BOOK S (Continued from Page 45.) the affections of young Gibbs Josse lyn, the husband of the little coun try mouse, Ellen, ? Then fdilows a time of secret meet- ing, and fete-a-tete suppers and par-| 10 ties between the stepmotlier and the The climax comes when the elder Mrs Jostelyn Stays away from home all night, and is found in the morning having breakfast in the By the use of a little decelf, matiers are smooth- ed 'over, until the lies are found out. Then comes a quarrel between father and son; the findipg of the father shot dead Sigonviction and impris- the 'son, and the final dis- stepson. studio of young Gibbs. onment o covery .ihat death w tenga ac) & incidents has had young Gibb story fides! bing: spending hfs caused acci- tthe strain of these itd effect on the' the end of the al dying condition, | characters a r | rs are well drawn. days in trying to | sands of Adventure" ant new. volumes of war interest published 'this autumn. In view of the expected rush, the local b stores have beep replenishing their shelves with all that is newest and best in the book world. What has been described as the greatest story Jny American ever had to tell is [contained in Major Frederick Palm _ler's book, "America in France." It "Lis the first complete and authetic account of the building up of the American forces, and of their work the trenches. In "The Reckon- ing" James Beck makes a forcible plea for the elimination of Prussia from the nations of Europe, apd discusses in detail the fourteen terms of peace proposed by Presi- dent Wilson. To make a quick change to another type of hook, we can highly recommend "Out of the Silences," by Mary BE. Waller. it lis an epic in prose, in which the 'author has reproduced marvellously the atmosphere of the great North- West. "The Cow. Puncher," by Robert C. Stead, is a purely ~Can- adian story of love and devotion, and it is a story in which the ele- {ments of love are refined and the In "The there is the atone for his mistakes to the wife ,,railing fascination of the story of who has always been his staunch and devoted loyer, This story is. a tense study of the great difference between the simple lives of country: people and the in- trigues and falsity of the lives of people in high society in the New York whirlpool. . The pure, devoted and innocent Fllen finds that she is helpless to battle against the wiles of the crafty stepmother, but in the end truth and purity triumph, and she wins again the love of her husband. It is a thrilling and pleasing story. a tittle far-fetched perhapsfi but with- out doubt one that makes delightful reading. Kathleen Norris has pre- sented characters of entirely differ- ent types, and they form an interest- ing study. It is not to be wondered at that this book is one of the sea- son's hest sellers, AIRCRAFT IN WAR AND COM- MERCE. By W. H. Berry. 202 pages. Price, $1.50, George Doran Co., New York, publishers. The world has awakened to the fact that the one great discovery of the war that has just ended is the unsuspected possibilities of aireraft. W. H. Berry, in this volume of tech- nical, interesting and instructive facts regarding the problems of the future of flying. has peered into the future, and sees the y when the aeroplane shall be important in commerce as it has been in wartime. He does not rush straight into a mass of statements for which there are no foundations, but le traces the pro- gress of flying and its development from its very earliest days. He de- tails the experiments of the Wright brothers in 1903, and shows how Eu- ropean inventors: worked on the problem of flight, until, just before the war, men's mastery over the air was assured. The next section of the hook deals with the aeroplane in, war, It is embellished by thrilling and interest- ing accounts of the exploits of air- men, and, as its main feature, shows the great influence that war has had on the construction of .aeroplanes, and on the types of inachines that have been used. -- So far the great- est amount of progress has been made in fitting the aeroplane for war work entirely . In the future, the improvement on aircraft will be along lines useful for commercial purposes. A large part of the book is devoted to technical details of aeroplane con- struction, aeroplane engines and ac cessories. These chapters are very interesting to flying men, and to men of a mechanical turn of mind. The concliding chapter presents a vision of Great Briain. master of the air, as she has been mistress of the seas, not only in war but in commerce. How the aeroplane ig built, how it is flown, how best it can be fought, these are in brief the interesting things that are told in this book, in addition to what it means to the fu- ture. - Thus it 18 a hook well worth the wily of anyone interested in the coming adaptation of the aero- plane to the needs of peace time con- ditions. ' This should be to even a greater extent than ever = before a book Christmas, because of the excep: tionally good books that are offer- . There are novels by the most popular authors, volumes of poems, eminently shitable for holiday gifts, and the outstanding grip of the war influence on the public mind wiil mean a big demand for the import- hidden treasure. It is a glamorous tale of love and adventure that is told with a lively humor and a keen sense of sthe dramatic possibilities of modern life. In Captain Ket- tle's Bit," by C. J. cutcliffe Hyne, our old friend, Captain Sir Owen Kettle, KX1B., has emerged from his well-earned retirement to play a large part in the war. Miss Mil- dred Aldrich again sees history from her house on the hilitop "on the Marne. Her third war book, "The Peak of the Load," deals with the suspens® of the second mad ap- proach of the Huns to the gates of Paris. 'The Savignys," by G. B. Lancaster, deals with the fortunes of a proud and ancient country fam- ily, and the intricate plot is sO leleverly manoeuvered as to present !a continual sequence of apparently insoluble problems. Col. McCrae's hook of poems, "Ih Flanders Fields," 'is selling very rapidly. It is a collection of his poems, all on the same high plane as the title poem As a heavier book for more advanced tastes there is "Democracy in Education," by i Prof. Joseph K Hart, a well- thought out study of the problems of educational réconstruction work. It is a remarkably valuable book in comparison with H. G, Wells' dia- tribe on education, These are a few 'of the _ titles which should be in great demand for holiday reading and gift books. Once more we pass on to all book- lovers the maxim, "Shop Early," in order to save disappointment for yourself and to make life a Mitle easier for the sales staffs of the book stores. Books For Christmas. 3 Think of the ease with which even a long, list of names to be re- membered Ith Onristmay gifts wey be checked orr as selections are made from tables in the bookshops amply laden with books suitable for holiday giving. Then why should "shop early" so as to make their purchases more leisurely than is possible in the rush and crush of shopping in the last few days be- fore Christmas when book stores are at their busiest: people not 4 Books For Children. i i Children are admitted to new' worlds of delight through books, thus stimulating their imagination and storing up for them life-long, joyous memories. Thus, it' will be appreciated that books contribute to not only their immediate happiness but give it permanence throughout their whole lives. There are no children than books. For the wee kiddies there ars toy books, com- prising a wide range in treatment. There are elaborately designed vol- umes, including the work of some of the most noted artists, but natur- ally the sale of these is restricted by reason of the necessarily high prices. There is, however, 80 much merit in the low-priced books, even the Five-cent top book, that there is plenty of choice to adequately de- light every child in the land. better gifts for | rags Fo Now bos. | {After all, you can have a house without a man in it if you are quite sure you want to, but you cannot have a home without one. Intimately analyzed, the details of the temptation redound entirely to Eve's credit. Woman, rather The duty of the liver Is to pre-{ gq. "han is selected as the one re and secrete bile and serve as a - the blood, cleansjug it of all more "open to argument. t nantes and poisons. © Healthy bile in sufficient quantity le Nature's provision to secure regu- re cap able of initiative, the one bolder to aot, as Well as braver to accept con- uences of action. e most devoted wives are often of the bowels, and when |p, frankest in their abhorrence is sluggish it is not working! ¢ ; man in the ho 'got bad I would but I got better d .a couple of vials of use. -- Winifred Kirkland in Joys 'of Being a Woman." {What the bagpipes is to the Scots. man, the steel riveter is to the Am- erican---the instrument. which best expresses his soul. to the world.-- { Coningsby Dawson in "Out to Win." : Jur lines were often 20 thin that. been a ng "point, we should Br Soan crumpled up lke : Cassel {in "Th Watch." Whether we all be of British it mind "The the and there. as not to feel |, gets foot om THE DAIL y With House to-nig "The Very ldea," hi ith. * Notes Of Interest to Booklovers. A new bogk by Viscount Bryce comprising eight papers on a variety of topics is announced for publica- tion One of the articles is especial- Iy timely, as it "deals with the League of Nations. Two of the essays were written during the first two years of the war, and set forth the aims and justify the action of Britain. The others are of a more general nature, treating the causes, phenomena, and social effects o". war, and its relation to human progress Louis V. Ledoux, already known to lovers of literature by his séveral volumes of poetry, has written a eritical estimate and sympathetic study of the poetry of George Ed- ward Woodbefry, of whom he says that he is Shelleyan in his insistence upon love as a means of human sal- vation, arid upon the complete reali- zation of democracy as the essential step in scgial progress. All profits from the book of poems "Courage," by Richard Mansfield, will be devoted to the "Wings of the II. 8 A." The auther. only son of dad Mancfinld. the aed In camp at San Antonio, 'exas, at the age of nineteen. Frank M. Chapman, Curator of Birds at the America® Museum of Natural History, has w¢itten a little book on "Our Winter Birds." The author believes that the best time to take up the study of birds is in win ter, when they are fewer, and, be- ing hungry, more approachable. The yolume will be illustrated with pie- tures in natural colours of the spe- cies described. In "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story." which has just heen publish- ed there is an account of the germs which a victorious Germany was to impose upon a heaten France. These are not the imagined terms of a good prophet, but are the terms actually projected by those in supreme an thority, and told the American; am: bassador in a bigs of confidence by the €erman ambassador, Baron von Wwangenheim Among other things, France was to be forced to surrender all her art' treasures and pay an in- qemnity of twenty billion dollars. These terms might prove helpful in a suggestive way in the forthcoming peace conference. When Louis Andrea jearned that an editor had turned fn vain to her book "Home Canning, Preserving, and Drylhg" for a recipe on how to can the kaiser, she was filled with re- morse at the oversight, and immedi- ately addressed the editor as follows: "1 regret that my hook did not give this particular information, hut herewith are practical directions and e # Te ret, picklg with Liberty Bonds. then place in a democracy canner with equal parts of reparation and restitution salts. Seal, test for leaks, and set away." Mrs. Andrea's re- cipe has been faithfully followed, and the kaiser has heen set away. ling's "Jungle Book. say its Led has its fiftieth edi- tion, and long ago settled down to the steady sale of a classic. e third volume of Frank 8i- Bi 3 "History of the War" will be | published next month$ The work 18 not a compilation of Mr. Simonds' newspaper articles, but comprises newly written matter giving more matured interpretations and judg- ments of the developments of the vial] AAA ANNA NN . MARGURITE McNULTY, which plays at the Grand Opera] a -- IN HOSPITAL, Hushed and happy whiteness Miles on miles of cots, BB We eet Bp | Where aisters Seem Like flower Heads turn to watch them pass Beauty, , contented brighine sunlight falls in spots swift and saintly, to tread on grass; "stirring faintly, blood and sorrow, Blending in a trance Eternity's to-morrow In this half-way house of France Sounds of whispered talking, Labored, indrawn breath, Then, like a young girl walking, The dear familiar Death. Lieut Coningsby Dawson in "Glory of the Trenches." Small women make the best fore , according to superintendents of munition and other wartims fac tories where women are largely em- is de- etar force. of ehar. Awwonieer - women ployed. slaved ta have gee TUTOR "orrd- at bro bh! 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