SHED FROM HEELBNG MISERY | And o Dangerous Operution, Tiking RTA TIE Re SSS BOOK JINNY THE CARRIER. Le By Israel Zangwill, 575 Pages, Price $1.75, The Ryerson Press, Tor. onto, Publishers, The first novel from Zaungwell in many years comes | | from Engiand with a fine reputation; | The very name of the author at once | inspires respect and awakens great | { expectations. And never { the beginning to the end of the book | i 1s the reader disappointed. Jig { At the beginning the reader is in-| troduced to the old occupants of | Frog Farm, in the middle years eof | | the nineteenth century. In those days | {the railroad was ve 7 little used, | and the parcel pest was nou-exist- | ent, so Jinony Quarles, a Tight-heart- od young girl, occupied the positien {of carrier for the district of Brad- marsh, in Essex. This position came to hier owing to the failing health of | { her grandfather, and although the | tidea of a girl performing this kind | of Bbour distasteful to those | early Victorians, yet Jinny, by her cheerfulness, came to be accepted as 4 necessary part of the life of the countryside. At Frog farm lived old | | Caleb and Martha Flynt, a peculiar | couples, with differences of religious | belief which ¢ € many amusing | 8 had been blessed | y of sons, but the colonies, pen eof was Bthed pains. bow, down vin she back and sides of the body. 1 tried various remedies withontirelinf; sad then put myself wader avdoctor'seare and he advised me tobave na operstion, 1 refused. 3 Then, 1. started . taking 'Fruita fives'; and from the-outset, I felt beter, aodishic medicine has completely relieved we of all my misery and saffering. My weight was only 148 potmds andmow it is 168 pounds. J am five of painand hemizshes and the terrible Constipation jand whet saved me from misery is the splendid fruit meditine, 'Fruit a tives'. MRS. M..J. GORSE. Seca box, 6: for $2.50, Lrisl size 25¢, At oft dealers or sent postpaid by Fruita tives Limited Otiawa, Ont. ti stn ne PP ES GED SG SSN alone d were their son Will arri- r having spent ten years in! . Before his depart nn; staunchest yeiore she took On his arrival he finds take 3 trunk, and he | iocked at the idea of a lady doing rk. A battle of words ensues, and he carries off his trunk, vowing that never again shall she carry any goods to his home at Frog Farm. Pogr Jinny, she had expected quite 2 different greeting frém Will on his 1 al. She bad waited patiently for | sweetheart of former years to! rn from the west to claim her, 1 she was sorely disappointed by | ER one day 8 hat was carrier ady to BUMMER MONTHS BRING ASTHMA AND HAY FEVER, AND' THESE DiS- YRESSING DISEASES NEED EFFEQ- TIVE TREATMENT, Der J.D.KeLLoGa's Asma Renny WHEN BURNED EMITS AN "AGREES ABLE SMOKE, THE INHALING OF WHICH PROMPTLY ALLAYS [RRITA- TION. A TRIAL WiLL CONVINCE YOU OF ITS MERITS. treatment. But she had a large | t of pride, and she determined ing the young man to his senses, and at the same time to his knees. Then begins a bitter contest between the two, a contest which was desper- | tately in earnest to the two principals, { but which is highly amusing and en- tertaluing to the readers. Jinny on | nearly every occasion gets.the bet- | ter of Will, uatil, in carryidg on one | phase of the battle, he becomes pos- | sessed of a fine pair of horses. He | forthwith détermines to drive Jinny | fo br the Carrier off the road by setting | up oppositien to her, ard he very nearly succeeds. But providence in-| terfends, and a flood destroys all his belongings, and leaves Jinny's in tact. Indeed, his family are only saved from drowning by Jinny's re- | PrP A i nr in why? | Noll is drowned. once from p {of the sunlit | gloomy side of our lives. t "THE DAILY B and Faith takes charge of the ship. Daniel forces his attentions upon Ler ised, and when he atiempts to u ence but re se viol | she shoots him in the knee and dis- Ables him. Brander says no word of love to Faith, but they have a gilent understanding which is sufficient un- Ul the ship is brought home after a successful trip This is a stirring story of the sea The sufferings of Faith as she wit- nesses the slow decay of her hus- band's mind and body are vividly drawn by the author. Some fine de scriptions of whale fishing are in- cluded, and the whole story has the atmosphere of the salt water and the Open sea. The conclusion of the story { Is a pleasing one, for the author ends | {it in a soliition whith fs as satisfac- | tory to the reader | the captain's bride. as it is to Faith FERRER EDP PILS PES SeP PEPE PP * + - * + -* BOOKS. We get By béing ungenerous, book, calculating much help By so much reading er when We glorfeusly forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profund, Impassioned 1 no good, even in a And profits--so It is rath- "Tis then we from a bo the right 'good PHEF ERIE REPT REIT B. Browning + . PEPPER PERO EM SER 2 402 Victory Over Blindness. - We who are blind cannot se glory of the sunrise bf the sunset; we cannot see the tender beauties of the moonlit night inor the brightness of the stars; the | | hills, the woods and the fields. the | {seas and the winding courses of rivers are hidden from us: we ca {not see the buildings of our cities {nor our homes, nor the movements! tof lite nor ones, the faces of our There is much we cannot see; {there is one thing we will not see, if! we can help it, and is the is the gospel of Bt. Dunstan's --Viectory Over Blindness, by Sir Arth ir Pear- son, | Why Read Brow ning, the "Soul Dis- sector." Perchance you have been frighten- ed away from Browning's works by the general cry of "obscurity." You were afraid you could net stand him. at all; you will lose much by not € the} the splendour day§, nor the pageant | loved | * RITISH WHIG ow achievement and great As a study of ob y and mot- ives, then, his poetry appeals to us, and the iasight that t reading of it should give us the cred springs of human cond us to understand better men, and what more will help us te understand better is r --- Biographies of Well-known} Authors. i Theedore Roosevelt as Author. Colonel Roosevelt's fi: book, {largely the result of original studies {While still at Harvard, was a naval {history of the war of 1812 Then { with his enforced years on a ranch in the west {0 recruit his none tob {sturdy health, came his "Hunting YZrips of a Ranchman, and othex i volumes, and his "Winning of. the When, following the Span- st | West." {ish war he was plunged unexpectéd 11¥ into his canpaign for Governor of New York, the editure of Scribner's {magazine remarked to him, "This { Will interfere With your articles for {us on "Rough Riders?" "Not at gil." he replied, "you shall have the vari ous chapters at the time promised." And he falfilled his promise . "Oliver Cromwell" was written while he was governor "When he was President," said Mr. Bridges, 'the sent for me. and taking me into his Hbrary, opened a drawer in his desk, lifted out a complete manus i put it on his desk and said isn't customary for Presidents to publish a book during office, put 1 am going to publish this one.' We L over together the complete t of "Outdoor Pastimes of can Hunter.' Some of these papers he had written before Other chapters were the product of his hunting trips in Colorado and { Louisiana while President. The book was ready for the printér, title page To him the making of a was a delight He knew! all the machinery of it, and he read the proofs with the industry and accur- lacy of an expert i The literary work th; | joyed was writing his "Afri {Prails."" The whole book, even the | preface; was written hand, word for word, in t {the very heart of Africa. by chapter this narrativé was out by runners, with his "Brazilian Wilderness," and (he nsed a part of the same stock of iPaper that ha had taken to Africa. { Each block consisted of three shades t he best en- iplicate, in sent vallow, so that the original and two ivopiés were distinctly marked.' It was the same way | jarranged in orde y vhite i under B r, blué, white and Now, if you enjoy poetry | 2 art well pri belongs C ofthe re * t The Art OF Biography. hme A great It biography is a work 3, ROL goinere photograph led, w touched up. There to it some E that reative genius which 1 truth out aims of science and pre- of of serves it in the realms of imagina t € of facts | reporter recording the séquence t& reporter activities. lon. A great biographer is no mere thronicler moving in the arid world He is no mere conscientious of He iz no mere | editor arranging the vears as & tale it I! hat is told. He is all these, but he § 8 something more. He must possess | | that historical insight which goes be- | | hind the rounded fact and san trace | | causes upon causes. | activities in vital and | relationship with the spirit 'of { on' which he wor {®& way that he will work a He must récord | interpretive | his §t take the material up- | Ww s and sift it in such present in hisy complete and ade- He mu picture iquate, in which details will not de i stroy the unit of the conception; and it ih t t f {gard like weeds. rapidly swing it jor C contlict, iP C was a t fiction | war, or better still, the actual b already numerous I he whole does not, on the otheg rand, overshadow -anything essen- fal. The great biographer is he mediocre is common: the lourishes in the garden of the W. P. M. Ke 'The Bookman' N.Y rare; bad lug n Back to Normal. pendulum of - literature is back to normal, and ields of research that have lain more less fallow durin the war nce agaih under 'cultivation ng the first portion, at when The are Dur least the shock of shatiere all al and histor? and there marked falling off as 'well in he domain of the essay and even of To-day it is the book on the book on the is conspic pact 10Tm al w had i that 8 | and though there are volumes relations fighting, Y absence, new international dered by the cessation of hostilfties, | studies outside the sffhere of the re- cent struggle ind appearin ih can Game | his own | Shapter | jer and of imposing cha Pots * Epigrams From . William Allen White. ! i from tragedy. or the man brays, there's A story is a curious thing that grows with a kind of consciousness of its ewn. How a line divides comedy When the uss speaks comedy light A man at sixty years of age is either a failtre or a success. BEECHAM'S ve been made for sixty years and have the largest sal | medicine in the world! Sale of any sourcefulness, it was useless to fight any longer, and the two decide that partnership is better than opposition Jinny"s andfather astonishes her by elop- ! ng with a former sweetheart, thus relieving her of the responsibility of looking after him, and she then be- After this, of course, | i In civilized eountries the colonel {reading Browning. He has written | : in > {many simple but stirring pieces such generally dictated his articles and {as "The Ride From Ghent to Aix, | POOKS, buv.oade a most thorough re- "The Pied Piper of Hameln," "Herve | '1510R Of the typewritten copy, The Riel," and numerous short lyrics. $'®R98rapher who took his dictation { Begin on these and vou will get aifor Oliver Cromwell, said that he taste for his work, which wil Ae would appear in his stady with some j courage you to read further, even at! books of reference and a pad of me- comes Mrs. Will Flynt. The mere recital of the outline of | the romance. cannot for a moment tonvey to the reader| the worth of this novel. The characters portrayed, | their differences in religious sect, | their quaint manners and strange ideas all add to the charm of the story. A travelling showman, with an irresistible fund of humour, a funny | { old postman, and several other peo- | | Ple all figure largely in the plog and | provide many amusing incidents. But | | above all, one cannot help being | { struck with the manner in whieh the | author expresses his thoughts. His | { English is of a kind which is very | { rarely met with in a novel nowadays, | and the handiwork of a master is ap-| parent in every page. The reading | i public will be well pleased with Is- | | zaél Zangwill's return to the ranks + Of novelists with so fine a work." SA rote. A Ah THE SEA BRIDE, By Ben Ames Williams, 305 Pages, | | Price $1.75, The MacMillan | Company, Toronto, Publishers. | honeymoon trip spent on a wha- i ler om one of its regular trips is not P whl most girls would wish, but that { was the lot of Faith Wing, the newly | married bride of Noll Wing, the cap- | tain of a whaling ship. Noll was a | very much older man taan Faith, but she foved him devotedly. In her child- | hood days, when he was one of the | town's heroes, she looked up 'to him | as she would to a god, but never im- { agined that she would ever have the "good fortune to marry him. She was {| wooed by Daniel Tobey, a young | mate on Noll's ship, but she would { not Hsten to him, having no thought for guy other man but her hero. And { When he asked her to marry him, her { cup of joy was full. Although he was { about the same age as her father, , she went off on her strange honey- | | moon Ur4p with a happy heart. | { { reading, "Of Kings' Treasuries," | shown clearly the necessity of striv- {that you can understand {the cost of some effort. ' Ruskin, in his essays, on books and has ing with the work of an author, the importance of putting ourselves . in the author's place and seeing things as he saw them. This attitude is essential in the reading of Brown- ing's longer poems and his mons- logs. Take yy Last "Andrea del Sarto," "The Epistle to Karshish" and poems of similar Structure and style and ydu must first create a suitable background; you 'musi imagine at times a whole surrounding company of. characters. All this extraneous groundwork the | poet had in mind; you must en- deavor to get into his mind and see out of the windows of his iamgina- tion. How else can these poems be made clear to you. But just here is part of the bene- fit to be derived from reading Brown- ing. We will suppose that you have read some 'poam which presents the whole thought fully and clearly so that "he who runs may read," so it 'with scarce an effort. Even so, hew long will you remember any of it? But take another poem whieh makes you read and re-read. and 'ponder, yes, and makes you become for the time being a poet yourse by compelling the exercise of your creative imagi- nation in this case, your mind wiil glow with the effects of healthy ex- ercise,. and there will be something added to it in experience and in power, 3 - Browuing has heen called the "soul dissector" use he was not satis- fled with recording what people did, but he wanted to iry to show why they did it. He never got oyer that inquisitive spirit of youth which wants fo get inside the clock and find out why the wheels go round. "Browning, above all other English Duchess," | But sh found that life on the ves- sel was no bed of roses. The cramped quarters of the cabin, the rough sur- roundings and the manners of the | rough seamen proved irksome to her, and she found out that the Noli of the land was different from the Noll poets," says George Hamilton Fitch, an acute and broad-minded critic, "seems to have had the power of seizing upon a ¢ ter at a crucial time in life and laying bare all the impuldes tha impel one to high Pm Sa moranda. Then he would start to | dictate, and with hardly a pause (Would complete a chapter of histori- { cal narrative which demanded a very {careful knowledge of dates and | Places. This 'was not as easy as & | narrative of personal experiences, 1 {solves itself into a preparation it {Nevertheless it could have been print- | + § | generation sees its waves of altruism ied as it stood, with mere mechanical | proofreading corrections. | In addition to his { Trails,' the African trip wad re. | sponsible for the writing of the im- "African Game {place so dreary | washing up. t {portant two-volume "Life History of | | African Game Animals," in which he ! collaborated with Edmund Heller of {being caused i many rural homes: | ithe American Museum of - Nataral { History. Other books are his "His- tory as Literature and Other Essays," "A Book Lover's Holldays in the Open,» 'dnd his last book, "The Greay Adventure' a volume of pre- sent day studies in nationalism, dedi- cated "To &ll who in this war have paid with their bodies soul's desire." "One of the most delightful of all Colonel Reosevelt's books is "Theo ren." Only a short time before he died he said to the editor, Joseph Bucklin Bishop, "I would rather have this beok published than any- thing that has ever heen written about me." The 1latters cover a period of something over a dozen years. Among them are many which his children called "picture letters," with crude pen and ink drawings ex- pressing Colonel Roosevelt's abound- ing fun snd humor. He was the favorite companion and playmate of his children, joining heartily in all their sports and sharing with them their love of animal pets. The earlier letters tell of pillow fights and ob- stacle races in the halls of the White House or play hours in the old barn at Sagamore Hall, when "a stout, elderly President went bouncing over hayricks in a wild effort to get to the goal before an active mi et of a competitor, aged nine ¥ * Later letters show the 'father 'wise in 8 and sympathetic with his sons in their athletic sports and in- tellectual pursuits. : Ther. An of the sea. But still she did not let Her wander, but worshipped him with the words, ! love him----he is mine." ~~ But gradually his grossiisss at ses and his habits of futen ance mod Arutality towards the men 'caused. a | feeling 3 revulsion fo arise within moreover, the hard life he | had led was now having its effect upon him. and his strength was be- | ing sapped daily. Faith watches aver him. but she is helpless. to preveni his decay, and after 5% has mutilat- ed one of the sallors in a fit of vio. lent anger, Noll becomes a prey to the fear that this satlor is seaking | an opportunity to kill him. All the time Tobey 18 trying to de- siroy Faith's loyalty ie her husband and to win her over for Himself Thet there comes another man in- to the story. The ship tis a and Faith is drawn owe "him. This arouses Jealousy of Daniel, Who . Unmediaieln « basins - trouble, for heir | dore Roosevelt's Letters to his Child-" 8 where thege are ; - depriving them of an extra magazine, |.~ or two, or more newspapers, all not over the years and see the difference | lin development of those neighbors' | children who v { with ancabundance of the livest and | best periodical literature. a family of readers," quoted as saying, "and I will show |» yi Yet fate may stop the mouth of the man or ass, and in the dumb struggle for vaice, if fate turns the screws of destiny upon duty, there is a tra- gedy. Towns duals. The. journey around the sun ong and tumultueus one. The most dramatic agency in life $ time---time that escapes the stag- are curiously like indivi- is a ed drama. The business of life largely 're- for he next generation. In the ebb and flow of life every In all this world one finds no nd so desglate he heart of a fool. People Who Rule the World. A tremendous mistake and loss is! young people, in to | The loss is | watch ave one or two dollars. missed at the time, but came up surrounded | "Show me | Napoleon is | ou the peoples who rule the world." | h i fren 24th, is already requiring Achmed Abdullah, including the vol- ume, "The Honourable Gentleman and Others' are to be published in : French and Italian translations. of Interest to Book- lovers. "The Labrador Decter," Wiltred | I T. Grentell's autoblography, as been published only since October a reprint- ng of one thousand copies, - A number of the recent stories of A new novel by Robert Hichens. ! » Public Library Bulletin 9 | | No club has advantages larger than | which | | and its théme is spiritualis { England. & Chat after an iuldrval of more than two Years since his last one, is annoync- ed by the George H. Doran Com- pany. It is called "Mrs. Marden," m, Kate Douglas Wiggin, whose "Lad- ies in Walting" ix now ready for Ppub- Heatlon, is returning to the United States after several months spent in Among current literary threats is "The Hangman's Daughter," another romance written In that precocious childhood of Daisy Ashford. Jilich yielded "The Young Visiters."™ Lit sell Chesterton, the well-known English author, died of pneumonia France. : 3 Booksellers say for "Shingles," and "Straps as often as thed do for "Shaving" which 1 what really want. A . Tha Gorbam Press has just pub | in the title of Joseph Lincoln's : at a i 2 & SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1919, "ONLY TABLETS MARKED "BAYER" ARE ASPIRIN Not Aspirin at All without the Cross™ contains proper directions for Colds, Headache, Toothache, Earache, Neu ralgia, Lumbago, Rheumatism Neuri- tis, Joint Pains, and Pain generally. Always buy an unbroken package! Tin boxed of 12 tablets cost but of "Bayer Tablets of Aspirin" which a few ceats. 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