By G. B. BURGIN
Author of “The Shutters of Silence,” etc.
Mr. G. B. Burgin’s forthcoming Canadian novel, “A Puller of Strings,” is a powerful study of the harm a bad priest may do in his jealous attempts to counteract the work of a good one. Father Grondin is sent to Four Corners, and oppresses everybody until handsome Gaspardeau, “The Puller of Strings,” who has made a large fortune in New York, appears on the scene and unobtrusively sets to work to put things right. The real heroes of the story, however, are the good old gaoler and his half-witted friend Minyette, who are turned away from the gaol owing to the intrigues of Father Grondin. The picture of their life in the primitive Bush and the subjugation of the all-conquering Gaspardeau by a charming habitant maiden, are told with a freshness and verve which one would imagine impossible in an author who is already responsible for some fifty or sixty novels.
The Prodigal of the Hills
By EDGAR WILLIAM DYNES
This is an uplifting novel of life in the North-West of Canada; it is full of feeling and freshness.
The story is dramatic and strong, and shows how a young man away in the hills fought and won, and how the girl of the right sort stuck to him; all the characters have the throb of real life in them.
The Mixed Division
By R. W. CAMPBELL