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THE CHINA MAIL.
140-The Bachelor Girl (P) Victor
Marguerito. 141.-Principles of Social Recon- struction. Bertrand Rugsoli. 112-The Lucky Number (F)
lan Hay.
HONGKONG BOOK CLUB. 105-The Astonishing Adventure of 113-Green Apple Harvest
BOOK LIST.
(F) Fiction.
78A Chair on the Boulevard (F)
Leonard Merrick..... 70-Captain of Souls (1) Edgar
Wallace.
80.—The Battle of the Bays, Owen
Sentan.
81.—The Sentry-and Other Stories (P) By Nicolai Lyeskay. 82.-The Enoluated April (1) The Author of Elizabeth mud ber
German Garden.
8;3,མ$1:133 Stories front 21
Jane Smith (2) Pat. Went- worth:-
106.--The Koy of Dreanis (F) I.
Adams Beck.
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Sheila Kaye-Smith.
WHAT IS READABLE.
Theoretically, a fing“ Qũng is always readable; actually, the call which is made upon the reader of
(F) a great work makes it much other 1-White Fang (F) Juct wise, I am not thinking of "The Faorio Qucone. "That is a serious
London.
NEW NOVELS,
SPEED THE PLOUGH AND OTHER STORIES.
[By Mary Butts.] Chapman & Hall London,
With the crystalling clarity of a | but quce in his life—and that early. | stream, each eddy appreciated with
145.-Chinese Nights Entertainadventure which comes to a man
ments. Brian Brown.
Doskoevsky.
| 107.-Alanis (P) T. C. Wignall and 16-The Possessed (P) Fyodor (It came to me at nine yeme odd 1) na effortless esso, "Speed the
G. D. Kuox.
108.-A Dealer in Antiques (F)
Basil Tozer,
M.
100-Muriel Wing Through (P)
Guy Thorno. 110.-The Secret Tents (F) Edwin-
Pugh. 11-Whirlwind (F) H* C.
Burlingo. 1-The Barbarian Lover Margaret Poller. 113.-The Flowory Republic,
derick Mel'ormick.
147.-Ethics. E. Monre.
You can't thereafter pick in thut, lough runs over shelving pebbles, glittering, slowing in' a grean pool, 14-Tho English Language. But it is an odd thing that if I were deepening to yet translucent depths,
Logan Pearsall-Smith,
waiting for somebody in library realising clinux only to be surpassed 149.-Paychology the Study of I could take down Dante or Homer, by another climax, but ever lucent,
Behaviour, Wm. McDongal.
virgin-clear. Reviewors have label- Mes. Thys open any, where and be occupiedified its sources "Jurgen 150,-- Buddhism.
Davids.
| whereng I would rather sit twiddling Ulysses, but equally just would 151-The French Revolution. my thumbs than read in- Pandise | by "Chumbers 'Dictionary."
Hilaire Belloc.
Lost.** You seem to need the Observe,
On a high shoulder of down Herbert A. Giles.
convection and the poet's dream"''
above the house, a flock of sheep
irregular design. The continui gave coherence to the tranquillity of that Artomisinn dawn....
F) Fre152.-Tho. Civilization of China,
Chinese Studio (P: Herbert | 114-The Superstition of Divorce | 153.-The Mind in the Making, for the oɑnd, and not for the others. were gathered like a puffy mot of
A. Giles,
G. K. Chesterton.
J. H. Robinson.
C. Buders.
81-Gabriel Harvey and Thomas/ 15.-My Antonia (1) Willa S.15).—Swinging Lanterns Elizabeil. } Dante and Homer have more to way bleating, the tang of the irum bell,!
Nashe. Edward George Hir-
an, C:B.
8.The Best Short Stories of
122 (Rnglist. 86-Xeighton's Henceforth, Owen
Wister
87.-Mrs. Thompson (5) W.
Maswell.
8.
88.--The Duchess of Wřexe (P)
Hugh Walpole. 89.-Splashing into Society, frisi
Barry, 90.-The Unsolved Rill
of
Cather
116-all Lives (17) Margaret C. | 156.-The Hermi Husband and
Bruning,
115.-The Green Mirror (1) Hugh"
Walpole. 118.-The Now Decumeron (P:
119-How to Use Your Mind H. D. Kitson, Ph. D. 190.-Restasy (P) Louis Couperus, 121-Sot Kitown Here (P), Mr.
Wilfred Waril.
122.—Mr, Widdington of Wyek (F)
May Sinclair
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Why is that? I think it is because thun Milton, and are consequently Oders (F) Fyodor Dostono-less occupied than he with tho sky.
manner of saying it. Shakespeare, too, requires an inspiration in his reader. He will not induce a mood,
156-The Menace of the Mob.
Dimitri Merejkovski. 157--Babel (F) John Cournos,
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"Als followed him out. "You've done it this timp, Charles." Ho made him no answer-Alec wanted afmid. to catch at his sleeve and was wonin could do Only a 158.-The Origin and Nature of but must himself be induced by one. that. He had to stop a sob of
Life. Benjamin Moore. I remember John Addington excitement, pain and humiliation. halting) it is a relief to feel that this the family clinging in adversity to 150.-Childron of Men (F) Eden | Syinonds telling me that he ind Then he thought that Charles was nakedness of soul is only apparent its ancestral lands. In both the idea
Phillpotts.
travelled from London to Florence going out to drink and had he to the few, liko Mark, and that of of sacrifice is an essential, the sacri- 180.—The Little Nugget (P) P. G. reading Guicciardini all the way: a enough money to get us drunk as these few fewer still writs about it. fice of individual happiness to the
Wodehouse.
marvellous feat of detachment, con- he wanted to get?" He crumpled a Bring me n thick suit of self-blind-muling passion. Alard after Alard of the journey and the increasing was taken without recognition. . . .'
** packet and let the seals be firm, but that the name of Alard may not gravity of the book. I had a
nicciardini (nover read) in a thick, lus no apparent inhibitions: every disrobe nor
Mary Butts must be a gen She for Heaven's sake let Mary Butts perish from the acres with which it nor any friends. Tħaq for centuries been united'; until dumpy folio, black letter and close scene she paints has the incredibly Phew!
the last of them, rising above a printing. Talk of sy divinity stereoscopic value of truth. I defy
I blush, and I recommend. If family pride which the times hayo Not Cornelius a Lapide por Bellar her reader to pursue ngain the yon do not read it, you are the loser.ande & burren tradition, breaks the Inire nor the Seraphic Doctor hin- tenour of the old easy declivities: And you will never know why, for devastating spell. Miss Kaye-Smith
chapter was a solid paragraph, rat and upset the garden Apollo of Phew! block of type without one break.make-believe. Paycho-analysis may
Social Justice. Stephen Len. | 123.—TH Eve of Zeitan (P) Talbot | 161,-Neighbours (F) Robert Stead. sidering the growing attractiveness ten-shilling note into his hand. It nese, wrap me up in a registered must lose his private heart's desire,
cock.
91.-The Missing Delon (5) R.
Mundy. 124.-The Shame Dance (1) W. 11,
Sterle,
02.-The Arm เฟ "Gold (124.—A Child of the Forest (F)
Philips Oppenheim.
Joseph Comai.
- Grain of Sand, You
Maraini.
A. Safroni-Mickleton, 126,-Ropkery Travers.
Nook
Michael Arfen.
Ben
162.-The Challenge to Sirius (P)
- Sheila Kaye-Smith. 103-Starbrace (P) Sheila Kaye
Smith. 161The Flaming Cross of Santa
Mart 1) Eric Wood,
1965-New Comedies Lady Gregory,
Arthur P. Hankins,
ina
91.-The Bogantic Lady #P)] 127,-A Gift of the Dusk (F1 R. O. 166.-The Heritage of the Hill (10) self wore so masy as that. Each May has jolted confidence from hisjonly Mary can tell you.
Prowse.
Circle,
95.-The Pools of Silence of H. 128-Anatole France
גינד
American
de Vere Stacpole. Of-Marriage 97.-Damascos Gale (F) Ernest]
Writers.
Raymond. 98-Gries of Chinese Literature
(Prose. By 11. A. Giles.
99.-Gems of Chinese Literature
(Vergel By H. A. Giles,
100,- The Three-formered Hat (P)]
P. A. De Abanon, 101 Trndyke's Cases the Austin Stenography) (P Freeman. B2-Rowena Barés (F) Conal
O' Riordan.
103.-The Chinese Bangalow (F)
Marion Osmond.
101-The Celestial Omnibus (F)
E. M. Forster,
and
His
129,--The Bloom of Life. Anatole
Frner.
130-Island of Destiny (F) Arthur
4. Rees.
131-Seven Plays, Hilbert Cannan. 134.---Vietory (B) Joseph Conrad. 133.-The Clockwork" Man (1)
F. V. Odle. BL-Over the Footlights, Hlephen
Lencork. 135,-Thirty and One Stories. 15-Led Studies in Criminology.
H. B. Irving, 337-Seventy Time Seven (F)
Archibald Fuck. 138.-The Broks of Bart (P) Edgar
Wallace.
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167-Blood and Sand (1) Vicente
Blasco Hanez.
Muckenzie.
166.—The Vanity Girl (8) Compton 189.—A Guide for the Grgedy,
E. R. Pomell. 170.-The Rising Tide of Colour.
Lothrop Stoddard. 171.--The Brimming Cup (F)
Dorothy Canfield..
172.-The Narrow House (F)
Evelyn Seatt
173. Tunarisk Town (F) Sheil
Kaye-Santh
171.—The Tramping Methodist (F)
Sheila Kaye-Smith, 176.-The Best Short Stories of
1922 (American). 176.-Midwinter (F) John Buchan,
a
178.-The Dance of Life Havelock
Ellik.
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K. WESTMACOTT Laxe. (Book Club No. 04.)
has treated her theme with a mas. tery worthy of it; holding firmly to the dominant iden, yet never letting it dwarf or blur her drawing and differentiation of chamctor.
(Book Club No.)
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Diphtheria--How It May Ba
A man who could read that on wound dreary--Mary is not, Her journey to Italy could end Milton figures live Banazingly whether on the top of a motor-bus.
enduring
unwilling pie te MAURICE HEWLETT.
Boheme or skinning a schoolgirl's The End of the Hours of Alard. in Extemporary Essays.
soul in the sci-drummed wasten of
By Shella Kaye-Smith, Fife. And she knows, too, all the
Miss Kaye-Smith stands apart things she should not know (to her
Avoided. contemporary
Diphtherin is vanally contrastad when bonour be it); she feels the strunge from all other
There are the chiki has a cold. The cold prepare softness of nian for the companjon novelists of her sex. whose weakness sote off strength, those whose literary gift is as great the child's system for the reception and the emotions of the deceptive Virgin, ushers, and those who can penetrate Favelopment of the diphtheria germs. the creative urge of the rals dress as deeply as she into the recesses of When there are cases of diphtheris in the neighbourhood children that have designer. Before her pen drapings the heart; but none elee has quite colda 3bou'd be kept at home and if the Giro them fall from the obese Bros, the brood-the quality of spaciousness and large street until recovered. (F)ing sister who burns the Decameron simplicity. In some of her hooks Chonberlain's Cough Remedy and they and lies about her brother, the this quality touches epic heights, wot have to remain at home long. wrinkled "Saint" whose life must Sussie Gorse was an epic of the talo clean out the culture beds, which form in a chilo's throat when it has a know one sin that she may know former in desperate struggle with! od animin mizas the risk of contract. herself. After reading "Speed the the stubborn earth, and The Endi ing infectious disons 8. Focasio by all Plough" (from eavor to cover un of the House of Alard in the epio of Chemists and Storekeoparai
170.-Another Way of Love (F)
Majorie G. Cook. 180.-Beggar's Banquet (F) Gladys
St. John-Lae. 181.-19e Chessmen of Mars
Edgar R. Burroughs. 182.-Heredity and Eugenics.
Ruggles Gatos. [181.-Scoopa. Harry J. Greenwall,
139-Journal Royal Asiatic 177.-Lonely Furrow (F) Maud 183.-Scissore. Cecil Roberts,
Society 1923.
Diver.
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FILMS.
SCANDAL'S BREATH.
TRIMMED IN SCARLET."
The story of a child's faith in her mother, who scandal brands as "Tricond. In Scarlet," comes do the screen of the World Theatre to-morrow as a. Universal all-star photoplay of that title.
Trimmed In Searlet," written as a phy by Willian Harlburt, nude a striking success on the New York stage with Masine Elliott in the leading role. When it was pur- chased for film production Universal | held it for a year before definitely deciding on the choice of director and players.
Katlyn Willints will be seen as the brindui rother and Lucilla Ricksen, one of the screen's most popular ingenues, as the daughter. The impressive case includes David Torunes, Roy Stewart, Robert Agnew, Phillips Smalley, Reymont Hulton, Gerard Alexander and others of popular fame. Jack Con- way, directed.
immed In Scarle!" takes the, longues of scandal and their victim and presents a dramatic picture of one of the strangest situations the
serien has known; the situation of
a mother travelling the world over in
search of adventure and coming back Lone to find a daughter who has not been estranged from her by the -poisoned rumours that society has borne to her cars.
Although just a girl, Faith Ebbing know that all was not well in her home. She resented the pre- sence of the women whom her father had married after her mother bad teft. Suciety told her that her nother was "hal," that, she had deserted her, dud run away with another inan lold her to forget her other and to give all of her love to her father with whom he was living. But Faith centered her love in dreams of the mother she had not, known and ran away from her fathor Because she instinctively feared him -and could Ifor love him:Trimmed In Searlet, Universal all-stor Attraction, which comes to the World Then offers to the motion piclare public in unusual version of the mother love had cold love Shend éd popular id modern druma,
THE LAD WHO MADE
LAUGHTER FAMOUS
COMING
SHORTLY
WORLD THEATRE
Harold Lloyd Safety Last
Pathecomedy
Hail To America's Fun-Loving Boy!
Hall To The Youth Whose Courage and Joy
Brings Forgetfulness and Smiles To Millions!
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LAUGHTER FIRST and LAST
in "SAFETY LAST"
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12 Storeys
Up and Only One
„Way to Fall, and
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