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It is the force without which the loveli- est Aegaen isle would give no pleasure; it is the light that makes the desert places more lovely than gardens. And so inherent is the love of it in mortal men that the most enduring characters of Time are those above whom the halo of glamor burns brightest. The story of a cherry tree gives an immor- tality to the name of Washington more j enduring than any worthy legislation | of his making; an anecdote of Canute has rescued his name from a merited | oblivion, and the most horrible pas- | sages of the Hebrew Bible are swal- lowed pleasantly when the glamor of four thousand years is their coating. If a definition of glamor could be ob- tained the defined thing would cease forever to be. The nearest suggestion is found in the lines of Wordsworth i wherein he describes the undescribable 'as: land, ' consecration and dream." The curse of America is her poverty The the poet's lieves in Santa Claus and Aladden and the faces that have sweetened child- hood for a thousand years have been robbed of their glamorous eyes by the soul of materialism. Yet psychologists | tell us (and we know apart from these | wise men,) that the impressions of childhood make or mar the whole beauty of our lives. The human desire for the wilderness, or for the distant city or country is the honest desire to escape the materialistic atmosphere which has destroyed all nearby loveli- ness and to gain some place in the world where romance is not dead. From a physical standpoint the lakes of Muskoka are far more lovely than the lakes of Killarney, but the glamor of legend and story and fable has never revealed their true loveliness. To speak with a native of Ireland is to unloose a fountain of legendry which is more im- portant than history itself; but to in- terview a native of Muskoka is to dis- cover ignorance that is not glorified by superstition. Our Muskoka peasant knows where the black bass are most abundant and when he has directed you to a blueberry patch he has ex- hausted his knowledge. The rustic mind of Ireland and Scotland is the harbor where the golden prows of a thousand legends call, and after you speak with one of these tillers of the soil you find the seeds of glamor in your soul. The primeval face of the wilderness has a lure that needs no fable apart from the-story of creation, but the mo- ment the mark of civilized man is upon the wild places the original magetism is gone and can only be restored by the romantic hand of the poet or teller of tales, ' When as a boy I saw, from the sea, the white ¢liffs of Devon I knew for the first time what the writers of Eng. land had done for their native land. Behind those cliffs I beheld the phan- tom faces of all the legends which were born of genius from\ Chaucer to Hardy. And when, a few hours later, I viewed the shoreline of the Isle lof Wight I heard the calling of curlews that were born in Alfred Tennyson's heart and I could hear the winds that sobbed at my ship's prow chant again and again: "0, my Amy, mine no more; . O, the dreary, dreary mooreland; O the barren, barren shore." The sands of Yarmouth are not un- like any other sands to him who has kept aloof from legend and fable and story. But there stands, on the sea- shore of that east England town, an old habitation girded by rafters of fancy and roofed with imagination's covering and from that boat-dwelling the reader of books beholds the proud Steerforth and the beautiful Emily come forth and when some ship's spar floats to land he runs to it even as David Copperfield ran to the body of his friend on that tragic day when he saw him; "Lying with his head on his arm even as he had scen him lie at school." There is one wild bit of Southern Albion that will never be dis-associat- ed from the beauty in the eyes of Lorna Doone. The Enoch Ardens of the heart peer through every window in England where imagination looks out, and who can behold the "Banks and braes of bonnie Doon" and not draw to his heart even as Burns the "Lovely Mary Morrison." Quebec Province is no more lovely "The light that never was on sea or of legend. The child no longer be- | | heart of maa. | than Ontario, yet I find there more of the light than I do in the younger pro. vince. When I climb in our ancient ca- pital that historic flight and ses writ- ten on stone, "Chien D'or," I an: cap. tured by a joy which the velvet seards |of Toronto cannot give me. Kirby, {and Shanley and the old histories with their truths and lies have heiped to lift one part of America from the com- monplace of a commercial tradition. I came to Muskoka this year direct from the Rockies and the Selkirks and the prelude to my visit in no way dim- inished my wonder over the heiutj of { the lovely Rosseau, Joseph and Mus- j koka. But I missed the traditions which the mountain dwellers have delighted to preserve and which the most mater. ialistic province in Canada has consid- ered of less importance than the land- marks of a physical progress. I met no one in Muskoka this entire summer who had a story to tell me of that lovely land. I wanted that story because a row of cottages along one hundred miles of shoreline has taken away from this land of waters the last touch of the primeval. But no one came forward with the tale and even anc- ient inhabitants bf the country were | amazed when [I quoted of a well | known river near Rosseau the lines of i . Pauline Johnson: "Mine is the undertone: [ The strength and power and beauty of i the land | Will never bend or sway at my com- mand. But all the shade Is marred or made If I but dip my paddle blade: And it is mine alone." Because of this poem I have found something on Shadow River that no | other part of Muskoka gives me. It is | the first returning by a human hand of that glamor which man stole away. A few days agd my paddle disturbed in unison with the paddle of Bliss Car- man the shadow world of the river of mirrors. At Buttermilk Farm I recited to the bard of a generation before me the lines of our greaest woman poet and Carman was grateful for the words for he knew as I knew that Shadow River was lifted out of the world of prose forevermore by the daughter of a race that never knew prose. This is the great task of the coming litterateurs of our country and only after centuries of effort to glamorize our vast land will the journeyman who visits us thrill with the joy that is now the world's over those historic and fab- led crannies within call of Fleet street. History coldly stated does not bring glamor; it is only when the historic fact is interpretated by the imaginative mind that the spirit of romance is born. The invaders of London are less interested in the block whereon Charles' head reclined than upon the doorway of the Old Curiosity Shop and the phantoms of pure imagination are more important to Ludgate Hill and beyond than the accuracies of two thousand years. There is only one gladiator to the mind of the tourist as he gazes on the mightiest of the Roman ruins. History has recorded the clash of a thousand men in that awful pit but only one of them all is seen as we look upon the pure coldness of the Coliseum's age weary stone. And this gladiator was born in the fancy of a poet of England. "I see before me the gladiator lie; He leans upon his hand; his manly brow Consents to agony." And as you leave the ruins you jind your indignation needs no "phrase for righteous anger was appeased forever. more in the phrase: 'Butchered to make a Roman holiday.' A visit to Peterboro, Kitchener or Oshawa could be recorded by a series of facts, but who could preserve in cold statements the joy of the heart over the richness of a day in Quebec, Montreal or Kipgston. Our poets and novelists have already done valiant work but if it took cen- turies to make England a magic land how long will it take to people this vast country with the phantom faces of imagination. The lore of the Indian has been preserved in but sorry frag- ments so we must build upon it new legends, new fables and new stories. The writers of the past have concen- trated their efforts on a few sections of our country and Quebec and the Yu- kon and 'one valley in Nova Scotia have captured the laurels of attention. Charles G. D. Roberts, Theodore Hard ing, Rand and Bliss Carman have kindled the Parnassian glow over a land already glamoured by the fancy of an American poet. Lampman has given a new loveliness to the country dis tricts of Ontario. Duncan Campbell Scott and Pauline Johnson have un- bared. the hidden romance of lumber camp and tepee. Robert Service has death but conquers | created characters that will be known when the governors of the Yukon are forgotten. Sir Gilbert Parker and Louis Hemon and Thomas Kirby have sweet. 'ened forever the vision of the Quebec '| villages of today and her cities of the past. in our land we must teach the youth the value of romance. The belie in Santa Claus is of more value to a child than the accuracy of the multiplication table. Let us forget the population of our cities and the tonnage of our ports and consort for a while with those phantom faces and those invi- sible things that die not with the crumbling of mortar and the slow van- ishing of stone.--Wilson MacDonald. : {To Be Continued) The poet behiolds the future in | the present, and his thoughts are ithe germs of the flower and th trait of latest time. : . 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