THE FOSTER FRASER RECEPTION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 634, 11 October 1909, Page 9

THE FOSTER FRASER RECEPTION.

. ■ Sir,—" A Bird of Passage " has taken the fcivic reception ■ too seriously.'. '. Such receptions Will.not bear criticism of any sort: It would have been highly interesting, in view- of his cjuip, if A Bird of Passage " had been placed in*' Mr. Luke's, awkward position. , What .is really wanted - is a strong man in'the council who would put recoptions in their proper place, which, in' Mr. Eraser's case, would have been nqn est. As a writer Mr. Fraser has a certain amount of notoriety, but at best only as a penny-a-liner in the samo class With Upton Sinclair and Marie Corclli—each in their own' little way birds of passage in a world of' words— travelling on song and story ever, but living in it never,, Mr. J. P. Luke at tho function was, for the time being, not the"'J. P. Luke, ironmaster, On' life's stage man.plays other parts i besides his own,'and on . the occasion in question our senior councillor played- 1 his dubious part as well as most, and better than some, in which latter' class wo need ' no exense'for including, anything in the ,shape of unknown'birds of • passage. •. I am, etc., ' i : '"><" v.• BIiNRY> BODLEY. . October 4, 1903.