BOOKS
REVIEWETTES.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
THE CHINA MALE..
“FAMILY AFFAIRS:”AC;
A
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924
THE ART OF WINE-TASTING QUOTATIONS FROM THE THE BEST THING ABOUT
WHY IS IT NOT TAUGHT AT UNIVERSITIES?
THE ARMS OF THE SUN. By Lady The quality of wit and humour
Dorothy Mills. (Duckworth, is very difficult to defing. 7. 8.) Rose Caryll, a beauti- | cbullition which may be most ful widow who is also annghable when delivered only
Mr. H. Warner Allen's "The African explorer, falls into the amid stage surroundings, and saf per of the maniac scientist raiment in keeping, can easily for Wings of Fraiten" (T. Fisher M'Bou, who by operating on to excite risibility when transfated Unwin, 88. d.) is a capital "book the brains of baby gorillas has into cold print. George Robey's which should be studied by all who created an army of ferocious Family Affairs, would seem to half-men by which he hopes to fall into this category,
are interested in the subject. It destroy civilisation is a Ar the affectionate doments is written by one who knows and grescand idea, but there is a grunt whose grandine sheme for is full of sound judgments. certain mount of power in the the promotion of marital lappiness obiter dieta ureally excellent, description of Mrs. Caryll's and cuifurt always come to "griel, escape, aided by two English he has relieved plicnomenal success and here are ir fegg of them : men who loved her and one of the boards; but that success can M'Bon's, semi-human creations. at hest lend füler glamour to an Attempt at authorship on the same lines.
"MR. APPLETON AWAKES." I OCR Town, By Coralie Hobson, (Hogarth Press, 48.
Thôre can never be any inunour. 6d.) Six short stories of on a plain statement of fact, some- siderable literary quality, written round the lives of thing must be suggested or left to middle-chuss residents of Marsh- inference, and that something must. bridge The Mistress deal totally al variar with the ing with the liaison of a married lignity of the stateniem. In the feminist ideas, is quite in the man and a single girl of Tehehov style and winds up with a touch of fine 'irony.
"Yesterday A Tory Fairy Tavelling in soup and bound to Tail By Norman Davey (Chup- a simple girl, Jauns Appleton did. w and Hall, 75. Gd.)-Theot know who adventure was "Pilgrim of a Smile still mirth ful. Capteis Ravome, described as an ambaby Irene Carter, swore to benne strong. By the machinations of 211 inspired drunken journalist, Kirby, and i possession of big guns, he became the Libenter of the Isle of Wight
"Needles und Pins." By Oliver Madox Huoffer Fisher Unwin) Peter Trefusis' wife, Lulu, wus u Church-worker and husband stagger. Peter fell in with lady who was not appreciated by her husband, and later had gentle dalliance with
until he lost his way in a moor, found lumseff mysteriously trans purted to Sergiavsk al is involved in a plot to rob the world by the
id of chemicals and the use of amphibians With the aid of p. well-known reporter, who was instigating this cuse Appleton manages to save Polly Lascellos, who was in the power of the des pehale ging, runs the dangerous syndiente und murries for love. fold in a vivid and gripping man- ner this story works out to a result not altogether unexpected and holds a flapper; but beherender's attention throughout. would never have enjoyed such'n good tine: if his wife had been o reasonable worna.
By
The Furthest Fury." Carolyn Wells Lippincott. 7. Gd.)---One of the Fleming Stour Detective · Stories, 1 defy the Bernest sleuth-fan to tell, initit the Just lap, whi killed Nevin Jagronice and his widowed sister,
THE MAKE-BELIEVE LOVER.
---N.H.P.P. [Mr. Appleton Awakes, by Destie Beresford (Pau) Jolm Tang Ltd., TH. 68.3
A SPITEFUL JEST.
Marie Corelli being dead, I have
SHORTER NOTICES.
The Puppet Show," By Roberi Nathan. (The Bodley Head, 75, 88.
The Puppet Show" is essen- tilly "pretty" book. You suiñ sentimentality in its very title. You feel Mr. Nathan would be a likely disciple of the "will to believe", which William James used to purl. He is so very umeh concerned with exalting Buth and happiness at the exX- pense of wisdom. Mr. Nathan
, no desire to speak ill of her (saya clothes, his optinism in writing.
a wider in the “sion have which-is-hotti–fimpid-and-chutz- no real desire to speak of her at†ing.
incident hicidly and clearly ok inder discussion, each fact or described, but the inevitable climax is never matter for speculation, its incidence baithrist home to the
most.
The hero,utely a misomer) George self, is always the vietiin of his own sanguinity, and his superior and prescient wife always accepts bis ill-considered plans with tacit lisapproval.
As a tribute to the patience and good sense of the mid wife," the [book lenyes nothing unsaid, but as [a: literary, attempt at nour, it is
monotonous.
The perus of one diegrote would be tolerable, but to̟: take the whole book at a sitting wind prove mental energy rather Bian refinement of taste,
-W.F.B.
Family Affairs" by George Robey, John Long, 94. Gd
LETTER AND SPIRIT.-
Ile
NEW BOOKS.
MATRIMONIAL, MUSINGS,
Sentimentality is other people's] way of making love.".
It isn't the portainty which the uncertainty: not the security nakes marriage worth while, but
but the danger. 11 seems to me that it's a game worth playing just because you never know...what it
lead to or bring forth."" A practical philosophy of love what the whole world's dying for, though it would be surprised if you told it -The Marriage- Craft by D. H. H; Nicholson. (Cobden-Sanderson.) 'Ba, "hebrea
AT THE DANCE.
HOLIDAYS.
'To!"the holiday season draws
· near, And the question is: How shall
wo spend it? Shall we patroniss Margate this
year.
Where, I'm told they've repainted
the pier?
Shall we visit Boulong, Or go south to Mong Blong...
And ascold at?
Shull we cross to the Hugue--
which is merely a step Or enjoy the sea-bathing - at
Dieppo":
Though the weather's too sultry, I
• feel.
Jer's
Or Le Touquet, methinks, Where they've excellent tinka
And lawn tennis:
Skegness, too, bracing (the posters report)
resort fi
While
Bexhill, is t dress.
insame
How is it that our ancient universities have no chairs of wine? How mighty, a crowd of undergraduates World Book to the lectures of such a professor "Joffery selected. that all For a trip to Morocco or Venice, of wine as Profekate Saintsbury ! } dances were exactly alike, and ill| Far away we might secretly stes And it would be no drawback if girls said exactly the same thing To a cotluge ut Dornoch or Deal, they were supplemantelt by prac when you danced with them. On tival tents in the art, hot wine-"The first introduction, they hummed tasting.
the dance tunes in your ear and Cocktails could never have remarked that they could just been invented in a country where dance for ever to-night, and good, wine was mypreciated. As wasn't Hope Lorimer simply u prelude to a meal, their sweet in
tli orange utcoholic contentis far too high | Asquaintances wid, 'I thought and their savo far too gross you would never come to dance und obvious.
with ane. Tan't Hope simply] Taxes and Customs" "duties" | "steret in that cerise dress? Girls have made wine drinking he had known for a long time say. luxury for the rich; and many of 'Why, Jelf! How are you any- the rich have yet to learn how way old dear. You aren't looking to appreciate. The half-witted well, Jeff. I'm afraid you're fanaticism of *** Prohibition bad, bad boy, Why don't you menaces the world with the supeyer come to see me, Isn't Hope pression of that which maketh just simply too sreet in that flame glad the heart of man.
coloured dress?" Wife of the Centaur, by Cyril Hume.
Jonathan Cape.)
THE SERIOUS SEX Men are rarely serious; they
The finest Cognac, when drunk under the tyranny of Prohibition from a coffee cup, loses tuiff its beauty,
If we sail
Dover,
holidays are small dinghy at
we tour through the Lakes in
If
& car,
if
The fortnight, I know,
we lounge at Ostend it ba
It's
We shall long for them so
To be over
delightful, of course, to make
plans, and to pack,
But it's pleasanter far to get back.
The World We Laugh In
by Harry Graham.
The French any that the for- inistake solemnity for seriousness, eign popularity of champagne, although " it is & very different really dates froin the downfall of | thing. Women are the serious Napoleon 1. when theses: few good women, for one THE DISINTERESTED MALE, nurch to Paris the Allies sacked thing, have more than a ridimen the champagne cellars,
tdry sense of humour.“-On the Berandah, by Holloway Horn. Many will sich, for the cheerful | (Hölden) 78. 6d. het, old days of the twelfth century, when there were no Pussy feet and when wines of Bordeaux were sold in England at Eron three- farthings to twopence a gallon."
PLUSH.
While he was in America Hugli Walpole sometimes had to go through the process of being praised for another inan's work. If you see a thing too often, you
On one occasion an irrepressible no longer hear it. Our attention
indy heaped eulogies upon him This is a biographic study of the requires to be surprised and to
Lord. Gorell gets a lot of capital under the firm conviction that he miserably poor who crunch in the carry a fort by assault, or to gain
written fun out of the House of Fords in¦ had
"Sonia" such siadyw of the mighty cathedral of ¦ a thoughtful hearing from the ruck Toled The central figure in of unkind, are
Plush, which Fisher Unwin has beautiful, uplifting work, she called- feits of about Gabriel Inu, who was designed equal difficulty and must be tried old bell as you choose, it is still the what its moceedings look like in wholly for good. Walpole thanked just published, He shows yonit. that bad influenced her life for the priesthood, but loses his by not dissimilar means. The old belf, and cannot startle their the even of Albert Plash, who her, for her high estinate of his faith
wanders though I whole Bible lus this lost its mescomposure. And so it is with this works in the Hoxton fish-shop, and work, but pointed out that the Puroue preseling the doctrine of suge for the compon Fem of byword about the letter and the the result ought to help to give the particular book she land singled "evolution," In Barzelons he is heaters; it has become more words spirit. It is quite true, no doubt: House of Lords a new lease of life. out for special mention was by Mr. sent to prison, and when at last of course, mnd the person may but it liss no meaning in the world We haven't got so much left to Stephen McKenna. The lady's he is set free, a broken man, all hefbaw! himself scarlet and beat the to any man of us. Alus! it has laugh at that we can afford to husband, who was hovering in the asks of the world is to be allowed pulpit like a shing possessed, but just this meaning, and neither more abolish an institution in which one background during their short toureep away and die in peace. A his heurers will continue to nod: nor less that while the spirit is of its own_members can final drama of irony ends this anti-they are strugely at peace: they true, the letter is eternally false.
find sa colloquy, did not help to mend meh food for merriment as Lord matters by ojuculating at this clerical hook.
know all he has, to my ring the
R. JA STEVENSON.......... Corell has found among his peers. I point'; "Sting again, Maria!""
all. But hey spitefut will makes it The Shidow of the Cathedni," By force of ciremstances, Jane presstry for somebody to say By Bierute Blasco Duez. (Piskier
that win. 7. Od. Avery finds herself in a very onething, and hope comfortable su nodesirable posi-Stratford-on-Avon will speak up tion. Her employer inngines she for itself. -- Stratford is like is in love with her handsome speare, and Shakespeare is Strut- Insband. Then fate steps in and ford, and the mer Miss Marie introduces Randal Dilwyn to her. Forelli's lief and unimproving He becomes her make-believe lover
association with the famous town and thus soothes her miployer for a
is forgotten the better for every time. This leads to real love and body." If means can be found for By skilful buidling the author has remancing probate or doing some evolved an interesting story,
other of those mysterious Tegal things by which on repudiates
and will. I hope that the "trust."" whicle would make of Miss Corelli's house a perpetual and; spiteful jest Luay be quashed.
11
-N.H.T.P.
The Make-Believe Trover, by Alice Pustuce John Tong, 78, 68:1
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Last Chance For You
VIRGINIA
To See
CARL LAEMMLE Present
ALLI
In the world-famous Romance and Stage success
Mady of Quality
with
MILTON
SILLS
STARTING TO-MORROW
-A SEA DRAMA OF
MIGHTY EMOTIONS
SCREENLAND
WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE
WOMEN.
The eternal battle of sexes, raging: from the very dawn of human race, is the theme of Mr. Good- man's powerfully, dramatic and prophetic photoplay - "What's Wrong with the Women" which will be shown at the World Theatre next Wednesday..
It is not unkind to wonianbood. It is, in no sense a sermon, or photo-. drama in behalf of mere man. Bit it reveals the modern woma in all her strength and weakness "and" shows by means of a tremen
dously dramatic human story, how wonair to the present high- “powered "ers of jazz and bootleg-
gers, can best serve society.
The story is a "straightforwortl narative dealing with the lives of. 4. Kurt "group of men and women? in the gilded strut, of big town society.
A young business man and his devoted wife live happily with their baby. The wife is led, ins nocently into a fast circle in which she is almost engulfed. Troubles Jollow. Big stations occur fre- quently. Mr. Goodman with the facility of a master story-teller depicts his tale in vividly dragutio
sequences
The production of this picture is so perfect that it is pre-eminent mong the greatest pictures of all time: Tt will make millions think and talk.
rids drama money-mad avlagʻ aga ol
wilk
„Na picture in tha Mistory of the screen Bükjörer burned ruch
Jasting impress on the Seest and soul of humanity!
Na pictura has ever com...” tained such mighty dranski jauch „pressadous" pathos; súcă sólónál hour interesti
See Modern Woman rucklosúly: revealed · in ‘all bar plerique strength, an
FINAL SHOW TO DAY
DON'T MISS IT.
World Theatre
STARRING
WALLACE AND NOAH BEERY
GREATEST CHARACTER ACTORS OF THE SCREEN)
World Theatre
"STORMSWEPT.”
What greater treat could there be for devotees of motion pictures than a production fentoring the two virile Beery boys-Wallace and. Noal? Well, it's coming soon. It will be the feature attrac- tion at the WorldTheatre to-morrow. It. in called "Blown- went" rushing, sorging story of the sea, with a marvellons back- ground of rolling billows and tha -sweep-of-far-horizone. Witli-the- Mesars. Beary hooding, the cast it „requires' "no'grest strain 'on- one's imagination to realize whats drumssio fenet is in store. These "boys. Alive, drink, sit and kiþáp Drains of the most powerful dea!! cription. “Therefore, local theatre- gbe are advised tow prepare an
DANIEL CARSON GOODMANS.
AMAZING ANSWER TO THE AGE OLD PROBLEM
What's Wrong
Women?
PRIDA
WORLD THEATRE.