February 1, 1917

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A COMPLETE NOVELETTE

Danton of the Fleet

“Forty years on when afar and asunder, Parted are those who are singing to-day, When you look back and forgetfully wonder What you were like in your work and your play; Then It may be there will often come o’er you Glimpses of notes like the catch of a song. By A. C. Allenson53 min

Jordan is a Hard Road

REVIVAL meetings are generally held in great halls or churches; but the strikingly successful revival meeting at Mayo, Nolan Doyle’s ranch, was held in tents, and it was therefore called a Camp Meeting. It was the first that had ever been held between Winnipeg and the Rockies. By Sir Gilbert Parker30 min

Keeping Them in Line

WE ARE all democrats because we are aristocrats at heart. We support the rule of the many because we hope to be of the few who do the ruling. Having uttered these two trite paradoxes of democracy we can now pass on to cabinet control. We believe in responsible government by, for, and of the people because the people have very little to do with it. By H. F. Gadsby21 min

In Merry Mexico

I STOOD upon the platform of the little deserted railway station of the frontier and looked around at the wide prospect. “So this," I said to myself, “is Mexico!” About me was the great plain rolling away to the Sierras in the background. By Stephen Leacock19 min

Canada, United States and the Future

TO DESCRIBE American political conditions as chaotic since the elections is putting it mildly. What defeated Hughes? What reelected Wilson Why did the Germans immediately on Hughes’ defeat launch a subterranean peace propaganda, and follow that up with a condemnation of foreign loans by the United States, uttered by the Federal Reserve Bank Board of the United States? By Agnes C. Laut12 min