By J. W. DAFOE Copyright, Canada, 1922 by Thomas Allen Printed in Canada...

The four articles which make up this volume were originally published in successive issues of the Monthly Book Review of the Manitoba Free Press and are herewith assembled in book form in response to what appears to be a somewhat general request that they be made available in a more permanent form. J. W. D. October 13 1922....

THE life story of Laurier by Oscar D. Skelton is the official biography of Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Official biographies of public men have their uses; they supply material for the definitive biography which in the case of a great man is not likely to be written by one who knew him in the flesh. An English public man, who was also a novelist and poet, wrote:  "Ne'er of the living can the living judge,  Too blind the affection or too fresh the grudge." The limitation is equally true in the case of on