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These things do happen, and they happen frequently. Anna Christie underwent two great emotional experiences.. She met her father, who believed her to bo a good woman, end then abe met Mat turke, who loved her, and also believed her to be a good woman. And because these two: mer, one after the other, believed her to be good who had hitherto been treated as irredeemably bad; ehe became good.."

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to July, to Iveure pleasant weather.

What the Scot has done in win- ning Canada from the wilderness," la winning ber for the British Em pire; in stimulating business, edu. cation and literaiare, is told most entertainingly in a little book, "Scots in Canuda," by John Murray Gibbon, himself a transplanted Sect.

Nova Scotia is the premier vaca. tion land, with a fore for the

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Pipes will skirt and Scottish në- sportsman, the writer and poet, the Byng and staff, together with Del cents will be heard on every hand painter and the plain every-day minion and Provincial officiala at Picton, Nova Sentia, Coring the vacationist. Its numerous seaside British, Canadian and American week of July Tith-21st, when the have each their individual charms note of majesty, while the uniforme

and country towns and villages|warships in the harbor will lead 150th anniversary of the landing of and cozy hotels and boarding of their crews will brighten the the Arst Scottish picneers to Can-houses to which the same Amer-thronged streets, as they are se ada, will be celebrated.

icans fock year by year. Pictou ža į participate in land parado, as well Os September 16th, 1773, the seaside town and the outlet for a as naval maneuvers. A Highland

[good agrien tural district. good ship "Rector" landed at this population of 3,200 is augmented he in camp at Pictou dunan the Its regiment and one of artillery will spot in New Scotland, nearly 200 during the summer by many visit festal week Canadian Clubs of Scottish settlers, including 33 fam-ors who ind Pictou's waterfront New York, Boston and other Amer llics. This was really the first con- and longshoremen, its sweet smell-lean cities are evincing mach inter- tingent of Scots to settle in Canine cooperages with their musical est in the celebration and are ex. ada, although previous to this date hummerings and in season. the nected to become actively interest- occasional Scots had come to Can-packing of fruit, all interesting. ed. Vacationists who include the ada and Highland regiment Fishing in nearby streams and Pictou celebration in their. 190 which had been disbanded at Que-lakes is satisfactory sport,

summer itinerary are assured of a.

bee settled in that province. The The July celebrating will be at- rare and consual treat of historiesi. celebration has been moved forward Itended by Governor-General, Lord¡significance.

TWENTY-TWO YEARS

AGO,

A Glance at Our Files.

TRANS-SIBERIAN

EXPRESS.

Those who saw "Anna Obristie"¦ed to believe in the sudden con. played here by the Frawley version of Anna. But surely be is: Blood Company will be interested wrong in bis disbelief? Have Act to learn that the play is in book all of us known cases of con form. Mr. Jonathan Cape bas version that were almost sensa recantly published a forber tional in their suddennoss? Why, volume of Mr. Eugene O'Neill's, the very existence of the Salvation plays, "The Hairy Ape." with Army is based on a multitude of Anna Christio " BEd "The First such conversions. I have myself Man" (7/6 net). A Hme re seon a drunken man reel to a viewer says of the book -No one penitent form and rise up rober can rise from reading any of his and remain sober for the rest of plays, with the exception of "The his life. And was there not the Firet Man" in this volume, with celebrated onse of St. Paul? Jout feeling that he is a remarkable dramatist, whoso potentialitics are even greater than his "schieve monte. "The First Man" is a poor piece both in concep tion and in execution, and ought not to have been published at all. It represents an effort by Mr. O'Neill to enter a world which clearly does not interest bim, the world of middle-class people, and the effort is so half hearted that he will probably not repeat it. Mr..Cape ought to have put "Beyond the Horizon" in ite place, although, of course, to a Mrs Lang has produced a new student of Mr. O'Neill's work, edition of Andrew Lang's collect "The First Man" is of interested verses," The Poetical Works because it reveals his defects of Androw Lane." in four volumes more clearly than anything else (Longmans, 42-). The edition of he bas done. His carelessness the poems, which are of mavage- over form, for example, is palpable bulk, is comprehensive. The able here. "The First Man" is contents of his published books of in four note, when one act, divided verse are here, and many poeme into two scenes, would do. But hitherto unreprinted. Mrs. Lang: Mr. O'Neill has never troubled and her coadjutora, Mr. Hamilton himself much about form. "Be and Mr. Charles Longman, have yond the Horizon" bas sx had to hunt far and wide for acte: three would be sufficient. these "He might publish one Even Anos Christie," where set of verses in a sporting paper] be has striven to make better on Friday, and another set in an shape for his theme than be organ of wholly opposite views on usually does, would-be better if Saturday; the political opinione it were in three, instead of in four, they represented were nothing to acte. The accond and third acts him as long as be was allowed to could easily be resolved into one express himself on a cricket match act of two scenes and be all the or a ghost or a rare edition of a better for the change. The main | interest of "The First Man' is the This remark of the editor's fact that the heroine is giving gives a clue to the nature of mucb birth to a child in a room "off" in these four volumes. Opinione during the whole of the third act. may differ as to Lang's potenti- We hear her cries of pain, and atalitica as a pöst; some good judges last are told that she has died. say that there was buried great Here, again. we have a char- poet in him. That may or may Boteristic of Mr. O'Neill's work:not be; whether the impulse was his preoccupation with primal lacking or merely frustrated Lang fects and primitive natures. It did not commonly express the Mr. de la Mare knows that ever is important to Mr. O'Neill that passion of great poetry. These every ruin quickly grow the women suffer pain in childbirib, four volumes contain "Helon of grasses and the kind, covering of but he allows his judgment to be Troy," a long poem, and many creeper, and, with his gift of firet disordered by it. Pain is one of hundreds of lyrics. The lyrics sight, the whole thing is presented | the facts of life, but it is not the are mainly verses of occasion, and to him indissolubly mingled, ruin only, or even the most important, Mrs. Lang has found it convenient and creeper together making part fact of life.

to classify them under a large of the eternal pattern of beauty. In "The Hairy Man" Mr.number of headings according to Hutchinson publishes a collec- O'Neill gives us an extraordinary form and subject. There are tion of teles by Stacy Aumoniar, picture of brute forca.

Ballades and Sonneta and Tranfies Bracegirdle and Othera" "Yank," the hairy apc, is a slations, poems about Games and (7(6), None of the stories in the figure that has appeared many Sports, Scotland, Ghosts, His book is negligible, and some times in the O'Neill plass, undor Friends, and so on. This mere achieve a very high level. It his own name or another. His tabulation indicates the prevail- makes more secure than ever Mr. identity with Mat Burke in ing tone,

Autonier's position as one of the 'Anna Cbristie," is abvious,

most accomplished of short-story despite the difference of speech.

In Brief, Here is a mao of immense Among the more notable works

Sir William Hard man, barrister physical sirangih and low newly out in a volume of and politician, was editor of the mentality who has, nevertheless, Tolstoy's Love Letters", edited London Morning Post from 1872 some feeling which may be by Paul Biryakov (Hogarth until his death in 1990, and these described as poetic. In bis muddle-Press, 5/-). These letters were guarantees for his knowledge of minded way "Yank "is conscious written to a girl when Tolstoy the world reinforce the intrinsic of something great and beyond was twenty-eight years of age. interest of the gossiping and free- him. He is the blind god strug. Their interest is great, in that spoken letters which Mr. Ellia gling to open his eyes and see. they show once more that the bas carefully and ffectively The contrast between this primi criticism which finds in Tolstoy's edited, under the title "A Mid tive creature and the little career a sudden conversion from Victorian Pepys," (Palmer, 25-), rat eyed, mean-minded Socialist, instheic to moral interests, Their period is 1839-63, and their

It is possible, that some repre Long, is amazingly drawn. There complete change from the novelist cutlook is that of a robust and ia zo meanness or vulgar envy into the propbet, is wrong. Here comprehensive interest in poli-

sentatives of the Central Soviet "Yank," despite his brutality and he is in his early manhood lice, literature, and life, with, it

Administration will participate in the negotiations. Moscow bad. bis fierce rage. He may be in the writing to Valeria Arwenev about might fairly be added, a distinot

made up its mind to restore the mud, but he is not part of it. At the folly of society, the wrong penchant for.scandal.

Trans-Siberian Express-service all events, he is not mero mud.of the passante, the stupidities of Primeval elime probably was not the Imperial Court, and of life in}

not later than Septembered the pretty to look at, but out of that Potoreburk; urging ber to work, SUSCEPTIBLE NECKTIES, noted two wellknown beach com- Russian delegates are instructed came life in its variety. "Yank "to pray, to order her life reason!

bere taking a put) at a stand. pipe to yield every possible concer. may be a hairy spe," but be is ably, and not to eat so much

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in Kowloon, evidently to wash sion in order to re-establish the In the literary remaine of Sigor the taste of last Inishi's Pervice, evep extending it as far að an ape with dreams.

value on balls and receptione. Crispi (writes Sir Henry Lucy in drink out of their mouths before Rigs,

Mr. Norman M. Panzer, M. A., Chambers's Journal) I find prea- starting to exploit the European “Anna Christie" Reviewed. FR.GS, FG3, has produced erved a chatty account of a visit bouses on the peninsula. We have with the International Sleeping...

The main points of the contract. "Annotated Bibliography of paid by the Italian taksman to see these two "Apna Christie" is probably the Sir Richard Fras cis

men about the Cir 05,, have already been worked most discussed play in London at K.CM.G.", with a prefac by Dr.sruh. He tells how one day at have eldom been sober. It is no

Burton, Prince Bismarck, at Friedrich place for the last month and they out.. this momert.. People are divided. Grenfell Baker. (A. M. Philpot, luncheon the princess went up to. kindness to give wastrels of this the passport question, but it is The only difficulty is hidden in very sharply in their opinion of it. Ltd., 3 guineas) Thore are scise her husband and deftly adjusted sort money, for it all goes in expected to overcome it by Issu although nearly all of them are gaps in Burton's I fa story, his necktie, which had got almost drink and is often the means of special Transit Visas which with agreed that Mr. O'Nill's hand especially prior to 1856; but from under his right ar "For fittyorning one fumbled badly over the last act, that time on wards we are pretty years," said Bismarck, I have deserving case. One of these two be available in Peking, Shanghai, avainst a really out unrevavery formalities will with its preposterous happy end well supplied with information; been hattling with my necktie, men pretends to be a printer out Harbin and other places, ine, writes the critic. I believe and there are those among us who Th- bow will never remain in its of work: the play demands a tragic end- tend to become irritable when bis place, but alwaya turns round, ing, but whether that be so or character and intentions are and ever to the same side,"

It is confidently hoped that within two and half month the not, its ending should be brought wrangled over and re-discussed It is a curious point of resem A good many more public chair comfortable Trans Siberian Ez- about in a very much differ between 1889, and the year of his bance between two of the greatest coolies could be employed in press will resume-its sperdy ser- ent way from the way in which widow's death (1896) Though men Hring at the same time in Hongkong to great advantage. vice be when Vladivostok and Mr. O'Neill brings it about the remembrances of Barton'still European history still have vividly in my mind the rouse enthusiasm

that the | Weari: formed that at present | Riga-Far Eastern Times Among his peculiari y sensation of shock I felt when surviving friends, there is irony Bismarka straching to him. coalie range from sleven to fifteen |

here noted by the average warnings of obair Mat Burke started on the stuff in the comments of the author of a-lf also neet Gladetone. O'ten dollars a month, and the reault is ahout a Lutheran swearing to be this car fuland far-reaching book in critical epochs in the House of that they have grown fastidious them not a cent more than their faithful on a orucifix! It was on the neglected condition of the Comm ne, he stood at the table and are an insolent a lot of men legal dus on the first sign of like hearing an acolyte giving an Burton mausoleum at Mortlake adding to that cord of momentous as it is possible to find Far from impertiner ca, and, if you have imitation of a Jezz band on the the last kind of pine speeches, E. how watched his being anxions to ace pt any fare time, prosecute them. If not, {holy" _vesseld

What was Mr. riverside, Georgian suburb of necktie-lowly but surely creeping that comes along, they very often proceed a take down their O'Neill thinking of when he in south-west London, where this Found Its course was toward the refuse to carry you altogether if number very carefully, and ask vented that ending to his play! grest Oriental traveller and 1 ft side, and when he reaumed they imagine that you wish to pa for a polic man. There will But when you take away all that linguist should have been burled, his wat after an energetic speech to a part of the town that will probably not be one in sight but can be taken away from it, there ***The Riddle" by W.de la Mare that had onerosebed fer upon the give them any trouble. You pay the coolies bate any collision remains something profoundly (Selwyn and Blount, 7/6), is spend bour, his black necktie them the legal fare and perhaps with the police. If only steps trae profoundly invigorating, delightful book of short stories, would be found omiñonale knotted a few cents extra, and they were taken to increase the profoundly moving. A great recently issued. From an ordinary under his left ear, a circumstance stard and demand more, abusing number of chairs, this nuisance novelist said to me lately that the standpoint, most of these stories commented upon with rude you freely if you refuse it would conse. As prosent a few story was the old one of the re- are tales of rain, of ruined minds, humour by flippant members on The best method with ese men hold a monopoly and they pentant prostilate and he decaturained toper, rained soule, but the opposite benches,

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