Y «~Fage had had a hand In sesaring «mervices, Wilson, when elected, was for him a member of his |cn a ralsed platform making y family, first and bow, and the hands with them. Then forty or more ministers--no shake for them. few officers in Indians of high rank and the court officlals are about, with pages to queen's train, and queen move, two court .officials back before them gold stick and the stick." "held this high 'sented the United States during the 'and Letters of Walter Hines Page," i #on, "I hope that Walter Page's let- KINGSTON, ONTARIO, eee | American Ambassador In "The Life and Letters of Walter There Are Book of the Year, With a Graphic Pen H. Page," the Greatest Innumerable Vivid Sketches of England in. War Time--Intimate Side- lights an President Wilson--King on the Americans. George's Little Joke By Prof. W. T. Allison. Ever since Benjamin Franklin been the custom in the Unite" Statos for the government to select d | eqe, went on his mission to Paris, it has%on to var society as i8- |the keen eyes of the American edi like Page's biographer, I hurry ¢gated pageant of London it unrolled itself before tinguished literary man as ambuissd- |tor-ambassador in the year before dors to foreign courts. * Accordingly, | when Woodrow Wilisan decame presi- | Walter Hines: Page, to represent the United States in Great Britain, Mr. Wilson's election as governor of New Jersey and had done much to per- suade the Democratic party that he sight, a row of seats on one side of the throne room, the duchesses on a row opposite. would make an ideal president, As a suftable reward for these political cabinet, but ultimately decided that ft was more advisable to send this old friend of his, who had been &di- tor of the Forum, the Atlantic. Monthly and the World's Work, who in additton to a splendid career as ® wrPer and editor, had beconie one | of the principals in a great publish- ing firm, as American ambassador to the court of St. James. Mr, Page office from 1913 to 1918, during the most strenuous perfod that any ambassador ever had to face, It is the general opinion of unhyphena'ed Americans that Page was the greatest American am- bassador to Great Britain since Charles Francis Adame, who repre- civil war. Every English'and Oana- dian reader of the two-volume, 'Life by Burton J. Hendrick (S. Gundy, Toronto) will say amen "0 this opin- fon. It a fortunate thing for the cause the Allies that such a fair-minded American as Page ropre- sented his country in London and it wae a still more fortunate thing for eye-witness of the stirring social and political life of England during his term of office. So onerous were his of it killed him, but dn ties, the American 'ambassador corded his daily observations 4 let- the great war, home he gives dent, he asked an old mechool friend, |of English life, brilliant pieces his efperience at court. dated Dea, 22nd, 1913, bis brother, Robert N. lews: "The 'courts' mony mus* have been very tiresom for as ladies came along to curtsy the king and queen, the ambassadors had to stand throne. Page, 'after an hour or two of dies coming along and cuntsying and disappearing, Spanish ambassador, five hundred of 'hese sald he, as he shifted his welght to the other foot, literature that this writer was the |fIVe thousand!' been presented; the king ang queen go into a room where a stand-up sup- 'The royalty and the | duties during the war hat the strain | diplomatic folks g0 into that spite of long |100; and their majestios walk around Tours and fatiguing diplomatic du- [2nd talk with whom re- | [nto another and bigger room every- | body else goes and gets supper, Then per is served. In his first letters bis first impressions "One of his most of description retails In a letter he writes to Page, as fol- are a very fine The diplomatic ladies sit on The king and queen sit with the royal The ambassadors come in king shakes come the In front of the king are a gaudy uniform, some (from India), all round hold wp ha Whenever the king » One carrying a other a silver Ambassadors Stand Near the Throne, The presentation part of the cere- 16, patiently "One night," the Mr la- near writes I whispered to the 'There must be ladles,' 'Um' 'I am sure there ars When they've all room they please ters to President Wilson, Col. Ed- | We all flock back to the throne room: ward M. House, and other friends in the United States. racy letters dn those crowded of service will remain a constant source of wonder to posterity. t But | and preceded by the backing courti- How he ever |®Ts, thelr majes'ies come out ged to write so many long and | the floor and bow to the ambassza- | mans years | dors, them to the duchesses, then to he general diplomatic group and hey go out, into The show is ended. We by the exercise of heroic dstermina- | COme downstairs and wait an hour tion and triumph over physical weak- | {OT our car and come home ness he was able to produce a long { midnight. The about uniforms on the men series of epistles, whioh for frank. |2nd "he jewels on the ladles (by the ness of style, keenness of observa- tion, nob! of sentiment, and poii- tical wisdom; will give them a pef- | manent place in the Mterature of the great war. In 1915, President Wilson read extracts from one of Page's letters to members of his cabinet. "Some day," said Mr, Wil- ters will be published. They are the best letters I have ever read. 'They make you feal the atmosphere in England, understand: the people, and see into the motives of the great act- ors. When published, they will give the finest picture obtainable any- where of England during the war." Page's Picture of the Royal Court. As if conscious gf the necessity of economizing his space for Page's let- ters from England, his biographer has cove in the first three chap- icre of this work the boyhocd of Wal- ter Page in North Carolina in recon- struction days following the civil war, hds college career in his native state and at Johns Hopkins, his few years in journalism and his brillant suec- cess as a magazine editor aud pub- lisher. Although these first hundred pages are packed with human inter- STOMACH TROUBLE "INDIGESTION" Relieved By Burdock Blood Bitters -------- { ton) makes a very brilliant spectacle, The American ambassador end his secre- | taries and the Swies and the Portu- | Beso are the only | citizens' clothes. . sparkle with diamonds, strut; and their trains--all this ones - dressed 'in The women the men he talks very well the royal ladies big generals admirals and the sort--fine show." -- Happy in Their Heatless Houses, There are innumerabla amusing passages in these letters deseriptive of the domestic life of the English and especially of thelr ability in re- sisting Christmas and New Year's, 19013, Ambassador Page secured a much- reeded rest from strenuous social ac- tivities. he says, "are as lonely and as quiet as the road to Oyster Bay while tha Cyvster about as mild here as with you in October and us damp as Sheepshead's Bay in an autumn storm. But such People as you meet complain of the C-o-l-d--the c-0-l-d; and they into their heatless houses and put on extra waistcoats and furs throw shawls over their knees and ourse Lloyd George and enjoy them- selves, They « even without mint juleps in summer or egg-nog them. The old doughty thie Americans for conveniences, Between "The streets of London," is in South America. It's run and 4re a great people in winter; and I like lords curse the decline of to | the king is a fine man with a | big bass voice, and and is most agreea very gracious; (Queen, Victoria's daughters, chiefly) are nice; you see all the : and all the big great folk of every ble; the queen is | The sufferer from dyspepsia, indi- ! or other stomach " who has to pick and choose his food 1s the most miserable of all mankind. Even the little that is eaten causes . much torture, and is digested so im- L, < ha but little good. © Derfectly it does bu & troubles drinking. And you can't live among *hem without laughing yourself to death, and admiring them, too, It's a fine race to be sprung from." Ina simple lstter he gives a whole heap of observations to illustrate the con- servation of the English. "In Defoe's # facture its own digestive ferments. Before ycu can eat heartily and en- Joy your food, you must put your to! right so that it will manu- Mr, Wm. Kruschel, Morden, Man., writes: --"Some time ago J had quite a serious case of stomach trouble, in- I could scarcely eat any- thing, outside of some light food, and even then I generally had pains af-] ter each meal. I tried many different medicines, but without any improve- ment, and had almost given up hope of éver. well. A neighbor re- 1 Burdock Blood Bitters. after using it & short time I feit +. better, so I' continued to use it until I was completely relieved, 1 can honestly say that B. B. B. has done wonders tor me after all other m failed "B. B. B. is put up only by The T. Mie Go. 2 Limited, Toronto, Ont. * time they pu' desks of every kéep the plague off. The pots herbs are yet put on every desk every court room in London. every grate in the kingdom the 2cal fire is laid in precisely the same ond grace at dinner--no+ ~--but before the dessert, hundred years ago they dared not. wait longer lest the der the table: day before dessert! | months to persuade my leave off blacking shoes uder the instep, couldn't do it. kingdom does it. sit at table Mrs, Page's Pots of herbs on the court in London to of in + +» In way. they say a sec- at the-end because two Everywhere person be un- the grace is said to- 'ried three 'Boots' to the soles of my He simply Every 'Boots' in the © + My servants in a certain order, and maid wouldn't yield her ence to a mere housemaid for nortal consideration--any more a royal person of a certain rank |; tld yjeld to one of a lower rank I democracy is as ioomsday." - -- The Grand Smash, Fascinating as they are, I must {the Mexican question, President Wil- {son's handling of the Panama canal { tolls, and the efforts of Wilson, House |and Page in the spring of 1914 to rersuade Germany to adopt Bryan's arbitration plan, We come now Page's purried. but graphic pic- tures of the events which followed hard upon what he calls '""The Grand Smash." He was kept in ais ofilce day and night for over a week, for the ou*brecak of the war caused a panic among the Americans in Lon- don. Page and his secretaries were bombarded. "Crazy men and weep- ing women,' he writes to President Wilson, "were imploring and curs- ing and demanding--God knows it Bedlam turned loose. 1 hava been called a man of the greates* genlug for an emergency by some, by cthers a damned fool, by others avery epithet between these two ex- tremes, Men shook English bank Notes dn my face and demanded Uni- ted States money and swore our gov- fernmeut and its agents ought all to | be sho Women expected' me to {hand them steamship tickets home | When some "found out that they could not get tickets on the trans- ports (which they assumed would sail the next day) 'hey accused me of favoritiem These absurd experi- ences Will give you a hint of janie." The British government | was, as far as the navy and regular [xrmy wera concerned, prepared for war. "Tuesday night," writes Page {to Wilson, 'five minutes after the uliimatum had expired, the admiral- |ty telegraphed to the fleet 'Go.' a few minutes the answer came bak { 'Of.' Soldiers began to mareh | through the city going to the railwav [rtations An indescribable crowd so | blocked~the streels about the admir- {alty, the War Office, and the foreign {office that at one o'clock In {morning I had to drive in my ear by | other streets to got home. Poor was | Mensdorft, the Ausirian ambassador, | He is | does not know where he fis, Fractically shut up in his guardad weeping and waiting the | Gécrbe bf fate. I went to sea | the German ambassador at |o'clock in the afternoon, {down in his pajamas, a crazy man {I feared he might literally go mad. | {He 13 of the anti-war party and he {Fad done his best and utterly falled. [ This interview was one of the most | pathetic experiences af my life. Ths {FGor man had not slept for several rights. I shall never forget | 3ir Bdward Grey's telling me of the ultimatum- | poor German gmbassador who has {lost in his high game--almost a de- { mented man; nor the king as he de- | {claimed at me for half an hour and | throw up his hands and said, 'My {God, Mr. Page, what else could wo {do ?' Nor the Austrian ambassador's | wringing his hands and weeping and [crying out, 'My dear Colleague, my | {dear Colleague.' " ---- President Wilson's Notes. Although President Wilson wro'e very genigl letters to Ambassador Fage during the first months of the war and kept on telling him how much he was enjoying bis vivid let- ters from England, there came time when the !ofd of 'he White | House hogan to think that his repre- sentativé in London was too pro-British. ltogethe: From the first day enlistad on the side of the Allies, but he did his best to be 'a neutra!' in the technical sense. He said in a while a government could be neutral, no man could be. And as the war progressed he became moge and more dissatisfied with Wilson's 'narrow de- finition of neutrality. Unlike Wilson, he declined to abrogate his consel- ence where his personal judgment of the rights or wrongs of the conflict were concerned. He became dis- gurted with Bryan and Lansing in their punctilious insistence on Am- arioan shipping rights. If it had not been for the taet and. good sense of Fage and Grey (one of the most in- teresting features of these letters is the numerous reference {0 the warm friendship between these two men) there could have been serious trou- ble brtween the United States and England. But after the Lusitania outrage, when instead of declaring war against Germany Wilson did nothing bnt write notes, Page began to feel ashamed of his country. No ambassador ever dealt more faith fully with his government than Mr. Page, With almost brutal frankness he told Wilson just what the English veople were saying about him and the 'tation that he was supposed to lead. From the cold reception which Wil- son gave to his own letters, Page Guickly came to the conclusion that the president was not a big enough man to hear the frank truth either 'from him or from the men about him in Washington. Although Page vis- ited Washington in the summer of 1616, the president did not express a wish to see him to talk things ever. Page had been ofcially summoned presumably to discuss the European situation, bus to his immense surprise neither the President nor the state depariment apparently had the slightest interest ay 4 far off as! tha | In| tho | threo | He came | of the war Page's sympathies were | letter to his bother, however, that | (of a man, however, 0 be put off | this way. At last Wilson gave him an interviow., The two old college embassador talked long and quently {pean tragedy, but Wilson was utter- iy cold, utterly unrespomsive, inter- ested only in ending the war. He dis- played a tolerant attitude toward Germany and insisted that Great Bri- tain's domination ot ¥'the earth" 'was one of the causes of the war. When Page showed him the "Lusitania' medal, that the Germans had struck in commemoration of their dastardly crime, Wilson did not seem to be specially impressed. At last Page rose to go, He put his hand upon the president's shoulder and a' his kindly touch Wilson's eyes filled with tears. To Page he seamed to be the loneliest man he had ever known. The old friends said good-bye and never met again "age and King George Have a Smoke Together, But, as we all know, the Germans ran amuck and forced Wilson to take the United States into the war. There are soms extremely interesting letters from Page which reflect his joy at that great event. He tells how the king had him up to Windsor Cas- tle to congratulate him and his na- |tion., The ambassador and the king 'had a good time smoking together. ["I have a good story om you, satd King George. 'You Americans have |2 queer use of the word 'some,' to |8Xpress mere bigness or emphasis. We are taking that use of the word {from you over here. Well, an Am- jeriean read his paper diligently--all the details of a hig battle, When he got done, he put the paper down and id: 'Some - fight!' 'And some don't!' said the Englishman. "And the king roared. 'A good one on you!' 2 " 'The trouble with that joke, sir,' {I ventured to reply, 'is that it's out date.' "He was in a very gay mood, sure- |1y, because of our entry into the war, ol ee Why It is a Good Family Medicine From its splendid formula, its su- perb blood purifying qualities, ita prompt tonic effects, and above all ite unequalled record in practical use by three generations,--Hood's Sarsa- parilla is the favorite medicine in many homes. If you need a good family medicine why not 'get the best, that which has n known to the people of America for half a century -- that made your others and grandmothers well and" that is reasonably sure to do you good? You know Hood's. Get it Ye in! in lends spent a whole forencon to- | gether and Page was treated with | milter in the smoking-room. He talk- courtesy and listened to quietly. The |ed about himself and his position as elo- (king. regarding the whole Euro- |limited monarch, I thank heaven I 1 0us newspapers and magaziras, Last- membership copies of "The Canadian | Canadian has left Montreal for New couragement from the Canadian pub- SATURDAY, DEC. 9, 1922. ------------ . m-- After tho dinner--there were guests but Mrs. Page and me, the mbers of his household, of course, being presemt--he became even ft 'Knowing the difficulties of a am spared belng an absolute one.' " Space fails me and I feel that I have not begun to do justice to this great book, which interprets England to the United, States better than 2ny work T have ever read. When it goes into a cheap edition, as it is certain to do, I hope that this masterpiece cf observation, political wisdom and an- preciation of Great Britain's splen- | did part in the war will have an! enormols circulation in the United States. Englishmen and Canadians will learn much inside history from Mr. Page's letters and will derive the livellest satisfactipn from its charac- ter studies of English statesmen and its abundant references to tho war. --W. T..ALLISON. n Literary Notes. At a recent meeting of the general executive committee of the Canadian Authors' Association held at 'he pub- lic library, Toronto, it was decided to discontinue the use of "The Cana- dian Bookman" as the official organ of the association and to adopt in its place official bulletins which will | be conffned more strictly to matters pertaining to the association, Mem- bers will continue to 'recelye their Dookman'" until the expiry of the | present contract with the owners of that publication, The firet issue of the new bulletins is expected to he ve ready about January 1st, and will be | mailed without charge to regular and associate , members, The bulletins will be edited by the secretary, B. K. Sandwell, assisted by an editorial commiitee, consisting of Dr. George Locke, Madge Macbeth, and John Murray Gibbon, with power to add 'o | their number. > This has been a very successfal year for Frederick Willtam Wallace, Canadh"s writer of sea stories. His, story, "The Viking Blood," has been purchased by a moving piccure con- cern. His two books of ghort stories, | "Balt Seas and Sailormen" and | "Shack Locker," now out In book | 4 form, have had a great run in vari- + + ly. Mr. Wallace \has been avpointed |» editor of the famous oid American 1 fishing journal, "The Fishing Ga-|¢ zette." We regret that this sturdy | + > ls | fo York, but we know that his heart will { be true to the north, A book that deserves special en- | Ar -- recior of Scotland, arrie long ! Browning. {probably speech of acceptance. how the shy and retiring Barria evar (summoed up resolution to face the students, graduates and faculty the old university. "Courage" as the subject of his ad- {dress indicated his own triumph over hia usual painful timidity, {Is a veteran public speaker, but 'he {will have {hopes to make as fine a rectorial ad- dress as "Courage," which has.been rin'ed in book form and is to-day being read with admiration in every part of the English-speaking world. ito be no end. {Golden Book of ited by Thomas Caldwall, leg sh Whig no ic 4s "The Trailmakers' Boys' An- pual tak: the place of | cater to the tastes of youthful rewl- | ers This has been designed publications wh but supply stories of sch and adventure in wlhich re is entirely English Imakers' Boys' Annual," now caring for the third season, is sentially Canadian, tributions Charles G. D. Roberts, Agnes Laut, Arthur Mabeth, Archie P. McKishnle, Ro- | pert I'rederick Douglas Durkin, It includes ¢ from such writers Heming, H. A. Cody, It Stead, Hopkins Moorho William Wallaca Rudyard Kipling has been ole: Andrew's University, St in succession to Sir J St. Andrew's has had too nervous to max Barrie's cholic to Dbestir himselt if \ ---- Of the making of anthologies of odern English verse there seems The latest is '"The English Poetry," ---- EE EA ELE EXETER XT NT EY o » WHAT COUNTS. "Tis not the tale of years men live That counts, but how they- 're spent; * Not what we get, but what we give, Is our just measurement. And what we give we never lose, And what we lose we gain, We live but once, and may not choose To pass this way again. ---James A, Roy, in "Christ in the Strand." & \ [Seeonssvasdoceas ine of literary rectors, hu: the Ligh honor was declined by Sir Wal- 'ter Scott, Lord Tennyson and Robert The last-meéntioned were The wonder is Kiplipz It con- tains nearly three hundred pieces by ipoe's whose work appeared between {1870 and 1920. . { ~--W.T.A. SECOND SECTION. 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