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Semem-- Ridthe Skin HH i A CANADIAN TWILIGHT AND OTHER POEMS: By Bernard Freeman Trotter. Mec Clelland, Goodchild & Stewart, publishers, Toromto. - As one peruses through this charming volume one must surely be impressed with the irreparable loss that Canadian poeti€ circles have sustained in the passing of this talented young man. To many his wholesouled patriotism, coupled with his sincere belief in the right- eousness of the cause for which he fought and dled on the tield of honor, are well known. To those, however, who are not acquainted with his genius this posthumous col- lection of his poems from the time he was a lad to those written short- ly before his death will surely lay open the heart of a young hero, and show the great and eternal prin- ciples for which men are willing to yield their life blood in the conflict of ideals. Like Rupert Brooke, this gallant Canadian poet made the supreme sacrifice, and the product of his promising genius will be treasured not alone in remembrance of that lofty spirit and high heart evident in every line of his verse, but as a memorial of his gallant death for us on May 7th last, Like Brooke and Alan Seeger, one may justly say that he was a true poet dowered with a passionate love of beauty, noticed especially in some of his earlier efforts, and a native in- stinot for the expression of poetic thought and feeling in musical rhy- thms. When at the beginning of the war he realized that Britain and his nat ive land were {fighting for lberty and jnstice, and he was sorely dis- tressed, that frail health prevented his enlistment in the forces of the King--a feeling keenly expressed in the final lines of the title poem: Oh God, the blood of Outram in these veins Cries shame upon the doom 'that dams it here n useless impotence, torrent runs glorious spate for Liberty ' and Right! \ i to havé died that day at|Lange; marek! 2 In one fierce moment to have paid #t 8 mi The debt of lfe to Earth, and Hell, and Fleaven! To have perished nobly #in a noble ruse! oi . Untarnished, unpoliuted, undismayed, By the dank world's corruption, to have passed, A flaming beacon-light to gods and men! + while the red In Oh, . Peace. ... Peace. peace! Like a caged leopard chafing at its bars ineffectual movement, this clogged spirit Must pad itg life drone, In safety and in comfort, at the best Achieving patfence in the gods' des- . . . . «..not thus may [ find out, an_uwawilling pite And at the worst--somehow the debt is paid. When, however, he became at- tached to the 11th Leicester Regi- ment his spirit soared, and in his last poem, "Ici Repose," the manus- ctipt of which reached his parents the day after he was kiKed, his su- preme happiness in his participation in a worthy cause can be felt. A few stanzas are quoted: A iftitte cross of weather-silvered wood, Hung 'with a garish wreath of tin. gelled re, And on it carved a legend--thus it runs: "Ici wrepose-------~" Add what name you And muitiply by thousands; in the elds, . Along the roads, beneath the trees-- one here, A dozen there, to each its skmple tale Of one more jewel threaded star-like on : The sacrificial rosary of France. . * . * . . O happy dead! who sieop embalmed in ory, Safe: from corruption, purified by Ask you our pity?--ours, mud-grimed and any, Whe atl must strive, grimly de- sire? s . - . . We shall grow old, and, tainted with the rotten ' Efuvia Wf the peace we fought to win, The belght deeds of our youth will be or] gotten, Efface} the later failure, sloth, and sin; i But you have conquered Time, snd sleep ver, Like pods, with @ white halo on your Seo Your souls our lode-stars, your death- crowned endea vor 'The Spur that holds the mations to their vows. The poems are prefaced with "an Lo Sr er ees Authors) IIT mon things and common men, thé gentle delights of a life lived close to nature--and these are the "great possessions" of the new Graysonian book. A word should be said for Thomas Fogarty's delightful draw- ings, which are entirely in harmony with the text. One is tempted to quote many beautiful and appealing paragraphs e = Hl | THE MAJOR. By Ralph Connor. 383 pages. Price, $1.50. Mclelland, Good- child & Stewart, Toronto, pub- lishers. This stirring story from the gro- dific pen of Ralph Connur, oils of the development of a Canadian from such a book. A few must suf- | youth from the time he enters his fice: "I rarely walk in my garden or upon the hills of an evening without thinking of God. It is in my gar- den that all things become clearer to me, even that miracle whereby one who has offended may still see God; and this I think a wonderful thing. In my garden I understand dimly why evil is in thé world, and ry jy, garden learn how transitory t is." "As for the odor of the burning wastage of the flelds at evening--I scarcely know how I dare say it--- I find #t produces in the blood of me a kind of primitive emotion, as though it stirred memories older than my present life. . Some drowsy oells of the brain awaken to a famil- iar stimulus--the odour of the lodge-fire of the savage, the wig- yah of the Indian. Racial memer- "I love the unfolding beeches in spring, and the pines In winter; the elms I care for afar off, like great aloof men, whom I can admire; but for friendly confidences give me an apple tree in an old green meadow." "So much of the best in the world seems to have come fragrant out of the fields, gardens and hillsides. So many truths spoken by the Master Peet come to us exhaling the odours of the open country! His stories were so often of sowers, husband. men, herdsmen: His similies and illustrations so often dealt with the common and familiar beauty of the fields. 'Consider the lilies how they grow." It was on a hillside that He preached His greatest sermon, and when in the last agony He sought a place to meet his God, where did He EO but to a garden? A carpenter, you easy? Yes, but of this one may sure; there were gardens and fiplds all gbout; He knew gardens, 'and cattle, and the simple processes of the land; He must have worked in a garden and loved it well." MARCHING MEN, ' By Helena Coleman. 40 pages. J. M. Dent & Sons, Lid., publishers, Toronto. In these days when so-called poets vie with each other in their attempts to burden the public with WAr verse through the newspapers and countless books, with what pleasure do we pick up a sheaf of verses such as these and perceive in them the inspiration of a poetic soul. Technically correct in detail the verses of Miss Coleman, who is a sister of Prof. Coleman, of Toron- to University, manifest the true spirit of a poet. In-the too few pages of the little volume one can feel the sincerity of an author im. bued with a love of the beautiful, and fully cognizant of the loftiness of her task. Here is a being filled with patriotic zeal and an unbound- ed admiration for those who are fighting so valiantly. "Out on the tortu field of France Where helish d are flaunted, With face to the Rhine on the firing Hne . To stand with a heart undaunted." Yét with all her lusty calls to arms and her marching songs with their swing and dash there is dis- played the woman's pathetic heart- ache at the sorrow of parting and the distress in the long hours of waiting. "But with the night--the night that used to Filled "ith such deep serenities of stretch their hands to me, » And dread forebodings lurk in every { shrink from even the starlight lest T see In dts pale gleam a shent, upturned There is tender sympathy for the souls torn by anguish in the loss of loved ones in evefy line of her poems, and yet above it all there is the note of triumph in the knowledge that the sacrifices shall not be in vain, and that through the efforts of ET rg the world will be 'made "safe for democracy" 'teens until he marches off to take his place qn thé firing line. The writer seems to have made a diii- gent study of the forces which in- fluence the life of the Western Can- adian, and the result is shown in Larry Gwynne, whom we find at the foutset fighting against what his school 'chums had called cowardice. His fight with the school bully proves that he is no coward. And the author takes us through the various stages of his development until with the coming of the great war he offers himself to his coun- try and makes good. Ralph Connor hes given us some wonderful types of Canadian womanhood, but none finer thap the deeply religious and courageous mother, Mrs. Gwynne, and her two daughters. He shows us what a tremendous influence these good women have upon the lives of the hero, and his associates, and throughout the book there is an exquisite love story, told as only the writer can. tell it. The story ends with the departure of Major Laur- ence Gwynne and his young bride for "overseas," and leaves the read- er wondering how he will tare 'over there." He leaves behind, however, the feeling that his com- bination of patriotism ,sel-restraint and initiative will carry him through and will enable him to live up to the noblest traditions of our glori- ous Canadian army. Ralph Connor, who recently returned to Canada af- ter being on active service with the 43rd 'Cameron Highlanders of Winnipeg, has certainly enhanced his' reputation in his latest produc- tion. FLIGHT-LIEUT. A. H. MUNDAY, The Clever Author of "Eyes of the Army and Navy." HIS LAST BOW. By AComan Doyle. 308 pages. Price, $1.35. Hodder & Stough- ton, Toronto, publishers. In this collection of the later re- miniscences of Sherlock Holmes start to finish. 'The book abounds in puzzling situations, seemingly in- explicable mysteries, and sensational denouementst = The reader is led trom one grotesque incident to an- other, and is thrilled by the almost fn "The Adventure of the Dying "] a manner as the construction of tae | ther which is best for flying are ex- people who figure in them---the war. For the author is concerned with the way in which war, and the sacrifices made for it, the burdens borne in it, touches those whom she knows best, the women and child- ren of Canada. The book is esseuti- ally a book for women, written for those who wait and wonder, by one who, herself, waits and wonldérs what message the telegraph wires are carrying. For the call came fo her eldest born, "hot," as she says, gladly, "in the intoxication of vie- tory, but in the dark hour of appar- ent defeat, when the news from the Dardanelles was heavy on our hearts." Though the book is naturally full of the tragedy of war, it is relieved by the author's nice sense of humor and by the thread of suffrage argu- ment running boldly through it. These lend it a certain charm. Of the sixteen tales in the volume, one called "Permission" has a unique appeal. It is the story of an English lad boarded out in Canada by his people overseas, who have found him "not quite right" in his head. Growing to Jounx manhood the chap yearns for his home and the things he remembers there. He is denied leave to make a visit. Then comes the war, and he forces his way into the Expeditionary Force. Mortally wounded on a Flanders field, and the winner of a decoration for gal- lantry, he earns with his life the "permission" to enter into a Jong rest at home. No little bit of Mrs. McClung's book is more characteristic of her disregard of convention than the first verse of the poem called "At The Last." This reads: O God, 'wha hears the smallest cry, That ever rose from human soul, Be near my mother when she reads My name upon the Honor Roll; And when she sees it written there, Dear Lond, stand to, behind her chair! THE EYES OF THE ARMY AND NAVY. By Flight Lieut, A. H. Munday. 227 pages. Price, $1.50. The Mus- son Pook Co. Toronto, publishers. A noted military authority has spo- ken of this book as "unique" No similar handbook on military avia- tion. he adds, exists in the world, be- cause the author has condensed into each chapter all the essentials glean- ed from a host of technical hand- books. It is very Fratifying to real- ize that Canada, which at the begin- ning of the war was far behind other countries in the sciénce of aviation, has produced an aviator capable of writing so complete and thorough a work. Toronto, - The book is prac and * terse, | and contains over x finhraton | and diagrams; it dealf | thie! jntee- |' cepting of aircraft of all classes. in- cluding Zeppelins; aerial fighting is treated in an absorhing m ; the care and maintenance of machine and engine is told of in as entertaining machines and their material. Cross- country flying and the kind of wea- plained; how wireless telegraphy and semaphore signalling are carried on comprise ahothef chapter. In a chapter on "Night Flying" the many intricacies are described. The various types of bombs and their functions, the method of arming bombs, the method of carrying and releasing bombs, bomb dropping and its theory, are given with many valu- able tables. Other chapters deal with aerial photography, theory of flight, map reading, charts, aeroplane and airship instruments and the medical supervision of aviators--the |' book, in brief ,is a complete, non- technical exposition of the science, and of absorbing interest to all classes. SONGS IN YOUR HEART AND MINE. By Thomas Harkness Litster. Mee Clelland, Goodchild & Stewart, publishers, Toronto. That the author does not present his effort with the idea that it shall be regarded as a collection of poetry is evident from the title, seventy heart songs rhymes which comprise the book may rather be thought of as verse expressing the genuine sentiment and sincere feelings of the writer. | Several of the heart songs, which show an intense The authog'is a resident of i AMONG - says: conduct you "ADVENTURES" is an alluring phrase invented by that su- preme modern lover of books, Andrew Lang. 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