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flight back to the soventeenth cen- tury and the happy vagabondage of Sunny Spain. What a commentary on life, then and now, there and here, what a feast of fun and philosophy in the magic pages of Uil Blas extravagance, gross curi- caturo, biting criticism, mordani wit, all are here, dished up in the most appetising manner, mainly for thyour own delight, but wholesomely

If thou art won, and hard beest With troubles that then wouldof

forget

If thou would'st read & lesson that

will koop.

Thy heart from fainting and

soul from sleep; Go to the woods and hills!

tears

exposing in the process all the No weaknese of human nature, all the fantastic vices of society. Here, as

Dim the sweet look that Naturea writer says, are found "subtle and

Aweaks.

-Longfellow.

Or thou may'st be in the more piteous case of having no troubles at all-born idle, satinted, fod up, otc., yet full of vague unrest, fealing the truth of those other lines:-

distressed.

THE CHINA MAILA

still, let the average man make the most of the talent be han, coNNSTVA it, nourish it, live, work, hope; he never knowe, he may have drawn a prize packet in the lettery of oxist ence. At the very least ho may the muck-make of our cruder UNUSUAL SHORT STORIES. bave that infinite capacity for enjoy-modernity, Burviving to over eighty ment in the pages of a great book. Lo Baga was indeed to add a later volume to his masterpiece, but, like his own Archbishop of Granada, bo had written too long; the form re mained, but the creative spirit was gone. Whimsical to the last, he concludes his great book thus

added interest of old saaqciation and enthralling conflict between the that dear green mould that clings two types of love care-man, and chivalrous with Frances as the about the garden of memory," which we are so lotti to scrape away with Prize

The robber, captain excuses him solf to Gil Blas in this fashion :--

"No, my lad, everyone likes to prey up n his fellows: it is universal principle, though vari- Qusly exerted. Conquerors. (for example), geize upon the terri tarios of their neighbours; people of quality barrow without any intention of repaying; bankers, treasurers, exchange brokers, clerks, and all kinds of mar chants, great and small, are not a whit more conscientious. As for the lawyers, I need not men- tion them; everybody knows what they are. I must own, however, that they are somewhat more humane than wo; for we often put innocent people to death, and they sometimes save the lives of the guilty.

And to crown my folicity heaven has blessed me with two children whom I piously believe to be my own, and whose educa- tion shall be the amusement of my old ago.

ANDBEW MILLAR.

NEW NOVELS.

MISS. ETHEL M. DELL'S LATEST,

Romantic chanco comea to

The Calestiat Omnibus and Other.

"Stories. By E. M. Forster.

Eyen the first part" of ""Pharos and Pharillon is not, in our opin- in, to be compaded with the beat of those stories which are dedicated To the memory of the Independent Review." Parna sed optaf. You can oily, hear great things of "Howards End" or A Room With a View," and E. M. Forster is a novelist to be reckoned with-but the title story of this volume, "Other Kingcom," and "The Road- From Calonus mast-like certain bargala in real estate be seen be be appreciated. They are unusua! short stories Panic things and supramundane things are handled in a manner that rivals Algernon Blackwood at his very best, and the mind, behind them in more truly Here is a finished style sapient combined with unusual imaginative invention.

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estates. To discharge a debt of of the judicione book-muyer; bere are half a dozen talea that impress honour to a departed friend he themselves deeply upon the senal-accepts the guardinuship of the hailing Mr. Forster us a great cated maiden born and brest in tive perception. We are far from friend's daughter, an unsophisti. The Day's Journey.-W. B. Max- wriber, but he is certainly a remark Canada. The sequel is not the craft, and bis mind is most curious virtuous poverty and vicious riches, A ably good writer. He knows his familiar. moral contest between and searching. Better than Arthur nor be incineration of the dobau-

well.---A man's friendship for a man which persists through a troubled lifeunio

Son at the Front-Edith Whar-

ton-A study of what a fine young man's sacrifico does to the friends who surround him. Expert picture of the social fabric al wartime.

poignant satire, profound knowledge of human nature, wit and grace. Le Sage's style is original and delightful, graceful, facile, simple, rapid. No translation can do it jus tice, yet the book is admirable in every tongue." Reading these pro- found yet sparkling pages the half-

The new novel for which Miss boiled author, politician, priest, So the captain of the thieves Absence of occupation is not rest; philosopher, etc., cannot fast to note apologizes for his profession, and Ethel M. Dell's admirers have been how race and how remote is real with the same logical sophistry, waiting is called "Tetherstones" A mind quite vacunt is a mido excellence-which, if ho be a small were they se haneɛt, so might come (Hutchinson; 79. 6d.), and it is short stories of the day that should|

nan with a largo conceit, any more honourable men apologize perhaps the best she has written. Or you may be only a little tristful detract a little from his pleasure in for theirs. Indeed there is hardly a

It is true that she makes quite on a damp and unless Sunday, reading the book; but, in taking a crime in the calendar but will find suffering from inertia, & lazy distal the starch out of his virtuo its cloquant advocate in the human ordinary people do quite extra tomper in the bones, tired of mano had humbling is a little it may breast concerned. If the numerous ordinary things, and encounter and tonous and commonplace surround-leave him a better man; able at last affairs of gallantry in the book are ings, loathing at last the cynical and stand up and know what his by some deemed "sacions" as overcome fearful risks to their lives, superficial "tripe and orions" of the greatest greatness is, which finding, come impuro purists have consider their virtue, and their sanity. Bat Sunday papers, fooding but never at last, he may work at it, believe, ed the Decameron of Beccaccio-let that is Miss Dell's lure. nourished on the chaff and husks of ive, be froo." It as boen said, it comfort the shuddering moralist the swineberd, and like the prodigul the fear of God is the beginning of to know that the author detesta vico Frances Thorold, a pale and rather Machen he knows not only how to chee so as to emerge a penitent

wisdom. We prefer to say, the fear and arime as much as he, but son crying out at last, "I will arieoof genius is the beginning of taste would cure it in a more sensible, unhopeful typist, dismissed in dis- create atmosphere, but how to toll ghost at the feet of a triumphant and go to my father!" Thun the

desire for structural unity. His fiction. innate nobility of the soul survives; and that is not a small-matter way--by making it ridiculous. The grace, by her employer, sa irritable a good story with the proper com augel. Desolate Splender" stoars Charles Plethern and Viola Mar- thus man is haunted by his better Thackeray bad a word for the sim-book is Shakespearian in breadth bishop who suspects an intrigue pleteness, bow, to satisfy one's clear of both these atrocitics of self; thus conscience and native, ple-minded when, he said: "Learn and depth of philosophy, and merely with his nephew, Montague Rother tales are comparatively brief, but patural taste keep whispering to the to admire rightly; the great pleasure holds the mirror up to Nature where by Frances half scoopts and half they are compressed to their essence vell have trying ordeals to face.

without thinning their richness. They are thrown into embarrassing: last famid the garbage and refuse of life is that. Note what the great all may see themselves, perhaps dreads his masterful love.

They meet again in a wild moor- There is a deal of allegory, if you situations in the looss-living circles The book was and the crumbling reius of life) if men admired; they admired great care themselves.

aceno, dominated by the like, but the stories are stories first of Rome, in which Viola shows To conclude this reflec written to amuse--and to satisfy the

Tetherstones, vast, forbidding of all, convincing in all their in-more of the woman in her than the quly death persuades. Your whole things." being arieth out, "My soul abhor- tion: The reader of those greater artist and the critics in its creator- reth this light bread. You may, works may find that the true heaven but greatest truths are uttered in monolithe, to which, according to probabilities. To us "The Celestial angol; family intrigues strive to

At night collection, but the others arouse cover any strong feelings for such patriarch Jacob and The Master as I did, have an inspiration. You of authorship (of life and culture) its jestings. All didactica aside, tradition, the Druids used to bind Omnibus" itself is the gem of the alienate them even before they dis

is much more distant and difficult however, the reader will find in the victims for sacrifice. may: "I will be more cureless stile than the Christian heaven, and the pages of Git Blus a variety and Frances is found in a collapsed state fertile speculation. Wildly and other; and put the way veut of Ballantrae. But such parti

I will read a book, one of the best in my collection." Assaner, surer reward of all the charm, a restful yet inspiring by Ruth, a blind elin child-ex-strangely beautiful," Rebecca West unpromising factors they strive at culars are lost to sight in the cou

plat tax characters. for me, I went to bed with Gil Blas,greater, more heroic souls. bir atmosphere, & high-class entertain-indly reading by the darknes to be said of Forsker's novels,phical love. Such a pics would templation of the two principal Still more remarkable features of and was soon happy and chucklings genius always Carlyle's infinite ment, a picturesque world of princes leads her through the darkness to phrase applies here. Philosophical love.

subtlety, humour, and fantasy are vetoran novelist'a ingenuity to with that satirical rogue, Le Sage also many are called and few are rogues and vagabonds, queens and

capacity for taking pains. Here and peasants, lords and commoners, safety and Tetherstones Farm.

Hera Frances meets Arthur Der- combined in the Forster blend. We execute, but this young writer

this novel are its literary and There are some pardonable crudi- artistic qualities. It is as happy in at the success of whose masterpiece chosen, the harvest is plentiful but courtesans of the world and tho máta bera of trut Dellian mould-have rarely so enjoyed a book of ƒ carries it of most convincingly. it is sair even Voltaire was jealous

ties in the story. The grotesque, depicting scenic nature as it is and sought to decry the work that the labourers are few. Nature, in stage, strolling players, simpletons and by degrees penetrates the awful tales.

almost ogreisb, figure of Charle's shrewd in observing buman nature. all Paris was reading with delight. her blind, inexomble, freakish pro- and sharpers, and bere and there an secret, bound up in the seduction of What a wicked city! What a concesses, has made it easy for some, honest mani If he has read the

mother strikce ane rather as the The colour are sot inid on the canvas tumacions author! And so for once impossible for the many, hath fore-book before, so much the better; if

creation of a playful whim than as laboriquly, but with the deftness of I failed to respond to the call of the ordained only a few to everlasting long before, the better still, for then, woods and hills" of my Bonnie life, in which she scene as meagre like returning to the richer scenes of

serious character. study. The un-ne artist who responds to the subtle muster in the company of the delicately seriuitive, beautiful, rich... Bootland and took a more romantic and partial as the Christian's God; his happier youth, he will have the

natural brother, James, might pass use of nature. The narrative is

HE KISSED HER-AND

SHE LEAPED FROM THE EXPRESS! She had meant to leave her husband -and had boarded the Montreal Express, where the other man was waiting.

Her husband saw them meet, boarded a tramp steamer and sailed for South America, leaving no trace behind him,

Sickened by the first kiss of the man with whom she was eloping, she leaped from the flying express.

Years passed-years fraught with many dangers for her and the man to whom she was faithful--and then the never-ceasing "call of home" brought him back to her.

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his sister, Nan, and her death-and Desolate Splendor. By Michael Montague Ratherby.

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In this maze of passion and crime The hare of "Desolate Splendor" Miss Dell has painted, with her is a dissolute English squire, whose dexterous craftsmanship, the eternal only sober pasion is to enlarge his

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the World Theatre next Tuesday fiction stories have been built on Many motion picture plate and Läs "The Midnight Guest."

The Midnight Guest" is so all happenings in the day's news. Let tar Universal production based on a big murder or big event of nation- an original story written by Hupert wide importance oceur, and mag- As the charming daughter of Julian, the director of "Merry Go zine editom know they will read the rear admital, who because of a series Round," Universal'e next million story of it in manuscripts as well au of tragic events becomes the exotic dollar film spectacle, "The Mid- in the daily papara. and mysterions owner of au inn in hight Guest" was transcribed to the But here is the story of

a film the South Sean, Pauline Frederick screen under the dimetion of George play produced in secret lost its has one of the greatest rôles of her Archainbaud, wideo most recent sensational idea be "cupped" by career in "The Lure of Jade, an euccess was "The Power of a Lie,'' some other producing company, but R-C Picture, scheduled for screen that dynamic denunciation of deceit which, when completed, is multi- ing at the World Theatre soon. that laid open for inspection a great plied in value by a sudden trend in

That Miss Frederick is one of the human, fault, really big personalities of the reen It is a story of humanity. There "Legally Dead," the Universal and the stage, too, is established are three principal characters who attraction at the World Theatre beyond question by her brilliant per are three distinct types of human woon was written by Charles formance in The Lure of Jade.' beings, commonly known. One is Furthmann around an idea of great The story, from the facile pen of the confirmed cynic who believes in interest to all people who live and Marion Orth, fits Miss Frederick as nothing, another is the optimist who breathe and expect to die in the anugly as a new pair of gloves, but believes only in good and refutes the usual manner. It tells the story of beyond that is the fact that Miss claim of evil and evil thought, while science's newest wonder adrena Frederick has a most exacting rôle the third is the commonest victim fit, the salt from animal glands to portray, and she does it with all of evil thought, and the cynic's which to day is bringing dead per the consummate skill of a true slander, the woman of misfortune. ple back to life--not quito the usual erlist.

Beautiful Grace Darmond was thing...

GREAT FLOOD

the day's news.

any position in the daily news. ***

But within a week from the time SCENE.oduction stated the story which was considered improbable and illogical,

At the outset Miss Frederick is chosen to play the woman'a rôle as But when Mr. Furthmann wrote the charming daughter of Rear being the most typical of the spirit Legally: Doad," the news of Admiral' Vincent and one of the of defiant and yet wistiul feminity. adrenalin had not yet leaked out. most popular young women at the Mahlon Hamilton will be seen as That was three years ago. Even a Daval base at which ber father is the cynic while Clyde Fillmore few weeks ago, when Universal, stationed Life, there, however, interprets the optimist's character, after some producers had consistent han its frictions and its troubles of The three are among the best ly laughed at the idea of "photo" various sorts, and eventually a known screen artists but were graphing dreams," put the stary scandal breaks of which Miss Vin- chosen primarily because they have into production, the adrenalis cant, portrayed by Miss Frederick, been highly succesful in similar phenomenon had not yet assumed is blamelessly the victim. Her roles belaze. father dies as a result of the shock incident to the scandal and the daughter, frightened by the ruth lessness of Fate, goes off to the South Seas, virtually an exile from The spectacle of millions of tons became a front-page reality in the | gocisty,

... pe of swirling water rualling, over the newspapers of the entire world: These scenes, of course, afford banks of a river, emashing a huge Legally Dead, therefore, con Min Froderick splendid opportant du into a thousand flying fragica what in newspaper parance would be called scoop on the ties for real acting, of which she mente and reading destruction for takes full advantage. But it is in miles about, presents one of the journalistic profession

Legally Dead tells the story of the South Seas that she is at her most redliatio and thrilling scenes beat the exotic languorque child ever converted to the alvor sareen in a man with an insatiable mania for of Fate, who from the ease and "The Call of Home, R. Pictures ancovering the injustice of cironme stantial evidence of convictions in luxury, of her former station has spectacular production become the keeper of a rooming and The foregoing is but a brief pic murder cases. He is a newspaper gambling place frequented by the ture of one of the big thrill scenes man and from his observation of wayfarers from many distant climes. that place ft-C's latest Granier pro cases, believes that a large per- It is here that Mica Frederick la at duction jalmost in a class by freely contage of convicted murderera her absente beat and bez bilmirers fortahoor entertainment. The burst at murderera

will have a chance to see some of the ingat the damn the harrowing grootest damitin acting on the experience of Ramsay Wallace wh

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The Middle of the Road.-Philip Gibbs. Human problems cloverly mixed with a fine study of present day inter- nationalism. of Europe's attempted reconstruction,

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