---- Visor trssmrmmrrerer imei r , SATURDAY, DEC. 3, 1021, THE DAILY BRIT covered crying by a woman of the |slums, who had taken me with her {to her home in the hope of securing (a raward after my parents' anxieiy had been sufficiently aroused. I can FICTION BY AMERICAN AUTHORS | } . | still remember her squalid room aad : THE OF REMINISCENCE | dirty children and her attempts to THE FOG. By Willlam D. Pelley, | of | pacify my misgivings with milk and F. D. Goodchild Co., Toronto. { . . . ---------- la biscuit. After a time, however, ihe | 1 Pirs, Vermont, is the background Sir Wilfrid | mformed the police and I was duly | Hi RY : for this story of Nathan Forge, who Laurier I restored. It was my first experience 3 was' handicapped by a hypocritical | of low Hts. " father and a selfish, neurasthenic | By mother. It relates with frim real- | ism a boy's ambitious struggle up- | ward in defiance of the irom clutch! of circumstances. | TWO GIANTS Macdona Bs BY ROBERT ALLISON HOOD | uthor of "The Chivalry of Keith Leicester," "The Quest - Sir Joseph Pope a Oscar Douglas Skelt comprehens y of. ti over Came to America. My father died wren I waa eight {years old and when I was thirteen | my mother and the 'rest of us emi- grated to Sonoma County, California, ve and Great mportant the de- eventfu of Alistair," Etc. i st in Canadian publication of i © THIS MAN'S WORLD. By Will Ley- ington Comfort. 8S. B. Gundy, Toronto. South Sea yarns are very popular! rowadays. This is a typical story | in this fleld relating the struggle of a clean-souled white man to protect the natives against the cruelty and : guide of traders. Tom Steepe, the Author 'of "Dennison Grant" "The hero, is able to managé the island- Homesteaders." "The Cowpuncher." {ers because he was bronght up by a | renegade American soldier in the SHE WAS YOUNG ! | SHE WAS UNKNOWN enough, Mark Twain or Bret Harte, | by iinpine jungles. By I forget which, had prophesied truth- | it~ But She Was fully of this event, a long time be- z fore, in a jocose remsrk to the effect | The Beloved Woman Her hist k i 1 was n in the county town of | that were nectar to us. As fof trag- 2 Vols, Illustrated. Price $8.00 Set Cupar, the eapital of the kingdom of | ed", a bloody nose was enough. {where I had two uncles who were Fite, as the shire is still playfull call-| My father was™~a baillie of the | ploneers of the gold rush days. One ed as a. reminder of its past pdlitical | burgh and a member of the Kirk {ot them had purchased a large tract dignity. Cupar™s a quaint, little | Session. In taoss days the ministers [ot land and settled on it. Los Guilu- town with an honorable history of the Establishod churck, holding cos- Rancho, his place was called. which dates back to before the four- | their charges for iffe az they dia, Here at one time, Morley Roberts, weenth century. It is not without its | Were sonietimes more autocratic than now .the distinguished author but literary associations. The Madras, they had. any right to be the then in his adventurous youth, drift- academy, where I first went to school. | Session, on occasions, had to is {ed in "deadbroke' and took a job as 18 built on a quaint mound or hil. |*bkeir usurpation of authority. An stableboy at $20 a month. He stayed which was the site of the old cast. 8musing instanc, of this happeénad until he had saved enough money to of Cupar, the seat of the earls of | during my father's time It had been take him back to England and later Fife. This was the scene of the ter- | th> custom in church to sit during he wrote a novel, "The Courage of rible tragedy made famous by Shake- | the singing end stand at the pray- | Pauline," the scene of which was lay- épeare, in which the wife and chil. | ers. The ministers (there were two, |. i the ranch. It was published | dren of MacDuft were murdered by for Cupar was a Collegiate Charge) |, 1,,0x form and also appeared ser-| MacBeth. Later on, in: the sixteentr | had decided to .cverse tins order «? | ially in "The Illustrated London | : c . . {swallowed by an earthquake but that gontury, it was here that certain o1 | things. So, one Sabbath they an-|y Vo... poverts thought himself | y viii bh Area. 23 there One of the best detective stories of . i Lie | Oakland would be spare 16r® [the season. Michael Lanyar hon Bir David Lindsay's plays were first U0 Bled Fo She SOBEIUENLION, "ition {badly overworked at the ranch and | "°° 0 things that even an earth- Tt yard, whom Mr. Vance has made famous as the » said that whenever things got too | Ye ooiildn' r 8 ni! 8 1 future they must stand during the fie Sa he used to lot lose the | wer Souidi} stomaeh. tic as-| pone Wolf," leaves the British sé- singing and remain seated at pray- | '2°"dY dor Bin charge, j oo nt © Slamont of Jomantic as- |," ' , "T° LIS Biitie) ge. | bull, which was under his 8% | gociation Bret Harte has woven about | © roll $5 tha we elas 3 ers. and then he would have a day or iv ds of California. It we | volved in the greatest mystery he has The Session were indignant at the |, Co of light work while he mended the early ays 0 gal an] . x [ever undertaken to solve. In minister's high-nanded proceeding | ¢ that the animal had brok-j 0. Our country, cou hy vo |LEMDLNE to recover the Montalais and to show their disapproval, for Me fantzey that the an much for our Canadfan West, if we jewels for Eve de Montalais he has ia wn, A terpret s y 4 # 4 considerable time, they wnd their fase I arrived at Los Guilucos, Ee Jairo OWUINIS come tall adventures. famiitos continued the old cus'om | Aira : red verit. n 181 OI ls) | a3d stood bol. upright' while the rest | an Sys 1 Spey the hones pioneer Yay 2d Fehon Shon {THE LARK. By Dame Burnet, F. D. the congregation were scated and | : , quaintness and self-de And nero. . Ney." of the congragation ing hen "he | there was an orange grove and grape fsms of characters that have passed | Goodchild Co., Toronto. | sat still during the singing when 9 | vines and the long avenue was lin- or it would be a reall The story of the romantic career others ware standing. Even in my d with fig and walnut trees, I used ir BIS Dasung, ou . |of a fair-haired foundling named tire, years after, there was still one | © 8 ! . achievement. or % ho. ~ith hi ' d daugzh- | to delight in galloping through the | leresa. She has a fine voice, and elder, who ---ith his wife an Zh fields with my uncle after the stock. | {the cost of her musical education is ters, kept to the former ctyle for tha living in Cuba She has a hectic sake of principle. 'No doubt, he ery. After the earthquake, I came toi ve afrair with the black sheep joyed it in a way, but I always Canada to make my home in Vau- | hroehor of her benefactor. thought it was rather hard on hie couver and there [ have been aver | .- Wile dng Sie aire may seem out of nty town and I went through High | See, at gi De Sa} neidered | TRADITION. D2 aria You Vorst sisi ' cou |my story. Chis mig e considered » y ~ he. | Place here but you will forgive me |s.i60) there, The school had ®|u happy ending as, apart from a cer- er am Ou, Turmnin, - ay n copy we} , i » ss ' v [een I orHain. You vid me 8 monthly mugasiag valley 'The Pore | tain humidity in wintér time, Van- of American life, finds tradition a Vv sl it | " a . ay be considered as nes { ihe le -- NS & DS a ve cupine," so named, } Suppose, 0F 1 ® | couver may be considered as near t0 stumbling block, as we follow her sho | i Ye Imany points in its kes an ar ICl€S. | being a Paradise as anywhere on fe. on. po woods and fields through performed. A greem, level space in when we come to discuss an increase | | became literary editor and, for the |g... However, I do pot want the| , =~ 1d of fashi 2 a front of the castle did duty for a in royalty, if they remember my het- | ast time, saw myself in print. It} aaqer to remark of thi§ confession as | L1C yorid of Iashion to Europe where theatre. A proclamation of one of tho editary and early environment. You was a thrilling experience. one Chicago reviewer did rather | Prenton holds full sway. , This is Plays is still preserved and show can readily understand that it is not One poem I remember, Was a satire [cio 0 TH book, "The Chiy- | °1¢ of Marie Von Vorst's typical emo- | that the oocasiobs ware merry ones the kind of reminiscense one cau upon a boy, Who had written some alry of Keith Leicester". "it 'ends tional romances. and gave rare opportunity for was-|gracefully drag into a business let- lines commenting, in What I consid~| popniiy: happily it ends. sail: {ter. They both boast Highland an-|ous on impertinent manner, on my : "Our purpose is on the seventh day ot |cestray "hemselves which makes it als custom of walking out with a certain June, | the more necessary that they should Price, $5.00 net. 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To Canada. First Work. We settled on a small fruit farm near Santa Rosa, the neighboring Lone ROBERT ALLISON HOOD t half doze yin I'rice $1.90 net, FROM YOUR BOOKSELLER JOR S. B. GUNDY 25 Richmond Street West, Toronto Horace New THE Fish. York. GREAT WAY. Mitchell Kennerley, 3y A cg ' person, whose identity I prefer not It weather serve and we have rest to disclose. Not being able to deny his impeachment, I thought to pun- ish him by a biting satire on the quality of his verse. It was address ed to him under his initials and be- gan: "Ye poets of immortal fame, Who once did tread the paths fame, Rise from your graves, your hands extend, Counsel and help to genius lend: A youth has risen from out your land, Blessed by the muse with lavish Rand...." I have forgotten the rest of it, but it went on for another ten lines or and 'peace, We shall be seen place, In good array about f seven, Of thriftinwes that day I pray you ceate But ordain us good drink against allevin (eleven) Fail not to be on the Castlahill, Beside the place where ve.purpose o play; * With gude stark wine your waggons you fill, And had yourselves th merriest that you may." in our playing the hour of | know somoithing jt { | whole, uneventful. age of three, when the family was spending the summer holiday at the neighboring seaside Auadrew's famous for its antiquities and its golflinks, 1 came into a cer- tain degree of public notice *hrougi no merit of my own. I Lad got lost in the streot and dis- appeared. anxious and the bellman was seat th.ough the town offering a reward for my safe recovery. civie official in uniform, whose func- of my Inheriteu endeéncies. My -elrly chilhood was, on the However, at the resort of St. In some way, My mother became very This was a of This American writer has imitat- ed Washington Irving by going to Spain for literary material He lived in Barcelona and Cadiz for some years and in "The Great Way," which took him eight years to write, he has registered his impressions of the latter eity. The leading charac- ter in this sex novel is Dulce, a street woman of Cadiz. For those who like sensuous stories, '"'moon- madness, moon-badness and moon- | gladness," as Mr. Fish puts it, thi novel will have a great attractio Practiced short-story writer that he ig, Mr. Fish is never dull, and has a very story tells how the fashionable young preacher gets the old-time and falls in love at the same time. THE called to a big city church and seems successful. The climax of the religion DAUGHTER OF KENT. By Sarah Comstock, Gundy, Toronto. The story of Bec, baby daughter of Helen Kent, who is deserted by her husband. This is really a study of the comradeship between a mother snd her daughter. HELEN 8 B THE WORKS OF SATAN. By Rich- to every sincere Catholic, and 'to every loyal Canedian, a 'source of keen interest and deep inspiration. KNIGHTS ERHANT OF THE WILDERNESS By M. H. Long. 223 Pages, 37 lu. Strations and 9 Maps. $1.50, The Macmillan Company, Toronto, Mr. Long in this admirable book describes the work of eigh: early ex- plorers of Western Canada. He has written it, he says, for Canadian children, but his clear and accurate narratives, illustrated with rhoto- graphs and maps, will interest older tion on Jccasions was to parade the principal streets, stopping at inter vals on his march, and, after, ringing his bell, to shout out whatever proc However, in my time, the good old days were past end other plays eip- plied enjoymont on the Castlehili such as cross tag, hounds and hare finished style. ard Aumerie Mahér. 'The Macmil- . lan Co., Toronto. A comedy of life in a village in readers: Mr. Long's book is heartily to be commended. 80, To my astonishmnt, the subject, instead of being roused to resent- HELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE. By and happy-cock-a-feteky; ginger ale anc hokey-pokey were the beverages k amation, had to be-made, In the meantime, I had ben dis: nnn, ment and indignation by my effort, was completely blind to its irony and took it as a high honor and compli- ment. When he thanked me for the "boost" I had given him, to use his . TREVOR H. DAVIES Harold Bell Wright. The Ryerson Press, Toronto. This 18 a romance lald in an Amer- ican factory town. Its leading char- acters are the old employer, the old northern New York. Saton is the nickname carried by the editor of the village newspaper: Saton spread a little piece of gossip and this story records the amusing results. Despite workman; the new employer, the new workman, the radical employer, | the radical workman, the interpreter {and the new wcman. the sinster title this book bubbles over with laughter. < THE GIRLS. By Edna Ferber, §_ 1. Gundy, Toronto. | The best thing that Miss Ferber Passos. McClelland & 'Stewart,| has written. The story is about Toronto. | Great-aunt Charlotte Thrift, spin- A slashing attack on the methods | ster, aged 74; her niece and name- of the American military machine | sake, Lottie Payson, 'spinster, aged by one who writes under the fancy | 32; and Lottie's niece and namesake, name of Dos Passos. . There are some | Charley Kemp, spinster, aged fierce criticisms in this story of the | eighteen and a half. brutality of 'American officers to their men during the late war. No doubt many of these raw incidents are true, but the author spoils the effect of his story by omitting all | idealism. This book' has been justly | th criticized as being abominably un- fair, own expression, I had not the. heart to spoil his enjoyment by expiana- tions. In due course I finished High School and, after some experience of fruit farming more interesting than financially profitable, 1 entered the State University at Berkeley. Here I spent four years. The atmosphere of the place was such as to foster literary interest. The English de- partment was very strong and the students published a daily paper, a comic illustrated monthly, "The Pel- can," and a literary magazine "The Occldent." To the latter, I remem- ber contributing an article on *Sal- mon' Fishing on the Fraser River" so that at that date I had already begun to wave the banner for British Col- umbia. - I also served on the staff of "'The Blue and Gold," the Junior Class annual. I was associated In this with Jackson Gregory, who has since become very well known as a writer of Western stories and some day is likely to vie with Rex Beach in popularity. With him and some others, I at- tended a class in "The Short Story" Four year ago when the Metropoli- tan Methodist Church, Toronto, want- ed a new minister, they brought over from England a young man who had made a very considerable reputa- tion as a successful preacher in sev- eral of the main churches of the old land. Mr. Davies very shortly made his influénce felt in the Metropolitan Church where he has attracted enor- mous Sunday evening congregations of young people. This appears all the more remarkable when it is known that he is not the so-called popular type of preacher but-rather leans to the ascetic. ' His one Canadian book is decf{ded- ly unique, being, as its title "'Spirit- ual Voices in, Modern Literature," indicates, the deducing of the Spirit- ual message from such masterpieces as Francis Thomson's "The Hound of Heaven," Ruskin's "Seven Lamps of Architecture," Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," and others of the type. Mr, Davies has become a proud Canadian, and while he bears the car- marks of the Britisher, is making a steady influence felt both from a Spiritual and literary standpoint in T SUGGESTIONS FROM NELSON'S LIS Nelson's New Dickens EIS edition fs now complete in 17 vol- umes. 1t contains all the original illus. trations by "Phis" and others. Each volume pas a Soliured wiappés Syscially Ssigued Lovat Fraser, depicting some mos famous characters of the book. $1.78 per volume, post-paid - Mother Goose A of all the old favourite Ni a Hany 1a 004 tavourite Nurtery A Zumiouns black and white illustrations n. The Briar Rose Book ~gimilar in style to the above, but contains a collection of the old favourite FAIRY TALES. THREE SOLDIERS. By John Dos THE WEDNESDAY WIFE. By Jul- iette Gordon Smith. The Macmil- lan Co., Toronto. A curious oriental again. Aletra, © heroine, is the Wednesday wite of Attar Abu Hamed of Tunis, the Spouse whom he really loves. A sul- tan falls in love with her, and the plot of the story turns on her roman- tic flight into the desert. CATHOLIC PROBLEMS IN WESTERN CANADA Nelsen THE JUBILEE GIRL. By Arthur Preston Hawkins. The Ryerson Press, Toronto. A young man sick of the monotony of official life, slips into vagabondia via the open box car route He rides freights with tramps, drifts down the Mississippt in a skiff, hits the trail Probably no women has made a cleaner study of Canadian Western History, and certainly no other wo- man has had her research more pleasingly recognized than Miss Laut, Perhaps this was natural since as a child she moved through the atmos phere of Queen's University, to Win- By G.T. Daly. 352 Pages, 8vo. The | Macmillan Co. of Canada, held by Professor Hart, author of "Kipling, The Story Writer," which is, I suppose, the best and most com- prehensive book on Kipling"s tech- nique that has been written. The class met in the most informal way in the evening. Stories were read by the members and the discussions followed in the hazy atmosphere of tobacco smoke that is customary at literary seances although not in Col- lege classrooms. We got one unit of University credit fofr five thousana words of story and padding was look- ed upon with distavor. So much did Wwe appreciate Professor Hart's gen- ial hospitality and scholarly. inspir- ation that towards the end of the term we gave him 5 complimentary dinner one evening in one of the best hotels Ia Oakland. Unfortunately, being 30 far on In the year, finances were at a low ebb with us all and, I remem-| ber, at the end we had an anxious consultation outside in the ante. room while with the greatest dim. culty 'we rummaged up from our several pockets enough money to pay the bill. Meantime, one or two held the guest of the evening in con- versation at the table inside until the embarrassing moment was past, I had just finished a term of post- graduate work when the San Fran- 0isdo earthquake came along putting a stop to all activities in the Univer- sity as well as outside. Strangely Canada, The chief difference between the human hand and that of the higher apes lies in the thumb, which is al- ways shorter in the ape. 1 Archbishops and dukes are ad- dressed as "Your Grace," because in the past they had the power of grant- ing favors or graces. Many a man who will always stand up for his principles never will do it for a lady in the street car. through the southwestern states, and finally discovers the Jubilee girl. This story is full of the mysticism of trampdom and embodies actual ex- periences of the author. THE CASTAWAY OF BANDA SEA. . By Warren H. Miller. The Mac- miltan Co., Toronto. A stirring story of adventure in distant seas, down in Dutch Borneo and later in the shell fisheries of Dutch New Guinea. THE CHARMED CIRCLE. By Ed- ward Allen Jewell. The Ryerson Press, Toronto. A first story by a former associate editor of "Everybody's Magazine." The scene of this novel fs laid in Paris, and tells of the amusing ex- periences of a lively American bo: and his absurd elderly guardian, who are stranded in a Freach boarding house. A MY BON. By Corra Harris. To- rontgd McClelland and Stewart. This is a sequel to "A ° Circuit Rider's Wife." The preacher in narrative is the son of the old cir- cuit-rider, but he belongs to the new generation. being saturated in higher criticism and new methods of church management. His mother lives with and thinks that he is not nearly the man his faiber. was. although be is $12.50. The West is The Problem of the Church as it is The Problem of Can- ada. For, beyond the Great Lakes the Church and Canada are still in the making. The extreme Importance of this fact and its necessarily serious con- sequences have prompted Father Daly's valuable work. His book is a clear, frank, thought-compelling statement of weighty problems that Dow confront the Chirch in Western Canada. Their immediate solution involves 'the Church's future des- tines in those newer Provinces of our Dominion, The reading of Father Daly's clear and fearless message, should prove | | nipeg and in early years became ang editorial writer of the Manitoba Free Press. Her articles in Outing, Satur day Evening Post, Reviews of Re- views and other journals of the very best class, as well as her several books, have won her a reputation of being one of the most able women writers in America, Rather notably Lord Strathcona, speaking of her : said: "She is a woman not only with ideas but also with the power of give, ing expression to them, While Miss Laut visits Canada and frequently writes considerably about us and prizes also her membership ta the Canadian Women's Press Ciub, she makes her home now at Wi New York, 4 sic your bowels when you have Headache Biliousness Colds Sour Stomach Dizziness Indigestion is ¢sndy-like Cescarets Ove or two ys The nicest cathartic-laxative to phy- | CASCARETS 10* For Gonstipated Bowels-- Bilious Liver: tonight will empty your bowels come pletely by morning and you will feel splendid. "They work while yon sleep." Cascarets never stir you ug or gripe like Saits, Pills, Calomel, or Oil and they cost only ten cents a box. 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