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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 28, 1948, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 12 Winnipeg free press saturday. August 24 1948 a novel of mediaeval France and the crusades by e. K. Brown the world is Xot enough by Zoe Montrea Jonathan David 505 up. To e Oldenbourg s novel i Laid in Eastern Champagne to be the late twelfth and Early thirteenth centuries. There Are Long sections in which we follow the crusaders better windows insulated win Dows that offer you healthful indirect v e n dilation. See us about Curtis insulated windows enquire today at cd. Ltd. 720 Royal Bank building main Street near City Hall phone 98 123 m you this trip every year you can relive your sum Mer vacation Lime and Ogain if you take a movie camera with you record your trip for posterity. All the natural beauties of the country that you see can be seen for years to coma in your own Home. Fyer thing Taylor s Ltd. 260 Edmonton St. Books at Eaton s by Grant maven in. This interesting vol ume contains a series of biographies of the pioneers of the Canadian. West and tells in a humorous and witty manner the privations and hardships of the great men who pioneered Anc built up the Prairies. Toward the mobbing by Hervey Allen. Another epic of the american past by a master historical novelist. The growth and development of Salathiel Albino s character under the pressure of outside events is charged with excitement the heart of the matter by Graham Greene. The very real and dramatic dilemma of a British Africa colonial administrator burdened with a grasp ing wife a responsible office and threatened with Dis Honor a Book society Choice. Price. 52.so tomorrow will be better by Betty Smith. Full of the same warm humor and com passion that distinguished a tree grows in this new novel tells the Story of a Young girl looking for a Job in the Brooklyn of the 20 a while she dreams of a Bright future i Price i the loved one by Evelyn Waugh. A piercingly satirical novel provoked by the author s Brief visit to Hollywood. The Story of a Young British poet and n Young american crematorium cosmetic Ian. Price Book Section. Main floor Donald to the holy land with King Rich Ard the lion hearted the Chie among them and the blood heart breaking siege of acre the most vivid and elaborate scene in the Book. The happenings in the Baronia castles of Champagne Are simple so simple that after a couple o Hundred pages they seem tiresome in repetitive. The noblemen fight drink Hunt and take Long Bath of the finnish sort. The women also Noble Bear children Pray Anc scold. No one can read no one has any ideas no one sets a new Pat Tern. The rest of life is love making of a kind quite unlike Sii Walter Scott s. The love making has no color of chivalry or any sort of civilization. It has a Prim Tive roughness and is among the most repetitive things in the novel. Great value of the world s not enough is that it slowly guilds up an intimate impression f the course of the Days and nights in a baronial Castle at the height of the Middle Ages. We Are made to feel How dark the Castle Given to English equivalent the effect is comic. Sweet goes with Only in speaking of the Flower. Poor Whites this1 very Earth. By Skine Caldrell. Toronto. Col Lins. A group of dirty people dirty physically or even better in this age of modern plumbing a pub Lisher s guarantee for High soaring Book sales. So far Erskine Caldwell has made quite a bit of Money out of hese dirty people. In his tobacco Road they were used with Fine purpose reflecting from their dust magnificent shades of humor and pathos symbols of Many in poverty who wish for Only the Little was How cramped and in Winter How cold. Life was shocking publicity. Lived in bad children s books tick Tock and Jim by Keith Robertson. Philadelphia Winston. The Story of the boy who gets a Pony and cares for it and loves spite of the understandable protestations of his otherwise perfect has been told a Good Many times out it is one whose scope for adventure is so unlimited that it no doubt can be told a Good Many Umes again. Tick Tock is the Bony and unwanted Mustang u us owner. And Jim d the adventure that these two had with the conspirators is a Story which any real boy of twelve or fourteen would Liuji Lee we hide away under the covers read. To Apple seed farm. By Emily Latt illustrated by Anne Vaughan. 127 Pps. New weather Ere was scarcely any Chance of keeping warm and even less of getting away by oneself. The Baron and his lady were As crowded As a Pioneer Farmer s family in a Sod House. Even when n Man was ill he could not have a room he could Seldom have a bed to himself. A woman had even less Chance of privacy. If we do to feel that we Are living from Day to Day in the Castle of Ainsalu. Lord of Lignieres and the lady alis of Pui Seaux his wife the novel fails to enlist our emotions for individual Chac ters. Hundreds of Peoples pass across miss Oldenbourg s immense Panorama. But they Al remain Knght and dark spots in the Pic ure. A Good novelist helps us to participate with the characters in via liver they do think. There is More satisfaction in participating with a character closing i Gate or telephoning and finding he line Busy than there is in imply watching a character fall no in love or recovering i oni a seemingly mortal disease. In the world is not enough we merely ook on. Perhaps the Point where miss Oldenbourg succeeds Best in Al pm us do More is when an Iau of Lignieres is an old Man most Blind and determined that is Bastard daughter shall be entry treated in his household. See which Are All they can see through heir Short and clouded sights. But there were a Good Many Epple that paid Cor the Long run f that play on Broadway not be cause it was an excellent example of a certain kind or Art but be cause it was and Lusty. In his present Book these people will be even better pleased. Immorality heartless treatment of children crime Lan Guage ungoverned lust Are crowded together in this bizarre As incredible As an icebox in the Corner of an Igloo. Emily Taft. Douglas has sym pathetically and attractively presented a tale of a True in her first children s Book Appleseed farm the Story is about a Little girl name Penny who believes her father s work with the United nations to be the most important Job the Crockett family strayed from the precepts of their White haired Prophet Grandfather is largely supported by the earnings of an energetic Street walking Sis Ter who Good Fortune has it comes into the Way of a generous hearted and lonely congressman. Aside from some Good political irony which has been worked into this situation and aside from the simple and incisive prose style or the author the Book is a common i infrequently playing upon the result of such an environment upon the two voting minds in the family. The sense o f wretchedness in Justice and indignation which these children experience could Ever created. But when she hears the. History of Appleseed farm in Indiana she changes her mind. The tale her aunt Nellie unfolds the history of Young Penny s great grandparents in Indiana from the time they homesteaded there to the present. The deftly weaves the philosophy of Johnny Appleseed to the Story As she tells How he presented the Bartlett with their greatest gift to the Wilder Apple Orchard. Mrs. Doug Las bases her facts on the life of the real Johnny Appleseed glean ing her information from records kept by old settlers of his visits sayings and adventures. Although the Short Story is primarily writ for children adults too will. A human philosophy within the Liberal convention sir in the fr4e press Issue of August 14th, there is a letter to the editor entitled convention speech in French this woman writes in part i must say i was thoroughly disgusted with the fact that or. St. Laurent did not. Speak Erv Glish. What Good is a country Lille Canada if our respective leaders will not speak our language i saw both you Grant Dexter and Hugh there and you will agree that St. Laurent spoke 15 of his 20 minutes in English about 5 in French. Of course most people know that or. St. Laurent uses the most perfect Oxford while the intimation in the above letter is that Fie cannot speak English. Several people have to me that or. St. Laurent Only spoke in French and i feel it should be corrected. An editorial note at a livelier Winnipeg sir 1 heartily agree with . On his views on Winni Peg s dead sundays and women s Beer Parlours Etc. I too would like to know who Are the few who speak for All Winnipeg. I had hoped that when the vets returned from sampling the wonderful hospitality and Good companionship found in the traditional English pubs they would Clear aside and narrow minded cliques which pre Vail so determinedly Here and demand their wives or girl friends be allowed to share a sociable Beer together whenever t h e v pleased. Lets not be treated like children any longer i believe the majority tit of put r to a much sympathy for the railways sir in the aug. 21 free pres you have reported a Good i Law that forbids Horn a living Auer 10 like other progressive countries and cities Are doing Winnipeg common sense in the t that the railways were i favourable condition one state have Sai in a quite a f be quite a few millions every Vear which had to be made up by the that Lyle Lune Vear and _ thai was before this raise m wages which win mean Many millions More deficit hip p it a i . Tii ii foot of the above letter my b. O Brien have Kieen St Boniface. Man. Have seen sufficient. Othier bad publicity we got from Eastern papers was the impression that All resolutions and policy were dictated by the Cabinet. Of course this was not the Case As there were hundreds of resolutions considered in committee and some passed by the convention in spite of the ministers. Perhaps a Tacti Cal error was made by giving ministers and provincial leaders resolutions to read this gave the impression that the delegates had no part in it. In the next Twenty nine years we will know More about the mechanics of such conventions. Its pages which could be Well used today. . Have been much More eloped and to the Book s great and the sea of adventure. By Enid Blyton. Toronto Macmillan. Ver since or. Crusoe did it people have gone to lonely islands to meet such adventure As is one in a place like Canada for in stance. In. This Book a group of clip Dren and their wayward Parrot g to the Bird islands of a h. B. Veals organizer of Manitoba Liberal Bill of rights for Canada sir As a safeguard against orders a Council and arbitrary arrests the need for a written Cana oian Bill of rights of fundamental freedoms enforceable in the courts steadily grows. Ference Between the Winnipeg sinn. Progressive ass n. Sea and to suspense and excite Mem that even g. A. Henty woul have been proud of it t. Eaton of limited his is a very Long novel f h is not one of those books such As Anna Karenina hat one would wish to see longer hah it is. The historical novelist dealing Vith people whose surface ways Are very unlike ours particularly needs to help us to feel that in the ways that really matter the ways of the heart and the spirit the people in the Book and the people who. Read the Book Are alike. George Moore managed to do the in a novel about a slightly Earlie period in medieval i Beautiful record of the two great est medieval lovers Heloise an in. That Book we participate. The world is not enough i translated from French and in Jeneral the translator has Given a ively and idiomatic dress to the original. He has not always been is ingenious As he might have been. Guillaume is a Swee warm hearted novel Tobias Brandywine. By Dan Wickenden 366 up. Tor onto Mcclelland and Stewart. Ice to read a Book so warm it is Nic hear hearted and substantial As is Tobias Brandywine. In an Era in which the fictional Field is about equally divided Between bosoms and neurosis the Book deserves at Tention for its very sanity arid the integrity or his writing. Tobias Brandywine is a boil sounding word and perhaps de serves the Praise that it was a lame so Sweet that it was like a find att Coal co. Ltd. Coat Coke Wood 506 Paris bldg. Phone 97 404 License 2 Nice people. Some of them have their faults but none of them try to explain away their bad tempers or their Villa inies by discovering that they got that Way because aunt Minnie spoke sharply to them when they were Little children that Willie face life wit honesty because of a Mother Fixa Given to the homeless Man we arrives one Winter morning at the Home of old senator Windrow i the Small town of Wanhope the a Strong willed Domin senator rating old Man has his tamil what or Wickenden has to Offe s a plot and his store unfolds leisurely giving the Chara ers time to develop and express themselves coherently. Or. Wick Coden s prose style is an Admir Ible one being compounded of in sight and skill. He is an hones craftsman and a Good narrator my there is never a moment in which you Are not interested. All this does not mean that the Jock is Prissy and self conscious n its righteousness. This fault which can be much much worse Jian Over frankness. It holds to other Well it builds surely and reasonably to Yards its climaxes and you put it Down with a feeling that you could have easily read a couple More Hundred pages with out tiring. Tobias Brandywine is the name i i i i 11j. Pretty Well under his influence Tobias stays on As a Man of a getting the family out o innumerable scrapes and steering them toward emotional maturity when the senator Dies. Cedric the son is an ingratiating failure at life but he finds i place before the Book is Over. S does his spinster sister emmy am his married sister Anna. The for tunes of Anna s children Glady and Scotty Are also treated to Tobias Brandywine s attentions. The strands of the Book Wear the incidents smoothly together and there is a great Deal of Kumoi As Well As drama All expressed with clarity and Good sense the other characters add greatly to its especially Flannery the Neer do Well who arrives m Wanhope to give emmy and the Little theatre movement a great flutter. Main interest in the Book is Tobias himself who is a self effacing and. Altogether wonderful character. You Don t find out the facts about him until the end of the Book. It is a novel which recommended for Raven court for boys fort carry Winnipeg Man. Founded 1029. P. H. A. Wycks. . Headmaster. A boarding and country Day school boarders 8 to 18 boys 6 to 1 8 yrs. Offering progressive instruction from grades 1 to i incl me preparing for University and business careers highly qualified staff. Excellent academic record. Modern buildings Large gymnasium and Fine playing Field. Phvsical1 training for Dave boys 3" provided opening Date tuesday september Hrh for illustrated prospectus apply to the bursar phones school 43016 residence 35257 University students students entering the University or any of the Affili Atco colleges next month arc urged to buy their textbooks As Early As possible. Publishers shortages May cause delays before All students can be supplied. Many of the books arc now available and their Purchase will enable the student to prepare for the opening of term. The University of Manitoba Book department Broadway building. Osborne St. Entrance mystery Corner conspirator. By Humphrey Slater. S4 up. Toronto George f. Mcleod limited Toronto. When Harriet Frodsham mar ried major Desmond Fern Eaux Lightfoot. D.s.o., Gren Adier guards both had certain mental reservations about the advisability of the marriage. Harriet was equally repulsed and attracted by his evasive and inconsistent be of Ivious Desmond was troubled about the effect of marital life upon his one True objective in the world. The Light courtship however gives no hint of the scope of future trouble which enveloped their marriage. In his second novel Humphrey Slater develops a theme scarcely new to the inveterate Reader of mystery a wife Dis covers her respectable and conservative husband is actually a spy ind a traitor to his country wha t hould she do while not new he theme is nonetheless expertly handled. Or. Slater is a master of econ Mical characterization and in leases. The suspense and tension Vith brisk deft narrative. The re ult is an exciting Story which be. Reader will not want. To put Lawn. There arc moments when the situation seems a trifle too Pat russian. Espionage agents Are fan tical and a deviating machines Evoid of humanity and the econ Micai use. Of words raises some out As to the sufficiency of tiie cards major s motivation in orking for the dictatorship of the proletariat. But these moments Are overcome v the terse revelation of the of communist is Snage. And by an unusual amount novel behaviour on the part of e characters. A judicious sprinkling of Mari 1 animalism serves As a spice the Darker passages making a dramatic and Well written novel Var. Drew s under fire sir does it not Seera very unfair for the press or any one to mention George Drew s name As party Leader at the convention of the conservatives to be held in Ottawa there Are men such As John Diefenbaker messes. Mcnichol and. Others who have been in the Federal parliament for years. It would be very unfair to mention or. Drew beside them. He has Only recently been in the Ontario government and has lost his own seat and had his majority lowered. Every one i talk with men and women say we do not want his. Judgment is poor. When he went to Russia he said what an Ordinary Man saw was Only a show window he saw be imral that that they were very poor and unprepared for War. He at tacked the Bren gun contract. He Only wanted to Call attention to Drew bub the party thought a Dati in. Had come to judgment. The rabble it created in Par lament Defeated or. Manion and he conservative parly has been weakened Ever since acid Drew did lot get his place he criticized the ii org Kong auxiliary which was composed of thoroughly trained from Quebec and Manitoba. The vessel that did not meet the timetable and carried the equip ment was an american vessel. Had or. Drew been Premier of Canada his criticism might have lad very serious consequences be Viveen the . And. Canada. Everywhere Drew looks so big to itself he does not see or understand anything else but to keen is name before the Public with the civil liberties of the com Mon Law should be codified and written into Law. These civil lib erties need no recital. The main principles on which they rest Are Public knowledge. These Are in part that arrest shall be by War rant duly sworn or at the risk of the officer performing the arrest that no Man shall be compelled by torture intimidation or trickery to testify against him that no Man shall be ii e 1 d without trial but be. Allowed the writ of Hareas Corpus that the accused be held innocent until proved guilty in a competent court or Law by due process of Law that in All but Petty cases trial shall be by jury the jury to determine the fact the judge to declare the Law. The spirit and purpose of these principles Are to ensure that in Man shall be imprisoned with out trial or convicted without a fan trial. To the same end the rules of procedure and the Law of evidence have been developed and maintained. Purpose of constitutional liberties is to ensure that the authority of shall be exercised not according to the will of the agents of , but according to established and known Laws of the land. 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