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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
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UNHAPPY LOVE.
THE STORY OF FEU FOLLET.
P.G.W/S "BILL, JEEVES AND SELF."
MR. DREISER'S GLOOMY TALES.
"Chains." By Theodore Dreiser.
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"Will O' The Wisp." By Patricia Wentworth, (Hodder & Stough- ton.)
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It was like magic!
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This volume consists of fifteen of Mr. Dreiser's earlier storles- bleak, renlist studies of chunks of American life. They are written
humour, and concision as that of "An American Tragedy," and In the shortest of them the weight of detail is oppressive. For all that,,
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An extremely clover book. Con- cerns the adventures of Folly March, Feu Follet-Will O' They mouth; indeed, I was hardly Wisp, as she had once been called, inside the room when the Wode-in a style as lacking in grace, In her little shoes with the scarlet house world collapsed, its entire heels she dances her way to the structure irreparably crimped. render'a heart from the very be
I had entered the room quietly, ginning. Child of a new age, fill- ed with self confidence and harm-unostentatiously, not dreaming less mischief, with her artificial that within a few seconds I black curls pinned over her ears, should, through one simple ob- she could sit as demurely as any Victorian at the piano and play servation, become the most popu- hymn tunes for David,
lar man' in London. I had, in fact, And through it all runs a pathe- merely remarked to Mr. P. G. tic vein, for there is little Erica Wodehouse, who rose casily from Moore, David's young wife who had been drowned, and whose ghost his chair to receive me:- comes to him out of that almost "You've got much thinner" well. it was obvious forgotten past to stir up old when... memories and cause a lot of an-I could have had his entire library xiety. It is, perhaps, this contrast simply by asking for it! which makes the book so succeas- ful. It should prove a great
favourite.
SOUTH SEAS.
S. C.
&
"The Devil's Mantic." By Frank L Packhard. (Hodder Stoughton.)
He beamed through his glasses a warm, kindly brotherly smile, ind for some hours afterwards answered my slightest anestion and treated me generally as though I were as welcome as a publisher.
A stirring adventure tale of a man unjustly accused of the mur der of his partner. The plot is laid in the South Seas and through the started book runs a breath of the heavy the Tropics.
scent-laden air. of
One can hear the wind blowing through the palm trees, and the waves rolling up on to the beach. With his wonderful descriptions the author has brought it all so The story in full of action, and makes very good reading. -s. C.
near.
AN INDIAN STATE.
The Murrays are publishing an account by Mr. Philip W. Sergeant of the life and work of the of Baroda. Maharaja
Gaekwar During the present century Baroda and its ruler have found consider- able prominence in the public eye, "not always of a favourable nature," na is remarked. It is felt that an authoritative account might now be given of the development of Baroda under the present Maharaja, and within that text come many impor- tant questions of present-day Indian politics. Mr. Sergeant made a long atay in the State, and, every door for the study of its affairs, ita re- sources, and the condition of its people, was thrown open to him.
Despite the fact that P. G. Wodehouse is a fine, well-built figure. for some years now he has become curious to discover the exact location of his waistline. Having made fast friends with him by thus congratulating him on the progress of his search. I a terrific inquisition of the origins, natures, and nossible existences of such well-known people as Jeeves. Mulliner, and the glorious, jolly Bill the Conqueror. "None of my characters exists in real life; in fact, I have never attempted to draw a character from life," he said.
They deal for the most part with love affairs. Unhap unhappy piness in love, it seams from these pages, is a more potent cause of disturbance and misery in the United States than. In any
land.
other
We are shown a succession wrecked homes and ruined lives, or at the best propped up by conven- tion. Rich and poor, intelligent and simple,. Mr. Drelser, shrouds his characters, in gloom, brings them through suffering to a dead- lock, and then leaves them.
But his rogard for truth and his mountains of facts are curiously
His impressive.
themes are dreary and limited, but he is not dull.
At this point we — inquisitor and inquisited-were invited up- stairs to tea, and there I was ably assisted by Miss Leonora Wode- house, his youthful daughter, who herself is starting on a writing career very shortly.
as
She told me some quaint stories about "Plummy," as she calls her father. "He loves being uncom- fortable," she commented though her affectionate victim I was staggcred. "Do you were not seated a few feet from mean that there is no such perher beaming happily through_his son as Jeeves ?!!
glasses. And she told of his affec- He smiled patiently, almost re-tion for writing in attics, and in signedly. "No, of course, there's such uncomfortable places as no such person so far as I know.woodliouses, where the logs are I heard from someone about kept for the winter fires. curious fellow and, you know, I not one idea and then along came another, and eventually Jeeves vaulted lightly over the horizon."
"But the crowning example of his love of uncomfortableness," she said, "occurred some years ago when he and Mummy had re- turned from America.
Troublesome Jeeves. "P. G." removed the nice, alow- "Everybody else was comfort- ly-smoking pipe and, half smiling ably seated in the train at Ports- and half serious, addressed him- mouth shortly after the ship had. self to the study of Jeeves, possi- docked when, at the very last bly the most convincing of his minute, Plummy announced that "creations," now known as well to he would not come up to London didn't. Americans us to English people. on the train and he
"Jeeves is quite the most trou-Mother came to London and went blesome of my family of charac- to an hotel for the night with ters. You see, Jeeves, whose duty all the baggage and the things.
"Late on the following morn- it is to uphold the finest traditions
""You say you fell off?" Mother asked puzzled..
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called the
"Inflexifo 19-Pertaining to the
earliest epoch of
the Coriozola perled
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province, Belgium 24-Pertaining to the
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England and
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VERTICAL (Cont.)
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the middle
Atlantic states
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54-A famous president 24-The 'knee-cap
of U. 8. 58-Pertaining to a
hilly region of N. Morcado 63–A diminutivo suffix 64-apeck
65-1 have (contr.) Bo-Exist
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8. W. Finland G-Mrs. J-Afraid (colloq.) B-Card game
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prince 12-Spatmadle
twitching of muables
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length
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57-Large English elty
(Abbr.)
59-A climbing plant 60-Reward
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there. The Royal Suite was the Hodder and Stoughton that Mr. And I thought. of Jeeves set-only part of the hotel unoccupied, Philip Gucdalla is at work on his fting his great brain to the re- so I stayed in that.' new "Life of the Duke of Welling-trieving of a lost sock or a stud ton." The mass of material to be gone astray. Pah! handled is perhaps still more Then Mr. Wodehouse, who for "*"Yes, dear," went on Mr. Wode. voluminous than that which con- 12 years has owned a house on house, 'the idea struck me in fronted him in the case of Lord Long Island, New York's "million-Portsmouth to cycle up to Lon- Palmerston, especially since the aires' suburb," told me of his very don. I wanted to challenge the present Duke has placed at his early days, with precisely the passing years. So I bought a disposal the vast body of un- same dry humour that has made second-hand bicycle.cheap, for £12 still his books, his short stories and 12s., and tried to cycle the 77% published correspondence preserved at Apsley House. He his plays so much liked, and has miles, but the last half beat me. finds, as usual, that uninterrupted enabled him to compile a very con- I was so tired I fell off. work on a task of this magnitude siderable fortune.
bicycle's outside." is almost impossible, and is geek- "In my first year as a writer on "Actually, it wasn't, for when ing recreation in a few biographia London evening paper," he said, they went downstairs they found ́ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH, cal studies of some feminine fig-"what with one thing and an- the bicycle had been stolen."
KOWLOON. ures of the nineteenth century, other, I made altogether about Miss Wodehouse seemed to whose husbands have hitherto £200. Then I got into my stride take an impish delight in betray.
Sunday, May 6th. received more attention than the and made steady progress, carn-ing her obviously long-suffering ladies themselves. These will in- ing another £200 the second year. (and patient parent, who-presum- clude Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily The following year, I got really ably in a wail of delighted despair
Fourth Sunday after Easter. Palmerston, Emily Tennyson, going and made probably £400 and has dedicated one of his funny Ninth Annual Children's Festival "THE CHINA MAIL," General Catherine Gladstone, Jane Carlyle, eventually reached £700 in one novels, "To my daughter, with- 8:16 am. and 12 noon: Holy Com-
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