] Che Daily British = 83, NO. 281 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, this' volume, Stirring fights are re-| corded with a vividness of portrayal] y that is in Farnol's best style. The { author has studied madieval English ' : dig Some Ottawa Glimpses chosen people who might look for- ward to wining world power and even omnipotence; that God was their = ally. Commenting upon these pre- tensions and upon German frightful- ness, he says: "If the Prussian pagan creed is true, then Moloch is god. His orders to good advantage, as is evidenced by the style of language he puts into the mouths of his characters. The story is a long one, but one will be reluctant to lay it down until the last chapter] is concluded. Farnol is an entertain-| ing writer at all times, and his ad-! mirers will not find cause for disap-| i i . { ful "cries of terrified little children, | 0 cot in this book. the mingled groans and curses ofl RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN. sacrifices most acceptable to him are == the victims of combat and massacre. yJ||==| The hymns he delights in are the FT ----=='E8 | shrieks of ravished women, the piti- TTT Special Correspondence by H. F. Gadsby. ER ACTION FRONT. led by oars and a solitary sail, and | ---- | with the stout-hearted captain, Leif By Boyd Cable. 205 pages. Price Ericson, nicknamed Leif the Lucky, $1.35. McClelland, Goodchild [came two Viking boys, Eric and & Stewart, Toronto, publishers. | Biarne, who had shipped as Stow- R. Uglow & Co., city. aways. Landing on the shores of the such superiority in force fully de- ployed and enjoying similar or su- perior armament to its inferior enemy, suffer defeat from numbers so much smaller than its own." The reasons for the French vie- tory were two--the blunder of the wounded and dying soldiers. His high priests are those who lead the teem- mg millions to slaughter, Attilla and Tamerlane and William II of Hohen- zollern. This is the corner stone of Kulture. This is the infernal abyss into which Kulture has dragged Ger- By Robert W. Service. City. 195 Pages, Price $1.00. William Briggs, To- ronto, Publisher. R. Uglow & Co. It will be recalled how graphically L Parade of Superior Loyalty. Ottawa, Dec. 1.--People well read! in Canadian history smile at the dis- ciples of thé party which stoned Lord Elgin and burnt the Parliament Buildings at Montreal, making a par- ade of their superior loyalty to the Mother Country through the mouth of a pin-head like ex-Alderman Me- Brien, of Toronto, aided and abetted by a dead one like Honorary Colonel LW. K. McNaught. These protesta- tions have disgusted even Toronto, | and Toronto in the past has stood a lot of this kind of talk without hav} ing her stomach burned., | The fact is that at least sixty per | cent. of the officers on active service are Liberal in their politics and the rank and file under normal condi- tions would divide between the two something more than the Company's word of honor that it wasn't selling to the Germans. That it did sell to the Germans--millions of pounds since the war began--is notorious. That it is still selling to the Ger- mans, via the Deutschland and other under-sea boats, also via German agencies in alleged neutrals has been proved up to the hilt by the Brovi- dence Journal, "which is in close touch with the British Embassy at Washington, and receives thence the facts which offset the pro-German propaganda in the United States. In a word, the British Government is responsible for nothing but its re- Quest to the Borden Government to make .such sensible and effective ar- rangements with th parties on a fifty-fifty basis. As! Nickel Company as i ational matters stand, however, there is no| assisting the enemies of the British doubt that the soldier vote enraged | Empire with the chief raw material at the wholesale looting at home, and of modern warfare drawn from a the Ross rifle abroad, would go over-| British overseas Dominion. It is not whelmingly against the Government. | responsible for the Borden Govern- There are three hundred and seven-| ment's slackness in carrying out ty-five thousand soldiers enlisted | structions. Neither is it responsible now and the word that is on every|for the Borden Governments be- man's lips is "graft," When you ask | tfayal of the trust reposed in it. The them for corroborative evidence they, British Government knew, of course mention paper shoes, Colonel John that the International Nickel Com- Wesley Allison, nine hundred per|pany's nickel * came from Canada cent. profit on shell contracts, Camp and supposed naturally enough that Borden, and matters like that. Can-|the Canadian Government having the ada has a great reading population. | whip hand, would make the Interna- Our soldiers, both at home and at| tionel Company be good. the front, have kept themselves well What the British G informed through Canadian newspa- bably overlooked overnment pro- pers of the doings at Ottawa. They| , was that th ao was ot swate are fully abreast of all the vagaries rane, Minister 2 whan Coch of the Borden Government, and are p... Borden's Cabinet eh nN not to be caught with the stale ruse national Nickel Combany' 8 snier. of dumping the sinner to save the| pn... co Canada It aaa randy. rest. Which sto sy that the ie. tional Nickel Company that re a Ct overng hy Joeant save thel pany 'Cochrane: a political ibil- orden Government's bacon with the ity. Thus and so was Can Boss : Canadian soldier, either at home or|," vel blated Minister of Railways. overseas. This soldier vote on which who, when h | WAY the Government so obviously reckon.' put 'a ened ia Shed on to Ottawa, ed when it made its Arrangements pooner in Bp ale i Shuler. to wit, for batloting on the field of battle-- pont I JW Place, In Queen's Park, this soldier vote which both parties --Cochrane Hearst Sean iy agreed shoud oe given hid full} i; seems a great pity that Mr. Komp i eses, As hoe alienated. from, ud have to-do ail the explaini rden Government by the scan- Mr. Cochrane bet Ap aining, dais. in, regard. to- war supplies and | 1% SOC! Ig: Bo dhl? talk can no longer be counted on. This usb v1, a00 helng ha ea being Je Shae. the Borgen Govern-| 10" fiternational Nickel Compan a war-time ij) pave to be looking 8008 for som more vocal . election, and would willingly accept A Jeprieve 4 ansther year tain Bast Cabinet, some etiodn ins Roden ober. ew don't want the day| . of wrath to come until their pro~ arse App ns tno hoties Feason. With fiteering friends have sucked the last], . donne hh hatte drop of blood. ters into consideration he smiles at Indeed, it would be no surprise if| the McNaught protestations of su- apostles of the Borden Government perior loyalty for the party that lets in Toronto or elsewhere began to| him in for a raw deal lke that. And speak of the soldiers at the front as' that smile becomes a hoarse guffaw, disloyal to the Mother\Country be-| when he thinks of his wife and little cause they are keepiag a close| children left at home to be leeched enough eye on Canada to be anxious| dry by the Government's todd pro- to kick the Borden Government out fiteering friends. Sustain her as you the first time they get the chance. | will with separation allowances, pat- Ask a soldier at the front, whose riotic funds, and $0 on, the cost of lite, maybe, has been endangered by| living more than keeps pace with her the Ross rifie they put in his hands| dollar shrunken to two-thirds of its --ask him what he thinks of the| face value, The cost of living goes boasted loyalty of a Government that| ghead by leaps and botinds--th, allows him to be shot full of holes being tho excuse--and the 6 Sar i our good Outage Bickel and he] ment does nothing to the leapers and ¥, "Don't make me laugh. I've th bounders except to thresten them many and would drag mankind." Mr. Thayer pays a warm tribute to the manner in which England re- peatedly, down through the ages, has stopped world-conquerors in their mad careers, and adds: "For the fourth time in as many centuries England is championing liberty against a would-be world despot." Almost in the same breath Mr. Thay- er condemns President Wilson for his Cain-like silence in the presence of anguished Belgium, the Lusitania disaster and other barbarous out- the Germans and Foch's genius. The Ger- mans overestimated the actual num- ber of men who retreated before their {forces from the Sambre and suppos- ed, in consequence, that the French were already using their reserves. Again the invaders overestimated the number of men who held them back at the Grand Couronne, about Nancy, and argued from that that the great- est French strength was massed there. The Germans attacked, thére- fore, on the opposite end of the French line, in the northwest, plann- ing to swing around and envelope the French left, which they believed unprotected. They were met by a French force far greater than they had expected; surprised and confus- ed, they drew men from the centre to reinforce their western attacking army; in the face not only of defeat but practically of annihilation, the French army on the west held the enemy as more and more forces were brought up, until at last the German centre weakened _and 'gapped' -- and Foch rushed in and cut the in- vaders square in two. In strategy, in valor, in endurance, in thought and action ineredibly quick. in the detalls of its activity, and in its monumengyl significance, the Battle of the Marne is dramatic almost be- yond belief, Military writers have severely criticized the British inactivity in this battle, pointing out that if Gen. French had played his part Von Kluck would not only have been de. feated, but annihMated. Belloc is non-commital. He says we will know in time whether it was a blun- der or whether the demand made up- on the British troops was something they found it physically impossible to do after the retreat from Mons. Belloc dissects the Battle of the Marne with minute care; he gives to the lay reader the result, tiny bit by tiny bit, of a military expert's examination; he tells the part played by every one of the seven French armies. The volume also includes the Battle of the Aisne, the race to. the sea, and the intrenchment of the armies... And from first to last it is " » . +. |8St. Charles River, in New England, brovious book, was written onthe | they bullt a log House and prepared plan of taking short extracts from of- | !© spend the winter. Here the boys - ficlal despatches as texts, and show- | met wits Hany Surilling adveutres. ing what of grim effort, of pathos, of | including a fight w e white na- unconquerable humor and of undy-|tives, the capture of a pirate ship ing heroism the few flat words of the | with much rich booty, etc. On the censor cover. "Action Front" fol-|return to Greenland in the spring, lows the same plan, and is an inspir-| some bad sailors, greedy for the: ing piece of work. You cannot read! treasure on board, mutineed, but it without coming closer to the heart! were speedily overpowered. The and meaning of this titanic struggle | good ship Valhalla reached Green- of the trenches. The previous book land in safety, and was given a great the oh iharts Sim and terrible, hut, ta | reception. Soon the two boys and R . 8 life, and he felt it would be no bad | their treasure were able to sail for thing if Home realized the grimness | "OMe. See 54 five Stuy; ity Bis a little better. In the present volume | OF cal DackEroun 3a mut Me he tries to show a lighter side to war, | /in8 adventure, and just the sort a to picture the relaxations and the!real boy likes. The lad who loves In this he has Pooks wouldn't be a bit disappointed occasions for jests. | succeeded admirably. The opening | if he found this one in his stocking Like all the chapter, "In Enemy Hands," chiefly jon Christmas morning. concerns one Pte. Jock Macalister, books put out by the Page Co. it is and has been widely quoted and en-| most handsomely and strongly bound Joyed by thousands. It is worthy a!---a credit to the bookmakers' art. place in our school readers of the future, Nearly every phase of MISS THEODOSIA'S trench warfare is touched upon and HEARTSTRINGS made realistic by the vivid pictures from the pen of this capable writer.| gy Annie Hamilton Donnell, 187 THE STRANGERS' WEDDING. Pages, Price $1, William Briggs, Toronto, publisher. R Uglow & By W. L. George. 442 pages. Price Co., City. $1.35. McClelland, Goodchild «\pigq Theodosia's Heartstrings"! & Stewart, Toronto, publishers. But wha} about the poor reviewer's R. Uglow & Co. city. | heartstrings when he has to read In this volume W. L. George, the such a sickly, wishy-washy, goody author of "The Second Blooming," book as this? Is there no balm in gives us the story of a young Oxford Gilead for him! After perusing this graduate who marries beneath his volume, we can wonder with the poet class, and elucidates the fact that who exclaimed: "Strange that a harp love is not all that is necessary to of a thousand strings should keep happiness. Roger Huncote 18 a in tune so long!" The dedication is young man of the upper classes who, "To my husband, who could write so inflamed with philanthropic ideals, puch better a hook." Well, if he joins a settlement to work among the couldn't he ought to be taken out be: poor. They are a precious lot of mis- "tye barn and shot, that's all. chievous, pretentious snobs, these . Theodosia is an independent young settlement workers, and the young lady, who, after travelling abroad, man is speedily disillusioned" In his 8 natural reaction against them and ¢omes home to find a family of num- erous and wonderful children next under the influence of a potent physical attraction, he marries Sue door. She falls in love with them and likewire with the young doctor- eghz.c the Janghiith oa irl, but lawyer whose laundry they launder man, a y , bu Brad ied, Such children they were--why |* To markable book. hopelessly common. Most of the story is concerned with the pitiful one of them even od of six toes! THE RESEARCH MAGNIFICENT, Surely such child never existed 2 To misunderstandings between them. Roger must live according to the outside of a book. ty H. G. Wells. 460 iene $1.50. The Macmillan Company of convention of his set, and Sue cannot make ;the dazzling ascent from the Canada, Toronto, publishers... R. Uglow & Co, city. ashes' of her early life. In the end she runs away with Bert, an electric-' Jan. while Roget turnip 10 cored. Mr. Wells is in a serious mood in first place. Mr. George is one of the Child & Stewart, Toronto, Pub. this volume. Its ideal of a world re- most skilful craftsmen Writing Eng-| jishers. R. Uglow & Co. City. | coed 4nd ruled by the few nobler 'lish fiction to-day, and, therefore, he + VIF. fepirits is far from Socialistic. The can make any subject attractive, as Lovers of Grace Richmond's stor- | volume is less a novel than the bio- he has done this one. He is, how- ies will be delighted with this tale |graphy of an idea embodied in a man. ever, more of a satirist than a sym- Of a country girl whose courageous William*P. Benham sets out to live pathetic student of life. | spit and intelligence overcame the | what he calls the noble or aristocratic er life, and the book is made up even more largely of his abstract ideas than of what happened to him because of mogotony of a quiet life with an in- HELD TO ANSWER. his beautiful obsession. The whole is : valid father. The heroine Georgiana Warne is the only child of an in- By Peter Clark Macfarlane. 581 valid country clergyman, forced by , ill-health to resign his parish, and [presented in the shape of a biography desperately poor. Somehow or other [of Benham prepared by friends from a he had contrived to give his daughter | vast accumulation of notes left at his a college education, but she was not | death. 'able to make any special use of it,| The research magnificent is Robert W. Service, now proclaimed in England as "The Canadian Kip- ling," 'pictured 'the wonderful as- pects of the Yukon in a way never before accomplished. He has brought something of the same genius to his verse pictures of r conditions and has achieved in "Rhymes of a Red Cross Man' even greater success. Mr, Service makes one see not only the pathetic, but also the humorous side of the war as one does in noth- ing else. His verse in the new book is drawn from first hand experience since he has spent the best part of the last two years in driving an am- bulance in the thick of the fighting for the French Government. Here is a sample of one of his most char- acteristic bits, "The Red Retreat." Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers: (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and bleedin' feet); Tramp, tramp, the bad , the bits ©" kiddies cryin' there: The feH birds a-fiyin' there, the 'ouses all aflame; Tramp, tramp, the sad road, I left a-lyin' there, Red there, and dead there--Oh blimy, it's a shame! : One stanza of his "Foreword" is well worth quoting: 'So here's my sheaf of war-worn verse, And some is bad--and some is worse. And if at times I curse a bit, You needn't read that part of It; For through .it all like horror runs The red resentment of the guns. And you yourself svould mutter when You took the things that once were rages. Towards the close of book he asks: "Will the American workmen who have been thrown out of employment by the blowing up of their factories feel kindly toward the Teutons who committed these crimes? Will the American business men whose legiti- mate business and investments have been blocked by German capitalists cherish no resentment? Will Ameri- can universities tolerate professors who have been slyly preaching sedi- tion? Is it not far more likely that for a generation to come the very word German will be detested in the United States, and that every Ger- man will have to show cause why he should not be regarded as a secret enemy of this country?" the pals NELSON'S HISTORY OF THE WAR. By John Buchan. 288 pages Ulus- trated with maps. Price, 45c. Thos. Nelson & Sons, London and Toronto, publishers. R. Uglow & Co., city. Volume XIII. of this 'altogether admirable series deals with the posi- tion at sea up to the end of February last, the fall of Erzerum, America at the cross-roads and the first battle of Verdun. Each succeeding volume of this history seems to be more inter- esting than the last. Mr. Buchan's work is a well-ordered, comprehen- sive narrative of the operations in all fields, dong with literary skill and power of unusual kinds. It is at once a readable volume for the pre- sent, and as authoritative a record for the future' as can be set down now. The appendix in vol. XIL con- tains Mr. Balfour's interview on "The Freedom of the Seas" Elihu Root's address on 'The Responsibili- ties of Freedom;"" Sir E, Grey® speech on "The Policy of Blockade; the United States note on 'The Rights of a Sea-Power;" and General Dobell's report on "The Conquest of the Cameroons." BELTANE THE SMITH. men, And sped them through that zone of at To whens the dripping surgeons wait; And wonder, too, if in 's sight War ever, ever can be right." The "red resentment of the guns" is a characteristic Service line, and graphically, tersely paiats for us a great picture of the grim battlefield, "The Call" is an especially stirring ballad of war: "Far and near, high and clear, Hark to the caM of War! Over the gorse and the golden dells, Ringing a swinging of clamerous ells, Praying' and saying of wild farewells; War! War! ( rr! ~~ High and low, all 'mist Rn {Hark to the shout of wher Leave to the women the harvest yield: Gird ye, men, for the sinister field; A sabre instead of a scythe to wield: 'War! Red War! (Rich and poor, lord and boor, Hark to the blast of War! Tinker and tailor and millionaire, Actor in triumph and priest in yer. Comrades now in, the hell out there -- Sweep to the fire of War! Prince and page, sot and sage. Hark to the roar of War! Poet, professor and circus clown, Chimney-sweeper and fop o' the town, Into the pot and be melted down: Into the pot of War! UNDER THE COUNTRY SKY By Grace 8. Richmond, 330 Pages. Price $1.25. MoClelland, Good- By Jeffery Farnol. 3504 pages. Price, $1.25. The Musson Book Co., To- ronto. publisher. R. Uglow & Co, city. Jeffery Farnol is well known as a writer of vivid, picturesque ro- mance. His "Amateur Gentleman" and "The Broad Highway" establish- ed his pre-eminence in this regard. He has the nack of formulating an Wiomen all, hear the call, The pitiless call of War! Look your last on your dearest ones, Brothers and husbands, fathers, sons: Swift they go t the ravenous guns, The gluttonous guns of War! Everywhere thrill the air The maniac bells of 'War, There will be little of slecping tonight: There wilt be waiting and weeping to- night; Death's red sickle is reaping tonight: in War! War! War! with an Macfarlane has written an emot- because she was obliged to return ional novel that will appeal to a to Elmville and take care of him. A wide range of readers. If a fault can sweet, strong, brave girl, brimming be found with i, it is that he has over with life and energy, full of made his characters too impossible; longing for all sorts of interesting there is an apparent inability to mod- and beautiful things, no saint, often ify his high flights. The story, how- rebelling inwardly against her hard, ever, is charming, has much action narrow lot, she nevertheless did her and many good characters. First duty cheerfully and courageously, a8 a stenographer in.a Los Angeles thoroughly deserving the great re- his railroad office, then as a stock cOmM- ward she presently won. She is'a pany actor In San Francisco, and joveable heroine, and indeed all the finally as the self-appointed pastor, characters in the book are agreeable of an a hed chapel, is John people, from E. C. Jefferson, "the thort the effort of the individual to discover what should be to him the nobie life, and, once discovered, to live it. In the course of his experi- were in quest of this noble life, Mr. ells' hero visits the Balkans, and a wonderfully interesting story of his adventures there is given. He also visits Russia, and there is a sketch of Russian life as it actually is, But gs are not confined to Russia or'the Balkans, or, in fact, to any one section of the universe, for the Research Magnificent may truly interesting and unusual plot and of developing the story with exceeding skill. His scenes are generally laid in the olden days of England, over which he throws the mantle of ro- mance. The hero of this volume is one Beltane, the smith, who is intro- duced to the readers as he stands besides his forge in the greemwoop. His subsequent adventures would be sufficient to-edwd a dozen ordinary lives, Knights and outlaws, lovely maidens, friars and warriors, dukes and kings and peasants abound in picts in his superlatively style the comedy, the pathos and the heroism men. war in strong, vigorous ing again and again. Kinley, son of W. McKinl quin, will be sorry to hear den death on Nov. 20th. Throughout the book Se#vice de- graphic , the fighting He mirrors the human side of haunting verse. The book well repays read- The many friends of John A. Me- y Algon- his sud- A.'E. Kemp, the Flaming Tinman, who has just been appointed as Sir Sam's successor, rises to explain that the public mustn't have these naughy thoughts about Canadian nickel. British Government them and that the British Govern- ment, not the Borden Government, is responsibil Nickel Company puts such a broad interpretation agreement that it sells our nickel to the Germans, who shot it back at And just at this point, the Hon.| np He says that they did all that the requested of le if the International on a gentleman's thus gives the looters away with the swag. The food Atoet never seems to ought to take his medi ron Elo sake | cine with the uring war time and, o y Borden Government f ooaTie. the think of mentioning # to him. your food hog persist in bis swinish- i 7 raed Let him that is , be still, and the Bo % 5 y will do its best to order-in-council, akes four bites of a olen cherry and time to get pro- think that he cut down his profits would never Let Government Pp him. There is no bt that this is a be to have the whole world as a dead Mr. Wells hero is not by any means the only interesting Of almost equal Hampstead revealed to, us. During jie light," to~ nette, this period he' develops marvellous agli a ay eum lt the ly. Marian Boungy, an actress, am- ther, too, is a distinctly likeable per- bitious to : @ famous Star, gon their relations are portrayed loves John with all the intensity of wiih simplicity and tenderness, and Ror hssiatate nature, Then Shite the entire novel has a cheery, home- dimpled, : has loved ke favor which is very pleasant, John with a child's love undisclosed until be blunders under the spell "FNERAL SHENCH OF THE EURO. |i of the actress, The return of the {us on the battlefields of Europe by land or sea. In short, our War Lord Elect, passes the buck. his is all sheer buncombe. When the BE Government told the Borden Government to make the proper arrangements for regulating the dealings of the International|gegire Nickel Company with the enemy, it supposed, of course, that the Borden Government would go about it on a business-like way and would require loyal Goveriment ~-- loyal, for ex- ample, to its pack Moreover, it believes in sacrifice-- to say, sacrificing the con-. that is sumer to the food profiteers. It would have no plans, in which intelli- leadership is needed, in which it | ib git 2 Lah: fF