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BOOKS
MEN.-MAIDENS, AND-
MANTILLAS."
JMMaideit und Mantillas." Latin-American travel book, the muthor takes us laugh: Mexico, Panaum und South America, down
-Brazilium-womarillude "66 the changing-women of Latin-America. Though many of the excellent and picturesqué descriptions of the plaves which were visited by the author in her years travelling are of necessity brief, the accounts of the life of the people, especially of the women, and the changes that the West Coast to the bikes of are coming over Tatin-America/ doubt, what the Chile, over the Andes in Argentina, consitute, no thence to. Braguay and Brazil. Ţalior regards as a more valuable Many interesting pages are given | purt of the book. to the intuits everyday life of the people experially the women,
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30 Mesin where the Bull-fighter is king of the day, love-making is "an art as well as a romance.
13] Base a square of light in
In the stairs balcony window, centre of the square was the formu of a girl.. Her voice tinkled merri- ly to some
our below.
She was
was in- !
Beautifully
illustrated fron [photographs and written in a cleu concise, tanmer the book is very
able and lacks nothing as a ok of travel-and-study-of-the life of Latin-Amerjen,
-N.H.F.P. Men, Maidens, and Mantilles, John By Stella Burke May. Long, Tatil, 158.]
COOMER ALL-
We could see the mother in the midst of the faniily. seated in the room and wardly conscious but putwardly oblivions of the eturtship carried on
- Kripping from beginning to end from the balcony, writes the Butler. In Gandiajara, the birth is Comer Ali, u tale of land and Place of commige,_old__primitive sea, by the author of Burney." telephone--a string with a ras ut deals with the sacred pilgrimage ench vid an used and in Pera the of a Molmmeddan to Mecesi, of the men always act as hosts while usintrigues and adventures of un old Westion adequately chaperoned are sen captain, and the mysteriouis The author h34 Por Past with its many vils, its the guests. observed, in her travels, how a opinn trathe and its weird super. change is cuming over the whole stitions. The whole story is life- phics and wound are beginning to like, and evideritly, the author has a exert themselves and get out of first hand knowledge of the plates their aid conservative ways. The be describes. ingrained Spanish pride, the train- ing to believe in man's superiority, The Memrish-nunce that kept women within the home, the sub- no siveness of the Quechua Indian, whee bloei van in most Peruvian families, seems for the abseven Men of wough in public places.
rapy the positions that are filled.. by ladies and girls in a European city. Hammer, the accounts of the Women's Cath of Santiago, al the Terigue for ihm Eunaticipation
(A.G.T.1.)
Cooner Ali by S. B. B. Hurst,
John-Fung: is.607-
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BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
****AN "ANTHOLOGY. DOES IT CONTAIN ONE'S OWN FAVOURITES
I
THE MAIN TEST
SATURDAY, AUGUST, 30, 1924.
"ger of becoming a race of antholog modern writers; that is to say, aims are doubtless unexceptionable, istx. With Mr. Thoms Moult, for more modera than Meredith and but his gift of tongues more lavish instance, it is become an anual Swinbinne. He has modestly than enlightening. affair. A little while ago Mr. W. omitted himself, and voted for
The leaflet reads:- H. DAVIDS RIccumbed. Then re- Rupert Brooke, Lascelles Aber- cently we have had the Postcrombie, Gordon Bottomley, W.-H. Laureate's winnowings from other Davies, Thomas Hardy, Ralph
By Cyril LA BEAR STUART.
Hughes Hartonnnn (Routledge, 128. Gd.) The life of the so- culled virtuous lady who resisted theblandishments of Charles 11. resolves itself largely into
The there is no end, says 3. A. in the John Drinkwater with a row six- Thompson, Sir William Watson, Amades de Coñola. Address 11. ans of mild flirtation. book is an entertaining docu-ispatch. Nor is there Hikely killing anthology published by W. B. Yeats, John Masefield, and
sions or not.
tones.
To the making of anthologiests crops, and now comes Mr. Hodgson, Mrs. Moynell, Francis
SPACE DEVOURERS,',
Messrs. Collins, to by long as Inman beings exist
Let it be said at once that, gen who are possessed of selective tastes, and the laudable desire terally speaking. Mr Drinkwater's hace with their fellows the things is an excellent compilation con- they themselves have found good.sidering the comparatively small
A good anthology provides a two-
English
Wilfred Gibson.
No ono will evil at this choice trient, whether one agrees with
of names, although Mr.Drink the author's chivalrons conclus
water might have spared a page WAYFARING. By William Force
apiece to James Kiroy Flecker and Stead (Cobden Sanderson, 58.)
Walter de la Mare. The chiselled "Queen's Gift" would have admir- This book of songs and elegies
The difficulty of amking-a-pocketbly represented the former: and shows n
gemmine poetic gift fold pleasure. It may be the "Pe at his dispusel. which is at its best when stirred means of introducing us to some anthology which shall be represen Mr. do a Mare's "Listeners": byNature's quit bentities ew source of delight, or it may tative of the whole rich field of ought not to be absent from even verse Irone Chaucer the tiniest handful of moderu The pieve, "Village at Twi-serve to renew our acquaintance light," is an excellent example with old and cherished friends.
Both are highly commendable upwards is not so much what to poems.
Our T think, too, that Mr. Aber print as wint to leave out of world painting in delicatis, the former perhaps the more poetical inheritance is so full of crombie's war Epitaph, concise
utilitarian. But the balance, I
treasures that even a five-volume Thu Cher DE CHING WIFE. Bhink, is in favour of anthologies anthology, eh na Ward's English
Amy J. Biker (olm Long, 74. Gd.) l'uff Withers was the type that do not deal in novelties, of Ports, canot hold everything worth of woman who firt because it very sparingly.. is too much trouble not to." She also represents the wife who is faithful to her lunsand only as long no he is present. When he is absent her thoughts turn in other direction, A butter As creature, and not taken ton seriously her erratic fight though the story provides good
entertainment.
LOUISIANA 101. By William West Winter (Hutchinson, - 75 6d.). An excellent, varu of the West which used to be called "Wild." with a spirited heroine who sets out to revenge herself the man who took her
..on
father's life. Her marriage to Lansing. Tan, beginning like
nigdy, in the end proves god for both of them. This is good. "somed.
readable mrvel of its
MESASLANA OF THE SUDERS,
E. M. Delafield Hutchinson, Ts. 6d. Studies in feminine psychology, the chief of which has for its central, figure a girl of the lower middle chisees wigwe love intrigue involves her in a murder trial. This is quite a realistic story, treated with tiel fidelity to life.
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1 CHARM OF THE OLD,
admission.
and moving though it is, should have given place to Mr. A Housman's, other post, by the way, who escupes being in the selecteït dozón.
Mr. W. H. Davies is represented his charming lyric "The
Therefore, in the cam of Mr. The true essence of an anthology Drinkwater, with duly some three' dwells in the fact that it covers hundred and fifty pages for his hy
Its churma well-known ground,
hi for sins of nissim, despite | fashionable audience to excitement should be less that of the new thus, it would not be fair to criticine Moon," which once rousel
the fhet that we are not given any at a poetry reading during the war. of the old.
specimen of Milton's blank verse. But more tynient of the poet's lyric heen Days Too Short" or "In' Crabbe appeat solely us and that Pope and Dryden und simple love of nature would have writers, which gives a very is May." leading impression of their genius.
Such a churn exists independent of the artistic merits of the con- tents themselves. It is the charm horne of familiarity, pleasant old memories; und erboes of mesociations. And an immense winout of the delight we derive from the arts, especially from poetry and music, is derived from funmilarity.
EST IN COMPARING TASTES. Everyone who reads to ary great extent becomes his own private Our mind sub- anthologist.. consciously select and retain those parts of our reading that "Love
given us incal enjoyment
However, these poets need spacCÉ, even more than does Byron, if they
are to be done full justice to. They CALAMITIES OF PUBLISHERS. are, indeed, the bane of the antho logist, and Mr. Drinkwater has not heen able to cope with them any better than his predecessors.
(i) Then. Almost exactly one hundred to his «SHORT LYRICS TO LANG POEMS.
years ago an author wrote
Taylor and The book is divided into three publishers-Messrs, parts. The first section-is-devoted Hassey of 93. Fleet Street-an in Tirical poetry, all gathering follows:
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of
T have now to enquire after- a wife who eloped from Chapel Ash about ton Weeks ago; she is tall lady and muderstand has resided generally at Piranley and Buckney. She took my surname in the year 1779.**
Nowadays we refer ull" enquiries this kind to the authors' Hierary agents. The literary agent claims to safeguard the interests of his clients throughout :" reasonable to include domestic felicity aniong those interests.
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poetry usrupy the sectal section. couplers. And it is because they and also some of the more elaborate do exist that printed anthologiesyrir flights. have such a strong individun! ap- ; The third section is devated to a We all like to compare few longer pens, such as "The peal. notes, to discover where cther Ancient Maritur. "Adonais," and people's tastes coincide with "orld's Scholar (ipsy; which own, to commend their appreciando very well be oufitted from tion in so far as it supports ours any representative collection of and to demur when it does not.
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In euse any of our renders desire In the case of anthologies of | could not be Tound for an extract
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peel. What does he consider good i of the spacious mus. entirely matern and entertaining pastry, his own poems, of course, is not presented at all. Seither stylists of other hemispheres there that "cheque for stry which ends happily.
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