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THE CRIMES OF DOCTOR VIVANTI
"Dr. Vivanti," by Sidney Horden;
Hodder and Stoughton, 8/6. This is the second time that the crimes of Dr. Vivanti have been put before the public, and the second time he has escaped.
KIPLING SOCIETY.
!
"BEETLE" OF “STALKY AND CO."
If the new Kipling Society is accepted as a precedent by ad mirers of living authore, a rather confronts all prospect horrid
Everybody knows schoolmasters, that Mr. Kipling was educated at Westward Ho, and was the Beetle of his own "Stalky and Co.", that famous school-story.
the
of
In this book he is the master mind of an organisation of "dope" smugglers and burglers and is
The Kipling Society held its in- neting under the guise of a nerve specialist. In his spare time he is augural meeting recently. Its pre- sident is Major-General L. C. Dunsterville, not opposed to a little blackmail.
original Richard Quin, a young Secret "Stalky," and Mr.-G. C. Beresford Service Agent, is ordered by his (who was MeTurk) not only at chief to "get this man and hold tended the meeting, but revealed some Interesting secrets. 'He de- him," and sets out on the job.clared that Mr. Kipling had not Within two hours of leaving the been a very remarkable boy: only office he is in the middle of the the Head and the Padre recognised The greater plot, having been helped by one of the dawn of genius.
A LITERARY EVENT.
SISTERS OF "THE CONSTANT NYMPH."
The appearance of a new novel by the author of "The Constant Nymph" la an event of vast interest and considerable importance, and the impending serial publication of Margaret Kennedy's "Ned Sky at Morning," in "The Royal Mags- zine," is being eagerly awaited, saya "John O' London's Weekly," the meantime, Miss Kennedy tella in the March issue of "The Royal" how she became an author, "A Writer's Apprenticeship" is a delightful fragment of autobiography.
The Early Years.
In
In a sense, she began writing be- fore she could write that is, her first play was taught orally to her brother and small cousins and was
the most stupendous pleces of luck part of "Stalky and Co.," said Mr. acted by these happy infants in!
Beresford, was pure fiction, but at that ever appeared in fiction. lenat one personality had been He meets Sonia Hennesey, daugh- made acfdly immortal. "King, the ter of an American philanthropist, great King, was a real and living who is in the power of Dr. Vivanti a picture true to life, a character study untouched by ex- and becomes her chauffeur.
adgeration or glorification, a faith- Theree onward he 'divides ful mirror held to the real King himself." King actually predicted time between love making and
his
ex-
Kensington Gardenal
"In those days," says Miss Ken-
nedy, "I was quite determined to write books when I grew up, and I used to dictate stories, and poems to anyone who would write for me. The longest manuscript
of this
ploring the old country house in that Beetle would die In a garret, epoch now extant is a 'desert island
which Hennesey is living or is a prisoner. The usual thrills appear one expects, Dr. Vivanti
a scurrilous pamphleteer.
In reply Mr. Kipling drarged story, closely modelled on all the de- King from oblivion, and made him, sert feland stories known to chil- in effect, an unpleasant Agure-dren, except that the efficient, in- and, as
Domnous, unsympathetic, and fluent structive parents of the Marryat escapes.
in that cutting sorenam which all One of the characters is made to shaolbors inathe. Yet, reading tradition are kept well in the back- 50y. He will reappear in anotherlyn Co." with the mind of ground. Mr. and Mrs. Brown were form" or words to that effect. One middle age, one sees that King was very weak, owing to some attacks
an excellent scholar. a single of the measles, and could not minded and conscientious shepherd very much. Their business was is very much afraid that he will
There is.n.faint resemblance to of youth. It will be asturbing simply to applaud the feats of their "Ball Dog Drummond," and the main thought for every living school son Paul, aged ten, who could do Dr. Vivanti have master that even now. in his clans everything from building a house to
room, some scrubby boy may be killing planning to pillory his mannertama and defects for the benefit of an amused posterity.
characters in
counterparts in that book, but in no case are they portrayed as well. The enjoyment of reading Dr. Vivanti is 1 real spoiled by the fact that human character does not appear.
"THE CHINA JOURNAL."
In a recent speech at Wesley College Mr. E II. Alton. F.. T.C.D. touched upon this very danger; but --fortunately, perhaps, for the piety of some living persons-Mr. G. B. Shaw has not embodied his school-life at Wesley College in a tale. The moral of "Stalky & Co." for school masters seems to be: "If you detect literary genius in a boy, be exceedingly nice to him or leave him severely alone." Cave puerum,
short!
In the May issue of "The China Journal" which has just come to us for review appears an apprecia-in tion of the life and work of Kang Yu-wel, the well-known Chinese scholar and reformer who died on March 31 at Tsingtao after a life spent in the service of this country. The "Journal" pays the following
man
of
at
"THE STUDIO."
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a shark with a bradawi, because he had looked first in the taul-chest to make sure that there were two bradawis.
"All through my childhood I was writing-plays, stories, and poems. I edited the usual family magazine, and bullied my sister and brothers Into acting my plays. Before W&B twelve years old I think I must have known. the full measure of an au- thor's troubles with his cast,"
Buying a Typewriter. Literary ambition did not, as it so often does, fade with the years.
"When I was fifteen I took all my savings out of the bank and bought
THURSDAY, MAY 26, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This gross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,).
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10-Bind
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22-Cry of sheep
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES
Start out by filling in the vil of which you feel reasonably aure There will give you a due to b... words crossing them, and they in turn to stll others. A letter belongs in each white space, words staring at t numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertical'y or both
(The solution of the above crois-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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a typewriter. I had planned for years to do this: it seemed to be the ed for more than twenty years. No. first step in a career. The family body bought the book, and few re- magazine became legible for the viewers praised it, but these little first time in Its Hife, and the rate of matters could scarcely daunt me. output increased. On that ma- The familiar green covers of the chine I typed all my work for the From early childhood I had wanted March "Studio" will be welcomed next ten years, including my first to write a 'story, and now, in what by the art-loving section in our three published books. It was a
seemed to be my extreme old age, great tribute to this
Colony. Another interesting series ramshackle, antiquated affair, with had actually done it. The success China :-
of articles bearing on the many no modern improvements, but I felt of my second novel, The Constant “Kang Yu-wei has always been and varied schools of modern paint quite disloyal when at last, after Nymph, and of the play written one of those men with a keen. ing. architecture, etc., fill its pages the publication of The Constant round it, has been very enjoyable.
Nymph,' I despatched it to a jumble But I have never walked on well-balanced mind, capable of this month. understanding the true state of Some typical examples of German sale and bought a wonderful, com-again as I did on that November day art are shown in the illustrations of plicated object with a back space in 1923. These moments do not alfairs and assessing facts
There is little Rudolf Schiest's work and the key and a two-colour ribbon," I their true value.
come twice." beautiful animal and bird studies of never feel half as comfortable with doubt that had he and the men Mrs. Bresslern Roth.
the new one." he led been allowed to carry on the work to which they had set their hands, China would have been in a very different position from that in which she finds her- self to-day, and instead of pass- ing through the welter of blood- shed and frightful chaos of the inet fifteen years, she would have progressed in an orderly fashion from the system of absolute monarchy of the Manchus to some form of limited monarchy such as pertains in Great Britain, or a properly functioning republic sach na exists in the United States of America."
London and the Provinces are well represented in this volume and, as always, the 'Studio' offers many attractions to those who en- joy an acquaintance with the works of modern artista,
"The Studio," published by The Studio, Ltd., London. Price 2/-1
In Print at Last.
of her first published novel, "The And then she hit upon the theme Ladies of Lyndon."
And on this theme I wrote my story. When it was finished I felt for the first time that I had written something which need not be burn- ed. I sent it to an agent with small hope of ever seeing it in print, and Huston Stevenson carries his rea on the same day I began another dera with him over trails which novel; "The Constant Nymph. This have been used since the days of had been burning holes in my brain Kublai Khan, describing the pecu ever since my first visit to the liar tribes-people of this little Tyrol, in the preceding spring. I known region.
had seen a place on a mountain, at The scientific section contains the end of a long, lonely valley. The editorial from the pen of several articles of popular interest, where I wanted to build a house. I Mr. A. de C. Sowerby entitled namely "The Mosquito Scourge" by thought that I would write a story "Science Knows No Country" pro-L. C. Arlington, a highly entertain of people who did build a house testa against the action on the parting paper describing this peat which there. And all at once I saw the of Chinese scientific organisations is "more of a curse than fly and Sangere large, unruly family in forming an association to fight Rea combined:" Part If of "Bird who lived on that mountain until the efforts of various foreign Sanctuaries of North China" by the father died and strange scientific organisations and ex- George D. Wilder: and the accond people came and took them away," plorers who wish to engage in re-instalment of the series, entitled search In China.
"Shells of Feftaiho," in addition to papers of a more technical nature. The shooting, fishing, and konnel notes will appeal to sportsmen par- ticularly, whilst the sections de- voted to scientific notes, reviews, education, and the garden contain much information of general in
Of particular interest to sinologues in the paper entitled "Archaeology in the Sung Dynasty by Professor Wang Kuo-wel of Tsing Hua College. In "The Chinese Tibetan Borderland and Ita People," continued. from the last issue of the magazine, Dr. Paul terest.
Looking Back. Wistfully Miss Kennedy looks back on that first real novel-the memory of Its appearance is sweeter even than the success of "The Con- stant Nymph." She tells us
published in the autumn of 1923, "The Ladies of Lyndon" "was and for me that publication realis- ed an'ambition which I had cherish
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Nevertheless, we can hope that "Red Sky at Morning" will bring her further fortune and joy.
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