OREATION. { 2 By Viscound Grey of Thomas Allen, Toronto BRA rep rd This book is adapted from an ad- dress of the same title which was de- lMyered by Viscount Grey at the Harvard Union on December Sth, 1819. Everyone is well acquainted with the work and achievements of this man, who is probably the great- ost diplomat ever in the service of Great Britfin. In this! address the pular epri gave a sketch of his on and the various mediums thro which it may be Obtained. He 8 of sport, games, ning 4nd many other pastimes, + but Fallodon. Price maintains that vooks are the greatest and most satisfactory means of recreation. Next to books he is personally most fond of the study and observation of fly-fishing. Vie- count Grey gives quite a long account of his friendly acquaintance with the ._ Iate Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and of that gentleman's favorite recrea- The book is a recreation in itself. . RHYMES OF A HOMESTEADER. By Elliott C. Lincoln. Thomas Allen, Toronto, Price $1.65. Some people have no Mking for poetry and pass every book of poems which comes in their path without even turning the covers. It is for- tunate, however, that there is still among general readers a class which never loses an opportunity to read good poetry. In this collection of forty or fifty poems by Elliott C. Lincoln we find the type of verse which leaves a good impression. The phraseology is imple and in some places delight- ily colloquial. As an example réad this quoation from 'Temptation' -- "They work me every minute I kin spare-- T've been a sort of private Wild West show-- But as a team mate :n the marriage yoke I'm jest a bowslegged, colored joke.' leather- This sounds like a man with a grouch, but in reality is the talk of & Western philosopher. The book is brimful of these quaint couplets. It gives one of the best descriptions of the typical homesteacer, one of the FT OFF CORNS, MAGIC! NO PAIN ---- Drop Freezone on a touchy corn then lift that corn off Tiny bottles cost only a few cents. Drop a little Fretaone on an ach- ing corn, instantly that corn stops ng, then you lift it right out. It n't pain one bit. Yes, magic) + Why walt! Your druggist sells a tiny bottle of Freezone for a few cents, sufficient to rid your teet of every hard corm, soft corn, or corn 'between the toes, and calluses, with- out soreness or irritation. Freezone 1s the much talked of ether discovery THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG best glimpses at his real character, ever written, # ALS OF LE PETIT NORD, THE ANN reer BAO RR: By Ann Grenfell and Katie Spalding. Thomas Allen, Toronto, Price $1.65, ! With an introduction by Dr. Wil- fred T" Grenfell, who illustrates the story with his own sketches, comes this interesting and entertaining story of that land of which we hear and know so little, Labrador. The book is just a destfiption of life in a harbor-on the coast of that north- ern country, telling of the inhabit- ants and their ways in a way which is at once simple and all-embracing. The writers make no attempt to set up Labrador as the only country worth while' living 1n, but, as Dr. Grenfell says in his introduction, it has been their home for a quarter of a century and they do not think it is such a bad home either. The book gives the reader a valuable store of knowledge of that country where: "he squat-legged Eskimo Waddles in the ice and snow, And the playful polar bear Nips the hunter unaware ; Where the air is kind o' pure, And the snow crop's pretty sure, ONLY BY THE ABOLITION OF "NEUTRALITY CAN WAR BE QUICKLY AND FOREVER PREVENTED. By Luigi Carnovale, Italian-American Publishing Company, Chicagp. This little book by the author of "Why Italy Entered the Great War" and many other Itailan-American books is intended as a follower-up or sequel. to his previous book which is quoted above. At the time of the publication of the former, some of the author's ideas on neutrality were not as well accepted by the readers as he might have wished. The rea- son for this, he claims, was the fagt that the United States had not yet entered the war and was therefore unsympathetic. Now, when the war is. long over, he offers his ideas once more in a shorter form, in the hope that they will meet with great- er consideration. Carnovale does not carry the idea as far, nor to such a méaning, as the title would lead one to believe at first glance. He does not wish to keep the world at war all the time but his aim, rather, is to ensure world peace. To do this he maintains that the primary methods of making nas tions keep the peace must be such that fear of them will restrain any country with too thin a skin or too high ambitions from provoking use- less blood-shed. Valuable New Work at the Public Library. A new literary work has just been received at the Public Library which promises to become valuable to readers, both as an interesting rec- ord and as a reliable fund of informa- tion for reference purposes, It is the National Biographical Dictionary, which comes In twenty-six volumes and contains authoritative biograph- jes of outstanding figures in the history of the British Empire, from the time of the semi-mythical kings of Ancient Britain until the present. The editors of this work, which has taken years to compile gare Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. It is pub- lished by Smith, Elder & Co.,. Lon- don, England. Biographies of oy Well-known Authors. HOW 0. HENRY WON SUCCESS AFTER A LONG STRUGGLE. In Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sept. 11, 1862, there was born a boy who grew up to be called "actually that rare bird of which we so often bear false reports--a born story teller." Sometimes compared with Francois Villon, Dickens, De Maupassant, Mark Twain and others of the elect, many a critic has ended, as does Forman: "It is idle to compare O. Henry with any- body. No talent could be more original or more delightful. The combination of technical excellence with whimsical sparkling wit, abundant humor and a fertile invention is so rare that the reader is content without compari- sons." The "freshness amounting to genius" which profes- sional jaded critics as well as casual readers find in O. Henry's stories, did not come, however, by accident. It seems likely they were not born with and originality a Cincinnati genius. {chim. For, contrary to the belief of counts of the great war president. | ay if | The new book, which the Macmillan Company will bring out the middle HEART STRINGS i | {of next week, is called "In Lincoln's | Chair," and is cast, like its prede- | cessor, in semi-fictional form. One Fi of a group of men who gather around { the stove in a small-town store has | many who knew little about O. Henry, he worked hard for years to win the] success that came to hg. RAR b i Indeed, during the five years .he | kin Sisunticis store in Greensboro, no one' thought | of plain Will Porter as a budding | author. Almost everyone prophesied | that he wguld become a cartoonist, | for he was forever catching the odd, | the ludicrous, the distinctive in pencil | sketches which often were the delight | of the town. | Never very strong, and with the shadow of consumption upon some of | his ancestors, the young man eagerly | accepted the opportunity to go into Texas and work on a ranch for two years. The wife of the ranch owner said "his thirst for knowledge was un- quenchable." Webster's "Unabridged ictionary" was his' constant compan- | fon. "I carried it around with me for | two years." Q. Henty said, "while | herding sheep for Dick Hall," But even here O. Henry's fame was that of an artist in pencil, for Joe Dixon, who had written a. book and wanted someone who knew the life of the ranches to illustrate it, sought him for the purpose. "Will," Dixon writes that he said to him one day, "why don't you try your hand at writ- ing for the magazines?" But O. Henry had no confidence in himself. and destroyed his stories as fast as he | wrote them. "Well at any rate," Dixon | begged, "try your hand at newspaper work." But he couldn't see it, and went on writing &nd destroying. | The boy was but 20 then, yet he | was striving to learn to write, and he possessed enough judgment not to ac- | cept the plaudits of even good friends, | but to rely upon his own critical | faculty to tell him whether or not he | had hit the mark for which he was | aiming. In later years he worked on | a newspaper, got out a sheet of his | own, then was married and turned to | banking. Yet all the time he wrote, | perfecting his product. Through the years that followed, | ineluding those when his wife died and other great personal troubles came to him, O. Henry worked hard | with his pen. At last dire necessity | drove him to send some of his stories | to meet their fate. It is said that O. | Henry was 35 years old when his first short story was accepted, paid for and | published. 5 : | But it was in New York city--to| which he went at the suggestion of a| magazine editor in 1902, that 0. | Henry "found himself." To his second | wife he said when he was tryingtowin | back health in Asheville, "I could | look at these mountains a hundred | years and never get an idea, but just one block downtown and I catch a sentence, see something in a face-- nd I've got my story." 5 And Ee O. Henry returned to the city and to work. But he had not recu- perated as much as he had thought He died in New York city on June 5, 1910, at the age of 48. Notes of Interest to Booklovers. Ida Tarbell, who 16hg ago estab- lished hersyeputation as an authority on the personality and career of Abraham Lincoln, has written a com- panion volume to her little book 'He Knew Lincoln," © which, published several years ago, has been one of the most popular of the smaller ac- I NN mM Te MOTHER! "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative Accept "California" Syrup of Figs only--look fi e nathe California 'on the packa@®, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its fruity taste. Full directions on each bottle. You must say '"'Cali- erage HLOERI, |of subjects in moods varying from known Lincoln and talks about him | to the others, telling many new In- cidents and throwing new and inter- esting gidelights on .hi# character, one of the group béing Sewtd& "in u chair which had once belonged to Ep A new novel by Joseph C. Lincoln, whose "Shavings" and many other stories of Cape Cod have given him the reputation of being the most in- teresting and inmost faithful portrayer of Cape Cod lite and character among | our novelists, has written a new story scened in his favorite region. "The Portygee," which Appleton will publish early next month. It will be the first novel from 'his pen for al- most two- years . A volume which promises to be most entertaining is announced for early publication by the John Lane Company. is called "The Road to En-Dor," and is by two young offi- cers of the British army, Lieutenants E. H. Jones and C, W. Hill, of whom the former has written the book and the latter, with much daring and in- genuiyy and at great risk, obtained the photographs with which # is il- lustrated. It gives an account of their experiences in a Turkish pri- {son camp and of how they escaped by raising a "spook," "which deliver- ed its messages through a ouija board." This "spook" and its mess- ages gave them great distinction and brought them many privileges, and, incidentally, it started a treasure hunt which finally involved the Turkish commandant in court-martial proceedings. It is reported that Gilbert K. Chesterton will visit the United States neéxt fall for his long-promis- ed lecture tour. He has now gone upon a journey to the Holy Land, of which he will write a volume of im- pressions. H. C. Bailey, who has written a number of dashing stories of adven- ture scened in past centuries, is the author of "Barty Leroy," the tale of a young Irishman in the last decade of the eighteenth century, who, bent on deeds of chance and danger, is at first uncertain whether he should enlist under Nelson or Napoleon. It will be published this week by E. P. Dutton & Co. - "Masks and Other One-Act Am- erican Plays' is the title of & new collection of little dramas by George Middleton which the Holts will bring out next week. It will be the sixth volume of his one-act plays, and its half dozen dramas treat a wide range the satiric to the tender . "Moments with Mark Twain," a pocket volume for lovers of Twain's humor and philosophy, will be brought out soon by Harper & Bro- thers. Albert Bigelow Paine, whose "Blography" and "Boy's Life" of the famous author constitute the authori- tative accounts of his life, has ¢om- piled the books by making seler .ons of wit and wisdom from ain's writings. The eight hundred applications per day for passports with which the State Department at Washington is already struggling indicate that this year will see the renewal of some- thing comparable with the summer rush to Europe of pre-war days, and in anticipation of the needs of tour- ists the Stokes Company are bring- ing out a republication of some of the volumes of their series of guide books prepared by Grant Allen. They will have ready next month four of the volumes, dealing respectively with "Paris," ."Venice,"" 'Classical Rome" and '"'Christian' Rome." Ben Ames Williams, whose two previous novels, "All the Brothers Were Valiant" and "The Sea Bride," have proved him to be a writer of capital sea tales, has deserted salt water for an inland town in a new novel, "The Great Accident," which the Macmillan Company will publish next Wednesday. Its scene is laid in a once prosperous and still wealthy oity of Ohio, which' has lost fits energy. and progressiveness. The "accident" of the title is the eleetion of a dissipated young man to the office of mayor, and the story Is concerned with the consequences of the honor that is thus thrust upon him to the man himself and to the city. E. P. Dutton & Co. schedule a un- ique experiment in their spring list --a two-volume novel, probably the Lfirst story in two volumes by an Am- erican author to be published in this country, and certainly the first in half a century. Its title is "The Hy- phen," and it is said to make a de- tailed and careful study of the life, surroundings and development of a = I - ¥ S| LRT he grows to manhood in a city in New Jersey. The author is given as A collection of abridged novels edited by Edwin A. Grozier, editor ot the Boston Post, is being prepared for early publication by the Harp- ers. It will be in four volumes under the general title, "One Hundred Best Novels Condensed," and will include among the authors represented Dick- ens, Tolstoi, Defoe, Sienkiewics, Blasco, Ibanez, Booth Tarkington, Best Medicine He Has Ever Taken FATHER TELLS OF SON'S HELP FROM DODD'S MEDICINES. He Recommends Everybody Who Has Shaking or Pain in the Heart to Use Dodd's, Dyspepsia Tablets and Dodd's Kidney Pills. Birmingham, Bask., April 23rd. -- (8pecial) .--""Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medicines my son has ever taken." This is the statement of Mr. Jo- hannes Reinson, a well-known resi- dent here. "When he started to take them," Mr. Reinson continues, "there was not much hope of him. Soon af- ter starting to take the Dodd's Medi- cines he began to improve in health and now he is well." He advises everybody who has shaking or pain in the heart to use Dodd's Kidney Pills and Dodd's Dys- pepsia Tablets. The Dodd's Medicines act on the two essentials to good health. The Tablets help to digest the food and produce good blood. The Pills act on the kidneys healing and strength- ening them, thus ensuring that the blood is kept free from impurities. For the work of healthy kidneys is to strain all impurities out of the blood. Ask your neighbors if Dodd's Kid- fornia." MUTT AND TFEFF--_There are times when a little information ie enfficiant, THE PARR! 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His work, which the Stokes Company have in train for early publication, is said to look at the subject from every angle and to protest vigorously against the cult as being taught and spread by the modern professional medium. It has a foreword by Father Bernard Vaughan. Mary Heaton Vorse, whose "The Prestons" won success because of its faithful and humorous portrayal of average American home life, has written another novel, "Growing Up," in much the same vein but go- ing a little deeper into the serious side of the relations between par- ents and children, which Boni & Liveright will publish in April. Harper & Brothers will soon have ready "Alsace in Rust and Gold," a book of travel impress by Edith O'Shaughnessy, who wa& in Alsace just before the armistice Avas signed, and records the stirring events of that time against a background of old traditions that have preserved the spirit of the people and of the history of the region. Charlotte Kellogg, whose biogra- y of Cardinal Mercier was recent- y published, has'just sailed for Eur ope to engage in relief work in Pol- and. She will stop in Brussels to present in person a copy of her book to the Bel primate. Mrs. Kel- logg knew Cardinal Mercier personal ly rng her work 'in Belgium for the Fi Commission, in which she was associated with her husband, Ver- non Kellogg. After the commission had to leave Belgium she wrote a small volume on the work done by the Belgian women for the relief of their people. You have seen, no doubt, a fair, ambitious maiden draw with gracefulness and ease the bow across a sweet toned violin, and you have heard it answer to her skill--her will--with sad and melancholy strains or lilting sounds as light and airy and as gladsome as the froth on the waves of the summer sea. Some maids are that way with the hearts of men. play upon the strings of the human heart as easily as she who has studied, plays upon her, violin, for they have studied---there to sound the melody of their own sweet will. ! They PA AA AA A tin} application of psychology to life has Mm made in "Measure Your Mind," which Doubleday, Page & Co. will pub» lish early in April. It has been write ten by Professor M. R. Trabue of Teachers College, Columbia Univers sity, an authority upon psychology. and Frank Parker Stockbridge, who an exposition of the newly de- veloped science of testing mental gapachy as distinguished from ae-. quired knowledge, and include also a complete set of tests, with instruc- tions for giving them. 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