Daily British Whig (1850), 30 Nov 1918, p. 9

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16 PAGES YEAR 85. NO. 279 SO KINGSTON, ONTARIO. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1918 Tm TT Their Authors Books And Their - BOOKS. "0, for a book and a shady nook." You recollect the rhymes, Writlen many years ago In placid, happier times. To-day no shady nooks are ours, With half the world at strife, And dark ambition laying waste The pleasant things of life; But still the ery for books is heard, For solace of the magic word. for a book," the ery goes forth, "0, for a book to read; sooth nus in our weariness, The laggard hours to speed." "0, To sues at stake present in this volume, the book will be read with interest, for the impressions which are record. ed are confirmations af those formed and widely held in neutral countries all over the world WHO WROTE "THE LOVE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER?" Is it really a Mystery? The latest "mystery" book to be published is "The Love of an Un- ate heart, a heart that was filled with sorrow for the weary, broken, Belgian army, and with an unquenchable de- sire to do something for the tired, wornout soldiers. And so one day Sara Lee, against the advice and wishes of her fiancé, and her friends, finds herself on the way to England, armed with a promise of one hundred dollars per month from the ladies' aid society at home, and a determination to, by some means or other, establish herself in a house somewhere nea: the firing line, in order to supply the troops with hot soup, chocolate and cigarettes. After meeting with many difficul- ties, she reaches Belgium, an achieve- ment which is entirely due to the ef- forts of a Belgian officer who be- friends her in London. And there, in a little village behind the front line trench, she opens her little house of merey, and does a great work in From countless hospita Where stricken s Who gave their youth? Lest liberty should A book can have a tho A book should have a Before its course i And we few kinder thi Our gratitude to sl "~. THE OF AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Anonymous. 207 pages. Price $1.25. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, publishers. The authorship of this splendid but. tragic little book is shrouded in mys- tery. The papers from which it was compiled were found in an abandoned dugout somewhere in France by an officer of the Royal Field Artillery. At first this officer imagined them to be military papers of importance, but on examining them he found that they contained the innermost secrets of the LOVE all probability dead. 'There was noth- ing on them to indicate the name or unit of the writer, hor .the identit of the girl to whom they were - dressed. The finder took the letters to the publishing house of John Lane, London, who published the book in the hope that the girl to whom they were written might read it, and come forward to claim the letters. So goes the story of the origin of this volume, according to the explanation given by the publishers. hether the whole thing is fiction or not is somewhat doubtful. In parts these letters do not seem like the compositions of a man who wrote them, with no inten- tion of mailing them, in times of stress, and battle. The reviewer has great doubts as to whether the dugout story is actual fact or fiction, for to one who has seen service on the firing line, these letters do nof séem to have the genuine ring about them. Whatever their origin may Be, how- ever, there is no doubt about the fact that as literary compositions they are works of art. The writer, having fallen in love with an American nurse in France, refrains from telling her of his love because he does not be- lieve in wartime marriages or en- gagements. So he occupies his spare time in the trenches, in dugouts or rest billets in pouring out his heart on paper to this girl. But he does hot send these letters. The letters he sends to the girl are friendly, com- monplace compositions, for he dares not to put his love to the test. In the secret letters he lets the whole flood of his emotions burst forth. In some he gives wonderful descriptions of trench life, and in others thought- ful soliloquies on the situation and on his men and their needs. For purity of diction and sublimity of thought these letters are almost unequalled. In one of them he writes: "I should like to think that there are women in ld who will be very : to us when the war is The ; gh Women 2 like that already. In thoir hospitals they call a wounded man 'mon petit', and take him in their arms and hold their That a mo need most when our er us. we - in : pi et py will other te an for hai pt tal 7 derness. We've been killing men to- day--we be killing' men tomor- Tow; yet our hearts are the hea 0 How small a f: To send these boys a few beoks more. With each new reader, one; Than give the freedom of our shelves, » To those who need it so. Nor let them ask without avail, The sweet beguilement of a tale. and New York, publishers ended, the world will be astounded at the; and defied the U-boats of the Huns. heart of amother officer, who was in {Of the gallant deeds of our soldiers much has been written, but regarding bald Hurd, the writer pays a fitting supplying nourishment for the hun- gry, weary and wounded soldiers. Behind her work is the personality of Henri, the Belgian officer who has helped her, and who now loves her passionately. Then comes the recall to America, caused by a selfish, un- reasonable fiancé. So Saralie goes back home, to be haunted day and night by the vision of the little white house near the firing lines, by the phantom sound of the tramping of weary men, and by the fae of Henri. Finally she decides that America is unendurable, so she breaks her en- gagement, and returns to the little house of mercy, and to Henri, the man who knows how to love, and whom she finds that she loves "The Amazing Interlude" is a beautiful 'story of suffering, and of a dauntless little woman who heard the call of needy humanity not in vain. It is not a story of battle, of the wounding of men. There are {many of such. This is a story of a little house of mercy, of a girl with a dauntless spirit, and of two men that loved her. In the story the woman's heart, all the great mother love in the soul of Saralie, is unfolded, and no one can read her story with- out' being moved to the core. It is the story of the enthusiasm, courage and devotion of a wonderful girl, a story full of romance and tenderness. Without a doubt it ig;one of the most appealing of the many war stories. > a serial in the "Saturday Evening Post™ it was "a tremendous success, and this success should certainly be repeated now that it has been pub- lished in book form. Is it comes, ¥ lie, who gave their strength, die. avor to implore sand lives, thousand lives, $ run. ngs can do 10W, J inspiring thoughts, supreme love, and noble sacrifice. ORDEAL BY SEA. By Archibald Hurd. 227 pages, Price $150. Jarrolds, Limited, London When the full story is told of the brave deeds of the war that has just the great heroism displayed by the men of the merchant marine. Inthe face of ruthless, unashamed piracy, sailed the oceans of the world, the merchant sailors the world has heard but little. .In a new book, just arrived from England, entitled "Or- deal by Sea" from the pen of Archi- DR. MUEHLON"S DIARY. By an ex-director. of Krupp's. 242 pages, Price $1.50. Cassells Limi- x ie Ang publishers. Dr. Muéhlon, whose diaries of the days following the outbreak of the war are now published, was formerly an ex-director of Krupp's Iron Works, and was in receipt of a salary of one hundred thousand dollars a year. In his official position he was «in touch : : with all the leaders in Germany, and farious crimes. He says: was thereby enable to have an insight German sailors have broken the {of the inside workings of the military vows of the brotherhood of the sea as machine. When he realized' what the fo, ruts in the past er broke acts meant tp Germany: he reigned $oe08 F is position, 2 escaped in not-only destroyed property, sending | Srortperiany He han now BE a millions of dollars worth of goods to |i; the publication in book form of the bottom of the sea to rot, but they {hig diaries, in which the truth is told. Be hm af Sorat of mints Lhe publication of these diaries caus . 1 > ed 8 " men, defenceless women and little fopara oe writer was condemned as children, their souls stainless beford a neurasthenic. the eyes of God and man. That con-| The book deals with the days pre: stitutes the condemnation of Germany ceding and following the outbreak of for all tinie, and the spirit in which [he war, and shows how much the re- our sailors have opposed these acts sponsibility for it rested upon the represents a glorious record whichiGerman government. ~The writer is I wie tox area: give detailed | DSL ATSIC to. vole, his own pursonal , ' ini s. e de- stories of the greatest of these crimes. ; Ee ie pe oo oo prevent open The sinking of the Lusitans Js tod in free iscunsion of the war in Ger of the sinking of other vessels. The: any and rae that ky wn Arabic, the Hesperian, the Ancona, thought allowed in Great Britain tribute to the unsurpassed courage, resource and loyalty of the officers and men of the British. Merchant Navy. In this book Hurd has compiled a list of the atrocities committed by the Hung 7n the high seas. In opening he cefers to the great brotherhood of the sea which was upheld until the Huns began their campaign of sub- marine warfare. He writes a telling indictment of the Huns for their ne- and the Sussex were all sunk with- out warning, and the writer recites in graphic language the incidents connected with the: sinking of these ships. A chapter is devoted to the story of Captain Fryatt, and another to the sinking of hospital ships. And so on, throughout the book we read of infamy after infamy committed He was one of the first of the Ger- mans to realise that the bulletins is- sued by the Berlin Press Bureau were simply a tissue of lies, and that no Sradence could be attached to them. He bemoans the fact that, by the atrocities which the armies of the Kaiser committed in Belgium and France, their country had been placed 2 courage | against which naught shall te prevail." outside the bounds of civilisation. He ridicules the ex-kaiser's appeals to God and the flowery manifestoes published in the early days of the war. In an entry written on the twenty-first of August, 1914, he makes a remarkable pi ion. He says: "At the present time the pedple in Germany, impressed by our victorious by the Huns. The last chapter tells of the light in the darkness, of how British seamen and British ships have triumphed over the U-boats of the detestable Hun. The author con- cludes a thrilling, glorious narrative as follows: "So, in days to come, shall our children's hi ren turn to this Fovbl: page of history, and, dark thou vance, are triumphantly predictin it and Tuthlcanty diabolical ~ advance. sie § will ney ry gathering Tiangco- 4 of the Subibarine days. They malignity, read then, Imay be right, assuming the previous as ever, neither torture nor death may be Spt the French army. The could drag the constancy of our sea-|.ame thing, however, Tr n men into the abyss. The night is still [ix Germany if we lost the war; nied dark. The stars are clouded, but they }it would happen in every one of the are still there, and in the rifts of the |pelligerent countries, the possible storm, for our present comfort, and mn of England." as a promise of the final triumph of Sur/eiuse, they shine with 3 light-- an THE AMAZING INTERLUDE. By Mary Roberts Rinchart. 317 es, Price $1.50. MeCielland, Good: & Stewart, Toronto, publishers in Pars ful known Soldier." The publisher's ex- planation is that the manuseript for the book was found in an abandoned dugout in Franee by an officer of the R.F.A. He brought the letters to England and had them published in an effort to trace the supposed writ- er, or the girl to whom they were supposed to have been written. This is the explanation of their origin given by the publishers, and, as n appears to the Whig, it is' as novel and as pretty a piece of fiction as has ever been written. This opinion is based upon personal experiences and observations of life and men at the front, and upon a close study of the letters comprising the book. In the first place, many definite clues are given which would lead to tan easy revelation of the supposed writer of the letters. . If there were such a man, it ould. nat take very long to trace " deceased artillery officer, who - entered parliament as soon as he left Oxford; who resigned his seat as a protest against the slum conditions in England, and thereafter lived for a time in the slums; who went to Russia to study the revolu- tionists, and who was a member of the British Mission to the United States. If there really was any such person as the supposed writer, these facts, culled from the letters (if the book is really a series of letters actually found), would soon reveal the identity of this mysterious officer. Then again, the author of the book seems to have somewhat overdone the story of the finding of the letters. According to one letter, they were always safely tucked away in a sleep- ing bag. The first is supposed to be written in Paris, and the following ones at various places on the firing line. The officer is supposed to write at intervals during the battles of the Somme and during the attack at Arras in April, 1917. Any soldier who has been there can guess at least that much from the chapters of the book. And as the officer travelled across France, he states that he has these letters safely tucked away in his kit. Then, after his death, they are supposed to be found tightly wedg- ed away in a corner of a demolished dugout. It hardly seems feasible. The last letter of the series also brings doubts to the réviewer's mind. It is supposed to be written during a Jremens ous i while eve ing around is own to pieces. e officer is'€here, far from transport lines, and therefore, far from his kit. The last letter breaks off with a dash, as if the writer has been killed with the pen in his hand. At least, that is what the author wishes to imply. Yet this last letter is supposedly found in the . dugout hidden with the others, without a trace of the writer. On the face of it, the story is absurd. Then there are other passages, des- criptions of battles, and stories of the actualities of war which do not ring true as the love letters actually writ. ten, without the intention of being sent, by an officer to a girl he loved as the hero of the story loves this un- known girl \ Admittedly, the book is well written, and is literature of the finest quality. As a work of fiction it is far above the average. But, in the opinion of the Whig, it is entirely and purely fiction, from the first line of the pub- lisher's explanation to the end of the last tragic letter. This opinion we pass on to others in the hope that they may also voice their views on the sub- ject, for, like "Christine," this is a book in which there is much room for difference of opinion. THE CRACK IN THE BELL. By Peter Clark MacFarlane, William Briggs, Toronto, publishers. 458 .. Pages, Price $1.35. Occasionally some author comes to the front with a story which strikes out along new paths, and this is what Peter Clark MacFarland has done in "The Crack in the Bell," which is de- scribed as "A story of love and poli- tics in a great American city, dealing impartially with the socially elect and the submerged tenth." The title is rather a puzzle at first until one remembers that the famous symbol of liberty in the United States is the far famed Liberty Bell and then one can also recall that it has a flaw. Around that theme and in the city wherein the constitution. of liberty of the United States was drawn up, one constantly wonders as to the ex- tent such conditions as described act- ually prevail. eremiah 2 §z8 i i sd BE igs i ete 58% ~The Daily British Whig PAGES 9-16 ; ---------- SECOND SECTION isfaction this really good production by Mr. MacFarlane: SECOND BUBBLE BOOK. By Ralph Mayhew and Burges John- son. 16 pages. The Musson Book Co., Toronto, publishers. Something entirely new in the way of books is this unique design for children. Parents who possess phono- graphs can now get something differ-| ent for the book case of their little} folks. Here is a beok that sings. It] contains a story told in rhyme, into! which the author has worked three) Mother Goose rhymes--"Simple .Sim- | on," "Little Bo-Peep" and "Old King Cole." Three pages of the book pind and in these are small phonograph records of the three songs. The re-| cords are good ones, too, with clear | voices that enunciate perfectly the] old familiar rhymes so dear to the| hearts of childhood. Such a book| would make an appropriate and.pleas- | ing Christmas present for any child | whose home contains a phonograph. = | { made up in the form of envelopes, |r, i i i Vladivostock, but was starting for the Ural Mountains, and in the spring - would cross over into European Rus- * |sia and go to Moscow .and Petrograd. 1 pay all booklovers to look them cover {at the local bookstores. { 'avemerin | | The Purpose of Life. Edmund Dulac, the famous illus- | trator, has illustrated "Tanglewood | : Tales," which Messrs. Hodder & | May every soul that touches mine, Stoughton are publishing soon. There | Be it the slightest contact--get there-|will be a limited edition de luxe, be- in some good; sides the popular edition. Some little grace, one kindly thought, One inspiration yet unfelt, one bit of courage, For the darkening sky, one gleam of faith To brave the thickening ills of life, One glimpse of brightening skies be- yond the gathering mists, make this life worth while and heaven a surer heritage. "Common Cause" is the title of a which is to be published in the near future. It is a tale of the middle west dealing with love, patriotism, and in sidious German propaganda. WAR PUZZLES] What we want to make us true men, over and above that which we bring 2 into the world with us, is some sort of God-given instinct, motive and new principle of life in us, which shall make us not only see the right and the true and the noble, but love it, and new novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, * {give up our wills and hearts to it, and {find in the confession of our weak- ? | ness a strength, in the subjection of {our own wills a freedom, in the ut- ter carelessness about self a self- re- ¥ spect such as we have never known | before.--Charles Kingsley. The question which is occupying v the attention of the book sellers today | J : New Boks Worth Wie. is: "Which is tp be the big Christmas| book this year?" There are so many | splendid novels on their shelves that] it is hard to say just which one is to | become the popular favorite. In the! local bookrooms, however, there is a| large selection of the 'best to choose from, any one of which deserves to be | booméd as the big book of the year. | Marie Corelli's new book, "Young Diana," is sure to be one of the suc-| cesses of the season. It is a financial | romance of the rejuvenation of youth | through modern science. I is af somewhat impossible story, but is] splendid readifg. "Camilla," by] Elizabeth Robins, a tale of the per-| plexities of a beautiful divorcee, is| one that deserves special mention. | George Barr McCutcheon's books need little recommendation, for they are always in great demand. His lat- est is "The City of Masks", a story of the teeming millions of New York. Amongst war books there are some new issues that are notable. "Cana- da's Day of Glory," by F. McKenzie, the war correspondent, is full of the glorious deeds of Canadians in the war. ~ Bruce Bairnsfather's "Frag- ments of France, No. 6," is every bit as amusing as its predecessors. It gives amusing sides of the life in the armies in France and Italy. "Dere Mable" of course, is always a favour- ite. It is selling in greater numbers than ever. It is a great book to send to the boys overseas. "The Island Mystery," by George Birmingham, is an amusing tale of German intrigue and submarine warfare and is very readable. "Collette Baudoche" by Maurice Barres, is a book that stands away out in front of all others. It is the story of the bravery and forti- tude of a young girl of Metz. It can be very highly recommended. "That Which Hath Wings," by Richard De- han, is the story of a German airman who abducted the daughter of an English doctor, and held her at ran- som. "A Brave and Gallant Gentleman," by Robert Watson, is a story of the big men from the wilds of British Columbia, . thoroughly impregnated with the virile Canadianism of the western provinces. "The. Heart of a Fool," by William Allen White, is a novel animated by a fine spirit ot faith and adventure in the democratic problem of America. It is not a war story, for it finishes before 1914, but it is one that will be prophetic of the days of reconstruction. The book of the week for those who prefer some- thing deeper and heavier in the wuy of literature is "Doctor in War," by Woods Hutchinson. It deals with the technical side of war time medical and surgical science, and is a book which every doctor, medical student and professor should have in his pos- session. These, then, are the books from which will be chosen the Christ- mas favourite. Rarely has there been so choice a selection, and it will SAVE YOUR HAR! A SHALL BOTTLE STOPS DANDRUFF Every Bit of Dandruff Disappears And Hair Stops Coming Out. Pp ness and itching of the seal if mot remedied causes the hair roots hair falls out fast. A little Dander- to shrink, loosen and die--then the} Patriotism. vo Law, learning, charity are insuffi. cient to save our nation from vice, ignorance, and infidelity. But add to them the practical morality of Christ- ianity, and a pure and honourable citizenship is assured. --Bishop New- man. | Mos Or st 0 kore. | - Lady Frances Balfour's biography of Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the most important Biographies of the year. It out to rank with the famous "Life of Mary Slessor." The fame of Dr Elsie EE the heroic and noble leader of the Scottish Women's Hos- pital in Siberia, has spread all over the world. "The Eyes of Asia," by Rudyard] ° Kipling, is in the form of letters from ar hs Indian officer ws i ion Coughed, Coughed All Night Long wounded in France, to friends and relatives at home in India. In this Terribly. wearing on the system is the cough that comes at night and way Kipling shows the great war through the eyes of the east. It is not only a new point of view, bui| prevents sleep. Sometimes it is a places Kipling in the atmosphere in| constant cough, cough that will not be quieted. Sometimes. it is a - choked tp, which he is most at home, and in which he does his best work. stuffed-up feeling that makes breagh- ing difficult, and sleep impossible. Whatever kind of a cold or cough you have, Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is the remedy you need to cure it, forthe simple reason that this valuable preparation combines all the lung healing virtues of the Norway pine tree with which is com- bined wild cherry bark and the sooth- ing, healing' and expectorant pro- perties of other excellent herbs and a nurse asked a{ barks. ¥ er if he would like her| Miss Margaret Landly, Bristol, P. He replied, "Yes, if! E.I., writes:--"I am writing to tell : t anything by Booth | you the benefit I have received from arkington. 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