BETTER DIGESTION all comes "mame is Jy PAGE FOUR! Sm) THE HOUSE OF BALTAZAR. By William J. Locke. 312 pages. Price $1.75. The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Publishers. ; There have been many stories of strange war incidents, but this story of a man who knew nothing of the war until a bomb from a Zepoelin wrecked his lonely cottage in the heart of an English moor, is one of the most powerful ever written. Its first stages go.back . to a period twenty years before the war, when ohn Baltazar, saddled with a love- wife, fallsain love with Marcelle Baring, one of the students at the collége "in which he was professor of mathematics. To avoid compli- cations, he disappears entirely, and for twenty years his life is lived away from his native country and aay from friends. He returns to Eagland but finds its people running wild, so he retires to the seclusion 3 3 lonely farmhouse, and shuts self off entirely from the werldalBy George A. Meagher. except for the companionship. of { Quong Ho, a Chinese boy, who has n trained«by him in all the mys- Series of his"science. ' Meanwhile a young son, born three months after his disappearance, ows up to be a min, and in doing is bit in the war, he losés a foet, and is sent to hospital." In hospital he meets Marcelle Baring, who tells Rim the story of his father's disap- pearance and the cause. They be- come firm friends. Then one day, to the lonely farm comes disaster in the shape of a bomb, and John Bal- tazar is awakened to what is going around him. He returns to his er haunts, finds the son whom Be had never known of, and meets again Marcelle, Then follows a chain of incidents powerfully told. The love entangle- ments of young Godfrey Baltazar, his marrow escapé from disaster through the treachery of a woman, the suc cess of his father] and his disappoint- 'ment on being refused by Marcelle, for Godfrey's mother has long since died, all form 'links 'in a fascinating story. Behind it is the strange figure of Quong Ho, a mathematical genius and the prote of Baltazar. But the end, Godfrey's and he returns to France happy and contented, while "his father returns to China, where he . lived for eighteen years, to do work | grams for the British Government. With him gags Marcelle, who, from the little book for those who are keen time she was a schoolgirl, has always | skaters, and loved him. With them goes Quong ['earning all the newest and most Ho, destined to be one of the great |iricate skating figures. figures in Chinese history. William J. Locke has written here one of his finest novels. His analysis of the world conditions. both before and during the war enters into the novel, and provides much food for thought. The characters are drawn with his usual skill and John Baltazar, the hermit develops naturally into the most dis- tinguished figure in England, and the | ' THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ee ---- -- J | Books Authors | This is a useful and instructive of in- who are desirous SERVICE IN BANKING. Published. by the Service Depart- ment, Home. Bank of Canada. The Service Department of the Home Bank of Canada has produced strength. a little booklet 'of advice and good genius, [common sense of such merit that it | warrzaits a mention "a these columns. To" those who have the idea that tracing of heredity from father to |banking 4s a purely mechanical and son is very fine. tazar",is a worthy successor of the the "The House of Bal- |dull affair of routine from day to day, little booklet, if it were dis- many novels William J. Locke has tributéd broadcast, would be a reve- already written, and ranks with the |lation of the care taken by a Can- best of them. rere GUIDE TO ARTISTIC SKATING. 167 pages. Price 5s. net. T. Cand E. C. Jack, London, publishers. In: Canada the art of skating is developed to a degree which cannot be copjed in many countries owing oe E 9 ck of natural facilities. Every" to the Canadian is a skater, but how many there are who never take the trouble to, perfect themselves in this most healthful and invigorating exercise. For those who have a desire to be- come accomplished figure skaters, and they are many, a book by George A. Meagher, the champtey figure skater of the world, has just been published, entitled "A Guide to Ar- tistic Skating." It gives the summing up of his years of experience and of his skill, and in every way is a com- plete and practical little volume. Beginning with the very simplest and most ordinary of skating move- ments, Mr. Meagher goes on to dec- tail the 'more complicated figures, un- til 'by the end "of the book he has taught the skater practically all he knows about the art of skating. The book is profusely illustrated by dia- showing the incorrect and correct methods of performing vari- ous figures, and a frontispiece shows a few of the many decorations won by the author in figure skating con- tests. In addition there is an intro- duction by the Right Hon. the Earl of Derby, who presented Mr. Meagh- er with his world's championship medal at Ottawa in 1801. . ---- STRONGER NERVES AND | and personality into its business. ! adian bank to bring human nature takes they form of a straight talk to the bank Officials, written with a vim and punch that are appealing to every mind, and the pity is that the dis- tribution could not be carried on in a wider circle. Our Friends, The Books. The friendship of good books is exceedingly useful, and he is a wise man who cultivates it. A book may amuse us more than a comic movie, and we may have it right at home; it may inspire us as much as would a speech from a world-famous orator, and its inspiration is provided. right under our own roof; it may teach us the secrets of all the schools and {all the trades, and it provides this instruction at our own fireside at any hour of the day or night that seems convenient to us; it may give us the spiritual uplift of a great religious meeting; it may show us a veritable land of Buelah, and it will do it with- out any blare of trumpets as we rest in the privacy of our own room. In a very real sense books are all "min- istering angels, sent forth of God," to minister to needy men. That they so minister is absolutely certain, but they cannot minister without our consent, A good book is absolutely powerless unless there is a reader, There are worlds all about us wait- ing t6 be explored, and good books will show the way; but they can only A A A AAA EN NNN NANNING - COMES THROUGH RICH, RED BLOOD In the days when medical science was not as far advanced as it is to- day, it was the fashion to speak of a tonle for the stomach or a tonic for the nerves. This implied a remedy that went directly to these portions of, the human system and supplied them with the elements that they lacked. To-day it is known that there is no such tonic, It is possible to swallow & drug that will stimulate the stom- ach and create a desire for food, but a stimulant is not « tonic and an ap- petits mo stimulated is not a healthy one.. It is possible to take a drug that will stimulate the nerves so that Si work can be done almost beyond the strength of thé body. 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For a time she lost power of epeech almost en- tirely and only with greatest difficul- ty made herself one who may be in similar condition took th i iol 2 £ i= £5 H 5 +f & 58 #i NEW ENERGY Office entitles the filling in the address and Kingston." cop hd "BOOK OF WONDERS " COUPON. The presentation of this coupon at bearer to Wonders" for the sum of $3.00. Readers living out of the city can obtain copies by $3.25 for each copy, to "The Editor, British Whig, Mailing Coupon. Enclosed please find the sum of . +... for which of the Book of Wonders to Er STS ------------ 5 ) the Whig & copy of 'The Book of sending the coupon; wit show it to the men and women whose eyes are open. | One of the legitimate uses of books is for the purpose of recrea- tion. . When this becomes the sole use it is a blunder, and the reader is missing much 'of the value that books can provide; but when the other uses of books is widely recognized, this use is really helpful- When the world seenfs very tame and tiresome, and the petty burdens of life press too heavily upon us, we may find just the change and relaxation we need in the pages of a suitable book. If we need a hearty laugh we may turn to the "Pickwick Papers," "Innocents Abroall," or find what we seek in Artemus Ward" or the pages of "Sam Slick," and Washington Irving, or even "Dere Mable" and Mr. Doo- ley. Or if it is a change of scene we need, we may pick up "Ivanhoe" "Westward Ho" or "Treasure Island or "The Arabian Nights," and in a few seconds we shall be in a new world fighting with Robin-Hood in the Sherwood Forest, sgiling the broad seas in search of 'adventure which never fails to come, or gazing with astonishment at the weird "and impossible, .yet still entrancing, pic- tures in which the oriental imagina- tion loves to revel. In our armchair we can visit Europe, we can climb the Alps, we can cross the Sahara, we can tread the streets of Calcutta and look upon the hoary civilization of ten thousand years ago; we €an march with Napoleon to Moscow, we can sail with Drake and Hawkins, and fight desperate' battles with Spanish galleons; we. can talk with Bach and blind Beethoven, we can interview Socrates and Wesley, and we can forget our petty worries. in the vision of stirring bygone days. This recreation books offer; it is un- fortunate for us that too oftzn they offer it in vain. But books provide inspiration as well as recreation. Fortunately for us the Holy Spirit has often said to men, "Write," 'and men have written the thoughts that burdene] their souls, and the message that their own age would not understand, comes to us with tremen- dous force as a veritable message from on high. Some will tell us that books are dead, but this is certainly not the case, There is a soul in books, and 'that soul goes - ever marching on, until the ages fall 'in line, until the tramp of marching mil- lions .echoes through the broad world-corridors of time, and the world has begun a new crusade. We have heard men sneer and laugh at books, but the great world-move- ments that we are witnessing today, the world-wide overthrowing of au- tocracy and the establishing of. de- mocracy, are largely the result of books that have been moulding the thought of the world for the past two_ centuries. A map puts his soul into a speech, and he reaches pos- sibly a men; he puts his soul into a book, and 'he reaches millions in his own generation, and possibly scores of millions in the generations that fol- low. There is an inspiration in, great books, and no teader of men can af- ford to miss it, 2 I nb ---- THE FUTURE IN JOURNALISM. Never before in the history, of jour. nalism has so remarkable a system of training been accessible to the be- ginner. The well-known London in- stitution that has secured the ser- vices of 80 many excellent and dis- tinguished literateurc 's doing splen- did work in guiding the fatent ability of aspiring writers, not only in the field of journalism, but also in the world of fiction. nr A notable feature of the instruction is that it is conducted entirely by correspondence. It is fhus within ing to become a professional jour- natist or to sup Ioan his income by writing as a free-lance. The stu- of journalism today who places his talent under the expert instruc- tion of such a brilliant Sompany of successful writers, certainl s the better df the beginner, who, thirty years ago, set out to 4 bis pens prowess in a stra id unknown world in which a was very far removed from bliss. 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