ST sr mmermonieen peri i LY BRITISH WHIG THE DAI EE R-- BOOKS AND THE Emo IS OL SSG A " PROWNED GOLD By Roy "Nopton, 268 Pages, Pric $1.80. The Houghton-Miny,.. Company, Boston, Publishers. Thé submarine warfare of Ger many, the sinking of a 'merchani Vessel with a cargo of three million dollars in gold and a Charming love Story all figure in this novel, which way to a recoguition of the claims of the workmen. Dr. Jonathan Pindar is the big man of the little play, for his ideas are the same as those which sack the German hordes until relief me. She does not make it seem as the American soldiers were the ¢hole show, but subordinates their sctivities to thelr proper perspective nd gives them only the amount of credit which is their just due. This attitude on the part of an American writer will do much to dispel the disgusting American cry of "We won I somewhat and bie theories as to the nianage- ment of the labour problem are far | in advance of his age, Hut they are | ideas which seem to point the way | AUTHORS | yourself, finally settle all the trouble. He is/ ways of the of a psychepathologist, | of the count We all know which prophecy , ize that books are. practical vin that It has been | they give the accumulated experi- In poetry as in the fightine forres-- | ences of many men; the other does leath has not spared the best-but-as | not appreciate the fact that the value the leaders fell, the"rank and file of theories lies not merely in know- carried on. Nor did the supply out- ing: them, but in applying them to run the demand; the readers of poet- | actual use. . ry multiplied with the writers. Now rr tht peace of a sort has come, the | perme on question reopens with the changing . . - Kindness in Business conditions. How will the cessation It is. a great privilege to have of the war affect poetry, itg writers and its readers? } an opportunity, many times a day, Yin the course of your business, to { do a kindness; to do a Kindnees { which is net to be paid for. Gra- {par or of deineanour is a large days. proved the right one. -------- . 5 Bulletin . Are You buying books for the: child ren this Christmasd Start the ohild- ren's book shelf right. Wa ten aid you im book selection for Christmas. Call in the Library and see our Gis- play of good books for Christmas for the boys and girls Consult our eatalogueiand lists You will find them of Vales er str a book written by people you know, and who can describe the scenery so vividly that you can almost. see it and who understand the people and the customs ry they are describing. No matter which country you wish to know more of, there is always a good bobk describing it to your sat- isfaction, with an interesting ro- re ------------_ MEASURE UP YOUR READING. Have you ever chanced on some | work by a famous writer and won- dered why you found it hard to read ~--why you could not get anything from it to repay you for the effort part of the "duty of any official person who comes in contacts with the world. Where a than's busi- York daily. He has written advertis- ing copy for a lad advertising is written in autobiographical style. The narrator of the story is the cap- tain of a vessel, which he acquired @fter he had sold out his interest in A company left him by his deceased father. The captain had been am of- ficer in the Unitéd States Navy in pré=war days, but long before the States entered the war he had been . Betlve in carrying cargoes to France and Great Britain, and had a fine record for his work in dodghg sub- mar.nes. Ap interesting character in the story is hié chief engineer, Jimmy Martin, who, besides be An engi- TUUWeer 15 the Inventor of a device that is to revolutionize warfare and sal- ¥age operations, The Germans are on the track of the invention, and for safety's sake Jimmy does his ex- perimental work on board the "Es- ! the name of Cap- peranza,'"' which is tain Thomas Hale's ship. While on a voyage to a South Am- : erican port an accident occurs, and the ship puts into port. Thera the captain meets an old French patriot, Who desires to send three million dollars in gold over to France. Cap-, iain Hale accepts the commission, | and starts off on his journey. their is a spy aboard, keen to secure be plans of Jimmy's invention. The Bat || the war." Then, w she visuali country of ed his par difficulties when he throws off the uniform and gets back the proper: derstandin the new a which will be based on the accom- plishments years from 1014 to 191 -}-Preases-herself-inthis way "I feel watch the Sana i» Ship" is torpedoed with the gold || Dream-thralled, u to a settlement of all strife and trou-| ble in labor circles all over the world. Outside of the development of his ideas, there is little of outstanding note in the play. There is, of course, the romance of Minnie and George, which terminates happily,. but that is hardly touched on. The real object of the play is to show the proper modern method for untangling the new social problems which confront the world. He holds up true industrial democracy as the saving power of the world..and sug-| gests that the men who fought for democracy. and liberty on the battle fields will be the leaders in the fight 1 4 ith the viston of a seer, zes the return to his home the warrior who has piay- t in the war, She sees the which will confront him into *'civies," and she has note of sympathetic un- g for him. She believes in ristocracy, the aristocracy in patriotism during the 9. She ex- more every day, while' I old regime--another old N - - AT A BOOKSTALL True Poet, I have lingered o'er thy page, With heart a'throb; among the tattered books, As one who wanders idly through dim nooks Finds a rare flower at last; so. unknown image, [ found thee on the vendor's stall, the age, Rolled backward suddenly; mid amber stook: Ruth gleamed again: in evening glow the »éoks Round Camelot's towers swung, the unholy rage Of the crass mart died from my ears; and there nheeding racuous cries, I stood ing flame o'er Ilion fair; purple sailed, spurned the wide flood; tion. Seeing the morn Beaked galleys, mance in the bargain. Adventure! and perils. than to follow* known lands and their discovery of new country, and of minerals, es- pecially gold. dangers, and ©f how they risk their lives time and agai. These tales of brave men Crime! Have you ever felt the ex- citement of chasing an criminal all over the world with 2 rwondertul detective on h resting out clues. You read of fam- ous crimi There is crime in fiction. And then we have wonderful books {{ of the world war {| the war ridden countHes. || thrilling tales of stratage {and sea and the life di | the army, |i read tales of bravery almost || belief. { tireless energy of i These are only | Jects that {| much will never kn | missing, for the love of books is a | wonderful thing, The books of thrills What is more thrilling the characters to un- tate to in the You You read of 'their are and women. imaginary is trail, fer- ngl cases solved by science, nothing more exciting than sion," might and romances in There are m on land seipline in navy and air forces. We beyond How much we all owe tothe our fighting men. Some of the sub- are written about in fic- People who do net read very OW what they are of Kip among dis, i It is ment a and life would be of reading it? there was really nothing worth might honestly In asserting, that, is probably the the wprld has prodiced, there are portions of his works which omitted from your reading any loss to you. | worth's sonnets are among 4! we can find in English literature, there are passages in his "Excur- utterly valueless from view, and some of his 'est school boy. lead you to look and because 'his the Hills" enable that there will be 'In "The Jungle Book * that are uni best work o after that, Yet you would hesi- that while you say, even to yourself, book. But, no doubt, have said so. commit no literary sacrilege while Shakespeare greatest dramatist may be Svithout Although Words. the best which are tedious, prosy and Any posat of minor poems have been written by the ver Your appreciation essional" need not for literary gems his "Barrack Room Ballads" "Plain Tales from you to see real .In- is not necessarily implied anything for you ling's "Rec t advisable to cultivate discern- nd judgment by reading books versally regarded as the f the best authors, but, you must be your own ness is, there is the place for his religion to manifest ftself. (Biographies of Well-known Authors. "ries lt Masog -- What reader of the Whig is not an admirer of Walt Mason, humor ist, poet and newspaper paragraph er? Although looked upon as an Ameriéan, Walt was born at Colum- bus, Ontario, a little village in On- tario County a few miles back of Oshawa. * He went to the United States' in 1880. He has been asso- clated with different American news- papers, and has had an adventurous career, being down and out eh more than one occasion.. He has always risen. above his misfortunes, how- ever, and when he began to syndi- cate his prose poems he first knew what success meant.. Since 1907 he has been associated with William Al- len White on the Emporia Gazette' His rirymes and prose poems are syn house which asdvesti ' everything from collar buttons to "Pierce-Ar- rows". He has done a great deal of photo-play work and has coMaborat- ed with many authors on successful books. He finishes the story of his life by saying. other jobs that it wouldn't do to put into print, but my book is the first important job to me" ---- ® ea ty Johan B . Johan Bojer, the jeat Norwegian novelist, and authoginf "The Great Hunger," was borfiil# Trondhjem, Norway, in 1872, the of a poor serving girl who wis' le to take care of him. She put him in the hands of a peasant family, Who rear- ed him as their own child. He at- tended the village school, and later, while working for a 'merchant. he studied at the latin school. Denied the benefits of a formal edueation. he made up for it by living and work ing in various countries, observing life of all sorts and conditions. While still a young man he returned to his rative village and attended a mili- tary school for two and a half years, devoting much of his time to read- , ing extensively in European litera "And I have had many 4 Stel § The Aegean burn Caught the brigh ed; while Helen's sun-kissed hair t sheen as in a golden snood. . --JAMES B. KENYON. aboard, but the Germans fail to se- i cure the plans, which at the end are || Safe in' Jimmy's hands, Li . Time passes until the war ends, || and then Jimmy and Captain Hale, | : on board a specially built submarine, | regime--going out, that there is to f th ae ranivage ihe sapken hip! be an aristocracy of achievement. 1} !.¢ upholds. He is a little too radieal | veach the: scene they find the former hope that every one with real heartf 1. ae minds of the Canadian veter- German submarine commander on and true sentiment will cultivate that | au «t least, for they have shown idea, and that every family that has * that they have no sympathy the scene before them. In a battle of | | 8 boy over here---whether he retdrns hose of questionable national- wits and blu they eliminate the «0 seek to create labour dis. to them or not--will be taught to be- Serman and Telutn to Sask the trea- lieve in the new aristocracy, and to se i. But his ideas provides food Sommanded this time by Miss Marty | cherish and proudly hand down to} fu ought; Ald, Jt might be a good Bterritt a girl 'who many Yours be- future generations of the family the, t f his play were produced on fore had captured Captain Tom's ! memory of the boy who fought in the s stage, butgereferably not jn Ca 1 t. They agree to £0 into partner | Great War, and that every town and n » Where the public would ho hip fo the hunt for the treasure ana | SitY and village will have, in the resent his plan 'of settling the P : ables of the world. | } } wv vYww wv - che Ww. ity : French fashion, {inscribed on the $htoush Se a ot Jimmy So iiah walls of one of its public buildings, the list of its heroes." are made wealthy and happy for the Test of their lives. Is there not something very true This is a fine, exciting novel of ad-| 20d &rand in this idea? Speaking to . : the people of a city lke Kingston, venture, There is an irresistible ap- | peal in Stories of this kind, and 'Mr, | ¥hich has had so many of its sons N # on the national Hst of heroes, it hr as ten a vivid arrative, ms like an inspiration in View of » s i .{ the fact that nothing has yet been Shlenaid geonle ang 4 rug and teh done to perpetuate the names, of our local heroes. Here is an idea and an roy ihe ou Bijtien that 89.40 make inspiration which should cause con- P a delighttu Peo | siderable thought. Mildred Aldrich Own not far from London, England, | | Speaks from the rich experience of 2nd they would have got along very | MARCH. | THE QUERRILS. By Stacy Aumonier, 272 Pages, Price 6s, Methean and Company, Lid, | London, Publishers, The Querrils are a pecdliar fam- lly. They are self-centred. and the herd instinct of self Protection is de- veloped in them to an intensive de- gree. They are situated in a small & life lived in the midst of war, of a ticely were it not for the fact that | | life of five years spent in giving suc-- the three sons get into some kind of | | cour to the sick, the wounded, the Settlement work Amongst the poorer | refugee and the homeless. Her latest Classes in London, and in their. Ja- | book of letters from her hilltop on bors "disaster overtakes the family, | the Marne is full of suggestions and It Wgmld be impossible for any self. | full of interesting and vital light on Téh 8 newspaper to fully. review | 8 subject which has been a source of on account of the revolting | great perplexity ever since the boys details which crop up 'in every oth- | began to come home from the war or chapter. The Querrils are indeed a | zone. For this reason, if not for its Strange family, Their policies 'of in- | literary excellence, it is well worth terfering in other things than those | while. concerning their own private affairs | seem to lead them into trouble. But | -_-- their system of drawing a mantle of | DR NATHAN protection around the erring mem- J. Jona x. bers of their family is, in the®ars: | By Winston Churchill, 159 Pages, Place, perhaps a natural trait, and, Price Maemiian 0 the second place, the cause of Compe 31.35: adhe much perversion of character, . pany, . » ! The idea in the mind of the author An churchill, a aiiimous is not a very wholesome one. He uses ranks of novelists to write "Dr, Jo- the disasters of the Querrils to bring nathan," a play in three acts, The Out the thought that it is not wise play was written during the war, to undertake any reform in which but no manager could be found who ©°0B€ might be blamed for interfering bad sufficient cour to produce it, in any other person's affairs. He _ owing to the err 'on labor Stems to suggest that even the war questions to which he gives expres- Was nothing more or less than an sion through the leading characters, Unwarranted interference in the af- The Pindar family, living in a New fairs qf a country which did not England town whieh boasts of a concern us. The reviewer cannot for large munitions factory, are the chief ® Moment countenance this {dea, characters. Asher Pinger 1s tho Shel Tog, In addition. mace. Shi might ; ude to- Dave tried to work it out without or of the Hctory and his pre to bringing in the sordid details of a case of criminal assault and the WHEN JOHNNY COMES ING HOME By Mildred Aldrich, ¥86 Pages, Price $1.00, The Musson Book Com- y Toronto, Pubiishers, ALE the war, and even in Lhe -e@rly aays when the Germans CALS 80 close to Paris, Mildred Ald- ficn, an American writer, hved in a Littie house on a hilltop overlooking khe 'Marne; that river which on two occasions proved to bé the grave of the Huns' hopes and ambitions. From her ttle hilltop sanctuary she sent home to America long letters full ot the 'war; 2 of the sufferings of the pd a of the heroism of France and of the courage and devotion of her soldiers. Four of these books of letters 'have al been published, and they ich to Jet the ] 8 sons. in rom a large » ldred Aldrich has letters, ¢ i CXomes" Ring. Home," dealing ore par iy with the closing ys 488 war and with the period wing. slening of the armis: ce. it Fo © WAldrich's viewpoint of the War is the viewpoint of one who has | f it, from the first | wards his employees is th seen. the whole o Bark a until the glorious days of.| much trouble. He treats ¢ % fiction, the value is practically Hmit- ment of the strike by opening up the ie 19 15 Shoonaehr 13 : for ignorance nowadays, for people with only a limited education ean improve themselves by reading good books. Fiction embraces so many different phases of life, * including music, drama, art, romances ee 2 So: clety and politics, travel, p 'n modern history, religion, adventure crime in all its branches, and won derful tales of the world war. We have romances in society, politics and commerce that give enlightment on the different ways of the world. You read of h nd ietory, Ler are brimful of | but he will on no account recognize death aftér court-martial of a man touching personal experiences, but their tinions, and this is the cause of Who really wis a gallant officer and they dg not stop there. They are | the dissension. His wife, Augusta, jg 8°ntleman. The taint of indecency more #f au analysis of the emotjons a woman who would, in the terms rune all through the book. It is sor @t the French people during the last | of the immortal Bobbie Burns, be tainly not one which any man could dundred days of the war, of the | called one of the "unco guid." Yet recommend to his 'wife, far less to 3 the strength of America | her attityde towards Minnie Farrell, bis family, and it is one of these no- Es to France to take! a girl of the town, Is most unforgiv- vels which should never have been lg. great ict. She tells | ing, probibly because she suspects Written in its present farm. For the Bess of ti ch. people | that there is somg kind of an en- 200d of English literature, it is to In welcoming the American soldiers, | gagement with her son George. This be hoped that it passes away With she does not make the mistake | son is really the main Character in out a wide reading. ; 4 upon their | the story, "for .at the by ning he RE try Skis tells of the | goes off to the war, est his 're. THE VALUE OF CURRENT BOOKS when "the "British and | turn, in a battered. condition, it is he It is rather a difficult task to gi ve French had their 'backs to the wall | who makes the way clear fo & settie- an idea of the value of good curren and were fighting unaided to keep + ONLY TABLETS MARKED # i ' ! ' -~ -DATER": ARE ASPIRIN Sai ig Ad -; - Not Aspirin at All without the "Bayer Cross" or this industrial democracy whicha w | pre-oceu poor indeed if th literary adviser. Measure up what ing was denied u dicated in newspapers all gyer Can- you read by its value to you. ada and the United States. ture. When he left the army he went to work with a village grocer, who soon discharged him for having lefts | the plug of a petroleum barrel open. He finally, having produced a success ful one-act play, "A Mother," gave. his whole time to literature. He has written a number of dramas, two vo- lumes of short stories .and several, novels. Lex ign @ pleasure of read. 8.~~Gladys Meclver. ---- POETRY AND THE WAR, When the war broke out, people ere concerned as to the effect it would have upon their own special pations. Particularly dia those who were interested in poetry WOTTy over that art's reaction to the world upheaval, There were those who predicted its barrenness, if no THEORETICAL VS. PRACTICAL This is an age of tolerance, yet there is much narrow-mindedness. The man who has gained his knowl- sdgo of a subject by practical ex- péfience often has a well-defined contempt . for book-learning.. The pedant who quibbles about fine Joints of theory and seeks his infor- nation always from books, looks lown from his pile of accumulated { ling salesman. He was a reporte r acts and sees the purely practical | and special feature writer on differ than in less stirring ang Prosperod. man as a mindless automatom. Both:{ ent newspapers 'gud. has tonducte re Wrong: The one fails to real-lan edftorial column on a large New - Be miner EE -------------------- a THE FREE BOOKLET CON. * TAINS THE FOLLOWING SUBJECTS: Chieftains of a Vanishing Race (Frontispiece in 8 Colors) The Sun and His Family What Our Skin Is Like How the Nails Grow on the Robert Gordon Anderson. Robert: Gordon 'Anderson, author of "The Cross of Fire", is sales ma nager of G. P. Putnam .and Sons. H¢ has had a varied career. At seven teen he taught in a country school house. 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