2 * Ee er ce a BOOKS AND THEIR AUTHORS y and } throughout in Joyou i 1 I'HE UNDYING FI +. Wells, 229 Pages. Price I'he Macmillan Company, To Publishers. RE allegorical » adopted herefore, it t that the 1s not to + it. line f argumen "Joan and Peter," ideas are told in a ence, the v y Veen to portray} 0 the Bill anted by the other in the guise ] school," Mr. young doetor, he whole ad, r the Farr and substance of is *tontained in the ar the character removal sented b nara em concentrate all on Mr. Huss, see simple faith by against the -- es eptible track, ig in Afraid that he wi enge on account of yr - she prepares to flee wi has again mé w York. But at the I an announcement f the pla; i » mah who put on paper, nto crucial ufferings a In her extremity 'Pierre! } and she discovers that all s to say is to ask for forgiveness Tht Dh ih td dt ite rT IP PPS NEW VERSE bel e spirit of Through h 1 a4 new con eption Y nature of God, | hes trengthened and co unswervingly te the prin "There is an undying fire of men which wilt never hich will' carry hu- o f h conquests as long and courage endure ain purpose of the book, to sco forth Mr. Wells' lat ducation men, be- ymewhat clouded by the theo-.! oed, on which ensues, but |'unti puts forth his! ries b get apps for iseu Vi H he these words; of the teac ? It is the greatest of it an the ta nan the men. instruction ? born as are born, a greedy egotism, ing desire, a thing of doubts ars; '. . I have heen giving to the blind. 1 have been giving erstanding to thousands of boys those routines of teaching that had become dead we made live again. My have learnt the history of mankind so that it has become their 'own adventure. ce has played its proper part; it has taken my boys | into the secret places matter among the nebulae. Some boys have already made good business men, because they were more than business men.. But I have never sought to make business men and I never will. I have had dull boys and intractable boys, but nearly all have | gone into the world gentlemen, broad- | minded, good- mannered, understand- | «ing and unselfish, masters of self, ser- vants of men, because the fvhole scheme of their education has been to releasé them from base Narrow | things : What made my boys all that they are } been the | history, the biological ive, the | ed. philosophy. . For" these things are | far wisdom. All the rest is training and |ed u mere knowledge." {com At a time when the Anglo-Saxon | Eng schoolmasters and tehchers are ar- ranging for a big intermational conw ference for the interchange of ideas regarding education, these views are well worth noting. They simply mean | that Wells is a believer in the famous | words of the tempted Christ, "M 1l not live by bread alone." Far heavy a subject, "The Un- dying Fire is exceptionally readable Mr. Wells takes the reader from point | to point with a-continuity of argu- ment that irresistible, 'and the story never lags. The presence of a sufficient amount of humor helps to brighten the stofy, and to make it an app ng one. Yhis latest book of "H. G; Wells' 'will win for him many more-admirérs, is a lo unde purg pres vice W boys Sg of s Scie and of and | how out of and fix. Fi and love sens ro $0 In is room four { with- his Price he cannot do wit him His 1 ds } 1 and during. the night she goes i k to better er ten days mind make 1 en to day. Torn rals to him and de fot 1 ten « off to see in her n to come he is injyr®l when his ship is torped- réceive have elapsed her, but for she has already married the ot'.er ; . And so the curtain goes on the young officer faced witt of loneliness and with the knowledge that the girl whom he love as to the sacrifice ail. He leaves land on duty she but he for he her letters He too late, down life a and who him belongs to another n ch is the thread of the novel, »rneath it all the The purpose sed in the words Yose, 's poem, "What are we.going Se lve y hen Apper ettling be years realizes kK to of active h the men from wit no little or the r us 1 cleve for pon ing. fig lish novel today, THE $1.50, nto, Publisher, of te we get back home @ what normal Service e tries to point out to his reg the feeling h € BRANDING but writer has 1 be well ex- Robert as Sers » do with our- the oblems after mean, lers be some- 11¢€ will front for with déas written 1ption The >, and the »xpect- rk so e look- sver and ircles o® the IRON. By Katherine Newlin Burt, 310 Pages, | Thomas' Allen, To- Rex Beach, in a telegram to the publishers, paid this novel a very compliment, and his praise was | tainly not misplaced. "The Branding high cer- ' is a story of the wild mountain regions of the west and of the lights of the New bright York theatre, eoifi- bined in such a 'way as to make a thrilling and gripping novel Landis, who has left her father be- cause he kept her shut up for eight- een years, marries Pierre Landis on a few moments' acquaititance. Her hus- . Joan band is a passionate cowboy, and he MUFTI By "Sapper." (Cyril Pages. Price $1.50. Stoughton, Publishers. At last, with the cessation of hos- | tilities, the name of that brilliant au- thor 0 has been writing under the McNeile), 296 bar, Hodder and PAA timp A mn | PlOT PUBLIC LIBRARY BULLETIN ; Thaw 'ARE YOU Of WORK ture the his 8 are walting rained 1 WANT study wins better pay TH® PUBLIC LIBRAR elp you prépare for You want by loaning you books any kind of a upon her by Prosper 'Gz in the as his"fuest. has a streak of jealousy, in which he: brands his wife with a white-hot iron just as he branded his Stock, He re, -whom she man, with and task own pattesn. sie, of mou is caught in. the act by Prosper Gael, who shoots him, but not fatally, and carries away Joan with the intention of looking after the in juries inflicted hd she gives Ms. 3 fror Pierre, froma the loving but jealous imagines takes her up to a cabin pountains, and there she stays He is an ovey-civilized great tastes in literas nd he sets himself lditg the girl after He loves her pas- is dead. herself up to Then one day he re- former lover wanderings, ,in which | n place to place to avoid whom she now she attracts the at- producer, for a heroine fo Ig led "The Leopardess, who is r a nev. play He thinks | a draws-hert Like Rex [ rward with g e cess as a book ar WHAT HAPPENED TO EUROPE By Frank A. Vanderlip, | Price $1.40. pany, Toronto,, Pubfishers. Frank A .VanMerlip avent over to { Europe in February, 1919, to look | over the financial and industrial con ditions in these countries in, the in terests of some United States firm { While there, he visited seven coun [tries and interviewed represe of fifteen countries. On th "to America it str ick him th: +h worth awhile--to-put-bris-vbserva on 'paper and have them pi and so during the voyage he all the matter contained in This book is one of great value to {Canada, as well as America, commercial 'way very little of which have concentrates way at it dicta this book the physical come upon Kurope, upon the indu l financial aspects of the afte war." He in an tive way the dithculties which r the way a return of noy imal trading conditions in European countries. The paralysis of indus ithe chaos into which the i {tems have been thrown, and tt difficulties which lie in. the wi y of speedy return of normal trading con- ditions in European countries. '- The paralysis of industry, the chaos into which the i have been thrown, and ficulties ex- perienced Y currency are all treated istively. Special chapters are devoted to the conditions. | E nd, France, Belgium, Italy, \ other countrie and t writer sums up the wh story pointing out to this country | mous - amount trade that can {done in Europe if only the necessary credits can be arrangeg.. He believes tht the first step towards stabilizing sonditions it Europe should {furnidhing 'of a -hhge {loan to the stricken countries so. that {they might recommend their indus | trial activities without delay. legard- and nath. of or 1 11€ discusses of speedy in n 1 of be be -------- Summer Complaint IS A SERIOUS BOWEL TROUBLE Very few people escape an attack of Summer Complaint It may be slight, or jt may be severe, but near ly evervone is liable to it You can't tell, when it you, how it may end Allow the profuse diarrhoea, the vomiting and purging to continue for A day or two and You will become weak and prostrated. Just as Soon as the bowels become loosened up, get a bottle of Dr. Fow- ler's Extract of Wild Strawberry and check these unnatural movements, and thus prevent the Sys becoming weakened. Mrs. L. J. .Alteen, wife of the well known wholesale and retail Fish Dealer, 44 Hin 8t.; Amherst, N.S, writes: =I have four children, the oldest being eight years old Every summer they. were troubled. with Summer Complaint Doctors' _ pre- scripions did not seem to help them apy. One day a friend asked me to jose Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. - <Fat once got .a bottle, and to my surprise and wonder, I SOOR Saw a change in them. I now keep a bottle of it in the house all the time. and will recommend it to any mother." / : "Dr. Fowler's" is 85¢. a botle. Gét seizes on 188 Pages. | The Macmillai Com- | i dre ntatives In ai The 'writer has told changes | but! | topac the enor- { the | nternational | MacKenzi ideas the might pl nait-th there : as dreary pages; urely ideas in 'such 'Moreover hur Many begin wi l¢ i 1 to lower ones. > the means for the / is this true of the " (Page 61). F page to explain. the--<term he sphinx," and to relate the brand story of the sphinx's riddle. Od r; and } the other hand he vouchsafes gener- benef i} ages of autobiography, Huy- | i a ATH manity at lar¥e may, learn how much | { Mr. King was impress * House, how he wrote article Toronto paper, ow he called on Mr, Mulock, how the Postmuster-Gene "walke d the floor like a daged lion," presumably under the stimulating n- fluence of the Hon, W. L. MacKenzie King. His ibus missions, his home, gsmere, his his reflections thereon pad ot Rockefeller Founda- these lucubrations a very rich foundatio | quite plain that "The Na- a very poor opinion of Mr. | ,-and it would be in- | what t r opinion I leader ws uld be | count i passages in nat th th i § pursuit of sewhere he ure ¥* motives ™ ustrinkism 2 ahd anything ever ¢ This book see be in the nature talk with its reader I Ss present- r conditions in Europe and {ous pas us part in nt ment know politic 1 to the Notes of Interest * For Booklovers.] known : 'rance are in a of paper and labour, and caused them this to raise their prices of books a per cent. All three and ¢ books will hereafter cost the printing and growing worse; » hig other things nth anvil to histor) > I a part of € mforr man or mere rod ed 1. a e of the new Harold k, "The Re-Creation s almost 750,000 cop- valuf ; Which number comprises the first | rse of | priftine. Of the book, Mr, E. W tod: 'Rey the publisher, writes, "The message it carries to me been helpful and comforting." people who read the will with him, some part of 1s a smatter v little pardon f 1 th knowledge is infinitely | tex a wide smattering know ledge. = { And what we medn by taste | has | Most agreé bet book ---- i. \ N There will be published this wutumn do PAGE FIVE A fice. | | Drink | Charm Black Tea * Sold in Packages Only L GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited eee Established 1870 TWEDDELL'S : : For &ll new style, good wearing * Suits $20 up to $45 All Prices Between ee -- I A ts er Pt eer se A Aes TY hey ACY H ]s KILLS PAIN INSTANTLY --_--_-- JUST APPLY--PAIN STOPS ® Austin's Red Cross Drug Store, Distributors remem " -_ PURE ICE CREAM SERVE IT FOR LUNCHEONS, DINNERS AND SUPPERS Most modern machinery used in making our Ice Cream-- the ingredients are the best--nothing but. pure cream used. 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The picturesque scene of the | | story on.thé northern coast of France, | | the tragedy which surrpunds the own- | {er of the old castle, and -the love and | happiness which ultimately triumph, | | £0 to make a romance full of charm, | | ' by €ecil Ad-| Biographies of Well-Known | Authors. of A New Idian Poet. 1 . md ee eminent Oriéntal poets--Rab- | Harper and Brothers will : 2X 1 hi, and | publish - "From the Life, ve elected to use O'Higgins, a series of the En anguage as the instru-' ment of their poetic expression. * Tarindranath Chattopadhyay is the shortly "by Harvey imaginary bio- graphical yportraits which have won much Re as they have already had serial magazine publication. Sarojini iS Time - to have your Furnace and Stoves looked after. We have 'only experienced ' me- ~ehanies-and if you require-any work in this line we can give you satisfaction. ; Agents for the celebrated Hecla Hot Air ™ Furnace. Now Is The ® Lemmon&Sons PHONE 840 . 187 Princess Street, latest &ldition . to their company. In Anether ly published volume of verse novel by Pohan Boi y 1 Youth," we learn that|w he Great Hunger," was pub- Lin his teens' and that he is|lished last fall, is promised for No- {a brother of 'Sarojini Naidu. Mr. Chat- | vember publication Its title is "The youth is manifest on ev-| Face of the World,"-and its theme is ery page of this finely printed book. | the new revolutionary democracy. Dr. { He riots in colour one poem he | Bojer will visit the United States for | describes lau {_peal of bbue | the first time this autumn, 'and will land red and ¢g Indeed he has | lecture on Norwegian literature in a | drawn upon all the colours of the rain- number of colleges | how a special fond- |! ness for roses and peacocks. Allow- {ing for many there mere f \ of Se nyay's and seems to hz owals," the new George Moore publication, was issued simultaneously than a grain of genius remaining. He |in England and the United States two {1s a minor poet today, but tomorrow, | weeks ago. : if he will use a little restraint and ---- avoid such phrases as "a shimmering Miss Kathleen Burke, of the peacock in my flowering flush"; if he | tish Women's Hospital, whose will words as Harn well known and Stevenson valued he is | her capable work amongst the wound- 0 become a poet that matters. | ed, has gaged to write a series of s the divine fire, but at present! four } r the Doubled: Page is burning him badly. There is a Company, 'dealing respectively with kind of lyrical joy in most of the the sufferings and the heroism poems. «Although he essays what he during the war of the children of {calls Sufi songs, they are far from Great Britain, Frande, Belgium and ig is Scot- value in Canada because of his being deeply. mystieal, much less are Serbia. they steeped in Sufism. It is when he | curbs his imagination and gives our It isn't what t own greater play, when his joy be-|about the book he is offering to the tomes less frenzied, that his poetry is | public, but what the reading public 1 most effective.--The Poetry Review. {tell their friends, that makes a hook . tne {8 'success or a failure, as the case {may be. publisher says Cora Harris, Cora Harris was born on a typical { southern cotton plantation owned by{ "The Indian Drum," by her father, Tinsley Tucker White, at | MacHarg and Edwin Balmer, is ba Farm Hill, Georgia. She was educat- led at home and made oceasional Willia sed on the legend that the booming of an trips | Indian drum. is. heard whenever Lake to town behind two white mules. "At Michigan" takes a life. The heroine's the age of seventeen she' married belief "in the legend enables her to Lundy Howard rris, a young minis- | save her lover and to wir happinéss ter, who after a'Yew vears preaching, |for them both, betdame professor in Emory College, | -- Oxford, Georgia. Then Mrs. Harris Messrs. Butterworth ave to publish began writing under the pen name of |in London, in September, a volume bf | Sidney Erskine." She met with no | biography which promises te be of pe- | Success until she. was twenty-five. | culiar interest from several points of Stories and articles then began to be | view. Its subject is H. G. We ls--"Big accepted by, newspapers and maga- | Little H. G. Wells" is the title. Its zines and these were followed by her author is another novelist. Edwin successful 'novel, "The Circuit Rider's Pugh, and it is having a preliminary Wife." Her husband died in 1910. | run as a serial in.G. K. Chesterton's She lives now on a farm in a Georgia | review, "The New W 88, ' Valley, and drives a Stout team "of | mutles with the mode literary appel- lations of Blythe and Cobb. i A Criticism of MacKenzie King. At the present tyne, when great in- m The Macmillan Company {a little circular on new books for the { modern dairyman which is of great j interest of anyome in that line. Tt in- cludes a section on dairy books de- terest is being manifested in the do- scribing volumes dealing with milk, ice cream, cheese, butter and various ings of William L. MacKenzie King, 8 the new leader of the Libdwl party, problems of dairy feeding, and also it is interesting to note how je of |& section on animal care and feeding. his work is eriticised by eview A timely publication is Edith Elmer | has isznad nas issued the original which has been put up for the past 74 years by The T. 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