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J whistling Percy may come along look- ing for you any minute' "That is the name of a shell that is good enough to advertise its coming by a whistling, shrieking sound. 1 could hear Percys whistling all ground and see them sputtering up the ground as they struck, not so far away, but they did not seem to be coming in our direction. So 1 de- Anonymous. 115 pages. Price, $1.25. Illustrated. The Macmil- lan Company of Canada, Toronto, publishers, "A War Nurse's Diary" the splendid story of. what a British girl did to aid her country during the frst thirteen months of the war. When is cided | would take a chance. "Well, I said, as | took my steel hat off, 'I'll keep this bonnet handy and slip it on if | see Percy coming.' "But later 1 was mighty glad of even an fll-fitting steel helmet. "We were, on the ground now that had been aeld by the Germans before the Rritish had surged forward all fon along this line in the April battle. bu siiselv eape t was - |afong : : Bit anten Re Sager. a It Ft dicult ) cir old trenches, abandoned now, 16 'Beep such men diet. Laney we . {ran like a deep fissure through the od to be up ac Jnoving again, 3 ie Fsoil They had heen pretty well Bila hoy 1 retreated wi ne bei- 1 vt ' i 1 aod Frisch how they "packed blasted to pieces by the British bom- the tie ts" in Ya ' 3 | bardmient, but a good many of their EF patents 1a large e i " "re 1 vive ver hing possi for their comfort. | 5S concrete dngouts had Survived. ) oe shh : ard they must have Even till the last moment, the wound. | y . 1 i hat broken and { been, too. «] stream that broke ' een h e ed strea ( 1a " re 1 L lof German officers; and the Hun offi shattere hospital When our I au-| thor finally d a place in a motor +] CErs \euid when they had the chance. ear she was obliged to hold one man | up on her arm, while on her knee an-| electric lights their cave other Tommy rested a fractured le deals } the peace of Europe was shattered, she was one of the first to offer her services and was accepted. She had no idea of what she was going into. A trained nurse at home and a hos- pital nurse in France were two very different occupations 'ivid descrip- tions are given of the receiving of the | first wounded, They were worn out, busses, and did aeep, Rarely comfortable into did themselves very weil indeed They had in houses. { wall-paper, and atrociously ugly stuff They had been the homes | {To be sure, they had cused German | The first part of the book | with the retreat of the Allies, and of | haw the ispital which woke 1 I | transported {i #3 'as | 1 rht From Ostend the nurse to: England, where she rl for a few weeks On her » France she found the Allies | holding their own, and the hospitals! more settled Christmas at the hos-| pital is a fine chapter, describing how | i rees and wounded men ate, and made merry with the pres-| ts and "eats" from home. The an- | derlyi story of the second battle of | Ypres is 1 1 told, and we learn of | the courage of the 4 ovér-worked nurses and surgeons~in the field. High courage, .deep sympathy with- | out sentimentahty, and an 'all-saving| ise of humor amid dreadful and de- | pressing conditions, are the salient fea- tures of this little book, The thos] has faced hombardments and aerial raids; she ha Imly removed her charges under she has tended the and i amid scenes of carvage and confusion, and she has created order and comfort where hut a short time before all was confusion | and discomfort. Asid AIL the white | she marvels at the uncomplaining for} titude. of others, never counting her Hw Many unusual experiences | bave hefallen this "war nurse" and! he writes of them all in a gripping, | vivid fa hion, wounded } A MINSTREL IN FRANCE By. Harry Lauder. 338 pages. Price, $2.00. - McClelland, .Goodchild & Stewart, Toronto, publishers. Harry Lauder"s many admirers in Kingston and throughout the Domin- ion will read with keen interest this story of his pilgrimage to the British treniches in France and to the sacred spot where his only son, Capt. John Lauder, of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders, sleeps in a heroic sol® dier's grave. The boy met his fa- ther and mother in Melbourne, while on a tour of the world, and it was there he received the message, "Mo- bilize, return." He left at once for France, was later wounded but re- turned to the trenches It was on New Year's day, 1917, that the father learned that his son had been killed in action on the Somme. Harry be- lieved that he would never again have the heart to appear before an audi- ence and sing the songs of bonny Scotland. But the soldiers began to write from the front imploring him to go out and sing for them there; and he agreed How could he resist their appeals? As he expresses it: "F owed them more than I could ever pay--my own future, and my freedom, and the right and chance to go on living in my own country free from the threat and menace of the Hun" They were gathering, all over the Empire, those of British blood. They were an- swering the call old Britain had sent across the seven seas to the far cors ners of the earth. = Even as the Scot. tish clans gathered of old the greater British clans were gathering now. It was a great thing to see them in the beginning. "It has comforted me many a time since," Harry acknow- ledges, "in a black hour, when news was bad and the Hun was thunder- ing at the line that was so thinly held in France" a a Perhaps the most interesting part of ou is that in which the visit to Vimy Ridge is described--at least {the most interesting to Canadians. | ion of tha jcarelesily. t}ie. hacen the it was, too. no doubt. "Our men might have used these and been snug enough in them, but they preferred air and ven. | tilation, and lived in little huts above tthe ground. I left our party and went | around among them, and, to my great satisfaction, found, as 1 had been pretty sure I would, a number of old acquaintances and old admirers who came crowding around me to shake hands. I made a great collection of souvenirs here, for they insisted in pressing trophies upon me. "One laddie gave me a helmet with a bullet hole through the skip, and another presented me with one of the most interesting souvenirs of all I carried home from France. was a German sniper's outfit, ""Eh, Jock, I asked the laddie who gave it to me. 'A thing like yon's bard to he getting, I'm thinking." "*Not so very hard, he answered 'You've got to be a good shot" And he wore medals that proved he was. 'All you've got to do, Harry, 3s to kill the chap inside before he. kills you, The fellow who used to own this ouffit you've got hid him- |' self 'in the fork of a tree, and, as you may guess, he looked like the fork of the tree itself. He was pretty hard to spot, But [ got suspicious of him the way the bullets were coming over steadily, and I decided that tree hid a sniper. "*After that it was just a question of being patient. It was not so long before | was sure, and then I waited ~=until 1 saw that branch move as no branch of a tree ever did move. 1 fired then--and got him. He was away outside of his lines, and that night 1 slipped out and brought back his out- fit, I wanted to see how it was made" Lauder tells of the many concerts he gave and of the delight the soldiers expressed at his coming. A Cockney greeted him with this welcome: "Lor lumme--it's, old 'Arry Lauder. God bless you, Mrry. | Many's the time I've sung with you in the 'alls. It's good to see you with us" Every- where he received a royal welcome, But all the time his heart turned to- ward a grave among many graves on a hilltop in France--the grave where his only boy lay resting. His visit to Ovilliers was the real objective of his journey. "And so I went alone to my boy's grave," he writes, "and flung myself down upon the warm, friendly earth. . . . Again there came to me as I lay there, the same gracious solace that God had given me after | heard of his glorious death. And'1 knew that this dark grave, so sad ahd lonely and forlorn, was but the temporary bivouac of my boy. I knew that it was no 'more than a trench of refuge against the storm of battle, in which he was resting until that hour shall souhd when we shall all be reunited beyond the shadowy borderland of death." mii THE FALSE FACES. By Louis Joseph Sane, 331 es. 5 F rice, % 1.40, Hh child s Stewart, Toronto, publish- Tae hero of this hook. Michael Lan- | ard, was once an American citizen: ¢ Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll, he led uble life; at home he was a gen. tleman, but under the veil of eti- ; a notorious thief, Soon he di dual character an became an out-and-out thief. = Wit his wife and son, he fled to Belgium, where they lived in peace near Lou. vain, His wife aad child were mur- Jittery. oo a cor it to a trained war cor ee ae \ dered during the German invasion of Belgium, while he was absent in Paris. Michael then joined the h + she beginning of Jut it pleased their taste | That | Baily British 1 KINGSTON, ONTARIO, me JIT floating for some time a U-boat came to the surface right under him and carried him along. In érder to get to New York, Lanyard encourages the lieutenant of the submarine to kill the captain. When "1 and crew are asleep with wine, Lan- yard sinks the U-boat and hastens to New York. He found the American metropolis as full of Germans as Britishers. After many struggles and escapes, he discovers that the assistant to the British consul is a German spy. From him Lanyard recovers an important lost paper, which had heen secreted in a fountain pen. The Ger- man secret service was no match for Lanyard. Though they were train- ed men in every sense, they found in our hero a better trained man who was able to outwit th®m. He was a | thief That was his trade, and his | alertness, his instinet and his observ- f every minute detail won him e on the side of the Allies, The i sayi "lt takes a thief to catch a i thief," is well illustrated in this very readable book an jap | EVERY DAY FOODS IN WAR TIME. | By Mary Swartz Rose. 117 pages. | Price, 80c. The Macmillan Com- | pany of Canada, Toronto, publish- | ers. The author of this helpful little book is the assistant professor of nu. trition at Columbia University, and {is therefore qualified to speak with | considerable experience, "Food is | fuel for fighters," she says. , "Do not Save wheat, meat, sugars Send more to our soldiers, " | waste it d fats, | atlors and Allies, {| The book was written in response 0 a request for a war message about ood. To change one's menu is of- trying; to be uncertain whether i foods will preserve {one's health and: strength makes ad: justment doubly difficult, Mrs. Rose aceks to make it easier to save staple foods and ott | prepare an acceptable bill-of-fare 'without excessive cost. Among her chapters are: "The Milk Pitcher in the Home," "Cereals We Ought to Eat" "The Potato and its Substitutes," "Sugar, Spice and Ev- erything Nice," and "On Being Eco- nomical and Patriotic at the Same F Fine iA a Thirty-two pages are given 'up to the publication of a great many war recipes, which will no doubt be found of considerable help to many Cana- dian housewives, 5 THE BUSINESS OF WAR. By Isaac F. Marcossan. 319 pages. Price, $1.50. J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd, Toronto. It [1 | ten | the substituted The author of this volume has been in the five seasoned Allied armies and also with the American Expeditionary Force in Franee, and by way of iu- troduction he declares that the British organization for the supply of its fight. ing men is in many respects the most amazing business institution that he has seen. "Britain's way," he says, "has been the scientific way. Brit: ain has made the business of war the prelude to an orderly, efficient and constructive peace--the war having become an immense training schoo for the war after the war" Mr. Marcossan remarks that the British army supply and transport is most complete, but the least kuown. "Its heroes are unsung; its deeds are not often rewarded, yet the Army Service Corps is the uncomplaining beast of burden that carries on its back the wherewithal to live and fight." "The mechanics of war" is a term applied to the Army Service fellows by the author. The courage of the teamsters who face death with only the reins in their hands is fit to rank with the valor of the fighting men armed with guns. Lieut.-Gen. Sir John - Cowans, K.C.B., Quartermaster-Genéral, is the man at the British War Office who is "managing director of the one vast branch of the stupendous Business of War." His work is called the "pre- servative of war." = It furnishes "the real fuel of war; it stokes the mighty furnace that forges the Hammer of the Hun" = The record of the army behind the army is a continuous nar- rative of unflinching bravery. Tommy Atkins is always well fed and well clothed, and British success is in no swall degree attributable to the splendid work 'of the Army Service o 1 ill interest every d at ry ene the lieutenant | "Phe. Business of War" is a book{ a 1918 "Cash, and Carry" is now the coal men's slogan. One never expected to see "John the Baptist" haled before the cadi and fined for breaking the traffic regulations. . "Tim" Rigney knows something about a horse as well as about law, He and his associates on the Utilities Commission are of opinion that horses worth $235 are not attached to milk wagons just now. i. A woman is safer telling her age to a man than to one of her own sex at the registration booth. Talking about age, a woman is just as old as she feels. Apparently the Public Library Board does not care to hold a tag day when "picking" at the eity treasury is good. y-- As the Lampman does not take part in church parades he sympath- izes with the V.A/D.'s who are rais- ing objection to being lined up for puble inspection and worship. According to penitentiary statis- tics, the war has increased crime among women. Explanations are in order from the National Council 'of Women. As long as a man can get apples to eat when craving for booze, his appe-~ tite will be appeased. Drinkers yshould keep this remedy in their coat pocket. 'Mayor Hughes and City Clerk Sands must have been surprised when they gazed upon six placards upon the walls of the County Codneil chamber, bearing the words, "Spit- ting on the floor is strictly prohibit- ed."". The county representatives use the old fashioned spittoons and rare- ly miss their mark. May Bell Marks is reported to be writing a book at Christie's Lake en- titled "Why I Became An Actress." Why should Robert J. Bushell not 'write one entitled "Why 1 Did Not Becomeé An Actor?" --THE TOWN WATCHMAN. STILL ASK DISCOUNT ON CANADIAN MONEY U. 8. Travelers Forbidden to Take Large Sums of Money Into Canada. SECOND SECTION. Avwell made cupof BAKER'S COC0A is a large art of a good meal. It is delicious, is prac- ucally all nutrition, the protein matter being appropriated by the sys- tem almost to its full extent, and ifs use saves other more expensive and wasteful foods. Trade-mark on every package. Book of Choice Recipes sent FREE WALTER BAKER & C0. Limited Established 1780 ® Watertown, N.Y., June 21.---The counting of Canadian currency by 24 per cent. at loegl banks 1s making the Dominion's change unpopular in trade here. Catladian money has' readily passed the same as United States coins and until recently more Canadian 25-eent pleces were in oir- culation here than were American quarters, Canadian dimes have al- so. been numerous and met with popular approval. The cent, owing, to its size, has not been so readily accepted, and the nickel has heen likewise . unpopular. Quite a few 50-cent pieces are in circulation, American money is said to be in great demand in Canada, There is a dearth of sliver and greenbacks from this country across the line owing to the restriction in the export of cur- rency. Notices have been posted in customs houses along the border for- bidding travelers taking large sums of money into Canada. Should large sums be found on a departing citi- zen the money will be seized, it is said, Conditions are claimed to result from the large balance of trade which the United 'States holds against Can ada. Americah thunition orders are being placed in the Dominion in an effort to help reduce the balance and it is expected that the import of crops will further assist, Well Satisfied With Baby's Own Tablets Once a mother has used Baby's Own Tablets for her little ones she will use nothing else. 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