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BOOKS

YES, WE HAVE NO

BANANAS."

Young man, if you have it within you to write-write! The world is waiting to hear what you have to

ELY.

Young man, if you havo uap tions to write smother them.

There are Dib,(X),000 writers in the world alrendy. The profession is overcrowded.

Ajake a business of your writing, Establish regular boare-9 to 12, 1 to 5, 7 to 10 is a fair schedule. Set yourself a regular stiat 6,000 words a day is a fair amount. Never ful below it. Remember Anthony Trollope.

take the first time he won't take the second.

Don't hesitate to submit the same MS to the same editor more than He may have had a bad once. luncheon the first-time ho saw it,

but a good one the second.

THE CHINA MAIL.

| REACTIONS OF A READER,, the George H. Donan Com-

Perhaps it is the part of wisdona not to read overy published work of a favourite author; then comes occasionally the agreeable. adven- turo of rediscovery. It seems likely that our own restraint, for example, Recounts at least in a messure for the recent joy we have had in Mr. Young Frank Swinnerton's Felix." Its author explained, in a lotter to his publishers, that it was his aim to write a chronicle novel, about serious and tragic things, and notesqualid as well (as the mixture often of au is in life), but lightened by the rather buoyant personality of the central character and by the variety of persone straying in and out of the book.

I wanted the book to liave the air of life, but also at liappy life intermingled with the dimeters or, scuming disasters, that mould character."

Never inclose a personal with your MB. It's the sign amateur.

Always incloso a note with your MIS. It's the personal touch that counts.

Never submit your M8 to the editex in person. His time is valu- auto and he knows it.

When possible submit your MS He will to the editor in person. appreciats the socal contact.

Don't say what every one else has said before you. Do original,

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pany; that there is some arrange- ment of the coutente." Hos Mr." Lloyd George written two books or only one?

A FINE NOVEL

"The Pitiful Wite." By Star

Jameson. (Constablo. 74. 60.)

Mr. John Howell, esteemed book- Mise Storm Jameson has most honor to send in a copy of the wis evident enough front her other seller and publisher has dono us the magnificently brought it off. It limited edition, nuthber 80 to be novels that she had force, and a exact, of "The Best Thing in Edin- stinge power of tendering undis burgh." In case this title conveys 'ciplined emotion; but her method, nothing in particular to your under- too, was undisciplined and her style standing, as it did not at first totoo often extravagantly vehement. ours, we will explain that Robert She can still write awkwardly, is a Louis Stevenson dubbed The Specu- little too fond of repetition and of o lative Society, af Edinburgh, of rather high postio manner; but so which he became a member when good a novel as "The Pitiful Wife" still o very young man, The might be packed with mannerisme volume, exquisitely printed on band-and still be a great story. There is made paper nad bound in soft gray-a toich of Emily Bronte in the blue boards, contains then s speech book, especially in the dreadful. which R. L. 8. made before this tragicomib figure of old John Trude, society when he was 20. In itself monstrous, swollen, discased, the speech is not profound, but we beneath whose malicious and incuri- greatly relished the picture which one eyes his daughter fight for and tovenson dawa of himself on bis wins her husband. Juel Trude is first day of alembership: "When | the daughter of a sudden, impulsivo. anyone spake to me it was more marriage between John Trude, a like sime-giving than conversation. giant with a black past and too felt all the loneliness of a boy's much experience, and Anne, who first day at school. When she takes him because he is the only Interval wie over I made a speech man who wanted her. Their other child, Jades, is lamed as a boy by

"SATURDAY,” JANUARY

1084:

“THE END OF THE HOUSE OF ALARD

SHEILA KAYE SMITH

83.50 per copy.

The tragic passing of the lands of the old English squires to others is the theme of this great story. The heir to the Alard estates and other members of this family are sacrificed in a struggle to retain the ancestral atres.

Escaping by entering a religious order, the youngest son, who ultimately succeeds to the estate, breaks the Alard curte.

He will have no more sacrifices;-let the land revert to peasant holders,

1. This is the greatest novel of me of durgenstest novelists.

KELLY & WALSH, LIMITED.

CHATER ROAD,

We think it is not too much to say that Mr. Swinnerton has she ceeded in doing precisely this, the result being a narrative, which is cumulative in power of plot und in consistent portrayal of character. in nervous exaltation that no Passages here and there are auto-guage we have is adequate to his father's wickedness; and after describe. A thick white vapour Anne's death the two children live, biographical and, though we cant seemed to fill the room up to the under the care of Theodosia Trowin, lovel of my eyes, submerging the in one half of the big house, while be certain which they are, we won- der whether Mr. Swinnerton secretary, the birarian and the ruck John Trude and a horrible half-witless; but Buddy gets careless, and Or, keeps it, over, long, or ocuplex himself possess that priceless faculty of other members. I could see only of a woman live behind a bolted door eager, and the secret is betrayed. To let its due returning begrgot: and .m, the next, das. Jo not experiences to portray then our failure" that Felix's friends attri-,the presideat towering above on his in the other. All this early part of | betrayed; just when the liveliness The man who guardy his boks with

of triumphing from failure to

misad platform, gloomy and awful. the book is written economically and has gone out of the affair, and it is. Katharine Osbourne, whose in- with a loving rendering of Trutes-

Never write unless you feel the urge or your work will becquie forced and uninspired. Do not be a slave to time. If it suits your mood to begin work at 11 pm, one day

be a slave to quantity; 10 words one day way menu 10,000 the next.

It's all in what you have to say.

Don't strive for the bizate, There's nothing new, under the sun, It's all in the way you say it.

You will find that you cannot write convincingly of what you have not lived.

of live will "ind that a true artist does not have to undergo all life's

vincingly,

We know Felix

buted to him.

Hunter, for we have journeyed with

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miser's care,.

If you have to publish at your And better 10 perfect words than on expense, do ma publish at all. him from babybood in pertaps his traduction precedes tho address, thorp'e obscene atmosphere of ver, at least for Richmond. The And does not joy to lead thm, and A privainly published book is dam most critical failure of many, explains that sonic quotations from terror, relieved by Theodocin's affed last sixty pages of the story ure The man whose shelves ce dust

Remember

10,000 skovenly ones. Oscar Wilde,

Train yourself to write anywhere -on trains, in boats, at the opera, in the narsery.

A truc artist in impervious to his surroundings, is oblivious to external conditions.

Never attempt to work save muler

the most ideal circumstances of solitude and concentration or your work will bear the marks of am sympathetic outside influences.

To lo a successful author you must constantly be re-reading the

keeping classics. besides abreast of modern literature,

well

travelled on the frout send of the

<mnibita, near the driver, looked height above it, and his heart was down upon the earth from that in the skies."

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to share;

begrimed and few,

reads when be dus nothing

else to do;

The

man who raves of clasmid,

writers, but

leaves uncut; . The sun who look on litenture as

And gets his culture from te book

roviews;

nows,

margins wide,. Who loves not fair, clean the and

occupied with Richmond's efforts to There the story imply stops, sud- ure included in the "Life" of tion and Jael's innocence.

To Jael and Judas comes riding explain and excuse, and Jael's who R.S.; but that the paper, as ing evidence.

A most Better to publish at your own denly and irrevocably,

published in Mr. Howell's delight-young Richmond Drew, who wishes efforts to understand and forgive, expense than not to publish at all. intriguing era!; fee are uneful edition, is taken from a trine to kill John Trude because Trude They are an amazing statement of

some now, that into whatever fur- Cream always rises.

aqur best work will be done under her experiences. Felix may have trip which was in the custody of killed his dog. Richmond and Juel a common enongi aitaation. Miss

Remember Shelley and blundered, it remains true that he/ Stevenson's mother.. Here will be fall in love with each other; and Jameson spares we nothing-long found to keep them wh their

much desixed item for every from that the story is theirs. The before the reading is over our nerves thirty. Reds.

our best work will be done over

levenson lover, as well as for those chapters which tell their early love are as frayed as Ridimonds, our seem to us more lyrical and lovely spirits and hapa as desperate as There are few living han anything in English fiction Jael's. geventy. Remember Eschylns and

who value fine printing.

Is "Uresteia."

since "Richard Fevore!" Miss novelists who could keep so high au Jamesan is not so perfect as emotional tension for so long, and Meredith, nor has she so perfect at the one time never becoms subject for there is a grave flaw in fantastio or metaphysien!. "Tho Richmand. The flaw does not show Pitiful Wife" is a tine piece of badly until the war canes, and he work, on which Miss Jameson is to has to leave Jael and their son.be heartily congratulated. Jael is still a child-Iticimond is old, and grows older an ho taster bitterness in France Miss Jane- son with extrong skill only slows uns much of the war as Jacl gathers during his hasty leaves the thus preserves the proportion of the book, and we only know of The man who marke er leaves with Great Lord Whe judgeth sir of all Richmond's liaison with Bukly Marsh, qu Joel knows it. She knows The volume that some trusting nothing directly, and world never friend has lent,

We are increasingly distressed at This habit of giving a book one na ne If you would prodins, do not read in England, another in the United One rejection does not mean that

too extensively. No einen States. 3hist it be tolerated? The your work is unmarketable; do not absorb and create at the sure time. latest book by Mr. Lloyd George is be disecuraged by it. Make up your Poverty will be your greatest spura case in point. Publishers on tavo sides of the Atlantic seem to have lo creation. mind to twenty or thirty of the stu

Easy circumstances alone will heen thrown into a quandary, for in is cilled. Is it manuscript beauce you give up rend-low you to develop your bent to England it

Pepe in America, "Where Are ing it out.

the utmost.

Never forget the public-after We Going However, we accept

hotly as rhetorical questions merely all, it is "your best friend and your ped to the natural conclu severest critic."

Art for Art's sake, and the public be hanged!

-ROTU LAMBERT JONES.

If your manuscript is returned iÈ asn't worth bothering with a second time. Tear it up and write a new

one.

Never submit the same MS to to Fame editor twice. What he won't

WARNING TO

THE PICTURE

THAT

STOOD THE WORLD

METROPOLIS

ON ITS HEAD

TO SEE FOR 66

THE LAST TIME

sion that the text of the two editions is identical; but now we learn from the New York pablish-

We are perennially in the nood to wonder dat many things. For 900, we should like to ask why text books might not be sued in a formant to appeal to the students' wythetic sense? Ar untidy mass of these books at the moment crowds our office table, and we are sad dened by their drab and tharacter, tess aspert. If we were in school, we should turn from them with loathing. After all, books, like most other commodities of daily life, can be appropriate and even good to look upon, without necessarily being expensive or even impracticable. Will try publisher take notice?

--M:-W.

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It is your one need-

it is to your best interests---

IN THE NAME OF THE LAW

TO MISS IT WOULD BE LIKE GIVING UP YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE,

JACK LONDON'S

ABYSMAL BRUTE

HOD

GRATORD KENT

MARTY JILJERKS SOITT

MOHAWT HENDRY

Starring REGINALD

DENNY

and a great est including MADEL JULIENNE SCOTT, GRAUFORD KENT,. BUDDY MERSINGER, › HAYDEN STEVENSON and DAVID TORRANCE ·

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“in their own right.

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A HIGHART HENLEY PRODUCTION

EME LAUMSALE UNIVERSAL JEWZI

SCREENLAND.

THE SELF MADE WIFE.'.

A "SATURDAY EVENING POST STORY..

A remarkable insight into the mestic controversy that can arise over the simple matter of living if

MAY MCAVOY COMING.

AS HAREM GIRL IN "MORALS."

THE ABYSMAL BRUTE"

JACK LONDON'S STORY OF ROMANCE.

How hard anist a'cultured na refined society girl of the "eull- [bloaded" type be shocked to take the prudislines out of her? How much of the primitive he-trau do women in generul like to find in their mates?

It's an interesting question that would involve bours of discussion, but the time would be wasted sines a clear picturization of the whole question comes to the World Theatre, when the Univers-Jewel- special production; "The Abysmal Brute," will be shown.

The Abysmu Brute", is Jack London's famous novel of the squared circle in which Reginald Demy stars for the screen, with Mabel Julienne Brott as his leading, lady. It is a Hobart Henley pro- duction, which promises a good dzai If May MeAvoy were to travel inin view of Henley's filming cơ “The all the countries, which have been Flirt," Booth Tarkington's, family the scenes of her various pictures classic, which is a remarkable

n New York mansion with a million she would be a very well-travelled dollars to send is offered in,Tho Self-Male Wife," the Universal young women,

screen sticceas. "

*

all-star photoplay which comes In Sentiuental Tommy" she

inat.

Deniiy is the man, a prize fighter without the gif" knowing that,

to the World Theatre on the 6th was Grizel," A native of Mabel Julienne Brett is enst "Thrus, die Scottish town made

love with him but is utterly unpre internationally renowned by Bopposite him as the girl who falls in James Bastion.

pared for the disclosure of his prize fighting activitins, which shocks her sensitive, ha hotine feelings.

The theme of the play is woven around the experiences of a young nurried couple who were getting along very well with beef slew and with wearing apparel of gingham and denim, but who quarrelled over the menu and the proper dress when They could afford the finest in the lund.

"A Private Scandal found her little French refuge, driven to

Would the average girl, raised in America br the destruction of her home through German shall fire, quiet atmospherent wealth, and And now she has been placed in luxury and unaccustomed to such real Turkish burem, For that is things ad prize fighting, so where she is found in erly scones rudely shocked by this disclosure as ****ta wonpletely drop the man? of Maris"

The story was written as a serial for the Saturday Evening Post and was later published as a novel Elizabeth Alexander popular fie As Carlita, English tomate of Or would slie, after a time, realize tionist and playwright is the author the harem of Hamdi Efendi, she that her viewpoint was narrow and of the story, VA

ambarks upon a series of remark that there were things she didn't Jack Dillon, who directail Mary able venture which land her in understand one of them that the Pickford in Sude and who has the home of Sir Marcus Ordeyne, a boxing sport to-day is one of the cleanest games in the world? The directed many other popular screen stand English pear pinys, directed the filming of "The The absoluta finkness of her Abysmal Brute clearly illustrates Bolt-Made Wife."

harem trailing, coupled with in these thingsco

Well known players who hayo In the cast are many well-knownnocence and appeal of a perfectly players, including Ithol Grey Torey neyhistitala gul colore supporting roles in The Abyamu! and Craufurd Kent, who have the plications which tender, this a very Brutonut Charlen-Freeh Mending roles, Philips Smalley, unusual entertainment. David Torrence, Haydeny Stevens

Virginia Ainsworth, Dorothy: Cum-Morille William D. Jaylor 300 tht furd Kom, Buddy mings, Tom Mature, Mathew production alla, Crawford Ten consent Nell Drigh Irene Anku, Him: Dorothon Wolbert, George Stewart Betz, Frank R. Butler, Lauza La wrote the scenario wh

the Harry Mann, Küt Wagner, Varnio Tumer Savage Honora P. Uarleton, hero of **Bewarice und Mateus Murphy *^4 Cup,l' boethe rule of SAMs

AN INDEX EXPURGA- TORIUS.

yes bont

thoughts inside; Or loves these better in the

Who buys his books to decat bis

shell,

Or gives a book he has not rel him-

solf;

Who reads for priggish moves or

for looks,

Or for any reason savs the yye of

books

degrees,

+

Is there no little private lil for

theso?

AL CHRISTIES

6 REEL COMEDY DRANA

SUNG LETTY

ROBERT

ICIAL

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DO GORGEOUS CLOTHES MAKE ALL WOMEN- HAPPY 7 SHOULD A WIFE DRESS TO PLEASE HER HUSBANDY IS A HUSBAND JUSTIFIED. IN- TURNING AWAY FROM HIS WIFE WHEN SHE DOES NOT, DRESS TO PLEASE HIM ? CAN A WIFE MAKE-HERSELF TOO ATTRAC- TIVE FOR HER OWN OR HUSBAND'S GOOD? SHOULER A WOMAN'S FIRST CARE BE HOME OR SOCIETY ?

BEE the sensational, picturiza i in of a great drama of mariedy He a drama the grips-stirs to the very depths

The

Self Made Wife

án All Star Cast featuring

THEL GREY TERRY AND CRAUFURD KENT WORLD THEATRE

to 8th,