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STORIES FROM BOOKS, Lowe, whom she describes
"highly agreeable." At breakfast "Lord Carnarvon told us his brother According to Mrs. A. M. W. Alan in his young days, wishing to Stirling, who tells the story in her learn to swim, was dropped over book of recollections, "Life's Little board in deep water; went to the Day," a certain German prince, who bottom, was fished up, and immedi- became related to Queen Victoria, ataly said he would try again; and used to annoy her by his linguistic so proceeded till he learnt to swim. érrors: "Struck by the freshness of This extraordinary anecdote was British confplexions, he one day ob-capped by Mr. Lowe, who said his served to the Comptroller of the father (or was it his grandfather?) Household: 'I do admire your Eng as a powerful young man, being lish ladies. They have so very capaized in the River Trent, held beautiful bidcs! Then observing a his breath and walked along the thundercloud on the brow of the bottom to the shore! Wonderful to Queen, he added, without inten- have two such undeniable Instances tional facetiousness: "Ah, I do get of courage in water related by two what you call the Victoria cross." people next each other."
tlons Minister
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ARNOLD BENNETT.
Charming Short Stories.
Mr. Arnold Bennett never wrote bad story in his life. Even his failures have something good in them. His tendency to be prolix, to describe too minutely the events and landscapes of his stories never obscures his real talents of obser- vation and irony.
WOMAN THE HUNTER?
woman has tried to hunt the What has happened Is that bachelor for something over a hundred years, which is quite a new thing. The bachelor le a new pro- duct. There were bachelors, in Greece, but they were exceptions. In the Middle Ages, if a man was not a priest he married, as a rule early. He might treat his wife badly, married. There was a shortage of might desert or polson her, but he men, owing to the wars, but women had a far better chance of mar- riage than they have to-day. The reason is simple, though I have not seen it published elsewhere. Until quite recently a single man who did not happen to live with his family was extremely uncomfort- able..
The great hotels of to-day did not exist, but only inns and coffee houses, which were very suitable for conviviality, but most unpleasant to live in, nelsy, dirty, and often unsafe. The eluba, which became so important in the
But even so, Is it true that woman is the aggressor and man the vic- tim? Here we stand on rather de- licate ground, for we have to rely not so much on what we see aв on what we are told. We can hardly expect the truth from everybody, and perhaps anybody. who relates at length what her ad- A woman mirers said and did, who gives you a list of the proposals she has re- ceived, and who says she can no longer stay in a certain house be cause all the sons have proposed to her, la looked upon as a fool. On So, in the book of short stories the other hand, the man who tells now published, a book beginning you that his morning mail is made with a long-short story describing up of letters from admiring women, she has ever been described before, ness address because women ring a modern woman almost better than and that he must conceal his busi- there will be much found to admire. him up at the office, is not regard- Corn, this modern and entirely use-ed as, a fool, but as a bounder- less lady, is described with enough W. L. George, in "Eve." humour to make the presentation not entirely unsympathetic. The author, beholding her, has reached the philosophical stage when he clean.. calls no thing common
In alluding to the ailence which The author says there Was Fil
seems to be a natural part of the finality, a decisiveness about Queen Cavendish temperament, and the ex- Victoria which brooked no palaver: treme lengths to which it was soms "During one of the many revolu- times carried, Mr. Bailey quotes a
Bolivia, tho English
atory told by Sir Algernon West in insulted and ill-his "Recollections": "He relates treated. When news of this out that the 5th Duke of Devonshire days of our grandfathers, did not rage reached the Queen, she wAB and his brother (afterwards first back on the sanded floor of a coffee exist. A young man had to fall. highly indignant. She sent for an Earl of Burlington and great house. He encountered bad cook- atlas, and silently studied the post- grandfather of Lord Fredericking, and no one mended his clothes; tion of the offending country, then Cavendish) were travelling to York- it is not remarkable that he mar she folded the map up and return-shire, and "were shown into a three-ried as soon as he could. It was ed it to the Minister in attend- bedded room. The curtains of one the only way to be comfortable. ance. Bolivia, she announced con of the four-posters were clusively, is erased from the map.'"Each brother in turn looked in and longer wants to be married; when That is why women mast hunt in- drawn.
stead of being hunted. Man no went to bed. Towards the close of he is overwhelmed by love, or In his book of memories, the next day's posting one brother lonely he marries, but in principle "Seventy
Showman," said to the other: "Did you see he would rather remain single, As "Lord" George Sanger reveals the what was in that bed last night?" a bachelor he hopes to have more secret of that great circus attrac- "Yes, brother," was the only reply. money, more liberty, and more tion. Madame Stevens, "the Pig-They had both seen a corpse." popularity. He has become shy, faced Lady." "Madama Stevens
and that is why he must be hunted, was really a fine brown bear, the
if he is to be captured at all. pawa and face of which were kept closely shaved, the white skin under the fur having a close re- semblance, to that of a human be ing. Over the paws were fitted white gloves, with well-stuffed fingers, so that the pig-faced lady seemed to have nice plump white arms above them. The bear was strapped in a chair at the back of the caravan, clothed in femule dress, shawl, cáp, the poke bonnet of the time, etc. In front was a table at which the seeming lady sat, her pawa being laid upon it, and all the rest of the body from the arms of the chair downwards hidden by drapery. Under the tabla was concealed a boy with a short stick to make the pig-faced lady talk." The boy's mission was to prof the bear when questions were addressed to it, an attention which naturally ellefted grunte. After levying a contribution from the au- dience, "to buy the lady small com-
Included in this story is a pas-- forts and luxuries," the showman sage which exactly hits off a cer- would
Sandor Kemeri was for a time conclude: "Now, Miss tain type of wealthy, cultured, secretary to Anatole France; she is Stevens, you will return thanks to Americans, with a tendency to the ladies and gentlemen for com- "up-lift." It is so gracefully done been really more nurse than secre- a Hungarian, and seems to have ing, to see you!" Whereat the boy that many Americans will not obtary. She travelled with the old would use his stick and the bear serve the irony, says the "Sydney man in the south of Europe, when would growl loudly, to the great
Sun."
his powers were failing and his love A very definite advance will be of classic story led him to be photo. gratification of the departing sight-noted in these short stories, stories graphed on the steps of classic mainly of the misunderstandings churches, in the Roman Forum, in between men and women, and that Dante's forest, and on the Pinelo. One of the best of the many good is an advance in geniality. In his This vanity of the great fronist has stories told by Sir Joynton Smith earlier books the author occasion been sneered at by such in his extremely entertaining book ally failed in this very important writers as Guedalla, and, probably, great of reminiscences, My Life Story" philosophical quality, With ripe- some of the Smiths; but it is rather is about the proprietor of a certain ness of years has come mellowness. an endearing human trait. The Sydney evening newspaper, who Such a story as "One of their quar-super-man is likely to be better was of a somewhat morose disposi-rels," with its capacity for enter-loved for his displays of human tion, and whoan staff were not gen-tics, would have been attacked ten of many which have appeared since ing into the sentiments of both par- weakness. This book is only one erously remunerated for their ser-years ago in vices. Once, however, "he ex-fashion,
far more "auperior" France passed out, but it is better panded to one of his literary hacks. Out of the very slight "material" traiture of the man and his foibles.
than most of the others in its por 'I'm thinking bf having a coat of of an umbrella left by an absent- arms for the paper by way of a minded brother in his sister's by Sandor Kemeri; Benn.]
-"Rambles with Anatole France," decoration,' he said. 'Can you sug-beat short story in the book, a les- house, Mr. Bennett turns out the gest anything? The pressman was ready with the suggestion that son to young writers on what can Warwick's arms would be very suit-motive.
be done on the very slightest able. To conceal his ignorance the proprietor said, pompously.
Веста.
80, juat so. Later he went to the trouble of looking up Earl War wick's arms and found them to be
a bear with a ragged staff.".
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MORE ABOUT ANATOLE FRANCE.
EAST AND WEST.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional" alonatic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)'
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B-A circle around the
moon
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12-To blemish
©THE INTERNATIONAL
HORIZONTAL 43-Liquid julae of
plante
45-initials of a proal. dent of U. 8. |46-Aight (abbr.)
{47-To steal
14-A 'email river duck!49-A wide lower partį 16-An armored car
with cune 17-Walked
19-A Journey 21-To from from 22-Care 24-A resinous
substance 25-Articla 26-Nickname for "mother"
27-Habitat of an
animat 28-Preposition
50-Profix Again 31-Not all 33-8pall
of a tidal rivar 63-Perceive
63-Found in chimneys 66-Foundatiors Bo-Part of the body 57-Bight
69-An stoohello- drink 60-A group of people working together 61-End 63-Bediment deposited
by water 64-Well pleased
VERTICAL
1-Damp
2-A large dier
4-Performed over
35-Point where the sun 3-in this manner'
crosses the @quator 85-Luggage
87-To break suddenly 39-At that time 40-Established church
(Abbr.)
42-For example
(Latin-abbr.)
gain 6-British (abbr.) 6-Consume 7-Regular course of
enting
8-Part of a ilmb 10-To move swiftly
11-Falling molature 12-Giri's name
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VERTICAL (Cont.) 13-Strap used to
control draft animals 15-Pravaricator
16-Those who'journey. 17-The Kayetona
State (abbr.)
18-Perform
20-Hinacred 22-Massacre {23-Disobedient
25-A Stata in the U. 8. 29-A wild baust 31-Socration from
inflamed ties I 12-A spinning toy 83-A rodent 34-Qirl's_name" (abhr.) 88-Effecting
41–Moderato low,
temperature'
43-Male deor 44-Hurt
46-480 sheets of paper
48-A high shoe
50-Bachelor of Sclance
{abbr.)
51-Red Cross (abbr.) 52-A altting place 164-A talliess, Jumping
amphibien 66-Gripped 08-A dessert-
60-To lash
62-Lite Latin (abbr.) 163-Street (abbr)
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