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~ THE DA 20 : SATURDAY, DECEMBER Pre 1 Te -- TTT Te ------ ---- ee t---- ; tin contact with him, with the excep- | I A HORS tion of a very few probably who are | U I {not worthy of notice, He is the grand... : A Ra em mE eT 50 8 Tor and Bh. ILY BRITISH WHIG-- famous family, the Forsytes, who ap- | peared in "A Man of Property." Two SEE SGUATSE FEE tay and Hel 1 matrimonial 'adventures form the main material for this book, the ona | deserted by his wife, the other des- erting his wife. In the first case of Soames Forsyte, i the cause of some of his worries Wap | was the fact that the family pride de- | x = pe . : sii TONY TAU. 02- 1 Oronto, and he-Rasbeen | Tp a 49 never . "| magistrate of Toronto for nearly half | : > | a century. On his eighty-first birth- | 2 -- ¢ {day he allowed the Musson Company Some of Musson's Galaxy of Authors--They Have Brought fay he allowed the Musson Company | High Honors To Themselves. | lice Magistrate," which promises to. | be one of the best sellers of the year. | A Robert Stead. How many have read the Puncher"? many have read "The Homestead- ers." . Then there was that little volume of verse "Kitchener and Other Poems published three years Or 50 ago. Lastly there is "Dennison Grant," put out only this fall, All are the work of Robert Stead. "The Cow Puncher" had the biggest sale of any book ever written by a Canad- ish author with the exception of Ralph Connor. "The Homesteaders" Was only the first large work of this writer of the Canadian yet it had a wonderful reception. His latest, "Dennison Grant," is go~ ROBERT SBTEAD Author of "The Homesteaders," "Den- Bison Geant," ete. Probably not quite 50 | i people and { many as one ing at a rdte which may outdistance the "Cow Puncher." { Stead was brought up in Manitoba, llved in Calgary for years, and is at Present a high official at Ottawa. His Stories are among the liveliest, truest and most wholesome that have ever come out of the west. One of the " Dest points of his work is that he does not fill up his books with mount- ed police, half-breeds and wild and | Woolly adventurers of a highly im- probable and sometimes Impossible Nature. Stead has seen and lived what he writes, and that is the sec- ret of his books. « Douglas Durkin, Another : these western writers in Douglas urkin, "The Heart of Cherry McBain*yaight have been written by two "Or three different t¥pes of man, but few would attribute it to a solemn olq professor. Dur- kin is a professor, but he is not old and it is needless to Say that he is Bot unduly solemn. His early days Were spent on one of the first home- steads opened up in the Swan River Valley in Manitoba. As a lad he Sa a a A a Him | worked on the right of way of the "Cow | Canadian Northern and learned the Way of the construction camps in the school of experfence. Since then he has had an adventurous career in all parts of the west, from Ontario to the coast and has wound up as a pro- fessor in the University of Manitoba. Durkin's writings are a quaint combination of the romantic and the real. He can show the brutal sides of life and the seamy parts of the world, and yet he always finds it easy to pick the pure metal from the rough ore. He has been named by of the great writers of the future, Manitoba and Winnipeg again. On the staff of the Free Press in the capital city of the first prairie pro- vince is Will. E. Ingersoll, who has tried and succeeded with another daring experiment of mixing the everyday and the romantic. Stead and Durkin he grew up on a Manitoba farm, was a school teacher, | but finally drifted into the city and | has been on newspaper work for the last ten years or so. His first book "The Road That Led Home" was published by Harper & Brothers a few years ago, and Musson, of Toron- Like | { The Colonel's book is full of amus- | ing anecdotes and strange yarns strange cases. It recalls many of the events in the history of Toronto and will be especially welcomed by To- ronto old boye in other cities. The colonel walks along, tne road of a writer as he did the path of a judge, breaking through legal red tape and handing out good old-fashioned jus- tice. - Frederick William Wallace. Here is a "'Blue-nose." His father Was a sea-captain and he himself has spent years on the fishing banks and sailing the briny. In working hours, to, brought out his "Daisy Herself." | Beautiful and useful are the" com-- ments of thie average readers on his stories, Ingersoll's story, "The Centenar- fan," published in Harper's magazine, was one of those selected among the twenty best published in America during one year, and he was the only Canadian so distinguished, He is a quiet sort of customer, engrossed in his work, and he would rather think up plots and develop them than eat. He is more of a phrase-maker than any of our Canadian writers, Col. George T. Denison. Few people need any introduction to Col. George Taylor Denison. The hearty old magistrate is known alike to the upright and to the evil-doer and is beloved by all who have come ? Y DOUGLAS DURKIN 5 Author of "The Heart of Cherry Mc- ain." WILL E. INGERSOLL, Author of 'The Road That Led Home," "Daisy Herself." j or rather, office hours, Wallace is the | editor of "The Canadian Fishermen." {At other times he is an ardent and | well-known yatchsman and fishermaa "Blue Water," which he wrote some | Years ago, was given the second printing this year. His new book is called "The Viking Blond," {story of the same life which he has {lived and written before. Wallace is | master, not only of sea-craft and the arts of fishing, but also of the speech and mannerisms of the genuine "blue-nose." During the war he was sailing master and navigator of a Q ship, a Bank fishing schooner fitted [out by the Imperial Navy. His work j Was to patrol.the.Gulf of St. Law- {rence and the Grand Banks on the lookout for submarines. One little fishing schooner looking for submar- Ines sounds funny, nut that is what they did. Wallace does not mention in his new book, but he does tell other things which show the qualities of the fishermen of the maritime' provinces. : ---- 5 of this lite | { | Hopkins Moorhouse, | Here is the fourth Winnipeg man | to be mentioned here. He is another jof the Musson Book Company's | authors, and like the three mentiondd | previously, was brought up in Mani- Itoba. Moorhouse drifted east and NN rn FREDERICK WILLIAM WALLACE pas her of "Blue Water," "Viking A nA an was, for a long time, night editor of the London Free Press. Later he started out into a publishing venture and edited the "Trail" magazine. This failed for lack of capital, but its editor did not let that bother him. "Deep Furtows"" was his first import- ant work. It was a recording of the history of the grain growers' move- ment in the west. His latest was published by Musson this year, and many may have already read "Every- man for Himself." The scene of this .| Yarn starts in Toronto and the action is so remarkably speedy that the book has been recommended as a fure cure for sleeping sickness. It is as good as the other Musson all- Canadian productions and that cer- tainly sets a high stamp upon it. IN CHANCERY By John Galsworthy, The Copp Clark Co., Toronto. "In Chancery" is the story of the affairs of an English family of wealth and position. It sketches their assoc- lates, customs and traditions and pre- gents the Iie of the upper classes of English society in plain fashion-- fearfully plain in some places. In style and general characteristics it resembles Mr, Galsworthy's earlier works such as "The County House," or the "Man Of Property." In this present novel we have a continuation of 'the affairs of that INNA AAA re inn COL. GEORGE T. DENISON Author of "Reminiscences of a Police Magistrate." manded a male heir to the line. After | bis wife had left him. Soames pro- | ceeded to procure a divorce in order | that he might marry again. He was successful, and after his second mar- | riage the main topic of interest was | the arrival of the long awaited heir. i When this personage arrived It was discovered to be a daughter, but for the sake of the old man waiting for the news Soames sent a telegraph saying that a son had arrived and the father died happy with his family pride intact. The other Forsyte had made exeur- sions into the realm of racetracks and chorus girls and, as a result, left his EE HOPKINS MOORHOUSE Author of "Every Man for Himself," "Deep Furrows." wife and generally wasted his life. In time, when the follies of youth no longer 'attracted, he played the pro- | digal husband and returned to the | wife who, luckily for him, was for- giving. Although tribute must be paid to Mr. Galsworthy's writing ability, it | seems too bad that he would not | turn it to some work that would be a | benefit to his readers. In the present | instance there may be some idea of showing the sordid and narrow sur- } roundings and customs of some old | English families but if there is, then the author has neglected to make it strong enough. If there is not, then | his book is valueless to the good of | man. Some of the ideas of family pride and conceptions of honor of these "people of the upper class of | English society" are unnatural to the point of being "freakish." -------- Human Nature, WilmingtoneNews-Journal. | Luke McLuke says it's the fellow | who hasn't any salaries to pay who is in favor of raisin 'em. And it's the From BEST'S ~Manicure and 7 Ivory Brushes, Mirrors, Combs. Solid Ivory Toilet Sets. Papetries in handsome boxes. Fine Chocolates, fancy pack- ages. . Perfume Extracts and Toilet Waters. Fountain Pens. Cameras. Flash-lights. Many useful gifts at most at- tractive prices. Early selection. L. T. 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