| 2 PAGES eo YEAR R84. NO. 100 jh =~ JTHE UNBROKEN LINE By H. Warner Allen. 4 Pages. Hlustrated. Price, $ Wil- liam Briggs, Toronto, Pablisher. Allen, the special representative of the British press with the F armies in the field during 1915-1916 has in this volume given his readers a clear and detailed description o existing in and line trenches from North Sea It is not history of attack it is a.jeeital conditions the French land to the much the counter-attack 1g t Swit conditions wotually ex + Front and just In a word, it gives us a <I iluminative description of- the inrss side of fighting; how vs miesare' supplied with food and munitions; how repairs are made to the many engines of war; ow th wounded are looked after derful engineering feats 'plished; how-the" genius and organ izing ability of heroic France utilized to support the nen in trenches and contribute so largely t their ultimate To the cfy flian, who is interested in the work ihat must arily the background, this book will be read with pleasure and delig Nume ous {llustrations enhance the value of lines and bu- behind the Ar-cut how ire a won om SUCCess neces go oa in the volume, Some the great id i ramifications are brought to light in 1his book How many of us that Canadian dogs by the hundred had been sent to France to at beasts of burden in the Vosges re gon? Yet the avthor tells us that "Three breeds were in service--the Alaskan, the Labrador and the Can adian." animals were of great service in that mountainous country The author takes us to each sector of that 400 mile fron", and pictures each with won- derfal reality. One can vizaalize, as he reads, tha grea: motor parks, the various repair headquarters, the food depots, the building of whe light rail ways right up to the trenches I curious favts in regar struggle and it knew These scene Some Bouks of Heference zud General Inferest Added to (he Shelves Dore Inz Mouth of April, to Jhrec.or ¥ Year Book Anis } 51 1917 inpascdea of Hor cangdan Banding Eckhart 1oe"s Handb Cherring? fl. ning < HH { handling of re indeed Books And Their Authors S00 A nforcements and the tha wounded --in fac', iyriad s of a mobhil- mn fighting for its existence, is France doing to this What is the-organization she ated? Read this volume and Il know IN THE aetiv win WILDERNESS, By Robert Hichens. 883 Pages. Price, $1.35. Williams Briggs, To- Publishers, Hichens, the gifted author of "The Alla always gives his story-of intens uman in- of keen insight 0" those touch damental I « develop- 3 literary ant appeal careful reader: sends two wilderness of ronto, Garden of reader terest, $a things th the peets of | ment of hig that + critical makes i and or that they upon the sun- understanding two persons, who o., f0 admirable n their way, gU so much Dion ould be made pain of spirit, S clear and Rosamund Leith were both ac- tuated always by high ideals They g0 to Greece for their honeymoon, add there revel in its beauty and its Beautiful, rany descrip ions of Hellenic scenes and adventures. Byron himself could not have this romantie land better than wr indeay, intimately or "The glory that feel all as Yet --one must ¢ condition that drives Dion into degrading assoecia- tions Rosamund into a life of ascet were desired to make the contrast between the ideally minded woman and her in- fluence and that of the wanton who charms and destroys, some more nataral way might have been found. However, Hichens has chosen to tell his story and to point his moral in his own 'way, amd we follow him, usually with great interest, on thea long trail. There are times when h extreme realism is quite unnee- essary amd his attention to minute details grows somewhat wearisome, But we all must admit the exceeding eharm of his descriptions; and there is in this book much charm of this nature, historical ations associ are 1 of the Surely loved auth Few our ters, have described sympathetically was Gree read these @4si, why we pages create a and 'ism? If it A Teacher-Author. Margaret R. Piper, author of the successful '"Cheerful" Books--"Syl- via's Experiment' and "Sylvia of the Hill Top" --hails from the old Bay State; but for the past year sha has been a member of the faculty of the Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, Geor- gia. Miss Piper's new book--The Heuse on the Hill--a lively story for voung p2ople, will be published by The Page Company, Boston, on or about May Day NADA IN NOW READY This contempor- ary history issued by the -. Canadian | GC o v ernment is official, and Lord Beaver- brook, as Canadian Re- = cords Officer, has had full T eas to all nT p reports of a the Come eS manding Off- cers engaged. dians will fol- low the for- * tunes of their © own regi- ments and read the Sli stories 'of i? their own cM friends and gd C ommanding 8.3 Officers. The we | a a el | E I \ -- 2 ---- Sn LANE AND oTHER POEMS. ' LUNDY'S By Duncan Campbell Scott, 194 | pages. Price, $1.25. McCiellana, Goodchild & Stewart, publishers. Lovers ¢f Canadian poetry ana who cherish faith in ts future will Welcome this volume of verse by Mr. Scott He is a poet who, though perhaps lacking in passjon and mova: ment, is always scholarly and sfncers He possesses a fine sense of style, . and shows descriptive and reflective | gifts ¢f a very high order, The great outdoor world, far fren: the teeming Haunts of men, appeals to this Canad an singer 'Spring on Mattagami" is one of the. finest oi such poems. Theré are verses in 1 which emiLady the very ssirit of Nat ure. Te quote anly one Torontuw, those, he partridge, drum- With i" drenched | ght and heat The book takes its title from the principal poem, "Lundy's lane," a colloquial account of the great battie as narrated by an old man It tells how the hoy Abner could nnt rest when the bugles called, but followed his father, armed only with an oia duck gun, to meet his doom in the dark before the invaders' guns In "The November Pansy" we catch someth.ng of the poet's splen- did philosop'ry of existence "And far above this wragiec world of f a diviner fashion, i i " 1 TRIE Canadian poet at his best 1s found in the poems where he pre selits, drawn in broad and sweeping lines, scenes in the forests and tae wild lands of the Dominion. Many of the shorter lyrics are exquisite, and ha" their charm lies in the facet that they are not polished to the smoothness of academic yerse. That is what gives them their vigor. A "Night Burial in the Forest" reveals these -frualities perhazs best of al: his poems. The "Lines in Meniory of Edmund Morris," a Toronto artist drowned a ew vears ago, is a striking poem. Mr. Scott seems to challenge the critic in this poem, which has an evie quality about it. His treatment of the subject is original and im pressive. [Its chief value is in its re velation of the author's philosophy. There is about these poems a fresi- ness, a vigor and a delicacy which gives the book high rank among con- temporaneous verse. -------------------- } Lines from the Latest books | What is most worth reading? The simplest answer is that that is most worth reading which is most worth thinking about. If we read shallow books we.are forced, while reading them, to do shallow think- ing. Our plane of thought tends to- ward the Plane of thought ol*the wuthors we study; wo acquire either habits of careful critical thinking, or of dogmatic lack of thinking--Henry Hazlin, in "Thinking as a Science." | Don Leith had been travelling, and | his wanderings had given him glimp- ses of two worlds. In ohe of these worlds he had looked into the depths, had felt as if he realized fully for the first time~the violence of the angry and ugly passions that deform life; in the other he had scaled the heights, had tasted the still purity, | the freshness, the exquisite calm, which are also to be found in life.-- | Robert Hichens in "In the Wilder- ness." {| He glanced behind him to see the { whisperer, and beheld a hard-faced, . middle-aged and very well-known | woman---one of those women who, by dint of perpetually "going about." become at length something less | than human.--Robert Hichens in "In | The Wilderness." Ab family prayers, for instance, | when his father broke off the solemn | reading to admonish one of his small | congregation. "&nd the Lord said | unto Moses--Stop pulling the cat's |.tail; or you'll go up to bed instantly." | "And Moses said unto the Lord --I've | had about enough of your nonsence, | my boy."---AMred Tresidder Shep- | ht in "The Rise of Ledgar Dun- { ? L i 1 _.._(This passage reminds us of a par- | allel incident. When _the present ewar was a young man teaching 1 in Leeds county he boarde: a fine but rather erractic far- and his family, Grace was al- said at table by the master of . to the amusement of , it usu a this: "A e ask it 's sake pass the butter!™) "Who spoke the greatest words uttered 7 LY £4 E 3 £54 | | i if =./GSTON, 'ONTARIO, h=| @ ' Daily British -- -- ; . , re aH ; 3 000000000 AOI MIs | 200 so tn own see ve ce: = TREE Rp = - - A ® day, thou canst not then be false to | The Man on Watch 1 any man." Those are the greatest | { words ever given t9 the world. They cover everything; everyome, all castes, all creeds; all religions. If they substituted those for all their Athanasian creeds; al over Chrisen- dom, just for a month of Sundays, the world would be immeasurably i ! the gainer. Eee h ; HIERARCHIES | "They are stmote, biat they ave key words to all the penrplexities of life! v No ope can escape from Ta You're brought up a Baptist, but the Christian faith seéms for some rea- son to repel you. Very well 'To thine own selY ba true." "»--Alfred T., Sheppard, in "The Rise of Ledgar| Dunstan." ~ : NERVOUS DiS f SES { INTHE SPRING Cured by Toniag 11¢ Riexd and Strength- cairg the Nerves. It is the opinion of"the best medi- cal- authorities, after long observa- tion, that nervous diseases are more | ccemmon and more Serious in the! spring than at any other time of the year Vital changes in the system, after long winter mphths, may cause much more trouble than the familiar spring weakness and weariness from which mest people suffer as the re- sult of indoor life, dm poorly ventil-| ated and often ove ted buildings, Official records profe that in April | and May neuralgia, ®t. Vitus dance, epilepsy and other forms of nerve troubles are at their worst, and that | then, more than amy other time, a blood-making, nerve-restoring tonic is needed. The antiquated custom of taking purgatives in the spring is useless, | for the system really meeds strength- | ening, while purgatives only gallop | through the bowels leaving you weaker. Dr. Williams® Pink Pills | are the best medicine, for they actu- | ally make the pew, rich, red blood | that feeds the starved merves, and| thus cure the many forms o nervous| disorders. They cure , al such other forms of spring troubles as headaches, poor appetite, weakness | in the limbs, as well as remove un-| sightly pimples and eruptions. In fact they unfailingly bring new health and strength to weak, tired and depressed men, women and chil- dren. | Sold by:all medicine dealers or by| mail at 50 cenfs a box or six boxes] for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' | Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont, | [ * - | Letters to the Editor || ---- | Fulfilling of Prophecies. { Wilson, April 25.-- (To the Edi- tor): I see in your issue of April 5th an article on "OM Prophecies Ful- filled," which is very interesting. | Signs of tue time point to the Ger-| man Emperor's defeat in 1913: We] will learn that God's works began in| he year 1913. Whenever God, brought Christ's spirit to earth the] Evil was aroused, but never defeat-| of God's works. The old dragon| which is called Satin, is at his death | struggle. Read Rev. xii, 5. That| transpired in March 1914. ~The 1,-| 260 days will be complete about Au-| gust, 1917, and the old Dragoon | bound. This was only his death! struggle, and the war will soon term-| 'nate to the thousand years of peace. | We ean really place Satin defeated, n 1913. When God began to' work the Devil was' stirred up, knowing| his day was short, and the just have suffered with the unjust in the] upheaval. Yet none of God's chil- dren will be lost, for the soul never dies, and we are warned of this, not to fear him who kills the body. When a spirit returns to the Father it is a gain to him, not a loss. The sooner each believer opens his heart to the| rue spirit of Christ, he will ove- rthrow the evil and purify our heart for the coming rule of good on| earth. The star of Hethlehem . will] lead 10 a mapger or ie the lowly and meek. Power and wealth cannot | suffer and sacrifice, and hunger for Carist.--AN OBSERVER. ar wml. Suffered With Heart For Ten Years Would Nearly Smother. | There is nothing that brings with It such fear of impending death as to wake up in the night with that awful sense of smothering. The uncertain and irregular heart action causes the greatdst distress of both mind and body. Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills are the only remedy that can give prompt relief and effect a tomplete cure in cases of such e 3 They strengthen - and invigorate the heart, so that it beats strong and regular, and tone up the mervous system so that the cause of so much anxiety becomes a thing of the 'past. Mrs. M. O. McCready, Wapella, Sask., writes: "I am not much of a believer in medicines, but | feel that its only right for me to let you know what your wonderful done for me, and in a very short time, too. 1 had suffered terribly with my heart for nearly tem years, could do any work.and would near- ud ésus Christ." SATURDAY. APRIL ! The farmer who does not want a | me to | plied. 28. 1917 4 Apparently purses are no safer in some churches than is a bicyele in front 4f the police station door. The church in which women's purses are stolen from pews should be placarded thus: "Watch as well as pray." What does Ald. Newman wan' with a complete list of the ladies of Kingston? 1s he going to run for| mayor next January? It is stated that there were 2,000 people at the Langemarck memorial service last Sabbath evening and the Red Cross collection is announced as $50., Apparently the audience thought a memorial service wgs no fit place for a collection plate. professor to work on his farm, le he teach etiquette in the household, is like the Kingston business man who 'did not want a girl stenographer lest his swearing should have to be curtailed ~ What's the matter with the Frefich-Canadian Assoc ation of Kingston? If the Lampman was a member he would certainly raise a holler about -the free use ° cf the Whi 0 | PAGES 13:20 stars and stripes while hardly a tr! color is to be seen in the town If it cost "Billy" Sunday $75 to, convert a man in Louisville, $455 in| Denver and $700 in Indianapolis, | new much would it take to put re- ligion into one of Kingston's back-| sliders? | To. | An American in a Kingston mil-| itary unit declares that the U.S. |! manufactures all the best things in| the world. And yet when the Yan-| kees sought a real good bottle of whiskey they had to come all the! way to Canada to get It. | --" | The Americans who $hink their! fellow-countrymen form ten per| cent cf Canada's overseas forces, the | Lampman would refer to Annesley | Burrowes of the Detroit Journal] who can tell them all about how the | American Legion, formed in Canada| two years ago, dissolved. It faded; away through desertions and the| remnants never left Canada's shores | for the fighting zone. Annesley came to Canada to make a search for | this lost "legion" and wrote a com- plete history of it. » l ~--THE TOWN WATCHMAN. | MRE. BALFOUR READY - | | To Show President Wilson the Brit- | ish "Drive." | With all the expression of friend- ship of the other day intense rivalry sprang up between President Wilson ' and Foreign Minist¢z Balfour of Great Britain. Some fine morning in the near future may find the President and Mr. Balfour on the golf links here earnestly contending for possession of the international cup for Govern- ment chieftains, The first move toward 'a contest was taken yesterday. Mr. = Balfour remarked to Secretary of State Lans- ing that he was very fond of playing golf. Secretary Lansing reminded the visitor that President Wilson had also adopted golf as about his only form of sport. { "Well, it is hardly becoming for suggest a game with your President, but 1 wonder if he can play better than 1," Mr. Balfour re- | Splendid, the Naw! | --- | | Montreal Star "Opt Cutlasses! Repel boarders'™ | It is many a day since British ships heard that command and British sailors, barefooted en the slippery decks, drove an enemy overboard | with cut and thrust. * Thai... naval skirmish in Dover Straits reads like a chapter of Marryat--with the lean, dashing destroyers for sloops of 'war; quick-firers and machine guns for carronades and Brown Besses, but the same old hearts of oak, Two to six--what glorious odds' How Nel-! son would have loved it! And not even Nelson in his young days could i have handled his ships with a more | flashing belligérency than these de-' stroyer captains, who flung them- selves into a three-to-one fight, gun, torpedo and ram, and finally cutlass and pistol, sinking and smashing the enemy till all who were not shat- tered and sunk had vanished 'In, pell- | mell flight. Then they picked up the | survivors and " cheered each other | until they were hoarse." i Isn't this fine? 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