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» he received all the education he had. | ken Sp] LARLLALLLL) J BILLY SUNDAY THE MAN AND HIS MESSAGE. By William T. Ellis, LL.D. 4064 Pages. Price, $1.00. McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Publishers, In all the history tf évangelism no | figure stands out so Bledom nantly as "Billy Sunday." {is remarkable powers of speech and his unconven- tional methods have brought him | very much into the limelight in re- cent years. His life and work have been 80 unique and have brought | such unusual results that it is ot great interest to have a record of| these things such as is presented in William fT. Ellis's book "Billy Sunday, The Man and His Messages." As befitting the man about whom it is written, the book Is unconventional in style and is a distinct departure Yrom the hackneyed type of bio-| graphy. Little time and space is de- voted to the story of the evangelist's life. The biographer prefers. to show his readers the man through his mes- sage. The book deals candidly though sympathetically with its sub- ject, | Billy Sunday, the man. had little of the advantages of education." Born| in 1862 at Ames, Iowa, he was ren-| dered fatherlegs four months later, by the death of his father on active service during the Civil War. The| family was in rather poor circum- stances, so he was brought up in af Soldier's Orphans' Home, and there Toronto, fter leaving the school he went to] work in various capacities. It was| while a youth in Marshalltown, lowa, playing baseball on the sand lots,| "that he caught the eye of the leader of the Chicago 'White S6x," and was| immediately signed up For a num- ber of years he played ball, and dur-| ibg that time won great fame as a| daring base runner The story of] his conversion in 1887 is vividly told | in the hook, and four years later he | left the baseball field for the Y.M.C.| A. platform. Turning down a con-| tract for $3,600 he accepted a posi-| tion on the Y.M.C.A. staff at a salary | of $83 dollars a month, which was | often six months overdue. From the Y.M.C.A. staff to the evangelistic! latform was a short step, and Sun-| y soon found himself the leading | American evangelist, The final appraisal of the -- owever, cannot be made while he is| live, It is a bad policy to judge un-| finishéd work. But Billy' Sunday has made a deep and lasting mark upon the life of America. Wherever he| has gone he has caused reform of] many of the soctal evils which are| the curse of the country. His person- | ality is striking and on that alone | he can base his successes. He is in- | tensely American, and knows how to handle Americans. His early life | brought him into touch with all kinds EN A At A A PA AAP it LAST-MINUTE GIFT NEEDS Quit worrying over those lst minute ones. Take this lint to your hookseller. 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Teroute .Ontarie, BULLETIN Remember to Give That Subscription to the Pubs lic Library for a Christ. ! mas Gift. 0 Books And Their Authors Sm I TTT of men; and, as a keen |schemers, who are trying to obtain human nature, he foupd | possession of the crown jewels of out their errors and weaknesses, and [their country. He is able to rescue 'knew how to help them to correcta Countess who is held prisond® at the J th | old house, and alse to secure the | Sunday's message is the old! jewels and return them to their right- Age that has come down through! ful ewners In this he is helped by the ages His life motto is Paul's "I{a party of stranded theatrical actors, am olved to know nothing among|'which. he has befriended He out- you, save Jesus Christ and him cru-} wits a crook international re- 'cified." The chief characteristic of | pute, and marries the Coun- his message is devotion to thé ¢ross of | tess | Christ But although the message is The narrative is written in George old, the methods of the messenger| Barr McCutcheon's hest style, and are new. He delivers it in the lan-|dramatic incidents follow each other guage of the man in the street, with Al a rapid rate. The characters are all the old force and energy Which | cleverly embellished with touches of characterized his work on the ball{ humor and nati wit, especially an diamond. And he gets results. All| Irishman with a love for adventure through the book are given examples and a self-centred theatrical manager. of the lasting benefits of his com-|The story is a combination of delight- Paigns. Many of of his sermons are| ful romance, thrilling adventure and famous| mystery which hold the attention of (mn classes and studer of | mes: I é ot finally given in full, notably his "Booze" sermon whic has helped to, the reader from shart to finish make thousands of American town- ships dry. The book is full of the pungent sort of speech with which Sunday's discourses are flavored, of By Hugh S. Eayrs and T. B. Costain, Ww Hjon Reis are a bows : 313 Pages, Price, $1. Hodder challenge you to show me where : Q the saloon ro helped Pare & Stoughton, Toronto, Publishers. education, church, morals, or any- Donald Fenton, a wealthy young thing we hold dear . Listen. -Sev-| Canadian finds himself in the early enty-five per cent. of our idots come | days of the.war in one of the Balkan from intemperate * parents; eighty | bofories visiting an old comrade per cent. of the paupers; eighty-two before returning to Canada. His com- per cent. of the crime is committed by! r3de holds a high position jin the men under the influence of liquor; | €OUNtry's affairs, having married a ninety per cent, of the adult crimin.| Wealthy Baroness. So the adven-} als are whisky-made. The Chicago | ture-seeking Fenton is persuaded to 'Tribune kept track for ten years and| Stay tiere and help with a scheme found that 53,656 murders were com-| Which is being hatched to bring the mitted under the influence of liquor|¢OuUntry into the war on the side of I go to a family and it is bro-| the Allies. Then follows a story of up, and I say, 'What caused | Plot and counter-plot. The king has this?" Drink! I step up to a man decided leanings towards the QGer- on the scaffold and I say 'What | ans, and is trying to tind a way in brought you here? Drink! Whence! whic h he can enter the war on their all the misery and sorrow and|#ide. The King's brother is the lead corruption? Invariably it is drink." |€" Of the party favorable to the Al- "We've got a bunch of preachers|!i€s. His lovely daughter Princess breaking their necks to please.a| Olga, is under commands from the bunch of old society dames. If God | King to marry an unscrupulous Grand could convert the preachers the! Duke, who is a strong pro-German in- world would be saved. Most of them | LFiguer But the marriage never are a lot of evolutionary hot air mer-| !2kes place for Fenton and the Prin- chants." cess fall in love with each otaer, and Much as Sunday's language has| after some thrilling experiences with been criticised, the good he has done | Prigands, the Canadian gets rid of the is prodigious. Billy Sunday is a pro-| Grand Duke, and takes his place at phet to his own generation. ~ In the| the altar. By a great piece of strategy, speech of to-day he arraigns the sins| the schemes of the German party are of to-day and seeks to satisfy the|!hWarted, the: King abdicates, his needs of to-day. | A man! singularly | brother succeeds him and declares free and fearless, he applies the Gos-| War on the Central Powers. But he bal to the conditions of the present |!8 assassinated, and the crown falls moment. - By the very character of| '© the Princess. Faced with the his mentality it is made difficult for|!85k of choosing between her hus- him to be abstract. He has to deal] ?and, Donald Fenton, and the throne, with concrete sins. This is what his | she refuses the latter, and clings to biographer has to say about him: {her lover. Then together they go off "Ah unexpected, unpredicted and! to the front, he, as a soldier, and his unprecedented social force has been| Wife as a Red Cross nurse. unleased in our midst, Not to reckon| This Is" a charming novel with this is to be blind to the phase of | life, and crammed with thrilling in- Sunday's work which bulks larger | cidents. The authors have seized up- than his picturesque vocabulary or|Om the intrigues of the Balkan courts, his acrobatic earnestness.' {and have woven around them a de- "Billy Sunday, the Man and His lightful little romance. The story Message." is a hook which is destined | Ses to be founded upon actual {to have as great an influence upon|P@PPenings in one of the Balkan all its readers, as his messages have| countries, and this adds to its inter- upon their hearers. The low price ®5. It is a unique and acceptable aq: brings it within the reach of all. No| dition to the fiction of the war father with growin children and| no man or woman bh the downward | DORMIE ONE AND OTHER GOLF {path could possibly spend a dollar to! TORIES. greater advantage than in securing a| | copy. Everyone will find the story | | interesting ¢ » 1 helpful, and Christian workers will get manv suggestions | from the story of Billy Sunday's met. hods. ! THE AMATEUR DIPLOMAT. 25. , full of By Holworthy Hall. 319 Pages. Price $1.35. The Century Co., New York, Publishers. The golfer, liké tie fisherman, has | long been notorious for greatly exag- i gerated stories of his prowess, and for | wonderful excuses in time of failure. Holworthy Hall seizes upon this little i | weakness and turns it to good account Price, $1.35. The Musson Book |i, tnis volume. The author has béen Co,, Limited, Toronto, Publishers. playing golf for twenty years, and In this book, the first from the pen | during that time he has been collect- of Darragh Aldrich, the writer tells ing golf stories, In "Dormie One how the faith of a little child brings and Other Golf Stories," he gives the happiness out of sorrow, to a strug-| reader the cream of his collection. He gling story-writer and a rich, but dis-| has succeeded in depicting the ro satisfied young American. "At a crisis mance of the golf-course, and in-add- in her life the young novelist is|ing the proper touch of human inter- brought into touca with the million-| est necessary to make these stories {aire through the magical influenge| enjoyable. The writer is a golfing | of little Comfort Browne, the maid enthusiast, and shows this by his fa- of all work at Mrs. Prouty's boarding | miliarity with the royal and ancient house. Under his inspiration and in-| game, and his understanding of golt- fluence, she becomes successful as a | ®rs and their ways. The eight stories | writer, and falls in love with film. | in tals volume are told with great | He is staying at the same boarding | crispness and cleverness, and form a | house under an assumed name, and very welcome, if unique addition to | he returns her love, All goes well the fiction of sport. A!l devotees of until she discovers by an accident| golf should read them, and should i that he is the man who caused her 8is-| find much pleasure and profit in the Iter to disappear from her life. She) reading. And even 'those who never | runs away from him, but through the. handled -a golf stick will find *Dor- magic of little Comfort they are mie One' most enjoyable, and will | brought together, after the missing| laugh at the pecularities of the golf- {sister is found and happily united er as a type, will sympathise with | to her lover. Comfort is a delightful his sufferings and be tarilied with his | little charact®r, with a strong belief in| triumphs, bene goodness of fairies and guardian! {engels. The story shows how her|9 | faith in the goodness of everything -------- {and everyone around her transformed | By Florence Orville. 246 pages. jhe ves bo Dien, and touched thai) Hiustrated., Price, $1.50. The VOR W magic. s a story of a} 'child, but it ot a child's story. In Page Company, Boston, publish. it there is tragedy and pathos, love; ©rs. {and hatred. humour and sorrow, be-| A new annual and one that will | tore it culminates in the glorious appeal to all child~en has made its { happiness of the reunited lovers, and | appearance. It is called "The Year- | their little = fairy.godmother. The|ly Glad Book," and it lives up to | writer has made a most promising de-| its nqme. It is the "really truly" | glad book for children of every age. | but into the world of fiction, --- | Her» are the stories Pollyanna loved GREEN PANCY. to read, the games Pollyanna loved ------ | to play, the puzzles, the pictures and {By George Barr MoCutcheon. "353 Ihe poems tha ade her iad. Nev.r § & Ww as there een rought togetiier Pages. Price, $1.45, , William more carefully selected copyrighted Briggs, Toronto, Publisher. | material than this big Glad Beck The author of "Graustark'" has! contains. It is sure to bring joy and added still another to his long list of | gladness to, all of Pollyanna's successful novels. He has woven! friends and admirers. many romances around European per- Pollyanna was a little girl who sonages, but none quite so alluring as) was always able to find something that which forms the plot of his la-| to be glad about, no matter how bad test success, "Green Fancy." The! things seemed to be. When wea {hero is a wealthy New Yorker, with a think of Pollyanna we think right {love Tor tramping all over the coun-! away of gladness. In this book we {iry. While on a trip through New| have just those very things. There {England he becomes one of the chief| are stories in this book that tell us actors in an international couspiracy.| about animals, and the way they live "Gregan Fancy" is a mysterious old'and work and play. There are stor- house, and around it centres the plot] iss of children of other countries and ENCHANTED HEARTS. By Darragh Aldrich, 406 Pages. POLLYANNA ANNUAL. trying {tg unravel the mystery at-| stories are old favorites that we nev- tached (to a double murder which| er grow tired of hearing. Thare are pages that will bring the most fun! and gladness. Pictures to draw, puzzles to work 'out, games to play, and no end of jolly things to do. | One can think of no Christmas present more acceptable or saitable for a bey or girl than a copy of this fine and « ul annual. CHATTERBOX. | A ts 1917 Edition. 412 pages, Illustrated. | Price, $1.25. The Page Company, | Boston, publishers. h anniversary number of f juveniles" is now on sale 1e "popular annual, dear to all} boys and girls, contains this year | over 400 pages and 250 full-page iilus- | trations, eight of which are in cwlor. | Between its lie unconquered fields of romance, countlexs days and k y, fun and adventure for sexes The supremacy of this in its particular freld is beyond question ts appeal to childhood is this year stronger than ever before The publishers emphasize the fact that "Chatterbox is not made up of "rehashed" 'or old material, but that the stories and illustrations are espe- cially written and drawn for the vol- ume, and that the aim is to get the best regardless of cost This ahnual grows in popular favor yearly, and mainta its enviable position as the | best juvenile published If you are | in doubt to what to send this/| Christmas to some boy or girl, rest | assured that they will accept "Chat- ferhox of the 'most pleasing and acceptable gifts. SO covers wee 1 oth hook as as one HEART OF THE HILLS, (POEMS). Albert Durant Watson. 117 Pages, Price, $1.25--McClel- land, Goodchild & Stewart, Toron- to, Publishers. Inspired by lofty ideals; the author of this little volume has produced some masterly poems, and a wise and careful selection of these has now been put before the public. In this collection there is a judicious mix- ture of charming love lyrics, beau- tiful songs of nature and its glory, and interesting war poems, as well as a few lengthy poems of exceptional power and merit. Most of these are written in excellent vers libre, show- ing great skill on the part of the poet. The depth of feeling and the loftiness of ideal in them make this collection of poems a most wigcome addition to Canadian literature. In "The Heart of the Hills" the poet gives us a splendid description of toboganning by moonlight on the Canadian hills 'This is the queen of the hills! AN Canada thrills At the thought of a speed That is almost flight O'er the «Min mead In the pale moonlight, As she curves away lke a shooting star, 2 Down, dawn to the snowy fields afar Through the heart of the mighty hills, Shouts on the Ah, here s a ( the voriest glee That evr was hear; The siirge of ithe sea Or the song of a bird Is tame on the wake of those wilder joys That spring from the throats of girls and bays On the vivid tobeggan slide. «ss ss a By merry hillside! ide, Sudden, the air that Is a gale on the hin! All the stars, the wide sky, And dhe fields besides In Their mad sweep by Are as moving tides; Even thought is too swift to keep the pace And lags lin the swift, toboggan race; Down the tong Canadian hill "To World's More Wide" is a long poem showing the poet's conception of the storms of life and the trage- dies of the world on their relation- ship to divine love and the divine wishes for the world, It is a deep 4nd thoughtful poem, rising to sub- lime heights of poetic expression as chown here: 0, Love is a city whose gates of pear] Swing Me to the vales of peace, Where rays fall on the ivory wall In whispers of care-release. A land where the viewless light reveals No deed that the love dfe mars But hearts are free as the hearts can be And true as 'the faithful stars, * a oo oo » was still O, eity of Love with the golden towers, Thou land of the wviewless Hght, The gates are wide, none is love nied Though he dwell in the tents of night. We open our souls to the great 1ffe call That whispers of care-release, And flags unfurl] o'er the gates of pearl And we enter jove's land of peace. The war poems of this collection are of a higher standard than usual, and are of a thoughtful and relective nature, Ah, there is one light Brighter than sunlight, Fairer and clearer t de- 3 twinkling nightlight Lovelier, nearer And dearer than day > 8% 8s Heantlight and homelight, After the foam-white, After the tossing ,O'er life's storm-swept way Here is the one light Brighter than sunlight Lovelier, clearer And dearer than day. "Heart of the Hills" is worthy of the highest praise. All lovers of poetry will welcome it as a valuable addition to Canadian' literature. Dr, Albert D. Watson, who has already "lelighted the * public with other books, has added greatly to his repu- "ation in his last collection of poems. The concluding selection, "The 'Homelight." is typical of his beauty of expression. HN ANOTHER GIRL'S SHOES. By Berta Ruck. 320 pages. Price, $1.25. Hodder & Stoughton, To- ronto, publishers, - As the title suggests, this delight- ful war romance, by Berta Ruck, is a story of mistaken identity. Rose Whitelands, travelling by train to take up a position of nursery gover- who is goirdg to visit her late hus: band's relatives for the first time. She finds herself forced to change places with the widow, and when | she reaches her destination circum-, stances prevent her from disclosing' her real identity. She tries to do so; but is unable Things come to a climax when Capt. George Meredith, the' supposedly dead husband, turns up alive. Out of consideration for his mother's health, the farce is kept up, and the result is a most amusing comedy of errors. But a Sensational tarn of events comes, and shows that Capt. i takes place in the district, comes in| some of the nicest things to do in of the ftery. The New Yorker, while| their interesting life. Some of the contact with a gang of somes this book. Perhaps those are the Meredith's real wife had been viously married and that her former ness, meets a gay young war widow; '| to gain a hearing. | husband was still alive. This clears the way to happy union of Rose and Capt. Meredith. The story is of light texture, but is admirably told. {The action, which for the mos is alw war romance takes place in Yuris ly and bright T had great success as a serial in the "Woman at Home magazine, and will be equally successful in book form Extracts From New Books. "With Homer -he has looked at the plain of Troy, and there lingers in his brain something of the light of the sky of Greece. He has taken some- thing of the pensive beauty of Virgil] as he wanders on the Aventine slopes; he sees the world like Milton, through the grey mists of England; like Dante, through the limpid; burn- ing skies of Ttaly. Out of all these colors 'he makes for himself a new color that is unique; from all these glasses through which his life passes to reach the real world there is form- éd a particular tint, which is the im- agination of the man of letters." --Chapter I. of "Recollections," Viscount Morley, : by Art and Christmas. There is a fine Christmas flavor to. the December number of the Can- adian Magaziné. The artistic fea- tures are excellent," beginning with a frontispiece, *"'Bob- Cratchit's Christmas Dinner," by the well- known Canadian artist, F. M. Bell- Smith. This picture accompanies an article entitled, 'Dickens and a Merry Christmas," by J. Cuming Walters, an acknowledged Dickens authority. There are other paint- ings 'by Mr. Bell-Smith of famous scenes from Dickens. The illustra- tions are unusually good, especially the ones by two clever young Can- adian artists, John Russell and Dorothy Stevens. The number is adorned also by several full-page re- productions of paintings by A. Suzer-Cote, J. James. Tissot and Louis Raemaekers. There are a number of unusually good short stories. TO . By "M. W." The death of friends fallen in the strife has called forth many tributes of memory. A fine example is found in The Westminster Gazette from the pen of "M.W." Under the quiet stars how still your sleep-- How still! more-- But the great thought of you as ours to keep? And is that all for ever- Or have you wakened: in a place of Knowing-- > Are there young things there, and laughter falling Down Eternal streets, and Heaven's flowers growing. Swéet- beyond thought---a great sky still above? have the things strange to you- meaning of our our love? Or of old grown The sorrows--and . + "The words we used--are they 80 little worth That you forget how how known, Were night and day, and the green floor of earth? near to you, Or was Death as one hastening to a feast On some glad holy day of Life and Joy-- Was it a prison spurned--a soul re- leased ? Or is it just a Peace and a great the quiet stars more-- But the dear thought of you as ours to keep? for ever- An old bachelon.says the worship of the fair sex requires a good many human sacrifices. A woman hates to acquiré her first gray hair as badly as a man hates to part with his last one. SCOUT a reduction of 20% on all Fit-Reform OVERCOATS Good fitting, up-to-date garments. Inspection Invited. Grawford a & Wals Tailors, Princess and Bagot Streets. The Man on Watch | The burning of the Princess Street Methodist Church mortgage cer- tainly better than burning tne church of him the The Council's estimate Hughes will surely get Peter when he climbs stairs." Mayor by St "golden What's the matter with presenting Ald. Kent with a long-service medal for fighting the people's battles City Council for the past twenty-one years? in "Blessed are the merciful" appar- ently does not apply to those hard landlords whom Aid. Nickle raps over the knuckles. However, the Lamp- man knows some long-suffering landlords. They are not all alike of The West needn't get cocky. On- tari holds the balance of power in Canada, and don't you forget it The silent vote the people It was "silent" all right but it bobhed up on-the side that the other fellow did not expect certainly fooled Some one wants to know why that London, Ont, milionaire did not hit "Clarie" Mitchell on the head with a Bible instead of a hymn hook. Prob- ably because the minister had the only one in ghe church, v Now . that the political lions and lambs have agreed to lie down togeth- er and not bite, let's us have another ballot on church union A mean man asks if the new Gov- ernment will increase, the working hours of those civil servants who put in only five or sixia day, and who have their coats and' hats on waiting for the clock to strike the hour of four, If there are enough Scotch men in the Cabinet it will. Kingston people should. forget it, and cease kicking about the heat units of efficiency in their coal. They should thank the coal men for getting im such a fine supply when other places are suffering fraym a scarcity. With regard to coal these days, it is quantity and not quality that counts When the Lampman sees a married man shovelling his sidewalk on a Sun. day evening about seven o'¢lock, and depriving himseli of the pleasure of going to church, he always wishes to shake hands with that fellow. 'HE TOWN WATCHMAN To Release Doctors. Bere, Dec. 22. --Germany and France have just completed arrange- ments for the exchange of a large number of medical and ambulance men from prison camps. A thou- sand Germans and five hundred Frened nurses and members of am- bulance corps will he exchanged by way of Switzerland in the next few days. has a praying him he doesn't his back sal- When a minister congregation behind have to worry about ary. 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