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THE WORLD OF BOOKS
A LIFE OF CHRIST.
POPULAR VOLUME IN THE
PEOPLE'S LIBRARY.
found as a primer for the scriptural touching of the young, or a gift. volume for Sunday School pupils.
St. Francis of Assist Since becoming, a convert to Roman Catholicism, G. K.. That Dr. J. Paterson Smyth's Chesterton has used his undeniablo "Life of Chriat" (People's Library, gifts for the embellishment of the Hodder and Stoughton 2/6) la aterature of the Church; and his best seller among volumes of the "St. Francis of Assist" (Hodder typo, cannot be denied First and Stoughton 6/-), is an addition published in 1921, there have been to the "ana" of the holy ascetic eighteen reprints: at short intervala. which the world should be grateful
for. and the book is still commanding high figura sales.
EMPIRE REVIEW,
"RUSSIAN BOOKS: CANADIAN
POLITICS...
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The December issue of the "Em- pire Review" contains interesting summaries and criticisme from new books on Rusala. Particularly in- teresting is that of "The Truth About. Moscow." This was written by M. Henri Beraud; the novelist, who went to Russia with a gertain There is a cheaper edition of the prejudice in favour of the Bolshev work in the People's Library at 2/5, lets but who came back anti-Bol-, but the volume under review isshavlat as a result of what he saw artistically and typographically, in Russia. perfection. The illustrations, of which there are seven, are from paintings by F. Caley. Robinson
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Dedicated "To my boy in the un- soon" the Life of the Saviour is told In enchanting language, holding the reador by Ita melodious phraseology and picturesqueness
It is in fact a book" that the rationalist could read without hav-while the type faces and general ing his susceptibilities outraged.
To quote a passago at random. under the "Teachings of the Road," wa read "No teaching of His got more prompt response in the con- science of His audience, For no sensible man, Christian or non
get up are such as are usually only found in much higher priced volumÓN..
The life of the Saint is dealt with, says the author, as "an historical character, which is attractive to many of us already, by its gasity,
Guns at Quober that karo apskon, in the defense at the fludali (Iment) Lurd: Darling. Lord Darling, England's great legal wit, who recently made an extended visit to America,, is lover of: oarly Canadian history. The following poem recently written by him and published in England, has. received much favourable comment,
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"The paths of glory lead but to the
grave,"
Starn: truth Wolfe spoke the while.
he neared the shore,
Dark foods behind him, and the
French before:
Yst not alone took Wolfe that ar
did road:
Foulon's steep cliff above the break-In
ing wave,
To the dark grave a fit companion
camú
Montcalm the vanquished, who di
That ever shoreward bore th' ImOn
pations brave;.
Till Abram's fatal plain was shad-
owed: o'er,,
With silent ranks that one droad!
volley tore,
Ere at his lifted sword they onward
drave.
f
vides his fame; whom, for France, au equal' are."
dour glowed;
whom the victors half their baya
bestowed..
Two peoples with age voice their
deads acclaim
,
The same proud one preservap"
ench deathless name,
Where drank ons soll the noblest"
blood, that flawed
Now the tall colama lifts towards "Still in those shes live their
the skler
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wonted fire?";
His fame who, trod the way whose That, mingled, on one Nation's altar
burn; end he knew Stained with his life-blood this all-And, from the field where French
hallowed sod;
and English fell, Whonce he upturned those ne'er af-One soul, pure essence of those two
frighted eyes;
Bpires;
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Where now unfading bays the place As generous, a noble, yet pa atern,
bestraw-
To guard the Empire that th
made so well,
Lay back, and gave his grateful
soul to God.
Christian doubts the probability at least, of a final judgment of some
it's
Lord: Darling.
romantic imagination, its spiritual courtesy and camera. derie, but which also contains ele- ments (evidently equally sincere and emphatic) which seem quite remote and repulsive":
And further "I am here address.
In "The Canadian Election and After," J. A. Stevenson discusses the position of the Conservative Party since its unexpected defeat. This He attributes to the staking by the Conservatives of all their chances on making inroads on the great Liberal stronghold of Quebec,
policy which led to the pledging by Mr. Malghen that he would hold
general election before Canadian troops were again despatched over- seas. The traditional basis of Canadian Conservatiam hae been the maintenance of Canada as an integral unit of the British Empire,. atates the writer, and the Liberal: party has now committed itself to a political nationalism which, if carried to the extreme lengths sug gested by some of its adyocates; must spell, rapid disintagration for the imperial fabric.
the
An interesting article en World's new Boundaries and their historia.origin, by Vaughan 'Cornish also appears in the game issue
FACIAL REJUVENATION.
How to idealise the features and the skin of the Face by the Latest Scientific Methods is extensively deuit with in this attractive little Book. Several romarkable photo- graphs. showing the changed wrought in form and feature of the faces of men and women who have undergone surgical treatment give convincing Proof of the Marvels of this Plastic Surgery. In addition there is a chapter devoted to the care of the skin and another to the importance of healthy exercise and attention to diet and general health necessary in the Freservation of a Youthful Countenance.
This book should gain a wide circulation among all devotees of beauty culture since it containą many interesting facts regarding one of the most vital subjects of the present age..
Facial Rejuvenation" by Chas H. Will, F.R.S.A., London. Cecil Palmer, 8/6,,||
STEVENSON'S WRITINGS.
Mr. Deamond MacCarthy, the well-known journalist and literary critic.proposed The Memory of Robert Louis Stevenson" at the an nual dinner of the Robert Loule Stevenson Club, held in the North 'British Station Hotel, Edinburgh. Sheriff Orr presided over a large gathering, which included, Lord Provost Alexander Stevenson.
Mr. Desmond MacCarthy said
like when their minds were
flat
kind. You may challenge the heathen and the infide who doubts. everything else in the Bible, chal- lenge him to assert a belief that there shall never be any judgment for the deeds done in the body. He fag the ordinary man, sympathetic soda-water without a bubble com. dare not. And why ? Bocause the but sceptical, and I can only rathering to the surface, they were not conviction has an authority deeper hazily hope that, by approaching At for the companionship of great and more fundamental than. the the great saint's story through authors, but at 'such times they Bible. The conviction is, woven what is evidently and picturesque could, at any rate, read something into the very fibre of our moral about it, I may at least leave the which was really good. They could being. There is a rough coramtion-render understanding a little more read Stevenson Stevenson was a He thought Bense, a rough moral sense in us
delightful writer. all, which imperatively demands
that was a more significant thing: that it shall not be the same; in the
to say about Stevenson than that end for Herod and John the Bap-St. Francie as told by Chesterton.he was a great writer.
for Jezebel and Mary ofHe is at times dogmatic in tho Bethany, for Father Damien, who Chestertonian manner, but there sacrificed his life for the lepers and are nevertheless some extremely
waded Napoleon, who
through interesting passages, throwing a bloodshed to a throne."
new light on "the "man" In St. With such illuminating passages Tacía, who the author considers as this is the tale of Christianity's to be the "divine demagogue and. birth interlarded, told in modern the world's one sincere democrat of commonplace language which is not his, time." all preachment.
Taken as a 'religious book pure and simple, it is the most attractive that has come beneath our satice for 题 considerable period and nothing botter than this could be
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There is no sectarian, preaching in the book and it can be recom- mended to all having a leaning to wards the religious In literature, although it is more a "library" volume than a reader?
Bone chessmen found at Wit-") champton, Dorset, showing that Western played in Europe in the 10th contury, have been lent to the British Museum.
chess was
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Further contributions to the National Fund for the Rebuilding Memorial of the Shakespeare. Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon have been received from all, quarters of the world. They amount to over £1,000, and increase the total of the fund to £28:309.
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