a] "which, until something much bette : gonstitutional volume. 3 "8s nasty little brats chiefly occupied "parents, pastors and masters. But A uperior kind of pet animal, with THE DAILY BRITISH mire ne ot WHIG A BOOK OF CANADIAN PROSE AND VERSE Compiled and Edited by Edmund Kemper Broadus and Eleanor Macmil- | Hammond Broadus. lan, $2.50. There are plenty"of Canadian |' anthologies, most of them confined | "10 verse, and most of them also the | ragult of personal taste rather than | "of any definite standard of critical | judgment. There was however an | undeniable need for a hook of selec- | tions, containing Doth prose and | verse, picked in accordance with a well-formed and professional rather | than personal taste, and accom-| panied by a moderate amount of eriticism and valuation ' {in which Patriotic sentiment should not out- weigh honesty. The Broadus volume, | fecceeds it, should certainly be adopted for use in all school and | college courses in Canadian litera-| ture and should be kept under hand | By anybody who wants a reasonably | broad acquaintance with that ltera-| ture, is the work of one who for a number of years has held a chair of | English in a Canadian university, | who is American by birth and has | devoted much time to sympathetic | and keen research In the best fields | of classic English literature; and | he has been materially assisted by | his wife. The result is an unpre=j "pedently representative and meritor- | fous collection of extracts. Nor have we any objection to raise to the principle of selecting only work #g picture of Canadian life, past and | present." The main business of | Canadian writers, as Canadians, is| fo depict that life; the best work of | Canadians has been done in depict- | fog it; and while some good 'work | #8 thus exeluded, it is only the least | Canadian of the work done by our| authors. The biographical and criti- eal notes are brief but of good-qual- ity. Oratory, a vital part of the] literary effort of a people engaged | since its appearance than any book {ticles on canoeing, fishing, _ which affords some contribution to | body need complain. re -- thus providing a new literary infant for the next generation of Canadian readers, MY LADY FAIR. By Louis Hemion. Macmillan, To- ronto, Price $2. "Maria Chapdelaine.," Interesting to the student of literary develop- ment, these tales are too imitative and juvenile to make any addition to the fame of the ill-fated writer who immortalized himself and the Lake St. John "habitants" just be- fore he died. He seems to have been a good deal influenced by Mr. Burke and other "Limehouse" authors, and he reads into his East-enders a good many rather French characteristics r| Which would greatly astonish the peoples whom he is trying to portray. Technically the stories are cleaver and professional, with the facility of the industrious Maupassant, A KING'S DAUGHTER. A Tragedy in Verse, by John Mase- field, Macmillan, Toronto, £1.50. Mr. Masefield appears to enjoy himself in these rather fluent re- writings of ancient narratives in te form of blank-verse drama, and as it evidently does not take much time, and he gets a good sale for them om the strength of his more génuine poetical work, perhaps fo- The play is actable, and no harm would be done to the stage by its being acted. CRUCIBLES OF CRIME, By Joseph F. Fishman. The Cos- mopolis Press, New York. Price, $2.00. It is claimed for this book of Mr. Fishman's that it has been more widely reviewed and discussed Early short stories, mainly of Lon- | don East End life, by the author of | student of de | and crime, and the author's treat- ment will appeal to that large num- ber enlisted in the movement to im- prove prison conditions. It is a| reader | { volume that makes the i think. | Mrs. Ballipgton Booth, learned | something of her long Years of | work among convicts. Mr. Fishman | supplements this information with a | multitude of facts that are appalling. | The book should do much to arouse | | in the republic a sentiment that { will eventually demand and secure | an improvement in prison condi- ! tions, | Rod and Gun for January, The story of an eventiul canoe- ing trip is told in the January issue lof Rod and Gun in Canada by |Frosty Snow in "With Paddle and {Fish Pole in' Quebec." There is {also a 'good description of a moose hunt on the Athabasca river by H. {K, Henry, while F. V. Wilitams {vividly describes a tragedy of wild {life as unfolded by tracks in the isnow, in his story *'A% Told in the Snow." A." A. Haines who is an authority on hunting. knives has a well illustrated article dealing wrth jthe various makes of hunting knives together with his opinion of them. After trying for twenty-three years !Bonnycastle Dale has finally taken a splendid photograph of the Red |Breasted Mergancer, and 'his des- leription of the life and habits of this [bira is of interest to all. Guns land Ammunition is particularly {well stocked with interesting ar. [ticles as well 'as the questions and {difficulties of sportsmen, answered |by C. 8. Landis, while Fishing Notes, Along the Trapline, Outdoor Talk, {and other departments are filled with fine articles by specialists, | The January issue opens the first {number of the new year with ar- moose as Canadians have been for some | Published in the past ten years. That { hunting, ski-ing, hunting knives, in the settlement of problems, but not; Bitherto recognized in such collec- tions, occupies nearly a fifth of the generations -- | THE CHILD'S HOUSE. i i | By Marjory MacMurchy. Macmillan, | Price $1.75. | Children are amusing things. It | 8 possible to write about them in ther ways; to depict "their (sup- osedly) frightful sufferings as na- are and society roll out their idio- $y fiés and make them exactly ke everybody else; to show them with the mysteries of sex; to paint em as the congenial enemies of the adult, and especially of their i8 best to treat them, as every- would like to treat them if only would let us, as-amusing things, surprising kinks of character: more capacity for learning especially what they are not want- 'to learn) thin a parrot or a mon- This is how Booth Tarking- treats them, and Miss MacMur- ly, dealing with a damsel of eight fourteen, in the persan of Vanessa jrown, makes her one of the most 'amusing infants in Canadian litera- ture. When she grows up Vanessa ought to marry one of Mazo de la Roche's "Explorers of the Dawn," pu is great praise, indeed, but a care- ful reading of the book reveals suf- ficient reason for understanding the statement. What Dickéns did to ex- pose crime and barbarious punish- ment in England, Fisherman has done in this book for the United States: Details surpassing anything that Dickens or Reade had to al- lege againsf\ earlier places of con- finement in England and related as existing, and enough particulars are given of dozens of American fails to demonstrate the existence of a nation-wide scandal. The author writes in a manner that leaves no doubt that he knows what he is talking about and the pictures he visibly paints are convincing. Mr. Fisherman discusses the jail from every angle and proves his points with data obtained first hand frem all parts of the United States. He presents a remedy for the situation which is feasible and sound. The reader cannot avoid the conclusion that present day jail administration fs vicious and inhumane, that it possesses few elements to check and correct, but on the contrary actually stimulates the criminal instincts of the hardened, and provides wret- ched pest houses where first offen- ders get new germs. Here is a sub-. ject that is much to the fore at the present time, in Canada as well as the United States. When students and leaders are directing thought and effort to the correction of errors responsible for lawlessness SUGGESTIONS | for mast acceptable Gifts Charming, New Canadian Books . LOUKE So EORGE the Canadian Com- : at tory presented in the orat ons and biography of twenty-nine statesmen ....33.50 AM ARTHUR DEACON and Pirates : Clever, cynical and unusual 1it. erary essays, mostly about , books and authors ......§250 Ww, HTON An ~~ . Work A page-for-every day book with a helpful little essay. Serip- _ dure text and choice bit of verse On each PARE ..:coass:vrs $3.00 ELEN x WDGAR. A winter holiday in Egypt de- Scribed in story and picture. $1.50 LLOYD ROBERTS treatment in ing essays on © early ersonnel of the Rob- op $1.25 erse. * Unusoal verse written mostly u the author's birthplace, wioundland. Decorations by iP. H. Varley. $1.50 BERT DURRANT WATSON theme of present-day mar- treated in delightful verse. RINE HALE oF a distinetive ny spirit, steiking in for- ily He _A_romantie 1.00] novel set = South Africa TH % » rr -- oe x : LEK ATRESIA E DA SAA 505 Wolly ~~. New Novels by Popular Authors HALL CAINE The Woman of Knockaloe One reviewer says: "Another Uncle Tom's Cabin" A terrific blow at militarism clothed in strong romance. Note the Ruloe . 50 JOSEPH CONRAD The Rov Yeoh, site higgest books of the all the Con: har- acteristics .,.. ado A typical servis stor: set Among the Soyth Sea Islands men particularly revel in every new Corelli book. This is anusually attractive ..... $2.00 ETHEL M. DELL A story of love ana pass with thrills and mystery . oe ARCHIBALD MARS 3 charac tic all vi laid in London and rural ph land tre veasean. $2.00 CYNTHIA STOCKLE' "The kind of bop ¢ "The kind of k u find it hard to put 4 i i, P own till Anan Y FA pC not! most likeable 'Farnol novel with all the charm of ""T'h, Broad Highway." Teara vain $2.00 nature studies, guns and ammunition, |trapping, kennel interests and a host of other subjects. ---------- The House of Macmillan, An attractive little volume, bound in black and orange, has come to us {85 a souvenir of Canadian Book ! week. It is the story of that well- | known publishing house. The Mac- millan Company of Canada, Limited, Aa story read with pleasure by those {interested in Canadian literature. The company came into being in De- | cember, 1905. Its first officers were: | President, Frank Wise; secretary, William Whitney; board of directors, Mr. (now Sir) Frederick Macmillan, George Augustus Macmillan, George Platt Brett and Robert L. Johnston. in 1912 the company obtained the control of the Morang Educational Company, Ltd., and merged the .twp companies under the name of The Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited. In 1921 Hugh S. Eayrs be- came president and his post as secre- tary was filled by Robert Huckvale. The Macmillan Company of Canada is a descendant of one of the oldest publishing houses of Britain, and the frontispiece shows the headquar- ters of the parent company, Macmil- lan and Company, Limited, St. Mar- tin's House, London, Eng. The Mac- millan Company of New York 1s also an allied house, and a cut of the pre- sident, George Platt Brett, 1s one of the illustrations. A cut of Sir Fred- erick Macmillan and of the president of the Canadian company, Hugh S, Eayrs, are also among the-attractions of this book. The names and a short account of their work, with in most cases a picture of the author, of the writers whose books have been pub- lished by the Canadian house, is con- tained in "A Canadian Publishing House." The Macmillan Company of Canada seeks for the best and pub- lishes only the work of Canadian writers that can measure up to Brit- ish and continential standards, feel- {ing that in this way alone cam a | Canadian national ljterature of -real | value be built up. ~ * i rr su | Titled Pubftican, | The notable case of the late Sir |Henry Echlin ought to dispose of |{the old canard about Scottish par- jsimony. A succession of three hope- [1ensty spendthrift baronets reauced {the, rich patrimony of the Hechlins, lone of the oldest and once among the richest families in Scotland, so that the eighth baronet, whose death occurred the other day, kept a smanh cider tavern down in the rural wilds of Haddenham. Local tipplers us- ed to take a delight in ordering "An. other pint, Sir Henry." It lent eclat to the amenity of the tap- room. There is one noble house, lassociated with the West Country {Whose estates 'were heavily mort- very happily to a former musical comedy star. -- Canadians, who had the privilege | | of listening to any of the addresses | recently delivered in this country by | ee eer -- ee ------ CMount Sobson. - narch of The Monarch d 458 ios Altitude 13068 feat . # THE Canadian National route through the Rockies skirts Canada's highest peaks, at the easiest gradient and lowest altitude of all trans- continental routes. The "Triangle Tour = Jasper Natipnal Park, Prince Rupert and Vancouver, with 550 miles ocean voyage, 1,300 miles rail. constitutes the finest rail and ocean trip on the continent. : Jasper National Park in the Canadian RocKies-- area 4.400 square miles-- Canada's largest National Park and the World's greatest sanctuary. for wild game. contains over 100 mounsy "tain peaks, several of which exceed 10,000 feet in altitude. Mount Edith Cavell is over 11.000 feet. Jasper Park Lodge, under management of Canadian National Railways, provides the best of accommodation for 250 gusts. : The Canadian National Railways traverse every province in the Dominion of Canada. serve the Federal and each of the nine Provincial Capitals. and every important industrial and commercial centre in Canada. Minaki, Nipigon, The Highlands ef Ontario, Quebec; and the Loyer St Lawrence, Playgrounds of the Provinces by the Sea, New Brunswick: Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Canada's best hunting and fishing grounds are all reached by Canadian National Railways.) [ANADIAN NATIONAL ~, » Noted Canadian National trains-- all steel equipment, famed for excellence of sery The "Continental Limited" --between Montreal, Winnipeg. Vancouver, Victoria and Prince Rupert! The "International Limited" 'between Montreal. Toronto, Detroit and Chicago. The "Ocean Limited" and "Maritime Express' between Montreal; St. Johrnand Halifax. 1ICeérare 4 TELEGRAPH The Canadian National Railways operate 'the fol- Canadian National Telegraphs with its direct exclusive connections com lowing hotels: T prises the largest Telegraph and Cable System in the world, reachin > The vChatéas Laurier." Ottawa 75.000 points in Canada, United States and Mexico, ; The "Prince Arthur," Port Arthur, Ont. EXPRESS To i: Carrs Winripes. Mon: Canadian National Railways Express operates~on" ail Tines-of the . a . * Canadian National Railways, giving the best service in the hands The Macdonald, Edmonton, Alta. ling of Merchandise, Money and Valuables to all parts of the ~~ 'Jasper Park Lodge." Jasper National Park. world. Money orders, travellers' cheques rr Alta. " and foreign postal remittances issued pay- The ""Minaki Inn," Mimaki, Ont + able everywhere. Moncey transferred be Tre {Highland Inn. Algonquin 'Park, Ont telegraph and cable. : HOTELS CANADIAN GOVERNMENT MERCHANT MARINE T Canadian National Railways operaté the Canadian Government Merchant M me, carving Canadian products over the seven seas. [npr a Jr wae w a rae SOE FERAL re A -- ee