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ACCORDING TO JILL
"According to Jill," Nora K. Strange, Stanley Paul, s. 6d. On her twenty arst birthday Jill's eccentric father died and an
Mr. A. C. Benson was a novelist For many weeks Belgium has old friend of the family proposed been celebrating the centenary of to her. The estate to which she who wrote of pleasant, cultured was heiress did not reallae any peoplo. If disasters camo upon the founder of that section of thing like the amount she expected them they were not cataclysmic, Belgian literature expressed in and Jill was left with three hun the happy ending was to be de- French, Charles De Coster, whose dred a year and some old furniture: pended upon, yet at the same time name must be associated with She accepts the proposal but inter t those of Maeterlinck and Ver-, is broken and she goes out in the from those sheltered livce he drew haeren as one of the most pro-world to earn a living as a black lesson which and beneath it a fine minent representatives of Belgian and white artist. A friend, Ger- philosophy of life. His Inst-post- trude Hill, helps her to settle down humous novel, "Cresango" (Heino- and then she proceeds to live an mann, 78. 6d. net), is the story of ordinary life across which several country hours; of the old aquiro meteoric events flash.
who flung his money away and of Each chapter represents an in-the young
man who made good. cident serious or amusing and each What the young man had been, what was expected of him, and what chapter is most interesting.
This is quite a modern bbok to be eventually achieved, is indiented judge from the number of Jill's in the
passage between Walter friends who are divorced, being Garnet, the Squire's son, the Vicar divorced, or thinking of divorce.unil the Vicar's wife, which Perhaps this aspect of modern life is rather over-emphasized, but as Miss Strange makes everyone live One ean imagine the author's s new com- quiet chuckle and his keen sense of happily ever after
liumour as he reveals the fino idcula plexion is put upon the matter. After several love affairs marries Bernard Latimer, the old practical wisdom of his wife.
Jill of the Vicar supplemented by the family friend, and she realises her Vienr sayS:-- happiness.
literature.
The popularity of the author of "Thyl Ulenspiegel" has been growing steadily since the end of the nineteenth century, when Camille Lemounier and his dis- ciples protested vehemently against the indifference of the Belgian public to the works of De Coster, whom they hailed as the forerunner of their movement, and as the first author able to ex- press the spirit of the country in an original work entirely inde- pendent of French influences. This enthusiasm was entirely justified. As M. Camille Huys mans, Minister of Science and Arts, showed in a recent speech, De Coster may be considered as the greatest "Flemish writer," in spite of the fact that he never wrote a line in the Flemish lan- guage and that both his father and mother, were of Walloon extraction (De Coster was the name of his adopted father).
Flemish Genius.
A very good book for an after- noon in front of a fire.
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But my own task is rather to inquire into the spiritual signifiennce of the affair. The inner spirit with which you regard it, whe- ther you are conscious of the hand of God in all this, whether you ap. prebend the purpose of His chasten- ing, whether you have determined to make the most of this opportunity of suffering-this is what I would be assured of! You will, I know, acquit me of any mean or personal, inquisitiveness.
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Books on how to succeed in life are fairly common, but none con tains more solid, good sensu than 18 Tips on Luck," by Herbert N. There has not yet been produc- Casson (Angus and Robertson's The volume cx ed in the Flemish language any Cornetalk Co.). prose work which expresses more plains why some folk are lucky And
'My mother, said Walter, has adequately than "Ulenspiegel" some are not, and in the process of
doing so
some valuablebeen brought up in the use of the genius of the Flemish race,
lessonu, Some idea of the sound wealth; I myself have never had to its heroism, tenacity, and some sense of it may be gained from trouble about money or position; and what broad humour. Those who
just one quotation :--"*
I find my mother suddenly in-1 have read the abridged version, in Mr. Whitworth's translation, you want to be lucky, you must overished, while I myself have lost
play your own gate. ot read Mr. Atkinson's complete live your own life, in spite of gossip all been swept away. I simply try You musty imagined fortune, any standing. and the old family inheritance has translation, published five years and bullying, and poverty, and ago, will remember that De opposition. You must set out to do not to think of it. Such things do Coster's strange epic is based on something worth while; and keep on uppen in the world, but for me to the traditional story connected doing that is one of the best pretend that I consider it a dispon- with "Thyl Ulenspiegel," or "Tyl ways that I have ever found to be sation of morey and love would be Owliglass," a familiar character both happy and prosperous."
the worst sort of hypocrisy. I sub- of mediaeval folklore in Northern
mit, because I must: Europe, whose pranks and prac
"But have you reflected, my tical jokes delighted our fore Mr. John Masefield is to give us doar Waltor,' said Mr. Goring, how fathers. The scene is staged in another of his famous adventure all these vain shows and false Flanders, during the religious stories in "The Midnight Folk," the securities can enter into the soul?. wars of the sixteenth century, story of a boy who lived in an old This trial is moant, I make no doubt Having sown his wild oats after house that had been the home of one at all, to be an act of love to save the manner of his namesake, De Captain Harker, who was reputed you from complacency and indiffer- Coster's hero is converted to a to have hidden, near his home, trea-enus, to bring out what is best in auro atolen from Santa Barbara you, to make you depend upon your more serious way long after the death of his father who falls a Cathedral. Mr. Masefield is a mas-self, to win your own worthy place victim of the Inquisition. He beter of the adventure story for grown-in the world, rather than to inherit ups. The book is being published the affortless dignity of your fore- comes one of the principal agents of William the Silent and the by Messrs. Heinemann. champion of the independence of
the Belgian provinces. One day, |
Yet noother book of London's as he was asleep, his enemies East End has been written by Mr. attempted to bury him, while Thomas Burke. Nele, the Flemish girl who ac-East of Mansion House," is to be His latest book, companies her lover through his published by Cassel. wanderings, was looking on, dis- traught with grief, but "suddenly there was a great upheaving un-
Who art thou?”
Frightened Cure.
The cure cried out: "The Great Beggar returneth into this world.
fathers. Your temptation has been towards idle drearning and colf- | pleasing-though I admit you have led, so far as I know, an upright life, and have shown yourself a kind and loving son.".
A Fortuitous Affair,
I don't see
I see your point,' said Walter, 'but it all seems to me a fortuitous affair. There are plenty of land- "Evoe," the distinguished humor. der the soil, and Ulenspiegel iat of "Punch," has been giving his owners that retain their estates. sneezing and shaking the sand mind to the greatness of England, There are oven clergymen who live out of his hair, seized the cure by and in "I'll Tell the World," pub. in considerable comfort without the throat:
lished by Messrs. Chatto and these ugly reverses. "Inquisitor," said he, "thou Windus, he mischievously explains why it should fall upon me, and still dost thrust me into the earth to American visitors English charac-less upon my mother, who is one, alive in my sleep. Where is teristice, English games, and gives a of the most guileless und generous Nele? Hast thou buried her, too? list of phrases to be used by Ameri- people I know.
can guests on town or country visits. "'You wound me, Bald Mr. Morrow, the artist, helpa "Evea" to Goring. I have often thought that give his message to the world. my own comfort has been à grievous obstacle to my spiritual work. But let us not diverge. It has come to "Roamin' in the Gloamin'," one you, I have no doubt, because you Lord God, receive my soul," and of Sir Henry Lauder's most famous have the seeds of nobleness in your he took to flight like a stag before songs, is the title he has chosen for soul. You can rise to great heights the hounds....The Burgomaster the story of his life, to be publish- if these seeds are not choked by and the Aldermen, holding their ed by Mesars. Hutchinson. Sir worldly prosperity: Whom the Lord ears with fright, were whimper- Harry has a lively sense of the loveth. He chasteneth. If I am ing on the turf. Ulenspiegel went dramatic, and his life has been a myself unchastened it is because I up to them, and shaking them; full oro. His reininiscones will am not worthy of His love."
"Can any bury," said he, include stories of many distinguish. "Ulenspiegel, the spirit, and Nele, ed people. the heart of Mother Flanders? She, too, may sleep, but not die. Come, Nele." And he went forth with her, ainging his sixth song, but no man knoweth where he sang the last one of all."
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
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"Walter told bor. She listened, poking with her stick at the in- terstices of the tiles. Yes, I see,' she said, 'and of course it is all very grimly put; these good people always run their theorics too hard. They demand a consistency from life, perhaps from God, which one can't
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It isn't a mechanical affair, like the tide and the sunset. There is a personal force behind the world at least I think so-which ebbs and flows just na we do.
You have been cuddled and wrapped up and cassetted in n.dreadful way, and there must be a lot of good stuff behind for you to have come out of it a reasonable person' at all. And I do honestly think it gives you "*'Alas said Mr. Goring. "I re- a big chance. What you neaded was cogniée in you the knightly virtues, to be thrown into the son and made but hardly the Christian patience. to swim. You haven't gone to the But it will come-it will come; you bad, you are perfectly sound and will be guided into all truth. And straight, but you are still entangled the worthy man beat a hasty retreat. in some of those cobwebs; you must
The Vicar's Wife.
step out, make friends, give your- self away, blunder, tumble; I don't "That day Walter lunched ht the care what happens so long as you Vicarage. The Vicar was constrain-can find yourself. The danger was ed and lost in thought. But when that you would be helplessly shut up he withdrew, and Mrs. Garaat went in yourself, as you were, you know, to her room to rest, Mrs. Goring led dear Walter. You didn't trust any Walter out to this garden and made body, you looked down on simple 'Don't feel like this about your-him sit with her in the summer-people, you followed your
house. wolf, Walter said. 'I do know what
Iancies. I don't mean, dear, that you and Mrs. Goring do for the " 'Walter," she said, ''I am afraid you were superior or stand-offieh, but place; and I will not forget what you had a bad time with my dear the difference is that you have come you say. There is something within, non, this morning.. He has been out of a little stuffy room into the gratitude to the man of genius though I cannot look at it ao; I churning up his courage for days to wind and rain, much to give the country an in-I can. I admit that if I could feel you that unfortunate jargon, you put his arms round Mrs. Goring and whose work and influence did so must go forward with what courage speak to you. Probably be vexed "Walter got up from his chair, dependent literature; but the sure that there was any personal in- know, which always gets even my klased her. Thank you a thousand memories of the recent war and tention behind my misfortunes it bristles up. But he's a much better times,' he said. 'I did think there De Coster's centenary would of German occupation have no would make a great difference. But mon than he wants you to think. It was something in what the Vicar have been under any circum- doubt served to heighten the im- honestly I do not. It seems to me is pitiful to me to see what a sacred said, though it rather stifled me. stances the occasion of important portance of the event. Ulen-just bad luck, though I am perfect-duly it is to him to decry himself. But I see what you mean, and you celebrations, for present-day spiegel's last words have indeed ly clear that I have got to make the But he has been through agencies are perfectly right, every single Belgium is eager to show her assumed a prophetic meaning. best of it.
about this. What did he say?'
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