A ( PAE t | . Second Section FARA AAA AA Bl I YEAR 86. NO, 87 Atty entire @- itis Whio KINGSTON. ONTARIO. SATURDAY, APRIL 1 «a - 1919 ~ 4 AARP ARAB RA hy PAGES $12 i FE sf fia A tt al THE WINE OF ASTONISHMENT, 3y Mary Hastings Bradley, 313 Pages Price $1.50, Thomas Langton, Toronto, Publisher, The main question in this fs whether a' girl should marry man of her choice, be Te oar yiehl, or whether a marriage of "friendship with a wealthy man 1s 'ai attractive alternative. Unfor- tishately Evelyn day had to coptend wilh her mother's id up her mind, and so 8 wealthy man, on condition ti marriage must be éne only. In doing 0, she the man she loves, but 3 struggling lawyer. Her decision is helped by her busi and telling he that the young lawyer had been seen at a low dance hall in company with book the or s only a mind gather these many record vr, ¢o-ordinate them, and pres m to the reading public in their natural sequence and in readable style in this respect, John Buchan stands out above all other historians of the great war as the one man who has grasped the dotails as well as the gengrai plan of campaign, and who has succeed- ed in interpreting the facts in lan- guage that ge ral public un- derstands and appreciates Volume XXI with fourth winter of the war, when the fate of the world hung in bal ance, It treats of the Itallan cam- paign on the Piave, the situation on the Tigris, and the fall of Jerusa- Jem, the hattle of Cambrai, the con? quest of East Africa, the extremity of Russia and political reactions at home The appendices include ol- the deals the a girl of the streets, and although | this took place many years before a result of a boy's curiosity, she be- hat he hak been unfaithful to marries the man she does | There is the whole story, book, wumtil, negr the | husband dies after years a marriage that is no marriage at all the night when Evelyn is paring end the friendship arrangement, and give herself wholly to the husband whom she does not love. Ten the war comes. Evelyn i ne ready to marry the man she lovesy but the fortune left her by her Tos husband stands in the way ¢ | his pride. They both take a part in the war, and a happy ion | takes place in Paris) when the new light of sacrifice and love whi 1 | war has born in' their hearts drives, out the pride for which they Were refusing love, 1 This is a Aight novel, with many | scenes whic n mien: well have been! left out. *The\Ndescription of the seene in the low dance hall, altheugh perh true to life, is a little oWNgr- drawn, and reminds one of Robert Service's "Trail of - Ninety-eight." One at times loses patience with the fieroine, who, nevertheless, the vietim of a mother who will not be denied her own way, The hero of the story at times alse acts in a rath- er exasperating manner, But a8 the whole thing ends happily, why should the reader grumble? lieves her, and not love. the the of end, five of to is MY THREE YEARS IN A GERMAN PRISON. By Hon. Henri S. Beland, M.P, M.D. 200 pages. IHustrated. Price, $1.50. | William Driggs, Toronto, publisher. The moving story of Dr. Beland's incarceration for three years in a Gérman prison is one that appeals strongly to all loyal Canadians. No other one Canadian suffered so se- vorely at the hands of the Hun as did the former postmaster-general of this coumry. For this reason the Whig, at great expense, secured the exelusive right to publish Dr. Peland's story in serial form the minute he returned to Canada. Our readers, therefore, have hat the privilege of reviewing this book be- fore it appeared on the news stands. Since we Mave published the entire story, it would be superfinous to re- count it here. Suffice to say that Dr. Beland, the author, is still a member of the Canadian parlia- ment. Som little time previous to the outbreak of the war he had gods, to Belgium, and was living with Mrs Beland and his daughter in Tappellen. Whek the German invasion began, since fie wag not a combatant, and since he was engag- ed in medical | service in aiding wounded Belgian soldiers, Dr. He- jand naturally anticipated that he wound not be molested, and was at first given assurance to this effect by the German commandant. Short ly afterward, however, he was seiz- ed. and' in spite of all protestations, taken to a German prison in Berlin, where he spent practically three soars. He was finally released a few months previous to the signing of the armistice fi exchange for von Buelow, secretary of the Krupps, who had been under surveillance in England up to the same time. The story of his prison experiences and of the characteristic German {reat- ment of civilians, officers and sol- diers, written as it is, from the standpoint of a publi¢ man, throws a now MHght on these matters, and shows in a way that 'cannot be' questioned the inlerenily brutal and deceptive elements of the Ger- man character. : 'During hig life in prison, Madame fisland was taken seriously ill, this fiiness leading to her death 4&0 time afterward. in every possible way thropkh what influence he could exert Inside {oacie can find much ficial reports from the commanders as lon all these fronts, reports that are 0 are of to ores used now matters of history maps and illustrations elucidate the text. Buchan's description of the Bat tle of Cambrai, in which Canadian forces took part, will have especial interest t6 our ATS It was here that Gen, Sir Ju n Byng, who commanded the Canad the taking of Vimy H a sensational advance man lines--an advance fraught with great cause General 1} sufficient fresh tr CHESS AND CHECKERS. By Edward J. Lasker. 284 pages. Hiustrated. Price, $1.25. Mc- Clelland, Goodchild & Stewart, To ronto, publishers, Chess and checker players in Can- ada will welcome this volume In it they will find many disputed points solved for them ,as well as many new ideas outlined A close study of the book will help even the cleverest plaver to play a better game and play it scientifically The book is an au- thentic guide to that most fascinating of games---chess--written in simple, forceful language, for the beginner and average player The authpr makes it very clear that chess is not so difficult to master as one is often léd to believe He proves this by showing just how it is played and by giving simule, progressive instrue- tion that any Intelligent person can easily understand For those who are interested in checkers, tie au- thor has added & ARhrough explana- tion of the game, in which he gives general rules instead of asking the readér to memorize a séries of open- ing variations Edward Lasker has an international reputation as cham- pion chess player in 1914 he won the championship of London, in 1515 that of New York, and in 1916 that f Chicago and the western states It will-be seen from this record that he is well qualified to write on the nbject dealt with™in the present book the. line of battle and consolidate * 1 ow Cometh the night. 1 'The trees swing sl Cluster, No chiding look doe They do not see the "There yet is time," 'THE NAGHT COMETH By Col. John McCrae. Arbund the church the headstones gray like children strayed away Bit found again, and folded so. If she is glad, they cannot know; If ill or well they spend the day, Cometh the night. Singing or sad, intent they go; 'Before our task aside we lay," Their task is but half done, and lo; Cometh the sight, he wind falls low, ly to and fro; she hestow; shadows grow; they lightly say, on praanas and hold the gains The taking of Cambrai upon the capture of the. bridge Masnieres, but unfortunately was half destroyed Tol quote: "This delayed what might have otherwise been the 'fimal blow to the enemy defence, for had the cavalry been able to cross the canal in force there was little between them and Cambrai A temporary bridge was, ihdeed, copstructed south of Masnieres, and one squad- ron of the Fort Garry Horse, bhe- longing to General / Seely"s Can- adian Brigade of the 5th Cavalry Division, crossed, broke through the Beaurevoir-Masnieres line, charged and captured a German battery, cut up a body of 300 German in fantry, and only retired when most of ite: horses; had been killed or wounded." : The Battle of Cambrai has some- times been interpreted as a British defeat. Buchan does mot view it in this light. With all the facts be- fore him, he arrives at this conclu- sion: "Looked at solely as a feat of arms, the honors were, perhaps, with Sir Julian Byng, for on a bal. ance the Brita) retained _ sixieen square miles of enemy territory, while the Germans on 30th Novem- por won only seven miles of Bri- tish. It is difficult to see that the British Commander-in-Chief could have acted otherwise than' he did. He took a legitimate risk. Had he gucceeded, his bold strategy would have been lauded to the skies, and he cannot be blamed because he just fell short of the purpose he had already made. depended at that set himself. One good result was disputable. Enemy divisions des- tined for the Italian fromt were ai- verted to Cambrai, and at a most critical period in the stand on the Plave the German concentration against Italy was suspended for at feast a fortnight." in this volume Buchan gives particular attention to the conquest of East Africa and the Russi sitpation, both matters of great im- portance: Those who may wish to learn something of the Russian de- to interes: them in Buchan's story of current events. No present day histogian is so well equip to 'deal with the outside his prison to be allowed visit her it only fi briet pe but was given an al For a time he was officiating su \ , and in this von opportunities for obs vation which would not otherw have 'come to any prisoner. i « tH hich Is Auminatt on t present, but also will be valuable in a home libra for generations. to come. CURL ee------------------ ™ u XS MISTORY OF THE ass wg ov" t war; in all its manifold rami- ¢dtions, as John Buchan: he has al) its details at his finger's ends dd is unusually qualified to piece together the intricate story and to present the result to the public In dable style. aan ~ A LITTLE GRAY HOME IN FRANCE. «> By Helen Daveliport Gibbons, aa pages. Price, $1.50. The Century Company, New York, publishers, This is esgentidlly an American story The author is an American writer living in France with her hus- band and four children She has not been outside of Frante since the declaration of war in 1914 For nearly three years she was engaged in relief work, being the founder and director of Sauvons les Bebes, which provided layettes for nearly 5,000 new-born Parisians After they United States entered the war, and the American Red Cross took over the existing relief organizations, Mrs Gibbons began to devote herself to the common soldier She travelled to camps 'all over France, speaking for the Y. M. C. A., and observed the growth of the army from its earlier days at St. Nazaire to the signing of the armistice She visited the Al- satian and British fronts after the Americans went into the Rattle lines, and went to all the ports of landing on different occasions. Last spring she took her family to Aix-les-Bains, and from there to a chateau in the area of base No. 1. Her place here came to We known by soldiers as "the Jittle gray home in France." First of all our author is a woman, and therefore the little gray house became a harbor jof refuge for the soldier boys. And there was always something to eat and something to drink and something to smoke, and always there were the cheery word, the warm handclasp and the smile, 4 woman's smile. And, of course, with these was the spirit of gamara- derie that gave them a comjffon foot- ing. Mrs. Gibbons has agheft way of telling her story, not labored detail, but wo fancy with much of the same charm with which she made the boys who stop at the little gray house--and alll who went that way stopped---{feel t at home. ---------- i -- EATING IN TWO OR THREE LAN- . GUAGES. CHEERFULNESS. There Is talks about Votame XXI. of this admirabie]} history of the war is a larger and ; more ) ve addition thax the being merry | negro no tea study, least one laugh in eve and in many a round thrown in for good me On Cobb said to himself: land is going to be a in this book, on some of the. cooks happen to he near sy wrestling with: my first corn will think : am mouth organ as | am turning piece of fried chicken, Lam, if H. Hoover sho out of his eyes, should hand, I shall say, 'Herb, stand well hack to avoid be Herb, please desist and member that I am but from-over there, aad th and months past, af I w across the face of the unsatisfied logging Don't try, I pray you, U triot can't do his bit a for 1 know better."" A Price, $1.50. Willia ronto, publisher. Haggard He ist an writer, and a vo less di the Pharaohs, and, Egyptian history Bu are likely to fo about the - succession kings and usurpers, must depend, en its narrative qualities of ancient of the story all speak in less archaic E de foree which 3 of many adm ¥ and high-sounding names of cal Egyptia thé author is obvi ested in the areh characters of his it required severa viewer find it, differing from any vels NELSON'S HISTORY Of VOL. XX. By John Buchan. 200 trated, Price, 85c. son & Sons, Toronto publishers. The twentieth volume did history covers the paigns of 1917 it. d third year of th tle of Ypres; salient and Passchenda and political changes Aisne, and the Russian Canadians played a "We have seen how tions of-July, the Canad eaten into the defences a front of 4,000 yards. the 15th of August, a Hill 70, apd south of' Lens-La Bhssee road, faubourgs of Cite St. Cite St. Emile. a sho St. Auguste, which fell afternoon. During and machine-gun fire visions nn us 0 took L138 Oct. 30th came itself 'got breakfast." his way home from over shall 'say © Him: me now, for I am busy. dishes" of my own, my By H. Rider Haggard . gator of Egyptian arehaen'ogy. latest book is an elaborate attempt toMbcanstruct a pleture of the Jews if their captivity under the rule of at the same time, to establish a disputed and his for its po ture has failed to'achleve. rative is difficult to fgllow, aeology than story. i attempts to finish the book, so uninteresting did the re- in this respect g of his previous no- the summer at Verdun, the third battle of Ypres. performances the historian says: the south aud seuth-west. attack came from the north-east, on won the little Bois Rase and western half of the Boils Hugo. heir objectives were gained, except rt length of trench west of Cite There are no character Y fo problems, but there is at TY Pparagrapn, baker's dozen asure overseas "The day I great day for some of the waiters and a hard day Persons who when I am ear of green playing on a And when, my second with Virginia uld crawl out from under it, and, shaking the gravy lift a avarning 'Herb,' ~1 hack. Stand ving splashed do not bother Kindly re- just returned at for months ent to and fro next hemi- sphere that you'll run into on the left of you if you go just outside of Sandy Hook, and take the first turn to the right. I have been storing up a gre at for the special native land y tell me a pa- nd eat it too, MOON OF ISRAEL. 302 pages. m Briggs, To- "Moon of Israel" is the latest fans tastic tale from the pen of Rider indefatigable ligent investi- His thesis in t few readers liow: his. agguments of . Egyptian story pular appeal, psychological To give life to a chapter history when the persons the same life- nglish, requires a tour time the author Hooks of adven- The nar- and the these theatri- ns become confusing. And ously more inter the Frankly, reatly ¥F THE WAR, ws. Mlus- homas Nel- and London, of this splen- summer cam- eals with the e war; jhe change in the strategic position; the third bat- Messines; the Ypres ele; reactions in Germany; and on the downfall. The glorious part in Of their . during "the battle of Arras, and the lesser opera- jan Corps had of Lens fron} The new Slane wr Om t 4.25 in the morning, the Canadians swept it crossed the and took the Laurent and North of it they the | All the following the morning of the 15th counter-attacks by the Ger- man local reserves were easily beatén off, and in the evening a the German Guard was without better success. They were caught in the open by the deadly rifie division of} thrown fin of the Cana- three German di- that day we the attack on At 5.50 a.m. Canadians British hands Ypres had wiped out 'the 'salient where for three years we had been at the mercy of the German guns And it fell to Canada, by the crown- ing victory at Passchendaele, to avenge.the gas attack of April, 1915, when only her dauntless two brig- ades stood between Ypres and the enemy." An appendix to Vol. XX contains the full report of Sir Douglas Haig on the third battle of Ypres, the Vat. jean note and President Wilson's re- ply, as well as a table of events from July 1st, \19186, to June 30th, 1917. * pi New Era | The world at large, and Canada in especial, during the generation preceding 1914, passed through an age df extreme pre-occupation in 'practical" affairs it was an ago of immensely rapid development of material wealth and enlargement of man's command of the resources of the planet; an era of trust in these resources. as the sufficient founda- tion of human happiness. This era came to an end in a way which, we now see, was probably the-enly way in which. it could end Hs intense competition, and the pride and self- confidence which it bred In some of the most successful of our com- petitors, led to culminate in a four- year struggle in which absolute force was the sole decisive factor in the destinies of the world. we have lived through that terrible period. We have seeh .our own country perform full share in the conflict; we have learned the lessons which can only be taught by suffering and sacrifice glorified by a noble cause, and we have seen the conflict end, as any long-drawn- out conflict of the kind must ead, in the vietory of the side whose force was backed up by the moral its And we stand to-day, along e other great nations of a at the beginning of a new era which will certainly be vastly different from both the era of force and the erg of materialism which preceded it." It is too early yet to forecast the character of this new era with any precision. But i does not seem to be too early to be confident that it will be in one respect an era of ideas, an era of profound and gene- ral thought, not about the purely material proplems which pre-occu- pied us until four years ago, but about the more important things-- the nature and purpose of life, the relation of man to his fellows and to his Creator, the meaning of the human race and its glow and .pain- fut but evident upward progress, the contribution of each nation and each individual to the sum total of the achievement of humanity. And if this era is to be an era of ideas, it follows that It is also to be an era of hooks, since books are the one great medium through which jdeas are communicated and per petuated. Not the purely material books which have over-occupiedl our attention for more than a genera- tiofi--though, science will obviously have still its honored part to play Not, certainly, the merely sentimen- tal, narcotic, idea-less books, mis- called books of the imagination, which have been the literary food of too many of us who do not wish to be bothered with ideas. But real books, containing real ideas about the important things of life, whe ther expressed in the form of fie- tion, or of religion, orvof philosophy, or of poetry, or of history, or of science in the broader dnd deeper #nse of the word Evidence of the dawn of such an era as we have described are plenti- ful enough. We at home in Can- add can see them in the character of the books on the front shelves of our book stores, and in the drawing rooms and studios of our friends. We can see them in the conversa- tion of the social gatherings, in the frequentation of our public MHbrar- jes, in the growth &nd néw vigor of suliural societies, in the sermons in * churches dnd the teaching in our schools. And yet we see only a fraction of them. The best of our youth is coming back from France and 'Flanders, and it is their men. tality which will make the mental ity of Canada when they return to us. And if all accounts agree, t life of camp and battlefield ciple.' ih th puritied world, ment of ideas and curiosities, such an interest in the things of the spirit, such an eager open-minded- ness, as could never have heen pro duced in fifty years of peace, This war has been fought, for the first time in history, by absolutely democratic armies, in which rich and poor, educated and uneducated, cultured and uncultured, have fought side by side in the iron-clos- led Brotherhood of common peril Each class has learned to under- stand and value the other, in a way that our peace time conditions nev- er allowed. The men who knew no- thing of books, and in old Aays car- ed nothing for 1 strength of a high and noble pring he na produced in their minds such a fet. _{action. The third battle ot! OUR LIFE. The mage who has wrought and planned and ured for the accompli of God's plan in the wg sees the greatness of it, the « iivinity of it &nd 1 f i himselt milated ee A Manual Of Home Making | é of Home Making," by Martha von Renssalaer, Flora Rose and Helen Canon, a recent vol- ume written primarily for women who are managing households, not for those who are teaching or who are in the class rooms The aim has been to bring together from all reliable sources the guiding rules to follow in making the modern home a place where the family can live a thrifty and Jjovoms life. House- planning and furnishing, working equipment and its arrnngement, choice of clothing and making of garménts, daily and = werkly pro cesses such as planning, Moals, cook- ing, Jaundering and baying- all are discussed from the point of view of the woman who is trying to manage her household in such a way that the entire family may recefve the maximum returns in health, earn- ing power and joy, from the mini- mum expenditure of fime and labor on routine processes : When I am In'my room looking upon the walls I have painted I see there reflections of the personal life, but when I look through the windows I see.a living nature and landscapes not painted by hands. So, too, when I mediate I feel in the images and thoughts which about me the reflections of person- ality, but there are also windows in tho soul through which can be seen images created not by liwman hut | by divine imagination I have tried | according to my capacity ¥o report| about the divine order and to dis- criminate between that which was self-begotten .fantasy and which came from a higher sphere. These retrospects and mediations are the efforts of an artist and poet, to relate his own vision to the vision of the seers and writers of tlie sacred books, and to discover what element of truth lay in those imagi- nations.~--George W. Russell, jin "The Candle of Vision." "Manual is The Mediations ) Of An Artist A Coming Literary Competition Letters Club of Ottawa in a state ment to the press has announced 'a dominion-wide literary competition, one of the chief prizes for which has been denated by the governor-gene- ral. The competition .is to be divid- ed into three classes, open respect- ively to the general public, war vet. erans and public schools His ex- cellency"s prize has been designated for the veterans' section The scope of the competition is to em brace both prose and poetry The governing regulations and a list of prizes will be published later The object of the club is to stimulate and promote intellectual achieve- ment, that Canada's part in the war is expected to furnish the theme for many of the manuscripts to Ve sub- mitted. + Notes of Interest ' to Booklovers I throng | { Dbhhetson." {¥y been aroused in the book since The executive of the Arts and]. has been. pronounced in England as the gres play of the war, will' be brought out = in book form under ti { "The Burgeo ster of ast ¥'Mart son, an CRUSINE mi E deals with gsi life in { and gives a very different bed {it to that. which has been ven in } most musical novels about Germany. German musical society fore the war as extravagant, gluttonous, immoral and wershipful of material things. . Romer Wil which is i E. P. Dotion and OF apany are re- {publishing a novel by Philip Gibbs "The Stree dw . ¢ . | he Street of Adventure, which {they first brought out in the United | States in 1910. ft is a tale of news- paper life in London, the "street of jits title being Fleet Street in that {city, and the story is sald to be bas led on the anthor's own experiences. { i { { i i John Dranstield's ast 'The Lost Pleiad," | publighod by the James T. White Company, has been recommended {by the sirama dopartment of the New York State federation of clubs community production at col- fan- recently poetio for leges 'and drama centres. | "Iho. "Economie of {Le Ague of Nations," {unely hook by J. L cd the London Observer,' { MaeMillan Company fj erty publication. Basis the is the title of a Gavin, editor which the announces for "When the Boys Come Home hy Lieut. Harold Hersey, which will {be published shortly, is intended to {aid returning soldiers and sailors fand their relatives in the readjuste iment of the men to eivilian life. A new book, by James Allen, "Emblems of Fidelity," which is described as a comedy told in let- ters, will be published on March 15th by Doubleday, Page and Com~ pany. . Arrangements have just been completed for the filming of George du Maurier's famous story, "Peter Much interest has late- the revival of the play recently pro- duced in New York. A NAA ANN WAR PUZZLES / 7 7, i 3 ) iid / GEN. HAIG STATED IN AN AD- DRESS TO TROOPS. During the Hindenburg drive, "We are fighting with our backs to the wall and there must be no refirement," one year ago today, April 12, 1818. Find a German. YESTERDAY'S ANSWER Right corner down eye at left shoul der, % 1da M. Tarbell's first venture in- {0 fiction will be published by the Maemillan Company shortly Its title 'is to be "The Rising of the Tide," and its story is cpncerned with the quality and remilr of the American war spirit The tale is located in a munitions gentre, and the . plot, which includes a love theme, deals with the awakening of the nation to the part it had to play in the world war. A new volume of poems by Ar- thur Noyes is to be published this spring. It will contain all of his poems published since the appear- ance of "The Lord of Misrule," In 1914, and its title, "The New Morn- ing," suggests its general tone, "Keeping Fit all the Way" is the title of a new book, by Walter Camp. It is intended especially for middle aged men and women, and tells them how to keep their health and their fitness for life's duties and enjoyments. . -- A new and revised . edition of Iph Adams Cram's "The- Nemesis Mediocrity." is announeed, with pt in which thé author will contend that at prasent leadership is developed chiefly among men of " "The Néw izenghip" is the title ] a volume by Proi. A. T. Robert- ~t8on, DD. pleading for the display among the forces of Christianity of the same spirit in fighting the pow- ers of evil at home as was shown by our army in France and Flanders. : ¥ ee or . A collection of hitherto uupub- lished stories, sketches and anec- dotes by Mark' Twain, using as the signat [Samuel Clemens, be pu this spring. Its title is to be * {Curious Republic of Gondour.™ latest play, ° Belgium," Masterliack's ure the author's own name}