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Ver 4 * of his contract with them. " THe DAILY BRITISH WHIG THE ARMY AND RELIGION and Its Bearing Upom the fous Life of the Natioin. The 456 Pages. . . Price $2.00. * "This work is the result of an inter- ehurch commission which included fn its number outstanding men of all the churches of Great Britian togeth- or with Y.M.C.A and Salvation Army representatives, student workers and ebaplains. It is a complication of jon as the army views the sub- under three general heads. What the men are thinking religion morality and society. The changes made by-the war. The relation of the men to the th 1. ~ about . 3. C3. churches. : e book is divided into two parts, $he facts and the causes, results and Mugzestions. The work has been well done and _ the results of the commissions, in- yestigations have been edited by a no less competent hand than Pro- fessor D. S. Carrius, of Aberdeen . 18 a book that should not only be read but studied by ail religious Jeaders. The appalling ignorance of the vital truths of religion as fair- faced, the insistence of the chur- x ia the past upon Christianity aot as a communion with a person Dut as a series of negative laws, the totally false and inadequate concep- tion of what the Christian religion 48, is clearly set forth. The amazing materialism of the age, including the abonimations of the educational sys- tems, school and religions, the untold Josses to the church during the adole- scent period are treated with frank- ness and insive. 'Part 2 of the luminious work deals with 'the way out." There must be found a moral equivalent for war and this must be in the nature of an appéal to a great crusade. Men must be shown what Chris{ianity 'geslly is before the churches need despairof winning' them. The great fundamental doctrines of the Christ- fan faith must be revitalized. The pulpits must frankly face the task of presenting God and the problem of evil, the changed emphasis from the Old to the New Testament evan- gel the belief in God, the personality of Jesus Christ, Christ's interpreta. p, tions of life, the meaning of the King dom of God, the Cross, the spirit of God, Christ's social gospel, the Christianity of the social order, eter- nal punishment and life after death ~and all other kindred subjects concerning which 'thinking men are lexed. And the pulpit must deal with these things in a frank straight forward thoroughgoing manner. The book will repay the most carefal study as an honest attempt ot religious diagnosis and a discip- Mae which means untold blessing to the Christian workers themselves and to the world of the coming days ADMIRAL TEACH. By C. J. Cutliffe Hyne, Methuen and g Company, Ltd., London and To- ' _ romto. _ Pince reading Captain Kettle, that Spica and valiant seaman, we have : n longed for more of such stor- jes. In the midst of an age when everything of importance 'which hap- pens may be transmitted to the rest of the world in an hour, Captain Kettle had a series of amazing ad- wyentures which were the more start- Hing because of their seeming impos- sibility. Now comes a story which is even more surprising. Mr. Hyne gives to us in this book a twentieth century Captain Kidd, who cleverly takes ad- vantage of the unrest during the War, especially the uncertainty and odd practices in shipping circles, to turn pirate. His name is given as (or Admiral) Edward Teach who, In the introduction, is master of a British merchant steamer. For motives kmown only to him- golf he turned pirate. The owners of the ship which he had sailed could aot find anything to complain of in Ais work. His accounts were always _etraight. Yet, curiously, none of them desired or welcomed a renéwal Then comes lils change from a captain of & merchant ship to an out and out pirate. He sails away with a large steamer, the "Littondale," taking with him as a passenger, by no choice of her own, the daughter of a wealthy man, Her name was Mary Arnclifte and of course the story ends up in the usual way with a love affair between Teach and Mary. Although several aspects of sthe are ridiculous, and althéugh h is not at all am admirable eharacter in the least, the story In- terec.s very much because of. its daf- fog and originality. Teach may have good points but almost every ndrel has a few. Even Captain d was brave, though he did not Mu---- en a------------ | have a habit of promenading the | bridge in evening clothes. THE KILLER By Stewart Edwin White 8.'B. Grun- dy, Toronto 346 Pages. This well known author has chos- en to put 'the story of a wild west scene in the state of Arizona in the early nineties, as the firet of a series of short stories, under the general title of '"The Killer." But the 135 pages which deal with the story of "The Killer" is a unit in itself and might quite well be sent out to the reading public alone. The story is full of adventure-- {ndeed it is about a hair-raising ad- venture from first to last. It isn't a love story and yet there is a young woman in the plot who If not the hergine supplies in her marriage to the hero the matural place for a good story to stop. The delination of western characters of the period has on the whole been wonderfully well done--but we wonder if the picture of Old Man Hoofer is 'not a trifle over done. Not that it spoils the story but one likes to think that some guch person as the main character in the cast did actually live at some time or other. Besides it seems that a man whose single redeeming char- acteristic was a genuine love for music should in some place Lave a weak spot in his totally repulsive nature. But it is a good story and can be read at a single stitting. KATHLEEN. By Christopher Morley. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co. New York, 174 pages, price $1.25. This {s ungestionably one of the best books of, its kind we have ever read. The plot is unique and the humor irresistible. The style is pure English, and the = whole work has been done in exquisite taste. It is screamingly funny. We doubt if any reader will lay ft down till he hes finished the last page and then with regret that he has to part so soon with an author who has made his reader an intimate and told his ab- sorbing story in such plain straights forward fashion. h Biographics of eli=known Authors. What Gen. Lew Wallace Did Besides Write "Ben-Hur." The man who wrote "Ben-Hur" might well be remembered for his enius as a writer, were it not that fe did many other things to merit re- membrance. As Gen. Lew Wallace, himself, once wrote, "I have tried many things in the course of the drama (of life)--the law, soldiering, politics, authorship, and, lastly, diplo- macy." In each department he won success. Upon his father's side Wallace was descended from the family that gave this country John Paul Jomes. His own father was Governor of Indiana. Wallace, himself, was born in Brook- ville, Ind., April 10, 1827. He studied law and was taking his examinations when the call to arms for the war with Mexico set him to help raise a company. Of this comp- any Wallace was elected second lieut- enant. He fought until mustered out, returned to the law, was admitted to the bar, and soon became a prosecut- ing attorney Ww election. But before Wallace went to Mexico he had begun a novel which deals with Aztec civilization. Since he had been in the country where its scenes were laid he felt able to finish it. This he did in 1 but the book was not published until the fall of 1873. It achieved success both in this country and in Europe. The long period over which it was written and the many years that intervened between its be- ing finished, revised and published is evidence of the way Wallace worked as a novelist, He wrote in his spare time. = The civil war now came to claim him. As adjutant-general Wallace raised and put into the field the six regiments which wer. the quota of In When this work was ac- complished he entered the war as colonel of the last Indiana regiment. Winning promotion to the rank of brigadier-general, Wallace came out of the war to serve as one of the commission that tried the assassins blic. It was not allace began to of the Mexican re| until 1876 that write "Ben-Hur." The story, as he himself describes it, took form in his mind first as a recounting of the birth of Christ and Feb, 15, 1905. (Copyright, 1930, Feature Service, Inc.) time lized the greatness of their task. The Man Behind the Book. } "Old Moore" "Old Moores" of a sort can be pur- Fehimsed from street "merehants fora penny, but these are degenerates from | a fine sturdy old stock. The real "Old | Moore" is--or was within the last few years--a respectable paper cove volume with a high reputation among Somerset farmers and a dignity which naturally accrues from long descent. But long, descent has its drawbacks: Curious folk have a reprehensible habit of disturbing the dust with which the decency of ages has a little bedimmed the more awkward facts. Surely a publication which can look back two and a quarter centuries to its "true and onlie begetter" might be taken for granted . Avoiding Manual Labor But we had better at once admit that our business is with its true and onlie begetter, Francis Moore, and he was a opian born at Bridgnorth in 1657. The place of his death is a matter of surmise and the fact of his death merely inferential. Indeed, he seems a little intangible, mysterious, unapproachable, so much so that his very existence has been denied. From the time he struggled into the world in Shropshire until the day he prob- ably went out of it in Southwark he seems to have been at considerable pains to avoid manual iabour. Shropshire, anyhow, offered no career for his talents. The Salopians, then as now, wrung a spare living from a reluctant soil, so Francis Moore came to London to make a livelihood by his wits. He allied himself as an assistant to John Partridge, whom Swift slew so thoroughly that he could not con- vince his own friends that he was not dead. Now, in Partridge Moore found a worthy preceptor, and Partridge an apt pupil. In 1698 Moore obtained a license to practise physic, ahd put up as his sign "Dr. Lilly's Head." But physicking the sick was not a good enough living for Moore. He did a little teaching when pupils offered, and practised astrology when dupes could be found. But his affairs, ap- parently, were not prospering as well as he could wish. Patients were few, dupes were becoming wary; conse- quently, in 1699 he determined to use "one hand to soap t'other." A Terrible Title He published the first of his al- manacs under the title of "Kalendar- jum Ecclesiasticum . . a new Two- fold Kalendar," in which he not only foretold the weather but puffed his own wonderful pills. On July 6th, 1700, came his second and more per- manent publication, "Vox Stellarum: being an Almanac for . . . 1701," in which he added astrology to quack- ery and made such a success of the compound that it produced the inevit- able crop of imitators. The last al- manac for which he was responsible was published in July, 1714. Tycho Wing carried on his work until it pas- sed into the very reputable hands of Henry Andrews, who increased its circulation from 100,000 to 500,000 and only received £25 a year for his work. "Old Moore's Almanacs" have been many and varied, but they all derive from that fat-faced Salopian who dis- liked hard work. SOME JUNE PUBLICATIONS MacMillan Co., Toromto. Mannish women, whose physiology has deteriorated to the katabolie, dis- ruptive, and forceful male mode, pos- sess frequently the hungry appetites of men; not only for food but for drink. And yet withal they are lean, d for the most part plain, and poor ly nourished. ini x Nearly all the records of childhood that writers have given us are annals of bewildered mental suffering and of moral torture, which have left their evil mark in injured health or warped mentality. * * - True motherhood is the greatest of the creative arts; mother-craft, the most vital and complex of the sciences. Life has never received more than a tithe of 'that which Nuture destined for it, owing to lack of Genius has never fruited to full bloom and potence, because mothers have so seldom rea- The Woman's! Movement has been essentially a middle-aged an's movement. There are no young ideals in it; no concessions to youth, to love, jousness or sentiment; none is 2 § : neuter { neuter neuter = s, neuter efficiencies, Reuter recompenses. * * - the factors of modern labour i i £ § 2 i = 8 g ! woman of average brain at- She In an s of of average brain only at cost r health, of her emotions, or of & EEE, "California Syrup of Figs" Child's Best Laxative | JM J Accept "California" Syrup of Figs. only--Ilook for the name California on the package, then you are sure your child is having the best and most harmless physic for the little stomach, liver and bowels. Children love its fruity taste. Full directions on each bottle. You must say "Cali- fornia." clothes even; refuse so slight a do- mestic concession as. to arrange flow- ers for the home. Lacking the mor- bid excitement of competitive rough games, an abnormal craving for which has been artificially created and home-tastes extinguished . . . The more delicate, sympathetic, and humanizing amenities have no appeal for them. * * = » The burning wrongs of women? Alas! what are they beside the burn- ing wrongs of helpless babes and children ? If women are to have scope and authority identical with men's, then they must forego all privileges; must come out from their fence behind strong arms and chivalry to meet masculine blows in the face, economic and ethical--if not actual, indeed, as Prevost has predicted. * =» LE J A French biologist has discovered that when a female oyster is starved, and its constitution thus deteriorated, it becomes transformed into a male. By Request of a Reader "Sun's up; winds up! Wake up, dearies! Leave your coverlets white and downy, June's come inte the world this morn- ing. Wake up, Goldenhead! Wake up, Brownie! Dew onthe meadow-grass, waves on the water, Robins in the rowan-tree wondering ahout. you! Don't keep the butter-cups so long waiting. Don't keep the boobolinks singing without you. ' Wake up, Goldenhead! Wake up, Brownie! Cat-bird wants' you "in the garden soon. You and I, butterflies, bobolinks and clover, We've a lot to do on the frist of June. JUNE ° Bareheaded and barefoot With rosy bouquet Humming, humming In dances June, June and the bees Honey hunting among the roses, And in the orchard an oriole Flashing his gold. June with tressés of cinnabar And coral lips "MOTHER! | . get theirs, '| Peru, THE MAN ON WATCH Well, band concerts are certainly not a luxury for the man with no ear for music. The city councilmen have tak their holidays before the school kids 'Taint fair. Per- haps the kirk session thought this a luxury and cut it out. : It is announced that appendicitis operations are going out of style. Well, they will not if some doctors we know can help it. Kingston may be experimenting in road paving but it is doing the country a service, All progress comes of experiment and sacrifice. By all means do not insist that the Kingston firemen keep them- selves as unclean as the Montreal fire 'figliters are described. Let us have our brigade dressed up when they have no.place to go. Some Queen's students naturally object to work side by side with lab- oring men, do as much work, and yet be offered ten cents less an hour. Anybody blame them ? The laborer is worthy of his hire even if he is a student. Now we find the ministers and church bodies just as human as the rest of us, and agreeing that there should be divorce and divorce courts, The Portsmouth Philosopher thinks that poets should keep to their knitting and not dabble into politics--even Irish discussions. The City Council offered $75 in prizes for the potatoes produced N Kingston and Frontenac. Now watch for the Aged display the bi 3 g fellows TOWN in their garden next autumn. The Lampman met a Kings to! I¥shman the other day oy -- hurrying to the post with a letter ad- dressed Jo "Ulster. He sald he would Ot address his letters t ey 0 Ireland It's high time that the pa - mittee gave a new Tne io ys cricket field. There hasn't been a cricket game played on the field in twenty-five years. The old cricket house is now the park tool house In the old days many a case of ale was drunk by the cricketers in this structure and they batted the ball all the 'harder after a refreshing drink. Probably members of the - boro council think Ir ugh ing people four 'and five times the amount they used to get for farm produce, but they put Sydenham in darkness because they do not relish paying fifty per cent, more for elec- tric light for the streets. If Syden- ham people would inaugurate day- light saving they wouid not need the street lights until early autumn. ~--THE TOWN WATCHMAN. In Italy, women teachers, school inspectors and employees in the ad- ministration of antiquities and fine arts receive the same pay as their male colleagues. Many women In Mansfield, O., have formed the Percale club and Lave pledged themselves to wear per- cale aprons in the hope of cutting the cost of dressing. Miss Adriana Santa Maria of Lima, now studying occupational therapy in Philadelphia, is the first woman from South America to take up such a course. Housewives in Indianapolis have put a ban on candy, ice cream and ofher luxuries that require sugar in their preparation. You Dot And eyes so blue, so blue-- Give me back my heart! | Mrs. Yone Cuzuki, known as the Oriental quéen of commerce in Japan, is probably the richest woman in the world. - In 1919 it was estimated that 11, 000,000 women over ten years old in the United States were wage earners. Women employed in the fishing in- dustry in Canada receive a minimum pay of $16.50 a weet. LIFT OFF CORNS WITH FINGERS Doesn't hurt a. bit and costs only few cénts a ---- ut ou use br. CZEMA :i2 ions 100 Eczema and Skin Irrita- Chase's dun Tall deal ted, T: ing when | St. Andrew's "clock. has ceased]. . chiming out the quarter hour. TT and see the old boys at the Home |- ® Is Your Firm Protected? - If any active member of your firm should die, it It might mean loss of executive brains, with- dy of capital, impaired credit. A Manufacturers Life Sinking-Eund Bond will safeguard your business against this risk. The face of the Bond is payable in cash on the death of any partner, or at maturity. It improves your credit. It saves you drawing on invested capital in times of depression oF crisis. It is a sinking fund shown on your books and an ever-increasing assel. It is a security. " Talk it over with your bank. Then 'write us. We will submit specimen policies without any obligation on your part. The ' Manufacturers Life Insurance Company - HEAD OFFICE, - TORONTO, CANADA M. G. JOHNSTON, Branch Manager, Kingston, Ont, _ [want to protect my business by your Sinking- Fund Bond to the extent of $....occooeeoomoceoeeee. tei Automobile Repair Shop All Kinds of Cars Repaired Promptly. Also do Motor Boat Repairing BEECHAM'S izzy PILLS || hess a DAILY SERVICE Lve. TORONTO (Union Statien) 9.15pm. CALGARY EDMONTON REGINA VANCOUVER SASKATOON VICTORIA STANDARD TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRAIN EQUIPMENT ¥ OUT, INCLUDING NEW ALL-STEEL TOURIST Er Sun, Mon. Wed. Fri.--Canadlan Natioaal atl the way. Tues. Thurs. Sat.--Via 0.7,, 7. & N.0., Cochrane thenoe 8. N. Rys, Tickets and fu Infor: Nichia gag 18 nformation from nearest Canadian Nations! M. C. DUNN, CITY ACENT, 217 Princess Street. KINGSTON or General Pasibuger Department, Téronte, - Industrial Department 7. te and Wi partioniars ] trdsst land in Wester a vats EE - 4 rc 1 - ' WINNIPEG BRANDON Canadian National Railways preciate such a usually received. us A Suggestion The happy bride would greatly appro- ciate a Piano, a Player-Piano or a Phono- graph as one of her wedding gifts. You, parents of the bride and the groom, why not get together and give a musical instrument. - The cost distributed in such a way, would be right for everyone and the young married couple will ap- gift much more than the numerous small nothings SEE LINDSAY'S ABOUT IT Special care is taken here to insure timely and intelli- gent delivery. Any instrument coming from Lindsay's will surely please because "IF LINDSAY'S SELL IT--IT'S ALL RIGHT." El re eh EE i i ya----------