-_e > y rr A i a ¢ . 4 THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. Se -- ---- {nowadays from a loss of confidence TO REMOVE { | HAS H.G. WELLS SUFFERED ARELAPSE? {io sa ities BAD COLD) #+in His New Book, "The Secret Places of the Heart," that we seem to float over abyss>s | INVESTIGATE The Special Poliey "This peace is a farce." the doctor | samic Vapor of "Chtarrhozone" goes on--I- | When Inhaled Quickly ted phrase." The, slide All the Characters Are Atheistic, and the Hero, a 8ensualist, Declares That Men Over Forty Do Not Feel the Need For a Personal God. By Professor | { W. T. Allison, | goes, If anything, faster, without a sign of stopping. And all our poor little adaptations! Which have been elaborating and trusting all our lives! One after another they fail us, We are stripped. We have to begin all over again. I am fifty-seven and I | | expanded, "reconstruction an explod- | Medicine Not Necessary-- The Bal. i Dispels Colds. Every breath you draw through | Catarrhozone Inhaler fills tke whole | breathing apparatus with pure piney | essences thar stop colds at their | very beginning. You experience a Dicatart sensation of relief at once. European Plan Dining Room Service De Luxe ISSUED BY THR EXCELSIOR INS. LIFE CO'Y SOLU BY After issuing such a gigantic lab-; gins to probe the secret cf places uf Or as his 'Outline of History," H. G.|Sir Richmond's heart. After the Wells would not have been blamed | most approved modern psychological by his most devoted admirers if he. methods, all of which are as A B ¢! had gone to the Pelli Islands for 2({to the omniscient Mr. Wells, the feel at times nowadays like a chick- 30r:uess, congestion and 'rritation en new-hatched in a thunderstorm." | leave the nose and throat--the head ee Is cleared, and every trace of cold and Man's Inheritance From the Ape |Catarrh disappears. Catarri.ozone is There is plenty of this talk |®C Sure, so pleasant, such a safe A al. ay remedy for winter ills that you can't about the coming social smash-up afford to do without it. Get the dol- CHATEAU BELVIDERE H.D. WIGHTMAN 151 WELLINGTON ST. five years' rest, far from pen and [patient is induced to deliver from ink and world problems. But this literary Hercules feels just as fresh and fit as Premier Lloyd George, that human dynamo of the political world; no doubt both these famous workers imagine that they cannot be * spared in the task of Straightening out the New Age, the rather nebul- ous post-war period In which civiliz- ation is now groping its way. Lloyd George is doing his part as guide oy letting his mercurial genius play over Genoa conferences and such Ike; Mr. Wells is trying to lead the mations into pastures of new gocial- istic experiment by educating public -opinion by means of his books. }H= has now probably a larger audience than any living author and he can- not put by the opportunity to deliver an exhortation to his mighty army of readers among the nations at least twice a year. His last four bocks, including his history of the world, have been deliverances on social and political problems, but with his latest work, actual count ft is his forty-fifth book, he has ro- turned to the field of fiction. But "The Secret Places of the Heart" (The Macmillan Company, Toron- to) is not, as its seductive title might imply, a story of pure sentiment. Like "Mr. Britling Sees it Through," and 'Joan and Peter," it is a novel with a purpose; it has been written with the intention of educating the reader along social lines, not of en- tertaining him in the early Wellsian manner. The propaganda in this Pook is not as heavy as that of the "Outline of History," nor so vituper ative as that of "Joan and Peter," But with its admixture of sex-stuff it is quite pronounced and we sti'l hear the voice of the would-be re- fashioner of this pig-headed wor'd seeking to persuade us of the pos- sibility of making all things new. Sir Richmond Hardy Consults a Psychiatrist, The plot of this, story is very simple. Sir Richmond Hardy, a Wealthy Englishman, a coal mag- nate, becomes infected with the Wells gospel of internationalism, .e0-operation' between the govern- ments of the world in taking over coal and oil and using them econom deally. When the story opens he has en acting for some time on a coal commission and has been trying to 'eonvince capitalists and laborites of absolute necessity for the adop- tion of his views of humanity is to ® the progress that it should. He been using up all kinds of energy his encbunters with the advocat:s things as they are and feels that unless he can get some drug to re- . faforce flagging nervous system he Will soon go to pieces ahd the battls 1 be lost. So he consults Dr. Mar- tineau, the eminent psychiatrist of i rley street. After a long dialogue iDetween Sir Richmond and the doc- , the patient decides to accept tha jmiet physicians' advice and accom- ny him on a motor-trip through tern England. The journe E: bo- ing, and no sooner are the two Men the road than the speelalist be- 3 Wr Raa ie SLE ) KIDNEY D8 THOMAS' CLECTRIC OlL {day to day a sort of mental serial story, the story of his mind from boyhood days; he is even frank en- ough to disclose the motives which prompted him to marry and the mo- tives which later on led him to be unfaithful to his wife, to be an amo:- ist deepnding upon the'companitoa- ship and encouragement of various women for the necessary impetus to engage in his enthusiastic champion- ship of social reform. It is not un- til the voluble Sir Richmond and his medical adviser reach Stonehenge that anything really happens in the story. But here doctor and patient encounter a young American woman and her elderly travelling compan- fon. Sir Richmond's abnormal de- light in the company of interesting young women is at once manifest, and to Dr. Martineau's disgust he insisted en taking the ladies back to Avebury and Silbury Hill to give them a lecture on archaeology, a subject in which he was very well posted As the doctor had already heard this lecture on the preceding day he did not wish to retrace his steps. -Moreover, he feared that his patient would soon be making love to the intelligent and charming Miss Grammont of New York. And what the doctor feared soon came to pass. In spite of the fact that he had re- celved due warning from the pscho- logist, together with a warm protest from that gentleman at having brok-| en the agreement they made in Lon- don, Sir Richmond allowed the doc- tor to break away from him at Salis- bury. Continuing the trip with Miss Grammont and Miss Sayffer:, her tactful companion, Sir Richmond found within a day or two that the young lady was in love with him and | that he had fallen in love with her. | Mr. Wells allows these very intel- | lectual lovers to have only a few | days together and then he parts them to meet nq more. Miss Gram- mont goes to Falmouth to meet her father, a multimillionaire, whose specialty is ofl, and Sir Richmond goes back to London to throw him. self with new-found energy into the work of the Fuel Commission. A month or so later he contracts a bad cold but is so keenly interested in his work that he refuses to give up and go to bed until it is too late. He dies of pneumonia, with no one but Dr. Martineau beside him in his last hours. et A Coal and Oil Rapid-Fire Romance. Simple as is this plot, it is not im- mune from criticism. Mr. Wells arouses our incredulity when he makes Miss Grammont, a strong- minded American woman who has been beseiged by scores of young men in New York, and who is still grieving over the loss of a lover kill- ed in the war, fall madly in love, al- most over night, with this elderly married man from London. It strikes me that it would take at least a month for even as good a talker as Sir Richmond to reconcile a young {lady of Miss Grammont's refined type to the fact that he was a mar- ried man about twice her age. An- jother artificial touch in the story is {the novelist's conjunction of oil and jcoal in this love affair. Sir Rich- {mond burned with tKe desire to in- duce all the coal and oil barons of the world to sell out their interests to an international fuel commission. Judge his enthusiasm, therefore, when he, the owner of a coal mine and the leading spirit of an English coal commission, was able to inspire the daughter of an ofl millionaire not only with love for him but with enthusiasm for his great scheme to bring about state socialism in fuel. But it is a little too much for the readér to believe that these arden: lovers would willingly separate in order that the girl might prepare to take over her aged father's oil in- terests and the man to promote his part of the undertaking in London. Evidently Mr. Wells felt that he had to Kill off his hero rather than wind up his story in melodrama. ---- A Chicken Hatched in a Thunderstorm. But slight and improbable as Is the plot of Mr. Wells' new story ev- lery reader who is interested in the | psychology of the new age will da- rive much enjoyment and not a lit- tle instruction from . "The Secret Places of the Heart." Both Sir Rich- mond and Dr. Martineau are up co the minute in historical, social, ana psychological new thought. Sir Rich- mond admits that he is fifty-seven but confesses that he feels at timas like "a chick." Sir Richmond fe a capitalist himself, but he thinks that everything in our world is heading for a social smash-up. Everything is jShort and running shorter--tood fuel, material. But the profiteers 80 on as though nothing had chang- ed. Strikes, Russia, nothing will warn them. He declares that there are brother capitalists on his com- mission who would steal the ties off a mous:ain railway just before they went down in it. The doctor tells his patient that this sense of a coming smash is epidemie, that it is a new | state of mind, and is at the back of the war if was abnormal--a phase ui neurasthenia, Now it is almost e normal state with whole classes--cf intelligent people. We are suffering I all sorts of mental trouble. Before unless man mends his ways, that 1s to say unless he acts on the advice S80 lavishly and insistently supplied Mim by Mr. H. C. Wells. And in addition to the thunderstorm atmo- sphere of this bobk, there is much psyche-analysis from Dr. Martineau, who is really H. C.. Wells in dis- guise. In common with James Har- vey Robinson, the American psych- ologist whose book 'Mind in the Mak- ing" I reviewed a couple of weeks ago, is quite sure that the motives which emerge from the subconscious mind of the most refined modern man are largely shaped by his ape ancesters. As I have read Dr. Mart- ineau"s Darwinian observations along this line, I have been chuckling to think how they would infuriatg Wil liam J. Bryan, leader of the present anti-simian crusade. Take this pass- age, for instance, "The wonder is noty that you are sluggish, reluctantly unselfish, inattentive, spasmodic. lar outfit. It lasts two months; small #ze 50c. trial size 265¢., at all deal- crs, or the Catarrhozone Co., Mont- real. ee tert ic ---- the fading shadow of a vanished God. 8ir Richmond is really tar worse off than an ancient pagan, for he says: "I want mating because it is my nature to mate. I want fel- lowship because I am a social animal --and I 'want it from another social animal. Not from any God--any "in- conceivable God who fades and dip appears. No----] can believe that over all things Righteousness rules. I can believe that. But Righteous- ness is not friendliness nor mercy nor comfort nor any such dear.and intimate things, This cuddling.up to Righteousness! It is a dream, a de- iusion and a phase. I've tried all that long ago. I've given it up long ave souls complete. The need the wonder is that you are ever anything else. Do you realize that a few million generations ago, every- thing that stirred within us, every- thing that exalts human life, self- aevotions, heroisms, the utmost triumphs of art, the love--for love it is--that makes you and me care indeed for the fate and welfare of all this round world, was latent, in the body of some little lurking beast that crawled and hid among the oranches of vanished and forgotten Mesozoic People always Seem to regard that as a curious fact of no practical importance. It isn't: it's a vital fact of the utmost pract- ical importance. That is what you are made of. Why should you ex- pect--because a war and a revolu- tion have shocked you--that you should suddenly be able to reach up and touch the sky?" Man of to--day 80. I've grown out of #. Men do er forty Only young peo- ple for a'personal God, feared but re- assuring, is a youth's need." Let BUCH A T6lapse as this. Surely he cannot be guilty of such bad logic as to say that there can be a power called Righteousness (the capital letter is his) and deny it such attrib- utes as friendMness, mercy and com- fort. If there is a just God, He must be loving and merciful. And what utter foolishness it is for any man to say that the need for a per- sonal God is a youth's need! The whole experience of our race dis Proves such a statement. | ~W. T. Allison Literary Notes. An American book buyer who |crossed swords with fhe celebrated Quaritch at an auction sale in L.on- is a creature of the darkness with new lights. He is lit and ' half- blinded by science. He sees the poss- ibility of controlling the world, has caught the idea of service, under- stands something of the self beyond self. But this is but a partial and shaded light as yet; a little area about him has been made clear, the rest is still the old darkmess of mill- fons of intense and narrow animal generations. Man has wakened out of an immemorial sleep to find him- self in a dimly lit chamber. He is not alone in it. He is not lord of ail he surveys. His leadership is disputed. "The darkness even of the room you are fn," says Dr. Martin- eau-Wells, "is full of, ancient ana discarded but quite unsubjugatéd powers and purposes. They thrust ambiguous limbs and claws sudden- ly out of the darkness into the light of your attention, They snatch things out of your hand, they trip your feet and dog your elbow. They crowd and cluster behind you. Wherever your shadow falls, they creep right up to you, creep upon you aad struggle to take possession of you. The souls of apes, monkeys, reptiles and creeping things haunt the passages and attics and cellars of this living house in which your consciousness has awakened. Sir Richmond is Britling in Relapse Readers of "Mr, Britling Sees It Through" will remember that the hero of that Great War novel, a pos- itive, forthright, sensual English- nan, reached out after God under the pressure of the suffering brought about by the conflict. The hero of this story reminds me very much of Mr. Britling. He has retained that character's tone of voice, mannér of Speech, and his passionate interest in the welfare of humanity, but in oth- er respects he ig Mr. Britling in re- lapse, if I might 'use this expression, for he 18 sensual to a degree and glories in his immorality. The em- vhasis that 'is placed on the sexual element in this book wi be a disap- Pointment to those who had imagin- ed that Mr. Wells had abondoned this strain, which is so prondunced in his earlier novels. But what fe still more disappointing is the fact tanat this distinguished wrter makes all the characters in this 'book express a disbelief in God. Can it be possible that Mr. Wells has lost the faith that ue found during the war, which he formulated in his books "God, the Invisible King' and '"The Undying Fire." It is always dangerous to identify the ideals held by an auth- or with those which he puts into the mouths of hig characters, but when 'he writes a book which is distinctly irreligious in tome, I do not think it is absolutely unfair to suspect that he sympathises with the sentiments expressed by his hero. He makes Sir Richmond state emphatically that formerly he passed through a stage of ineffectual invocation, but now there is no use 'n appealing to don the other day is Mr. Philip Rosenbach of Philadelphia. The book on the block was the famous Daniel copy of the First Folio Shake- |speare, published in 1623, It was [knocked down to the American at £8,600. The same rare old book was sold by auction in April, '1921, for £4,200, a price which was regard- ed at that time as enormous. Think of making a profit of $22,000 on one book in one year! This looks like profiteering. But what a confidence the Philadelphia man reposes in the Swan of Avon or rather in the kesn- ness"of some American multi-mil- lionaire to' wo, the highest-priced of Shakespeare's relics. This Mr. Rosenbaéh gave another remarkable proof of his faith that old books and manuscripts are good investments evén at unheard of Prices by buying at the same sale the autographed copy of Charles Dieck- ens's 'Haunted Man" for £3,700. He explained to someone who wondered how a few sheets of paper could be worth such a large sum that thers are two main reasons, "Firstly, people fail to realize the pleasure which the "Christmas Carols" and other of Dicken's works give to Am- erican readers, and this particular copy will prebably be purchased 'by Someone who read the story in his youth, but who never realized that he would be able to possess the ac- tual copy written by the hand of the master." I yield to no one in ad- miration of Dickens, but I cannot im- agine that if I were ag rich as Croe- sus or Rockefeller that anyone could capitalize my interest in "The Haunted Man" at $18,600. But no doubt the optimistic Rosenbach will haunt some millionaire until he ex- tracts from him $30,000 -for "The Haunted Man." How Dickens would bave loved to have made game of this mania if such extravagant habits had existed in his day! But why is it that some famous cld books are worth almost nothing? Several years ago an English friend bequeathed me a beautiful copy of the first folio edition of Thomas Fui- ler's "Worthjes of England." It was published in 1662, and, as everyone will agree, it is one of the greatest books written during the seventeenth century, Having read reports of the big prices obtained in. London and New York for old books, I imagined that in millionairedom my copy of eld Fuller would be worth a good Geal of money, possibly a thousand dollars or even more. Last Christ- mas [ was in New York and dropped in to see Mr. Brentano who is an expert in the rare book business. What was my astonishment when he informed me that my treasure would not bring more than twelve dollars ff the book market! He admitted that it was an Immortal work snd all that, but he said there was no demand for it. But perhaps the mil- Lonaire will fancy Fuller one of these days and them my ship will come in, ~W. T. A. How Trout Are Hatched. Trout are ariificlally fertilized at hatcheries. ----tiae------------ Smoking has been prohibited in the Olympic forest reserve during 'J | the summer months, A baby bandsaw, mechanically | perfect, is only & feet high The miser does not own hig gold ~his gold owns him. He that returns good for evil ob- tains the victory. 141 King E. Phone 1743 M. C. FENWICK, Prop. 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