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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. 1946. Canada Demands More Books by Canadians By tM fntn Vnm Canadian publishers say big field lor tht Canadian writer developing right here at home lor the reeding public is demanding more and better book by native author about Uie Dominion. Pttbliahen say the increased demand came with the war end has not slackened since. A more mature outlook, the formation ol the reading habit during dreary war yean and more (pending money are among reasons they give lor the present boom.

They still have a backlog of unpublished manuscripts which they are gradually releasing as tht exigencies ol the publishing Held permit. Chief difficulty Is the scarcity materials and labor. Though control ever paper are ended, most firms say they find It hard to obtalM all they require now that the market It open to allcomers on an unratloned basis. Inability to obtain parts for worn out machinery I ancther factor. Labor shortage began with the loss of men for war service.

Now they are taking advantage ol rehabilitation schemes or entering PH. 3 6S0 MITCHfLL COPP LTD. Pertsgo sad Hsrtrn Hours, 9 6 9 1 I nl I FROM THE TOP OFTIIESTAIIIS By Greichen Finletter 13. Where three pianos were tuually going at once celebrities like Paderewski, Chaliapin and Heifeti rehearsed where people lived for the theatre and the opera, such was the Damrosch household. Written by the second of Walter Dam i rosch's daughters "From the Top of the Stairs" follow Father from the Metropolian to a Pop Concert at Lake Champlain.

A delightful narrative of wit and humour "for most en joyable reading. DOMINION Or THE NORTH. A history of Canada by Donald Grant Creighton. A living hiatory told in vivid narrative form by the Associate Professor of History the University of Toronto. It begins with the coming of the first French fishermen to the Northeastern coast cf North America and ending with the outbreak of the 2nd World 4.5U WI HAPPY FEW by Helen Howe.

Witness the 'awakening of Dorothea, like a princess In a fairy ale, who through the influence of four men, changes from a charming prig to a human being "BOOKS, MAUI FLOOR. Canadian i OC3 R3ADIN9 new lines of work. Binders are scarce and many book firms now have their manuscripts bound by an outside firm. Canadian Writers Publishers say one ol the encouraging signs of the times la Uie great numoer of Canadian authors wnose works are selling well against stiff competition of highly publicized American writers. Themes emphasizing various aspects of Canadian life in fiction and history are popu lar.

Another hopeful omen is seen In increasing interest in translation of French Canadian novels into Eng lish. Critics of Canadian literature have been drawing the attention of publishers and public to this little developed field. Interest in political and economic subjects, developed during the war, nas not dwindled. Servicemen had the use of (amp library facilities, giving them an appreciation of mucn good literature which they are apparently retaining, as Is snown by the steady sale of reprints of the classics. Though a drop is reported In the sale of war books, almost all types of literature are in demand.

Despite paper shortages and the Increased call for educational texts due to war veterans returning to schools, publishers say they expect to be able to meet the need. Text revision in the western provinces has begun to bring educational book up to date. Martyr American THE AMERICAN: A Middle West ern Legend, by Howard Fast Collins, Toronto. 337 pp. 13.

J. P. Altgeld (1847 1902) martyr governor of Illinois, is a legendary figure among American left wing ers, primarily because he pardoned the convicted Haymarket anarchists in the face of considerable public indignation. Howard Fast, author ol Citizen Tom Paine and several other works ol a libertarian type, has here told Altgeld's story with moving simplicity and poetic force. RP.

M. Leon Blum Tells his Story FOR ALL MANKIND, by Leon Blum. MacMlllan, Toronto. 186 pp. i.w.

Written In the Nazi prison of Buchenwald. this book when it first appeared in France early in 1945 I wa like a voice from the dead, for the author and his wife were still prisoners of the Germans. M. Blum, premier of France in 1936 and 1937, has been hailed as leader of the world's democratic Socialist forces. While it is necessary at times for the reader to remind himself that this book was written In 1941, it Is marked uncanny foresight, it neatly oi a grams me rencn iacuons and their various parti in the deb acle of 1940, and it outlines Blum's own program for the new France.

He is unsparing In his Interest for Its calm, lucid account of the role of the communists in French By no means free of the defects common to books by politicians, Blum's book Is a document of basic value to students of the postwar French scene. R.P. Chinese Children THE BAMBOO GATE: Stories oil Children of Modern China, by Vanya Oakes. Macmlllan, Toron to. 157 pp.

$2.23. Boys and girls of China "taught me so much more than I taught them," writes Miss Oakes, and these delightful stories are written so that young Canadians 1 may meet and know these fun loving, wise and lovable neighbors across the Pacific The book Is strikingly Illustrated by Doug Kingman, a distinguished American born Chinese, artist W. H. L. "for any Intlisb ipetkint Cenidisa who wiibei to aodcrmod th land he livn in, THC FRENCH CANADIAN OLTIOOK is fait ts import" as a dictioaary of ta rtnch linguae.

Ufh MscLm im, eethor of "Two Solitaries' I raid THB FRENCH CANADIAN OUT 10OK at Ob sitting aad foaod it not only concise and extremely readable but the incat and nottobiectrr account of French English rcluioM ia Canada that 1 have ever seen. Gwtthaty Gthmm, anchor of "Earth sad High HaaTca" JI1 a daas petit livre toat ce qa'll faat our ditaipar lea eaaleettadaa. poaira an le litre soil coaao, la et coapris," AU Artimr Maima AT ALL BOOriTOIlB tM lopner La Farge. Longman, Co, Toronto. 250pp.

$3 Different readers may have dif ferent views of this unusual book but there Is unlikely to be much difference ol opinion that the au thors delineation of its central character Is the work of a master; craftsman. The narrative Itself Is of an egocentric woman and the two great hurricanes which lashed the New England coast in 1938 and 1944 At least half the writing Is about happenings of the earlier one, although events of the story are co incident with the second. What happens In the first Is re created in the mind ol Carrel Leckton, an elderly spinster whose scrupulously ordered New England home is disturbed by Intrusion of unwanted guests, driven by experiences oi those terrible hours to seek sneiier from the elements. The day ol that earlier hurricane started badly lor Miss Leckton. At the breakfast table, her ward who was her niece Leah, disclosed that Herbert Golotz was arriving eariy In the afternoon to ask her to marry him.

Miss Leckton disapproved the match. The young couple leave her household for good amid the cloud of her anger. Then came the storm which Is the vehicle lor bringing in the other main characters ol the story, the atraneer Invaders seeking ret uge, a French engineer, a local no good lout, an elderly woman from a near by Nw Englapd community, Man's First Million Years MAN, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by George R. Stewart, nanoom Hnu nf Canada. Toronto.

310 nn. S3.50. ir vnu don't choose to believe that vnnr remain ancestor! were Simian you 11 prooawy reseni many thine, that Mr Stewart has to say, but you won't be able to deny the book is most interesting. The evolution story is a lamuia nnm hut Mr Stewart couia oe Irountml nn ti handle it in out standing fashion. After all, It was this California University professor whose first oook was a novel bduui a atnrm his urnnrl a fascinating study of "Names on the Land." He has gathered togetner me facts and theories from many a musty tome and compended them into a reaaaDie story oi mn pru irh th aeeaBv emDha sizing such developments as the discovery oi ure, uie oneiucunj of the dog scratching of the aoil with th first run form oi diow.

ne puts history in a new perspective. "All about Rome" fills two pages invention ol the bow live pages. His first 32 chapters bring us up to the year nuu a.u. in rive more winy Iters he covers tne last tnree cen turioi th nrant anrf hereafter. I Mr.

Stewart feels that It lends mnr rlltrnitij tft man to believe that he lid progress rrom a Deasi uie tt hi. nrunt atatus. than to hold that he was created a superior being and has aecenaea ever uce. niioHn writ, nf "mvths" which have deterred the worlds progress In many instances. So there is Mr.

stewards dour It's your privilege to agree or dis agee, as you wish. J.M.G. Murder Tanqle STRANGER AT HOME, by Mich ael Sanders. Musson Book CO Toronto. 228 pp.

$3. When everyone thought he wa dead. Michael Vlckers comes Home to find the man who tried to Kin him lour years previously In a little village on the south coast ol Mexico. Suspicions narrow down to three men each of whom Is in love with Michael's wife, who Is still In love with him. Michael Is sure his would' be murderer would make another attempt to put him away.

That, however does not happen. Instead, Michael sets a trap with himself as bait It worked E.W, liMEm RIFUCTIVI INSULATION Makes your home or factory like a trterrnos bottle. Keeps heat In during win tor and out in summer. Made with pure aluminum foil which reflects, or bounces boat waves back. THE WINNIPEG TRIBUNE PAGE 9 VV A You like pretty silk, eh? Maybe like old China story how silk begin.

Pretty maiden lonely for father cry out: White Horse, bring papa home, I marry you Smart horse gallop off, bring home daddy. Chop chop. But little missy forget promise. Every time come near, horse whinny, stamp foot. Papa say wasmarta? Girl blush, tell promise.

Papa very sorry, take bow arrow, shoot horse. Afterwhile girl walk garden, see horse hide. Kick with foot, say "You big fool horse." Skin jump up, wrap around girl, Fly off to hill, nestle in tree. Cirl become silkworm, first in world. China people have pretty story, eh? Goodbye.

7 A Hurrricane And Guests Intrude on Miss Leckton THE SUDDEN GUEST, by Chrli a nine Italian girl, and a young mother and her Infant son. Six years after Carrel Leckton 1. ie to race tne second hurricane alone. And In thi storm there come to her not the human euests who might now be welcome but whose intrusion six yean back she zuriousiy resents, but her own thoughts of her present loneliness and Isolation, which she ungracious ly sees as bitter persecution. i.

i uiuricam aescriDllona are written with extraordinary vtvirt. ness. No less vivid are the descriptions of the inner temDesta in the mind of the book's central charac ter wnich makes the novel an lm pressive and penetrating character siuay oi a man. In the book there Is aUn a mihti ty of suggestion which cause one lo ponoer that, them am nthor mreatening hurricanes in this ud et world. On these the thoughts of a reader may well be focused more man on the story Itself.

L.F.E. Press Agent And the Bells THE MIRACLE OF THE BELLS, ay nusseu janney. George McLeod, Ltd, Toronto. 497 pp. ao.su.

When Olga Treskovna. a half starved burlesque dancer, befriended by press agent William Dunnl gan and given the lead in a movie, dies after completing the picture, ine producer shelves It and fires uunnigan. Almost down and out. Dunniean laxes tne Kirl's bodv a mn Pennsylvania mlnins 'town where she asked to be burled. He meets rne local undertaker who demands payment in advance and also settlement of an account for burying the girl's drunken father years previous.

When Dunnlgan remembered the gins request that the bells be rung, his press agent Instinct re vivees. With his last five dollars he arranges for the bells of all local churches to be tolled for four days nn me iunerai. Something haDDens at the church where the funeral was to be held and Dunnlgan finds himself Involved helping to transform the community from spiritual poverty to gooawiu ana brotherhood. Books Received The Gascon by J. B.

Morton. Macmillans, Toronto. 12. Mystery At Laughing Water by Dorothy Maywood Bird. Macmillans, Toronto.

$3.23. End Over End by Kelson Gldd' ding, Macmillans, Toronto. IX Merry Wives of Westminster by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes. Macmillans Toronto.

S3. Not by Bread Alone by Vllhjal mur Stefaiuton. Macmillans, Toronto. S4. The Brave Bantam by Louise Seaman.

Macmillans, Toronto. $1.10. Fighting Airmen THE R.CA.F. OVERSEAS, FIFTH YEAR. Oxford University Press, Toronto.

404 pp. $3. The second volume ol the story ol the Royal Canadian Air Force overseas, compiled by the air his torian, covers the period from Sep tember 1943 to August the follow ing year. Full accounts ol actual missions, whether on heavy timbers or night Intruder lighters, In Anzio or Normandy, are told In this book fashioned from the ex ploits of Canadian youths who were once students or shoe sales men. It outlines Day" preparations, tells ol buzz bomb destruction.

It reveals that the Winnipeg Bears was the only R.CA.F. day lighter squadron employed in destroying uum wiiiun. Apology Is made lor the "Lost Legion" and rightly so. This reference Is to the majority of Canadian aircrew who served with the R.A.F. A hint ol differences in setting up an R.A.F.

command, the result of "lengthy and delicate op erations with the R.A.F." Unpretentious note is made of the fact that the R.C.AF. hung up a recdrd for the number of sorties flown by any group In bomber command In August, the last month dealt with in the book. More than 3,700 sorties were flown, completely selfish wo 000 tons of bombs dropped. The book has many pictures of aircrew. It also contains an in teresting glossary of aircrew slang.

V.W. Autonomy In the West TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT IN CANADA: The Autonomy Question in the Old North West Territories, by W. Cecil Lingard. University of Toronto Press. 269 PP.

$3. The movement led by Sir Fred erick Haultaln which in 1905 cul mlnated in formation ol the provinces ol Alberta and Saskat chewan is here treated with de finitive thoroughness. Dr. Lingard, eminently qualified for the task, has made an exhaustive study of the documents and newspapers of the period, and had the benefit of a number of interviews with Sir Frederick. The result la a sound and scholarly account which has lasting interest for Canadians and particularly for those who dwell in the three Prairie Provinces.

R.P. Newfoundland Source Book NEWFOUNDLAND ECONOMIC, DIPLOMATIC AND STRATEGIC STUDIES. Edited, by R. A. Mac Kay, Ph.

D. Oxford University Press Toronto. 577 pp. $750. This work, a gigantic under taking by Canadian scholars, Is important and timely lor it comes Mr.

Janney tells what Newfoundland Is emerging to members ol the communlt 1 om PO'iuci" guardianship to once while the bells ring to Father M)r Mume th responsiblUtes of Paul, naator of st Mirh. popular government The war Father Splnsky, pastor of the rivrl 1 new era for 0,6 unty cnurcn; to the athlest president ol the miner's union, to the cook at tne short order stand; to the bargaining undertaker, and to many others. He also tells how, In The nurse receives warnings to be silent which she disregards. She is abducted by the murdered and It Is then the egregious detective, Arthur Crook, appears on the scene rescues the girl and solves the crime. F.J.

Autobiography Of Sea Writer IN THE FIRST WATCH, by William McFee. Random House of Canada, 334 pp. 93.75. Famous author of sea stories. William McFee here telle the story I of his own life as third, second and chief engineer In British tramps.

Both his parents were Canadians, but because be was born en a ship named Erin's Isle he claimed to be Irish. Droll, delicate and dour. "Old tells of happy ships ana tiara eases, of storms and quiet harbors, of breakdowns and leaky boilers with sardonic humor end unfailing fascination. R.P, Vhlch Is now recognized as a bas tion ol the Atlantic. Its strategic and diplomatic importance to the Western Hemisphere If discussed and new light Is thrown on the con response to public appeal, the pro stltutlonal Issues that she has laced, ducer decides to show the picture.

I Contributors to the book are S. A. Mr. Janney, who has won sue Saunders, M. A M.

Fraser M. cess as a wfiter ol lyrics lor re Gerald Graham M. A. R. M.

vues, acting as a press agent lor er, M. and G. S. Watts, M. movie stars, and as co author and.

There Is a forward by Sir Camp producer of The Vagabond King.lbell Stuart G. C. M. chairman has entered a new field with a novel of the supervisory committee on which is likely to prove a best seller and also find its way to the screen E. W.

Mystery With Romance DEATH LIFTS THE LATCH, by Anthony Gilbert Collins Toronto. 176 pp. This is detective story writing at Its best There are the necessary elements of mystery and suspense tne plot is plausible and the clues which point to the solution are sufficiently well hidden to make the P'eclng of them together difficult There la also an agreeable dash of romance. The heroine is a nurse who has been instructed to report on a new case. The house and owner nave both a sinister appearance and she la reluctant to enter the home.

Her lean are justified lor during the first night In the place her patient dies. Feeling certain It Is murder she makes known her suspicions. Newfoundland studies, Illustrated with maps and charts, with an index and appendices giving the derails of military agreements, it will be a valuable reference and source book lor many years. F.J. Celestial Jokes CHINESE WIT AND HUMOR, Edited by George Kao, with an Introduction by Lin Yutang Coward McCann, N.

Y. 347 pp. 94.75. George Kao (pron. editor ol the China Magazine, has compiled a delightful thesaurus of celestial jokes.

The great difference between Chinese and occidental humor is, that whereas we are seriously humorous, the Chinese ar humorously serious. This contrast reveals the enormous vitality of the Chinese, the fact that they are leu easily bored than we. Many of their Jokes are, by our standards, long winded, but so are some of our own, 11 we go back to more leisurely times. And Kao's collection goes back to very ancient times. It is well arranged: the first section is devoted to the humor ol the great philosophers, Confucius, Mencius and the lively Chuangtae.

The lusty midsection embodies 150 pages of the picaresque, tales ol rogues, scoundrels and practical Jokers which parallel the great era of European humor which began with Rabelais. The jolly practicality of the Chinese la well illustrated In the ccllection of 100 "word ol mouth" tables which are characteristic folk humor. And finally there ia a section, "Humor of Protest" light but by no means frivolous essays by modern Chinese writer, Thaw are drawn mainly from file of the magazine. The Analects, published In the Nanking days of the Kuo nintang government P. YOUR OPINIONS Briefly worded letters en topics of publ Interest are welcome In this column.

Letters mutt bo accompanied by the name and address of the writer. The edito reserves the right to cut letters when space limitations so require. Hamilton Riots Editor, The Tribune. Sir: When I read the letter by Bert Knight (Sept 14) entitled Un lawful Assembly, I could not help but regret that Uie Tribune did not offer any comments on such a pro vocative issue. Sure a tribunal the people ahoold have controverted the parochial interpretation 'of the Hamilton riott as being Communist inspired and as being directed against the "decent law abiding citizens of the country." Mr.

Knight holds out as a panacea lor all current labor unrest, the use ol coer cion. I could not help feeling that the article was an anachronism. It would be much more suitable fot those dark days when the sweat shop was a commonplace and the worker an obsequious and subserv ient The article oppugns the basic tenets of labor unionism when it assails picketing, the check ofi system, and the principle of the closed shop. Under the procrustean lzing Influence of Mr. Knight and his cohorts, the roots oi labor would soon wither and die.

Without even attempting a explanation of the basic is sues Involved In the Hamilton steel: strike Mr. Knight gives us nil jaundiced and uncerebral The anathema ol labor unions he believes could be solved by the un restricted use ol the injunction nd strong arm tactics against those he accuses ol being guilty of contumacy. Mr. Knight seems to have forgotten recent history, When Bennett in 1935 attempted to use just such tactics with consequent sorry results to himself and his party. Perhaps, however, the recent riots are a result of the asinine and procrastinating tendencies of the present day administration.

In the first' Dlace Charles Millard has stated that the S5 a torr price increase granted to the steel industry by the WPTB a year ago had been made on the condition that wage increases would be made to the steelworkers. This stipulation was not carried out. Secondly, the government has glibly stated that a 10c wage boost was the limit without Injuring the price ceiling. This argument would carry more conviction if at the same time the Government regional war labor board in B.C had not been granting Increases substantially above that limit The frenetic efforts of the steel Industry to escape from their re 50,000 Radios Drop in Bucket" EDMONTON, Sept. 21 (CP) M.

K. Pike, vice president in charge of sales for Northern Electric Company said today that the 50,000 radios manufactured by the company to date are only "a drop in the bucket" in relation to the tremendous demand. The supply situation is very tough, he said. "But despite the shortages of steel, brass, copper and rubber, our output is reasonably high. Our billing is away up but in comparison to the demand we are still a long way behind filling orders," he said.

sponsibilities has been made under the guise of being unable to grant; the 15c an hour increase without' further price increases. Yet in the; Stelco plant the management has been able to accommodate 2,000 scabs and pay them on a 24 hour basis for a regular 8 hour with free food and clothes thrown Into the bargain. Such hotspurs as Mr. Knight who spout platitudes about the prin ciples for which many gave their lives on the battlefront forget that I those very principles are being de fended by veterans on the picket lines, as the police force in Hamilton were soon to find out No In 1 deed, such a sanguinary solution ai proposed by Mr. Knight would; merely add fuel to the fires of dis content and Involve the country In an imbroglio irom wnicn it wouio be difficult to extricate itself.

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Cannon Herkiots made many friends during his years at St. John's College. Winnipeg and will be remembered as the author of several books the best known local! being a collection of essays entitled "First THU MIBACLE OF THE BELLS Russell Janney. The story of a publicity stant that became a miracle if not in deed, at least in effect spreading from the HtUe coalmining town in Pennsylvania to shake the foundations of the theatrical and film world As the bells of all denominations rang out for four days to announce to the world the defcth and burial of the little Polish girl. Olga Treskowna, who so nearly became a film star their vibrations wakened a new reverence in the hearts of the people, high and low near and far.

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