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1 SATURDAY; APRIL.5, 1941. THE OTTAWA JOURNAL 21 Literature And Lke; A Booklover's Corner Fnre Canadian JournalisU and a Professor Undertake to Enlighten Americans who May ram a4 lirt to. SH J-ITRZ a book "Canada Fights" which should placed on the shelves or library table of Canada's legation at Washington; it might hand to have around if, at some future time, our Minister to toe United Stages' should decide on another press conference. Tor It 'is a study, plus report, ot Canada at war. Mr.

J. who edited it, ia a foreword that it has been "written prlmar-' iiy to meet a desire of many citizens of the United lor about the participation by Canada, an American democracy, in the war In defence of the democratic way of and that "it Is hoped and believed that to questions which an inquiring and interested citizen of the United States may be moved to ask. answers will be found ia these Mr. Daioe might have added that it la a reply, a sort' of antidote.j to John MacCormac'S "Canada! America's In which MacCormac undertook to depict us as the Republic' "problem as Its northern headache. The reply and antidote.

It may be said at once, seem fairly I that this book is flawless. Ita authors. Mr. John W. Daloe, Mr.

Grant Dexter, Bruce Hutchinson. Mr. George Ferguson, Mr. B. T.

Richardson and Dr. Percy Corbetf of McGiQ University the first Ave journalists and the last a pro-feasor are all robust, Liberals: Liberals of the school which finds no difficulty In mixing North Americanism with" fervid loyalty to the League and "collective They are of a group which, before 1939. spent much time In discussing such things as right to be neutral in a British war, phas Canada's support of the League (without touch of apparent thought of what the support could be): hence much of the writing in this volume is reminiscent of the talk one used to hear (and stiQ hears) at gatherings of the International Inatl-tute. Let it be added, to avoid possible misunderstand' tag. that all five writers are "all out" for this war.

-i volume begins Mr. Richardson leading off with a description of that once famous, but now all but forgotten, meeting of Prime Minister King and President Roosevelt at Ogdensburg. Mr. Richardson, quite plainly, was Impressed enormously-by this event (which he witnessed personally); describes it as "momentous tor the democratic The description may be Justified by history, but for the prevent many must be content to accept what happened as more In the nature of a valuable thing, or incident, in the process of cooperation between the British and American peoples. Mr.

Richardson as Indeed all of the authors ot this book stresses what came from the Ogdensburg meeting, namely, the Canada-United States Permanent Joint Board of Defence. In doing so he tells (what is part of the record) that for year previously Mr. King and Mr. Roosevelt had on several occasions talked plans for some sort of step 1 this character, adds: "In January, 1938, staff officers of the two countries met in Wsshington The part importance ot this, many will think, must be in a simple question: Were similar Canadian meetings held with the staff officers of Crest Britain? The answer may be in the affirmative; if so, it might be well to have it on the record. Nine- teen thirty-eight was the era.

In Parliament at any rate, of "no i But this book is primarily for Americans, hence we may leave the Canada-United States defence plan, plus all its implications, to the future. LESS controversial and far more entertaining chapter in this book Is that on "What Is Canada?" clearly, by Mr. Bruce Hutchinson. Mr. Hutchinson is less the historian than the glowing writer of description, with something of Mr.

Archibald MacLeish's gift for beauty and whimsy, and much of this gift be shows. in closing passages on. the "feel of Thus: v. "The texture and feel of this Canada Is not to be put into words. But it is to-be seen In the rich stuff of Canadian life.

It is to be seen In the -ery land of Canada, in narrow valleys running down to the eastern sea. in the river farms of Quebec, the lush fields of Ontario between the walls of field stones, in the harsh wide sweep i'- of the prairies in the Winter, In the banks of mountain wildflowers a foot away from the receding snow of. the Rockies, and in the vast and solemn tundra of the north. i "It is to be seen in French villages with their glistening spires, in the drowsy, tree-lined streets ot an Ontario town, in the red prairie elevators, and the green sprouting through the crust in the Spring, and the waves of shadow and sunlight across the fat and heavy wheat. It is in the foaming British Columbia apple orchards at blossom time.

In schooners setting out. full sail, from Lunenburg, and in dog sleds cutting the clean northern snow. "The feel of Canada is in the wink of lonely lights among the spruce trees, in the snowshoe tracks, and the smell of forests, and spray from the sea. It is in the flow ot maple sap in the Spring and the pungent stream of boiling syrup in a sugar camp, It is in the gaunt battlements Some of the woooaow Wilson. Br eM Lih- St.

AJOODROW Wilson, on January g. 1918, went before the United States Congress to 'pronounce the famous Fourteen Points on which, he believed, the world could be restored to peace and maintained in sanity and security. The fourteenth called for "a general association of nations" the League upon which Congress later was to trample. But there was. in the words of Mr.

Loth, a Fifteenth Point "the character of Woodrow upon which the world counted for "a just and lasting -The Fifteenth Point" is the sub-title of this book. On President Wilson's regime in the. Wbite House, and the peace negotiations la Paris, there is vast literature. From this, and front access to the private Wilson papers. Mr.

Loth has written biography which puts within reasonable space the essential facts about a man whose stature increases as the fires ot partisanship burn lower. He writes frankly as an admirer of Wilson, and he nates Wilson's enemies with a Wilsoaian The period covered by Wilson's second term of office is filled with questions now insoluble. Could he Think Canada a Northern By M. RATTAN OXEAKT. I eta foe, Twvstvi M.U.

New Books have taken his country Into the League of Nations if he had shown more compromise and toleration la bis dealings with the Republican' politicians? Could he still have saved it, in his appeal to the if his health had not broken? And. If the United States had Joined the League, could this renewal of the German War have been averted? These are great historicsl "its" which add interest to the life of this man of courag and character, to the story of his achievements and the tragedy ol his failure. V. M. K.

MISSION SJOUS1 OS UfcCBTT. Br rkrltH Bmm. Tmtoi at. CMkurt h4 stawart, SM S. Miss.

Bottoms, whose novels are well know, has written aa excellent book on Britain at war, on the reaction of the common people to the Hitler terrorism. She writes from deep feeling, from patriotic pride in her own, from personal observation, but she covers ground already covered In considerable detail by other writers Quentln Reynolds, for example, and Tennyson Jesse. Miss Bottoms arrives at this conclusion: "The really stubborn core of what Hitler is fighting against In Great Britain Is the unconscious of Quebec in the In log cabins sound of in the evening, dark passes saws In the Irrigation of ripe grain "It is In lolling towns 300 engineering old universities, In grain cars "It Is in ferin Terrace Finn loggers and the clipped' and the vthe stove of "And it 1 memories of an Iroquois their backwoods and Indian struggling foot, ot the In the memory and on the Vlmy, and It soldiers In factories, its army and its war." That Is good we nominate Mr. of our Travel ot our prose Mr. Hutchinson, King: "A short, of hair tumbling humorous eye'V "His shrewd, proach to as in this emotion, has ever since the "Mr.

King moulded it, so divided Canada a policy. for reconciling acknowledgment "He hss often strange man, the the typical sensed better Canadians." True In the "THE chapter. from' his characteristic, much of what he and especially copious writings it should have a our neighbors. measured passages At page 81 he "It has colony of in one of them contribution It will be news great part in the In the long-time friend. a different story.

yJR. GRANT tor Total comprehensive seen in print with In logical sequence, perspective, ministers and Through be goes with appraisal, his everything, he With that though this is is that Mr. Dexter for the people The final "Home Front" The superfluous. Mr. editor of the penetrating when matters as the the censorship; a sense ot proportion, ently the work about the shape with a feeling horoscope the the writer Is both in Summed altogether useful be 'read there, good in Canada.

Headache' and the lean Gothic towers of Ottawa, old Georgian houses of Halifax and beside the Fraser. It is in the church bells along the St Lawrence and the whistle of trains In the of the Rockies, and the whisper of deep coast forests, and the gurgle of ditches In the dry belt, and the rustle under the wind. little trading posts up north, with by the door, and the mining miles from anywhere, and In great works built by Canadians, and in and raw lumber Camps, and toiling across the plains. the chatter of French girls on Duf- at twilight, and the accents of in a British Columbia bunkhouse, talk of English remittance men arguments of Swede farmers around a prairie store. Is In the memories of Canada, the Frenchmen dying with torture at Are, of American exiles hungry in settlements, of buffalo herds hunters on the prairies, of Mackenzie down to the shore of the Pacific on gold rush Into the Cariboo.

It is of battles on the cliffs of Quebec banks ot Niagara and at Ypres and Is In the graves of 00,000 Canadian France. It ia in Canada's new war little navy, its air force, its new decision to risk everything In this i writing on any man's typewriter; Hutchinson to tap out the literature Bureau, and also as one of the first poets. too, gives a good profile ot Mr. plump, bald man with a single wisp over his forehead and a twinkling, cold, calculating student's a p-' public affairs. Interrupted occasionally, war, by sudden moments of deep set the pace in Canadian, politics first World War.

has fitted his time, rather than for he has long held that in, a country by rsce and economic interest as good compromise is the best attainable He carries' no torches but bis genius discordant elements hss grudging from his enemies. succeeded by patience and conciliation, by delay and improvisation. This half ascetic, halt politician, altogether practicing democrat, and by no means Canadian of his time, hss always than anyone the mass mind of gross, "this. If not In detail. "Why Canada Is is obviously the pen of Mr.

Dafoe. It is in. authoritative style, and while says will not be new to Canadians, to those familiar with Mr. Da foe's on Canadian-American relations, good, salutary effect on certain of With only one statement In his fine, will some Canadians find fault writes: been noted above that Canada, as a Great Britain, took part in two wars, on a scale corresponding to her to the present to many that Canada played her last war as "a colony of Great memoirs of Mr. Dafoe's late and Sir Robert Borden, Jhere is told DEXTER.

In his "Democracy Mobilizes presents the ablest, most survey of our war effort that we have anywhere. An admirable factual reporter, capacity for analysis and narrative he sets the story in ita fight presents it in a way that many of our parliamentarians could copy all the economic machinery of war sure fooUteps, and with moderate only lapse being when, surveying describes it as a "triumph of some among us will disagree: not Important The Important thing tells his story well and clearly who need most to know it chapters ot the book desl with the and "Canada and the Post-War first is admirable; the last seemingly G. V. Ferguson, brilliant managing Winnipeg Free Press, is especially dealing with such controversial Defence of Canada Regulations and treating them with knowledge and In the final chapter (appar-. of Professor Corbett) there Is much of things to come, but one reads it that no man can be wise enough to future from this present and that somewhat out of step with his collaborators, thought and purpose.

this is a good, mostly sound, and book. In the United States, if it it should do good. It may also do Christianity of the British people: They msy not know why they have this religion; they may not; know how to define 'it; they may not even know that they are practising any religion at all; but they do practise it individually without suggestion or control." 4 And again she says: "The chivalry and heroism of the poor are like the Peace of God they pass all understand-lng." i a NSW VOCTBTMB FOB TUB ANN. CAS. ChariM KitlMWur.

Tflt Th MMsilhta MT. tU( aacM. ISJS. Latin 'America and the United States msy not exactly be wedded to one another, but la the fsce of hemisphere danger they are certainly being drawn together. A man with a humble and homespun manner, Cordell Hull, did the spadework which made the Act of Havana possible.

It provides that the American republics may seize any European possessions ia thU, hemisphere threatened by other European powers. The Havana conference also agreed: that foreign aggression sgalnst any one of the 21 American Republics Is aggression against all; that they should co-opera ta for mutual defence. Mr.i Wertenbsker ssys that his book pretends to be no more than Journalism which is the recording i Authors of i ey4! -iirii i i if 'i a I i 3. T. WRIGHT.

Win Mrs of the Governor General's literary awards for the best works of poetry, fiction and general llteratare published by Canadians during IMS, as aaaonaeed by the. Canadian Aataors' Asae-e la lion, are shews) herei J. T. C. Wright.

Ottawa, general liters-tare (photo by Ksrsh)! Dr. Philippe Fsnneton, Montreal, fiction, and E. J. Pratt, i Toronto, poetry. Ottawa Writer Wins Prize On Doukhobors Br Tha CaU Proas.

T. F. C. WRIGHT, who took a Job as night fireman in an Ottawa oil plant "as a change from writ- lng" has beep awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for 1940, In the general literature section. The award, which is announced by the Canadian Authors' Association, was onr Mr.

Wright's prose non-fiction work, "Slavs an interpretation of the Doukhobors as one ot Canada'! minority races. The award for fiction 'goes to Philippe Panne ton, of Montreal, for his "Thirty ad-Judged the best novel by a Canadian to appear In the calendar year 1940. His story deals with a typlcsl habitant of Quebec Professor E. J. Pratt, ot Toronto, receives the poetry award for "Brebeut and His routing the martyrdom of Jesuit missionaries In Huronls.

Dr. Pratt won the Governor General's award tor poetry also In 1937. J. F. Wright, who won the general literature was born In Wiltshire.

England, brought up on a farm hear Min-nedosa. Man. and was educated in the local schools. He worked as a bank clerk, was a stoker on a sea-going vessel, a farmhand, and roughed it In construction gangs and in the Alberta oilfields. Joining the staff of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, he served there for seven yeers, meeting Veregin.

the Doukhobor in the course of his job. and learning much of the sect and its objectives. Then he took a post as fireman in an Ottawa oil plant but plans to go: west again and study the Ukrainians, for another book. Dr. Panneton, who writes under the pen-name Is an ye-specialist in Montreal.

He studied In Paris in 1920-25 and returned to Canada to practise. In Those Were the Days! TBI LAST BU1X10K TXABS. A. Cliau, rh.O. Tba UatrmltT-I ImM hill.

SIS This thought-provoking book represents SO years of research tiy the author. He was stricken with his last illness when it was being prepared for publication, and one of his students. Dr. George F. Ksy, edited it as a labor of love.

Dr. E. S. Moore, Professor of Geology, University of Toronto, has written the foreword. The book is a' 'history of the Pleistocene Age in North America.

The most populous parts of the United States and Canada were Ice-covered In the Pleistocene and the work ot glaciers has profoundly influenced the present lite ot the region. "The soils, the scenery, the routes of roods and railways and canals, the sites of cities, the Great Lakes and their connecting rivers, and even the international boundary between the two countries, are closely bound up with the advance and retreat of ice sheets in the geological period Immediately preceding the says the author. It is pointed out that the real tragedy ot the Pleistocene is the fste ot the mammals, which began with the noble array ot great species assembled from three con of contemporary history. There Is no question as to its timeliness. It brings out many tacts pertaining to the 20 countries of Latin Am eric which occupy an area twice the size of the United States.

The author declares I that the Fifth Column organization is already more widespread and efficient in Latin America than it ever was in Norway, Holland or Belgium. camaba in woBtn ArvAiast rtn mIbbm la a MrtM af kiaaalal aar. vara aa4 aaaptaaa af tha Ca- aaaiaa laamau ai mmrm A Sain. OtfarS Calamity This Is a guide to Canada's foreign policy just prior to the outbreak ot the present war and contains a number of pertinent quotations from speeches ot Prime Minister King. Mr.

Ernest Lapolnte and Dr. Manion. It Is surprising how interesting si perusal of this volume will prove even to the most casual reader. To students of Canadian history it Is Invaluable. Contributing to this volume are Professor F.

H. Soward, ot the University of British Columbia, on Politics; Professor J. P. Parkinson, of the University of Toronto, on Economics; President N. A.

M. Best Books DR. PHILIPPE PANNETON. E. J.

'PRATT. 1 1929 he began his "Thirty Acres'' on which he spent ten' years. When it' was published in Psris, it received the Grand Prix du Roman ot the French Academy, the Prix du Roman Regional (Girard), and the Prix des Vikings. In 1940 the book appeared from Toronto 'in the English translation ot Felix and Dorothea Walter. It has also been translated into German, Dutch and Spanish.

The present award is the second time Professor Pratt has taken the Governor General's 'medal for poetry. A native ot Newfoundland, he has resided in Ontario 34 years and teaches English at Victoria College, University of Toronto. His first book was "Newfoundland Verse" (1923) and among his ten volumes are "The Roosevelt and the ''Many "The Titanic" and "The Fable of the for which he received the 1937 award. He has also been awarded the Lorne Pierce Gold Medal for distinguished service to Canadian literature. Last year he wss Toronto branch president of the Canadian Authors' Association! He edits the Canadian Poetry Magazine.

The medals, carrying the Canadian coat-of-arms and suitablejn-scriptions, will be presented at the authors' convention at Vancouver in August For 1939 the awards were: General literature, Laura Goodman Salverson, Winnipeg. "Confessions of an Immigrant's fiction i Franklin Davey McDowell, Toronto, "The Champlaln poetry, Arthur S. Bourinot, Ottawa, "Under the i tinents and ended with the loss ot the largest of them. Ottawa district wss at one time covered with a vast ice sheet similar to that which now envelopes Greenland. I In the area today are to be found shell-besring sands and.

clays which ant believed to be post glsclsl and were formed in the Champlaln Sea. The book from cover to cover is profoundly interesting. "What an interesting continent ours would have been if somewhere in the wilds we could have seen the ground sloths uprooting trees or the mammoth or mastodon clothed with long hsir or with gleaming recurved tusks crsshing through the forest, though the lurking sabre tooth tiger might by terrifying. Perhaps, even jwhere Ottawa now stands! I The author declares that within the last tew years, several finds, of human bones, or more often, of or spearheads, with' or beneath skeletons of extinct animals, have aroused greet Interest among scientific men, and the belief Is gaining ground that in America as In Europe and Africa, there were Pleistocene men, contemporaries of the gisnt ground sloths, the hairy elephants, and other extinct creatures W.Q.K. MacKenzie, I of the University ot New Brunswick, on International Law and Diplomacy; and Principal T.

W. L. MacDermot, of Upper Canada College, who has edited a number of valuable documents. WB WOCLO BBS ISl'S. Br I a BU Baa.

C. r. Oarkati, Btakaa at Taraalai LaafaMaa, Graaa aaS Caaaay. sac SS aaaU. horrors of the present wsr have done much to bring the so-called Godless elements of the world back to realizing the value ot Christian moral standards.

It is With this fact In mind that the book, "We Would See has been chosen as the Bishop ot London's Lent Book of the current year. The work Is designed to stress the' timeliness of Jesus and His doctrines, even In this present day. It cites episodes In His life on earth and relates them with like situations of the. present dsy. To the people of bombed Britain, especially, the book addresses this message: "He tells! us as He told His disciples ot old, not to be afraid: we' can trust at all times, in death as well as in life.

In the goodness and love ot Cod, our Father." i 's ove I of the Week IN THIS OUR LIFE, by Ellenl superior tactics Roy is undoubted-Glasgow, is another deeply- ly her father's favorite. and ever this most distinguished tru, te the traditions of American. novelist is preoccupied the South her delicate with courage that vein of health as a bludgeon to achieve that holds generations together, own rnnfr. H.f. 10 relize nat Asa Is driven to'the and does, not recognize defeat arm.

Oliver vmnthetip even when overwhelmed by it Be- cause she has faith in an inherent soundness of the human race she brlngrtohe, novel the re mm aumenuna wu must come even from 'this mud dled present' To Ellen Glasgow, Virginia is what the Black country ot Wales ils to Francis Brett Young, whet Wessex was to Hardy and the Lake country to Walter Scott, for her novels have made this state peculiarly her own. As ever the scene is laid In the town ot Queen- borough where already' the old aristocratic families are. tinged with decay. In a Aimsily built house at the other end ot the wwn irom uie scene oi mi cniia- sister's nusoand. now indeed is I hood Asa Timberlake lives with Roy's modern character put to the bis invalid wife, Lavinla, whe test! arrogant she re-never cesses to remind him she fuses to be pitied.

But she intermarried beneath her. They have ribly lyirt. Craig the ineffectual two daughters, Stanly, the idealist whose credo had been a spoiled favorite and typical denial ot reality, goes under. Southern Belle brought subtly up Through their need for each to date; and Roy, the hard, brittle, other Roy and Craig had drawn but honest, modern product. together and slowly Craig gathers Married to Peter a up the: pieces.

Just as they are brilliant young surgeon, Roy is achieving a makeshift happiness, completely hsppy. In spite of whose selfishness was Stanley's studied charm' and second only to Stanley's kills him An Attic PIGEON la considered a domesticated bird and lives, for the most part, under the constant gaze ot human neighbors or observes John Please" renown (in his delightful little book. "John Kiersn's. Nature Then, for once, he turns questioner, "How msny hsve noticed an odd trait of the pigeon that sets it apart from other birds or domesticated fowl in almost any re-, gion?" he asks. "Most birds drink In sips like chickens, dipping the bill down, scooping up some waster and then elevating the head while the water runs down the explains Mr.

Kieran. "Even ducks do that, and other birds. But 'observe the common pigeon. It simply sticks iU bill right into the- wster and, to put it plainly, drinks like a horse', swigging away without ever its head until It hss hsd its fill." HERE'S ANOTHER: What Is the biggest animal the world ever saw? Let.Mr. Kieran answer thst in his own inimitable way.

"Children learn with some mild surprise thst a whale is not a fish but an animal, even though it lives In the sea and looks like a great ht says. "A whale has wsrm blood and breathes air Into ita lungs just like any other animal. But what is often overlooked is that the large species of whale are not only the biggest animals iti the world, but the biggest animals the world ever saw. .9 "THE DINOSAURS and bronto-aaurs and all the huge monsters of the antediluvian, fens 'weren't in it with the great whales of then and today gigsntic animals that may reach a total length of 90 feet and average in weight about a ton to each running or. swimming foot.

"So when the monsters of old sre. mentioned, remember that the whsle thst is still in the sess is bigger than any other animal that ever ranged the land, sea or sky;" a a "DID I EVER TELL you that last year I went to a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream' in Regent's Park (London) one night?" wrote F. Tennyson Jesse, the novelist, in a letter to' an American friend (found in "London Then She continued: "Forgive me if I did, but it Is a lovely story and, like all the best stories, true. "PUCK wss making hi i speech beginning: 'Captain of our fairy band when there was1 the hum of airplanes overhead and the searchlights, which had been opening and like the, sticks of a fan behind the picked the 'planes up just as Puck threw bsck his head, gazed at the skies and said: 'Lord, what fools these mortals pel' And, believe me or not, in the little silence that followed, unbroken save for the noise of the planes, the hyenas laughed from the For those who don't know it, the London zoo is in Regent's Park. AND I LOVE the "code" used by a kitchen mentioned in a letter- from America to Miss Jesse who left this note for her employer: "Mrs.

Isiks Klop Klrop sos una Komin Klrop." Decoded: "Mrs. Issues call up Call her up as soon as you come In Call her up." THEN THERE WAS the lady Miss Jesse found herself seated next to at a "large women's luncheon who was completely dumb and responded to no topic whatsoever. Finally conversation turned to euthanasia and, thoroughly annoyed because I had so far succeeded in getting nothing out ot her, I turned to her and said firmly: 'I'm a great believer in euthan asia, aren't and charming girl with whom he finds happiness every Sunday on river farm. As the story SfiWrSTt lg charged with drama. With the prescience of all negroes who are turned tp th rhythms of the dark cavern of life, old' Minerva, washing at the tub, mutters "poor She is thankful for her own happy life in a kind household and for her fine son Parry whose gentle ways and burning desire for knowledge win the respect and good will of every one.

Five days before the wedding Stanley, who had always taken what she wanted, elopes with her Salt Shaker "To which she responded with the first glesm ot light Wumlnat-, lng her face: Tm a great believer in youth ROARING JOE. From "Siren by A. P. Herbert, the English humorist (Mr. Herbert, is W.

Ortoa Ttwaaa Member of Parliament for Oxford University): They call him Admiral Goebbels, and they call him Roaring Joe; No ordinary seaman is so hard upon the foe. No, wonder Admiral Raeder looks with jealousy at For no one sinks the British Fleet so frequently as he. They call him Admiral and they call him Captain Punk; Old England never had so many ships as he hss sunk! He bqmbs them over breakfast, he torpedoes them at sea; And if a ship pops up again, why, then she counts as i Napoleon' was a nobody, van Trpmp a timid dunce, For neither of them wished sink the Navy more than once; "But Admiral Gobble-Goebbels really does command the main, And having sunk the British Fleet he sinks it sll LADY LUCK. I "After listening to the tales ot hundreds of sitters, I am more convinced than ever that there is another factor In success besides purposeful, concentration another force, over which the individual himself has no declares S. J.

Woolf, well-known artist snd journalist (in his chatty autobiography, "Here Am "I do not believe what Julius. Rosenwald (former head ot Sears Roebuck) said to me one adds Woolf. "when he attributed success to five percent sbil-ity and 93 'percent luck, but 'I do think that most ot the men snd women whom I hsve drawn and written about, in addition to havf tng had ability, have also had that other factor call it luck, opportunity, or any other namei" MR. WOOLF then gives the stories, as told to him, by a number of famous men. is one that of Walter-' Glfford, president of the- American Telegraph and Telephone Company: "It is be told me (relates Mr.

Woolf), "how small things affect a man's entire life. Shortly before my graduation from Harvard, I. thought it was about time for me to look around for a job. Like most boys, I had indulged in day dreaming, and the romance, of the life of a mining engineer In foreign countries appealed to I "HOWEVER, it was necessary, for me to earn my living, and I can distinctly remember the dsy I sat down to write to the General Electric, Company, asking for a' position with them. As I wss writing, a friend came into my room, and when I told him what I was doing, he suggested that I get In touch also Wth the Western Electric Company.

With what he said in mind, I Inadvertently sent my letter to -that firm. "A few days later I received a reply saying that they had received my communication, evidently was not intended for them, but thst they had an opening for me. 1 have often wondered what wpuld have happened had I not mitde that mistake in addressing the envelope." Book Notes ly vV A and Pen Pictures 1 7, Selected and 1 Reviewed for The journal by Claire Keefer. self. Even to Stanley this is a crushing blow.

It brings her back into the lives of Roy and Craig and once more shatters their hopes. Driving along one day in her car and preoc- cupied as always with her one god. Self, Stanley runs over and kills a child. Frantic, and refusing to accept 'responsibility, she throws the blame on the young negro Psrry. But Stanley's father te fuses to accept her story.

He drsgs the truth from her' but even in this desperate tmpasao Roy sees! Stsnley exert her old charm over Craig; knows that it' can never be otherwise and once again summons all her inner te- sources to meet this flnsl blow. Again thst inexorsble fste pursuing the dark race destroys Parry's hope in life. With dumb acceptance of his people he bows his head. Asa Timberlake himself who drcsmed thst some day he might live In sweet contentment by the river watches the vision, alwsys put of reach, drift farther and farther away though not quite Thst Ellen: Glasgow with the exception ot Wllla Cather is America's finest living novelist there is surely no question at all. Her prestige goes unchallenged by any of the opposite sex and "la This Our Life" added to.

"The Sheltered Life" and "Vein of Iron" constitutes a saga of modern Virginia comparable to Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga" of England. i w- 0r GERHART HAUPTMANN, the writer, told Mr. Woolf that It was "more or less of an that he took up writing. "I wss studying sculpture in he said. "I had a studio in which I wss trying to give my dreams tangible form when I was taken 111.

For several months I lay desperately sick with typhoid, and when I recovered, my doctor told me that I could no longer work in a damp studio. I had to live outdoors for a- while, and to occupy my time, I took up writing." "Were I to live again, he added. "I would not be a writer but a sculptor, for the medium In which 1 have worked cannot express my idess as well as clay." DURING HIS BACHELOR days at the White House, President Cleveland once, sat down, to an elaborate dinner served by the' faithful William Sinclair when a familiar odor came in through the window. "WUliam. what is -that smell?" ssked Cleveland.

am very sorry, sir, but that is the smell of the servants replied William. "What is it corned beef and WUliam confirmed the suspicion and the President said: "Well. WUliam. take this dinner down to the servants and bring their dinner to me." said Cleveland later the story is in Denis Tilden Lynch's biography ot Cleveland "I 'had the iest dinner I had had for WHICH RECALLS that President Theodore Roosevelt's favorite din- at the White House when the fsmily ate alone was Irish stew, and he could do a "wonderful job on that" to quote James E. Amos (in "Hero to His But there came a time when, on doctor's orders, "Teddy" hsd to give "up eating red meat Still, adds Amos, "often hf would est.

a very hearty meal, finish up his plate with relish, and turn to me like' a boy, with a look in his eye thst plainly asked for more. I would understand without his asking. So I would whisper to him: 'No more now, Mr. Roosevelt'" LIFE is 'certainly anything but beer and 'skittles, in England these days, but there is stiU humor in the some of it uncon- scious. For instance, the publish-.

ers of Winston S. ChurchUl's new book, "Blood, Sweat and point out that the final material for the Prime Minister's boo which reached the United States recently, was opened and examined by the British. Censor, while the last chapters of "Toward Freedom: The Autobiography of Jawaharlal Nehru" received from the great Indian leader, who is in jail for political reasons, bora a stamp on the envelope. "Not Opened by VI- IN THE QUAINT little city of FunchaV in beautiful Madeira, gleams a modest white stone with this inscription, says the Rev. Dr.

Henry Clay Risner (in "Pinnacles of To a Faithful Friend He possessed beauty, without vanity Strength without Insolence Courage without ferocity In fact he possessed sU mat's virtues Without his vices. TOBY, WAS HIS NAME. IT IS RELATED that Archdeacon Wilberforce once met John Hare, noted actor of bygone days, and that the conversation turned upon dogs, ot which Hare was very fond. "Do you really believe, asked the actor, "in a hereafter for dogs?" "Indeed I was "the answer. "But do you mean that I shall meet my dog again?" r- "Undoubtedly.

it you are good enough." i.