Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Nov 1919, p. 17

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$s SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1010. THE BATTLE NOBODY SAW By Rev. Byron H. Stauffer, 199 Pages, [leaves } Price $1.50. The Ryerson Press, Ther Toronto, Publishers. In these days when fiction has so great a hold upon the public mind, when the problems of reconstruction are being discussed in countless vol- umes, and when the churches are, as ft were, in the melting pot, it {s/in the world. The story of her life somewhat of a surprise to find alls the authoi's expression of the ex- volume of sermons published in a periences of many women. The early popular edition. To produce this, {submission to her parents, the pas- both the author and the publisher sing over of the daughter for ihe needed great courage and it was es- 'benefit of tid sons, the folly of a sential that the writer should be aighild having to learn the great truths man of outstanding personality and [of life from outside sources; how fame. In this case, happily, the Writer often these things occur in rea! life. possesses these qualifications. for the |The results on the life of Mary Oli- name of the Rev. Byron Stauffer Isiver are almost catastrophic, but she well known all over the continent, [struggles through to a happy middle from Toronto to Winnipeg, from Sanage. This is indeed a remarkable Francieco to Buffalo. His name book, and it will heighten the esteem stands for a man who has remarkable} in which the author Is held. gifts of personality| coupled with the] ee ---- art of oratory which can hold an| APPROACHES TOWARDS CHURCH audience to the last minute, and with| INITY the knack of being able to tell a good story. | By This book, composed of a number Walker, 170 pages, Price $1.25. of his best sermons, presents Stauffer | The * Yale University Press, New in every phase of his character. In|' yopk, Publishers. it he shines as a story teller, he drives! Reunion of the churches has now home Gospel truths as in his best pasome 4 practical question. The end days in the pulpit, his literary style of the war leaves this as the next is unquestionable, and the humanity |Onristian thing to be done. As one of his great heart shows up in every of the results of the war, the long chapter. His material as'presented| agitated question of uniting the mother's death, solate. leave her at the age of truth, ing the for which years How mar n the world, and enjoy- » peace and happiness has struggled for forty Mary Olivers there are of speech, and of the epigrammatical | eep significance in the programme phrases for which he is 80 well known | o¢ reconstruction, The sentiment for and appreciated. He shows that he|ynjon is rising and becoming a strong has the faculty of giving one a Dew | impulsive movement throughout the outlook on life, of presenting old| christian community. It requires thoughts in an entirely new way, and of giving expression to original ideas on subjects which are known to every man and woman As the material for these sermons the churches a will to unity. It de- mands also intelligent direction as a common venture of faith. In view he old { ar of these facts, it is tharatorg gratiey- sed many of the old famil t to. come upon such a. bo as De and has clothed them A PL OACE ae Christian Un- after his own fashion thereby gIVInZ json gy published by the Yale Uni- them a charm and significance which | versity Press. are quite original. His titles are; ryi volume which is composed of sometimes startling, one, heading ai, coring of essays and discussions on sermon on the story o nindon the subjects, by bh igi theolo- » "Who Cut That Man's Hair?" | gigng attenipts to show the way to a Rr toi but Byron Stauffer | sommon ind upon which the would have adopted such a title. lspypches can unite. This is done by This is a volume ut PIA Lon | tracing the history of the Chistian backed up by a remarkable persob- | hyrch from the earliest days; and by ality, and the author and publishurs | oiving the history of the formation deserve well for their Sourage {of the various Senpuinatiohs of Chris- producing it atsthe present time. tian believers. This is done in an should do much 3 bring en 8 minds {entirely uncontroversial manger, the back to the fundamenta ngs {idea being simply to show how a which all life, happiness and religion | Be churn vn in accord on many are founded, and to lead tiem (rom | points, and how they might possibly chaos to order in their individual| ype wrought together on points on lives. | which they differ. The editors admit i that there are many factors in the {different denominational beliefs whieh | might prove stumbling blocks, but By Mary Sinclair, 880 Pages, Price |, ,intain that a proper appreciation $2.00. The Macmillan Company. oe the begginnings and growth of Toronto, Publishers. ..__ |Chritianity would be very helpful in Miss Sinclair's novel of last your, |overcoming these. In their book thay faken its Pinceias One of the nest |BUBRY ibe ground work for such a | condition. « pieces of writingidn modern fiction. | yp, oignt concise ¢hapters each sub- Her new book, Mary Shiver. = a divided into sections, Yaris lights Forty successor to that, In fact, |,.q thrown upon the subject. * it comes 8s the More mature expres |goriy Development of Church on- Son of the wuthors enius. ba | cers" is discussed by Williston Walk- n short, the story roman's rl er. Newman my contribu presented directly without any artifi-| Sore on "Vital Principles of 'clal narrative or analysis. It Is aan Development," "Concerning straightforward story, begining with | Schism.' "Some Historical Materials childhood of the main character and, "np ldent [ses Historical Prece- leading her on to the period of middle | sonic and Opinions." In. these he age. 4 the | Eives the details of previous attempts . The Story Shené with Maty at shel at union and points out how they wil stage ol c . 3 ture attempt. The ed in the terms and images of be fseful 1 3 Hut of ch aad that period. The outstanding facts are 'The Place of the Creed in the Life the repressive influences of her par- of 'the Chureh™ are treated compre- ents, her great love for her brothers, hensively by Raymond Calkins, and and the gradual unfolding of the the book Is concluded by an informa- characteristics which sway her later {,o appendix. It is a volume of great life. From Jandy and Ty hilahsod importance and interest to those who ee a . hich her par have Deen striving sor ually In the " , An ents observe with anxiety her depth Shristish a ea only WP gion Prot- of understandnig, her unruly habits estant denominations, but also of of mind, and the natyre of her read- Protestants and Catholics. ing. Mary learns of the facts of THE LAND OF STRONG MEN life. from the lips of an older girl, facts told ber in the crudest form, and her whole viewpoint of Christian- By Rev. A. M. Chisholni, 432 Pages, Price $1.50. Thomas Langton, To- Tout, 2 - ity becomes changed. She becomes A seeker after the truth. Feverish-|. As the title suggests this a tale of the wild western country in the days ly she reads and studies, her favor- {tes being Shelley, Milton, Pope, Pn 'mock in. the earlier years, with a railroads and automobiles deeper delving into the mysteries of at ty close to civilisation. It is reality in the pages of Spinoza, | "vier the struggle of a young Martineau, Plato, Kant, Heine and ranch owner, Angus Mackay, against egel as her mind develops |i) plackest fortune that could befall any man. Left as the head of the ranch and the family at the age of rough these pages she plunges seeking always for some definite rock eighteen, he finds the ranch mort gaged to a villainous land agent, and on which to stand and finding none determines to free it and give his From adolescence the girl passes younger brother and sister an un- on to maturity, tasting to the full ~ of its disenchantments and draw- encumbered start in life. The land agent desires to secure the ranch and 8 with very little of its joys. Ro- ce comes her way, lingers for a then commences a: battle of wits and strength. : moment, and passes by. Her father dies, and she is forced to become The agent uses every possible means to ruin young Angus, and it more and more subservient to her mother. Her brother too pass seems as if he were to succeed. Crops are hailed out, the water supply is away, and middle age finds her alone with her mother. Real love comes stopped through the treachbry of the agent, & disastrous fire occurs, oat- © ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN : ; j ~Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross" MARY OLIVER--A LIFE L to ber lover, it is brok- which | forty-seven, drawing nearer to the; who owns Newman Smyth and Welkiston | 1 fn' the book, is full of the witty turn Christian churches has assumed are |* I {# | * especially among the leaders, in all] SEPP ELLEPRIBIEIR EPRI | THE D and other misfortunes] overwhelm him. But omes romance and hap- person of Faith Winton, an adjoining ranch. In ithe midst of his trouble he marries! ther and together they face the bat-| jtle, As the time when all seems | { lost, help comes from an unexpected | | source, and the ranch saved. Modern) | progress sweeps across the valley and | {the fortunes of the young couple! fare assured. The 'story ends with | {a thrilling description of a man-hunt | in which those who have been sr¥ing | ito ruin Angus meet with a just fate. | {Then the principals settle down in! {happiness with fortune smiling on | ftle go astray threaten | Into his ipiness in Here is the story for those who are| {fond of adventure and romance com~| bined. The rugged men fighting a | {rugged land, have hates and loves] ithat are strong and powerful, and] ithe unfoldig of pages of their lives {makes a thrilling story. The sen-| sational ending will have a strong {appeal, and should satisfy the most exacting of readers. i | #9440000 IIIT IO TP ER IOS | |® *| (9% The selection of a suitable $+! {¥ book for a friend should not be + |# left to a haphazard last minute &| {% choice, On this book page you #| {® will find information that will (#] |* make you acquainted with them + 80 that you can choose wisely, * understandingly; so: that you # can find books that will prove &| never-fuiling friends to peo- | ple of all ages. The book world +! has friends for all + Biographies of Well-known Authors. Lieut.~Col. John McCrae. The late LisutsCol. John Me-| Crae, whose name will probably be! immortal, was born in 1872. He be | gan his course at the University of Toronto in 1888, and after complet] ing a course in science he took up | medicine. . Shortly after graduation | he joined the staf or McGill Uni-| versity, Montreal. Here he practised medicine, studied, wrote and taught except for the interval of the Boer War, until called to his country's service in 1914. i His military career began at the! age of fourteen when he joined the! Guelph Highland Cadets. Later he transferred to the artillery. He saw service in South Africa, where he! won the Queen's medal with three! clasps. He went overseas at the be- | gloning of the Great War attached | to the First Brigade Field Artillery, | under General Morrison. While on duty near the front lines he com-! posed his immortdl rondean, "In! 5 Flander's Flelds." After some time | {in the trenches he was sent back for | hospital work, and on June 1st, 1915, | i he was placed in charge of No. 3 Gen- | jeral Hospital, McGill unit, at Bou-| {logne, France. On January 28th,| 1918, while still at this post, he died | of pneamonia. At the time of his! death he was about to receive the! post of consulting physician to the | British armies in France. i Sir Andrew McPhail in concluding | his 'magnificent biographical essay, | writes, "Beyond all consideration of the intellectual attainments, John McCrae was beloved by his friends. He will be missed in his place and wherever his companions assemble there will be for them a new poig- nacy in the Miltonic phrase, 'But Oh the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return.' nin The Girl Librarian, : Library work appeals to the book- loving girl as a vocation. But as well us being a boek-lover she must be socially inclined and know how to {deal with people. She must know {her books and her people to be a suc- cessful librarian, The reference de- partment of a library needs a girl who knows thoroughly what is on the books, and according to an experi- enced librarian, "The right book to give to the right child at the right time." the children's Mbraries, and child- rén's work is the most fascinating department of the library world. Cataloguing, that has a dry sound. is the most interesting work of all to the true librarian, as it means ana- lysing the books from their subjects, and grouping them according to their subjects. of her general dealings with the activities of the town. and her per- onal management of the work sub- ject to the Library Board. Oppor- tunities for the library work are be- courses, of perhaps three months da- mation, are given in certain cities. j 3 § Bes» fF ; Ew E i i : 5 4 if pend le figs [ 5 4 4 E i i l ; iy H I : : i 2 i , i i "ew 8 4 a gi 2 i i 2 iE i ing fed somehow, { tion That should be the slogan of | bea: i fi.08 : AILY BRITISH WHIG ters, dain!" , So, for a while, neglected Nature muses, and then, if still ignored, turns to her own purposes and forgets. The trees leaf, the streams run, and all the growing things push upward whether one or a thousand be there to see. Only when left too long unhusbanded 'will Nature take her just revenge. Let man forsake her utterly and he finds himself for saken, Life that will not live with her finds that without her there is no life. Left with no one but herself to care for, Nature will go back to st--the tangled vine, the matted wood, the long lush grass--all the Waste, the riot and the beauty of the wild. Then man, in his man-made cities will hunger, and, hungering, will turn to her, begging to be taken back, a son once 'more. Such would be the logic of the case, but it is logic which i§ never strictly tested," There are always those who stay behind. Our fields are sowm, our harvests are brought in, our fruits are gathered. The city roars on, undisturbed, certain of be- ; : by someone. And still its hidden magic draws the young and the eager with it, and al- ways will--Isdbel Edclestone Mackay, in "Mist of Morning." : Notes of Interest For Booklovers. er ttt tet et ttt ttt Georges Duhamel, whose "Civiliza- | Was published last summer was before the war a successful | surgeon, and also the critic of poetry | for { the war as a surgeon on the front "Mercure de France." He spent lines, getting in the hospitals the material out of which he wrote "Civ | dlization." ---- A new novel b¥ Booth Tarkings ton is now on the market. It is en- titled "Ramsay Milholland," and it tells the story of the testing and choice of the Amerjoans, The first collection to be made of the short stories of William J. Locke Ils réady for immediate publication under the title of "Far-Away Stor-| les." The anti-saloon army of the Uni- ted States has distributed one hun- | dred thousand copies of Capt. R. P. 'Hobson's book, "Aleohol and the Human Race," as a feature of the prohibition campaign. : Marshall Jones Company, who last year brought out "Letters of Susan Hale," have now' published a volume of clever limericks collected by Miss Hale. David Pinski's dramas from the Yeddish, recently published under the title "Three Plays," are being brought out in England with an in- troduction by Israel Zangwill. William 8. Braithwaite has writ- ten "The Story of the Great War" for young. people, and it will be pub- lished this month by the Stokes Company. "Ventures in Common Sense" is the title of a collection of extracts expressing the philosophy of every- day life which is being published as the second volume of the Free Lance series edited by H, L. Mencken. . The publication committee of the Y.M.C.A. reports that it has distri- buted among soldiers and sailors during the war over a million oopies of "The Beloved Captain," which they reprinted fn pamphlet form from Dondld Henkey's "Student in Arms." ¥ Joseph Conrad's "Victory" has been dramatized in England. The house and tomb of Robert Louis Stevenson, the famous author, at Samoa, have been restored by the British. Under German rule his beau- tiful home "Valima," and the tomb ring an epitaph written by him- self, were almost ruined by neglect. Mauries Maeterlinck, Lord Deens- any, St. John G. Ervine and Robert Graves are among the European men of letters who will come to the Unit- ed States next year to make lecture tours. : : la John Norman Hall suthor of "Kit- chener's. Mob" and "High Adven- STR NE, LNB are | "tel against the 88 £xfa S51 I. - § | What I have given they squan- | der; what 1 would still give they dis- | the old ways, the ways she loves the | jtoem | be i younger generation of | ture.' is spending the summer at Mar- | tha's Vineyard, hard at work on the! history of the Lafayette Escadrille, { "The Fire Flingers," William J. | Nedig's new novel, is to be produced | {as a movie with Rupert Julian, who | | may be remembered for his perfor. mance in "The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin," as the here ul the story 3 is nothing if not a suc. cessful iconociast. 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Other guess included President of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, the Spanish Ambassa-| {dor and the Spanish Consul General and the Bishop of Southwark. i The Spanish Queen yesterday gave {a luncheon to the Marquis and March. | {fonéss of Milford Haven, the Marquis and Marchioness of Carisbrooke, and ithe Earl and Countess of Athlone. | TWO GERMAN NOTES | {Allies Asked to Hasten Direction of | ! Baltic Evacuation. | Paris, Nov, 1--Baron von Lers- ner, head of the German peace dele- | gation, has sent two notes to Paul! Dutasta, secretary of the peace con- | ference. The first asks that the Al- lies hesten the departure of thecom- | mission charged with the supervision | of the evacuation of the Baltic pro-! vinces. The second asks that a date! be fixed for a meeting at Berlin be- fore the treaty is in force, for the! purpose of reaching an agreement] regarding procedure in the German! evacuation of Upper Silesia, and to arrange measures to preserve order until the Inter-Allled commission takes over the functions of admin-| istration, | Peru Explains the Presence of Troops | Near Chile. ! Valparaiso, Nov. 1..._The recent] excitement regarding possible aggres- | sive designs by Peru against Chile is now accounted for by the arrival of Peruvian soldiers at Moquogua, Peru, | lessthan twenty miles srom the Chil-| ean frontier. The presence of the! troops, which aroused the suspicions | of the Chilean authorities apd inspir-| ed the departure of Chilean warships to the vicinity of the northern front- capital 'troops of whose fidelity he! was doubtful. The Chilean battie-| ship Captain Prat is about to sall for Mejillones, in Northern Chile. 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