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Haw] ever writin, is known to Canadian newspaper =] magazine writers, has put his pen to illuminating in this stimu- volume for pertisal by thought- anadians, 1% is a cogent plea for the expression of a more intense national spirit in Canada and is a confifmation of a challenge 6f the Round Table group of centralist Im- perialist issued Lionel Curtis' study, "The Problem of the Com- nmionwealth," where it is claimed Can- adians are lacking in the broad es- sentials of government. The facts which Mr, Hawkes has collated and presented with such force must impress deaply any seri- ously minded Canadian. ey are a stirring arraignment of governmental conditions im the Dominion and are marshalled in compelling Sequence. Especially does Mr. Hawkes criticise the order-in-council habit of the Union Government, byt he is no less severe upon the former Conservative Govern- ment, both of which seem to have been underdogs of the Imperial-authorities and incapable of the government {which Mr. Hawkes seems to expect {from a maturing people . The author admits that there will | be those who will disagree With many {of the conclusions which have been drawn, but any man who is interested in Present Canadian problems would do well to consider carefully Mr. Hawkes work! It is an eloquent ap- peal for progressive Canadianism and should do mach. to provoke in- tense and earnest thought on current affairs on the part of the citizenry of the Dominion. Mr, Hawkes' treatment of the alien problem is so different from the or- dinary conception that hé has proved himself to 'be a daring and fearless writer, unmoved by the intolerant and bigoted attitude of many sons who seem to have forgotten that there is much bad in the best of us and much good in the worst of us while there are potential possibilities of greatness in all of us whether we are pure bred or 'hyphenated Canadians. e boek is unique in many respects not only "ih the thought but in the It is the: first took in- e publisher with pre- G. A. Brodie, president of the United Farm Women of] Ontario, and Lieut.- Different headlines ap- sar on gvery page summarizing its tents and we venture the opinion hat no more pttractive volume has {appeared in a 1png time. "The Birth- | right" should/ clllenge the consid- | aration of every Canadian who seeks {*a be broag-minded and tolerant in nalism and strike, 'then varjdus elements are seeking to ise mséelves on a pinnacle above 'he of their fellow-citizens. Mr, | Hawles has contributed a volume 1 wh will be widely read and deserv- I id)g, for it marks another step along "We path to the peak of self govern nt in the British Empire which we isve been. treading since 1887 and be« "THE GAY-DOMBEXS, By Sir Harry Johnston. 397 Pages. Price $1.00, The millan Com- pany, Toronto, ER ne " Sir Harry Johnston, a newcomer to the ranks of ish nov- elisty, has for many years béen well known in the circles of the literature of exploration and discovery as the author of several a and its inhabitan {tio and Susan after the faithful t wh attended her mother. a of the oa couple, dan Dombey 3rd, is one other five children of Walters sad Florence all play parts in She story. Various experiences adventures in life. The 'of the lives of all these people the book gt times rather wearisome, h the author very cleverly switches off Morven in For a v Droper Tending and under- standing of novel, it is very ne- cessary that the reader should have a Shareugh unde of the genea- logy of the Dombey family. ithout this, several passages become econ- fusing, in spite of the long explana- tions and the details given by the au- thor, But its redeeming features are the wealth of descriptive passages dealing with the hero's travels in Africa, the facile and well-written character sketches of the principals, and the easy, agreeable style of the dialogue throughout. ' Lady Feenix, as the heroine, is a finely drawn type, and Paul Dombey appears as a man who is very humanu in his faults and shortcomings. His unfortunate love affair, and its happier ending, are well told, and his wife, Diana, shines forth as a noble type of woman. Of Eustace Morven, little remains to be said, The author seems to have writ- ten into the letters of this traveller much of his own personal experi- ences in Africa, a many of the incidents of his own life. The pers sonal touches enhance the story, and lend to it an air which is at once ap- pealing to the reader. The -com- ments made on the noted men of the period are both instructive and enter- taining, and the writer has drawn from a memory which is richly stock: ed with reminiscence and experience. As a novel, it is a trifle heavy, but decidedly uncommon. It is a novel of a type which seeks to use the char« acters to show forth the workings of the political groups of the latter part of last century towards the Imperial policy of Britain. The ending, just as the European war has ended, is tra- gie; but tempered with a feeling that it could not have ended in a better fashion. This is a book of remark. able interest to all who have any ine terest in the affairs of Africa gqnd in the great people of the Victorian age. "PRODUCTION AND TAXATION IN CANADA." By W. C. Good, 133 Pages. .J. M. Dent & Sons, Itd., Toronto. ...,.. This book, written from the farm- ers' standpoint, is by.a man who is a -practieal farmer and who also pos- sesses both a university and an age rienltural education. The writer presents a case for speedy and drastic reform in our economic system if Canada' is. to pass comfortably through the trying years of recon- struction and attain what should be her high destiny. Mr. Good points out that the revival of agriculture will consist of and result in better farming, better business and better living, but will depend primarily up- on better returns for the effort ex pended. He points out that the cam: paign of educational work carried on under the auspices of the various de- partments of agriculture for the last thirty years has been powarless to stem the tide cityward, It has touch- ad the production of wedlth'and ored the 'question of distribution. author thinks: that a different and a better education in our rural schools would help to solve the rural problem, The key to the solution of the rural problem les in a study of the problem of distribution. The re- vival in Canadian agriculture can be brought about, He thinks, by volun- tary effort on the part of the farm- ers themselves, e remedy must come from within, not from without. {t must come by Srgani sation, educa- lon, Tagore's ' novel, gonad, in p. * | 5 Biographies of Well-known Authors. John Ruskin, "The centenary of John Ruskin's birth has afforded no small pleasure to his old admirers by reminding them that he is still a living influence." So a recent eulogy in the London Spectator. Twenty stermy years have passed since his death, more than a generation since he wrote - his last words, and half-a-century since he produced his most ¢haracteristic and memorable books. Yet Ruskin, for all that, still exerts his power and his fascination, indirectly © perhaps, but none the less surely over many quiet people here and in other countries. RusRin had dan immense vogue for many years of the Victorian ers, and this was followed, naturally enough, by a reaction. A well-known French critic discovered him and became en- thusiastic over him as the apostle of the "Religion of Beauty," at the very moment when his countrymen were turning away to other strenuous literary pastors: It was the fashion to sniff at Ruskin ag an early- Victorian namby-pamby who had heen shielded from the rough and tumble of life, an art critic who admired the wrong things, and an economist who did not know the alphabet of the "dis- mal science" which he strove to recon- gtruet. No one could deny the surpassing charm of his prose, hut he was said by muny young people who wanted to be thought modern, to be little more than an artist in words, This phase has now passed. Ruskin has survived his detractors; and is now generally re- coghized as a great writer who gave new currency to ideas of permanent worth, This is not to say that his collected works are memorable or likely to endure. He was too versa- tile and dogmatic for that. He im- ressed firmly and once for all on the ritish mind the greatness of Tum er's art, bat he did not and could not convince people finally that, while ali Gothic art was religious, the art of Virtruvious and Palladio was gssen- tially devilish, dnd that iron was synonymous with ugliness. Hix artis. tic judgments in detail were. often curious; even those who love Ruskin most find it hard to' vepregs a smile at the thought that he worshipped Wil- 1 liam Hunt's painstaking copies of birdy nests and condemned Rem- brandt's mighty creations. 'When he wrote on wealth and wages and the social sproblem, he showed aloofness from practical affairs: and his inherited prejudices. He hated the Manchester 'school of soulless com- mercialism with a fervour for which there was abundant reason, but it night be objected that his'ideal em- ployer savoured too much of the all- powerful patriarch of a remote past to commend himself to the workmen of the nineteenth century, Yet, though Ruskin was the child of his age and fhgdgh much of his a work a yo ar critical exami n- ence endures and his books will survive, 3 " The truth is, in a word, that Rus: kin was a prophet. , essence of his 'art teaching was expressed in the saying in his Oxford lectures 'that "life without industry is sin, and in- dustry without art, brutality. He re- pudiated the dilettante's creed that art is a joy for the few elect, and boldly claimed our artistic heritage for the many, not as a mere luxury, but. as a necessity of life, It it is ta- ken for granted nowadays that every city shotild maintain as good an ar gallery as it can afford, and that th nation should acquire as many mas- terpleces as possible for the publie enjoyment. It is owing in no small degree to the boundless enthusiasm of Ruskin, which was infectious and irresistible. His success in this direc. tion must judged, not by the Ilit- tle Ruskin ~ Museum at . Sheffield, England, pleasant as it is, but by the widesprend activities of public bodies and private societies such as were un- dreamed of when Riskin was a boy. ; was a devout nature bipper, sai "arly "ue of industrial and more, | fluences inpalpable, spiritual and view- {less." He defines Sembeiay as "a force in' which the concert of a great number of men makes up for the weakness of each man taken by him self." . Of national greatness Arnold says, "Nations are not truly great solely because .the individuals * com- posing them are numerous, frée and active; but they are great when these numbers, this freedom and this ac- tivity are. employed in the service of an ideal, higher than that of an or | dinary man, taken by hithself" "It is interesting to reflect on thapdefinition and instructive, His conception of the progress of men and nations fits present condi- tions Jdmirahiy. at fection will never reached, but to recognize a period of transformation when it comes, and to adapt themselves hon- estly and rationally to its laws, is per- haps the nearest approach to perfec- tion of which men and nations are capable." And of the desire for bet- ter things he says; "So potent is the charm of life and expansion upon the living, the moment men are aware of the more they have of them the more they crave them." I Brn Or Oar Gna English Recognition For Zona Gale. Rarely does an American book re- ceive the attention in English papers that is being given to Zona Gale's latest novel, "Birth," While this vols ume here was received by the most discerning eritics as a work of unus- ual ability and interest, it would al- most seem as if it were to remain for England to accord it the enthusiastic reception it really deserves. This is not to say it has heen ignored in this Solntry----tather that it has not real- ized the predictions of the friends | of those leading crifics who were cer- tain that it would go to a far wider circle 'of readers than have ~Miss|" Gale's previous writings. Certainly if the published reviews may be en as a critefion, there is in England a practically unanimous endorsement of the story as a great piece of work, a work about which there can be no two opinions. Here, for example, are a few lines from a Londen "paper which may be said to be typical of Suglish literary reaction to the novel: "Miss Gale's Stile in her new novel "Birth" is notably limpid and: free from ornament. At times she suggests Jane Austen, snd sometimes Mrs. Meyhell, with: the midnight oil strain ed away from her prose. We have Stressed Miss Gale's style because very few women novelists have ever exercised the patience necessary to reach her piteh of craftémanship. She must have disciplined herself as rigor- er interesting views are fully stat. the'. Future of. Palestine," published by Memories of a Musician," Sir George Henschel writes of his own life chaym- ingly and intimately, cinating sto t with a rare 3 dotes, involving many prominent musicians and writers, was like, Walter Noble Bums ship- ped «as "greenhorn" on a whaler number o voya the Whaler," Mr. Burrs gives the story of it all, a story of personal adven- ture and observation. book entitled, "Jim; the Backwoods Police Dog." The volume adds another a dog enlisted in the service of the backwoods police. Mighty and the Lowly," and "In the Vanguard," have met with wide fa- your, a new 3 them they begin to desire them, and |l oo a Jewish maiden and s'SRoman soldier in Jerusalem gat the time of the cruci- fixion. ang with the beauty of expression re- Trask deals with events in the days of the life of Christ. The scenes and incidénts which make a profound impression on the reader. lished a book entitled "International War; Its Causes and Its Cure" author is Oscar T, Crosby, who has been for some time on the Interallied Committee for "War Purchases Finances. most recent volume of verse; ha been ordered, also a new printing of Miss Lowell's first book of verse. death of Mrs. William Le Morgan, widow of the fameus novelist who died about a year ago. that she completed her husband's two unfinished novels, and that they will soon be published, These posthumous volumes will be entitled Madhouse," and "The ur Youth and the Young Man's Age. Corner," by Kate > an a perfectly human love story, with the fun and pathos, charm and sense, which are always associated with this author's novels, book: entitled "Zionism and recently Company, Under the title of "Musings and the Macmillan It is a fas- , and it is touched off our and many anec- Out of sheer desire to see what it a years and made the from Chl Sahni up into retic. In "A Year With A Major Charles G. D. Robes' new Story of a hero to literature--~ \ Katrina Trask, whose plays, "The for pub- tion. It is enti Ap out the 1s," and tells a love story of a With unerring dramatic sénce ed in her previous plays, Mrs, he. last she portrays The Macmillan Company has pub The and Se ee FUERY ONE OF US. We Are As Full of Deadly Poisons As A Germ Laboratory. AUTO- INTOXICATION. 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And her style is the most apt vehicle for an easy invention of incidents, wide, hu. man sympathy, kéen observation of the life jn an Amekican Yoxnsbip, a gay, kind humour; and an insight into character at timeswalmost Wneanny; not less so' when disclosing the mo~ tives of men when dealing with the foibles of women. She understands what very few women can be brought to admit, that the, spiritual side of a man's love is far deeper and more subtle than that of a maid. - This is a remarkable novel. Miss Gale's nicety and daintiness are based upon a strength that is almost male." : i A Few Notes About Wells. | ; According to the New York Post, H. G. Wells, who has been discovering God of late years, has now discover. ed the "devil, "Ae. Chesterton," the Post says, "could have told Mr. Wells Silgbout that malign personage long 829, but we, rejoige that he didn't, for we would no willingly have miss- ed the giant, winsome 'creature of the travel-stained halo that Mr. Wells. ves us in his logue to "The Un- ing Fire." It is rather a picture of ilton's devil that we get, with a bles. prow ties of & married man is to account for his ab double strength--- from d gist and apply a little of it night ol morning and you should soon that even the worst freckles ha begun to disappear, while the light ones have vanished entirely. seldom that more than an ounce fs needed 'to completely clear the sk aud gain a beautiful clear compleks on. ; FRECKLES Now ia the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots : There's no longer the #light need of feelifg ashamed of freckles, as Othine--double stren, --is guaranteed homely spots. ' to remove these Simply get an ounce of Othine any It Be sure to ask for the dou strength Othine as this {gs sold un guarantee of money back if it fails to remove freckles. : Criticism at its best is an art, like, poetry, and 'is inspired by the experience of literature, as poetry. is oshimg by the ex- jérience of. life. The great cri: , like the great poet, has & mind that experiences with & child-like quickness, and he has no more need of definitions than the poet has need of definitions of life, To have discovered this, and to have leamed to admire beauties so diverse that no de- finition will gover them all, is she first ovement of mod- 3m criticism. 4 One of the ever present difffeul- from homs. , rs Flatter a man and he will forget it the next day; abuse him, and be will remember it 4s long as he lives. ! BOOKLET APPLY 76 REV. F. / opofthe -