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BOOKS
CASUAL WANDERINGS.
Casual wanderings well charac- terises this pleasant traves book, which has caught something of the unhurried progress of Spain. It is illustrated by protographs thai are an artistię, joy.
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thing unique in America-stone sents supported by Carved animals, birds and lizards, made as the native Indian thinke for the giants of old..
Guayaquil everyone associates with cacao but not all know that it is approached through man- The authoress goes to Ecundor grove swamps, white with ograts because she has heard that while and that the police there whistle the wind stirred the par-trees to each other at intervals she might hit her eyes to ciern through the night, apparently to snows, because of the avenue of notify evil-doors of their exact VISE VOICATIONs, and the thought | position. But the wonder of of an isomteil country tree from } Guayaquil is that it was the scene "tourists, where she would enjoy of one of the greatest triumphs of the simplicity or the atmosphere modern bygiene when in six of 200 yrs. ago and rebut in months, in 1918, yellow fever was imagination the conquest of the completely stamped out, never we cruel nut courageous Pizarro,
trust to reappear.
Sailing from. Panama the boat stopped at Buenaventura, which has a rainfall of 878 ins. per an, to take on Ա cargo of ivory nuts. Suoti was experienced the odour of the torrid coast of 1 South America, the combined odour of centuries of rank vegetar tion, of heavy scented flowers, of generations of insanitation, all existing together in a saturated
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THE CHINA MAIL.
Further yet the authoress pushes on now East of the Andes, though to travel comfortably over the trails one must be "duck part of the time and monkey the rest," Hore she met Indian savages of the tropical forest and eaw. what is surely unique in women's adornnient the lower part of the face from above the mouth back to the ears stained black velvet-black mask, which lent to their faces an expression of indescribable wildness.
N. W. Bascombe. [Casual Wanderings in Benador, Blair Niles. John Long, Ltd. 12/6.]
OUR FORERUNNERS.
The rank and file of the public have changed their views on few subjects so radically and rapidly as on the nature and antiquity of their forerunners. When Lyall wrote "The Antiquity of Man" he was ranked among the ungodly. The Descent of Man" classed Darwin with Hume and Tom Paine. But in the last decade or so, many volumes, tracing our ancestry, back almost to the late Tertiary, have flooded from the press and been hailed with de- light by the reading public.
Few scientifle subjects call for a larger range of knowledge in the writer. Subjects such as
are, in a certain sense, unified and self-contained: but in what sense, can we say the same of this subject of our ancestry?
passion, "I like you best in hello- trope." But all the Sixpenny Dip answered was, "I think the mauve's naicer."
SATURDAY MARCH 15-1924...
COMMERCIAL GEOGRAPHY.
THE SECOND GEN-
ERATION."
not mean that this is the only subject dealt with Far from it. There is here a learned discussion on the technical subject of the
Aloual commercial magnate. fracturing of flint, as well as an Turkish Delight" is an ironical satisfactory training of those who was once complaining of the un- interesting account of the differ misnomer for the infero of the
In spite of its crudity there is a ent types of primitive tools. The Turkish bath. For really inferno came to his office. The present certain strength in this study of emphasis of the book, however, is le not too strong a word in this in writer naturally pricked up his two generations of transplanted on the art of palaeolithic man, Russian convict
stance any more than it is, for that ears and asked, "Well, now, what Norwegian stock. Einar Morssen and this is as it ought to be. No Maison des Mortg" Here is a to know on a subject like Com- deserted Hulda, the girl whom he
bath in La do you really want the candidate more wonderful discovery has morsel complete in itself. "Three mercial Geography ?"Well," had seduced, and sought his been made in the last hundred men of great physical strength said the magnate, "I want him fortune in the New World. "The years than the caves of Spain and appeared, arrayed like torturers in not to put letters for Port Darwin description of life in the American France where these wonderful scarlet loincloths. They laid our in the wrong mail box, and I want" Middle-West," the home life of treasures of early man, are pre- bodies on marble slabs, like so him to know where Dunedin and Honry Gottlieb, for whom Bluar served. The whole question many salmon or joints of beef, and Surabaya are." The demand may opens up at once the origin of art. a hideous scene began." After not seem a large one, but it is hard, the atmosphere of tense As our knowledge of savage man wards, in the frigidarium, the to explain to an uneducated Tai money getting and ruthless push- grows our belief is strengthened victim-noticed a fat man engaged Pan that this is not Commercial ing is excellently caught. Einar that both art and dramatisation in weighing himself with one hand originated in a form of sympathe white with the other be drank his Geography and that the living is the most ruthless, and, there tic magic. Mr. Burkitt devotes sherry. He at least looked pleased. Gazetteer must be a deadly therefore, the most successful of them all. It was typical of him his final chapter to the motive for "Foreign Relations" gives us a citizen. all this art. All that is suggest-through British spectacles, and the like Dr. Marion Newbigin and allowed his wife a servant until
typical skit on things Rasian
It is to the credit of our pioneersafter his first marriage that ha ed," he says, "is that primitive famous Battle of the Step" is such works as the present one man universally practised some also included in this timely and that the rising generation la form of sympathetic magic or exhilarating
his father-in-law died, but ceremonial ritual, and that, in Heinemann. 6- net.)
volume-(London: receiving a more scientific idea of immediately afterwards told her Western Europe,
commercial geography, Dr. Now- to do her own work. artistic people, it took the form of
bigin is already so well known as But even Einar met his match is pictorial representation."
a writer on various branches of second wife, a Prussian, whom he the science of geography that married in order to make an scarcely more need be said than economy of the woman's wages, that this yolume is no less inter-Sill, Frieda had a certain kind- esting than her previous ones.
among An
[Our Forerunners. M. C. Bur- kitt, M.A., FS.A. Williams, and Norgate.]
THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.
What Has Struck Me AsˆÃ ̈
Writer.
The number of 'Defection Slips,
The courtesy of The Literary Editor of The Daily Mail.
The courtesy of the Editor of The Royal Magazine, in sending copy. his contributors a complimentary
The number of Editors who must die of broken hearts, since their lives seem to be one long regret.
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Here are chapters forming ox- ¡iness underneath her grim cellent studies on the more im- welcomed Lief, Einar's illegiti
At all exterior
events, she portant cereals; on land and water transport; on the livestock indus-mate son, when he, in his turn left try, etc. All of them are marked by careful reasoning and thought ful deduction. Sometimes Dr. Newbigin's statements are so cau tiously worded as almost to imply intentional suspense of judgment. The treelessness means low rata fall," is an example of what we The number of stam is used in mean. Is, the treelessness the
cause or the effect here?". the course of a year..
If there were more space we doing one's own type-writing; but tive chapter in the book. typist to do it. how often one longs for a pretty population of the earth is fast The
growing; the present areas of production seem to be nearing the limits of their capacity. Dr. Newbigin has much to tell us on intensive cultivation; but the limit must be soon reached in this direction. Is there no hope for areas of the world? What of the the reclamation of the vast desert different ideas of making the deserts blossom as the rose?
heat. To land ut Esmeraldas obviously a conquered race with art. In addition to these he needs For this sketch takes us to the How expert one becomes at ahould have liked a more specula moral lie that she had lived
meant to be seated in a "cradle,”
swung out by crane over the ship's side into the burge, which the waves often flung against the side of the ship. On the beach why the spot where not so many years agh a boat-lond of doctors. Who lnd volunteered to help the wounded in a Revolution, had in spite of passports from both sides been massacred to a mati,
At
Durau she watched the cattle tied by their horns to the long poles of rafts swimming across the
Gunys, as the Chinese carabeo tied to a sampan are forced to
swim the Yangtze,
Further south on the lonely hilly of the coast are found for a distance of twenty miles some
But the land of the Equator is the land of mountains, and inter-chemistry, botany and,history est grows keenen as the upward journey to Quito by the G. & Q. Railway is commenced. Then appear the arrogant Hamas, which carry. 100 lbs. 15 mis 8 diy, but never more atid never further. The sturdy Indians of the higher levels resemble Thibetians in appearmice but are
no ambition. Chimborazo is the giant, but Cotopaxi like Fujiyama is Art-a mountain seen through the eyes of the soul Fuji is a painting, where softest greens blend with silver rills and little twisted bridges are thrown across streams; while Cotopaxi, 7,000 11. higher is sculpture. Cotopaxi is a marble mountain. There is solemnity in its severe symmetry, Its cold perfection charms, and compels contemplation."
At Banos hot springs straight from the red heart of the volcano, Tungreragan and cold direct from its crest of snow, exist side by side beneath a grotto draped with vines und form a perfect bathing pool.
TO-DAY ONLY-
annals are the delight of the Mr. A. P. Herbert's joyous readers of " Puneh," and are quite sure of a welcome in book form. "Sixpenny Dips" is perhaps the The authority needs to have most seasonable and, at the same specialised in geology, human time, the most
permanent anatomy, zoology, particularly the chronicle of 1923. Certainly it is osteology and history of the the impression that will link the mammals, primitive magic and new year most aptly with the old.
to have studied the fracturing of
Dome of Dance, a most respect fint and a host of allied problems. imagined to he a really low haunt able establishment' blissfully No, one man, of course, can be Here the gigolo is valued at gd. equally authoritative on all of but the feminine dancing partner thené. Hence of the numerous books which have appeared most sation is included for this modest is just a sixpenny dip. Conver approach the, subject from one fee: "While we danced 'we point of view the special subject conversed; and while we con-
The debt one owes to Editors of the author. Thus Sir Arthur versed I began to feel less for safe-guarding one's reputation Keith emphasises the human bones wicked. Anyone who has ever when it is in the maklog... and skulls; Prof. Osborne, the danced with a not very talkative The amount of information and mammalian fauna;, Prof. Sullas, ese serisations precinte inspiration that is crammed into The geological aspect; Dr. Spur my new The "cothe journal that is in your hands vell, the close anthropoid affini-loured lights made no difference at the moment. ties; Mr. Wright, the effects of
whatever to the flavour of the dance glacial action. Mr. Burkitt both in this volume before us and in his larger work "Prehistory devotes special attention to the art of prehistoric man. We do
ETHEL CLAYTON
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"CAN A WOMAN LOVE TWICE ?"
IN LOVE TWICI
A picture that delves deep into the very heart of a wonderful woman whose mother-love made her strong and brave enough to practise a great deception, yet: whose girl-heart made her just a love-hungry woman after all.
A GLORIOUS WOMAN-HER HUSBAND ANOTHER MAN- A CHILD-A BITTER FATHER-ALL PAWNS IN A GAME OF LIFE PLAYED ON THE SCREEN IN POWERFUL PASSAGES OF SMASHING DRAMA.
DON'T MISS IT!
SUNDAY, 16th March
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The good chance a MS. has when worth a reader's interest. one really does write something
talks, but when his painter. The pleasure that always accom- turned heliotrope the investigator panies the receipt of a cheque; and thought that he was following the the little thrills that one gets when Standard Conversation for Dips" a the children of the pen begin to little too closely for so romantic a toddle. light. So he murmured, with,
SCREENLAND.
'THE "CLEAN UP.”-
"The Clean Up," the latest idea in photoplays, comes soon to the World Theatre! H. H. Van Loan, the author, has taken a situation that is farcical. Every develop ment is a fresh laugh, and it is surrounded with a two-fisted, fighting star, working out the tale in thrilling adventures. A "comedy thriller" is his term for this startling innovation.
Herbert Rawlinson stars in this new Universal attraction. The main story is built around an eccentric millionaire's will, which leaves a fortune to every citizen in a village. Wild with money, the villagers stop all work in a mad pursuit of pleasure..
Crooks, of course, invade the
town.
The most useless citizen in the place, a typical society he-flapper, takes the reins of government, becomes his fighting self long con cealed under the social veneer, and brings the town out of its daze Wild automobile dashes, spectacular battles, and other thrilling adventures alternate with laughs.
Claire Adams, whose recent appearance in "Legally Dead" was a picture sensation, plays the principal feminine role. Others in the cast are Frank Farrington, remartbered as "Judge Hender son" in the historic play, "Daniel Boone," Claire Anderson, Herbert Fortier, and others of note.
OVER-REALISTIC FILM.
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" LIGHTS. OUT.”
When "Lights Out," the movie. mystery play which comes to the World Theatre soon, was being taken, it was desired to add realistic touches to a parlour car scene, photographed indoors, DIVA. specially constructed set. The imitation car Was accurately. similar to a real one in every detail except that the motion of the train and the motion of the I actors was not rythmical.A Santell, the director, had left up to the individual members of the company the movement they would perform when the prop men, stationed behind the scenes, made the car walls vibrate. He soon found that some system was needed for realism. As it was, every actor was swaying in a dif- ferent direction: So Al,aping the manhers of the coxswain of racing crew, grabbed his mega- phone and called, "Heave hol Heaven hof. Every time he sangi+ out the chanty, prop men and actors awayed forward together, while continuing the action of the play, and the result was very Batisfactory.
Those who take part in the scene were Theodore Von Eltz, as Eggs, a scenario writer on his way to Hollywood; Marie Astaire as Barbara, a train acquaintance, for whom Eggs, develops tender feelings: Ruth Stonehouse, as "Hairpin" Annie, who picks the lock of Egga black bag, to find that it contalus merely original: [ scenarios; Walter McGrail; as Sea Bass, a mysterious individual who is also interested in the contents. of the black bag Hank Mann, as the porter, to whom the tently operations of the passengers take on a spiritualistic hue; Ben Hew lett, as Keith, Barbara's fiance, who regrets the day that he took the same train with Eggs and
It is reported from Rome that a piece of over-realistic film acting led to a lioness tearing an actor to pieces. During the filming of a scene in Quo Vadis, a group of Hons, and lionesses was released into the arena, where 60 actors and actresses were playing the others play their part in the little parts of Christians. Suddenly at
drama enacted on the moving lioness aprang on to the platform,
train seized an actor, mangled him, and Lights Out" is an F.B.O. pro- bit his head right off.
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Norway to make his way in America. Lief le a touch finer character than his father, with ambitions and aspirations wholly beyond those of the earlier genera
lon. Inevitably he came into collision with Einar, dritted away from him, and eventually succeed- ed in becoming a doctor. Love found its way to him in his early days of struggle, and he married a woman who deserted him a week afterwards, to continue the im-
to consult him professionally, and before. Years later a woman came he recognised in her the wife from whom he had been divorced. It was a horrible meeting, and the quiet, matter-of-fact diagnosis is more telling in its stark crudity than pages of realism could make it. The whole story reads like a experience of actual life, and record torn from close personal
its sincerity, rough is the life though it is given-without artistry,
Lief when one has forgotten many One will remember Einar and struggle itself, has made it living.
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