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Southland Times, Issue 19099, 17 November 1923, Page 9 (Supplement)

Dr R. W. Mackenna, a Liverpool physician until twelve months ago, was known as a writer of essays, but last year he broke away from his essays and wrote a romantic Scottish novel entiled “Flower o’ The Heather,” It was his first novel, but it went into several editions, and this has so encouraged Dr Mackenna that now he has written another novel, also of Scotland. Mr St John Ervine’s next book is to be a novel on which he has for some time been engaged, gentleman.

“The Bond Triumphant,” by Gordon Hill Grahame, which will be published by Messrs Hodder and Stoughton, won the 2.500 dollar prize offered by them, in conjunction with Maclean’s Magazine, for the best all-Canadian novel. Its scenes are laid in Old Quebec. The judges described it as a very remarkablei book, alike in the dramatic skill with which it handles a picturesque, strongly dramatic plot, and in the charm and literary quality of its style. Mr Grahame was the first Canadian private to be raised to commissioned rank during the war. He comes of a literary family : one ancestor was James Grahame, once famous as the poet who wrote “The Sabbath” ; another wrote one of the first histories of the United States; his father, the late Hon. Laurence Hill Grahame, was a distinguished poet and writer; and he is a cousin of Kenneth Grahame, author of “The Golden Age.”