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PALMERSTON.
LIGHT ON BRITISH HISTORY.
Major Newman has written an "Mr. J.. A. T. Lloyd's "Good-
The memory of British states- admirably lucid and readable ac- Better Best" (Holden, 71, 6d. men of the Victorian period will count of what has been happening net) is a paychological novel, but not perish for lack of blographers, in the last few years in the old one of an unusual kind The Gladstone, Bostonsfield, Gran- Turkish provinces now under Brauthor is, in fact, concerned withville Salisbury, Dilke, Palmer- tish and French mandatory rule the influence of environment, aton, and others have been im in Perala: He brings his narrative up to the end of last Summer, thus which sounds a sufficiently stale mortalised in biographies ranging providing the most up-to-date sum-subject; but where he is original in sie from two to six volumes. mary available in book form of the is in the double acton which he Recently Professor Hearnshaw present state of the Arab lands. gives to this influence. Every published a very fine summary of Not everyone will agree with all one knows that weak characters eight Prime Ministers of the. his judgments, but on the whole he take their colour from their aur-Nineteenth Century, including a is fair to the innumerable interested roundings and are often com- brillant sketch of Palmerston by parties in what has been not inaptly pletely changed by them: Mr. Mr. Philip Guedella." Those, how- described as an Oriental Ulster. He is ready at once to criticise and Lloyd has imagined a natural ever, were mere sketches of poll-
state to
the case in favour series of events in the course of tical principles. Mr. Guedalla ap- the weak charactersparently has been making a very of Arab and of Zionist claims in which Palestine, and to point out the faults violently affect and finally change" long and careful study of Palmer of the French regime in Syria and characters by whom, at the begin-ston for his latest book, entitled the British in Irak without falling ning of the story, they seem to be "Palmerston." has been published Nobody stress the grave difficulties altogether dominated." says the by Ernest Benn, Ltd. ngainst which the mandatory Pow-Times Literary Supplement."
would be likely to utter one word ern have had and are having to con- "The strongest character in the against the multiplicity of bio- tend.
In his versions of such familiar book is Briscoe, a rich man of graphies if they were all as good episodes as Lord Balfour's tour and ruthless ideas who is thinking of as Mr Guedala's "Palmerston.” the bombardment of Damascus he going into politics. Of de Unlike so many biographers he writês vividly, and does not neglect mocracy Briscoe has a low opin- does not strip away contemporary the dramatic possibilides of the ion; his creed is that the best history and concentrate theme. Nor does he confine himself form of government is benemere delineation of his subject. to high politics. He has an eye for the picturesque and for the droll volent tyranny, in which the vicissitudea of travel in a land that tyrant makes use of criminals to still has one foot in the Old Testa-do his dirty work. Criminals ment so far as material conditions have, however; for Briscos no home reader he conjures up a clear Aristotle: they are just stupid concerned. For the stay-at-more importance than slaves for picture of the streets of Jerusalem, people and useful, but, only as Damaseus Bagdad. and Teheran, servants.
:to
are
of them taken by the author.
1.
on a
Mr. Guedalla, Ike Macaulay, has a genius for narration, and in his book of 500 pages he pours with singular dexterity a continuous
splendid and glittering, and there. flood of light upon British history of sixty years. The prose is often is a liquid continuity about the
that narrative
makes it
Vic-
and of the great stretches of desert.|| He is in fact, a sort of highly interesting. Palmerston that le between those ancient cities.||
with the vas born in 1784. the year that He has the inestimable advantage Superman, swollen of treating throughout of sights and sense of his importance and an
Reynolds painted "The Tragic acones with which he has been per- exaggerated belief in his opin-Muse and he died in 1866, the sonully familiar, and he seems to fions. Meanwhile, Mrs. Briscoe vear that Swinburne published have enjoyed the good fortune of is, in her own way, just as strong Atalanta in Calydon.” Yet, ac- always being on the spot whenever a character as her husband.cording to Mr. Guedalla, he was anything of interest was happening. Briscoe seems to be on the verge not typically one of the
Not the least attractive feature of of dominating his unhappy coun-torians: rather he was the last this book are the photographs, many try; Mrs. Brisce, a clever woman fragment of the Eighteenth Cen- with an Egyptian style of beauty, try projecting far into the Nine- sees through everybody, controls teenth. His life was rooted in his household, and manages the the heart of the Eighteenth Cen- lives of a whole collection of tury, Mr. Gusdalla remarks that acquaintances.
Palmerston and the Eighteenth Century never asked questions: Like his they answered them. old leader. George Canning, he be- lieved that Britain ought to be a The story is model to Europe. presented dramatically, and the book is unquestionably a very fine biography. Above all, Mr.
ODD NOTES.
"Murder by Fost" is the arresting:
Yet these two strong people title of one section in Mr. McCluer Stevens's new book of studies in are changed in nature and turned criminology entitled "From Clue to the one into a criminal and the Dock." One of the instances he other into a weak woman. describes as a variant of the more The title of the book 'alludes to conventional present of an "infernal the three women between, whom machine"is that of an ingenious Reggie makes ineffectual efforts Italian countess who sent to her to choose. This Judgment of rival, a variety actress, a handsome Paris, as Mrs. Briscoe calls it, is a Guedalla presents his readers with jewel-case bearing her husband's minor feature of the plot; and the a full-blooded man and not with a monogram and containing a live puff average male reader will be in-mummy, as so many biographers adder. This mark you not in the terested much
more in", Mr. do. Middle Ages but on St. Valentine's Lloyd's provocative ideas on Day 1904.
The book which also has a sec-polities and paychology-criminal tion on Murder Inns, Smugglers, and other than in his con And Highwaymen was published scientious efforts to dissect the
feminine mind;
early in March by Menirs. Stanley Paul.
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Devotees of the noble and ancient game of chess will welcome "The Practice Chess Player's Handbook," just published by, Mears. Stanley Paul
press.
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"As is to be expected in a novel, it is difficult to disentangle the thread of thought from the. dialogue, and narrative; but the attempt is well worth making, and whether or not one agrees with what one supposes to be Mr. Lloyd's views, they deserve patient consideration.""
"SAVOYARD TRIUMPHS.
NEW ZEALAND.
THE EMPIRE'S JUNIOR PARTNER.
Several excellent books have been written about New Zealand; Mr. C. A. Wilson has made a patriotic effort to comprea's Into dhe volume a record of Maori and Pakeha history, from the earliest times, descriptions of the flora and fauna, and a geographical ac-- count of the country. It cannot be said that the attempt has been
places confused, and some of the very successful. The book is in
This new manual is based on the work of Staunton and modern au- thorities, and is illustrated by games recently, played by Lasker, Capablanca. Marshall and other heroes of the board. In order to ensure perfect accuracy, all the les Gilbert and Sullivan opera season It is appropriate that, with the Rona and games were carefully played through before the proofs of upon us in Hong Kong a new ap-history is very inaccurate. We the book were finally passed for preciation of these brothers of are told, for instance, that Tas- the theatre should make its ap-man discovered New Zealand, and pearance. This little book might then "went away and discovered The first Afrikaans novel to be ably serve as a guide to the 13 Australia, on November 24, 1642, It contains
the translated into English-Among † Operas.
a well then Tasmania Fiji, and Privileged People" by Marie Linde Lalanced analysis of the dual tal-Friendly Islands. The truth la -has been published by Messrs.ents of Sir William Gilbert and that he sighted the west coast of Stanley Paul. In South Africa, the Sir Arthur Sullivan, and their Tasmania on November 24. and. book was awarded the first prize interdependence one upon the then went on to New Zealand; he of one hundred pounds offered for other.. To those already familiar did not visit Australia at all on A work of fiction. The adjudice with the operas it will make a that voyage. This is only one of The tors. Including Professor Besselaar special appeal. A brief resume of a number of accuracies. and Dr. F. C. Schoones, were un- the great, Savoyards is Included, printer. too, has done his worst in animous in their opinion that and the methods of production at many places. For instance, he "Among Frivileged People' ranks the Savoy is touched upon, with has made Mount Eumont 18,260
F with the very finest, prose works in some advice for amateur repre feet high and carried the founda
sentations
tion of New Plymouth back to 1814 on the one page. Like most New Zealanders, Mr. Wilson is an enthusiastic patriot. It is pleas- ing to learn that "New Zealand is not, as is generally supposed, sub- Ject to earthquakes." It is ad- mitted that sight shocks have been felt from time to time, as Pla-where in the world.
'Afrikaans!
("Gilbert and Sullivan: A Critical Appreciation," by A. H. Godwin; London, Dent.)
Messze. Stanley Paul havo. also published "Enlawful" by Charles Turner who will be known to many As a special correspondent on the subject of aircraft to the London of the secret referred to in "Unlaw daily Press. Woven into it is an ful" incident concerning a Government
secret which was the talk of Paris Mesars Stanley Paul are publish some years ago. On that occasion ing Jimmie Rezaire by Anthony the issue of a great newspaper was Armstrong, noted for his weekly held up by the French Government articles In Punch" over the inner because It contained the revelation tials "AA"?
The Empire's Junior, Part- by Chat A Wilson; Wil- Hams and Norgate, Ltd.]
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