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Best Optical Supplies We carry a well-filled stock of anything you might need in the Optical line. | --Lenses. | --Frames, all THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG - them in the editor's views on the 00 K Coalition Government; he apPears to B Ta S have been free from most of the THE KING'S WISH, partisan prejudices which disfigure | the greater part of the political com- ment of his contemporaries. | -------------------------- | FROM OVERSEAS, An Anthology of Dominion and Col- Edited by S. Fow- Merton Press Ltd. | Westminster, By T. G. Marquis. Ryerson Press, Toronto. - Price $1.50. | T. G. Marquis, a Canadian writer | who claims Queen's University as his | London, SW. Alma Mater, has turned his thoughts | The idea of bringing together a from graver things and given us a | coliection of the utterances of the fairy story well worth reading. Told | younger poetical voices of various simply and yet with a vividness and | parts of the Overseas Empire was a reality that carries its readers along | 5404 one, but the task of selection to the last page, "The King's Wish" | presents grave difficulties. We are deserves a hearty welcome from the | prepared to believe that it is the Canadian public. From the days | young writers who are showing the | when David, the shepherd lad of way for the poetry of the future, but Bethlehem, soothed the troubled! ye are not so ready to admit that spirit of the warrior Saul, with the | Mr. Wright has round them--or at sweet music of his harp, this instru- | any rate has found their most indi- ment seems to have been accredited | cative works. Canada is represented ondal Verse, ler Wright. Abbey House, Druggist Open Sundays Ess FOR SALE 4 BRICK VENEER HOUSES -- ¢ rooms each, 8 plece bath, electri. city and gas, good yards, central lo- cation. 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SCREEN WINDOWS-- 50c., 55c., 60c., 65c. each. McKelvey & Birch, Limited General Contractors, Heating Specialists, Steam Fitters and Plumbers, Jobbers of Plumbers' and Gas-Fitters' Supplies, Stoves, Shelf, Heavy and House Furnishing Hardware, Tools, Olls, Be : and Tia Werk; Electric work) Palating and Paper Hanging. Special undertaken. vens essed 9.30 sane ve cS HL00 dv sa. 313.00 50 and $3.75 each Supplies, Sheet Metal men. The Harp of Tara, the seat of the Celtic kings, stirred those who heard its martial music to deeds of valour and Kipling's "True Thomas" does as he will with the king who lingered to hear the music of his harp. Mr, Marquis has embodied the same idea in the story of Jose, the shepherd Boy given the magic harp by the old magician, who has played it for a thousand years. He makes the lad promise not to let the desire of gold, power or love enter into his life and then sends him to the city of the king who has promised favor ure to his sated palate. The harp is called "The Harp of the Sun" and only while the sun shone could the magic music which swayed the multi- tude and rejoiced the king, be drawn from its strings. The harp leads the lad to the king who crowns him prince for the joy he has brought him. His music restores the beauti- ful mad princess to sanity; he is the idol of the people. But his love for the princess proves the first step in his undoing when he tries to play the harp after nightfall, the great palace built for him and his harp falls and once more he becomes the humble shepherd. The attractive binding and the clip cut decorations by L. Hummel, add to the charm of "The King's Wish" as a gift book. BOOKS IN BLACK OR RED, By Edmund Lester Pearson, ,Mac- millan, Toronto, $3. The Macmillans have produced a second edition of that delightful mis- cellany, mainly designed for the en- tertainmert of small book-collectors, which was so successful last year un- der the Chaucerian title of "Books in | Black or Red." Mr, Pearson is one | of those men who possess the fare | quality of having an extraordinary taste in odd and peculiar things. He knows exactly which odd things are interesting and which are not. It is easy to have a taste in ordinary and conventional things; they are all classified anyhow, and all that you have to do is to pick your class. But to be an expert in Literary Hoaxes, in American Eccentrics, in Chinese Biographical Dictionaries, in Bugs and Goblins, in Naughty Books and Religious Tracts--to be all these things in one volume means that you have to have a standard of judgment all your own, and to know what is good and what bad in these various categories (yes, gentle reader, there are good things even in Naughty Books) without looking it up in the authorities. And Mr, Pearson does know his way about in all these mat- ters with such perfect Judgment, and he knows his way in such unlikely and widely scattered territories. We wonder it 8ir Archibald Macdonell, for instance; knows that he comes in for approving mention in this volume on acgbunt of his "recreations" as given in "Who's Who" (not perhaps the latest edition), namely, "he goes in a great deal for riding and cours- ing wolves." We hope he does know it; for it is quite a distinction, even for so distinguished a person as Sir Archibald, Rave attracted the at- td r. Edmund Lester Pear- GROUPS OF LINES OF ROOM . The draperies in tlls room would look better _ down, to keep the proper proportions. SHOULD BE PROPORTIONED it tied back farther ' | WHY THE WEATHER? } Secreta American Meteorclogicaly Society, Tells Mow. . Dew Signs. Xx" "When the grass is dry at morning light Look for rain before the night." "When the dew is on the grass Rain will never come to pass." Dr. W. J. Humphreys of the Weath- er Bureau has collected, and illgstrated many o'd adages. He shows t hile some weather proverbs are bas on mere superstition or tradition, others such as this one are of real value, be- cause founded on sound prin ' Dew forms typically on clear) cool nights. Some water vapor is always . present in the air, or we might say, in the space about us, because water va- por pays no attention to the other gases, and acts just as if they were pot When water vapor is chilled the "dewpoint" it can not all re- main in a given space, but some con- denses as small drops of water. On clear, calm nights, especially when the air is dry, leaves land grass near the ground lose heat rapidly and become relatively cold. Water vapor in con- tatt with them then becomes chilled and condenses on the cool surfaces, so that in the morning we find dew. A cloudy sky with much water vgpor in the air, conditions favoring , will give back to the earth much of the heat which it is radiating and will prevent the surface of the ground from becom- ing so cool. Then dew will not form. Similarly; wind at night, such as might accompany an approaching storm will keep the air stirred up and will pre- vent the small local chilling near the ground which produces the dew. "The presence of dew in the morning then, follows a night with dry, calm air and @' clear sky, typical fair weath- er conditions, while the absence of dew indicates damp, cloudy or windy wea- ther. Hence: When the morn is dry. The rain is When the morn is wet | - No rain you get. son." \ The yeader probably knows no more now.about this book than he did when we began, but we can- not possibly describe it, so we may as well stop. THE NORTH AMERICAN, Lennox and Addington Historical So- ~ clety: Papers and Records, Vol, , 11, Napanee, Ont, The 1924 publication of the Len- nox and Addington Historical Society Is a selection of editorials from a newspaper published In the county during 1862-4, files of which have recently beem presented to the So- with magic power over the hearts of here by H. Bromley Coleman, Annie to him who shall bring a new pleas- | iC. Dalton and Ernest Fewster, of Vancouver, D. R. Oliver of "On- { tario," Jean Kilby Rorison and A. M. | Stephen, of Vancouver, and Evelyn | Eaton, Hilda Hesson, A. Beatrice | | Hickson, Margaret Muir and Arthur | Nyren, all described merely as of | | "Canada;" to whom may. be added | | Florence P. Miller; of Newfoundland. | | We should not like to admit thas the | | work of these writers here exhibited | | represents in any way the present | | tendencies of Canadian poetry, al-| | though "The Blizzard" of Hilda Hes- | | son and "The Scented Hour" of Mr. | | Coleman are at least pins on which {to file the names of those two auth- ors for fyture reference. The most | stimulatthg part of the book is the work of the East Indians; but then | the new movement of the Indian | mind towards self-expression in the! English language is easily one of the | outstanding facts of current litera- | ture. That they have something to | | say is indisputable; that they are | | only at the beginning of learning to] say it seems more than likely. Notes, "The National Spirit," the address delivered by Mr. E. W. Beatty to the | St. James Literary Society of Mont- real last November, has been issued as a pamphlet, Mr. Beatty never! speaks without thinking, nor on any subject on which he is not thorough- ly qualified to think, and this discus- sion of the recent decay of individ-| ualism in Canada deserves to be read by every intelligent Canadian. GOLF WITHOUT TEARS. By P. G. Wodehouse, McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, $2.50, Mr. Wodehouse at his best is one of the greatest humorous writers of our age. And strange to say, the nearer he is to his best, the more he resembles Stephen Leacock at his best; from which we may assume that the finest achievement of either of these writers is typical of the mind of the age--in one of its as- pects. Quite a number of Mr. Wode- house's little fictional farces deal with golf, which is fortunate, because golf is a subject in which quite a number of the people of the age are intensely interested. This collection ------ Oj of ten of them opens with one of the classics of contemporary humor-- the kind of thing that one would put into an anthology along with Lea- cock's "Marie Mushenough" and a couple of first-class sea stories by W. W. Jacobs,--the famous "Clicking of Cuthbert." The rest of them are not quite so good as "Cuthbert" and should not be read immediately after that tale; but it is handy to have them in this single and nicely-manu- factured volume, which can be kept in the little mahogany cupboard where the decanters used to be, and produced and drawn upon for a short draft of amusement at Intervals 'much as the decanters used to be drawn upon... It is not necessary to know any golt in order to imbibe Mr. Wodehouse, any more than it was necessary to be an expert in alcohol in order to draw on the decanters. Those' who 'deny that Mr. Wode- house has style might perhaps ex- plain what, if not style, is the excel- lence of this description of a much bewhiskered Russian author break- ing his silence in the presence ofd® suburban literary club: 3 "Down in the forest something stirred. It was Vladimir Bruisiloff's mouth opening, as he prepared to speak. He not a man who prattled readily, especially in a for- eign tongue. He gave the impres- sion that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining. He glared bleak- words to drop.out of him. 'Sovietski ly at Mr. Devine, and allowed three early political efforts of Sir Richard clety. The selection and editing are | ng good!' * the work of Mr. Walter S. Herring- ton, K.C., which is a sufficient guar- antee of the dexterity and judgment with which the task has been per- formed. There are over forty pages of the extracts and illustrative com- ment, and as the editorial manage- ment of the "North American" was evidently in the hands of a journal- ist of good education and wide inter. ests, the matter is for the most part of a decidedly informative character. The period covered is that of the movement for the separation of the present county from that of Fronte- nac, to which it was originally at- tached, and considerable bitterness is exhibited in the campaign for that purpose. It is alsa the period of the Cartwright, when he was of the same Not eternal, perhaps, but very good stuff for 1924. RIGHT SIZE FOR SOFA In a room of average size, ft will party as "John A.." and had occasion |be found that a six-foot-sofa will fit to protest more was not "und thumb' of that energetic young leader. 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