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ODD NOTES.
Mr. John Buchan has written a story, "The High Places," which en- tera upen ground made familiar by Sir Walter Scott. The seventeenth contury in Scotland was remarkable for a stern, Calvinistic discipline and witchcraft. Mr. a revival of Buchan shows how they were link ed together, for the stornness of the new creed drove many back to the licence of the old paganism. The hero of "High Places" is a rainietor pf the kirk, born out of due season, who, like the great Montrose, stood for enlightenment and moderation and paid the penalty.
A Doctor's Portfolio. Sir James Crichton Browne, the veteran and famous alienist, has been engaged upon another book, "Stray Leaves. From a Physician's Portfolio A year or two ago he gave us "Burns From a New Point of View," and recently a selection of his memories. During his long and strenuous professional life he hag, like most doctors, had to ad- dress himself to questions of public hygiene and speculations generally of medical complexion. It is essays so inspired which are the basis of the book now coming. through Hodder and Stoughton.
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A Holy Roman Emperor.- Misa Marjorie Bowen, who had recently done one or two, modern novels, is at present completing "a long historical story. It deals with the life and time of Maximilian 1, of Habsburg, Holy Roman Emperor. The title is "The Golden Roof, this being derived from the golden roof of the ancient imperial palace at Innabruck, which had more than The 3,000. glided copper tiles.. characters in the book include Henry VIII, Ludovico Sforza, Louis XI of France, and Catherine of Aragon.
The Learned Man.
hall after he came into his king- dom..
New Fletion and Old
"THE DEVIL.”
Tolstoy, that worshipped literary "Stere of Ladies" is a novel by light of Russia, had in him much of Mr. Louis Golding, which Mr. Alfred the morbidity which appears to Knopf will shortly have ready affect the whole race. To his simple The title is taken from Milton's and powerful style he added the "Story of ladies whose bright eyes revelation of a mind diseased. He rain influence," a quotation which made the most astonishing state expresses the keynote of the story.ments and proved the strangest Mr. Knopf is Blas bringing out an
theories. In a book on Art. to edition of a Dutch novel which was which hobody now pays any atten
declared that the Immortal called a classic when it first appear ed seventy years ago, "Max Ninth Symphony was "bad art," Havelaar by Mutatuil. To write mainly because he apparently it, the author, who was the gov-neither understood nor liked ernor of a Dutch colony, gave up it. The man who could rend ambition and position, and died in immorality Into the violin poverty. Another book appearing sonata, known A8 the "Krout- With Mr. Knopf is the third volume,zer" was just the sort of man who "The Cross," of Sigfrid Undset's would have written "The Devil" Norwegian trilogy, the first and and to whom the iden would have
"The Gar-
come in just the way it did, a fellow necond volumes being
and
Mistress of with a prurient mind and a religio- land" Husaby."
erotic complex of the most advanced Russian brand, a hater of life, and a thoroughly unstable genius...
A Victorian: Study. Miss Elizabeth Haldane, Lord Haldane's sister, has just frilshod a Tolstoy at 62 years of age con- study of George Elliot and her fassed to a tutor that he was "over- times, and the house of Hodder will come by sexual desire," and asked publish it. She takes advantage of for help. He naked the tutor to go the sense of perspective provided with him upon the daily walks by the lapse of nearly half a cen
which he customarily took alone. tury since George Eliot's death. It appeared from further confession The result is a many-shaded pic-that he had fallen in love' or con- ture of "a world which was feeling ceived a strong desire for a pensant towards new departures and yet woman, and the affat had gone as was always restrained and drawn far as the 'making of a rendezvous, and which and it was to avoid the conse- back by convention, found in George Eliot a novelist who quences of keeping the assignation exactly diagnosed its complaints that Tolstoy sought company on his and understood its susceptibilities." walks."
The atory, so far not published in Miss Haldane's summing up of the novellat is that she "lovad mankind English, tells of a similar incident without suffering any illusion re-in the life of Eugene frtenev, who garding it."
In the Air.
the
"The Devil," by Leo Tolstoy; Allen and Unwin.]
gives way to bis passion, and is at. length possessed by it to his des Lord Thomson, who was Afr Min-truction, a bit of morbid Russian ister in the Labour Government, hus Tolstoyan style which casts out all pessimism written in that bare, a book on Air Facts and Pro-
unessentials. Whatever failinga blems, appearing with John Mur- ray. It differs from most works on Tolstoy had as a human being, he
was, at all events, an artist. aviation in that it does not enter Into technical details. The subject Sir Oliver Lodge has made a new experiment in authorship in trans-is dealt with from three points of lating a book by another eminentView; those of the soldier, the ad-
ministrator, and the man' man, Dr. Charles Richet, who was long Professor of Physiology in the street. Beginning with a descrip- University of Paris, and is also a tion of air warfare, it explains the man of letters and interested in close dependence of military and many phases of life. He wrote "La civil aviation, and the necessity for
The variety of the contents of the Savantajeu d'esprit having for unified direction and control. Lord its theme the special peculiarities, Thomson lays stress on the especial January number of Commercial Art significance of aviation to the far-enters upon practically every de- idiosyncrasies and characteristics Aung British Empire, and he illus-partment of art pertaining to com- met with in leading men of know-trates this in a chapter on the work merce. Perhaps the most outstand- ledge. It is this volume which Sir of the air police in Irak. Over Lodge has translated, and it will be published by Dent under the title "The Natural History of a Savant."
China As It Is.
"China in Turmoil," a book which Heath Cranton is about to publish, will have a particular interest just now. The author of it is Mr. Lous Magrath King, who has recently re Lired from his Majesty's Consular He was station
Service in China.
ed at Peking, Shanghai, Canton and in the remote interior. He has tra- velled the length and breadth of China, from Peking to Burma, and from Shanghai to Tibet, and he has been held as hostage by brigands. The book constitutes the essence of his gathered Chinese knowledge and experience, thrown into pen-por- traits of leading living Chinese.
A Story of Religion.
The Bodley Hend
M. Andre Maurois, whom we know for his "Colonel Bramble" and his "Ariel" has written a study of
the life and complex personality of Benjamin Disraeli. It fe announced by the Bodley Head, and from them we shall have other interesting books during the next few months. Mr. Hamlin Garland, an American writer who has devoted himself specially to the Middle West, has, written" "Tall-Makers of the Mid- dle Border." It is the record of a pioneer family of the generation preceding his own, and shows the "conquering of the frontier." third Bodley Head book will be "Francis Druke," Benson, in the Golden Hind Series, by Mr. E. F. which Mr. Milton Waldman edits,
Spring Publications.
A
"COMMERCIAL. ART."
ing of these is the interesting and beautifully illustrated article by Sir Herbert Morgan, K.B.E., on Fred Taylor the well-known poster de-. signer, whose capacity to give. colour and atmosphere to even" a highly.
technical and detalled
subject is remarkable.
The touch of exquisite ant which Messrs. Austin Reed; Ltd., have ac- quired in their delightful premises recently opened in Regent Street is. fittingly described by S. B. Wain- wright.
illustrated.
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THURSDAY, MARCH 24, 1927.
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"UNDER THE BLACK FLAG."
The selection of
We do not know whether it is the medium, in an article entitled activities of bactleggera, the em- "Aspects of the Selling Art" makes bargo on silk or the present spot- interesting reading and is cleverly light on Chinese waters, that has: aroused the reading public's inter- One cannot but be astonished at est in classic smuggling and piracy: during the last 26 years which these subjects has appeared recent- the revolution in Press advertising but there is no doubt that an un- usually large number of books on Fairchild has suitably described in "Press Advertising 1900-1926." ly.
A distinguished addition to the When one compares the artistic. designs and layouts of present day pirate shelf will be made shortly Press advertising with those of by Messrs. Stanley Paul when they 26 years ago, one is impressed with publish "Under The Black Flag" the marked improvement which has by Don C. Selts, author of "Paul taken place and which must beneft Jones." and "The Buccaneera." the advertiser in every respect.
Mr. Sinclair Lewis, the American The blography of Viscount Bryce novelist is going to Britain this was finished in the autumn by Mr. Summer, but before then Jonathar. H. A. L. Fisher, but it was not Cape will publish another novel by possible to publish it before Christ- him. It was whispered some time mas. It is now printed, and will ago that Mr. Lewis was writing "abe issued by the Macmillans within preacher novel," but "Elmer Gan the next few weeks, in two volumes.
An article on Ludwig Hoklwein It is the Mr. Fisher surveys the wide-rang the world famous German poster. try" is not exactly that. story of the Rev. Dr. Eimer Gantry ing activities of his friend he tra designer, containing many striking. as a very human person, from his veller, historian, jurist, statesman, examples of his artistic work, com
and mountaineer. student days to the time when he
He dwella pletes an excellent publication. hey become a big city parson, Mr. especially on the great part of his
"Commercial Art," published by life which Lord Bryce gave to the The Studio, Ltd., London." Prica Lewis gives him the company of a whole gallery of portraits Catholic promotion of a better understand 1-1 priests, Christian Science healers, ing between England and the Jewish rabbis, Baptist missionaries,
United States. Another Macmillan 4 Methodist bishop, a village atheist, and a High Church Epis copalian.
The Merry Monarch. Mr. Arthur Dasent, who recently: gave us a life of Nell Gwynn, has made a study of "The Private. Life of Charles the Second," for
books, nearly ready is "The Russian Lancelot Lawton, who has lived in Revolution, 1917-1920," by Mr.
Russia.
Sir John Murray has arranged for a volume of stories entitled "Peacocks "and Other Stories of Java," an island not hitherto writ "THE DOOR IN THE WALL."
ten about with the personal note which the author, Mrs. Venpotte Mies E. Almaz Stout, late PresHerron, imparts to it.
She is a д book which Савке!! will dent of the Society of Women deughter of the late Professor publish. He is more concerned Journaliste, has written novel
Herron, who was a notable gure with entitled "The Door in the Wall" in Florence and a friend and coun- with Charles the man than Charles the king. He truces his which will be published immediats-seller of President. Wilson. Mrs. life from his birth In St. James's ly by Messra. Stanley Paul It is Herron lived in Java for years, and Palace, through a stormy boyhood even more provocative than her and years of exile, to the Restora recent play "Inheritance" which thus beenne familiar with the life tion. As he goes, Mr. Dasent re- was produced by the Interlude of Europeans and natives there, coasts the love adventures which Players and most favourably ra and with the reaction of the one "Peacocks" beset Charles, and he describes the ceived by the critics."
Trace upon the other, various women under whose ing Miss Almaz Stout, by the way, is fluence he fell. They range from the author of the film "Women Who "Mademoisella de Jersey," whp cap Win" in which Queen Mary and the tivated him as a mere boy, to the late Queen Alexandra graciously gaudy ladies who ruled at White consented to appear.
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