layers have a great sale.

The "movie" show is the great industry of amusement all over the
Dominion. Even the smallest town has its picture palace, the larger
towns have theatres which are palaces indeed in their appointments, and
a multitude of them. In many the "movie" show is judiciously blended
with vaudeville turns, a mixture which seems popular.

Book shops are rarities. In a great town such as Toronto I was only
able to find one definite book shop, and that not within easy walk of
my hotel. Even that shop dealt in stationery and the like to help
things along, though its books were very much up to date, many of them
(by both English and American authors) published by the excellent
Toronto publishing houses. All the recognized leaders among English
and American writers, and even Admirals and Generals turned writers,
were on sale, though the popular market is the Zane Grey type of book.

The reason there are few book shops is that the great stores--like
Eaton's and Simpson's--have book departments, and very fine ones too,
and that for general reading the Canadians are addicted to newspapers
and magazines, practically all the latter American, which are on sale
everywhere, in tobacconists, drug stores, hotel loggias, and on special
street stands generally run by a returned soldier. English papers of
any sort are rarely seen on sale, though all the big American dailies
are commonplace, while only occasionally the _Windsor_, _Strand_,
_London_, and the new _Hutchinson's Magazines_ shyly rear British heads
over their clamorous American brothers.

IV

Tuesday, August 26th, was a day dedicated to quieter functions. The
Prince's first visits were to the hospitals.

Toronto, which likes to do things with a big gesture, has attacked the
problem of hospital building in a spacious manner. The great General
Hospital is planned throughout to give an air of roominess and breadth.

The Canadians certainly show a sense of architecture, and in building
the General Hospital they refused to follow the Morgue School, which
seems to be responsible for so many hospital and primary school
designs. The Toronto Hospital is a fine building of many blocks set
about green lawns, and with lawns and trees in the quadrangles. The
appointments are as nearly perfect as men can make them, and every
scientific novelty is employed in the fight against wounds and
sickness. Hospitals appear most generally used in Canada, people of
a