The Windsor Star from Windsor, Ontario, Canada • 18

Tnr midob mn, winm, ovrinio. MTruotr, ortnurn ip LITERATUR Musical Festival Opens at London MORE SCHOLARSHIPS OFFERED TO TALENTED ENTRIES AS WAR FAILS TO LESSEN ENTHUSIASM Historic Release U. of T. Professor Wins Praise for Words on Wartime Impression of Strength Conveyed in Typical Farm Scene PAGE TWO By Lenore Crawford TODAY the Canadian Musical Festival opens at London with blare of cornet and Captain R. B.

Hayward, famous Canadian brass and band adjudicator, at the judges desk. It continues for another four days next week, beginning on Tuesday with a gala opening in the evening. Change in Policy By Angus Munro rpO THE lot a Cana-J- dian, Professor Edgar Mclnnes of the Department of History, University of Toronto, has fallen the honor of preparing what may prove to be the first authentic history cf the Second World War. His volume: THE WAR. FIRST YEAR is now published by the Oxford University Press.

Vigil Never Ceasing By Thomas R. Brophey far-flung oceans of the world are the Royal Navys battleground. The life-lines that link Britain's world empire must be guarded and, to this end, British men-of-war prowl the seven seas, keeping up a never-ending vigil. For the most part, operations of Royal Navy, the Merchant Navy and the Fishing Fleets are cloaked with secrecy during wartime. But occasionally, too often for the enemy's comfort, the world Is reminded of the ubiquitous Royal Navy by thrilling accounts of naval encounters in unexpected places.

Air Crackles Word comes from Uruguay that three British cruisers have spelled doom to the proud Graf Spee, In the South Atlantic. The air crackles with glowing accounts of naval victories in the fiords of Norways. The English Channel suddenly becomes crowded with ships of all sizes and, soon, the world learns the story of the miraculous evacuation of Dunkirk. One of the cruisers that figured gloriously in the episode off the estuary of the River Platte Is next heard from, in the Mediterranean, with another bright chapter added to her story. So it goes.

Britains men of the sea turn up wherever action and high adventure is promised. That's their job. Moving swiftly about the world's surface, they seldom give any indication as to where they're going to strike next. And between naval encounters, with so much news of this topsy-turvy globe pouring In over the wires, one Is likely to lose the thread of the navy's stoiy. Authentic In THE NAVY IN ACTION, Taffrail, who has been dubbed 'The Man-vat of the Modem Navy, gathers together information on some of the present wars naval battles and manoeuvres.

The account is authentic and helps to bring the whole picture into focus. Taffrail tells of the last cruise of the Graf Spee, the cruise of the Altmark, naval battles off Norway, battles In Holland, destroyers at Eoulogne, and the magnificent retreat from Dunkirk. For good measure, he throws In chapters explaining the convoy system, describing mine warfare at sea, and recalling the sinking of the German fleet at Scapa Flow and sinking of the Lusitania. Choice Is Beauty VARIETY OF CLEVER APPROACH IS EVIDENT IN EXHIBITION OF PAINTER-ETCHERS AND ENGRAVERS IN WINDSOR War has done little to lessen enthusiasm for the festival or its importance in the cultural life of Western Ontario. This year it is one day shorter than last and classes for men are noticeably smaller.

But the news of the festival Isn't the effect of the war. It is a difference In policy which actually puts the 1940 steps ahead of the 1939 festival. That difference In policy is the ante as the one pursued by Stratford and Sarnia last spring, the giving of certificates instead of gold, silver and bronze medals. The result Is obviously good. At one swoop the number of scholarships went up to 13, which means progress for any festival.

Festival awards have always been ft subject for smirks and criticism since they first began In Canada. The amount of money contributed toward the education of festival winners has been so small as to bring down the wrath of any sane-minded musician. So far Canadian festivals, no matter how largely attended. have grovelled before donations of less than $100. The thought cf an amount which would pay the tuition of a pupil for even a year with one of Canada's few first-class teachers was never allowed to circulate In the mind of the most rabid festival enthusiast.

The thought Is still stranger In this country, although Australia with smaller population than ours can contribute scholarships of thousands of dollars for musical education. Long Road The road Is long toward the goal. But at least we are on the way when we stop spending dollars on bits of gold, silver and bronze and spend them on the people who in former years would have gone home with something for a museum collection. This year the Canadian Musical Festival Is giving 13 scholarships. Five $50 ones go to winners of vocal, piano and stringed instrument classes who are 16 or over.

Two scholarships of $25 go to a girl and a boy, respectively, for vocal, under 16, and two for the same amount to a girl and a boy under 16 for piano. The sum of $25 Is contributed to- ward the education of a junior who shows promise In the stringed instrument classes, one for woodwind classes, junior or senior, and two for brass, junior or senior. The trophies and rose bowls of other years will be up for competition and competitors will receive certificates bearing gold, silver or bronze seal to Indicate position in competition. The gold seal holder, like the gold medalist of other years, must have a mark of 80 or over and the silver seal holder must rate 75 or over. Sound Advice J.

Campbell-Mclnnes Is again adjudicator for the vocal competitions. His work last year was outstanding for Its entertainment and for the value to every entrant. No adjudicator that this writer has heard, either in London or Stratford, has given more sound advice and workable suggestions In a short space of two or three minutes than Campbell-Mclnnes. The festival committee has done well to bring him back to London. He Is a fine baritone, a lecturer and teacher.

This summer he was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (England.) Captain Hayward Is also an old-timer at London festivals. His slow, sure adjudications have been the Inspiration for many a brass and woodwind player. Boys have developed from year to year under his instruction. He is in the top class as a great trainer of band men; other brass adjudicators would do Well to imitate him. Harry Adaskin this year judges the violin classes.

It must be admitted that in past years the adjudicator of the string classes has been the weak member of the quartet. That error of judgment in choosing a string-class adjudicator has been rectified this year, for Adaskin knows festivals as well as the concert stage. His qualifications as a violinist are, of course, the best. He is a former member of the Hart House Quartet; his musicianship is superb. Limitations Miss Mona Bates, of Toronto, is also a newcomer to London.

Her qualifications as adjudicator, so far as this writer is concerned, are unknown. But her qualifications as ft teacher of piano are well-known, and her adjudications should be interesting. Whether it would be wiser to bring adjudicators from the United States, men and women outside the jealousies and fancies of home, is always a question. No doubt this year the Canadian Musical Festival had no choice. Wartime has brought limitations.

But criticism of this kind Is probably unfair. For Campbell-Mclnnes does not have much in common with Capt. Hayward, and possibly the world of Mona Bates is not that of Harry Adaskin. The dally Judging at the festival will tU the tale. Surely the Canadian Musical Festival in choosing Canadian adjudicators has picked with discrimination.

By Liddell Franks THE show of the Canadian Painter-Etchers and Engravers Association at Willistead Library in Windsor is half over. There has been sufficient time to gaze, inwardly digest and come to certain conclusions. Those conclusions are interesting at this juncture in Canadian art because they are based on such a thoroughly healthy foundation. No Sensations First Reaction The first reaction of the reader of this volume is that of respect and amazement that so thorough a task of summarizing th'-se twelve months has been so painstakingly done. A noted writer on current history.

Professor Mclnnes has. we believe, enhanced his reputation considerably by this latest effort. His woilc will stand the test of lur.e for numerous reasons. Foremost of these la that the writing has been done objectively. It ts likewise factual.

In fart there Is in the whole book r.o prorx.m editorial judgments that one might expect from one of Professor Innes's standing in the world rf history. Rather it Is like the best of journalistic correspondence. In this r'spect the book m.ay iaek something of the rounded out character that will come to historians writing after the war. It Is. skein, a deeply interesting chronological story of events as they occurred with the chaff sifted neatly from the wheat.

That so smooth and readable an account could cone so soon from the tumultuous year just passed, is due to the continuous application of the author to his subject. Professor Mclnnes has written and Oxford has published periodic histories of the months of war in sections of three months to each volume. Tlm-se were widely read and now we hate the twelve months in one. Quarterly Issue The quarterly studies of the war's first year were paper-covered booklet form which sotd at a low figure and drew praise from students and lay reader alike. The sponsorship of these booklets was conducted by the Canadian Institute of International Affairs of which the author is a member and ardent supporer.

The author gives among his sources of material the daily newspaper despatches of which he must have read literally thousands. It is significant that this recognized authority on history should choose the pages of the newspaper for his material and describe them as the essential foundations. Press association despatches, he points out, were searched 'for feature articles. Many of course feel that the newspaper are the truest source of historical material but many others are of the opinion that no one ever reads all that the dailies print about the war. The proof is here, in ample strength, that the best histories are based on the everyday happenings searched out fand made readable by thousands of newspaper writers the world over.

Many a writer, not only of history, but of the novel and biography, neglects to pay deserved tribute to the daily newspaper for his material. Professor Mclnnes readily acknowledges their aid. Not the least valuable part of this work is the collection of maps which augment the text. These again, are largely line drawings from the important daily newspapers, a large share of them from the New York Times. There is also an excellent documentaary appendix giving extracts from the important treaties having to do with the war.

Among these is the summary of Terms cf Armistice between France and Germany, extracts from important speeches, particularly Prime Minister Churchill's and former Prime Minister Chamberlain's. Easy Reading The publishers have sensed the full importance of the work by preparing it in a manner that makes for easy reading. It will be noted at once that the paper used and the wide spacing of the lines have in mind that the work will be used extensively as a textbook. An example of the author's style will convey at once the readiness with which he summarizes important events. The War.

First Year, will amply repay all who read it. It ill not be improved upon for a straightforward, factual report of events. There is a foreword by Raymond Gram Swing. CANADIAN -MUSICAL FESTIVAL Welcomes THE MANY FINE ENTRIES from WINDSOR, ESSEX and KENT COUNTIES Attend the Fifth Annual Musical Festival at London OCT. 26 NOV.

2 Nostalgic Attraction By May Connerty TN A HYSTERICAL 19 10, Mildred a 1 r's new book, TIIE BREWER'S BIG HORSES (George J. McLeod Limited) has the nostalgic attraction of an era whose problems and crusades seem, by contrast, almost gentle and dreamlike. We meet Sara Bolster in 1882 when the is seven years old and we leave her at the close of Woild War 36 years later. Those intervening years have brought extraordinary social changes, all reflected in Sara's personal life. The scene is a Michigan town, Armitage City, brought into being by lumbering.

As Sara grows up, tlie spring drive lessens in importance until the towns business stag- nates. New industries begin, but the men who supply this new energy are from the east side, while most of the important families (including Sara's) slip back into faded, precise and unimportant gentility. But Sara (her father's boy) has all the energy possessed by the family concentrated in her small body. She secures a job on the local newspaper and breaks with tradition by marrying the doctor son of a German brewer instead of the boy next door. And as she becomes more closely attached to Henkel's Brewery, she manages to shock youthful friends, including the newly-organized temperance leaders.

Unconnected with the woman's suffrage movement, she becomes a true feminist when she takes over the management of the brewery and continues until war-time prohibition closes that business and turns her into a restaurant -keeper. Only at the close of the book is there any weakening, for the climax of its close does not seem sufficiently important to be the high note in a life as individualistic as Sara's. It seems to promise her an easier life, but the Sara of the rest of the book never looked for ease, and struggle seemed an integral part of her existence. So, to this reviewer, the "happy eliding was a decided let-down. Sara is still only 43 years old, and, if I know her, is still ready for adventure of any kind, including new careers and new ideas.

It doesn't seem quite fair to cut her off abruptly, leaving her only domesticity, when there is so much inore for her to do. Didnt Click By Norman A. Campbell JOUTE 28 by Ward Green (Mc-1 Clelland and Stewart) is 1 short novel in a tempo that will make it a success in lending libraries. The blurb says Greene in this incisive novel, depicts the conflict which results when one kind of society is vnposed upon another. We just didnt like it and found it hard to he friendly with the nasty charactes in it.

If this Is an honest picture rf a cross-roads town in New York State, God help America. Thrills Throughout i By Emmett Kelleher TX THAT romantic and adventure- laden nineteenth century, there was probably no bolder figure than Edward Trelawney. intimate of Shelley and Byron, deserted from the Royal Xavy, and privateer and pirate who led life that could fill the pages of a penny thriller. Margaret Armstrong, who authored the best-seller Fanny Kemble last year, writes an equally as good TRELAWNEY, distributed in Canada by the Macmillan Company. The biography has received so much early acclaim that it is a Book of the Month selection.

Trelawneys spirit which egged him into hair-raising exploits was not accidental, for he descended from eccentric dare-devils. It was Sir John who was locked up in the Tower of London for inspiring the short-lived Cornish revolt in the Warbeck rebellion. Too hot for his father to handle, young Trelawney was put In the navy. But such discipline was not for him and he tied up with the swashbuckly De Ruyter, an American, who turned privateer and made a handsome living off shipping in the Indian Ocean and other waters. Trelawney married the glamorous daughter of an Arabian chief just one of his nuptial experiments but the girl died by poisoning.

Shortly after that he returned to England and wrote The Adventures of a Younger Son. Another book was Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron, regarded as his best work. His rascality toned off as he grew older, and he developed respectability, dying in 1873 at the hardy age of 81 years. His ashes were buried in Rome beside those of Shelley. Miss Armstrong took great pains to make this biography authentic.

Among authorities she used 21 letters from Trelawney to Augusta White, 1817 to 1873, and loaned to her by the Misses Draper, of Montreal. AIR FORCE JXCREASEP use and Importance of aircraft in battle as weeks of warfare come and go has brought a corresponding increased interest in military planes. To those who would know of the forces that deal death and destruction from the skies. Major Bernard A. Law's FIGHTING PLANES OF THE WORLD (Macmillans) comes as the answer.

Handsome illustrations in color of 65 of the leading warplanes now in active service, oupled with up-to-the-minute information on the capabilities of the craft, make this publication mighty attractive both from the point of view of interest and ref-' crence. Lines portrait. And in this very characteristic of going back to an older time for inspiration and subject the artist points to a new step in Canadian art. It is one of the newer trends in art today. Agony and Love Again, that trend is shown in the etching by Simone Hudon, Quebec artist, who portrays Christ carrying ilie cross, the second station of the cross, and the descent from the cross, the 13th station.

The pictures have agony and love beautifully confined within the limits of black and white Quite different is the thrill of Leonard Hutchinsons two woodcuts, one of which is reproduced on the page today. Here is virile Canadian-ism, as strong as the vivid color of the Group of Seven which first visualized a new art for this country. The woodcuts are from the later Hutchinson who once did colored prints of an entirely different style. One of them is in the collection to form fine contrast with his newer style. He is undoubtedly one of the few men whose work has paved the way for progress in Canadian art and is still pointing to new things.

Ills pictures speak of Canada, her tillers of the soil, her lumbermen and fishermen, her workers and miners, and of the landscape which foim.s their background. Still more recent Is the work of Lloyd Peters and J. W. Woods, who use their tools in a freer, more broad manner. Details are not so important for them in their etchings.

They suggest more than they draw. Brightness Mention must be made of etchings by Cyril F. Travers for their brightness and verve, and of Elizabeth Biackstocks meticulously done etching of trees overhanging water and reflected in it. When Leonard Brookes puts paint brush aside and turns to the aquatint he fails to impress. The same sympathy for snow is amazingly present in both, however.

W. F. Godfrey's woodcuts provide a thrill in composition. It Isnt new, particularly, but it is interesting. It gives much to the show as a whole.

So one must conclude that the Windsor Art Associaton did well in bringing this collection of works which will be on view till November 1 at Willistead. rs FEW of the latest additions to the shelves of the Windsor Public Libraries are listed in this column weekly. THE BEST POEMS OF 1939. selected by Thomas Moult. Toronto, Nelson.

The seventy-five poems included are reprinted from the periodicals of Great Britain, the United States. Eire and Canada. An annual compilation. CHARTING THE COUNSELOR'S COURSE: a Guide for Camp Leaders, ed. by Mary L.

Northway. Toronto, Longmans. This is an excellent Canadian book for all leaders of camp groups. The editor is Chairman of Committee on Education and Research, Ontario Camping Association, and all contributors are experienced camp workers. CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

by Captain J. P. Jerome. Toronto, Ryerson. This explains the author's new visual method of teaching one to fly an airplane.

FLOWER ARRANGEMENT IN COLOR, by F. F. Rockwell and E. C. Grayson.

N. Wise. Unique and charming designs for arranging flowers for the home. GERMANY TOMORROW, by Otto Strasser. Toronto, Nelson.

Strasser helped found the National Socialist party In Germany but broke with it when Hitler abandoned its policies and made himself a dictator. Today as founder and leader of the Black Front which is opposed to Hitler he lives in exile. This book points out the problems that the world must face in defeating Hitler and shows the way to a federated Europe. A HISTORY OF POLAND, by George Slucombe, revised and enlarged ed. Toronto.

Nelson. This gives the history of Poland up to the last partition by Hitler and Stalin in 1939. PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL BIOLOGY, by Lancelot Hogben. Toronto, Allen. This Is the second edition revised and newly illustrated by J.

F. Horrabin. THE RADIO A A R'S HANDBOOK, by A. Frederick Collins; eighth rev. by E.

L. Brog-don. Toronto, Oxford. A complete and practical guide to radio construction and repair. THE BOOK NOOK More than a hundred new Fall books, fiction and non-fiction, now on our shelves.

3 Cents a day. C. H. Smith Company Ltd. iitm ei.

non BRIEFLY A. SAUNDERS and Eleanor Black have done a workmanlike job in condensing the meat of the Rowell-Sirois report on Dominion-Provincial relations into a concise pamphlet of 45 pages. It is one of the series on contemporary affairs printed by the Ryer-son Press under the auspices of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. The pamphlet contains all the average man need know: about the report. With it and the information hell get from the politicians, plus an ordinary background of Canadian affairs, the average man will be able to form an opinion on the constitutional and financial problems dealt with In the report.

Adjudicator -'-V MR. J. CAMFCELL-MrlXNES At first glance the show would disappoint the sensation-seeker. He could find nothing purely abstract, difficult to understand. The pieces are done for the mind that does not take flights off into the Great Maze and they are done for house or office rather than for gallery.

Owen Staples, known fori many years as an excellent etcher. Is represented by beautifully executed drawings of Simcoe Hall and the Royal Ontario Museum. His Moonlight on Lake Huron is a lovely mezzotint, with exquisite shading. The late G. A.

Reid is represented by typical prints, one shoving figures, the other a landscape that has too much mass in it to be a first-class work but expresses mood rather well. G. A. Reid's widow, Mary E. Wrinch, has prints in the collection.

One is a not-outstanding woodcut of crocuses, with lovely coloring. The other, however, has significance, for it is done in gouache and has a mystic quality both unusual and well done. Care in Detail The truly fine work of Jack Martin and his father, Harry Martin, brings praise. The care in detail which is characteristic of both, because the son has followed in his father's footsteps, is noteworthy. The scenes are pleasant and picturesque.

All these combine to form an exhibit which would please anyone with an eye for beauty. But they aren't all, and as the visitor goes from picture to picture he does experience an intermittent shock which augurs well for the future of Canadian etching and engraving. An exhibit without shocks means nothing. Examining the shocks, one must mention first, surely, the magnificent head of Moses done by Nicholas Homyansky, one or Canada's greatest artists. It has distinctive line, strength without harshness, fine feeling for light and shade, in portraying one of the mightiest figures of all history.

Hornyansky's work, of course. Is technically in the class of masterpiece, and with his superb technique he combines depth of feeling and understanding for his subject. He uses cubes, he goes modernistic. Yet of ancient times seems the.