BOOKS
LITERARY NOTES.
A well-known London citor was saying the other day that the musjority of modern renders BTG crying out for more real stories, well told, and fewer of the "anto- IT biographie! hash-up" _type, this is so Messrs. Stanley Paid feel sure that The Mystery of the
Opal***
by Rupert Sargent Holland, which they will publish this month, should appeal to that majority. It is a rattling yarn. spun in the waters of Malaysia, swift in setion, and introchicing | many picturesque characters,
LEACOCK AGAIN.
BOOK EXTRACTS, ·
THE CHINA MAIL.
The normind woman scents love ne the hound scents game.
[Lew Tyler's Wives,' Wallace Irwin.]
"Marriage is an action too freely practised and too seldom adequately Considered.*
they would not life,
in real
Mou make their own destinies. by There is some logo in the way they win or fail in the order of things according to their works. But I know of nothing more fearsome than the trivial things upon which the lives of women turn, not upon what they do or think, but a wind that closes the shutter just as the mon passes whom she might have loved and married if the day bad been sm and the shutter bid remwined ophila m
"Men will be men. They'll bever be civilised where women are concerned, most of them."
To be a little in love is fun, and toakes enchantent of the days. A little in love, a little taste of that bat, blinding emp--but only enough to stimulate, not to blind. One is
M. ANATOLE FRANCE AN INTERVIEW BEHIND A
ns
DOOR (IN 1922),"
The Mannequin d'Osier" wag
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1924.
SILENCE!
leaders caused me terrible mja givings. And the event has sure passed my apprehension.
Fshould behold the Sun. But no It was thus far and no farther M. Anatole France would answer
WEARY BUREAUCRACY, any questions behind the door.
The hero of the story is a middle- M. Anatole Franco has a vast This woe a novel way indeed.
aged Government official whose knowledge of tuen; he has studied Was it coquetry? Was it caprice soul has been dried up by buresu himself in the minutest details. At seventy-seven much ia excus cratic red tape. A chatice meet-
ing with the little daughter of the' known himself, and writes of him- able.
one woman whom he had over self the brilliant, witty I asked: "What is your opinion loved brings him back to life. He
But does he of Mr. Wells?" psychologist he is.
at once recalls his own childhood, know women?
The answer came without hesita-when he was real, and the story of tion, in that low, sweet voice the Blue Bird, which he has never in any mind is I waited to see the which is one of M. France's quite forgotten * [PA. Daughter of Adani," by great fan, the greatest of our charms
living aghorst, the master of style. 1 est le plus intelligent des Corm Harris.].
duy, an hour had been fixed. Angisis!" (I will not translate, as "Women adore so often little in
compliments. Twice the Master was ill the it leses much of its significance in Con Tust remember that, liko dostor, was in attendance The English.) paTold by an Idiot." by Rass womanly men, they depend for third time he was pricions.
their self-esteem largely upon whnt. Macaulay.
they hear othies say about them 14 Would he see me? I waited in the
I was stupefied. room overlooking the
"Does M. France realize what "Most men appreciate silence that is why it is so important never morning He now saw a woman, as it suggests that she is forget compliments when making street, the quiet, almost provincial he is saying? Has he read, Mr.
it up with a woman.
looking street which is the Ville Wells's articles on the Washington an attentive listener.".
Saïd. a-jutting off the Conference, his appreciation of M. Pergolese, near the Bois Awood Briand, his views in connection fire burned in a brick fireplace with France?" before one of those curious plaques in moulded iron of the eighteenth century, the light catching the dull gold of the picture funes ́in kymmetrical order, frimes of all sizes surrounding paintings, for the greater part of the Romantic school, ing upon walls of rich green broade. The doors, the woodwork of the encrusted chimney glass in palest grey, the Persian carpets on the polished floor, the Louis XVI. chairs ail commodes, made the most harmonious, of
"Edward Beanheat took the love,, entire Efficiency Course, occupying, By the end of bini live wecke. course Edward had reached certain
unjar conclusions, that Personality is Power: that Optimism opens Oppustenity; and that Magnetism makes Money.
Armed with these propositions, Edward Benhead entered his office after his five weeks' course a new man. Instead of greeting his! employer with a cold Good Morning, as many employees are come to life in tales of the French
apt to do, Edward asked his Revolution Pimpernel, Punton, Scatampuche and many more-bubuperior how he had'sløpt.
"A whole legion of heroes have
not often have writers of such stories chosen for their subject the dauntless courage and heroism of a young girl. This is the theme of The Bride of the Revolution' shortly to be published by Messrs. Stanley Paul, and around it Miss Then St. Jolin, a keen student of history and a member of the London Library, has built a first moval of considerable vigour.
ti
非
Planing Youth," that astound. ing revelation of certain features of Amaricu life is to be brought out "in a half-crowir edition early next
rmouth. released very shortly
The film which will be shoult increase the public interest in the book, of which 150,000 copies have already been sold. People are still trying to persunde Messrs. Stanley Pial to disclose the identity of the author who has chosen to write this book under the pen name of
Warner Eubian
Miss T. Everett-Green who has been writing for over forty years is bringing out a new novel this anonth, with Messrs. Stanley Paul It is to be called The Revolt of Waydolyn."
*
"Love is a very odd thing, when you come to think of it. It doesn't seem to have anything to do will pride.
"Hard and Fast," by Sybil Campbell Lethbridge.]
"One may see more in a glance than can be told or accomplished a lifetime."
There are ways, and ways for a Now notice how the little things to defeat a woman. Even i It so happened that she does not take the trouble to do count. employer badn't slopt decently for it, her own nature will do it."
is born with "Every woman ten years; and yet no emplovec hud ever asked him about it. Naturally
Edward one kind of artistic instinet, even he 'rencied at once. rearted back, and in a few minutes if it is a barbaric instinct, for dress they were in close confabulation, ing herself when the occasion
appeals to her vanity." Bennhead
Fix
suggested to
employer that perhaps his duets. It is a. good time to change. were clogged with aluminous your mind, your convictions, geve litter. The senior man gravely, your prejudices occasionally." answered that in that case he had better raise Edward's salary.
Beanherd nequiesced with the sole proviso that in that raise should be allowed to organise his ciplayer's business so as to put on a strategie footing.
.
"The reason why most super- frein people obstinately refuse to believe, that great love is rare is herause they find every young per son in their circle who happens to beronie, engaged ready to swear hal his or her love is the real thing and without parallel, and they in early take Ruch statements at
"Why is it if you are tired and suddenly find yourself in the pre- esence of a man your wearines frequently changes into anima-' tion? If you are actually ill you immediately feel rearkably well. do not know, but it is a fuet."
it
theat face value.""
French Beans." by A. M. movie]
JOSEPH CONRAD.
Where landfelt and deputure are
as one
voyage
Where the yo ended is, the
He wakes The fest Youth:
кеця,
Their mark
face if faith
Vestalie of a fuller
O muster-inatters Cour Herret Tempest and pass to victorious quest
obscurities,
purpose, wON,
Silence !
I repeated my question, Mme. France went to him, renuined a moment with him, and
returned with tears in her eyes :- "M. France will not reply."
-FRANCES KEYZER.
TWO LITTLE STORIES.
Whenever we were drafting a Bill with our chief, the memory of the Blue Bint would steal into my; mind, amid the heaps of legal and parliamentary documents by which I was hemined in. I used to redoct then that the human sonl contained infinite desires, un- imaginable metamorphosesand; hallowed sorrows, and if, under the spell of such thoughts, I gave to the clause I chanced to be engaged upon an ampler humaner sense, un added respect the universal order of things, that for the soul and its right, and for clause would never fail to encounter vigorous opposition in the Cham- ber.
The counsels of the Blue Bird seldom prevailed in the committee stage.
FIGHT FOR LIFE.
The woman whom the man loved is dead. Her child when he meets her again is very ill. The muf leaves his official position and works with her grandfather to re atore the child to life. He in suce cessful, and joys in his share of the miracle. But the note of the story is ironic and sad. We say that we live, we miserable beings, because we keep dying over and over
The genius of Anatole France is. evident (though not. perhaps interiors. An interior, by the way, vehemently evident) in two slight
little, stories with A moral again. that had so surprised the BolsheMarguerite" and "Count. Morin, vist lady who had come to inter- view Mr. France that she did not wait to see him.
MR. WELLS.
**Would
come "Pupstairs ?** asked M. France's amiable wife. I followed her past the grey stone
"Count Morin, Deputy Deputy recently published in much in the same vein an ironid English by Mr. Lane, with elinrm-study of politics, a demonstration ing woolute, at 6s, each. In the of the pathos of life. preface to Murguerite, Anatole France, says
SCOTT'S POETRY.
S.D.
I have just read it over, without fear or favour, as I should a work unknown-to me, and it does not seem to me that I have lighted Of chartless ocentis, fairest ports of hall up the eighteenth-century upon a masterpiece. It would ill It is not poetry of the first order. to say more about it It is not the poetry of deep medita- staircase with the forged iron ruil beseen me
than that. My only pleasure as I tion or rapt enthusiasm ing, to u beautiful site of rooms read it was derived from the proof And yet it bas a charm which furnished in the manner of the it afforded that, even in those far becomes more sensible the more lower one I had time to see the off days when I was writing this familiar we grow with it, the charm [Progrès Civique upon the table little trifle. I was no great lover of affected and spontaneous love and a hox of Vichy pastilles at of the Third Republic with its of nature; and not only is it per- pinchbeck virtues, its, militarist fectly in harmony with the nature. band. to help digest it. I was imperialism, its ideas of conquest, which Sott loves so well, but it in asked to mount a floor higher. its love of money, its contempt for still the best interpreter of the www, at length reaching the goal. the handicrafts, its unswerving pre- sound healthy love of wild scenery. The clouds would disperse and I dilection for the unlovely, ItsSir Leslie Stephen.
Now observe again how things count. It so lappened that this man, although carrying on a busi-
"Women are not trivial, but is co
over of ships and men, whose mess which extended over six states they can never resist doing in and out into the ocean, had never secret what their impulses dictate. thought of organising it: and he They really suffer from imagination Permit that England claims the didn't even know what a strategie and ideality. That is why they are her son. footing was. The result was a supposed to be more spiritual than Set sail and steer once more
For further landfall on some nobler for men. salary second increase in
They are, only Edward within twenty-four romantic. They are all novelista
ARTRUHL SALMON, hours:"The Garden of Folly, in secret.
prospective. by Stephen Leacock. Jalin heroine and say hero, even Taue.) 5. net.
a man whom they hate and whom in the London 'OBserver."
with one
njure
he is
hore.
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RIDGEWAY of MONTANA"
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The lure of adventure, intereat- ing to any audience, is doubled in "Ridgeway of Montana," Univer- sul feature starring Jack Hoxie at the World Theatre to-morrow. It is promised the film version of William McLeod Raimes novel will present as many "twists" of plot as a western story permits. Mozukin was taken at an early Hoxie, long popular for his skill age and placed under a regular and at riding and his typical-western systematic course of training con-personality, the product of real ducted by a recognized master of ranch training, has plenty of the dramatic art. Supported and kept western action in this story, but until he was pronounced compet-nothing in it parallels the usual ent to undertake regular parts-on-western-story formula, according. the stage. He was not confined to advance notices.
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Nathalia Lesienko is the world. The cast includes standard famous actress admired by all: troupers" like Herbert Fortier, She will be welcomed. by critica Pierre Gendron, Pat Harmon, etc.. and movie fans, because she puts etc., and one newcomer to fame her hearts into the acting; every Olive Hasbrouck formerly an extra gesture, every movement carries girl, elevated to play the leading
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her
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