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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 23, 1952, Winnipeg, Manitoba Page 14 Winnipeg free press saturday August 1952 life in the Northwest far Corner. A personal of fhe Pacific Tori heat. By Stevart h. Hoi Brook. New York. The Macmillan Cora Pony. Far Corner s author Portland ore., subjects he treats seriously have who can not understand How anybody living in the North West could be Ever since he came to the Pacific coast after the first world War wearing the Region s Only Derby h a to Stewart Holbrook has revelled in the Amaz ing people unusual places and Tahj stories in which the area he quickly Learned for that it was unsafe to quote Indian War veterans on anything except the fact that general Oliver Otis Howard had Only one Andi be Hoard two men a r g u e As Toj which one. Some of the More Fla rally untruthful legends he Felt found to expose. But the harmless exaggerations he enjoyed As much is the colourful truth and both have found their Way into this and others of his books. Dicot Kagi act he tells of the world s longest , Erickson s in Portland and of. Bouncer jumbo Reilly who once Hrew a logger out of All five of its doors in succession. Three Hun dred Pound jumbo used to Over a been better handled by others. He is at his Best As a Story Teller. For those who do not take their history seriously and w h o enjoy unusual stories far Corner de Many interesting features is of the american and Canadian Northwest in an easy conversational style. Chess i Kollem 1738 by h. F. Fisher Lic Cord England Black s pieces. Buffets and awards. An autobiographical record. By s. P. B. Mais. Toronto. The Ryerson press. The name of or. S. P. B. Mais is probably not known to Many canadians but it is familiar to millions British people through his broadcasts which were for years a regular feature of the programs the . A very versatile fellow is or. Mais. He was educated Denstone school which gave his opponents by falling Bod ily upon them a process described f not in Tel r Uura Ging. Holbrook records the Monument Al struggle in British . B. Traffic switched from the a. The right hand Side of the Road i pieces. While to male in two moves Forsyth 6nl s up Albi tit _ 4n. 5 qn6. I Koi ilk no. Key move coi Toci solutions Serei Apfl from messes. A. K Burrows. E. C. . S. Barsky Cress Oil. . J. Marshall and Kev. Johr. Macdonald. 1 no. 17jf. Sol Slinns also the revived from messes. K. C. Birr. .1. V four a. Chi esp .1. , for epic Eljer in the. . New York state fit Cazenovia Seminary on Hie 1st. Also Illinois s ate tourney at Ruck or. Hoth. Louisiana state championship fit d Pennsylvania at Manor Hill Ian. 1, 1921. True John Bull eng stopped writing about first Crocus in Kerrysdale and filed the . Papers with angry against this Yankee no Oil ans but the switch resulted in increased accidents nor i .1 weakening o the Imperial tie. Liel entry visited not Ali of his Book is taken up Nuttli team representing the. . Vith anecdotes such As these. Score it scribes the problems of the discusses the econ Job. Honing or. origins of coastal towns and i races the development of modern i 5 from p0f-_ Offin the iia Guc to us ekes gambit a Kali Xei Black k. Parta time study and methods technicians Complete application of time and motion study Andrj methods engineering technique. Qualifications u n i v e r sity graduate or equivalent. Training on time and motion study. Proven experience in engineering. Mechanical background. Good salary and Good work ing conditions in modern Plant in Central Canada. Permanent work. Apply to Box 1528 free press t 7 castles s a 10 11 a .1 sup or Rome his Loose Bishop Ancl Pri Parins for possible necessity of and would be hotter. 13 in he credits White with in tending 3-1 which the text forestall but fails to Sec Luil he opens the Way to a much deeper . 13 would he a much better preventive measure. 1-1 pm up 34 a pop it it mkt it mkt it pop 36 pop 17 a exp the Llumi erholt for which his irs three Exi Hanges were storm a Louls 17 Kab is k sch is 19 be signs a saturday i ions and memoirs of p. B. Mais he wrote to the new statesman about their defects. He Laid the chief blame for their inefficiency upon the parents apathy about education As such. And he deplored Lis inability to establish easy and delightful friendships with his up uncommon who Are being Eli i at to Canada the Well known economist Lilbert Jackson of Toronto and at Oxford where he was the Best Cross country runner of his time. After taking a decent degree he Vas for about 20 years on the staffs of. Various English Public schools and while his experiences in them left him convinced trial they Are unique and valuable institutions he sees clearly their weaknesses and is ardent for their reformation. While he was a schoolmaster he took to writing beginning As a reviewer of books. His Industry during the last 35 years can be gauged from his claim that he has to Date produced books at the 4 per annul and they cover a wide Range of subjects. He has specialized like ii. V. Morton but with less Success in literary travelogues like the English scene i return to Madeira Holiday and norwegian he has written a number of novels thrill err for children histories of Oxford and the London county coun cil and an English course for he has also published some poetry. His reputation As an authority Pils because they were so Dull. He in cleared that the minor so called Public schools Britain traded upon and existed by the innate of the English people and Leigh Cromwell Marlborough and ended up by hoping that if. not shake this Type great clubman school into drastic changes no fewer than rate of. More than s something a Job and sets great store by his relationship to he ennobled family of Petre. Which is one his names. But is can also make fun the lady who in reply to his remark that he was proud to live in the same county As Thomas Hardy observed but or. Hardy is not a he is not unfriendly to the labor party but he is no great believer in democracy at East until it is decently educated. The he writes with . To employ him in this role and his Lively talks proved popu Lar with prime of the Public. So in the his life he was a very once robs again i t 5 t 1 v news with Penelope. Since the an i lulls Lillie it s jail Swers to Penelope s questions Are Busy Man with an abundance of lucrative employment and a minor National figure. It was almost inevitable that a Man like or. Mais should produce an autobiography and All Che Days of my life brought the Story his career up to 1937. Now he has Given us another instalment of his personal Saga covering the next 14 years in buffets and re in the greater part of this Book he employs an interest ing literary device he creates an imaginary spirit whom he Calls Penelope a repossessing Young woman with hair the color of Honey Cheeks pm Ancl White legs Long and Penelope first appeared to him at 4 . When As is often his habit he had been working through the night and proceeded to Cross examine him about his experiences after 1937. Most of the chapters after the third contain these imaginary inter by a. J. Stevenson the common people a favorite phrase of my mothers is that they Are just that. They Are com Mon common As starlings there Are too Many of them. They occupy seats to the exclusion of the seller was the English course or of which cop ies were sold. His worst failure was with books i for which the Market was Only 696 copies and the average circulation telling the Story of his own life. Of these 30 books was Only 3700, while his average return in Royal rated to the country s great loss. England s greatness was not built by common people but by the uncommon people. Elizabeth rather Are the sentiments of a Ould shake them out of old tory but or. Mais is or. Mais frankly admits that really in that category. He is a great clubman and in one Chap ter he gives an account of a Curi Ous club in London called the Sette old volumes to which he belongs and which has a very select membership mostly m i nent lawyers. A chapter called a h o would be an gives some inter Esting revelations about the earn Ings of a British writer who was at least High in the second rank. Up to 1937 or. Mais had about 30 books to his credit and his Best gangster novel the hoods. By Harry Grey. How York. Crown publishers inc. This is another in. The series i authentic gangster nov Els which have cropped up in the last year or two. Purport ing to he a account of what goes on in Side the big it is filled with characters supposed to represent such legendary madmen As Al Capone dutch Schultz Lucky Luciano and others. The hoods has for its leading character a gentleman familiarly referred to As noodles because he uses who supposedly is ties from them was whose equivalent at about the time would be ?500. But he fared better with his literary travelogues and a series seven published by a firm called Johnson netted him to Gether a sum just Short of or about to wishes that he wrote better but he says that he always wrote u tearing hurry would die before fearful that the halt finished is. Was completed and All his books have a hurried Atmos phere about but he thinks that authorship like Bachelor Dom and spinster Hood have their compensations. The a r r i v a 1" he writes of an idea the Germina Tion the planning of the pattern the pattern going according to plan the finish and Best All the tearing open of the parcel that holds the author s six complimentary copies All these Are thrill at the time he is supposed to be in hiding a fugitive from the Ralh his hostile contemporaries. Taste for poetry noodles a Man whose predatory activities do not prevent him from exercising his taste for poetry and the finer things life for example he has a dream in which he prominently appears As a Rob Ber Baron tells How he and his co Peers in crime grow up on new York s East Side. With a few his friends he forms an under taking establishment which it appears provides bodies As Well As three great irishmen. Snow. Yeats and Joyce. By Arland Ussher. London. Victor Gollance. Rose and by Stan o Costy. London. Macmillan and co. Odon sixteen years ago the uproar started about w. B. Yeats selections for the Oxford Book modern Shaw Yeats and Joyce by Gerard Fay l Jon the English Countryside led the there was Good reason for some of. The fuss for not All Yeats More arcane choices have Justi red themselves. But w Hen the trimmings were stripped the debate it was evident that the puzzled objections of some sincere poems chosen fro in established Alice Meynell. Francis Thompson John Drinkwater Rudyard Kipling Laurence Binyon Rupert Brooke it seemed to show Lewis and Dorothy Wellesley. Ger Ard Manley Hopkins third. Nt3kdlessly modest to any poetry Reader it Clear that Yeats had been need buries them. Eventually this group grows in strength and Power and together with s i m i 1 a r groups across the country forms the Mous Syndicate apparently realizing that in Union there is strength. The rest is history but or. Grey takes liberties with it nevertheless. The hoods might be More palatable if it were presented As straight it no doubt is and not As a fictionalized but although the ring of authenticity is lacking the hoods remains a f a s to moving readable Book probably one of the Best of its Type. At any rate it has a hard cover. Books received the Early Frost. By Clare Jaynes. 248 up. Toronto fandom House of Canada Ltd. The trouble with Cinderella. By Artie Shaw. 394 up. Toronto ambassador books Ltd. Wandering Staj. By Sholom Alei chem. 314 up. Toronto Ambas Sador books Ltd. Call Back yesterday. By Anne Meredith. 2s8 up. Toronto British Book service Canada Ltd. The key Alan. By Clarence Budington Kelland 215 up. Toronto the Musson Book co. Ltd. Trio surgent guide to summer Camps for boys Ami girls. 95 up Porter Sargent. Guide to private Boston. Mass Lessly and uncharacteristically to i the Sargent Deal. In putting himself second to1 Junior colleges and specialized Gogarty who sometimes had More lyrical voice but never poets their on the whole Trade better that Irish significant what Frank and Learned o Connor and lady Gregory were h than English ones. This stood out far above the eccentric inclusion of names like Winstan Hugh Auden. William Plo doing so near the top the list was anybody s guess and Only the Irish Reader could really see the special qualities Stephens and and colleges. 250 up. Bos a ton mass Porter Sargent. The sinner of Saint Ambrose. By Robert Raynolds. 437 up. Toronto Mcclelland and Stewart Ltd. Mer Herbert read people could be arithmetically sex Sitwell. And William Empson. In i recollect that fuss and uproar pressed in terms of the number the furious raging about Yeats simply because i happened to take snub to Brili Sli Poesy his critics Down the Oxford Book of mod verse to read a poem. But and in established poets from irishmen and others. A tabulated result could be produced like this Oliver St. John w. B. Yeats.1-1 to. M. Synge.12 James Stephens s Frank o Connor 1 lady Gregory 5 almost overlooked the much More Ern curious fact that it the Aritomo the recollection reminded me How tical table meant anything at All narrow the English Are in their it showed the Best poets in the so that Perior non Irish class to be Michael Field the pen name of two women and Robert Nichols with a dead heat for second place be tween Richard Hughes Cecil Day the stamp Corner Canada ignores trend Karl Andrew Groome 33. Of style is shown Street started to there s Power plus in the Ruston diesel engines famous for service engineered for efficiency built for endurance priced for Economy we have the Type and size you need Mumford phone 3-7187 516 Wall St. Limited Winnipeg months in jail Friday when he pleaded guilty in City police court to theft of a car dec. 21 and a i breach of recognizance on a three sear suspended sentence Given him in 1949 for their. Court was told Groome stole the car from the Palace garage. 2g5 Smith Street where he was employed. It was discovered in Yorkton sask., Jan. 5 where it had been Iofi. At the time of the offence Groome was on a three year sus Pended sentence for the theft of s217 from a former employer. He was Given year in Nail for the Auto theft and three months for the breach of recognizance. Brief Little care about lit but the method adopted permits or. Mais to be very racy in his reminiscences he has Many interesting stories of men. Women personal experiences and events in which he played a part to recount but they Are too often marred by the inclusion of uninteresting trivial a Caruso suspended Hollywood a Singer Mario Lanza has been suspended in definitely by Mem for failure to report for the Start of on the student there the no indication As to Why he some of to report. Your Esso Furnace Oil Supply Imperial Oil limited Home for Christi if of interest pkg picture i or. Mais is a devoted family Man blessed with a wife and two daughters who by his account Are faultless embodiments of All the feminine Virtues but there is a flavor of sugary adulation in his Effort to embalm them in Litera Ture. However we arc Given an interesting picture of the daily life Ancl Vicissitudes of an English Man of letters in the evening of his lays and the Book is eminently readable from Start to finish. He is very candid about his own faults and errors and is modest about his own literary productions con he is frankly ashamed ome of them. Cb0ft4w House school Vancouver . Ait Home economies voice production k founded by the Mikit Gordon 1898 residential and Day school for Gorfi primary classes to senior matriculation accredited by the department of education a City school in a country setting principal miss Ellen k. Bryan . Recent issues to arrive in Canada include lop left to from Algeria for tie Centenary of the French military medal from Czechoslovakia a stamp to religious writer comenius who lived 150 years ago West Germany s stamp to a lutheran world Congress at Hanover and lower two Stamps from former French undo China the Republic of Viet Nam showing native woman left and airmail stamp _ James mox Agnes school reopens september boarders return september s when you set foot Britain courses pleasantly upon his father and Mother who died in Quick Suc cession soon after 1937. The for Mer was a quiet country Parson who had held the same Rector ship in Derbyshire for 52 years but his Mother was a real character who had such a flair for successful in vestment that starting with a minute legacy As capital she Huilt up such a substantial Fortune that he was surprised to find his share was about at that time he was in comfortable circumstances. His services were in constant de Imand by the . In the Early of the War he gave a series of radio talks called the Kitchen i front to guide housewives about cookery diet. He broadcast to the United states and new Zea land and he gave what were called numerous sets of Stamps. Great Brt country Magazine talks. But he Tain which has always been con was rather extravagant in his Hab is Ergative in stamp issues had Spe its and lived up to his income and Stamps for the British Empire sometimes beyond it. Exhibitions at Wembley in 1924 and so when he fell out of favor with the . And the Sale of his books Vas curtailed by the War his fortunes came to a Low ebb. He wrote with difficulty and could unlike most countries Canada does not believe in advertising its exhibitions on postage Stamps. There has never been a special stamp issued for the canadians National opens this week at Toronto nor any other Canadian annual fair. On the other hand other countries have issued special Stamps for Art exhibitions Trade fairs and general fairs. The closest Canada has come to issuing such special Stamps has been the use of a special cancellation in recent years for a number of fairs in Western Canada principally thei Calgary Stampede. J this use of special Stamps is not confined to a few countries who apr Pear to make a living out of issuing step aboard a train Britain s favorite Way to travel will become yours Loo for Here is Raih Vay service at its finest and most convenient from Tanious named trains to Little country locals. Rail fares arc the lowest in history for Canadian visitors As your travel agent will Point out secure your tickets and reservations before you leave British i it Anil Lili tilt Orlle dipl. K Yonge Street Toronto. Ont. Not find publishers. So he went Back with his family to Oxford which he had always loved and hunted in vain for jobs even of-1 Fering himself As a Book Salesman. He also owed his Bank and a no Prospect of paying it. New books eventually however he got work As a schoolmaster at two schools n the Vicinity of Oxford and his fortunes began to mend. He was Able to give up teaching when he of commissions for some new docks on generous terms and also was employed by the Oxford mail As its dramatic critic. So or. Mais Las apparently made a Good comeback and in 1951 was Able to Tell Penelope that he had no fewer than 14 books on the stocks. I he said from one to the other just As i flit about from chapter to chapter in my novels. I never write straight when asked where he got his inspiration for so Many b o o k s he said from god from the Countryside from travelling and from Chance meetings with people like or. Mais on his return to teach ing was dismayed to find that there had been so Little improve ment in the British Public schools since his boyhood and he includes in his Book a Long letter which 1925 and last year for the Festi Val ill eni Ain the United states has issued Stamps for special exhibitions from time to time starting with the columbian exhibition tit Chicago in 1893. There followed sets for the trans Mississippi exhibition at Omaha in 1s9s. For pan american exhibition at Buffalo in 1901, for the Louisiana Purchase exhibition in 1904, the Jamestown exposition in 1907, the Alaska Yukon exhibition at Seattle in 1909, for the Panama Pacific exposition at san Francisco in 1915, for the 150th anniversary the declaration of in dependence at Philadelphia in 1926, the Century of Progress show at Chicago in 1933, the California exhibition at san Diego in 1935, and the world fairs at san Francisco and new York in 1939. In addition there have been Stamps issued for philatelic exhibitions since 1934. Most from Europe most special exhibition Stamps have come from Europe. Italy in recent years has issued Stamps for automobile shows at Turin Sample fairs at Milan and Padua for Tex tile fairs at Turin and for the Levant fair at Bari. Germany started such Stamps in 1925 for the Munich Trade fair and in Post War years has continued with Stamps for the Leipzig and Hanover Trade fairs. France last year had n stamp for an International textile show at United states issues these Stamps next month Lor top Centennial of Centre women la armed services and for newspaper boys in october. Lille in 1939 issued a stamp for a water Power exhibition at Liege and in 1936 issued Stamps for a colonial exhibition at Paris. These Are but a few of the coun tries which have issued such Stamps for annual and one time exhibit when an Irish critic writes a minor Book English reviewers some of the Graver newspapers in Flate it into a masterpiece simply because it deals with three Irish writers who happen to be better known and More appreciated in England than in Ireland. Shaw Yeats Ancl Joyce Are the three great irishmen of Arland Ussher s Choice and literary Cri tick in would have suffered Noth ing he had remained silent about two of them. On the third James Joyce he has something Worth saying something which is often forgotten that Joyce belongs among the great comic writers. When this is More generally understood perhaps there will not be so much pompous thesis writing about him especially in the uni Ted states. Out of fashion or. Ussher has had the mortification of seeing his own trans lation the Midnight court a Bawdy Rowdy gallic poem put quite out fashion by a late i version from Frank o Connor Yeats poem no. 5 which won the distinction of being banned by the Irish literary dictators the censorship Board. Perhaps be May now feel it a mortification that of ills three literary essays the least pretentious is the most effective. Ussher. In fact is the sort of writer who is most trying when he is trying most which is also True of Sean o Casey though the resemblance Between the two end there. O Casey might have made fourth in this series great irishmen he had continued to use the stage As a stage or even As a soap Box instead trying to use it As a pulpit. The Calm Shaw and the inflamed o Casey both protestant Irish both communists of the sort mos cow could never tolerate Are in one other important respect contradictory. Shaw did no Good while he stayed in Ireland. When he came to London he quickly soared o Casey swiftly reached the top of the ladder in his own Dublin but Evhen he came to London he rap idly Slid Down again. His tragic comedies of Dublin slum life had Force and humor which allowed them to contain and get away with a moderate amount of propaganda and a vast amount implicit poetry. But when o Casey tried to bring the preaching to the surface and turn the implicit poetry into explicit verse he miserably failed. Part of his failure is recounted in and Crown and added to it is Sis Iii personal failing his hysterical anger with those who fail to please him. This is the fifth volume of an autobiography w h i c h declines in Quality As steadily As o Casey s writings for the theatre have declined. If he reaches an ill tempered volume six which he might Call Crown it is going to be is difficult to read As he will find it to write. O Casey can still make other Irish prose writ ers seem Mere beginners. The trouble is that he used to do it by the chapter. Now he can do it personally conduct id by Bart menage. Manager of Holland America Tine s office and your genial Host for the voyage he care of All travel arrangements on the continent and will see to it that even Boby enjoys 3 Happy pre Lude to Christmas in the Homeland other personally conducted Mas sailing Wyndam dec. 10, to England France Holland Iron new York. I4rly with yep on the Beautiful Kewi maasdam give your family and old friends in the Homeland h e thrill of a lifetime be Home Well Befort tie Holiday season in tourist you la enjoy virtual Runof shop privileges including the main dining Salon owners a variety and abundance it Good food is served. 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