THE DAILY BRITISH-WHIG ON THE MAKALOA MAT. By Jack London. 220 pages. Price $1.60. The MacMillan Compaay, Toronto, publishers, When Jack London died recently & number of manuscripts were founc amongst his belongings, some 0: them which had never been publish- ed. They were taken charge of, and the majority of them have pow been printed. The last of the list has now been published under the title "On the Makaloa Mat," a volume which is composed entirely of short stories of Hawalian life and legendry. The book as a whole gives a fascinating description of life on these pictur- esque islands of the Pacific, and the London touch is prominent through- . out the entire list of tales. The stories ineciude all kinds of yarns. The characters in them are mostly 'native Hawaiians, 6f half- whites, three-quarter and even seven- eighth whites, and are mostly digai- fied descendants of the former rwers of Hawall, Intermarriages with the white inhabitants has brought about a strange mixture of modern ideas and old mysticism, and Jack London plays upon this string in an appeal- ing and beautiful melody of story. The old legends of the race are told through the lips of the old ruling families, and they gain much by their telling from "the pen of a master writer. The story called "Shin Bones" is perhaps the gem of the whole collection, and it shaws the conflict in the mind of a descendant of the ruling house, between the ideals of his modern education and the promptings of hid aged mother. 'The transition from the old to the new generation has been remark- able, and his mother's worship of the bones of his ancestors leads him into a strange and exciting adventure. The story df how a successful re- wivalist induced a Hawaiian 'hula- house mistress to "tell her soul," and to divulge all the secrets of her past, to the chagrin of those connected with it and the amusement. of the | younger elements in the island, is a | splemglid bit of work, and is also one | of the best in the collection. «. the stories are good, with the true "Jack London touch, and they will . help to perpetuate his reputation as & writer of colorful and worth-while fiction. BROAD HORIZONS. By W. Everard Edmonds, 224 pages. $1.50. The Musson Book Come pany, Toronto, publishers. "Broad Horifons' is an unusual type of book. It strikes at once a + deeper sounding and higher pitched note in Canadian literature, - and deals with big subjects in a tremend- ous way. Aft a time when there are big problems ahead of the statesmen of this country, when the national .Jife of .Cagada, is, as it were, in the melting pot, its appearance should be hailed with much satisfaction. The book consists of a series of short essays dealing with. various subjects' connected with the govern- ment, history, educational problems, Iterature and church life of Can- ada. The beauty of these-sketches which make up the book ig found in the splendid way in which they are written. The descriptive work in "Nightfall on the Prairie," "Indian Customs and Legends" and other stories is worth reading, and the Ks- torical content of other articles is of great interest to all students who love to connect up the incidents of the past with the future outlook of the Dominion. Every Canadian will be interested in "The Dawn of Do- minion," which tells the story of the Confederation of Canada; "The New Era," which deals with Canadman problems of to-day; "The Cuy Beautiful," "The Hudson's Bay Com- pany," and 'The Barly Ranchers ana Lowbays. . "Broad Horizons" is a book whica shouldehave a very strong appeal to & wide circle of readers, and, as its title suggests, it gives a broad out- Jook on a number of subjects which are of vital interest to all creeds and of people. OVER THE CANADIAN BATTLE. FIELDS. 4 . { By J. W. Dafoe. 80 pages. Price, $1.00. Thomas Allen, Toronto, blisher pu! . J. W. Dafoe, & wéll-known Chn- adian newspaper man, who represent- 'ed the Canadian Press at the Peace Conference, 1s the author of a little book describing an after-war trip over the various battlefields in France and Belgium over which! the Canadian troops fought their glorious battles during the war. He was gn en permission to ake this trip by . General Sir Arthur Currie, and his But all | P THEIR AUTHORS mpressions and descriptions of arions areas were published in wpril; 1919, tn the Manitoba Free 'ress, Winnipeg. -At the request of nany friends these articles have now een reprinted fm permanent form, and they make up an interesting and ceadable liftle volume. The author tells how he travelled over the battlefields of Vimy and Lens, and over the scenes where the Canadian corps broke the flower of the German army in the closing stages of the war. He tells how he followed step by step the Canadian advance during the last hundred days. His descriptions of the battle- fields arg graphic and yet simple in their intensity. With the graves of thousands of Canada's best manhood on all sides, the observer of adian origin could not fail to be im- pressed with the solemnity and yet the grandeur of the sight. His ob- Servations on viewing the scene of the battle of Vimy Ridge are worth recording. "The tide of war had flowed past and left the wrecked countryside va- cant, the huts empty and abandoned save for, here and there, a handful of men engaged in salvage work, the roadways, once swarming with life, deserted and silent. Over all deso- lation and loneliness rested like a pall; everywhere the wreckage of vattle, the debris of destruction; everywhere the Sense of man's mor- | tality. A grim and melancholy ex- | panse; yet withal holy ground, for {lier« men by the tens of thousands died for mankind." To all who took part in the cam- paign in France and to any who have hopes of visiting the graves of lost | relatives, this book will be of great interest, for it will act as a guide to {the places where Canada made his- {tory on the battlefields of Europe. | LEAVES OF EMPIRE. | By William Ewart Grant. 58 Jages. Price, $1.00. The Ryerson Press, /~ Toronto, publishers. This little book of new Canadian poet, Willlam Ewart | Grant, has as its subtitle "Poems of | Reconstruction and Social Demo- jeracy."" Throughout the volume are | scattered a large number of poetic | gems, dealing with subjects which {are very near to the hearts of men | at the present time, and touching up- fon the vibrant chords of humanity {and world work. The poet, with a | falry touch has transformed his in- nermost thoughts into little gems o | poetic expression, and the result is | one which will be very pleasing to all lovers of pure and sweet poetry. The {long and short poems are all of a | very high type of art." The writer | possesses the true poetic gift, and | reveals one of the most distinctive | notes in the noblest of poetry---that | of a passion of true and clean living {and for a high standard of ideals in | individual, national and international | affairs, {. Amongst the long poems the best {1s "Lord Selkirk's Dream," dealing | with the dream of Lord Selkirk {| when he planned to colonize Canada { with people from the fighting races of Scotland, so that they could there become a magnificent asset to the Empire in time of stress." How his dream was fulfilled was demonstrat- ed by the splendid response of the Scotch-Canadians to the call of war. The subject is dealt with in a stir- ring and yet pleasing manner, and this poem alone would be sufficient to make a name for its writer. The short poems are many, and deal with varied subjects, mostly with the nature life of Canada. Ons, however, seems to analyse the psy- chology of the returned soldier who has not been able to settle down sasily into the routine of civilian e: **O Hst to the wandering wind of the west, The children of daylight have been caressed, * In silence the sun -has retired to his all rest. An infinite feeling creepy into my breast, An infinite yearning for infinite quest, O wist ye wandering wind of the Ww j est. Another little gem ds entitled "The Joy of Living:" "When the blossoms appear pink and white On the old apple tree, When the robin is warming the eggs In her nest cozily, When the bee woos the flower for the nectar They willingly give, I tell you, my dearie, it really is pleasant, : Most pleasant to live." These are only two from a splendid collection. This little volume of Re) Sn 7a vg. eam 'another rebel, 5 ok wg 2, 1898, Chinese rebels defeated st yesterday's puzzle: Right side down, at hat and shoulder. fe ix A ahs ig ' x ; : Nl J ai i \ Can-' the | poems, by a |% poems will be welcomed not oiiy-foxr Choice Extracts From Books. their distinetive character and worth, but as some of the first flowers of Canada's great and new springtime of national life. Books and the War. Authors and publishers are now seeing the war as something belong- ing peculiarly to literature, to the kind of publication that promises permanence, and not merely to the type of book that gains a hearing Du- cause it is avowedly based on the handling of matters of a purely cur- rent news interest and that is not ex- pected, at best, to reach beyond' a circle of readers limited to the brief- est fraction of a generation. Thus the war has become a more import- ant featuréd in this season's publica- tions than formerly in the sense that the current books devoted to this great theme are more uniformly, lastingly valuable .than the multi- tudinous books of the kind that im- mediately preceded them. We have fewer war books, but those that we have are vastly better; a number of them, indeed ,bid fair to retain a per- manent place among thé important works of history. It is into history, as a matter of fact, that the war books of to-day and the immediate future are drifting. SEPP PPPS REPO eb ed MAN. . Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and perfect man Commands all light, all influ- ence, all fate. Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts the angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. - e ~John Fletcher. Personal Choice in Reading | Let us mot take our reading too anxiously. There aré more than a hundred good books in the world. The best hundred for you may not the best hundred for me. We ought to be satisfied if we get some- thing thoroughly good, even thought it be mot absolutely and unquestion- ably the best din the world, The habit of worrying about the books we have not read destroys the plea- sure and diminishes the profit 'of those that we are reading. Be seri- gus, earnest, sincere in your choice of books, and then put your trust in Providence and read with an easy mind. Any author who has kept the af- fection, interest and confidence of thoughtful, honest readers through at least one generation is fairly sure to have something in him that is worth reading. provincialism in literature, even that which 'comes from Athens. You like Tolstoj and George Eliot; I like Scott and Thackeray. You like Byron and Shelley; I like Wordsworth. You admire the me- thods of Stubbs and Ibanez; I still find pleasure in Macauley and Car- lyle. Well, probably neither of us is wasting time, Jordan is a good river. But there is also plenty of water in the streams of Abana and Pharphar.--Henry Van Dyke. Biographies of Well-known Authors) Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Ella Wheeler Wilcox died at her home at Short Beach, Connecticut, on October 31st, 1919. -She left Am- erica in February, 1917, to do work for the Red Cross, and, with eha- racteristic energy, continued her activities long after the state of her health demanded complete rest. Mrs. Wilcox tells us in her auro- biography, "The Worlds and 1," that she was born in 1856 near Madison, Wisconsin, and that she ascribes her literary career to prenatal influence exerted upon her byyher mother, who for many months before her birth committed to memory many books of poetry. At an early age she began to eke out the family fortune by writing and selling verse, and her first published poem was "Life," bought by the Frank LedHe Publish- ing House whea she was fifteen years old. About a year after the publication of her famous "Poems of Passion," Miss Wheeler married Robert M. Wil- cox, a business man from Meriden, Connecticut, and came to live in the east. Their union was a remarkably happy ome, and, Mrs. Wilcox was prostrated after the death of her husband in 1916, Although Mr. and Mrs. Wilcox had been igterested in spiritualism ever si eir mar- riage, Mrs. Wilcox became even more convinced that she would eventually be able to communjcate with her .| Ethel Dell, In Let us keep out ot ah 5 i £ f 52 EE] Cain killed Abel, undoubtedly be- 'cause of the shiftless life he led. In- dolence and ignorance being the or- der of the day, he lacked the stamina with which to control his mind. His physical forces merely acted in econ- larity, Cupldity led him om, but if Cain hadn't lost his head through the lack of will to control himself, the example of murder might never have been set. before mankind. -- Douglas Fairbanks in "Making Life Worth While." : Poor Mrs. Ralston holds such a high opinion of everybody," . she said, "that she must meet with a hundred disappointments a day." -- "The Lamp in the Desert." . : In the beginning man's struggle was 13 te, and the mainstay of life was id, Perhaps the original dis- coverér of wheat was a meat-eating savage, who, roaming' in the forests and fields, forced by staryation to eat bark and plant and berry, came upon a stalk of grain that chewed with strange satisfaction. Perhaps through that accident he becdme a sower of wheat. Who actually were the first sowers of wheat would never be known, They are older than any history, and must have been amongst the earliest of the human race.--Zane Grey, in "The Desert of Wheat." "One gets so infernally -sick of everything happening according to fixed rules," I continued, "and the more you learn the nearer you are to the deadly abllity of being able to foretell the future. If we ever do reach that point in our intellectual evolution, I only hope that 1 shan't be there to see it. Imagine the awful ennui of a world where the expected always happened, and next year's happenings were always expected. And yet we go on seeking after knowledge, when we ought surely to avoid it, as the universal kill-joy.""-- J. D. Beresford, in "The Jervaise Comedy." What is a poet? It is to see at a glance the glory of the world, to see beauty in all its forms and manifes- tations, to feel ugliness like a pain, to resent the wrongs of others as one's own, to know nature as botan- ists know a flower, to be thought a fodl, to hear at moments the clear voice of God.--Lord Dunsany. It is one of Fate's hardest rules that in one way or another we pay for our 'ecstacies. The mote golden the moment the more dull and cloua® ed must seem the hours that follow; and it is just because we have seen that-magic green shimmer on the breaker's crest that the grey of those smooth waters looks to us so leaden.--Berta Ruck, in "The Dis- turbing Charm." During the war a soldier was tried for assaulting a sergeant. He was asked by the prosecuting officer, "Now, please tell us. at once, without y prevarication, did you or did you not strike the sergeant?' The prisoner cogitated Tor a mo- ment, then he answered brightly, "The answer is in the Infirmary." -- Arthur Greening, in 'The 'Better Tarn." -- If a woman likes a man a little, it is bis own fault if he cannot make her like him a lot. Married life Is a wonderful system of give and take; but until you get married you never know which to give and which to take. There is no such bore as a really intelligent person being. intelligent at the wrong time and in the wrong place.~--~W. B. Maxwell, in "A Maa and His Lesson,' Bd WHY READ OCARLYLE., THE APOSTLE OF WORK? There is a pretty firmly. establish- ed theory in the mind of mankind at large that labor is a curse which has descended to us as a result of the sins of our first pareamts. In conse quence of this illogical and irrever- ent theology, we are {the majority of us) for ever endeavoring to secure happiness by escaping work. Car lyle's message to his age--a message which is needed even more by us of the present day, is a powerful anti- dote to the deadening and discour- aging mental attitude forced on us by this false theory. Read in Carlyle's "Past and Pre- sent," his inspiring chapter on "Labour" and, if it does mot arouse you to a sense of the dignity of work and the responsibility upon you as a laborer----no matter what your call- ing--then, God pity'you! You were better off the earth. "For there is a perennial noble- ness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, so for getful of his high calling, there is al- ways hope for the man that actually and earnestly works' says the dour Scotch philosopher, and he lived his own gospel. Mark Twain once wrote, "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler-- and far easier," but Carlyle not only sopnded the trumpet call to work; whole life was an earnest example : 2s Bx bo 3 CH bf sonance with his rage at Abel's popu- |- willing to do some delving in order te obtaln the precious ore of thought, you will be carried along throweh the valley of doubt to the mountains of faith. . 'Carlyle's "French Revolution" ia another notable work, but not to be undertaken hurriedly. Preface your reading of it by the perusal of some shorter and more general outline of this revolution, and then read Car- lyle slowly for the minutely detailed pictures and the flesh and blood characterizations of the chiet partici. pants in this great social upheaval. But by all means read Carlyle. Ralph Connor. To the Rev. J. A. Macdonald, when editor of "The Westminster," is given the credit of the discovery of Ralph Connor, or rather the Rev. Charles W: Gordon. When the lat- ter was down from Winnipeg attend- ing a meeting of the Home Mission Committee, and was trying to impress upon the editor of the church paper the importance of presenting to his readers the newds of the west he was told: "Anticles are no good if they have only facts and statistics and exhortations. Give me a sketch, a story, a thing of life. That will touch the imagination and give a basis to your appeal for help." Out of this suggestion grew the sketches that afterwards made up the tale of "Black Rock." Charles W. Gordon was born In Glengarry County, Ontario, in 1860, his father being a Presbyterian mini- ster, the Rev. Daniel Gordon. He spent some years of missionary work in the Rockies and it other western points, afterwards becoming pastor of St. Stephen's church, Winnipeg. He went overseas early in the war as chaplain with the 43rd Highlanders of Winnipeg, with the rank of major, His latbst book, ""The.Sky Pilot of No Man's Land," embodies consider- able of his experiences of the grea war, Notes of Interest : For 'Booklovers. Owen E. McGillicuddy was born in Goderich, Ontario, and has had quite a wide experience in newspaper work. He is now on the editorial staff of the Toronto Star. His "Little Mar- shal" was a tribute to the renowned military genius of Marshal Foch. Frank C. MacDonald, author "of "The Kaiser's Guest," did a great deal of lecturing in the United States in the later stages of the war. On one occasion he struck a pro-German community in one of the wilder sec- tions of Nebraska, and was some- what astonished to De arrested and charged "with being a German spy in disguise. What ig said to be a new world re- cord in the price of books was that established by the Rosenbach Com- pany of Philadelphia, when the firm sold a single volume for $100,000, The book in question is considered the most valuable in the world, bar- ring ancient manuscripts. It is the only known copy of the first collected edition of Shakespeare's works, pub- lished in London by Thomas Pavier in 1590, and printed by William Jag- gard, who also printed the famous folio edition in 1632. The volume contains nine plays. B. W. Huebsch is preparing for early publication a little volume pf six studies by well-known thinkers of the last generation on the relations between the individual and the state. The articles are taken from the works of Thoreau, Tolstoy, Emerson, Buckle and Wilde, and Mr. Huebsch will publish the collection under the title, "Man or the State?" The Harpers are rushing through the press Neil M. Clark's new book on "Commonsense in Labour Man- agement," in which he presents a de- scription and analysis of the meth- ods of dealing with labor employed by the more progressive American manufacturers. A great many people are asking "Who is this- man, G. D. Cummins, the author of that Irish story, "The Land They Loved," which the Mac- millan Company has just issued?" The answer is that G. D. Cummins Is not a man at all, but a young wo- man; that she lives in Ireland, 'and that those who have read her work are expecting much of her in the future. John M. Holmes, author of "Jesus and the Young Man of To-day," ls general secretary to the Central Y. M. C. A. in Greenville, South Caro- lina. He is a young man himself, and his book deals with young 'men's problems. ; Miss Zona (Gale has returned to the scene of her former success for the setting of her new novel, "Peace in Friendship Village." 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