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intelligently, and nothing else, t would know Limb better than my rich friend who has doubtless waded entirely through him as a sort of duty.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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THE HOUSE OF ALARD.
(Special Review,)
"We only know that the fast
in Peter's suicide. There is Doris, the eldest sister who had long since abandoned her only chance
SATURDAY JULY 18, 1924
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
LITERARY NOTES.
Messrs. Stanley Paul announce
the following for immediate pub: lication:-
Two extremely useful booke
of liberty and had frozen into a
have been published by the Chit- sad aquires ride slowly towards querulous spinster. George, the
Unsolved Murder Mysteries. By bridge University Press: "The the pen, and a new people takes of the family living, is
Ballied Charles E. Pearce, whose recent Children's Bible" and "The Little the land." This is the only fore. mated to a vulgar fool. word to Miss Sheila Kaye his father and nagged at by volume "Madame Vestris and Her Children's Bible. The latter is
his wife. it is only on his pre- Tinios" was so warmly received. Smith's great novel The lands of the house of Alard mature death bed that he escapes Mr. Pearce in compiling this work intended for children from five lo stand between Winchelsea" and into the liberty of his own con has not sought his material out-seven years of age, and the former Hastings The family had been: vietion Mary has made a soul-side England and the United for children from seven to eleven there since Doomsday. The family less rriage and drifts into the States. New York can boast three years of age. Both are based on
'n Report on the teaching of " tradition had become the tyranny divorer court, for ng fault but an outstanding mysteries, one of of its children. Every Alard of honest error of judgment, The which was used by Edgar Allen Alard was born a slave to its House of Alard is closed to her. Poe is the basis of his story "The religion und of the Bible by an
The Advisory Committee of the Cam dominion "Slaves! all the Akards The two youngest children have lystery of Marie Reger. were slaves......to Alard, to the the courage to resist, Jenný who Collection forms a book, unique bridgeshire Education Committed. In the preface those responsible conventions, of the old country marries hearty and nuimagina of its kind, which no student of
I have a stupid neqraintanen who does not bother to re-read Dickens beenmaq "he" says he “get him in his youth, He misses, though of course ho does not know it half the charm of read- ing-which is picking up at ran on a certain favourite volume, opening it casually, and re-dis covering some path which he hat all but forgotten. I think the joy or encountering a living friend of one's boyhood is net greater than that of becoming acquainted once library is shelves crowded with more, at will, with the Smikes and
sels. I should say that the first Mr. Micawbers and Little Pauls of family, with its prosperity of tive farmer and Gervasse who, criminology can afford to neglect. for the books, explain that they
BOOKS
BOOK FRIENDS.
* By Charles Hansoy Townej
aquaintance.
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that dream-world of Dickens which is so strangely rent.
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are in no sense intended to be a substitute for the whole Bible. It is hoped that the possession, in a convenient form of those parts of
dren may lead to a lifelong love scripture most attractive to chil-
of the Christian story, and the love of God.
From
"The Little Children's Bible". begins with the story of Christ- The A.B.C. of 19th Century mas: The birth in the stable: English Ceramic Art. By J. F.The Visit of the Wise Men: The Blacker is a practical guide, fully Flight into Egypt: The Bay Jesus illustrated, which gives valuable information in a concise form Teaching in the Temple. regarding the great factors of the thence we go back to the Old
Mintons. Wedgewoods, the story of Noah, on to Isaac and century, such as Adams, Cope Testament Stories beginning at lands,
of comparatively recent date who Hadley, and Linthorpe; and. those Rebekah. Jacob and Esau, Joseph have already made a reputation and his Brethren, and all those old It also forma stories the Jewish mothers told companion volume to Mr. their children, and that we in our and a growing one. Bincker's standard works "The childhood days were also told, and
income and acres, its house, its having gone through an Engineer
The Cornish Coust and Moors, requisite in anything is a taste, a devire=yės, a passion. 1 "went
servants, its ancient name and ing shop as an apprentice, enters reputation a convention the an Anglican brotherhood. While By A. C. Folliott-Stokes, author of into the home of an absurdly rich
Vagrant Readers. foundations of which were rottena novitiate of the brotherhood, "From Devon to St. Ives, etc. delightful
man the other afternoon and
"When one is asked, 'What are right through which was bound Gervasse inherits and sells theThe route the author has followed. I will him the though it is true that I found Young Old Philosopher, and when there volume after volume in what you reading now? one may not to topple sooner or later, crushing property. "The last and squires that of the old coastguarris, takes beautiful scenery in Enginnd, and ever he drops into my rooms to was exiled a vast library, I did not always be able to answer for those who tried to shelter under ride down to the sea"; and the new him through much of the most It is a big theme and Miss Sheila be has visited all the places of si me, I rejoice: for 1 love his and that indescribable atmosphere those of us who honestly love it. For some years it had been people comes into its own.
literature are sometimes the most shared up by mortgagesynd loans, mellow yut youthful point of view of the bookslover. His room, in all vagrant readers. We dip here and are falling to pieces, but we Ka-Smith is too genuine an artist which he writes. The volume con- I love, too. his enthusiasm its pomp, reminded me of churches were in old-time haunts, To-day, hide the cracks with pots of to use it as a platform for dog-tains many beautiful illustrations. que all too rare among what which lack true religion. The may be Stevenson or Cervantes Rowers." It only needed the con- mutism and propaganda. There is and a useful map. might cynically be termed the possession of books in fine bindings
• Younger Degeneration.
is not the possession of a know-who claims us; to-morrow it may vulsion of a great world-war to no bius: her outlook is essentially all the actors in her racial tragedy. It was one of those perfurt ledge of books. Collecting icoke, he Oscar Wilde, or the Panims of split the fabric asunder from its broad-minded. She is generous fo *mornings of spring when I last
per, se, is all right, but one must David or Flaubert, or some roof-tree to its base..
The last, sad squires." Over The House of Alard is the victim, minstrel whose clear piping allays saw him. He found me in what collect more than mere title pages, the pain of the world. I have the face of a changing Britain not of individual or personal vice boastfully called, my "study"-forn and ancient. exquisitely tiny room where I try to scribble. printed. One must tellect, in one peeped into The Golden Treasury they are passing, and their fate but of a system which had batten on a summer afternoon with the is the theme of this story. Deathed upon custom and grown too But instead of writing that day. mind and heart and soul, the very I was smoking and reading-pok-feeling and rapture of those same delight 1 experienced in duties, income tax, the new land gross for its own surroundings ing at books," as I told him when writers who have given the world those flowering years of my Boy-Acts, all the various instruments Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith for all her country-like is no sentimentalist. he noted the scattered volumes their dreams, magically preserved hood when a kindly teacher point of a triumphing democracy have sensitive appreciation of English
ed out the way to beauty. Then I done, and are doing, their work.
Sir John Alard the last of hisIt is of the essence of her faith have turned, equally thrilled. to some modern singer whom I have race is a figure for pity, not un- that there is one thing that lasts recognized as the peer st Words-mixed with sympathy. Trained in longer than man and that is the worth or Shelley. Do not smile the old London ef gas and grino-earth: Surely Yeats and James Stephens Fines. of Tattersall's and the Caves and Masefield are authentic poets; of Harmony, he had sown his wid and have not Masters and Kipling onts in the recognized Victorian brought to literature a force as fashion, and then espoused the undeniable as that of Thomas conventional bride with sloping Gray!
shoulders and vacant eyes. Pro- tie in the custom of her kind, she bore him four sons and three daughters, of whom one, the eldest son, fell in the Great War. The others survive to bear their pare in the universal disaster of the honse." Bullied from childhood the hour has struck, when their only chance of freedom lies in revolt.
upon my foer and table.
"Ali that's the right way he exclaimed. Laking in at a glance
the disarray about me "That's rpally the only way to real. I see you have learned at last, after all these years. Don't you remember what Howells once said about reading? Never try to force your- self to wade through a stüpid voluate for to be too intent upon. the physical endurance it takes to reach the final page, muy cause one to lose the very essence of pleasure in books.
by paper and ink. It is not enough- that bindings he smart and excel We must bring to books ent almost as much as they bring to us, if we would truly love them, For books are friends--imperish. able friends; and friendship is a matter of reciprocity.
Book-worms-and Book-lovers.
A book-worm is not necessarily a book-lover. You will find. I am sure, that most book-worms 'skim and skip, whereas your poking, doting render has that gift for dis. "There is usually something covering the kernel of a volume Khod in every folio, as there'stapt almost at once; and he reads.and to be something goed in every re-reads a pessage with a profound man," my friend went on. "But sense of the basic truth in his wasn't it Wilde who told us, in favourite writer. Add he delves burst of his incomparable wisdom. into that truth, to the exclusion of that just as one didn't have to the non-essentials surrounding it, drink the whole casque of wine to as an explorer who is sensible get the favour, one never has to seizes upon the fundamental facts pick out every word to get an of his journey. One gets Charles author's tone! The trouble with Lamb through a handful of his most made-to-order book-lovers is perfect essays indeed, through a that they begin wrong. They handful of his perfect sentences. think that the first requisite of a 'If I should read Dream-Children'
"When you hear a person say he is 'saving up a certain book until the desired time of leisure may come when he can enjoy it, you may be pretty sure that the holy hour will never arrive for him; for to postpone a pleasure so real ag the reading of a good book is like absinthe in a stuffy tavern Our reading should not be done on set occasions. We should absorb books, as we absorb 'nature, at any time when, we have the oppor- tunity. They are summer friends, winter friends, all-the-year-round friends, waiting for us to speak to them-so responsive if we bring to them our best selves!"
The world which was ere I was
born, a
The world which lasts when I
am deud:
Which never was the friend of one Nor promised love it could not
give.
But lit for all its generous sun.
And lived itself and made us
-live."
י,
It is inevitable that outworn traditions should be broken on the anvil and that reaping-hooks Swords The artist will recognize should! sometimes be beater into the necessity, and yet retain an artist's pity for the sacrifice.
A great hook! Mr. Arthur Sunt lacrimae rerum! Wangh Said of it on its publien- The End of the House of Lion
has all the virtues
Peter, the heir, has just enough spirit to fall in love with the girl of his choice. She is a woman of character but she has no money. The Alard estates can only be Vera Asher's saved by money. So Stella Mount is sacrificed to Semitic money-bags, and it ends Alard".
a
Pottery," and "The A.B.C. of Col-" Terting Old English-China."
A.B.C. of Collecting Old English
to tarn to innumerable pages, with loved to hear: Alas! then, we had mostly indifferent print, and to find and read those stories was . very difficult matter. With the. advent of "The Little Children's Bible," this difficulty is overcome. and one feels it. would be ruther wonderful to be a small child once again to be the proud possessor of these fascinating books.
which we have learnt to associate with its author's work-sound literary method. deep feminine sensibility, and an air of convic tion which glows with the love of sincerity and truth. To these attributes of the artist it adds a
The books ought to be of spirit of inevitability, which has something almost epic in its especial interest to Sunday School sweep. The field of its interest is Tenchers, and Parents and lovers ing human influences; but the any difficulty in selecting one large, and crowded with contend-of children ought not to experience command of her delightful and useful birthday or novelist's material never falters. The story Christmas gift, for their children, marches infallibly towards an end and little friends. which is steeped in the elements of tragedy."
["The End of the House of Alard," by Sheila Kaye-Smith, Messrs. Cassell & Co., Ltd.]
"The Little Children's Bible" is published from 1 to 7/- and "The Children's Bible" from 2/6 to 10-, so that they are within the reach of everyone..
A BACHELOR-AN AUTHOR A WOMAN HATER, HOW COULD HE WORK WITH A WOMAN AROUND BUT DÁN CUPID HAS HIS OWN PECULIAR WAYS OF FIXING" THINGS UP AND HE DID A WONDERFUL JOB THIS TIME. YOU'LL ENJOY WATCHING HIM WORK.
"DADDIES
A Delightful Comedy of Bachelor Life
Scene from "Daddies" & Warner Bros-Clastic of the Screen,
WARNER BROS.
CLASSIC OF THE SCREEN
featuring
MAE MARSH & HARRY MYERS
To-day & To-morrow.
AT THE
WORLD THEATRE
SCREENLAND
"RIDERS UP."
HUMAN ELEMENTS OF RACING PORTRAYED.
Beaumont Red Book Story.
There are many thousands of persons who have seen the lang tails striving down the line stretch, but there are comparatively few who have had the experience which gives them knowledge of the anny phases of the life going of about the stables or of the private life of those inerchandisers of in- formation about the horses, manly the "toufe."
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killing, and Johnny prepares to fo"keep your semper, figuring that If you keep his oft-broken promise to visit it is all in a day's work. "his folks. But late again interlack this essential, you become venes. There comes complications nervous and go tổ pieces. The re in the person of General Juff, a sult is that when the director custs Civil War veteran greduced to for unther picture, he remembers peddling newspapers, and it ap- you all right-he remembers to appears that the visit must be post-leave you out in the cold. poned again-buta Why provided, novel in scope, betise of the toug's knowledge of inside "dope."
The picture is full of those little touches of hubo emption that bring moisture to the eve. Also, there is some wholesome comedy, as well as a charming love interes between the likeable "Sure Thing" Johnny and Peggy, daughter, of Mother Ryan, which is never overdone.
PRETTY MAE MARSH.
My advice to any girl wishing to become a motion picture star is first get a physician's certiheate ostitying that you are physically fit.
For the first requisite · for acting in the movies, aerording to my ideas, is supreme builth. You may think you have a cast-iron con- stitutions, you rasy be able to dodge the doctor, the dentist, the under- taker for years; but go into pietures and you are likely to call for all; shred of them in rapid succession, with a 'corüner thrown in for good hycusure,
Get into a gymnasium and train yourself into shapq; get over the list. Mireness that exertion Gives Advice To Budding Stars always ens to the person with untried mascles, and weark until
Become
Become
Healthy.. graceful. These are my Brst twat precepts to the budding star.."
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In either case, and, too, in the ense of those whose knowledge of any phase of race track life is uil. "Riders Up' newest Universd aff
they are as hard as steel, with star picture, which comes to the World Theatre will prove enjoyable
never an ounce of superthons fat. Out-of-door exercise is better; pro- entertainment. Real race horses contest on a real track, the picture! This advice came from Muc vided it is still enough, wad regular- was filmed in Til Juans and mu Mursli, thà sereen player, whose as clock-work; but for most people t1 rity, gym js more stable boys and the other bangers words will be listened to with in on going about their vocations and respect across the continent. For secessible." their amusements elintimate every | Miss Marsh has risen fron's the In Duddies," Miss Marsh bas ranks to the purple of stardo the part of Buth Atkins, the suggestion of a "staginess."
Creighton Halo kan one of the Her latest picture. Duddies. seventeet:-yen-old got who comes most interesting roles of the career film adaptation of the Belasco stage }-
who life as the "sure thing."
The cust stuen, proves her title to star, and an orphan to the home of it.
inveterate inchelor includes George Cooper, Robert gives her opinions on star climbing decided to do a gomi deal by The com- Brower, Kate Price and Ethel ached-weight.
Shannon, all prominently know to The third precept is become a | adopting a war baby.
The director in plications that ensue an easily h
Four other bachelors screen fans. Irving Cummings good soldier.
He: Bagined. directed the production. Gerald your commanding officer.
are implicated with their orplans Beaumont wrote the original which "given orders you are supposed to was published under the title of abey to the best of your ability and, as a last resort, are drived to have 'mothers for their acquired, "When Johnny Comes Marching he is a good director he will bring and wives for themselves so as to Home," in Red Book:
but whatever latent possibilities you
children. It is the comedy dram that played on Broadway for two
The story is that of a tout whose have in you. He will give you the widowed mother and gister wait scenario to study, will let you put anxiously for him to come home, yourself into the role of the charac-years. Always he promises, but never ter you are to play, and will let seems to be in position to keep you show him how you think it als Word. · But the ・ Copy - cor i should be put over. If-he-trained sistently goes wrong and Johnny eyes see that it is not going to re- dnd others of his calling are unable gister on, the screen, he will couch to pay their bill ut Mother Rynn's you, telling you what you must do boarding house. Finally, chance to improve your art
In addition to Miss Marsh, the tust includes Harry Myers, Claude Gillingwater, Claire Adums, Wil- lard Louis, Craufurd Kent, Georgia Woodthorpe, Otto Hoffman, Boyco Combe, Millie Davenport, Muriel Frances Dana. Priscilla Dean Moran, the DeBrine Twins and
puts them in possession of införmi "If you have good health, and tion that angles them to take a strength, you are more easily able King Evers.
"RIDERS UP"
featuring a big special cast including
CREIGHTON
HALE, ETHEL SHANNON, GEORGE COOPER, EDITH YORKE and KATE PRICE.
"
A big, tremendously human will story! Its romance win you! Youth, love and thrilling climax combine to hold you in a spell." And like "Sure Thing Johnny you will be captivated by the excitement of colourful Tia Juana. With him you will hope! With the mob you will sway in the guard It is a stand at the races. sweeping emotional and romantic screen story with a smashing fast action, whirlwind finish!
Commencing Sunday till Tuesday..
WORLD THEATRE