Galt Collegiate Institute and Vocational School - Specula Galtonia Yearbook (Galt, Ontario Canada)

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SPECULA GALTONIA 39 Snapshots By ASH LORRIMAN HERE is one in every house, and the worst part of it is that they are never mislaid, but seem always very handy and ever ready to subdue any visitor. I refer to snapshot albums. You go somewhere to spend a nice quiet evening when, plop!-someone throws a photograph album on your lap, sits down beside you, and you're caught. That is mother when she was my age. Look at the funny dress, and the hat! I'm glad people don't wear things like that now. And that is Robert on his bicycle. Isn't he the image of his Uncle Peter? And this is myself at the lake last summer. That is the way I went to a masquerade. And that is the ferry. And this is Robert after he fell in the creek. Isn't he a scream Mother made him go right to bed and he missed his din- ner . . . and so on, until you begin to wonder when the end is going to come. To get the agony over sooner, you try stealthily to skip a page or so. But no, it cannot be. Wait a minute, you missed a page. Oh! it is a good one too! Look at Robert there, with Dad s derby on his head. Isn't he just too cute for words ? But I have a plan now. I m going to fool these in- I-nlnk veterate snapshot fiends. I am going to have somebody 5l1::.:..:. take fifty-seven snapshots of moi-meme and carry them in my pocket. When I go visiting I shall always !l!Qi!ll!l' have them with me, and if someone tries to catch me 'illililill-Q, , x with an album I am going to say, I have brought some I l of my own pictures that I thought might interest you, and out will come the fifty-seven varieties. I shall ny!-l,:L:. , hand them over one by one, with a bit of patter-talk l !ll!ll!ll!! about each one, me sitting in a chair, me in a bathing '.1,,illiQiii!' suit, me on horseback, me fishing, me in golf clothes, E-5E?:? ' f me eating-fifty-seven different varieties, one after I' - M the other. s ' ff And if that doesn't cure my well-meaning friends, I'm going to move to Borneo. aes As We See Them N reviewing to-day's best sellers one invariably questions- Where are the best-sellers'l' of yesterday ? It is widely known that a few may become classics, and, from time to time appear as reprints, others come into being on five-and-ten cent stands, the relics and treasures of old homesteadsg others have been ignominiously burned in the ardent flame of the eagar new generation, they are sub- merged-we know them not. We are busy appraising our own output-what are other-day favour- ites to us? But time will deal ruthlessly with our best sellers, will reject or accept them without mercy-they may become as age-dim as the candles and crinolines of our Grandmothers.

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'---'- 40 SPECULA GALTONIA There was a rustle among literary savants recently when it was heard that Wilkie Collin's The Moonstone was being republished, for it was one of the forerunners of the vast family of mystery stories of this age- but an equally famed author of the same time, Walter Besant, is all but forgotten to-day. Good reading is good reading-time will deal severely but justly with our methods. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF TUTANKHAMENX' by G. R. Tabouis. Here is, indeed, a book with rare qualities-that of enthralling interest combined with educational properties. It is in this age-this period of the ancient world, that backs were turned on the conventional gods of their forefathers, and the sun was worshipped. New temples to this worship were built, more beautiful than any heretofore known in Egypt. Archi- tecture, culture and love in Old Egypt are depicted in this book-Tutank- hamen came after this era, he took the people back to worship of the gods whom they revered and feared. The book is written artistically but with deep feeling-you see ancient Egyptian life--you feel with Tutankhamen the eternal problem of religion for the people. I WAS SENT TO ATHENS, by Henry Morgenthau. The former ambassador advocates that existing boundaries of Greece be maintained by the unanimous power of Europe-Seeing this is an impossibility he knows she will have to rely on her military strength. In addition to an outline along this vein, and establishment of the present Republic, many details are given of the exciting rehabilitation of 750,000 Greeks expelled from Turkish territory in 1922. In this book Mr. Morgenthau shows him- self to be an enthusiastic Hellinist. MIDSTREAM, by Helen Keller, should need no further introduction -written by a woman of such varied and beautiful life it should be hailed with interest. Among her numerous books, The Story of My Life, writ- ten 25 years ago, the bitter heartache and longing because of the handicap which hindered her from doing what others did. Her new book telling of her life and experiences since she left college, is a most beautifully written and outstanding biography, pervaded by a noble spirit which will make it live long after others have passed away. THE HIDDEN CITY, by Philip Gibbs. This is, as are his last two books, also an after-the-war story. The central figure is that of a doctor, whose patients are of wide and varied types. He is more interested in their emotional and mental ills and problems, than their physical, and thus the story is taken up with psychotherapy. When one allows himself to get into the story, he finds it very engrossing. THE YOUNG MAN FROM MANHATTAN, by Kathleen Brush. A book all who like well-told modern tales should read. The sparkling humour, keen observations, gay repartee and charming human interest, create an air of amusement and realism. It deals with the new adventure of marriage as experienced by a young newspaper reporter Cwho is some day going to write the Great American Novel J and a charming little personality connected with the Movie Review column-both carrying on their own separate careers. Both the hero and heroine are decidedly lov- able characters. It is a fascinating novel, rich in entertainment values, and individual descriptions.