PAGE ELEVEN ind poem ---- te ct sm milli THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1919.. : i ok he ok ; and why he wa different pieces in bn inti Magnificent Silverware Saat Given To You! Have is a big inf | SE re uh =F & } dish wie or only 0 such other { With all that is he ie lor In the natural rec world of literatur b English so taught, our boys dnd | books for 1919 are making their ap tis fiy to Gene Stratton 'Porter, and | pearance, and these, along with they 4 satinté their souls with shash. best of the recent publications, 'are Yet there is no need for teacher or | BOW on hand in the noess street | publicist to be discouraged One [book stores' | In the v lists there ! i must remember that the polid read-|is a tendency to slip away from war | jing of i Arnold spoke was done | stories, although some new war ill and select class If there | books continue to make their appear- ¥ lowering {ance . In fiction, Leon D. Hirseh's n ik the i are is geabwing make. That 'is e of quality aa exquisite is shown, f "ge-wiss"™ wits," and TURES OF | ' : BOOKS AS FRIENDS Good to walk the world with, Such a mate; Good to love and live with, Sooh and late. THE STRANGE ADVE BROMLEY BARNES By George Barton, 345 Pages, Price $1.50. The Page Company, Bos: | ton, Publishers, \ George Barton is rapidly coming fo | the front as a writer of mystery and | detbctive stories. His recent book, | "The Mystery of the Hed Flame, | evoked moeh- favburable comment, | and dts successor, "The Strange Ad-| ventures of Bromley Barnes," is aif dozen Porks IF dozen Dessert én Dessert oor S dozen Coffee er Knife, one 0 8 lovely Berry, Fruit or Salad Spoon, 3 Gravy Ladle, « anil' a Cold Meat Fork. Seo exquisite a silver service would, grace the finest home in the land. The beautiful-handied tivod to take Gods sending, F- Though it be, , ° By a pathway wending, there new novel, 'The y Who Won,' every bit as good and Is likely fo be as great a success, ; Bromiley Barnes is not really a de- | § tective; he is moge of a secret- service | agent, and after a successful career in the United States treasury depart-| ment he has retired to enjoy the] fruits of his success. But the needs] of his country during the war 4nd b in the period after the war are great | enough to bring him out ®f rétire-| . ment in order to solve a number of | mysteries and to be of inedtimable] By the sea. At the end. little magazine to have, and the Whig desires to thank its' publishers for Good to walk the path with, Suéh a friend; Good to sail fo sea with, ~--Carroll Atkins "Poems. Ww - vice, Bernard Freeman Trotter; and Albert Durant Watson, . and from 4 | cations as an enormous levelling : he figures published by our | Breat public libraries show how much | reading is done, and how solid much {Of it is, The success of such series | a8'Everyman's Library tells the same ftale. Making every necessary reser- i vation, there is evidently in Canada a {large reading public ready to have i their s ndards raised by such publi- the Canadian Bookman, ready to be taught; ag John Milton sald, "A good book is the. precious life-blood of a master spirit, emibalm- published by the Page Company, Boston, bids. fair to be popular. it iS a story of political life with a vein of romance thipughout, and is a very entertaining beok.. "The Texan" by John B. Hendry, is a novel of the cattle country and the mountains, Which should appeal to Canadians. It is a red-blvoded: wirile romance of the great open spices, a tale hoth tur. bulent and tender. 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Grant, Upper Canada College, The subjects immortalized in these | "The Cenadian Bookman." poems are varioushhut each one his | hn ~~ a bearing Gpon Canadian efforts in | TT this war. Som® are songs of battle, i others are epitaphs for heroes fallen | in the fight, others again are woven around the women who waif and| watch at home. "In "Fland Field's" of course, has a place, also does "A Canadian Twilight" Bernard Trotter; "France" aid to his country in many tight cor<| having forwarded a copy to this offi- mers. This bpdk, then, is made A ce, ; of a number of short stories of his] EE As prowess as an oracle, as a solver of | THE TW LETH PLANE mysteries. They are thrilling to a rN + degree, and entangle him in many tense and dangerous situations. But, | a8 is always the case in this type qf story, he is in every case success- | ful in bringing the case to a satisfac-| tory conclusion. In doing this, he | shows remarkable ingenuity and| "powers of deduction, and some of his methods .are almost uncanny. But the originality shown iff his dealings with criminals, international intrig- uers, and diplomats makes the read- ing of 'his exploits very interesting. The author of these stories is gift- ed with a lively imagination, and it has been given full sway in produc-| © 5 : tion of these stories. They will ap-| ciation for Psychical peal to all lovers of the adventurous, Canada, so that he is a man and mysterious, and as detective stor- | Word carries great weight on the ies they are on a par with the Sher- subject of psychic phenomena. And lock Holmes series, The book, which | a8 this subject has received a gréat is produced by the Page Cefipany, or] impetus since the outbreak of the MeCuteheon, that popular writer of Among your friends at only 25¢ perbox? light fiction, has brought out another \ You en easily do this because every, ong voit know success in*The City of Masks." It 4 \ ek hie ran, fees, Draven remedy {8 a story of life in New York, and is jtold with MecCutcheon's usual atirae- tive style. For boys there are a few boaks that, will appeal "Danny the De- teetive,"" by V-C. Baselay, is the story of a London boy who is inStrumental + | In the eatching of four German spies, and. is full of all the thrills which : Y the boys ¥. © "Boy Scouts in Gla Bo EMEMBER YOU You di un spetid 8 ' cier Parks" by" Walter Pritchard | [Netw Ofvee Pickies. 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"Tha New Death," by Winifred Ki.kland, is a profoundly cobvsoling book. and is inspired by letters and statements of those who have gone overseas. to face death for the cause, and who have agquired through peril and sacrifice a conviction of immar- tality such as years of religious teach- grand blood, tidder and revitaliser, aud a8 8 general tendo $i d heres it hal Uo equal. ¥---Just 'send your name sad and we will send fhe 12 boxes postage pald, You sell them quickly duct vastly because every purchaser obtain &-besutiful picture Freq from us. 0 return our money, on $300, and we will prompily send you, all delivery paid, hejutifyl diah, aml the handsome sot of silverwan: in case voif Can alsd recelve without selling any more goods & showing yout ing 'reward your friends mich getting only six of them to sell our goods and earn our Sue riums as you did. We pay all delivery charges Hght to Your dod By Albert Duramt Watson, 241 Pages, Price $2.00. McClelland & Stew- art, Toronto, Publishers, The latest addition to the writers who uphold the theory and practice of Spiritualism is Dr. Albert Durant Watson, of Toronto, who has hergto- fore been well known to the reading public of Canada as a poet of a very high order. ' So far as his knowledge of the subject dealt with in his new book, "The Twentieth Plane," is concerned, he is an authority on psychical research. He is' Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, and President of the Asso: Research of whose Notes Of Interest To Booklovers by | . William Roscoe Thayer's.war es- ant says and articles will be brought out "Peace" by Wilson McDonald, aBd!in book form next month under the "Bereaved," by Lillie A. Brooks. |title "Volleys from a Non-combat- Most of these poems have already ap- | ant." petired in various publications, but | min now, for the first time, are they all} Dr. 1. G. Howe, who' has-put into gathered together in an all-Canadian | his book, "How to Prevent Sickness,™ edition, made up of the work of Cau |the results of his long experience as adian poets, edited by a Canadian | medical director of one of the 1} and printed and-published by a Can-{est manufacturing plants in the Un adian house, The production is very {ed States, says that the annual l¢ creditable to the firm of McClelland [of labor through sickness amour & Stewart, a firm which is building | each year to one million years of up a splendid reputation for itself in | work, which would have been worth "Boston, is a very artistic production; | ¥orld war, this book will be of great | the publishing world. to the workers of the €ountry some- and one that will grace the book-| Interest in bringing fresh light upon This volume is well worth possess- {thing like eight hundred thousand shelves of evén the most fastidious. it. ing, as tht poetic expression o 2 He thinks that half of the y The book is of unique formation young mation, invelved for the fit: of the world could be easily LATIMER'S and origin. Dr. Watson merely looks | time in a life and. death struggle, it! . GRESS, upon himself as the orter of con- tis unique, and has 'psycholical an 1] } versation with people, [dead to this | historical value. By Simeon Strunsky, 347 _ Pages, $1.40. McClelland & Stewart, world, who are now living on the twentieth plane of the afterworld. in Toronto, Publishers. one of these conversations he states In Professor Latimer the author |!hat the spirit of Emerson give him depicts one of those men who, dis-|8ll the instructions for the writing turbed by topsy-turvey conditions in the world as a result of the war, is "Double the Amount would have meant double the satisfaction said a highly pleased Policyholder afew days age, when receiving the returns of his Policy the day it was due. "The fact is, | cénsider this Endowment Policy the best investment | ever made, and | could easily have saved considerably more than double the amount of the annual deposit. From the moment | received the Policy; | enjoyed a feeling of security, knowing that in the event of anything happening, my family would be provided for. My PROFESSOR PRO Rigelow Paine, hiographer Twain, and author of the Irae Book Series, is at work op a novel which" will he published early in the spring. He has receat- ly b designated for the literature section of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. ..° THE CANADIAN BOOKMAN A new publication for = Canadian booklovers has been placed upon the market under the title of 'The Can- adian Bookman. It is edited by B. and publication of this book. He is quite sincere in all he says, and be- * on the verge of a nervous break- down, when he is sent off to the coun- try as a last hope towards saving his reason. As soon as he reaches the desired haven of mental rest, things begin to happen, and the adventures he meets with on the broad highway while on a walking tear are surpris- Jngly modern. Firgt of all he comes in contact with a moving picture cor- : poration, and finds himself perform- 'ing before the camera as the haughty father to a Mexican beauty in a bloodthirsty drama. He cranks a re- luctant Ford for two maidens in dis- tress and in so doing begins a friend- ship that lasts throughout the story. He invades the roadside bladksmith shops which have graduated into gar- ages, and Sungoris, with philosophic tinkers gf the 1918 model, He dis- cusses the tangled universe ¢reated by the war with a noted newspaper man who has abandoned journalism for powdtry-raising, in a search for God. He is arrested for speeding, is | 'subjected to the Binet test in al modern criminological laboratory, | and engages in an epic fist fight on | the open roadway. He finally re-| truns to his home, refreshed in ming, With a wealth of new ideas, and something of an answer to his: quest Alter the meaning of war. "This is a delightful book, brilliant- ty written. The characters portray ed in it are delightfully original, and appeal to the reader in an izrestible manner," Professor Latimer repres- ents a type which bas sprung. inte ng as a result of the war, and the way in which he was led to the light through the darkhess of chaos rand confusion will be helpful to anyone in a similar position. The narrative of the story is well written, and the adventures pf the professor are am- using to a degree without being of- fensively humorous. If is a most in- teresting and intelligently written book, and one that should have a lieves entirely in the revelations made to him through : the various mediums used for conversing with the 'spirits of departed notabjlities. Takeh as a whole, the bo®% is de- seriptive of 'life on the twentieth plane of the universe, the plane on Which are resident the.spiritual bod- ies of Emerson, Coleridge, Edith Ca vell, Lord Kicherer, Sappho, Plato, Tentiyson, Victor Hugo, and a large number of other notable people, Lath ancient and modern. It not only tells of how these spirits live ana have their being, but tells of the pre- K. Sandwell, an Englishman and who graduated with first-class honours at Toronto University. The magazine merits h great deal bi praise, for the material it is of a very high literary standard Its contributdrs include in-their rank such men as President E. 'W, Beatty of the C.P.R., Sir William Falconer, Professor EB. L. Seott, thle Bishop of Ontario and~Principal W. L. Grant, of Upper Canada College. Bvery page is very readable, and it should be in great demand amongst houkioveyy. The first number is now on sale. ---- are being made on . + HOW TO READ BOOKS What a reader takes part, what he will get from it. works are to be appreciated only by those who un- derstand his India, either by personal travel there or In like fashion, a book about heaven is nol understandable or attractive to one who has no interest in things heavenly. man gels little out of the Bible; and is-tkely to vote by reading. it a stipid book. Stn tke astral planes to receive the thous- ands who are being ushered there in these days. Many interesting incl- dents in the world's history are dis cussed, 'such as the Angel of Mons. In a conversation with the spirit of Tennyson, the writer is told. that the members of the astral planes ae tually, did assist at that battle, led by the spirit of Lincoln. In a mes- sage sent on June 8th, 1918, the spirit of Victor Huge says, "Isand of the tricolour, the lily and French val- our, 1 see France rise from the phoe- nix ashes of war te the strains of the Marseftlaise, marching out of the mist of tears ta thé lght And there are many other remarkable Sollvetautions ieported Hhith . upon things often in dippute, ihe revélation of the tw Pi alieg + to a book determines. in Thus Kipling's best The ecarnally-minded Books Should Not : 3 Be Taken Neat Writing in 1839, Arnold of Rugby lamented the decay of the hobit of solid reading, ame ascribed it to the great number of exciting hooks of amusement, like "Pickwick" and "Nicholas Nickleby." What would he have raid of to-day, when Dickens has been succeeded by the scrappy magazine aud the still scrappier gno- vies? ; 3 \ Fhe. ypung Canadiun has fo n- tellectunl interests. Our girls are ealthy and. clean. but their infinite Hn En have ained s ¥ Le who | has lived for thirty years in Canada, contains | McClelland & Stewart, pulilishers. of Toronto, have secured the rights of publication of all future works of L JM. Montgomery .the Rriter of the now famous Anne hooks. This writer recently severed her counnee- tion with the Page Company, Boston, and has secured a more advantageous contract with the hudtling Canadian house, Mr. MeCleiland. of that firm. has just returned from Eng- land, 'where he was engaged in ar- ranging for several new agencies for { Canada. { Major Jan Hay Beith, tha well- {known author, who recently returned [to the United States, will lecture to { the American people, as he has done jduring ' two previous winters, upon the things he has seen and done in connection with his varied kinds of war service. All the profits of these lectures are given to war charities. A thrilling story that wilk be of great interest for many years to come will bd told by Brig.-Gen. A. W. Catlin in "With the Help of God and a Few Marines." -. The author was the colonel of the 6th Regiment of Marines when it helped to check the German advance on Paris last sammer. A volume entitled "ihe Men Who Make Our Novels," by George Gor- don, will be published in the spring. Fhe book will contain biograbhical skelches, critical comments and ex- tracts from the works of the authors about whom they are written. In "The Arrow of Gold," Joseph Conrad teils another of his colorful tales of adventure. The. time with whici: it deals, the weiter says, is "about 'he middle. years oi the »sv- enties, when Don Carlos de Bour- ban, encouraged by the generdl reac. tion of all E against the ex- Span, Cat LF Captain Notmau Hall the Amebt eptuin Norman can aviator, w} + 'of fix t cesses of communistie republicanism. | made. Bis attempt for the throne of | Ing failed to give them, in poetry, the newest suce is° Wilson Mac- Donald's volume, "The Songs of the It is a book of poetry that is typically Canadian, well worth reading and treasuring. In "The Church and the Great War," Dr. Worth M Tippy sets 'himself to answer the question, "What have the churches bpen doing during the great world struggle?" His vook outlines plans of action for present-day activities, and for the periud of reconstruction which is daily coming nearer. And, lastly, for literary people. there is "The Médern Novel," by Wilson Fol- lett, which is a study of the means ing and purpose of flctic) taking up the English nove! for tae last two centuries. © From these . titles any booklover can choose his or her fa- vorite, with the assurance that en- joyabls reading will be the result. + ------------ A Worthy Movement. A movement that deserves the ut- most support of bocksellers ang the bookloving public, iz that which' is beginning to make itself manifest in the work of the Public Libraries of Canada, in looking toward active en- couragerient to men and women em- ployed in factories to make greater use of' the Public Library. The Kitchener, Ontario, Pubic Library, under the able direction of Miss Ma- beh Dunham as librarian, has out- familiarize hundreds of ¢mployees in the city's factories with the advan- tages in the Library. 3 <A plan has been outlined whereby it is pro d to first visit the facto< ries, and thus become nequainted with the conditions and needs of the vari- ous lines of industry in the city. Later group meetings' would be held al the library. at which the library would show the interested men and women how to derive the greatest fit 'from thé Library and the books. 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For quietness of atmasphere and tongenial surrounag- mgs, this Hbrary is almost uneguaals fed, and the company are to be con- gratulated on their foresight in thus catering to the reading public of Can- ada, There is wo @itempt ot business or salesmanship in the room, which is purely -a cosy nook in which book- lovers muy examine and read the very best of literature without going to the trouble of huying unless partien- larly desirous of so doing, ° . 7 Strunsky on Wells. ) Even though Wells, as un result of the war. did discover the Kingdom of : ~ what. then. Wells' the mate! alist" Wells the sexunlist, the irre. Ir faiths was not the ease of Vells the case of Ignayus Lovel:, of rancls of Assigh, of Stl of Tarsus? | In this reaction | . Wells to war and to God, Lats K saw only. a busy professional ApOw, war: © is the Eo Walle, gifts Hoven pig United 5