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CHRISTMAS BOOK MOVEMENT AMONG PUBLISHER | There is a movement a 18 American and Canadian publishers to spread their activities over the whole year instead of concentrating on the | fall season. Of the idea ir | the market at thi of the ye popoular novel or a work of general literatdre is often selected by Christ- mas shoppers as a suitable gift to. send to a friend. While it may be con- ceded that there are some people who buy books only at the Christmas season, it does seem unfortunate that there should be such an immense output at this time bf the year Budding authors are hit hardest of all by this custom, for the book-buying public, embarrassed by the prodigal array of new titles, book which a well-known name. It would certainly be a move in the right direction if people could be edu- cated to take as keen an interest in the new books of May or July as those of December. ' ourse pouring suc is to take advantage of 8 time ar to select a carries is apt ESTABLISHED WRITERS MUCH IN EVIDENCE THIS SEASON. to be as numerous as usual and many of the of fic ope within a week or two to be in the Among the works by English novelists, "This Freedom," by A. S. M. Hutchinson, has already attained an enormous sale; it has great merits and serious defe ts, but whatever may be said in criti- cism of its melodramatic always interesting Another Novels this year seem most prominént makers tion I hands of their friends conclusion, it is a flood of new books into | e fact that at In spite of the fact that this has been a quiet year for business both {in the old country and in America, {there has been only a slight dimin- Hon in the production of new nov- els There dare not so many works of general literature in evidence and is a marked decrease in art {books and editions" de luxe. Alto- gether, however, the great publish- {ing houses of England, the United | {States and Canada have turned out] an immense number of volumes, |more than enough to satisfy every [taste. Evidently the publishers are! of the opinion that even in dull {times people keep up the reading habit, in fact gratify it more sedu- lously than in those periods when the tide of business: life is in full | ! | | i {there THE SEASON'S BOOKS IN REVIEW ee ee Sem smd] TEES -- ERE | book will prove an inspiration or at | by this author is entitled "The Ninth least be a decided intellectual incen- | Vibration." These short stories {tive to the recipient. And it need have for their settings the mountains | scarcely be said that Canadian books, [of northern India and are full of especially works of history and blo- |mysticism. Some of them were first graphy, will foster and encourage [published in "The Atlantic Month- Canadien ideals. For these and oth- ly." This new Canadian writer has er reasons, therefore, the circula- a fine style, and is specially strong in | tion ef books as Christmas presents ! description. i might be regarded as useful and helpfu) missionary work Tac editor of this supplement has made a selection from the huge oul- put of new books. It is, of course. absolutely impossible to make men tion of all the good volumgs that are puablirked Moreover, owing to the fact that the majority of new books of the fall season come pouring in to the cditor's hands only a week or so The Shadow's Edge-- by Frederick Bending. (Hodder & Stoughton). This is the first story from the pen of a new Winnipeg writer. The {hero is a "young member of . the {Mounted Police and the story | Is staged In the Le Pas country. A bandit, who is a fugitive from jus- itice, a polished but villainous New | Yorker, his confederate, a dishon- | English novel, a remarkable piece of work in view of the fact that it is the "| maiden effort of a young Brighton clergyman, is," Tell England," by Ernest CAROL C Author of "Velvet Eyes" COLE Paws est mining engineer, a man of mys- tery, and two eastern girls on a visit flood. | before this isfue goes to press, it is The object of this annual book | impostible to give a careful JUDGE EMILY MURPHY ('Janey Canuck"), Author of "Seeds and St criti- Author of "The Dust Flower." of Mortimer's Gold Raymond. This story will be read long after "This Freedom" is forgotten. | Two exceptionally interesting romances of adventure are John Buchan's "Huntingtowers'" and Jeffery Farnol's "Peregrine's_ Progress." "The Cathedral," by Hugh Wampole, "The Rustle of Silk," by, Cosmo Hamlltan, and "Lilian," by Arnold Bennett, are sex novels of .the higher grade by writers who are masters of the art of fic tion. [ : -- STORIES BY AMERICANS. Nearly every estabiished writer in the United States is out with novel this season. The most-talked-of story is ""Babbitt' This is a much keener satire than 'Main Street," gales of laughter even by t American gives a distorted view of American city lite, It says much for the good-nature of the American people that they are tak- Ing it as a joke instead of 4s an insult. Among other well-known Ameri- can novelists who appeal for your patronage this season are Mary Roberts Rinehart, Joseph Hergesheimer, Dorothy Canfield, Alice Brown, Ellgn Glasgow, Owen Johnson, Rex Beach, Edith Wharton, Irving --Bachelley, Ernest and V a Cather. "One Ours! by the last-mentioned writer is a character story of Nebraska farm life and is a very distinguishéq performance ® } ? by Sinclair Lewis. and is being read with whom it ridicules. It but ft is enormously clever. boosters Poole of s OFFERINGS IN CANADIAN FICTION. By actual count the total fiummber of stories by Canadian writers this season equals that of last year. Among the authors of established reputa- tion who figure in the list this Christmas are Sir Gilbert Parker. Robert W. Service, Basil King, Robert J. C. Stead, H: 'A. Cody, W. A. Fraser, J. Mur- ray Gibbon, F. W. Wallace, Canon Heeney, Marian Keith, and Luke Alan. Several new writers, including Frederick Bending, author of '""The Shadow's Edge," Dr. Beaumont 8. Cornell, author of "Renaissance," and Harold Horn, author of "Mortimer's Gold," present creditable first efforts in fiction. CANADIAN WORKS OF GENERAL INTEREST. As will be seen by the lists on another page, books of a general char- acter by Canadian writers outnumber stories. Among these works honor- able mention should be made of "The Black Candle," by Judge Emily EH. Murphy of Edmonton. This is a careful study of the traffic in drugs, opium, | morphine, cocaine, etc. The rapid increase in the number of those addict- ed to the usé of such drugs is startling. From her experiences in the court in Edmonton, Judge Murppy has become alarmed at the number of young people in Canada, who are being ruined because they have been tempted Her book is full of tragic interest and should preacher and teacher in this to experiment with cocaine. be read by every legislator, magistrate, country. -Another book of outstanding merit is Professor Cyrus "Canadian Fairy Tales." This is really a companion volume to his ""Can- adian, Wonder Tales," which was published two years ago. In this large and beautiully illustrated volume the MoGill professor has gathered to- gether stories that were told by Indian mothers to their children long cen- turies ago. They demonstrate that the Red Indian of North America had a lively imagination. This book Is destined to become a Canadian classic. In the historical field, a Canadian work of unusual interest is J. W. Dafoe's "Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics." This is a combination of biography and comment on recent politcal history in Canada, by one who has not only had the privilege of knowing Sir Wilfrid Laurier personally, but who'has watched the course of Canadian politics from the inside, so to speak, as editor of one of the great dailies of this country, H. G. Wells has been busy during the last year boiling down his "Outline of History." The result is "A Short History of the World." Because of its brevity and its splendid illustrations, this work will prob- ably be as popular as "The Outline." It is not an abstract or condensation of that very clever book, but a more generalized history planned and writ- ten afresh by one ofthe most industrious authors in the old land. Macmillan's A MONUMENTAL WORK, There can be no doubt whatever that the most remarkable publication of 1922 is "The Outline of Science," edited by Professor J. Arthur Thom- son of Aberdeen University. This work has been issued in four volumes and is just as readable as 'The Outline of History,, by H. G. Wells. Itisa tour de force of the first quality, for it embodies the history of science in general and what might be called the sub-sciences which crowd the univer- sity curriculum of to-day and which speak to us all of the wonderful secrets of creation and of man's conquest of natural forces. THIS YEAR'S OFFERINGS IN POETRY. The most valuable book of poems published this year is Thomas Hardy's "Late Lyrics and Earlier." The dean of En}lish novelists and poets, one of the few survivors of that golden age of literature, the Victor- | ian perfod, is now an old man of eighty-two years of age. But his faculties | are still unclouded and in this volume of verse he has given to the world | what may be called the most vital book of song that has ever been com- posed by a man of genius in his sunset years. Two volumes of Canadian poefyy of exceptional merit are the late "Marjorie Pickthall's latest offefing, "The Wood Carver's Wife and Other Poems," and Isab#l Ecclestone Mackay's "Fires of Driftwood." : A, LORD ERNLE'S DEFENCE OF NOVEL-READING. No one today condemns a soldier for carrying a novel in his knap- sack, or attenmipfs to creat political capital out.of a statesman's pleasure in the perusal of prose fiction. But the encouragement of mental and moral effeminacy is still one of the charges levelled against novels. Ag général propositions, neither accusation can be established. Mental vigor has often been combined with the love of prose fiction. Samuel Johnson, the incar- nation of sturdy common' sense, Was, as Bishop Percy told Boswell, devoted to romances of chivalry, and retained his love of them throughout his life. Equally difficult would it be to establish a general charge of moral enerva- tion. England is justly proud of the stimulus to heroic self-sacrifice and endeavor which is afforded by her national records of golden deeds. Yet, it must be remembered that, for at least half the world, the great actors and scenes of prose. fictton 'are more real and familiar than those of his tory. English novels, as well as English history, teach by examples. Th #re not necessarily "schools of vice." Compounded, as Caxton says. of "chivalrye, curtosye, humaiiyte, hardynesse, love, cowardyce, murdre, a" a new | supplement is to stimulate the inter- 1est of Canadian newspaper readers in books as sources of enjoyment and general culture. At the Christ- DR. WALTER E. TRAPROCK AND SNAK From "My Northern Exposure." mms of reminding our readers that they can not only practise economy by buying "DOORS as PrE¥Ents for their friends, for every one will agree that when compared with most merchan- |dise mew publications are compara- {tively inexpensive, but in reality |they .can become apostles of culture |by sending good books to friends at {home and abroad. "Why not books?" lis the. title: of a circular sent' out / broadcast by the National Associa- ition of Book Publishers of the Unit- |€a States. This is a practical ques- | fon at this time of the year and it ought to be suggestive to the intend- ing shopper who wonders what will {best please his or her friend on Christmas morning. Boeks e al- ways acceptable presents and the do- jnor has the satisfaction of, knowing |that they will not be tossed aside, as {80 many Christmas presents are, af- {ter a cursory glance, but will be in the hands of 'his or her friend on pieasant winter evenings, and will uitimately have a place on a library shelf as a perthanent reminder of an act of friendship. And it is just pos- sible' that the influence of a good mas season we take the opportunity | Sa ielsm of the merits of each volume of Pine" and "The Black Candle." { In 1acst cases all that can be done is |to the north country, are the prin- cipal characters. The action part of 0 give a brief indication of the na-|this story is exciting, but the author ture of the publication Following |overdoes the old device of providing the urual custom, books by Cana- a long-lost father for the heroine. | dian authors are given precedence | . | In our list. TIt-is to be hoped that! The King's Arrow---by H. A. Cody | buyers of books this Christmas will [ (McClelland & Stewart). | take a special interest in our own For several years Rev. H. A, Cody, literature, but the editor' knows that of Fredericton, N.B., has been in- | he speaks for Canadian authors in tending to write a story of the U. E | &eneral when he urges discrimina- | Loyalists who settled in the wilds of | | tion on the part of the public ithe maritime provinces. At last he | The books of the season are here- {has fulfilled his purpose and has pro- witli classified under the following |duced a narrative which will have headings [keen interest for young people in all | parts of Canada. He writes of Indl-| ans, the rebel slashers, of Dane Nor- | wood, the "King's arrow' as the col- | onists called Bim, and Jean, his] sweetheart, | History, - | Renaissance--by Beaumont, 8. | | Cornell (Macmillan) { | This is the first novel by an On-/ | tarfo medical man, who wields a re: CANADIAN. { markably good style. The scene is| The Return of Blue Pete, by Luke | 1aid in old London. It has to do Allan (McClelland & Stewart To-| With the cénflict between capital and | ronto). by English by American authors Fiction duth- j ors. IV.--Books for boys and girls. V.--Biography and VI.--Poetry. ~--Humor,. VIII.--General Literature, F. W. WALLACE a i . Author of "The fhack Locker" | labor. The hero isa young scientist "Sait Scab and dd oc an i " »{ who gets into touch with a Russian | This is a sequel to "Blue Pete HY i : p F evolution in | an action story that was well receiv-| Bolshevist who plans a revolutio ! ed last year. Once more we ride| Ensland. The dector, -assisiad by with the half-breed cowhoy across| DIS servant, Dhu Singh, is able to de- | the western plains and once again | feat the plans of the enemies of so-|-- we meet Boy Mahon of the Royal | ciety: The plot of the story is inter- Mounted who has thrilling - adven.| ©Sting. but the use of telepathy and | tures following the trail of a gang | Psychic forces detract somewhat | of horse thieves Vv | from its plausibility. The story is, ha | however, a promising performance. | The Captive Herd--by Grace Mur- | kin. McClel =| a Atkin (McClelland & Stew {der & Stoughton) h i . This is one of the outstanding nov- Fe heto oe Story 2 head-| of the season. .Mr. Fraser lived : es : a 0 ! p i world, seeks fame and fortune in | fOT many years in India and a New York. Unscrupulous Th his | StOTY tells of the plottings of Mana methods, he becomes an outcast and | S2Pib against Colonel Hodson, the is redeemed by his love for a | British representative in the native Canadian pli the heroine ha hy | state, the life of which is so accur- story He becomes amenable o | ately depicted in these graphic chap- : 4 once! ers. Two other characters, por- more to social conventions, or in oth-| * . | trayed with great skill are Captain f° Words he fejoins the captive herd | Barlow and Bootea, a native girl, whose love for this officer led her to desert Ajeet Singh. She risked her Caste--by W. A. Fraser. (Hod- | The Key of Dreams--by L. Adams| | Beck, MCidllant 4 gawaiL). The | life to save Barlow, and she and the [heroine is called the key to all the British officer have some thrilling | ©. MARJORIE PICKTHALL {dreams stories and legends of the Ruventures AuShor'of "The Woull Carver's Wifes Lmysterious east. A second volume - Pagan Love--J. Murray Gibbon. (McClelland & Stewart). This story, one of the besi of the CHARLES MAIR. season, Is interesting for several reasons. It is the record of a strange partnership of a young Scctch im- migrant in New York and a keen Ciecho-Slovak, who has becom: a millionaire publisher of foreign lan- guage rrwspapers which clrenlate among 'ie working cla;sss. This remarkable character has many e:- emies, for he has made a practice of doubel-crossing his fellowcountry- ren. He advances the ypung Sco! to a high position in his publishing | hous: erd surprises him by paying him as high as a thousand Jollata e1.0 for writing a serfes of pas§igh-} ate love letters. Just wha the hap- py Scot has piled up a sibstantidl cank account, trouble bres s. 'New York gurmen invade his apartmenty aud he finds he is involv+l with hisd. employer in a highly emotiznal cris is. Mr. Gibbon springs a great sur- prise on his readers. I have never read a story quite like this, especial- ly in its revelation of double<cross- ing in the labor world. It is hum- orous, intriguing and tragic by turns. D'Arcy Conyers--by Bertal Heen- (Hodder & Stoughton). This Is a story of Ontario life. The first and best part of the narrative has for its background country {scenes in the Gatineau Valley. Af- ter stormy school days the hero goes to Montreal to be a clerk, falls in with bad companions there , gets into serious trouble, becomes a fugi- Jtve from justice, assumes another | name, and finds a Job as a farm hand | near Barrie. Canon Heeney !s a i great lover of nature and brings us { into intlmats touch with the beauty {of earth. He shows also in every | chapter his Interest fn the spiritual! | side of Ife. } W. A. FRASER Author of "Caste" ' ey | Mortimer's Gold--by Harold | | Horn. (Musson) i . { This is the first aftempt at story- writing by a new Ontario author, | ALFRED CARMICHAEL FREDERICK BENDING uthor of "The Shadow's Edge. vertue, and synne," they may 4 to ¢ v . Y) he they may equally entice to virtue, Canada's oldest living poet, (Continued on Page 22.) samuthor of "Legends of Vancouver ia