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1-Dark, thick liquid 3-Hauled ashora BCrude
10-A notable parlad
12-Pronoun
13-To be abligated
15 Wandcrora
18-Official marke
20-Produced,
21-Munion Instrument
24Horned quadruped
25-Tuna
23--To be compatible
27-Grain
23-To smell
30-Trade-mark (abbr)
31--Pronoun
3--Bird's home
32--Accustomed
34-Unfettered
35-usiness representative 3---Bas cech
38-Steering device
1--Sustain
42--Close relative (shortened)
dimDay of the week (abbr.)
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47-trict of the sea
48-Leggings
60 Single Individuat
$1--Trim
53-Legal agreement
54-Rolated
55-indicate
67-Rase of ancient Greece
69-Bird Bound
00-By way of
62-Hiding place
43--A dirit
BEmpty talk
65-Precured
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VERTICAL
1-Herd covering 2-Turn backwards 8-Obstruction
Liko Inexpensive SPronoun
7--Speck
B-Compunction
Used extravagantly 11-Color
14-Oscillate 16-Contilation 17-Smati mark 18-Paintui
19-One to whom money is paid 22--To move into new country
23-Appoints 2--Composition
32~Impelo
36-Thick soup 137--Fletion
39--Watching 90---Craze 41Rabber 42-Draft mat 44-Careful attention 46-Mlik coagulator 45-implied
52-Also
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B6--Creet
5B-Poem
80 Southern State (abbr.) 101-Proposition
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Accessory after the Fact. Mrs. Baillie-Reynolds." (Hodder & Stoughton).]
OLD LONDON CUSTOMS.
[Quaint Survivals-of-Old-London Customs. By H. E. Popham. (Palmer. 63. net.)]
-A ROYÁL DUKE
"The Life of HRH the Duke of Flamborough, by Laurence Housman, Cape.]. Fake memoirs seem to be the Mr. Popham rambles about the fashion; so many readers may find City and its immediate environs, amusement in Mr. Benjamin and his information is entertaining Bunny's biography of the mythical and not unseldom surprising. Pro- Duke of Flamborough. Bunny is bably few Londoners know that a really Mr. Laurence Housman, public-house by Farringdon-street who has very decided ideas on all station atili poesaster A pawn- Horts of subjects which are high- broker's licence, the tradition being ly controversial. This burlesque that King George III, wanting memoir would seem to be almed at ready money on one occasion, left,
from
The adventures of an English tady, Gilda Franklin, who whilst on holiday in Switzerland stumbles on a clue to the solution of a myster- ious murder. To sercen a friend she conceals her discovery and de- termines Bingle-handedly to trace the murderer. Thomas Dixon, 4 Royal Family. It portrays an his watch there as a pledge. The detective, in attempting to solve the absurd Royal Duke, born near the Clothworkers' Company puta on its mystery becomes suspicious of the Rhine, and destined to become the dining table a Corpus Christi cake amateur lady-detective and there inept, sadly mia-educated comman-made, it is said, from an ancient arises the piquant situation of der-in-chief of an army. He con- recipe that has come down sieuth shadowing sleath. The ma-tracted a morganatic marriage and distant days of King Edward I. chinations of a gang of crooks and shocked his cousin, the Queen The nightly ceremony of "The the rafting of one of their number Augusta; but as his wife, Mrs. Koys" at the Tower of London is, supply the reason for the committal Fitzwilliam, is made to say of him by abbreviation, wrongly deserlbed. of the crime, whilst the clever net-to one of his childron in a later The book recalls many quaint ing of an innocent suspect in the chapter, "Even if he had been observances. guise of a chauffeur, fa largely crocodile, he would have been responsible for the elucidation of harmless!" The whole book is an AN ORIGINAL NOVEL the mystery. His caveman method of olla podrida of witty but cruel dealing with his fiancee makes the satire, ending with a queer sort of. Gustave Lazlo certainly gives us | character of the detective a refresh essay, in which Mr. Housman des something new in his novel, the ing study. His witticisms, coupled plores the alleged incapacity of scene of which is set in Prague. with her cynical repartee open up statesmen to make a proper use of Most of the actors are Jews; others interesting speculation as to the Royalty for the good of the people; aro Gentiles on the outskirts of the success of their later married state, and he points the moral by shout- amazing conspiracy of which_the This Plot and counterplot are skilfully ing that the Prince of Wales should horo, Marick, in the head. interwoven and the reader's interest have been paraded at Amritsar "conspiracy" is actually a monster is never allowed to flag, A.clean during his Indian tour to observe religious revival, in which it is enjoyable story.
a "two minutes' silence," barehead-planned that at a given signal all -J, C ed, on the site of the Amritsar the Jews throughout the world "massacre," which Mr. Housman shall seize the reins of power in all gets quite warm over, seeming to social services and bring in a new have seen in the sensible, soldier This part of the story is told with era of happiness for humanity. [Endless Furrows. Nora Kently action of Dyer (long since ab- vividness and power that contrast
(Hodder & Stoughton, 7/6).]
solved of blame) a crime against effectively with the light irony of "Adam Harmer working morning, the Indian People. It is indeed those passages in which the char- noon, and sometimes well into the strange how would-be reformers of neters are more human in their night on his father's farm finds the Housman type get over-heated passions. nothing to grumble about. After on behalf of Brown Brother, and the father's death the farm, Mop steadfastly overlook that part of beggars, is sold and Adam and his the argument which the soldier sister go over to Jersey, and live saw in striking a sharp blow for there for some years. Adam falls the protection of White Slater! in love with Colette and when leav ing the island to return to his The Cafe des Westerns, one of rother and to help her manage and | Berlin's most famous Bohemian re- later reports to her employers by work a new farm, he swears to come sorts, has recently been elosed. wire; "Nix-nothing-all, a fasco back and claim her as his wife.
Twenty-five years ago it was crowd--only a religious stunt of some He works in and becomes mosted with composers, artists, writers, sort. Back to-morrow. Sophie.": successful and in a few years is the and actors. Here it was that Rupert For those who can appreciate Jew- most properous farmer in the Brooke wrote "Grantchester." ish subtlety, here is an excellent
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neighbourhodd. Incidentaly be mar ried and is happy, but had never quito Forgotten Colette. He visits Jersey when his children are quite old and finds Colette has also be come very old and decidedly un- attractive. Then, Adam goes back to England and remains there.
A splendid story of farming and iis difficultles on the 'Sussex Downs, and of a man's struggle to improve himself.
AN EASTERN TALE
Three Gifts: An Arab Love Story. By M. de la Harpe, Done into English by Sir Frank Swetten- ham. (John Lane. 124. 6d.)] It is well known that Galland's French version of the Arabian Nights set a fashion for pseudo- Oriental tales which lasted right through the eighteenth century. Voltaire's "Zadig" is a brilliant example which is stil read; losser men produced hundreds, if not thousands, that are known only to those who wander in the by-ways of French literature.
The story now translated by Sir Frank Swettenham from the verse of De in Harpe is a later but typical. specimen of the genre, Tanger had three magie instruments, a wallet, a horn, and a girdle; Felíma, whoin he courted, tricked him out of them; by a stratagem Tanger re- gained them, and punished the de- ceitful fair. Sir Frank's English prose is neat, and the reproductions of Marillier's engravings, unusual. in that they ara tinted and gilt, are much to be commended.
An exquisite touch of humour is often found, as when the rejected mistress of Marick, who has sworn revenge and becomes a spy, actually hears the Jewish plans outlined, but, being a thor- Dughly stupid. and modern woman, dreams a jazzy dream and
Mr. Coolidge Bids Hoover "Goodbye"..
When Mr. Herbert Hoover departed from Washington, D.C for his California home, he visited Mr. Coolidge at the White House, where he said "Goodbye" and posed together on the lawn, as shown in this photo.-P. & A. Tse Chailin).
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