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tility, the rector whose hopes of promotion never materialised, his worldly, harassed' wife, the little A TENNIS CHAMPION
perpetually changing 'general' ser- vant, the inanity and monotony of ["Matorni's Vineyard." by E.
The Dean of St. Paul's is not a Phillips Oppenheim; Hodder & the stupid small talk at pollte rec-
tory tea-parties, is careful and diplomatist-far from it--but his Stoughton.]
sincere, if a little colourless. The influence on international affairs is style is always pleasing, though taken so seriously in some quarters never brilliant.
that a portentous manifesto has just If the book had been written with
been Isaved by a group of some of the irony of a Jane Austen, Bishops and other Church leaders or the exquisitely satirical obser in order to minimise the effect be vation of a Mrs. Gaskell, it would
A cheerful, healthy young man, a few tennis rackets and a sest in. the Blue Train would to most people mean that all's wall with the world, But to Mervyn Amory, the hero of the story, it is the commencement
in
of a series of events which lead him into every kind of excitement which murder predominates as when such a clever writer aa Mr. Oppenheim is guiding the young man's destiny, dangers are almost aure to intervene. It is a skilfully woven plot bristling with political Intrigue, although romance also is not altogether absent.
Mervyn Amory, to all intents and
have been an admirable social lieved to have been produced in study. Lacking these, it is a little America by an especially outspoken tame, even tedious in parts, but the Passage in his "England." Simul- author has the power of accurate taneously with this protest comes reproduction of scene and atmos-a new volume from his pen entitled phere, while the dialogue is easy ana often completely convincing.
If this is a first novel it helds promise of future achievement.
AMERICAN TRAGEDY
BOSTON'S BOOK CENSORSHIP AT WORK AGAIN
dore Dreiser's widely discussed novel, "An American Tragedy."
purposes, seems to have no inter ests in the world bat his tennis, and it so happens that during his Monte Carlo circum- journey to stances bring him in contact with a
Boston, April 18. certain "Red Shirt" agent known by
Boston's book censorship mea- the name of Uguelio. He eventually sures again were called into play takes possession of a packet of im-to-day, this time against Mr. Theo- portant papers, which Uguello en- trusts him with until the time ar rives when a certain person will
Soon ask for them.
after this, Uguella is found murdered in his compartment, and the quiet sports man Amory finds that he has now become the centre of attraction wherever he goes, Uguello's slayers knowing full well that the English tennis champion has the important documents in his possession.
One event leads to another and
A local jury convicted Mr. Donald Friede, a New York publisher, for selling the book in Boston, finding it to be "obscene work.”
оп
'Assessments and Anticipations." It consists mainly of essays of the type of those he contributes Wednesdays to the "Evening Stan- dard," discussing various reli-
social ques-Į gious, political, and tions. Like everything else hel Writes, they are based on a founda tion of wide and accurate know- ledge, and they deal ruthlessly with every opinion or institution that seems to him foolish or ill- founded.
Dean Inge is nothing if not cri-! tical, and neither the popularity of an idea nor its support by eminenti names will suffice to protect it from severe testing at his hands. Yet his work is by no means entire ly destructive. After all, he is not: so much an Iconoclast as a teacher] The prosecutor, in asking for a conviction, asserted that the novel and his disciples profit by a valuable contained "matter tending to cor-opportunity of strengthening their rupt the morals of youth."-United intellectual powers and enlarging Press.
their acquaintance with the world in which they live.
VISCOUNT D'ABERNON'S
A Decanal Mouse Dean Inge declares in this book that no biography of him shall ever be written if he can prevent it. To take the wind out of the ails of any possible transgressor of this "Not merely a good book-it is a prohibition, he includes in this
soon the peaceful relations of two PEACE AMBASSADOR countries became severely strained, The massing of troops and war ma- terials on the frontier signifies that war is imminent, Eventually the. important documents reach their
averted.
SNOBBERY OF THE '90'S
["Middle Distance" by Oliver Mar
tin; E. Benn, 7/6.1
DIARY
The Prime Minister.
true destination and trouble is great book" is the verdict proncunc-volume two chapters of Interesting Mervyn Amory, although a ten-ed by the "Spectator" upon the first personal recollections. He tells us nis champion is at the same time instalment of the diary kept by Vis- that the offer of the Deanery of St. attached to the secret service and count D'Abernon during his six Paul's came to him as a "staggering he has no little say in the recon-years' occupancy of the Berlin Em- surprise.” ciliation of the two countries. bassy. In the introduction to "Aa Mr. Asquith, expressed in his letter Naturally there is the beautiful Ambassador of Peace" its author the hope that Dr. Inge would re-- girl who helps him in his mission, states clearly the problem which vive the old traditions of that Dear- and the final climax is befitting to confronted Europe during the years try as the most literary appoint- the romance which you will find in immediately following the signa- ment in the Church of England. He ture of the Treaty of Versailles, was to remember Milman, Mansel, "Matorni's Vineyard."
There were two alternative policies. and Church, and to try to justify "Either," says Lord D'Abernon, the choice by taking a prominent "Germany could be regarded as a part in the world of literature, permanent enemy against whom the scholarship, and theology. This forces which were allied in the function he has certainly discharg Great War must be kept ranged in|ed more than adequately. Dr. Inge aerried ranks armed cap-a-pie, and evidently finds his present office maintained in wakeful auspicion by a trying one for an active man with a continuance of war propaganda ideas of his own, for "there is pro and war recrimination, or an at-bably he says, "no cathedral in tempt had to be made to include which the Dean is more absolutely Germany in the Western European powerless than at St. Paul's." He group. From the moment of his soon discovered that his position appointment our representative in was that of "a mouse, who, it he Berlin set himself deliberately to dares to poke his nose out of his lay the foundation for the carrying hole, finds four cats watching him, oat of the second of these policies ready to pounce." But, on thinking In this volume he relates the story, over the whole situation, he has But in other respects we are
of the first part of the difficult pro- come to the conclusion that the scarcely emancipated from the
cess of reconciliation, covering the work of the cathedral administra- social trammels of that age. The period from the Spa Conference of tion is better done under present ar anobbery of the Radebrookes, their 1920 to the Genoa Conference of rangements than it would be if anxiety to stand well in the eyes 1922. The history of the negotia- he were himself in supreme control. of those of their friends who possess tions is related with discretion and and he has therefore "acquiesced in titles, the weakness and folly of
From some points of view, the 1890's in Chelsea seem a good deal further away than the 'middle dis- tance, Grand Opera with the De Reakes, the shocked horror felt by so many at the early labour and strike agitations, dismay in a family because the daughter wants to go alone with a man to the National Gallery to see the Turners, all this seems almost as distant from as the crinoline and the vapours.
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faineant."
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their daughter Elspeth, whe, part-good taste, yet with a frankness the undignified role ly from her own fears and partly that is rare in diplomatic memoirs, out of deference to the family, re. at any rate when concerned with fuses, almost unprotestingly, to affairs of such recent occurrence. marry either of her two lovers Much of the interest and value of the first because his dress is not al- the book lies in its acute analyses ways quite up to family stan- of the character and temperament dard of what a 'gentleman' should of the leading statesmen, British wear, and because his politics are and foreign, who took part in these
conferences. rather socialistic, the second be- cause his father once kept a shop keenly observant, for instance, than in Australia. These are still with this comment on the methods of Mr. Lloyd George? "Experience," Lord us, though not so blatantly.
This is a simple quietly told story D'Abernon tells us, "had taught him of a part of the life of the gentle that, nn International conference and charming Elspeth whose happi- reaches its goal without at least ness was so pitifully wrecked on one serious crisis; he therefore pre- the rocks of snobbery and social cipitated the crisis early in the pre- prejudice. The drawing of the ceedings in order to get through background, of rather shabby gen- with it"
NAVY'S LOSS
OPIUM SEIZURE
PETTY OFFICER DROWNED IN OVER THREE THOUSAND TINS
THE WHANGPOO
The inquest on the body of George William Turner, the Petty Officer of H.M.S. "Ladybird" whose body was discovered on April 18 in
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Funo, from Shanghai. Cheong Shit Har, 34, Kennedy Road, from Shanghai, -
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the Whangpoo, was resumed in toms service to-day seized 9,400 tins
H. M. Police Court (Shanghai) on Tuesday, with the Registrar, Mr. AJ Martin, sitting as coroner. The inquest was opened on April 14, when evidence of identification only was taken.
of opium valued at about 40,000 pesos from the stearnship "Susana II," which bad just arrived in the port from Amtoy.
Calkins, from Shanghai, Kingcho, from Haiphong. Woods, from Singapore. 230, Kowloon Tong from Paris
S. LACK,
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Customs officials said the oplum Po. was a part of the steamer's general Pay Lieut.Com. G. II. Thompson cargo. The master of the vessel produced in court the files of a was questioned but denied all know- naval inquiry into the case and lodge of the drugs.
stated that H.M.S. "Ladybird" had Police seized one of the ship's on Tuesday Jeft Shanghel and Chinese passengers, Chung Chu, would not be back for some months. who was returning to the Philip- The evidence of an American sailor nines after several years' absence connected with the case was In the in China. fles. The sailor had now left with assault against agents of the this port
law in connection with the anti- Chinese riots bere in 1924 United Preas."
The coroner then found that the deceased had met hià death by accidental drowning in the Whang- poo on March 81
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