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(foseph Conrad. By Hugh Walpole London: Nisbet.
28. net.)
THE TEMPLETON CASE.”
Kit.
THE CHINA MAIL
WHEN WEST MEETS EAST.
MB. R. M. FORSTER BREAKS Victor L. Whitechurch, who lius HIS 14 YEARS' SILENCE. already made his humo as author in his previous books;, the PROTAMS OF SOCIAL LIFE IN INDIA, best known of which are "The Passage to India Bg F M Canon in Residence" and "Loft
Worster...Aruold. 74, 6) in Charge" certainly adds to biz]: One cannot but be gratefn! that reputation in his test schleve. Mir. Forster bus pablished a new
novel after a silence of fourteen'| ment "The Templeton Case."
This book is not an editica of years. Mass publishing has grown Sherlock Holmes or anything like apa since the appearance of *Howards End," but the weker the author, making his datec-1
mong the debris, he he never so tive use the ordinary police
diligent, would be hard put to it to anethods.
find its literary peer.
Starting with a graphic and short description of the small river village in Sussex where the crime of the French language was pot takes place, Mr. Whitechurch quickly passes on to the crime and absent in his carlier books,
Mr. Walpole claims for Conraden the attempts to find the that he discovered the sea... And culprit. in a way he did, though others, Coleridge, Hernian Melville, Mise
field,
Mr. Foster's writing has a beauty, vision, and finished artistry that will keep his books upon shelves that seldom give rooin Folly three-quarters of "A pas fan madera novel,
age to India" is written with more preciseness than air. Forster ms ever shown; the end lapses into inconelusiveness.
BATURDAY, AUGUST 9 19 24.
FROM PIERRE LOTI'S
MOTHER.
1 can assure
anything but rigidly aloof to the Indian. A storm arises out of an incident in which" Aziz is ke cused of insulting Adein during Rochefort, Monday, May, 1876, an excursion to the Magabur
Why, dear child, did you send Cayos, Fielding, the young principal of the local Govern me an itemized list of your ex nent college champions Aziz and Ponos? (Even though I like to
have you count.) is ostracised by the outraged you, I don't criticize any of them: colony for his pains. To the dis-I think even that there are very confitare of the latter, Adela few young men thrown upon the withdraws lier charge, but the world who have as few as you, and damage is incepart de her re-
I ever cenko to degrot that you. pentance is of little avail to Aziz. have to bear such a heavy burdon!
is # remarkable The story achievement of subtle portraiture and the work of an artist in descrip- tive prose
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The Play Box. By Mrs. Henry (Heinemann, 78.
Dudency. 623 Those who like, beolts of short stories will find eleven of them in this volume--all readable.
Mrs. Dudeney can hold the at- kention, and hold it well, for half This, however, story. One of the most original is an hour, to the end that is, of her
I can never help feeling a little" antinus when you keep something from me; on the other head. I so liks to feel that you are frank and
con-
open with your sister, and it secus such a good omen that you are again taking her into your filence that I am far from com- plaining, I assure you, at the pri vate letters, to her. But if you have now worries or some secret 10.
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THE EDUCATED INDIAN.
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Eglish literature which many nature of the fascination it wields, way through, before ending up In Aziz, the young Indian flor.und who stayed there who made to leave it lying about us you did
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Detective-Sergeant Colson, after thrice getting on the wrong track have discovered it also, and having cleared the ground of Ir. Walpole has succeeded, on None, certainly, has ever written possible murderers, acting on ad- more magnificently of comprehen- vice from his wife at last brings "his"anall canvas, in giving adidly of the sea than has Conrad, the criminal to book.
The Way the author Keeps the Becount of Comad's novels and with a deeper love for it, nor their author-peculiar position in yet with keener insight into the interest to boiling point the whole. writer might have attempted and The supreme genius of Conrad is with rather an unexpected climus, Bardly succeeded in achieving, with that he writes about the things he does great credit to his work. The valy more space at, bis disposal. knows and understands, ao intim-hook is certainly one worth read Mr. Walpole doen well to em- ately, so vividly, that he carries na ing and especially for those who "phasize the realist and the romans forward with him into a world of enjoy first rule detective stories. find almost equally in Conrad, for his own, where the people, the if the one is present, the other is countries, the adventures, are ench meyer far away. Intene love of ar we have never known and yet! adventure-hit whispers to us the authenticity of which we never from the reniutest corner of sea or doubt. And how rightly does Mr. Band, wherever he was take us--Walpole emphasize thin wedlih, must have made Conrad great the seemingly inexhaustible wealth 4. seller, whether he had under- of his material. He began writ- d how to write down what he ing in 1805; five years later, after f and sat or ant. He has re- the appearing of several books from 1 that land his first novel, his pen, the advent of Lord Jha" dispute, "Atmayer's Folly." pablished in placed him, without "157, been refused, he would have among the foremost novelists of
mele no se ed attempt. For 20 the day,
Mr. Wolpole elains for Conrad ys he had been sailing the seas, and these we are familiar with that he has brought the zest of wint he has written since then, its creation back, to the inglish pub- rielmese, its variety, is unazing novel With The Rover,
prehension of sine and of lished only a few months ago, -gnize how great has Conrad has shown that he can an film rest of his experience. write as powerfully and as freshly Fierre Loti set out to be a travellers ever. If this is not the greatest hane le wanted to write about of his masterpieces, yet the char dstent kids; Contada Polish acter of Peyro! fils honourable yth, wen to sen, because, irre place in that fine gallery of Con- But the rad's Captain Anthony, Nostromo sibly, it called him dire to wite down what be Iul Lord Vish. gh, what he thought, can hardly ize her less irresistible. It is teresting to think that Conrad sitated at one moment whether b should tell his story in English or in French: he chose English, But as Mr. Walpole shows with an interesting rample, the influence
as the following, he sages such suas up just wherein, lies the genius of Conrad, in words which could searcely we believe, be in- proved upon The work is thick, the finest workmen out of the a though it bad heen, wrought by heart of the finest material-und yet it remains, through all its dis cipline, spontaneous.
years,
hera."
went to bed in n rage because she of Brglish rule in Indis still want-quire's daughter of eighteen" who entry way more
money, too? could not mury the blacksmith, solution,
There is poignancy in the pre- romantic vow and kept it for forty
"Does anyone who has not inde to Three Old Men'
got there realise what it feels to he elderly? That dry, discreet wont-elderly:"
tor, Mr. Forster epitomise the educated Indian-sincere, éxuber authority and of his compatriots. ant, distrustful like of English These hitter are best described in the following:-
Hamidullab had rulled in on his way to a worrying committee of notables, nationalist in ten- dency, where Hindus, "Moslems, i two Sikhs, two Parsis, a Juis, and a Native Christian tried to like one another more than come matum to them. As long as simpeono alused the English all; went well but nothing so con- struglive had been achievet, and if the English were to leave Jadi, ti Committee would! vanish niso."
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But-elderly!"
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Our April has heen horrid and May is not beginning much better
To be old, to be really, truly still rating and it is cold venerable, that does not inatter: today; nothing is growing quickly. everything is kite. Something we cach year a new asset-one step" have never seen before is that our nearer to being a centenarian
poor starved sparrows have de- and the locul celebrity,
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For this has been take their cial life as seriusly.as appearing?
The author, is little that is in-lost rotten and are not an orna- ..: God-bye; dear love, characteristic of Conal, and the they do the business of ruling:
ol his inexhaustible their women med vir social life toesting to the rusty pub.went in the kitchen yard, evidence
Lenderly, J'en filies resident in London! verg genius, that while the disciplines upon the best English suburban listed comments of friendly Ameri-alt your poor old ladies kiss You LITTLE NOVELS OF NOWADAYS, by bus increased. the spontaneity has lines.
Adela. Chested comes cut frosh, during the war, but she achieves a "Xates of My Youth," Perhaps only the novelist him- never slackened; what he writes
from "England to decide whetherj remarkáldy, vivid picture of the would has remained as vivid, as exciting,
she will urry Ronny, the City ¦ period. self-though the critic hasten, to deny this is able folly us inevitable to him as when he and fairly to understand the novel first put pen to paper; and there- Magistrate of Chandrapre and ist's art. Mr. Walpole, himself a fore it is so to us also. Conrad novelist, follows with an almost still writes because he must, bot
realdess interest the perfecting merely because he can.
In pas!
E. P. H. of this art in Conrad..
with the determination to "see" Toda first.
She is seriously disturbed by Ronny's' arrogant refasal to be
To one shatt pain-the-muzhor
Nadine.--From
segons in leave alloweşi her inngina platforms Prance in August, fin to mutru héé powers of obser-1914, but did the average poilu Weeping wonen there fake train to his depot with i in plenty on the railway white, drawn face?"
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Sir Philip Gibbs (Hutchinson, A dosen graphically 78. Gd written stories illustrating post- varions __WLEX_ conditions in
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The title tells the story
LAURA
WHEN SIX MEN LOVE
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BOXING PICTURE.
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Brian O'Brien. ex-prize-fighter In an East Side tenement house and now owner of a prosperous lives O'Brien, a lucky young garage in to-day thoughtfully chew- Irishman, who carns his living in ing on the advisability of prize- preliminary boxing contests. He fighters sticking to their lusts in-is ambitions and dreams of a"dri stend of rouming into foreign fields when he will no longer have to for adventure and preft.-
a preliminary. fighter, but will be 'Brien, long an adherent of the fill-Hedged main event boxer.
O'Brien's wife is also ambitious, padded nit, deserted the prize-ring for the automobile business but the and she wants her husband to quit fighting blood which carried him to the ring and go into business. She the top of his profession still re- is ambitions along social lines and mained with him when he settled cumot see much of an opportunity down to the more humble and for a social conquest as the wife prosaic task of touring down
machines.
With a strong penchant for red- blooded literature, O'Brien' took to reading Duns and recently has been discovered browsing in spare moments over Alexandre, Dunaa' "Three Musketeers.".
of a pugilist. Later on O'Brien acquiescing in his wife's wishes, left the ring, devoting his entire time to the garage and his pros- perity has greatly increased. Mrs. O'Brien spends her entire time at country club when she becoines infantuated with General Van Sickden, u species of lounge lizard. Evidently the sword play und
After several incidents reached the stirring adventure of D'Artagnan "iroused a spirit of emulation in elimus that she had found that. Brian O'Brien's adventurous breast her society venture was all a sham
•for he decided to stage a neck and that, after all, motherhood is | lace recovery of his own similar the most glorious thing in the
world. to that in the Dumas story.
This splendid and attructive pic- With the aid of two.confederates ture comes on the screen of the whom he hired for the occasion World Theatre from Sunday to O'Brien staged a "fake" robbery of Mrs. Van Rector's sixty thousand' dolor necklace for which the police have been scouring the town.
Tuesday next,
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