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CANADA IN THE ARTS BRILLIANT POETS WHO DIED IN REACTION!

-NIGHT LIFE IN NEW-YORK-

ALL IS NOT GINGER ALE THAT FIZZES.

A few days ago, in Toronto, was The Build Express” Now York Cor dining with a publisher, when the subjectespondant writes:

billing a drinks, as in the days of yore, it is. now 35, 48, be, and unworth. How far upward depends on the exclusiveness of the and the air of pemperity of the customer pounds For the more you seem to have in shillings, and pence, the more expensive be

of contsesation turned to Canadian it It is the amok night life on the same rature, writes Arthur Beverley Baxter, in ald White Way as before prohibition. The the Daily Expresam alanid, he only difference is chat it is a little darker. waid, that we are a long way off from All you have to know is to know how to get creating a literature of our own. London it. The places are there, and the kick is in and New York suck the bog gradivo brains the stuff they serre. Of course, instead of we have. Our young writers go to those centros, intending to remain Canadian bat in time their great reading public forces, them into tune with their adopted countries. They are Canadian in sy pathy, but in form of expression they be como either English or American.

After dinner we went into his library,

There is scarcely a restaurant in the Broad- sad he reached down for a little volume.ay district where the person, who knows **You must not forget," he said," that the tricks of the trade need go alcoholically though the war inspired many of our young thirsty. It will not do to avention names; men is also took a dreadful toll. I could for the serving of drinks is against the law same a doten young chaps, who had the markings of outstanding literary ability and who were killed, at the front. You Will And some of their work in this book compiled by my

come the drinks.

HEAD WAITER'S GRAFTO

(of Canadian - porty, Took it over on yourself the most exclusive restaurants; you'

friend ES the voyage, is may take your mind off the rolling ar

T adopted his suggestion, and one after noon, in Laxy samlight on deck, I read the poems which made up the book From the one trading at least it does not see to me that Canada can claim a distinct school of poetry, but, without any strain ing no affect or any of the crudities which

If you know Broadway and its environs in the neighbourhood even of Madison avenue itself, and if you then mention to will be quite right. Yes, even in those bostalries the hospitality-if you have the price is unlimited

Champagne is now the head waiters' graft. The head waiter bends over your shoulder, if you look like a promising customer, anil" whispers that what you may happen to want is yours for the asking. If you do theasking, presto, a bottle of champagne quickly ap

and £3 or 4 figures where formerly

pass for modern stylo, there were a few of thirty shillings found a placo in

things which will deserve a high place in our British literature. A

STRANGE ROMANTIC WAR" Among the war rims I came across this by Major Miles Langstaff a young Toronto soldier who was killed at Vimy |_Ridge-

I never thought that strange romantic

War

Would shape my life and plan my des

-tiny

Though in my childhood's dreams I've

seen his car

And grisly steeds dash grimly, thwart

the shy.

Yet now behold a vaster, mightier strife: Than echoed up the plains of sounding

Troy,

Defeats and triumphs, death, wounds,

laughter, life

All mingled in strange complex alloy. I view the panorama in a trance Of awe, yet coloured with a secret joy; For I have breathed in epic and romance, Have lived the dreams that thrilled me

as a boy! How sound the ancient saying it for

900th

the

If you are as the head waiter, you will drink your champagne, despite prohibition times, openly, in the main restaurants.

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to write with, it was nevertheress popul. arly known as red ink.

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How weak is Fancy's gloss of Fact's say, in as casual a manner as possible, searching conditions of a Fix Days' Reliability Trial can be thoroughly relied upon for good

stern truth 1

Red ink, formerly free, is now worth Bs. for it is custom- a small glass, or rather mug," ary to conceal its radiance in porcelain. You adopt a self-conscious air towards the waiter, Red ink The waiter looks you over, to make sure you are not a prohibition agent and then winks. You give a sigh of relief as the examination is seen to conclude in this favourable manner. Then the red ink sp

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From the stirring youth of Langstaff's work one turne, with a melancholy pleasure to that ruperb bit of writing, In

the restaurant. Flanders Fields. A special significance is

restaurant desires to show off, as it given to the lines when it is remembered were, it contemptuously disregards the slight the author, Colonel McCrae, es comoniment of the rug. Your red ink is buried at Wimereux, France:

bght in a bottle, openly Haunted... You

In Flanders felds the poppies grow Beth een the crosses, row on YO That' mark our place; and in the sky! The larks, still bravely ringing by, Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, aw sunset glow, Lovel and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders felds:

Take up our quarrel with the foo

To you from, failing hands we throw The Torch be yours to hold it high !' If yo break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flander fields

VIGOUR" OF THE NORTH.

although he was not killed, should also be represented in the volume, because per haps more than any other Canadian writer. he catches the vigorous spirit and breadth of treatment which ous should imagine would be the result of life in the northern districts of the Dominion

I haled me a woman from off the street,

Bhameless, but oh, so fair!

I bade her sis in the model's seat.. And I painted her sitting

there.

hid all trace of her heart unclean;

I painted a babe at her breast

I painted bor as she might have been

If the waret bad been the best She laughed at my picture and went ~

Gway;

Then came with a knowing nod,

"A connoisseur, and I heard him say,

Tis Mary, the Mother of God."

t into a glass, and as you drink you feel have as Porthos, Athos, Aramis, and d'Artagnan in

vin, one.

How does the law allow it? That is what the

trying to discover, for Governnient is which reason there has just been a change in the personnel of the prohibition enforcement machinery in New York. Also, one famous restaurant of the

Broadway

district Murray's--has been raided, and a manager, with a writer or two, held for examination But there is still a plenitude of cases along Broadway. Champagne or red ink. Name your poison, and if you can afford the

them. price-well, here's how and many of

DEFINING AN ESQUIRE. TITLE *** WORSHIP." BUT NOT

OF

"DIGNITY.

Are you an Esquina?

There is a practical point to the query. a mumber of special: jurors have rectully

roverted to the ranks of the common juries because, it is declared, they were found upon scrutiny not to be duly authen. Edited Paquires within the meaning of the Act:

This is a mistaken iden," "sald a official of the College of Heraulda to a Daily Express representative "There is zo Act of Parliament defining the quaij. fentions which entitle a man to the de siguation of esquire."

Debrett gives twelve classes of esquires including sons of peers and jords of Parlia ment; eldest sons of younger song of peers. and their eldest sons in perpetual aucces sion; noblemen of other astions; eldest sons of baronets and knights, and esquires

-These word created by the Knights of the

Bo I painted a halo round her hair areated, especially by the King with a

And I sold her and took my fee collar of 8.5. and silver spurs. And the hangs in the Church of Saint This picturesqué class is now obsolete.

Hilaire, we organs Other cequires are persons given the Whore you and all may seethers were formerly Esquine of the Bath Utle by the King in letters patent, whils It is not possible to quote from the and their eldest sons. others, although the writing of such men as Blin Carman, William Henry Drum mond, Charles G. D. Roberts, and Arthar Bar each of whom could create three, Stringer will always command admira but the practice was abolished in 1847.344 Barristers-at-law, justices of the pesce and mayors while in office, sheriffs, Army officers above the rank of captain, and Naval officers above the rank of lieutenant are also entitled to the style of enquire.

Debrett remarks of this distinction that

There is much

much that is lovely, in

the book, much that is stirring, and much that is commonplace. One still looks, however, for the writer who will catch the amber of the Canadian autumn, who will give

the bleakness of the winter, when the it is a title of worship" and not of wind howls over the frozen lakesler" dignity," white Blackstone says that Canuda in arms will never be for it is not an estate, however large, that gotten. Canada in the arts has still her confers this rank name to make.

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