i CE Ri Sh SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1942. will be. able to the latest facts that covered regar as Cabot, Rad Verendrye and ' te proc read it a di is full of roman new light on well<k im Canadian history. Tho Boys' Book™ of Canada Denis Crane (Hodder & Stought Although this bo is wri primarily to Interest and inform tish boys regardin anada, the much in it which wiil be v any Cafiadlan boy. The tifully sprinkled showing Canadian and Indstries. | advice on the car venturous, fearle Dominion cn ters on) yk t Bri- Bg ( i 3 10 Solario ths Taylor, 'Bowen (Macmillan) This is a series written on the plan Nights, The Old Man in the Coat was rescued from an en ment through the bravery two young ls at court, Boje and Bodkin Naturally, the boys begged him to tell them s*ories about his strange past so wonderful that tt ls whole court ) oven the dear old Executioner, went Up to his tower room to Hsien What Shall We Do Now? by y Canfield (Goodchild) A new enlarged edition of a book Which has found favor with tea parents and children everywher®: It describes over five hundred games IN ts ms, Doro- FRANK SINNERTON Author of "The Three Lovers in and pastimes--games for the nurs- ery, the garden, the city, for rainy days, for = @&ck-a-beds, for parties, the searhore, the country, and hoMdays. It also contains tions for making a small garden, making toys, and for cooking dics for instruc- can- --- \ l Courage, by Jack London (Mac an). Mrs. London has seleoted this new group of short stories, nayer pub ed before in hook form, and spec suited to Mr. London's younger read- ers. Most of them are stories of the sea but the collection also contains stories about mountain climbing, ballooning, and escaping from Mexi- can bandits. One of the stories In this book is Jack London's first pub- lished writing +Openway, by Archie J. McKishnde | ' (Musson). This is a new "Young Canada" and is a splendid piece of juvenile literature It is the storyef an old trapper who was converted to the love of animals by a boy who loved wild ¢ res, while the close lives of the denizens of tre 3, étream and meadow runs all through the book. It is told with the great understanding and reality that means 'sg much to the young reader. to the The Crock of Goid, by Stephens (Macmillan). A new edition of this popular book, with 'unusual and distinctive fllus- trations. It is a tale of all fairies and all gods and all fantasies, of philosophies and of delicious fooling. Mr. Stephen's work #s full of whim- sicality, tenderness, and shy satire, and has an elfin charm. James Half-Past Seven Stories, by Robert sGordon Anderson (Putnam). This is a sequel to Seven O'Clock Stories,' "ihe book that 'was so popu- lar with children from six to eleven years old. Again the Toyman, the | Three Happy Children, Wieneswurst, the little vellow-doggle, and Mr. Stuckup the Turkey appear in such rollicking tales as "The Big Bobsied," , "The Litle Lost Fox," "The Pepper- | mint Pagoda." and "When Jehoso- phat Forgot His Piece." Nobody's Girl--bdy Hector Malot. (Ryerson Press.) "Who is tis Hector Malot?" somebody asked the other day after they had gone through that appeal- Ing story "Nobody's Girl." "Is he an Englishman or a Welshman or what? 'Asa matter of fact it is not a "he at all, Hector Malot is a French woman and her two books, "Nobody's Boy" and "Nobody's Girl" which have been highly sue- cessful their English translation, were published originally under the « {Office--by J 1 | millan.) t! A Be + Velvot ten | ough Solario's tales were | <tory.in. Aberdeen Univ Both books were picked out ¢ by the Freneh| depict award These stories lite in the provinces. Thousand Miles From Lofthouse, D.D. ving A fascinating ace)unt of li jamong the Eskimos [the far north by a m:dical mission lary. | and fhiny Eyes, by Cole ( Musson), bad ne'er been when he fell asleep Carrol Cassidy Little Eric to andmals, kin i but | himself a tiny elf he was glad en make friends with owl ar friends of fur is a book for 0 HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. "The Ou we of Science' by Pro- J. Arthur 4 vols Ryerson Press.) is undoubtedly fom of the year. A history ¢ », it gives n plain language, r rtkably {ree from technical t outline of the main scientif as of today, and of their develop- from earlier conoeption and {theories. Thé etory todd in ieplendidly dllustrated volumes sur- i s almost anything the past gen- 1 could have imagi Long ego Tennysom wrote about tales of He garped in amazement read this rece of th years of labor by the gre: fic mind »age. There are near- {ly one thousand llustrations, includ- ing forty beautiful color plates in thie outline The editor. of this work is Dr. J. Arthur n, professor of 7 fessor I'nomas, (The | f ment the fairy clance."' would have rd sults of re of th a ive Thomps who is only for of his ic knowledge but as the un- 1 successor of Ball and Huxley 4s a popular interproter of difficult isubjects, His style is so plain and t the man on the street can {follow it without difficulty. {this great work a {1 It noted not {the Britain and accuracy in Great breadtl y tha r person of average gence can help himself to the results of researches in the most famous vorld. Ow io the hy edition that | has been printed, thie work can ba (had at a very reasonable price, in "The Life H. Page" by (Gundy Walter H. Page was American am- Burton J. ssador from the United States to | t Britain from 1913 to 1918. ing the war he was a red-hot en- husfast who wrote innumerable let- ters to President, Wilson urging him to: abandon his policy of neutrality. At a cabinet meeting held in Febru- airy, 1915, President Wilson read ex- tracts from one of these letters to associates, "Some day," sand { Wilson, "I hope that Walter Page's tatters will be published, They are letters I ever read. | They make you feel the atmosphere {in England, understand the people, {and see into the motives of the great (actors. When published, they will | give the finest picture obtainable any- "where of England during the war." This is not extravagant praise, for Page, who was once editor of the At- |lantic Monthly, wielded a trenchant | pen. is le'ters overflow with dung- |ent observations, are full of humor, land are eminently readable. They {make extremely interesting reading |for Canadians. This is undoubtedly {the most important biography of the [year and 1s destined to become a | classic. | -- 3 "Laurier: A Study in Canadian Folkities™ by John W, Dafoe. (A¥en.) | Though based on Professor Skel- tou's life of the Liberal leader, this is a very able, original study in which the editor of the Manitoba Free Press has attempted to identify the origins and outdine the growth of the polfti- cal movements of the last forty years of Canadian political life, covering ithe perfod of Laurier's career. The |subject is treated 4n four sub-divis- fons. Mr. Dafoe sketches Laurier's {vise to the premdership, explains his attitude towards imperial relation- ships, gives a detailed account of his domestic programme while premier, and in conclusion animadverts upon his policy in the crisis of 1917 which resulted in the unionist political movement. The chief value of this book is that it contains a great deal of "Inner" history. Mr. Dafoe Mu- minates the ofl&ufier and pubde opindon in Que- tec upon cach other and clearly sete forth their effects upon the policies of the Liberal party and upon the general political development of the Dominton. the best have POETRY. {The Wood Carver's Wife and Later Poems, by Marjorie L. C. .Piclkthaill "{ McClelland and Stewart). A melancholy intarest attaches to this book, for it is the last wopk in verse of the late Marjorie Pickthail, one of Canada's most distinguished women poets. The dramatic poem which supplies the title of this beau- tifully. bound volume is a domestic a Post (Mac- fe nd Indians 'of and | the greatest | these | f he could have | st scienti- | tural Bdge. m Through { and Letters of Waiter | Hendrick. | reaction and interdiction | THE DAILY B Fre ton lyrics wh h regime. The remaining por- of RE me is composed of h show this author's wide the range of theme and mastery of melo- | dy and phrase. "The Irish Guards in che War" Ludyard Kipling. Rudyard Kipling"s only son was an er in the Irish Guards ling's story of day to day experi- ences with the troops with whom his {son fought and died. It gives with all Kipling's masterful realism tales and "he junder an oak tree agp day and found | sof Driftwood, by Isabel Ee- Mackay (MoCleliand and examples of that has ever The de- for the st $s a in Canada is book and are from the pencil 'Macdonald, A.R.C.A_, of 3 Mackay's poems, are on Canadian of high quality -and are of J. E H | Tore tc | mar 1 wil themes, of are "/much closer to Wfe than the average book of « ntemporary verse. Moon! and Common Day, by | Louise Morey Bowman (Macmillan). | Mrs. Bowman, of Toronto, has dis- tinct merit as a poet. She has a deli- fancy and considerable metrical This volume contains many ht ate shill ted Poems, by Jean Blewett | nd and Stewart) |experiments in free verse, There is a homely quality about {Jean Blewett's poems which has {made her ane of the most popular i rs in Ontario She interprets phases of Canadian life in pic- simple has and style work collected here, a large number of po to be found in this volume have [never before been issued in book form. sue tu | hes best been 1 dee Late Lyrics and Eearlier, by Tho- {mas Hardy (Macmillan). { As far as' poetry is concerned, this | is dhe great volume of the year. | second year, but he still possesses the shaping spirit of imagination. About half the verses in this volume were { Written quite lately and he shows in {them the same power to come to close grips with life and ds revealed in | previous poems and novels. He still i Xeeps his hand on the pulse of mod- {ern life and is as much interested as (ever in human joys and SOTTOWS. ! While the poetry in this volume not distinguished by sweetness or | metrica moothness it has a wonder- {ful dramatic quality which marks {t as a work of genius. is Poems from Punch, Edited by W. | B. Drayton Henderson (Macmillan) In this volume are collected the best poems that appeared in the 1920. Some very excellent ones have to do with the Great War, a large | by | Two vols. Gundy.) 'This is | incidental | ish lads' time | While | columns of Punch between 1909 and | RITISH WHIG. section of the book being Iyrics and ballads desc | titanic struggle sm is Lieut. Col. McCrae's calebrated lyric, "In Flanders' Fields," which appear- {ed én Punch on Dec. 8th, 1915 The Fugitive, by Rabindranath Tagore (Macmillan). | | ous descants and nature pieces by the {famous Bengali poet. .. Later: English Poems, 1901-192 | Selected and Edited by J. E. Wether- {ell, B.A McClelland and Stewart). In this interesting volume of conh- temporary verse we have examples of the best work of the Georgian posts A valuable feature of the {book js the biographical notes. { | | | | HUMOR. My Discovery: of England, {Stephen Leacock (8S. B, Gundy). In the opinion of many critics this record of his impressions in the oid country™is perhaps the funniest book A by ETHEL M. CHAPMAN Author "God's Green Country." | that our Canadian humorist has writ- ten, He 4s particularly good in his descriptions of chairmen who pre- | [sided at his lectures. | Over 'Ere and Back'Home, by {P. O'D (McClelland and Stewart). When Peter Donovan, formerly on the staff of Toronto, Saturday Night, | Went across the Atlantic to contribute I his mirth to a London newspaper, we | expected that he would 'soon be re- | gistering his observations of English j1ife in his own genial style. The first haif of this book is devoted to such ltoplas as a first visit to a Lcéndon | | tailor, a week-end at a country home, - {and riding, shooting, beagling, and in the | Thomas Hardy is now in_his eighty- | other English sports. Tho second haf | | of the book is made up of funny arti- {cles that P. O'D has extracted from {the files of Saturday Night. The | Must rations in this book are by Rob- jert E. Johnston. They are numerous {and mirth-provoking, | -- Fair Harbor, by Jaseph C. Lincoln. | The subject of this novel is one | | well fitted to the - humorous and human style of the author. The cen- tral figure is an old sea captain who is so typically and characterietically 1a Lincoln creation as to delight the | genial novelist's multitude of admir- ers. Queen of Sheba, by Phinneas A. |Crutch (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New | York) This book dis in a olass by itself. {Ie js the story of Balkis, Queen of | Sheba, and describes her visit to Mrs. Francis Reeve (Onoto Watan- na) of Bow View Ranch, Morley, and cof Calgary, Alberta, will have com- pleted her eighteenth novel when her new book, "Cattle" is published, ear- ly in 1923. Her literary activities were carnied on in the United States until her removal to Canada a few years ago and she declares that her future work will be of her native Canada. - With that creative, original mind, that in art's oblique way, places such nice emphasis on the value of human associations, she has planned an am- bitious programme which includes five novels of Canada. As she is one of Canada's famous authors, a peep into her home life on a big western ranch, is of interest, proves that her accomplishments are of a versatile nature. She tells of her experfence of finding herself, at harvest time, with a sick cook and fourteen husky men to feed. New to ranch life, she thus demonstrated her ability to take on another kind of job and do it well Now, writing stories, 'hat have about them a fairy music, is inter- spersed with making butter, putting down meals, and canning fruits and vegetables, Bow View ranch, in the foothills of the Rockies, in the heart of the game country, is a Mecca for all as- biring fi en and hunters and ts open hospitality found Mrs. Reeve able to meet all situations and stil] keep busy with her pen. Asked as to what she liked best to do, she said, "Work among my flow- ers and cook a bit." Her garden is one of her jovs end in her Calgary home, she utilizes her sun-room as a combination conservatory and work recom, thus having growing plants | MRS. FRANCIS REEVE: By Charlotte Gorden. ONOTO WATANNA and go on a big spree of gardening and caring for my home" As a mother of three children, Mrs. Reeve her friends have laughingly told her that her literary work had two formidable "Fivals--her babies and her garden. Mrs. Reeve gratified her great i6ve for flowers when she purchased "he beautifu! home of Mrs. Guy Bates Post at Oriental Point, Mamareck on the Sound Here she had a "dream garden" and wrote of her experiences in a series of articles in "Good House- keeping," entitled "A Neighbor's Garden, My Own and a Dream One." Mrs. Reeve has always been of an inventive turn of mind and at her ranch home is always making labor- faving devices and contriving odd seats and boxes. ' Her most practical invention is a dish dryer which she declares will revolutionize the house- keeper's most monotonous grind. Fatents for this contrivance have been applied for and we may yet see among the articles mained after Ono- to Watanna, such inventions as the "Onoto pen," "the Onoto desk," "the Onotd stool," and 'the Onoto dish drier." Fond of riding and outdoor sports, Mrs. Reeve #s frequently seen about her ranch in riding togs -or spor. clothes, enjoying the balmy mountain gir of the foothdll country. Mrs. Reeve began to write at an early age and when only fifteen, har first story was Published. Since ther the has had a literary career mark cd by larga accomplishments, with her special efforts devoted to Japdnese romances. The lateet of these is her A characteristi¢ volume of amor- | } , : author, "I am going to stop writing | has led a life of varied activities and | lomon, The author makes 2 characters use copious Ameri slang. One of the best things in th bre napping of Balkis on her journey home. This ds a satire on the timental novel of the 'desert, Sheik." sen~ > Jt Winter Don't, by A. B. C. D. BE. F. Notsomuchinson (Barry Pain) (Gundy). Joyous humor marks this parody {cf cne of the best novels of recent 'years, done with rare skiff by that {master of parody, Barry Pain An oue who likes to laugh will enjoy {this book. but those who have read "If Winter Comes" will particularly delight in #ts aptness ' Wishes Limited, by W ton (Herbert Jenkins). This 4s the second novel author of "'A But " | Lamvited" is like its predecessor | th at it contains dj s and magic up- {to-date and is also very funny, The story deals with the adventures of an {author, Jo Benstead, whose well- meaning fairy godmother' is harassed iby her striking djinus. She changes |the author's neighbor, an elderly Jawyer, into a cock-roach for insylt- ling her and grants her godchild one | wish a month A. Dariing- by the "Wishes in | The Revolt of the Oyster, by Don {Marquis (Glindy) A new~¥olume of storfes by the clover the New York Sun, | funny short f columnist of { . Single Blessedness and Other Ob- servations, by George Ade (Gundy). George Ade, master of American slang, writes these humorous com- jments on the people, manners, and {foibles of his time and country from the point of view of the man who is | "looking back from fifty." My Northern Exposure---by Walter Traprock (Ryerson Press.) A year ago there appeared in New | York "The Cruise of the Kawa," the {story of a-trip to the South Seas. It was a delicious take-off on South Sea travel books which have been s0 numerous of late. "Traprock" (the nom de plume of a well-known New York professional man), has in this volume written a highly humorque |B. | Mmitgtion of stories of Arctic adven- | | turers. The illustrations in the b fare, of course, faked in a New Y yPhotographic studio. ook ork Don Rodriguez-- by Lord Dunsany. | (Ryerson Press.) | This is a humorous story of the jZoiden age in Spain by one of the cleverest writers of our day. Lord Dupgsany chronicles the laughable ad- enteny of a Spanish knight, Don | Rodriguez in Shadow Valley, GENERAL LITERATURE, "A Short History of the World" by {H. G. Wells. (Macmillan.) { This lavishly fllustrated, 450-page | volume gives {n a most general way {an account of our presery knowledge lot history, shorn of elaboration and | complications, and written in Mr. | Wells' easy style. It is a fascinating | panorama of the great heroes, the | lost causes, the revolufons and the |iod, the building of tradis and chains |- {Slow progress of events in the age- {long ascent of man. It should not {be confused with this author's '"Out- line of History" for every sentence | in thie book is disuinct from that Her- ra | Culean labor. EA tr rtm = "Some Impressions of My Elders' {by St. John C. Ervine. (Macmillan.) | These intimate and amusing por- [traits of A. E. (George William Rus- {| |sell), Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chester- | ton, John Galsworthy, George Moore, || | Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and W. |B. Yeats, wore originally contributed |" "The North American Review' | Guring the last two years. They add | greatly to our knowledge of the hab- | Its, personaliites, and philosophy of {these famous contemporary writers. "The Drama of Life" H. Mitchell, M.A., B.D. (Allen.) A series of reflections on Shake- Speare's seven ages of man, with an introduction by Nellie L. McClung. In this volume Mr. 'Mitchell discusses cld themes in a fresh and interesting way. Philosophy of lite. "The Adventure" by Rev. Fergus Ferguson. (Hodder and Stoughton.) These are Sunday talks with young people. The author is a noted Scotch preacher. He has an easy narrative siyle and tells Bible stories in an in- teresting way. by Thomas -- Professor J. W. MacMillan, Clelland and Stewart.) This fs a series of essays on human conduct by the professor of soalology An Victoria College, Toronto. Dr Mac- Millan has a concrete style and writes forcefully on such topics as the la'r of evil, the driving force, the postu- lates of good living, the rearguard of goodwill'and the modernity of Jesus, "The Practice of Autosuggestion" by C. Harry Brooks. (Gandy.) This is an exposition of the of Professor Coue and is very large sale. "Art Thou a King, Then?" by Rev J. Parton Milum. (Hodder and book of this year, "Sunny San" which will shortly be produced on the New | York stage. It has also been filmed | Stoughton.) A sketoh of the life of Jesus for the present lime, from the single point of "The | "Happiness and Goodwill" by Rev. | titles "Sans Famille" and "En Far-[tragedy set in the old days of 'he about her. "Some day," said the | for the movies, both | k is the account of the kid- and "Grayden of Presenting "a variety of enviren ment in which to stage the chatacters {and action of a story, British Colum- bia stands without a peer® What ever setting the writer requires {Whatever season or ciime, the Paci- fic Provinces holds them all in vary- {ing grades--from dog-trains in the [frozen northland to golf in January in the balmy air of. Victoria: from ithe primitive life of the savage, where the squaw cooks her mowitza | | (venison) over a little wood fire be- iside, or inside, the teepee, to tho jluxurious palaces of the coast cities {where reside mon-'oilers and spinners from all parts of the Domin- fon At luncheon of the Authors' Asso- iefation in Edmonton Mrs McClung paid tribute to the instiration(@feTd- ed by the grandeur of the scenery o mountain and coast, and spoke of the handicap under which writers of the prairie labored in being forced ':o cast their stories in the shade of a barbed wire fence. This, as we who know the success of Mrs. McClung's and others' stories of the prairie are aware, is mere!y an "apt exaggeration." Bu: is never- theless true that our land of "moun- [tains high with lakes close by and {mighty forest trees" is a constan. {source of inspiration. It is almost impossible to gaze at the mountains glowing like Mving ccals in the Sully | set: to follow a mountain trai! when [the tamaracs and cottonwoods are jtouched with the yellow of autumn, or to see the great Ships.come riding into por: from romantic visits to the orient, without wantiig--as my little girl once put it--to tell the world abou: it { The history of the white man in | Pritish Columbia--less than a cen- tury and a half, all told--has been |racked with adyenturs and romance, What a mine of material for an his- torical romance in the daring and intrepid lives of our early dis- {coverfes: our Captain Cook and his followers who manned their ships |over unknown leagues into the beau- tiful harbors of the coast, where painted savages swarmed the shore- line in awed astonishment, or the equally gallant pathfinders who reached the province by the overland route, scaling dangerous heights, dis- covering mountain passes and riding | tumultuous rivers. ! In this comfortable age of sieam, gasoline and kindred luxuries. we {find it hard to appreciate the difficul- [ties faced by these voyageurs in their early dlecoveries. The dangers of |wild animals, hostile Indfans, rocky {heights and roaring rapids, the in- convenience .qf snows in 'he passes, mosquitoes on the river flats and tho difficulty of obtaining proper food |supplies--what a fortunate thing {David Thompson did not stop count calories!---make a tale {which every British Columbian | justly proud. Then follows the fur trading per- n 0 o! iof forts, the mingling with and get- | ting acquainted with the red man; {the period of early settlements when {every choice piece of land had to be {wrested from the forest and guard- jed from hoetile natives and the per- 'iod of the beginnings of the present {great shipping trade with the coun- {tries across the Pacific. | Gold booms in the various parts of |the province have been used as a [fold Ar ----_---- ri {author, an English theologian, com- | bate the main arguments of anti- Carin propaganda, ! "The British Empire and World | Peace" by Hon. Newton W. Rowell. IK.C. (Gundy.) This volume contains the Burwash (Memdrial Lectures deMvered at To-~ [ronto University last year. ---- "Peloubet"s Notes on the Interna- {tional Sunday School Lessons for 1923." "Tarbell's Teacher's Guide '0 the {for 1923." (The Ryerson Press.) For many years these annual pub- .lications have been a boom to Sunday {school teachers. They are the best aids that have yet been devised for [those who are obliged to study "he | Bible in communities tat are devoid of library facilities, Bither of these books is an ideal Christmas gift for ia friend who teachers a Sunday | school class. | ' i f | -- (Me- | 'Little Foxes 'D.D. (Allen.) The aulhor, a leading Presbyterian minister in Toronto, has done excel- {lent service to children, also to ! preachers in prepa ettes for publication. The book loaded with striking illustrations. by E. A. Henry, | "The Glory of His Robe" | ward John Stobo. Stewart.) by Ed- (McClelland and method | Theres is a personal touch about of having a Dr. Stobo's 'rticies on religious | 18 themes, rich in Hllystration and ance- dote, they discuss in easy style such topics as the following, the religious [value of humor, looking for tomor- row morning, the minister's wife, ofl. iing the hinges of the church door, {the sssemce of profanity, curvature view of His claim to kingship. The of the soul. the Jord's calf, aad the | By Evah McKowan, Author of "Janet of sas 1s ring these sermon. | | i the hootenay," |i background for both,long and short storiez. Our valleys have witnessed every grade of mining--<from tha tote prospector with . his pan, to | syndicated companies, the tongues of | whose mighty water systoms tear down mountains and fill valleys. { Treading ' the hillside trails and i neglected flumeways of the Wild Horse Canyon-----the scene of that |greatest of god booms in the sixties --1 often feel the ghosts of the pas rise and beg me to write of the thrii- ling and adventurous life of their the Windermere, (time; ghosts of men, gathered from "every clime by the lure of the yellow metal, who teemed down the hill- gies from theér high-perched cabins £hosts of men who struck it rich, only to iose it '0 a man handler with cards; men who over-step- lina of the frontier code of and 'died a hurried death--- iles and tragedies those mounds could tell if giosts of ped t} honesty what come ifitle «hillside given voices! Beside these are our live and pre- sent silver and copper mines. our leagues on leagues of coal beds. These, and the varidus industries [growing out of them, are available as settings for fiction of the ever popu- jlar virile type | Of other industries, the life of the lumbercamp--a community existence distinet from any other variety of [life--has been successfully used by Raiph Connor and other wniters o | best sell The stupendous task of construc railways through the passes and canyors sSug- gosts a gripping novel of achieve- ment. The building of roadways, the bridging" dt mighty- rivers, the harn- {essing of waterfalls and the con- structing of irrigaticn systems, are activities that might give strong tcuches of local color. = Successful stories, too, have been [written of the Salmon and other fish- eries of the coastline, and the trad- ing and excursion vessels that ply up and down the beautiful coastline of British Columbia stand ready to furnish a pioturesque background for [fome ente rprising writer, In the mater of lore and customs of the various Indian tribes Dritish Columbia ig especially rich. Whether One turns to' 'the Hydas and other warlike coast and island tribes or io the intrepid hunters among the Shu- fwaps and Kootena! and mountain | tribes, one finds the ancient glorias of the red man handed down from father to son for countless genera- {tons ; told round the camp fire in an inteersting soft-gyllabled monotone and lived up to by the youth of the Tarfous tribes "o an astonishing de- gree, ' Our fast-growing Oriéntal prob- lems, our Chinatowns, our Japanese egredsion into rieh farming distriots {are a successful foil for fiction of the type called propaganda, In the light of the fact that, in our + {Sunset Province, everything has been {manufactured on a superlative scale the mountains higher, the air more {bracing, the lakes deeper and clearer, {the rivers more beautiful, 'he forests |more extensive, the fish and gama [feore plentiful, the climate more vir- {ied and the life more adventurous than in other loealitios--we feo] fully Wustified in the belfer that, some- [time somewhere, the Great Cana- {dian . Novel will have as, its back- {ground one or another of our mani. magnificent settings, ing mountain perversity of humen nature, Thera jare fitly of these little essays dn this | voluane, The Making of a Premier" {Owen E. MeGillicuddy. (Musson. ) | A short biography of the present | premier of Canada, Mr, McGillicud: {dy sketches the Rt. Hon, W, L, Mae- | kenze King's extremely interesting jcareer. He brings out a fact not gen- |eralty known that the premier made {such a reputation many years ago in 'economies and sociology that he was j Invited by President Eliot of Harvard by He has a sane and cheerful | International Sunday School Lessons | UM Versity to take the chair of Poli. | cal .economy in that famous school | of learning. But Mr. King preferred | to become Deputy Minister of Labor {at Ottawa because he saw the Pos | sibilities of larger human service, | "The Miracle Man of Montreal" by | George H. Ham. (Musson) ' |" In this Mtile book Mr. Ham | sketches the lita and works of Bro- {ther Andre of the Congregation of [Holy Cross, Montreal. While tag {author is not of the religious faith of | the miracle man, he declares 'hat he {has examined end js satisfied with | the evidence of his wonderful work. | He also informs us that this book has not bee inspired by the Roman Cath. ole chureh, apd that he himself as- | 6umes responsibility for: its absolute { ruthfulness and authticity, | Memoirs o {der and Sto f the Ex-Kaiser, ughton.) One of the sensational publications the year. It covers the period oi 78 to 1918. One of Kaiser BIN | whopping lles fs the following | "Never have I. had warlike ambi jtions. In my youth my father hat i glven me terrible descriptions of the | battlefields of 1870 and 1871, and © felt no inclination to bring such mis lery on a colossally larger scale, upoi (Continued on Page 26.) (Hod