ments on a side street, and a family whose "bottom dollar" was always on Lop. Barnes at once concludes that "Mabel's a stunning. girl; she'd | ktow how to spend my money and spend it right he proposes, and accepts Nim, solely beeau the opportunities that mo- | ney I n her Her brother, Vicior, a ng young lawyer, is an ardent admirer of Barnes. He does not his sister a suitable wife for Barnes, and tells her so. She refuses Jo listen, and in time becomes iistress in the big house. Posse ssing an inordinate love of knowledge, she spends her time poring over book: and In reading learned essays, befor. exclusive clube. Meanwhile Barnes: little boy grows daily worse, but hi failing health does notinterest Mahe! She detests the child, and the hate is mutual Husband ana young wife grow apart. His love is not rec: procated Comes a day when the; returns to town a former playmate ¢ | Barnes, Camilla Lovett, a womas | whom nature had somewhat disfigur | ed with round shoulders but beauti ful with a loving and loyal heart. The v takes 10 her Kindly, and eh So she believe i PL: lhe position ol nurse or BOY ciLess. With her love the ¢hiid heart is touched, and she works w -eeming miracle in his dispositio: Her influence over the daughter an: the young wile bears golden frui Mutual understandings follow, anc love takes up its abode in the hous once more. So much for a gooc woman's influence, The book is a very entertainin; one. The sacred little family scenes the love of little children and ai their simple, trustful ways, the work ing of 'a great reformation in a viives hardened heart,--these are all pic tured ip a tender, touching nariative It is a book to do one good. Hov natdral Jim Barnes' longing fer hi: old boyhood's home in the countr: where he coasted down hill with hi playmates in winter; how eagerly hi grasped the chance to buy it whe: wealth had come to him in late years; how happy in possession anc in restoring the old place; how it: tender memories filled his heart an. helped to mould his character. Ever boy who has come up from the farn | and found his life-work in the city can aunderstand and, appreciate sim ! ple, big-hearted, but withal success { ful, Jim Barnes. i | THE EYES OF ALicia | £ .. ---- { By Charles E. Pearce, McClelland, | Goodchild & Stewart, Torouto, i Publishers. Price, $1.25. B. Ug low & Co., Citys The beautiful ward of a rieh,, old man travels with him on the boat. train from London. . They qugrrel wien he asks for the twentieth time to marry her, and so sheseeks anoth- er compartment.' A lttle later the guard discovers the old:man foully i murdered. ~~ Beside him is found a Alicia, his ward, and suspicien fens upon her, - Thus i Hee 0" buat Ride 5) of e bean . course she is beantiful, Bless 8! Otlierwise she | Me's There was never yet a lovely with quali = i be i, all the othe: iting, and, well, other that mad poets ever wrote : corporate them in book. The hero, wouldn't have been ti ---- } inporari restrict eo ~r a { @ren, one a fretful; fault-Anding Mit. | history o»| tie bey, the other a girl of eighteen, SE ties so fully develop. |. froin vm were ko al- charm of these eyes. He lives hole oad all (including a possivie: | seat in the house of commons) to fol- jJew "the light that lies 'in woman's eyed" --we mean the eyes of this par- ticular woman. When vile villians plan plots for her dead guardian's | money, compromising her, and when | the stern finger of the law points its | accusing finger in lier direction (des- | pite her eyes), then doth the gallant Erie stand forth in her defence. What { though all the world accuse her! He | will still believe her innecent. Does | she reward him? Oh, no, hot just yet | for you see she already had a hus j band---one in name only. He, too, we es. He was 2 villian anyway, so when he conv en- | lently goes and gets himself killed on page--Ilook it up yourself , gentle reader, aud save us the trouble--the lovely heroine again casts her eyes upon the hero, and he Is lost for good and all. He doesn't know it, though, Poor fellow, he thinks he hae discov- | ered is soul-méte, his adorable alte: | ego. Phe story develogs a mysterious plot 'and furnishes some exciting in- | eldents. So does a dime novel, for that matter. And--shall we con- fess it?---our preference 18 all on the sige of the dime novel. So there, All cid! | THE HOUSE IN DEMETRIUS ROAI { i I -- By J. D. Beresford, 8. B. Guagdy, Tor onto, Publisher. Price, $1.25. R Uglow & Co., City. A mysterious houge, the strange and masterful perfonality of *Robir | Greg," its owner, the curlous experi | ences of two men and a woman liv ing in conflicting relationship eac! with each, the cunning, the sordid ness, the ultimate downfall of a mas- ter mind itself mastered 'by the de- mon, drink, all go to make up a story of haunting and powerful human in terest Vividly the author depict the impression of the mysterion house, with its overpowering influ ence upon the minds of at any rat two of its occupants, and so holds th imagination of the reader that ever; | incident is followed with the inten sity of emotion experienced by the characters of whom he reads. This book, we learn, has met wit} a wonderful reception _in England There is a strange, haunting fascina tion about it that will appealtomany It traces step by step the influgn drink upon a man of genius: jt the lies and subterfuges to which h: resorted to hide his frequent gurren ders to the appetite that would not i» i rifico on the part of a woman rela tive and a loyal secretary. The 1 sult, for Greg, Is pitiable, hut for i other two, love showed iho future happiness. The book a clever study of human frailiie: «: human emotions, and' peints cut moral as old as the hills yet stil] alas, needfully as fresh and recur rent as the morning dew. PLANTATION STORIES OF LOUISIANA, By Andrews Wilkinson. L. C. Page & Co., Boston, Price, $2. Illustrat. ed. R. Uglow & Co., City. Not since the days of the justly- famed Uncle Remus has there been reated a character so entertaining im its" appeal, especially to children and to all lovers of wild life, as that of Uncle Jason, whom Wilkinson in: troduces to us in this book of pleas ant reading, "Plantation Stories of Old Louisiana." It is a book made up of short, but loosely connecteg stories of animal life, written for the amusement and instruction of child. ren. To them it will be a treasure. trove of twilight stories, and an end- less source of pleasure. These hap- Py excursions into Birdland, where Uncle Jusdi, the black mammy, the Young doctor, the governness and ot- lier people of the plantation, furnish each their quota of amusing yarns, will be relished by adults as well as by all children... Uncle Jason's le gends, related .in the quaint negro dialect of the south of years ago, are remarkable examples of a vanishing folk lore and are certa'n to entertain even the most blase reader. Nor has the author been satisfied with having created only that delightful character. He has included in hie volume stories of birds and ayimals which will rank with Kipling's Jun- gle Books; he has given us stories in the hitherto Jittle-known Creole dialect, and through them all he has n 81 which grasps the reader at the very outset aud holds him until the last page has been read. : ; OLY len beneath Ne What Africa. i Sir Arthur Conan:-Doyle, in The | War illustraled, writes on "How the | Boer War Prepared Us for the Gres. L War." 'The continental. , military eritics," he says, "never understood the importance of the Boer war.be- eause,as in the case of the North and' South siruggle in America, they look- ed upon it as aserambling, amateur- ish business which, bore no relation to the clash of disciplined legions. | Hence those solid infantry forme- | tions and gigantic cavalry charges | which amazed our representatives ai the various kaiser mancuvres "Two things we learned in Africa --the importance of good shooting and the necessity for using cover. Our excellence at both was a revela- tion to the Germans at Mons, as has been admitted by many of their offi cers. They were the twa factors which saved us during that perilous business, for? outnumberéd as we were, and faced by a far stronger ar- tillery, we could not possibly nave saved the army had we not sou make-weights upon our side. Those were the all-important make-welgi:s | --that we could inflict, the maximus: | and receive the minimum of punish- | ment with the rifle. They saved us! --and we owe them both directly « he South African war, Before that lesson we were no better than Germans. "it is in the eavalry that the Boer | war left its mark most deeply, though t will always be a fair ground ror wgument whether it left it deeply anough. Certainly our cavalry have een splendid. They have adapted themselves to everything, dng peen the gengral utility men of the army. I hryé notes of one regiment which executed a famous 'arme blanche' harge in the morning, fought as mounted riflemen in the afternoon, and formed themselves into a gun eam to pull off deserted guns in the wening. "Since then they have spent a good deal of their time making and hold- ing trenches, Such men cannot he improved upon, and if they, in their nimble suppleness, present | trast io armour-plated, top-hootnd! continental types, it is once again to! South Africa that we owe it." i as a con- Our Army Learned In South" the | Christian | along the Bering PURITY --QUALITY--FLAVOR' It is absolutely pure, It is of high quality, beans, skilfully blended. Its-flavor is delicious, of chemicals, by a strictly: mechanical fectly preserves the EE ---- conforming to all Pure Food Laws. being made from choice cocoa because itis made without the use process that per- appetizing NATURAL flavor of high-class 'cocoa beans. MADE IN CANADA BY WALTER BAKER & CO. Limited AAA a A mh ee an The Natives Of Alaska. 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