RE ror Ag TH prea sem ema sent pe RE) *" SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 19 CHRISTMAS BOO THE SEASON'S (Continued from Page 26.) {felt In early womanhood she would! through eight short stories to the fain display to the son of the man dramas of the lives of the whife men (she had refused to marry. He is and women in her world, which is | nineteen; she hes doin Se dan- mited South Sea Is- [gerous years. She falls an 8 per- Laie a Sou follow, | haps somewhat relieved that she Is | of life in those infernal, fascinating {in the grip of an incurable disease islands {The story does not leave a whole- : {some taste in one's mouth in spitegof the skill of the literary artist. The {book is distinctly weakened as a story by the taudry touch of senti- {mental ; religiosity. The closing of « man who is Rlaupieisiag and ts | words of the hero or villain, as you | {llusioned upon his Tptam novel of |Choose, are: "If I haven't ordered | WRr. An 1ntensely m ih for it |mY life very satisfaktorily I can at| Yemliam, but ne: of gloom, fo: © |least get the best out of death." ends with a laugh. | This is not repentance. Is it cynic-| : fsm? The Last Mile, by Frank A. Mec- Alister (S. B. Gundy). A picture of the life and thought | A Flash of Gold, by Francis B. | Pellamy (8. B. Gundy). Nancy Van Wyck took a savage delight in bringing the young men of | i Clewesbury to her feet. Then she { Published by McClelland & Stewart, | married David and wonders if that | Toronto. Price, $2.00. | will change her. The story of her | Sensi i struggle and awakening is like a flash of gold set off by a dark, strange | background. | -- JEAN BLEWETT'S POEMS. As an interpreter of Canadian | home life in all its phases, Jean Blewett stands in a class by herself. Many of these poems have appeared | separately, but it is delightful to see them attractively bound in a book that will make a very suitable; Christmas gift. The publishers have| done their work in an attractive| style, but the poems themselves are | as gems put into a.suitable setting.! There is humor and pathos, fine) touches of imagination. done with an artistic pen, there is philosophy and there is genuine wholesome re-| liglon. This book' will be welcomed in many a home." One needs ' just such a book lying within easy reach| ' Stubble, by George Looms (8. 8. Gundy). Joe Harper did not ifke an alarm- clock, routine-like, 'eventless exis'- _tace; neither did Mary Louise. But Jthey did not know what to do about 7 it. It is an honest, simple, direct pleture of the life that goes on about us, The Three Fires, by Amelia Jore- ™ phine Burr (The Macmillan Com- pany). The three fires are love, avarice and ambition, the ruling motives in the life of Nila, a passionate young Hindu girl of Ceylon. Her love for the handsome Moslem, Tuan Noon, can bring only sorrow, so she mar- | rles Motu Rayen, a weal'hy Hindu. mn 5 NFS C8 apts eg EV WE TON THE DAILY er RE Sons MG ASN dr es BRITISH v INNS eb WHIG. --===--=3 things to say, and he says | | them well, and his direct speech is! {l lllke a prairie 'breeze. It is 'the !more refreshing in that it sweeps | ia wide fleld, with candour and pro-| | |phetlc earnestness. to snatch up for 4 few minutes amd ly yyyppaor THE WOOD MOUSE. | to be refreshed as "often as one| 1 drinks from this well of good nature, which is like living water, pure and satisfying. {By Thornton W. Burgess. Publish- | ed by Little, Brown & Company. | : -- | Hlustrated. 181 Pages, Price, | rp ---- $1.50 Net. i HAPPINESS AND GOODWILL. . | . a | Another of the Burgess Quaddie J. W. MacMillan. Published by Me- { 150ks, . and worthy to take its place | Clelland & Stewart, Toronto. 154 |,, tho bookshelf of every child. It Pages. Price, $1.85. {is the sort of book that solves the | {problem of every mother who is i A series of ten studies on Chris: | coarching for a bedtime story. tian living by the professor of soci- ology in Victoria University. These essays are written In nervous epl- gramatic Englisii sometimes almost | cryptic but always thought-provok-; lisher has done his work well. The! ing. The style is not an easy flow of | Eaelish. All readers wil not azres) RE is attractive, the print large, | It is | {a story book, but ft is also authori- | tative and the child who is enjoying | the story is also storing the mind | with accurate information. The pub- {the paper good, and the {llustrations, | t | either with the premises or the eon- yn oolor, by Harrison Cody, are ex- | clusions, but all thoughtful readers |. tional N | will be forced to do some honest! 2 thinking by the problems raised and.| 4 a the solutions offered. SONG OF THE SKIRT. ! : ---- {With fingers weary and worn, { ARNE a | With her face in a fearful frown, i THE IMPRISONED SPLENDOUR. {A woman sat with some womanly | { | rags, | | Letting her dresses down, | | Stitch, stitch, stitch, t By Dr. Murdoch McKinnon. Pub-| lished by H. R. Allenson, London. 159 Pages. The writey {3s a well-known Pres- byterian cle!\yman, and the gddress- es here' published "were delivered | | from his pulpit in /Regina, Sask. work, work, work, v | They are studies on the 8th verse On the skirts that are too short; | of the 4th chapter of the letter to {work work, work, i the Philippians. Dr. MdKinnon is a| op "Trotter and Taflleur and Sport; | preacher rather than a-writer, the {And It's oh, to be a Turk { book is, we take it, not specially de-| Ora Fiji or Eskimo, ! signed as a literary or even as 8 {Where never skirts can 80 up or} journalistic "attempt. The writer] down, | means what he says; has many good | por there are no skirts to go. i Though her. pride it deeply hurts, | fhe can't buy all new clothes at once | So she has to lengthen her skirts. | a A At et Pt a tts ai Noon's revenge brings out the te | : THE CHRIST- plexities of the plot. This Is a story | of swift aotion in an exotic setting. | Quest, by Helen Hull (The Mac- | milan Company). A oharacter novel, showing the development of the girl Jean against an increasingly sordid and violent backgroutig as her family move to- ward disintegration. The author displays keen penetration in present- ing the emotions, psychology and drama of youth. : The Green Goddess, by Louise Miln | (Goodchild). Into a little principality in the mountains of India, drops' a crippled aeroplane leaving an English girl, her officer-husband, and a young doc- 'or whe loves the girl. The Rajah of the tribe, educated at Oxford, is their host, He shows them the prepara- tions going on for sacrificing them to the Green Goddess. But on the sac- rificlal day something unexpeoted oc- curs, / The Middle of Things, by J. S. | Fletcher (Maémillan), This is the latest mystery story from the pen of the famous Mr. Fletcher. Since Conan Doyle took to spiritualism he 1s the leader in this | field. The bored Mr. Viner finds himself in a very deeply involved and cleverly hidden mystery, that turns back more than a century and en- meshes a great number of persons into its web.. But, of course--with Mr, Fletcher's help--:!t is All satisfac- torily explained 'in the end, AN NN TE AR \ 3 AN The Wind Bloweth. by Donn Byrne (Goodchild). In a word, this is the story of Shane Campbell, a lad who sailed a elipper ship, and of the women who made the epochs in his life. Mr. | Byrne fs an expert In color. The scenes of this book are laid on the | sea and in Ulster, Marseilles and | Beirut, A Vahderd , by H. De Vere Stac- poole (Codey "Vandercken" is a light-hearted edventure story concerning the pur- suit of Hank Fisher of a piratical Flying Dutchman who was troubling the California coa®t. Honk wanted both the reward and the fun of the chase. He and Bud du Cane ia the "Weir Jack" rescue tiny Tommy from Chinese slavers and then fol- low the trail of the pirate to Lower California, where they meet with a succession 6f amazing arventures, One Man and His Time, by Bllen Glasgow (Gundy). 'This Virginian novelist is noted for descriptive power. This is the story mn A! 7 u J ) J 117 1 i W 0 K SUPPLEMENT Stitch, stitch, stitch, With neither art nor skill; Fress, press, press, But the fold shows plainly still! Hem, ruffle and band-- Band, ruffle and hem -- But you can't put on flounce, For nobody uses them! a Spanish i At this time of the year especial- With silhouettes and curves, | ly, thousands of fathers and mothers, It lst satin you'te wearing out, who wish to give books to their child- But weary women's nerves, | ait, ruffle and tuck, jres at Christmas, cast around for Fringe, facing and braid; suitable titles. They ought to find If-only skirts would jerk i plenty of suggestions not only for down | this season but for future occasions Like a patent roiler shade! {in an excellent list which has been compiled with the greatest care by the librarians of the juvenile depart- ment of the Winnipeg Public Lib- rary. This list should be cut out Oh, man, whe made the styles | | | | | 1 { Fl up and Stitch, stitch, snip, My effort never flags. And what are its wages? year's style Or a lo! of made-over rags! : A pleced-out drop or a let-down top-- Too short, too scant, too, apare; And it shows my shank till a shadow 1 thank For sometaing falling there! A last ents who are building up a little lih- rary or who are directing the read- ing of their boys and girls: Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. Bedtime Stories--Thornton W, Bur- goss. Tales of Mother Goose as first lected in 1696--Chas Perrault. {Cot and Cradle Btories--Catharine Parr Trail. Aesop's Fables. Andersen's Fairy Tales. | Japanese Fairy Tales--T. P. Willis- ton, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-- Lewis Carroll. Oh, but to wear the gowns That left my ankles free! Ay legs dolled up in silken hose, And my skirts up to my knee, For only one short hour To feel as I used to feel Before I knew the woes of a skirt That tangles round my heel! With fingers weary and worn, With countenace angry and red, A woman 6at by her womanly rags Plying her neadie and thread. | Poems of Childhood--Eugene Field. Snip, stitch, press-- | Child's Garden of Verses--Robert L. She sewed with an angry spurt; | Stevenson. ob On her cheek a flush, in her eye a |Just so Storles--Rudyard Kipling. glint, The Water Babies--Chas. Kingsley. language really unfit to print, | Peter Pan--J. M. Barrie. |About Harriet--Clara W. Hunt. The Blue Aunt--Eliza O. White. And in She sang of her short old skir*! --~€arolyn Wells. (/ / Wi / Gi 4 4 f Anh [ / NN % RN NN a. NN) A on. Babe, on Mother Mary's knee, - In a garden."One alone Him His comrades have forgot of & governor (a former ¢ircus per- former), who finds himself in society in Virginia where blood and breeding are highly esteemed. The governor's daughter, Patty, flelds her lack of refinement and resents it keenly. The lightness of touch and humor in this book is charming, ! » $n This book must be classed as a study in fiction and Psychiatry, It embodies the confessions of a mor bid but highly talented Oxford wo- man, who in spite of all her advan- tages of learnipg, culture and wealth, has missed the mark of a 'worthy ambition, The power she had once v Yet His God forgetteth not-- When the garden lights are dim, Lo, an angel comforts Him I" OM, Babe, a shadow on Thee lies; What sorrow darkens (a Thine eyes? ' 'One [ see, His head bowed down Underneath a thorny crown, \ Staggering toward a distant hill Fainting, yet triumphant still, \ Sisce upon His cross He bears All the world's unnumbered cares!" . N . 4 he What do thine eyes, all wondering, Maketh prayer and bitter moan? see? OR, Babe, the shadows deeper grow-- (Vhat deepening sorrow grizves Thee so? "Now | see a leafless tree On a height called Calvary, - And its bitter fruit God saith, Ripens for My hour of death: Yet within that awful hour Life immortal breaks in flower!" On, Babe, on Mother Mary's knee, As her arms encompass Thee, Sloop--nte dream of 2 day to be! ' ROBERT GILBERT WELSH | ONE HUNDRED STANDAR | BOOKS FOR CHILDREN I Selected by Librarians of the Juvenile De Winnipeg Public and carefully preserved by all par-| col- | D | partment of the Library. | Ae the Back of the Nort | George Macdonald {The Children's Blue Bird--Mma. { Maurice Maeterlinck { The Lost Boy--Henry Van Dyke. | Beautiful Joe--Marshall Saunders. | Black Beauty---Anna Sewell. | Bold Robin Hood and His Outlaw Band--"Louls Rhead" edition. . | Stories From the Arabian Nights' | Entertainments--Selected and re- { told by Frances Jenkins Olcott. | awards and Fairies--Rudyard Kip- ling. | The Greek Heroes--Chas. Kingsley. h Wind-- | Tanglewood Tales--Nathaniel Haw- {| thorne. ng Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table--S!r Thomas Malory, | « .edited bx Clifton Johnson. | The Golden Staircase; poems | children----chosen by Louey { olm. | A Staircase of Storfes--Chosen by | Louey Chisolm and Amy Steed- | man. {| The Jungle Books (First and Sece | ond)--Rudyard Kipling. | Woodfolk at School--W. J. Long. | Little Lord Fauntleroy--Frances { Hodgson Burnett, |The Secret Garden--Frances | son Burnett, | Held--Johanna Spyril. | Nobody's Boy--Hector Malot. | Robinson Crusoe--Daniel Defoe. Uncle Tom's Cabin--Harriet Beecher | Stowe, {The Bird's Christmas Carol--Kate | Douglas Wiggin |A Song of Hiawatha--H. W. { fellow. I= at Many Lands--John Finne- | Ki for Chis- Hodg- Long- more, Woodland Tales--Ernest Thompson Seton. ~ jv Animals I Have Known---Ern- | est Thompson Seton. {Two Little Savages--Ernest Thomp- son Seton. | Greyfriars, Bobby--Eleanor Atkin- son. 7 | Kindred of the Wild--Crkas. G. D. | Roberts. A Christmas Carol--Chas. Dickens. | Tom Sawyer--Mark Twain. | Huckleberry Finn--Mark Twain. Bob, Bon of Battle--Alfred Ollivant. Stalky and Co.--Rudyard Kipling. The Brushwood Boy--Rudyard Klip- ling. Captains Courageous--Rudyard ¥Xip- ling. Coral Island--R., M. Ballantyne. The Bishop's _Shadow-- Temple Thurston. . The Little Knight of the X Bar B.-- Mary K. Maule, Freckles--Gene Stratton Porter. Boy Scout, and Other Stories Boys--Richard Harding Davis. Tom Brown's Schooldays--Thos. Hughes. \The Last of the Mohicans--J. Feni- more Cooper. - Selzer of Eagles--James Willard "Schaltz. The Book of Pirates--Henry Gilbert. Treasure Island--R,. L. Stevenson, Pollyanna--Eleanor H. Porter. Anne of Green Gables--L. M. Mont- gomery. Little Women--Loulsa M.- Alcott. Daddy Longlegs--Jean Webster. Rebecca of ' Sunnybrook Farm--K, Douglas Wiggin. Mehitable--Kathariné Adams, Marian Frear's Summer--Margaret * Ashmun. Prudence of the . Parsonago--Ethe] Hueston. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Hegan Rice. Daughters of the Little Grey House --Mariad Ames Taggart, The Pool of Stars--Cornelia Meigs. Evangeline--H. W. Longfellow. A Selection from the World's Great- est Short Storles--Edited by Sher- win Cody. The Story of Mankind---H. W. Van Loon. The Myths of Greece and Rome--IH. A. Guerber. Myths of the Norsemen--H./A. Guer- ber. Myths and Legends of the American Indigns--Spence. Tales from Shakespeare--Chas, and Mary Lamb, The Pligrim's Progress--John Bun- yan. Famous Voyages of Great Discovere ers--Eric Wood. David d---Chas. Dickens. Oliver has. Dickens. The Old Curiosity Shop--Chas Dick- ens. The Prince and the Pauper--Mark Twain. for North | Westward Ho!--Chas. Kingsley. The Tallsman--8ir Walter Scott. Ivanhoe--S8ir Walter Scott. Ploneers in Canada--8ir Harry Johne ston. Pioneers in India--Sir Harry Johne ston. Pioneers in Australia--Sir Harry Johnston. " in South Africa--Sir Harry ° Johnston, Stories from the Iliad--A. J. Church, Stories from the Odyssey--A. "J, Church. Became Lives of Poor Boys Who Famous--8. K. Bolton. Lives of Girls Who Became Famous --8. K. Bolton. Famigons Leaders Among Men--S8. K, Bolton. Historie Girlhoods--Rupert §. land. Heroes of Science--Chas. R. Gibson, -. Hol