| BOOKS AND THEIR i < AUTHORS rev wv w TOTO SUNNY DUCROW. 4 pg § Henry St. John Cooper ; Ryerson Press, Toronto, Ont. : This book, though written aronnd a character from the slums of Lon- don, nevertheless carries with it, in- corporated in it, a breath of spring; a breeze smelling of buds, blossoms, bubbling brooks; a book of hwughter, tears, enthusiasm, life itself. A syn- opsis of this book cannot do it just jee. Just let us peep for a moment at the heroine, Sunny Ducrow, christened Elizabeth Ann, is an or- phan of the London slums brought up in squalor, fiith and miserable poverty by & widowed aunt who has fits of weeping usually following fast on a day's flirtation with John Bar- Jeyoorn. We find Sunny in a pickle factory, a mere "slavey." We leave her at the top of the London theatri- eal ladder, with, moreover, a strong ginancial and philanthropical interest in a large canning business and of gourse the promised wife of a pros- perous, most attractive and most fovable young hero The great enjoyment one gets from the book is in that most be- witching character, -Sunny Ducrow. A delightful little child woman; busy: achieving her own destined success but pulling others up with her as she goes. Then her moral code is simple but signi t. Be straight; - be honest: hol€ your head up and keep smiling. There lies the whale basis of the story. A mere nobody with the virtue of honesty, a little common sense, a fair knowledge of human na- ture and with a great capacily wor smiling at reverses, climbs from the ground to the top of the. tree. This smile iz written into the book; it faces you from black and white print- ed pages and finally you end by catching yourself smiling in return. But even this description fails to show the book in all its fading ana growing lights and shadows of hu- man life. The pen pictures of the maudlin Mrs, Melkin, the pessimis- tic and sheepish Bert, the fop Dov- ington, the shrewd old Duchess of Lulham, are so skilfully drawn, so well developedsand woven into the story that the Book makes a unified whole of complex life revolving in interesting variation about the one smiling and friendly character, Sunny Ducrow. SOLDIER HEARTS FRANCE. YOUNG OF Edited andy Teansiated by Agnes Maule Machar, author of "The Story of Old Kingston," "Stories of the British Empire," "Songs of Trae Weoth" "Roland Graeme's Knight, PR. ote. This book "1s composed of two re- markable series of consecutive let- ters written by two young soldiers of France to their respective family circles, while on active service in the French army, and they convey to the reader an adequate impression of the pure patriotism, and vital reli- glous- faith which inspired these young soldiers to fight and die for home, for France, for the rights of humanity and the peace of the world. The _book is of peculiar interest to - wove wv v all Canadians and Americans as af- ding a clear understanding of the hearts and minds of the people of heroic France, whose existence as a race and a nation depend outcome of the great struggle. letters all breathe the spirit of patriotism. All died for their country, one of them, Casalis, being only eight days at the front when he was killed. In an admirable introduction to the letters, Miss Machar, with her characteristic ability, directs atlen- tion to the great Qualities of the French character as revealed by the writers : their high sense of duty and faith and patriotism, all of which in- spire our warmest admiration. All of them saw death hovering ner, but wrote messages of encourvage- ment and hope. They trusted in God and died for France. The AN ANGLO-AMERICAN UNION AGAINST CENTRAL EUROPE. George McLean: Hdrper in Yale Review In case the Bolshevists fail to re« unite Russia, there will be' a line of gmall apd exceedipgly feeble na- ritivhs adjoining the frontiers of East. ern Germany, from Switzerland to the Guif of Finland. These will con. stitute a broken fleld for German po- litical and commercial penetration, and we may in a few years find our- selves confronted by a Union of Cen- tral Europe which, in size at least, will be greater than the old com- bination of Germany and Austria. If the economic system of such a union should give satisfaction to the demands of working men and wa- men for a share in the control of business, it would be the most power. ful combination on earth and would soon spread through Russia and Sie beria to the Pacific and through the Balkans and possibly Italy, to the Mediterranean. Then an Anglo-Am- erican union would become a neces- sity if we would maintain our politi- cal ideals and economic standards. To the general statement that Anglo-American union is desirable and feasible, even if not necessary, let it not be objected that because an idea seems to be severed by some apparently insuperable obstacle from thé realm of achievement we should therefore be foolish to entertain it. Imagining the things to be desired prepares the mind for a prompt de- cision when occasion offers. Imagina- tion and choice are what form a character, The noblest quality in a race or a man is the capacity for taking sympathetic interest in things not directly connected with selfish adventure; objectivity, it might be called, on its purely intellectual side, and disinteresterness, on its moral side. The possession of this quality is a mark of both real goodness and real greatness. It is magnanimity, and in its more elaboraté manifesta- tions ft is the basis of culture. The world would gain by Anglo-American union, which would necessarily be loose and flexible and founded on broad lines of justice. International relations all over the world would be established. Democracy every- where would take heart' Universal peace would be at last possible. A April great example of mutual concession, of the renouncemeat of small inter} ests for the sake of large principles, would have been longing eyes of all nen. HABITS OF THE WOOD THRUSH Samuel Scoville, Jr., in April Yale | few. Some April evening between cherry-blow and apple-blossom, the wood thrush comes back. I first hear his organ notes from the beech tree at the foot of Violet Hill. Down from my house beside the white oak I hurry to meet him. Two years ago he came to me on May 3rd, in 1917 on April 27th, and in 1916 on April 30th. , He seems always glad to gee me yet with certain reserves and withdrawings quite different from the robins who chirp unrestrainedly at one's very feet. His wellfitting coat of wood-brown and soft white, dusked and_dotted with back, ac- cords with the natural dignity of the bird. It is quite impossible to be reserved in a red waistcoat. Some of my eariiest and happidst-bird meme ories are of this sweet singer. On July 11th, 1904, I was looking for the shaft of a lost gold mine in north ern Connecticut when I found-a wood thrush's'qgest by the simple process of butting my head into the sapling where it rested, some five feet:from the ground. As I stared at the four long light blue eggs the black point of a tiny beak showed on'one. Then the ezg moved and cracked and split, and before my astonished eyes a little wood thrush hatched. Its head was curled down between its legs, the throat throbbed with a regular pulse while its gaunt body shook and quiv- ered with the beating of the newly started heart. It was blind and bare and unbeievably ugly. Yet, as little by little, it forced its way out of the prisoning shell, 1 knew that I was watching a fellow creature, bound like us to the Wheel of Life, and with us struggling and agonizing upwards. The wood thrush has a habit of marking his nest with some patch or shred of white, perhaps so that when he comes back from his twilight song he may find it the more readily. Usually the mark is a bit of paper or a scrap of cloth on which the nest is set. Last winter I was walking across a frozen marsh where in late summer the blue blind gentian hites. The long tow-colored grass of the tussocks streamed out before a sting- ing wind, which howled at me like a wolf. I crept through thickets to the centre of the little wood until I was safe, among the close-set tree trunks. There I found the last year's nest of a wood thrush built on a bit of bleached newspaper. Pulling out the paper I read on it in; weather- faded letters "Votes for Women!" Biographies of Well-known Authors. GEORGE T. LANIGAN Wit, Humorist and Poet. George T. Lanigan, one of the most A tt Pt NNN NY Pt tM tt fr NSN #" Pe ! strain than muscular work." Except in the eye are amount of night work. You find interest in your work. Headaches are ery. of th says Dr. "comes on more quickly from eye n from any amount of perfect daylight the constantly tense, se energy of the whole system. 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Digestion is improved, headaches dis I Tac setae ari Ask your friends about Dr. Chase's N a that most people for it feeds the ¥ actually fi ase's Nerve F 6 nervous system, vigor and energy used as a can tell you of its granted to the | | brilliant writers that Canada has. given to the world, was. born at St. {originality found THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG or TTR Te in "The Congo," i SEPP Pere {| which won for {ts author world-wide |% + | recognition. {i A new volume of | stories has just been published under the title, "The Honest Thief," the {translation having been made {Constance Garnett. This is Pthe best' Dostoievsky { able, series Charles, near Three Rivers; in the | province . of Quebée, on-December 10th, 1845. He died in Philadelphia, { while on the staff of the Racord, on | February 5th, 1886. In Montreal he {attended the high school, where he became the favorite pupil and life- long friend of George Murray, the famous classical teacher and poet. At about sixteen Lanigan took up tele- graphy, soon acquiring uncommon speed and accuracy, and forming a friendly rivalry with Thomas Alva Edison at the key. Like Edison, he perfectpd a handwriting as legible as During the Fenian raid on Canada, in 1866, he sent important 1867 he established in Montreal with Robert Graham and other friends the Free Lance, a satirical weekly paper, largely directing its assaults upon the city hall. From that little paper grew the Star, of which Lanigan was the first editor, contributing a serial fateful night of the great fire. He realized/" that in a few hours the at a local office, and telegraphed the New York World a story such as ap- peared in no other newspaper of New York. Only sheer exhaustion removed his hand from the telegraph key. This feat led to his being in- vited to headquarters by the editor of the World. Much of his raciest work was published in its pages, including his famous Fables. These Fables, with pictures by F, C, Church, were issued as a booklet in 1878. A few days afterwards the World office was burned down, with almost the whole edition of that booklet. This accounts for its rarity: a decent copy easily commands ten dollars. In person Lanigan was short, and in his later years inclined to stout- ness, with a light fluffy beard. He was always the life and soul of every social gathering of his frien#s, To this day, both north and south of the Canadian frontier, his taking-off at but forty years is deeply mourned. He had barely begun to develop his rare gifts of wit and fun, satire and pathos. Two of his brothers sur- vive: William B. Lanigan of Winni- peg, and F. R. Lanigan of Montreal. Nibbles From New Books. "Don't marry charm, Bunny; it is of very little use in the domestic circle. Marry good, solid, common- place qualities, health and affection and, if possible, a sense of humor." --*"The Starling," by Juliet Wilbur Tompkins. 3 oy "If necessity is the mother of in- vention, then optimism is' the father of enterprisé" -- "Optimism," by Rev. Robert Law. "1 suppose eventually you will be- come a' wife," he zdded, with the glimmer in his eyes which his stu- dents found so delightful. "Ged help you!"--""The Starling," by Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. Quite unexpectedly his mouth be- gan suddenly to twitch at one ecor- ner. When a man smiles suddenly on one side of his mouth it is proof at least tht he sees the joke. Nobody ought to be expected to smile on both sides till he feels the joke as well as sees it.--""Love and Mrs. Kendrue," by Eleanor Hallowell Abbot. "I was quite exppcting him to make a fuss----on principle, you know, And a fuss made on principle," added Mrs. Cameron pensively, "is quite the hardest one to get over. People are so pleased with themselves, as a rule, for making it."--*"The Journey Home," by Sybil Campbell Leth- bridge. * J.C.8. arrived one day at a rail- way station, depending on the train being late, and found it gone. "Surely the train wasn't up to time?" he said to the porter. "She was, thin' said the porter. "She's 'the punctuallest train in Ireland, and--a great incon- venience to the travellin' public." -- "The Years of the Shadow," by Katherine Tynan. "You can share my Prayer Book," sald Honor. "Thanks awfully. 1 love sharing a Prayer Book with someone who knows the geography of it. The last time I went to church was when the Commissioner's Mem- sahib collared me as I was going to bridge. Miss Elsworthy, the parson's sister--elderly and still hopeful -- handed me her Book of Common Prayer; but I'm dashed if I could find the Collect! At any ordinary time I would have pounced upon it right enough, but knowing her eyes were upon me, I could do nothing but make a windmill of the pages with only the 'Solemnization of Ma- trimony' staring up at my distracted vision, till I began to think Fate had designs. Really, it made me quite nervous, I assure you !"'-- "Banked Fires," by BE. W, Savi. Notes of | t i to Booklovers. "Can the Church Survive the Changing Order ?" is the title of a new book by Albert Parker Fitch, Professor of the History of and Biblical Literature in Amherst College. Dr. Fitch is a friend of the church, but not the false kind of friend who mekes pleasant but un- true remarks. His searching mess- &ge is for the churchman who wants the facts and fs willing to face them. story, never reprinted. In 1870 Lani- | gan removed to the United States; | in 187f he was in Chicago on the! whole fity would be a smoky ruin, | Withoyt a moment's delay he sped to : South Ehicago, took hold of the wire | | "Armenia and the Armenians," is j the 'title of a book on Armenian his- {tory which has just come off the | press. {and the work has been translated | from the French by Pierre Crabites. The twenty odd volumes of Rud- | yard Kipling's work are now being | published in no fewer thin six uni- | form editions. - No other author in i his lifetime has ever achieved such | distinction and recognition. have recently appeered in English despatehis to New York journals, In \magazines, are to be published in f book form. It is said that over $50,- { 000 have been paid for all the rights of this book. "The. Master-Spirits in Litera- | ture,'" is the title of a series which | the Murray Publishing House, Lon- don, is inaugurating. The first two volumes will be devoted to Cervantes, by Prof. Rudolph Schevill, of Califor | nia University; and Telstoy, by Prof. { G. R, Boyes, It is said that Lord Beaverbrook is writing a history of the inside story (which nobody kndws so well as he) of the political negotiations between Lloyd-George and the Union- ist leaders which brought the Coali- tion government into being. Mrs. Patrick is starting on a year's lecturing tour with hervhusband, the "Navvy Poet," who is going to tell the early story of his life to admir- ers in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the United. States, Canada, New Zealand {and Australia, Mrs, McGill will res cite her husband's poems. Spiritualism still continues to in- spire the output of a large number of books both for and against belief in the evidence. Dr. James Coates, who has specialized in psychic photo- graphy, gives in his latest volume, "Is Modern Spiritualism Based + on Facts or Fancy ?" some remarkable photographs of what he paradoxically terms "The Invisible." Joseph Conrads new novel, "The Rescue," is the romance of a "disin- terested adventurer in the Near | Bast," M. Clemenceau, "The Grand Old Man of France," has just published a novel, "Les Plus Forts," It is stated that he is preparing a scenario of this novel for the film. If he does, he will be the first great statestaan who has written for the moving pie- tures. Dr. A. W. Rosenbach, of New York, has just paid $2,600 for the original manuscript of Charles Lamb's "Es- say on Roast Pig." Were Lamb alive to-day, he would be sure to comment on the growing madness of medical men, The MacMillang announce the pub- lication of the first uniform edition of the novels of Jack London, It will be called the "Sonoma Valley" edition, and, when complete, will consist of about thirty volumes. Another of Edward Streeter's "Dere Mable" books, which have had an enormous sale, and have probably induced more laughter than any oth- er recent publication, is due for pub- lHeation. It will 'be called, "As You Were, Bill," and in it Bill, who has been discharged and has donned ci- vilian clothes, goes hunting for a job. In his letters he tells Mable all about his adventures and difficul- ties. B. W. Huebsch will bring out in the near future a book by William Z. Foster on 'The Great Steel Strike", in which the organizer and moving spirit of that disturbance will give some account of it, and will discuss it and its significance to the future. A new book on Ireland, which all lovers of that entertzining author, George A. Birmingham, will look for- ward to, is announced for immediate publication by the George A. Doran Company, of New York, It will pre- sent a survey of Irish conditions un- der the title "An Irishman looks at his World." Henry James Forman, author of one novel, "The Captain of his Soul" has written a novel of impetuous youth in "The Fires of ' Youth", which is soon to be published. E. P. Dutton and Co., announce a new edition of Algernon Blackwood's "John Silence," in which the Eng- lish author makes some of his most impressive portrayals of that border- land between sense and spirit where- in mystical Influence out of the un- known exert their power upon living beings. Harold Brighouse, author of "Hob- son's Choice," "Garside"s Career," and "The Old Man Out," has again taken up fiction writing. A novel from his pen, entitled, "The Marbeck Inn," is announced for early publica- tion. | APRIL. Bobolink and thrush, Aerial pligrims, Obant in the orchard Plainsong of spring. Is there in the South Altar more beautiful 'Of lila¢ and maroon ? Aud now the river Bursting its derements of ice Reverbrates . Gospel of resurrection, ie Dostolevsky [# by | * the | ® {eleventh volume in Mrs. Garnett's |% { series, which is widely recognized as | ® avail- |[® [+ venture--what thou will, [ | IE J The author is Kevork Aslam, | Mrs. Asquith's reminiscences, which TO "THE MELODY s EARTH." OF 'Of moking book there is end," But may this book some wisdom send, Some brave enchantment to thy vision lend. Song and + + no gentle May Melody---Ad- + Sing in these pages to beguile still; The Intellect excite--Romance awake, And gentle Memory thy glad hand take, : Leading fhey steps that they again may trace The Gardens of an unforgotten place Where every flower is a page, to tell In thought of some dear friend thou lovest well; Where growing things spell Poetry and Art, And every color lends Enchant- ment's part. Romance, too, smiles in rivalry of hues When blushing blooms are kiss- ed by morning dews; And what Adventure half so rare and dear As waits within these fragrant gardens here-- A Living Book--a Garden 'Bood divine; ~ To fill thy loving heart--thy heart and mine. --Frederic A. Whiting. PEPRPPPRPPIRPRPPNROR PROPPED PEPE FI PLDI EI PIPPI II RIPE ISL B ISGP SL berber b bed | TO ET. Robert Frost in April Yale Review. 1 slumbered with your poems on my breast Spread open as I dropped. them half read through Like dove wings on a figure on a tomb To see, if, in a dream they brought of you, 1 might not have the chance I miss. ed in life Through some delay, and call you SATURDAY, APRIL. 3, 1920. SAVED FROM LIFELONG MISERY And Dingersus Opasation, Taking "FRUIT A TIVES" i MRS. M. J. GORSE 8928 Union St., Vancouver, B.C, "I suffered with all the symptoms of Female Trouble, with chronic Coa« stipation and constant Headaches. I had pains low down in the back and sides of the body. 1 tried various remedies without relief, and then put myself under a doctor's care and he advised me to have an operation, I refused. § Then, I started taking 'Fruit-a- tives'; and from thé outset, I felt better, and this medicine has completely relieved me of all my misery' and suffering. My weight was only 143 pounds and now it is 168 pounds. J -- am free of pain and headaches and the terrible Constipation ; and what saved me from misery if the splendid fruit medicine, 'Fruit-a-tives'." MRS. M. J. GORSE. 80c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trigl size 2e. At all dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit-a-tives Limited Ottawa, Ont, to your face First soldier, and then poet, then both, Who died a soldier-poet of your race, and I meant, you meant, that nothing should remain Unsaid between us, brother, and this remained And one thing more that was not then to say: The Victory for what it last and « Bained. You went to meet the shell's embrace of fire 4 On 'Vimy Ridge; and when you fell thateday The war seemed over more for you than me, \ But now for re then you--the other way. Nearly Insane From Leg Ulcers She tells of suffering brief story of her cure. Read these two letters from Sarsh D, Law- rence of Roebuck, Ontario, "1 can't sleep at night from leg ulcers. I Am in pain most of the time. | have doctored but no use. A og says that D. D. 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It is a study of one of the world's great- est problems, and in it the author gives in very definite form some of the fundamental principles that ev- ery social worker should observe. i Mary Heaton Vorse, whose latest book, "The Prestons", was published last spring, is investigating condi tions in the steel manufacturing cen- tres for magazine publication. The MacMillans are publishing John Masefield's two most celebrated 'poems, "The Everlasting Mercy," and "The Window in the Bye Street" in a new edition with {llustrations, | consisting of eighteen full-page plates made from photographs that picture the actual scenes in which characters of the poems are suppos- Fed to have lived. The Macmillan Company will bring | out this week two vocational voluines whose purpose is to help the young man uncertain as to what he wanus tc do as his life-work to choose a profession. They are "The Young! Man and the Law," by Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, and "The Young Man and Teaching," by the late Professor Henry P, Wright. the ' ¢ °® HE Trt Fyn Cliy, Mahgod's Drug Store, Kingston ---- NE A | Whenyou "know" you havea stomach it's tim suspect your liver. You need Beecham's Pills, A lazy liver and overworked kidneys allow food 3 1S0nS to circulate Hg CER, on the blood and [HEH irritatetheen- ¥ BE tirebody. rest La Seid Dianna ir THE WINDS OF EASTER. The welcome winds of Easter Waft from the ages past The blessed, blessed story, That life for aye shall last; That Christ the Lord is risen, That death has lost its sting--e This blessed, blessed story The winds of Easter bring. All nature hears the message; The new earth springs to life, The robins sing a carol, The world with joy is rife, Oh ! that the Easter story To each sad heart would bring The living Christ, whose message The winds of Easter sing, ~-Helen B. Anderson. 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