For what seemed a lifetime, he had labored among the Indians and the few whites and "squaw-men" -- with no sense of progress. Then, all at once, the railway arrived, bringing people from all the world -- and seeding the cities that seemed to spring up overnight, all across the broad Canadian prairie. Now once more he was living the life of civilization -- exchanging raw flesh of fish and animals and a meal of tallow or pemmican for the wheaten loaf -- the Indian tepee for the warm house with the mansard roof! "The World for Sale" is the novel of a young nation in its first throes of greatness, by Sir Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), best-selling author of "The Battle of the Strong," "Parables of a Province," and "No Defense."