« tramsformed and made beautiful the EE YEAR 84. NO. 118 THE RISE OF LEDGAR DUNSTAN. By Alfred Tresidder Sheppard. 423 pages. Price, $1.25. William Briggs, Toronto, publisher. + A strange tale, my masters, Is re- | vealed in these pages. It concerns the doubts of one man as to religious truths, but of a mum who Di10secutes an earnest, fa thful search for the tealities, His inmost theughts are laid bare, his longings, h 'hopes, his doubts, his despair, and finally his | 4 triumpa. The book is admirably | written, and abounds in many a pass- | age of high and lofty thought ex- | pressed w.th rare eloquence and beauty of diction. Ledgar Dunstan is weak and ineffective in everything, | and brings, as he believes, misfor- tune to all who come closely into re- laticn with him, He tries to fight | with the man wiro had taken his wife | away from h'm, but the man pushes | him away and makes vim run the | gauntiet at the point of a pistol out of the Breten village, followed by the laughter of the wife who left him and thei friends. He has not the ecuarage to tive., He has not even the courage for suticide. So he slinks through the world, one of God's ene- mdes. At last, after many wander- ings, he returns to his little seaside village, and :n the chapel where he was made to worship as an unwilling boy, he finds the peace for which he has so long sought. Some idea of the quest for truth pursued throughout the book and of the charming Ehglish in which the chapters abound, may be gleaned faam the following guotations: "If you're talking about Christian- ity, Thomas is the man for my money. Except I feel; you know." "I am inc¥ned to agree with you ab nt Thomas," said Ledgar. "And I'm not," said Jelf. "Here you ave a little group of men band- ed round a Master who has re- vealed a secret to them which has whole of life and death. They have been with Him on the beach among the nets, and in the boats through smooth and rough weather; among the twisted olives and in the corn- fields; in the stormy silences of the mountains, and in the crowded streets and markets. Some of them doubtless have visited with Him the faniily at Bethuny, and seen Him in thé quiet home-circle of friends. And they have been with Hini in is day of triumph--a day of Io, ex- huitation for them, when in the shouting of hosannas and waving of palms their highest dreams seemed realized. And then dverything closes in darkness. The erown that should have made Him King indeed has been of thorns. His sceptre a reed. His palace, & judgment hall. His throne, Calvary. . . . It is fin- . Dead He lies, who should not have died; and His life among them just a story,. an unforgotten dream, sweet and infin tely sad. Broken men, followers of a lost cause, they look at one another in dumb dismay, So this was not the Messiah we wait- od for! AHN beautiful, the manger- birth, the guiding star, the parables from birds and flowers and sea, the day of triumph. But an illusion, a le, a dream from which they wake ben a tenebrous sky, beneath light & gnalling the fierce anger of God above the crosses of three 'malefgetors. "And then He comes again; and it is no lie, no illusion; the cause is not Jost, the glorious dream is not over. He s to them, who spake as no Wan Sver spake; and the faith almost crushed out springs up to greet Him. "It is He! It is He! It is oar Mastér come again; and the message He brought us is true; and the cause He gave us 's not lost." All but one. T as was not with them then; and they said to him, 'We have seen the Lord.' But he said, 'Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into His side, 1 will not believe.' " "1 think there is something finer, mobler, in the attitude of these humble, broken men, than dn that wef Thomas, "Yes," sald Calmady at last, "you make out a plausible case--but, af- ter all, it's little more than rhetoric. How often in the world's history have ignorant, superstitious men lieved what is known to be a lie and an {mposture on {Hmsy evidence! Because t is flimsy. - And on such a foundaton to raise so vast a strue- yoo "As the Christian faith? But there | sought to make men i derful, CO IE I | Books And Their Authors KINGSTON, ONTARIO, SATURDAY. MAY 19, 191 bai play-writing may be an admirable NHI cede, the power of Imperial Rome, I am mever able to conceal my sur- prise at the credulity and the nar- rowness of you men who take what is called the scientific attitude. ' Re- ligious experience, the experience of the men and women of 211 rel gions, in all ages, in every land, you toss aside with a sheug of the shoulders and a gesture of contempt. You cannot ignore the spires of a hundred thousand churches, the domes of a hundred thousand mos- ues. Ycu cannot ignore the crosses that rise under every sun from | | countless graves. You cannot ig- nore the passionate, loving hearts of millions, living or in their graves. Because the final truth of Christ anity, of every religion, rests in the human heart." Or again: "Nothing is more striking in the Hfe of our Lord than the almost hopeless eagerness with which he believe Him. 'Why will you ngt believe? Why will you not listen? What 1 say is not cne of his congregation, true. The secret and the mystery hidden from you, I know.' 'How does He know? anen asked scorn- fully. . +. You see we have; round us an opaque wall, hidden by | leaves and moss, by weeds and creep- e:s and licen. Frém timv to time, by thought and prayer and efMort and obedience to the inner light, men (tear away a little of the tangle and find Doors. And the Doors open a Httle' to thelr knocking; und they call out to their fellows, 'Come and see what I have found out. Come and see the blaze of glory--the won- amazing things--that I can see." Moses opened such a Door; its name was Law. Mahomet opened such a Door; its name was Abstin- ence." Buddha opened such a Deor-- Quietude and Contemplation. But Chn st opened the widest Door of all. Its names were Love and Sacrifice." THE LIFTED VEIL, By Basil King. 341 pages. Illus. trated. Price, $1.40. The Musson Book Co,, Toronto, publishers. The author of "The Inner Shrine," The Way Home," etc., has in his latest book given us a vigoroas novel, a 'well-reasoned study of the effect of the contact into which the pagan There is nothing morbid about the and the Christian are brought. - ag a dramatist than "Changing Winds" he story, as the outline of the plot m ght suggest. In it, Basil King is at his best. Briefly the story might be summar- ized as follows: The young assistant rector of a fashionable New York church receives in his study a visit from a lady whose thick veil. hides completely her features ,but not her distinction and refinement, : She is but comes to him for advice. She confess- es her past to him, and longs to for- get the short interlude in an oth- e:wise correct life and to make a new start. The clergyman widens her spiritual cutlook and gives her in- spiration. 'There are many comphi- cations following this avowal, «and eventually the clergyman meets his ve'led visitor and falls in love with her, not knowing he had met her be- fore, At last he is made aware of her identity, and he finds that love must lead him--love to which he trusts, and not in vain. Though Mr. King is Canadian born, having been educated at King's Oollege, Windsor, N.8., the utmos- phere of his latest book is entirely American. It 's the American "view- point he pictures, never the Can- adian. True he introduces a Mont- Teal banker and buronet, Sir Mal- oxdm Grant, who eventually wins the Jady. Grant is 'a strong, well-con- Ceived character, and perhaps the most interesting in the book. The author has also given us in Rev. Ar- thur Bainbridge a consistent 1. ece of character drawing, a normal, cultur- ed, earnest, spiritual man. trast between his outlook on the world and that of the clever but pagan woman who so influences his life and that of others is skillfully portrayed. CHANGING WINDS By St. John G, Ervine. 571 Pages. . Price, i The Macmillan Com- pany of y Toronto, Pub. lishers, Here is fiction mixed with brains; splendid character delineation; an intimate study of the Dublin riots; a clever analysis of the Irish guestion and the Sinn Feiners' ambitions; and comments iipon certain vexed ques- tions of the day that are of gripping interest, The author is better known -a-novelist.- In shows that | {ing a promising career . The con- {calls up every possible excuse, try- preparation for the production of fiction. "The title of the book is from the famous sonnet, "The Dead," by Rupert Brooke, to whose memory the book is dedicated. == Roughly, one may say.that its central theme is that "old men make war {and leave young men to pay the price of it." The hand of the dramatist shows itself in the particularly fluent and natural dialogue and in the very neat "curtains" with which the chap- ters and sections are made to con- clude. 'Changing Winds" will be 'difficult to surpass as a presentment of the Irish problem. It ig extra- ordinarily impartial as between Ul- stermen, Sinn Feiners, Nationalists and Englishmen. ¢ ts hero, Henry Quinn, and his father, are interesting, closely- studied characters. Henry becomes a successful novelist, but so shrinks from the physical pain-and danger he can picture so well that he becomes convinced of his own cowardice, and despises himself. From his early boyhood he is an out and out coward, but as he grows older the fear of death becomes an obsession. For a while we cannot help admiring the artigfry with which the terror is pre- sented, especially when it arises in the course of his first love affair with one of his . father's tenants. But as we go through the book we cannot help wondering whether the author is not laying too much stress on this particular obsession. Cow- ardice is a very common thing, but we doubt whether there are very many men who themselves exper- ience such horrors.as Quinn does on hearing of the deaths of his friends. Every time he learns of the death of a man he knows he seems to be par- alysed by the idea that it will be his turn next. When the war comes his . best friend, brilliant, lovable, strong-will- ed Gilbert Farlow--the most memor- able and most likable character in the book---enlists at once, abandon- But Henry ing to convince himself that his duty lies in other directions than 'France and Flanders and the fields of blood and pain." Too -cléver to deceive himself, he reali with contempt that he has hung back solely be- cause he is afraid to die. Plunged unexpectedly into danger during the Dublin riots, comes the moment when he neither feels afraid nor is conscidus that he is not afraid, but is only intensely interested. So at last he realizes that "Life isn't worth while if cne is afraid to lose it," that to men is given this choice: "One may die finely, and one may dle meanly." And he goes forth fo serve --and die. , In "Mr. Britling Sé¢es It Through," H. G. Wells has pictured the tragedy of war as it falls upon people look- ing, as-it-were, the other way; Mr. Ervine shows the same tragle force | 7 ns falling upon four young men who are looking directly and intently at life in all its aspects and who accept war, all but one of them, almost blithely when it comes, These four friends, each with abilities above the ordinary, represent a great deal of what is best and finest in the young men of a nation. There are many delightful pages describing the friendship and the good talks, the arguments and the temptations of Henry and his friends, Much space is also given over, as suggested be- fore, to various Irish questions, Henry becomes convinced after a time that if Ireland is to be "brought to the measure and the stature of a dignified and honorable nation," there are four Irishmen who must be 'conquered and controlled . . . We must kill the Publician, we must subdue the Priest, we must humil- iate the Politician, and chasten the Poet." "Changing Winds," one can safely venture to say, would seem destined to rank high hmong the best books about the war. Amen, And , Amen! May I never be soft-hearted enough 'to forgive my enemies until I have batted the, sky-piece off the friends of mine who borrow my books and 'mark therein their favorite passages. This day have I taken down books and nearly wept, I am forever lend- ing my best and getting them back not at all or all dabbled up with other people's preferences or comments. Oh, it is sad enough to make even a philosopher weep, and I pray that I need never suffer this way again. 1 pray. that either my library or all my friends burn to ashes and that 1 ay never see any printing starred, asterisked or underlined. Even my Powys Confessions have not escaped and where Jean Christophe is to this day God only knows--From little Tragedies in tae Life of Mary Had a Little Lamb. With the Authors. We have come to look at Evaleen Stein, another Hoosier State author who has made a name for herself in the literary world, for beautifully told_stories of the middle ages and of foreign lands. Her new book for young readers, "Our Little Frankish Cousin of Long Ago," is tho story of a boy of Charlemagne's wourt, and is told with all that quaint old world charm of which Miss Stein is mis- tress. Tue Page Company, Boston, will publish the book in their Little Cousin of Long Ago series during the month of May. Nevia O. Winter, of Toledo, Ohio, has spent the winter and spring months in Florida, "the land of sun- shine and flowers," where he js still gathering material for his new "See America First" book, "Florida: Land of Enchantment," to be publish- ed in the early fall by tae Page pany. © Mr. Winter's 'bution to the "See America First" A I' TS mS » ® 4 IE 5 & 'London has just witnessed a Can- adian- Revue which, if not actually "made in Can " is none the less a Canadian product, as the composer, organizer, and manager are real Canadians, and the 4 ry the Land one of them... come of the Maple. . ro Hello! Canada" made its first - 'patronage, al the fact stares you in the face; this | ®ts A es power that was to a undermine, to overthrow hg beea raised. Out of | of the . tossuper- | daughter TOA AA RAAT | | a. YN NT NN CANADIAN WOMEN GIVE A MUSICAL REVUE. AZT KARRI AAI AA IX AR IAA AAR ANAM series, "Texas: The Marvellous," one of the notable non-fiction succes- ses of 1916, of the most gifted and experienced of nature writers, recently returned to London from the region of the Somme, where he had spest many months, and is now occupied with official historical work for the Can- adian war records. Simultaneously his literary brother, Staff Capt. Theo-! dore G. Roberts, has Peturned to ac- tive service in France, waere he also had spent several months temporar- ily to assist Lord Beaverbrook in the Canadian -war records office. The race between this brilliant pair of Can- adian brothers in the matter of rank has been interesting. John Buchan, the novelist, war cor- respondent and enterprising publish- er, has been hard hit by the late severe fighting in France, losing therein both itis brother and his busi- ness partner. His brother was Lieut. Alastair Buchan, of thie Royal Scots Fusiliers, and his partner in the pub- ishing firm of Thos. Nelson & Son was pt. Heison, of the Lothian Border Horse. Soon after 'Armaged- don began, Buchan set to work at writing a painstaking history of it, and this history, published by his own house, and looking like running in- to a large number of volumes--has found thousands of readers. Quite "J for about a month longer when she & few of these volumes have already been reviewed in the Whig. Early publication is announced of what promises to be a timely hook dealing with Confederation, the fif- tieth anniversary of which will be celebrated on July 1st. It will be called "Confederation and Its Lead- ers," and the author is M. O. Ham- mond, & well-known journalist of Toronto. The book will tell the story of the fight for Confederation through the medium of sketches of seventeen of the leading men on both sides, with & background of history before and after that event. There wil be a full page jHustration of each leader and a double page fron- tispiece of the Fathers of Confedera- tion. The book will be published by McCleHand, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto. ST. VITUS DANCE TU Is your child fidgety, restless, or irritable? Are the hands shaky or the arms jerky? Does the face twitch? Deo the legs tremble or drag? These are # of St. Vitus - , & mervous dis which is confined to ag children, but which Es ¢ highty- strung wo , and Ametimes men. St. Vitus Dance 18 ca used by disorder- ed nerves, due to r blood, and is always cured. by the use of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills, which fill the veins with new, rich, red blood, strength- ening the nerves, and thus drawing out the disease. Here is proof: -- Mrs John A. Cumming, Lower Cale- N.8., says: --""When my daugh tle was about nine years of @ became afflicted with St. Vitus Dance. The trouble ultimately became s0 bad that she could not hold anything in her hands, and had to be fed like a child. She could not even walk across the floor without 'help. She was treated for some time by a physician, but did not show any improvement. One day a neighbor said the had read of a case of St. Vitus Dance cured by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and we decided to give this' medicine a trial. By the time the third box was used there was some improvement in her "condition and we continued giving her the pills was entirely cured, and 'has not since had the least return of the trouble. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob- tained from any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr, Wil- liams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. a Tractors th Action. Picton, May 18.--Two motor trac tors furnished by the Ontario Depart. ment of Agriculture reached Picton on Saturday last and are now at work on farms in this vicinity. Dis- triet ve A. P. MacVan- nel reports that he has applications from the farmers of this county suf- ficient to keep both of the outils en. gaged or some t'me. Already about thirty Agree hae been vowed. was, ¥ Major Charles G. D. Roberts, one} } THIRD SECTION The Nan on Watch The quickest way for teachers to get their salaries raised is to strike or do what the Russians did. So long as there are lots of teach- ers there will not be lots of salary, The Turks may raze the Holy City, but the British and the Russians will raise Cain when they reach Con- stantinople. A rural scribe réports that at Everygreen Valley Mrs. is shingling her house. Well done wo- men of Evergreen Valley! According to a choir girl, a sermon is something that is delivered in twenty minutes. After that the min- ister's effort becomes an essay. The Utilities Commission, follow- ing the cry of the Woman's Council to "save the infants" toes the mark with a ery of "save the water." What's coming next? Kingston's street watering horses are running away, Who ever thought that water wagon animals could run? Where is McAuley's automobile? An inguisitive townaman asks this question of the Lampman.: He also wants to know ho among the Kingston autoists the champion tree climber and"pole smasher. The other day a farmer, after de- livering eggs through the town, re- turned to a house and told the boss thereof that he had one egg over and that it must belong to her. This does not come under the head of "Things That Never Happen." It's gospel truth, The housewife mar velled greatly but took the egg. The best piece of news this week comes from Vennachar, where it is officially announced that eggs are selling at 30 cents a dozen, butter at 35 cents a pound and potatoes at $2.50 a bag. People are poking up the map of Frontenac to gee the lota- tion of Vennachar, and a certain singer is wondering if #t Is within walking distance. The woman in police ' court who pleaded that the Ontario Government should inform the people about the provisions of the Ontario Temper- ance Act before sending them to jail, made a very sensible remark. How are the people to know the law if they are not informed? How are they to know je Cospel Vl the not instructed? ' How are ri gt that rot th have bieaiby in their stores ey. as The law is £ nd the times, and it is time that some one gave it a kick that would cause it to move ahead a bit. On the other side of the border when laws are passed by the Legis- datures they are iy. pavointin ed in the ne That 1s notification given the public. The Lampman thinks that the Ontario newspapers should get after the Government and forge it to olticlally publish an outline of every phange in the laws of the ghovince, 80 that all may read about them. "Adults who cannot or do read have no right to privileges the land. THE TOWN WATCHMAN. Belleville, May 17.---Alderman W. 8. Smith, who has been a valued member of the City Cotinell for some years, bas tendered Ms resignation, to take effect immediately, owing to the fact that (he has enlisted for over- seas service. The alderman will be connected with the mechanical part of the Aviation Corps. Mr. Smith also disposed of his business in this city im order to enlist. ire Mey hehe Belleville, May 18. ers of the Empire in this city will observe two mestiess and potatolesy days (or the future. A plea sent our from the head chapter urges chap- ters to practice this écenomy. RR Ch There passed away on May 1st, at St. Alban's rectory, Maberly, Winal- fred Nettie, beloved wife of Rev. J. L. Coles, and only surviving davgh- ter of the late Majo Drum- mond of Peryhshire, Scotland. Posto Advised Operation As Only Cure for Piles 1 to Use of Knife and Care Was Ef- day Use of Dy, Chase's Oinstanent,