PAGE SIXTEEN THE FINEST OF " gr Be en Fe -- THE NEW BOOKS ie TT THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Running the Gamut from Highbrow Essay to Irresistible Humor, these furnish a ready solution for your gift problem STORM IN A TEACUP. colony, and the regime of Lord Dur- | : ---- 3 ham in a way laid the foundatior i By Eden Philpotts, 303 pages. Price,| for the Union that followed in 1841 $1.90. The Macmillan Company, The Canada of those days, as des Limited, publishers. cribed in the opening chapters of the Eden Philpotts has the knack of lay-{ book, was not the Canada of to-day {ing the scenes of his novels in some| The two provinces of Upper and Low {busy industrial district < of England, ler Canada had very little in common {and weaving around its activities aiThe French Canadian hatred stil inovel of great strength. This is what burnt fiercely; and the narrow idea {he has done in "Storm in a Teacup," of the members of the Family Con | the background for which is a'paper-ipact still swayed Upper Cs. Ti {making factory. The attention of the! question of the Clergy Reserves wa: ; SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1019 began to fear that the oily possible ourse would be to let Canada become in_ entirely independent nation. But efore that was done Lord Metcalfe succeeded Sir Charles Bagot, and a new regime began. He was of a dif- erent type from Bagot, and he had trict mstructions from London not to ve way before the demands of the vformers i Canada. The result of $s governorship was the widening of ie breach between the two factions n Canada, and when hé was succeed- the kind of thing any westerner of the past quarter of a century takes as a matter of course. 1 had an Irish father who loved roaming .and to- gether. we took a yoke off oxen and a orairieglctooner and picked our way along fresh trail across the Duck Mountains in North-Western Mahi- teba. The distance from Dauphin to Swan Valley was approximately 128 miles, and we covered it in abont four days. We filed a homestead claim dnd then, leaving the oxen behind us! walked out again over the same trail and got 'the rest of the family. The ¥ next year the railway came into the valley--the "Canadian Northern--and my father and 1 went into the con- struction work and the cainps and managed to keep the family alive un- til we began to realize on. our first crop. It was during these months that I lived through much of what has gone into the making of "The Heart 'd by dword Elgin it was .seen that here must either be.a radical change n the system in force, or a second ebellion. ; The ministry of Lord Elgin marks he most important period of, the time nder discussion, To him belongs the redit of bringing together the ele- nents of Canada into a solid united ody before 1854" His work paved { reader is drawn to the attitude of a i 3 # . eo. | young wife to her husband. Shg had ] Y Il married him after making a choice be- emem I e i es en ou IS1 our Se er tween two rivals, one a brilliant work- 1 er of special intellectual ability and the other a commonplace, hard-work- ing man whose one great desire is to {have a bappy home life. The latter is the husband of the woman in the story, and at fhe Hime of its opehing rift in the blue o 5 vork ote Sosms oa Ron The girl has fe way to that greater union in 1867, of Cherry McBain," grown tired of the commonplace ex- ; ind Professor Morison gives him all I ardently worshipped the big fel Istence which she leads. She has : % ) Hs Praise that is his doe.y y Seen in the 11 oy" who bpd pao n fhl Pars her than aid Saker com. Elgin 'did more for the bringing to-| 3nd fell 8 tree so that it wouldu's arisons which 'are rather unfavour- gether of the races in Canada than| of Batt with the kT So rei Sble. between her lot and that of some any Sther Before his governorship age. Later I had it Ea Bn Pay Obes iy oh such an stiitade there "Not only do I consider the posses- Sieally and J Still believe 1 Nag Ihe ; the married couple becomes one long ion as worth no breach of the con-| "etter of 1t. I have never since round of bickering and quarrelling. _titution . . . . but in a national view . The woman takes advantage of this ! really hold these colonies to be and makes it appear as if her husband vorth nothing. Iam well assured that is brutal and cruel to her, and thus ve shall find very little worth the cost she gains the sympathy of all around they have entailed on us in men, with the exception of a few who really money. and in injuries to our trade; know her nature. nay, that their separation will be even Things gradually work to a climax. 10W a positive gain, so it be effected he ins Bragually an appeal to her on ricndly terms, and succeeded by former rejected lover, and he, stillia very contentious one, and there was hs e WnteTcoutse. loving, decides that he will 'take her| continual strife between the various the DE at da these days away from the misery that has been parties. 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He found the has eloped is too much wrapped up in|two parties suspicious of each other, his dreams to give her an equal place hating each other to a certain degree, in his life, and that she a gradu- : ally become a mere shadow of his greatness. This does not appeal to} her, and she once more turns her eyes | towards her husband, who has refused [to take divorce proceedings against her, and to release her from the mar- | riage tie which still binds him to. her. | Indeed, owing to the high moral basis on which the elopement was conduct- ed there was no ground for a divorce. So the remorseful girl creeps back into her husband's arms, to realize! | that her own dissatisfied mind was the! | cause of the estrangement and that "the better ties binding the Empire together. The mpire for the preservation of Can- ada as a British nation. 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I"graduated from - Wesley College in 1908 and since then I have been a preacher in Brits ish Columbia, a Y.M.C.A. retary in Spokane; a lot of things I don't care to mention in Winnipeg, a mem- ber of the ténching staff in Brapdon' College, and am now on the English (Continued on Page 17) E----- --_ , of the popular features of the gift sea- son, for, with a gramophone in nearly every home, the records will be play. : THARON OF LOST ALL Hops LEAD if VALLEY ! ed over and over again to the gre Ed < J light of the kiddies. These 'book: : By Vingie E. Roe Re. . | deli . sen at eer pv at the 'A 'stirring new movel by thé author various music stores. ' he « B ISH ACY AND Hien $1.60, | CANADIAN SELF GOVERN. | ; | MENT, 1839 1854. oye Ty POLITICS AND THE : BURNED [iif By. 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