PR a ----_, 26 A BORN EDITOR--BORN T00 SOON By Hopkins Moorhouse Author of "The Gauntlet of Alceste," "Every Man for Him= self," "Deep Why have not more and better Canadian magazines? It is a question often asked by the lay enthusias: for thing Canadian and I am tempted to answer by telling the true story of my boyhood friend, Billy Gibbs. Without a doubt he is the greatest Canadian editor I have ever known @and for several years now he has been making money--selling Canad- dan cheese, butter, guaranteed new- aids and home-made breakfas: sau- Sages In a chain of little dairy shops which he operates in an Eastern city! It seems very far away now--thas summer night when Billy Gibbs im-- Presaively tapped the second button of my blouse and swore by "he bloca of Horace Greeley that some day he would be editor of a Canadian maga- zine. Today at thirty-five he is quite bald and is forced to wear speciai lenses in the gold rims of his glasscs But he kept his oath. He has been v \ i 2 HOPKINS MOORHOUSE a a) an editor, sure enough!--four times® I do not know anyone who has a finer assortment of original cover- designs to hang in his den. To some his story may seem all comedy; to me the ideals which fived him were too fine, his struggle to preserve them too plucky, his editorial abili- ties too genuine for any feeling but profound regret that Billy Gibbs was born before his time, The thing began back in our stamp-collecting days when evary echoolboy knew tha' "Helvetia" was Switzerland, and that "Magyar kir. Posta" was Hungarian and that a genuine '""HeMgoland" postage- stamp was next thing to a myth. I GOOD BOOKS FOR GIFTS From the List of Thomas Allen Publisher, Toronto SUCCESS SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS Author of The Clarion Jp the Ladder of Fortune go the he. Inder strigging, some for fame, some for gold, and some, like Banneker, for power $2.00 and a woman's love.... SISTER SUE ELEANOR H. PORTER Author of Oh, Money! Money! "This is one of the best of stories from the talented author. rs. Porter hus inted a character nd the test of time, ~--Boston Globe PURPLE SPRINGS NELLIE L. McCLUNG Author of Sowing Seeds In Danny "lI have just finished Mrs. cs Clung's new book, 'Purple Springs and the" whole book is ' charming with its hearty, simple love of 'Folks.' its just perspectives and its refreshing optimism of the world 'n eneral."--"Janey anuck." THE GIFT OF THE GODS PEARL FOLEY The mew Canadian author. It is a »eyel of a "different" type, excepticaally handled and told with the natural ease of a born raconteur. "This author has arrived."--Mrs. Nellie McClung . $2. 00 PARTNERS OF CHANCE HENKY HERBERT KNIBBS Another Canadian A big, breezy tale of Arizona by 0 the Author "Overland $2. 00 TANGLED TRAILS McLEOD RAINE ERS ir FCB Pan tery story of the West $2.00 POLITICAL PROFILES H. SIDEBOTHAM Brant . Ang intimate sketches rom British public re 50 the WASHINGTON CLOSE- UPS EDWARD G. LOWERY neatly , than a score of national iead- 8 rom stuffed abstractions to - g. Airrathing 3. 50 om uma ngs ...., *aA LABRADOR DOCTOR ts WILFRID'T. GRENFELL, M.D. { The narrative is vivid and humor. ous, and the book wiki take a § proniinesit place among the im. portant autobiographies of men Ree 5.00 a transforms Furrows," Etc. 3 was in touch wit agencies which stamps to seli and working towns; one w x these sub-sales wi: cents and it looked ve W. Gibbs. He sugg into partnership as Stamp Company." S50 we did that. We Podmore, who had printing-outfit in his sCme bill-heads, stamp-sheets for But that printing-p ing of the Eureka Stamp ( We got so interested in se American 0? for could make out of stamps '0 pay for the printing we ordered done. Tho thing could not g0 that we 1d ax last' Billy came out one nigh brilliant suggestion. "I know what we'll do! Let's take Donkey in as a partner and get the printing done free. We'll start a stamp-collectors' paper and call it we'll go halves with him." rushed down to the Podmore hou big ears dubioiis)ly and grinned at us. He figured out the size of the pages and some other things ..and took the wind out of us by declaring that he would not start work on the first issue until we pu' up ten dol- lars in cash in addition to the part- nership So far as I was concerned the great idea dribbled away on the spot. Five dollars apiece? Gee Whiz! Five dollars! I hadn't a nickel saved up But Billy was all enthusiasm. In fact, he was excited and confided to me that he could get the coins out of hig jron bank with a tableknife. I can see even yet as I write the dis- appointment in that eager, freckled face when I told him next morning dreamed about the "Eureka Philatil- ist" al night--had 'the entire first issue planned, an editorial written and no'end of clippings about stamns from heaven knows where! He han $3.60 from his iron bank, had earn- ed forly cents that morning mowing, lawys, and his mother had promisce him the other dolla. It was a big hole in the grounti which his boot toe kicked up as he said, "Aw, shoot!" several times Then his jay tightened and he round- ed on me suddenly with eyes nar- rowed in determina'ion while he tan- ped the second button of my blousa for emphasis and said solemnly: "Mark my words, for I mean it! Some day I'm going to be editor ot 4 magazine! And don't you forzet hr!" Ah, Billy boy, if only we could have seen ahead a few years and realized what that resolution was lo cost you! Aside altogether from the wond- erful achievements of up-to-dace printing, the making of a magaz'na Involves such a varied and high en deavor tha' it is quité beyond the ed, the ethics of advertising and its demands, the relation of policy to both, the unforseen ob- stacles that must be surmounted in the shifting arena of general publish- ing conditions--these make i' ohe of the most difffoult businesses in the eniire field of commerce, To publish a successful magazine anywhere in the world--a magazine, that 4s, which meets all its financial obligations by fts own earnings--ijs a decided achievement. To accom- plish it in" the dominion of Canada is a pinnacle of attainment which has been climbed so rarely that it may be | sausages. * | fat little raseal had kissed ken of the average layman. The cic- | culation problems that must be solv- | each of | those to the other and of editoriu | THE X - Watah the Canadia zines grow. Patronize {once in a while but all the t Little Billy Gibbs? I {dey when I can regard him ! ously I will be able to w Istory of his sufferings and [For the present suffice it to wedding-day when, as we k { prayer, I noted the hole in t {dl of his boot-sole. T y eign that you -die rich. { It may be true. The last | visited Billy in his home he {ing well out of his butter, efgs-- He has learned td pretly fair game of golf a about even in "'chuckey-s "the season's play. Besides ther: Per! " ithe six children--ecorkers® Yot, I don't kpow. Afte good-night and climbed up thé to his mother--we reired wit pipes to Billy's den and for : time he stood, silently regarc collection of cover-designs. ' a look in his eye 'hat told n heart was not in sausages. He od a sigh and shook his hea turned to me. So, stand. Perhaps some day |start another magazine--w has enough money. The darn . . . * fool" Yet he is a born editor soon and married not nearly ough! Of course, there are wira (and the kids and the home golf en- 'The Eureka Philatilis*', Swell name. | Eh? Donkey can print it for us ang | It was such a great idea that we | with it. "Donk" pulled one of his | | | | | | that by hook, crook or tableknife 1 | had failed {0 raise my quota. He had | ALFRED FITZPATRICK From missionary work among the red woods of California to supervis- ing educational work in construction | camps and industrial establishments in Canada, is perhaps not such a long |step. Mr. Fitzpatrick discovered early lin his work that lumbermen, miners land construction men needed {thing more than sermons, and he has {gone on to develop what is now term- fed the Frontier College, to which | wholehearted ~ University students | give their time during the summer (and some during the whole year, to fv ork as laborers during the day with ithe foreign navvies, and giving their | services as teachers at nights Mr. | Fitzpatrick's literary work has lain {largely along lines which would help | this propaganda, {His first book |New Canadians," | sive primmer for the students | Frontier Colleges. His second, "The | University in Overalls," a further development of the theme of | University man in this | form of practical missionary effort. some- "Hand Book for is a rather exten- | MARIA CHAPDELAINE, | A Translation by W, H. Blake, De Luxe Binding. The Macmillan Co., Toronto. $1.50. The Macmillans in Canada count | it a high privilege to sponsor the very able translation fy W, H. Blake of "Maria Chapdelaine." It is not too much to say that Louis Hemon's intimate view of the | jmcods and manners and moments ot {the dwellers in French Canada is in- {deed an immortelle flowering in the {somewhat straggling garden of Can- | adian literature. It may well be that | "Maria Chapdelaine" will take its [place in thé undulating landscape of he and pupils alike, of | the | admirable | DAILY BRITISH WHIG GIRLS. A COLLIE BOOKS FOR BOYS AND | BUFF: By Albert P. Terhune. Toronto The story, of a man and a dog: Mr. Terhune knows and writes of dogs' with infallible understanding. This book will take its place beside that other dog classic by the same a |author, "Lad." KNIGHTS ERRANT OF THE WIL- DERNESS. By Morden H. Long. 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Thete| she meets Letty, Babs, Con, Glad | and other irrepressibles who manage | by their talk and pranks to keep her | very wide-awake, Midnight feasts, expeditions down the fire escape and | snowball fights are favorite diver- | slons. This story is full of humorous | incidents and {is an exceedingly jolly narrative. AROUND THE CAMP FIRE. Charles G. D. Roberts. By Of all Canadian writers, Charles G. scribing the habits of animals lité in the wild wood. He has writ- ten this story specially for boys of from. ten to eighteen years 'of age, and it is intensely interesting. The scene is laid in New Brunswick in and | The Mus-| son Book Co., Toronto. | | D. Roberts is the best hand at de-| | Rosamound and Crispian Carey, with {the region of Lake Temiscanta and said "a splendid isolation." Hundreds | {Be literature of all time beside such of times has "he ascent been attempi- | classic stories = "The Vicar : of ed with courage and daring, with full |W akefleld" and "Paul et Virginie. equipment and even experiencs, . Hundreds of thousands of dollars |Sheer genius of its author. ; [ have been sunk in magazine ventures 2dians do well proudly to acknow- in this country--some of them o1 [ledge the debt which in the name of great promise; some doomed to fail- | the little that is yet permanent in ure from the firs:. The history of | > magazine publishing in Canada has [Canadian workmanship, and to no been a chapter of defeats and the {one more than to Louis Hemon. wayside is littered with the white | Mr. Blake's was peculiarly the bones of '"'propesitions" which lost | habit of mind and the lucidity and their prop and collapsed. Many of | beauty of literary style to essay the these beautiful children of Aspiration with wonderful futures, beloved by [Canada with this treasury of French- thousands of readers and growing ra- | Canadian life and lore. Had Louis pidly to a magazine of usefulness er: | Hemon lived he would have shared they were cut off without a dollar! |the appreciation all of us must feel For Canada is a country of contii- [of this translator's' extraordinary ent-wide area and a population ap-- fidelity to the spirit of the page of proximating that of New York state! | the distinguished creator. Mr, Blake Obtaining circulation is a costly pro- has his reward. ceeding. Advertising rfates-«the chief source of income--are based upon circulation and are corres-- pondingly low. - On top of that s=x- penses overhead in the publishing business, if 'not constantly watched, have a fiendish habit of sneaking through the trap door in the roof {and soaring into blue space! Canad- | ian editors are forced to create their | magazine contents upon an approprix {ation that would make an American editor throw up his hands and pu# [on his hat. Yet their product is {forced to micet public comparison | with the product of millionaire con- jeerns in the linited States , whera | magazino-making has become a fine art Think of this when you are at the {news stand. The Canadian magazines {you will tind there are indeed credit- !able; when the handicap is rememb- erod.. As time goes on condiiions {will improve. They are improving FREDERICK NIVEN of "A Tala That Is Told" Such a place is its by right of the | We Can- | our literature, we owe to French-| | task of acquainting English-speaking | {off the train at numerous points on ithe trip across Canada. {fond of walking, one of their hikes being from Montreal to Ottawa. | Nearly every day they meet with] some adventure, and are particular- ly lucky in their' thrilling experi- ences in the Rockies. There is some- thing doing at every stage in their long journey, and boy readers will {follow them with unflagging inter- est. THE WILDERNESS By James C. Hodgins. | son Book Co., Toronto, | What sort of adventures would {two boys and a girl from Kingston, {Jamaica, have in a summer camp- {Ing trip in that bundless region of {lakes and rivers, bears, porcupines and maskillonge, north and east of the Georgian Bay? This is the theme of Mr. Hodgins' out-of-doors story. Harold and Tom Beauchamp and their sister Millie not only had thrilling interviews with wild ani- mals and experienced upsets from CAMPERS. The Mus- They are | canoes during that summer's outing, but picked up a great deal of wood- lore from their half-breed guide Louis and their Scotch cook, Billy. Incidentally they found buried trea- sure ad cleaned up a fortune. This story will delight every Canadian boy or girl reader. THE GIRLS OF MISS CLEVE- LAND'S. By Beatrice Embree. 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Canadian writers, An igloo with two brothers on it :s de- tached from the ice-floe on *hich an Eskimo village is built, and fs carried away by the Arctic current By Alan Sul- & Stewart, A. 8 M. HUTCHINSON Author of "If Winter Comes," "Once AIS I Winter S old Scouts | |land of Where the Rainbow Ends immense ---- et pte sc a etm McCLELLAND | & STEWART, Limited - Publishers has | to regions strange to them where | instruction and national sports fc- they have to learn the habits of tha boys, with contributions frém some animals and the science of pursui<. ' of the foremost Canadian and Bri- : tish writers, boys' leaders, woods- men, animal lovers and sportsmen. Aincng the- contributors are the fol- lowing: Agnes Laut, Arthur Heme ing, Marshall Saunders, Frank | Yeigh, Rev. R. G. Mac beth, Laddie Cassels, Lieut.-Col. W. G. Barker, V.C., D.8.0., M.C., Arthur Mee, John | Oxenham, Frederick Willlam Wal | lace, Robert J. C. Stead, Taylor | Stratton, Y.M.C.A., Charles G. D. 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