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of today
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The Twins
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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issued along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
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THE
CHINA MAIL,
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL" REVIEWS
PANEGYRIC OF “G.K.C.”
At the same time in London there was a series of burglaries on a very large scale and . the only clue to the eriminals
were the facts that they wore masks, gloves, and shoes of India-rubber and that the crimes invariably coin- cided with the appearance of a swift, black, unlighted mater-bost
in the river,
HAIG'S DIARIES
Lady Haig and the Trustees
A London newspaper understanda that some difference of opinion has arisen between Countess Haig and
["The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton" by Patrick Braybrooke: Cecil Palmer, 7/6] Facing the title page of this small
the trustees of the late Field-Mar- valume is a list of Mr. Braybrooke's
How the two threads are cornee-shal Earl Haig's estate with regard works; nineteen in all, comprising ed, how Lila's fortune and family to the life of her husband which she criticism essays, fiction, and mis-xre revealed, and who is the master proposes to write. cellaneous; and behind the contents criminal must not even be suggest- It will be recalled that during his page are a number of short excerpts ed test it spoil the joyous evening lifetime Lord Haig deposited his from various newspapers and four which every admirer of shocker-War diaries in the British Museum, nals eulogising Mr. Braybrooke's cum-detective stories must secure carefully sealed, and directed that powers ая a critic and a writer. for himself by reading Mr. they should not be opened until These two pages whetted our curio- Wallace's new book.
1940. By his will, however, he em- powered his trustees to publish them when and as they think fit.
Paul Mellon, soa of Secretary Mellon, who is zaid to be the third richest
world. the man in Young Mellon will graduate from Yale this monta. His father had desired a business career, but the Son, who is Vice-Chairman of the Yale Daily News, and has won a number of literary prizes, wants to be a writer.
sity and led us to expect something out of the ordinary. We certainly got something out of the ordinary but not what we were looking for. We were greatly disappointed. The book is not criticism but one long waarisome panegyric of G.KC. and ais reactionary and mediaeval philosophy. The author is evident- ly a devout Chestertonian and in his slavish hero-wonship foolishly attempts to write in the difficult and individualistic style of his master. The result is that he out- paradoxes Chesterton, revels in a plethora of unconvincing anti- thesis, and wearies us with his platitudes and retrograde theories.
The chapters on "Stevenson," Browning," and "Chesterton in America" are not so bad, but those on the "Historian" and the "Chris- tian" made us squirm, Mr. Bray- brooke is evidently a member of that mirtos) admiration society whose big guts are Belloc and Chesterton.
After reading "The Wisdom of G. K. Chesterton" We are not ashamed, in spite of the author's nineteen books, the cuttings-from- the different periodicals, and the letters F.R.S.L. after his name, to admit that we had never heard of Mr. Braybrooke until this book was thrust upon wa. With all his fail- ings and foibles G.K.C. deserves something better than this.
EDGAR WALLACE
Praise for His Latest Book
CRIME NOVELIST
Books Written in Bath Chair in Kensington Gardens
The funeral took place recently, of Miss Annie Haynes, the novelist. A memorial service at St. Michaels and All Angels,' Padding ton, was conducted by the vicar, the Rev. Paul Nichols. In the church were many people well- known in the literary world.
Lady Haig is, of course, in pos- session of other of her husband's papers, and the difference of opinion which has arisen is under- stood to concern the publication of not only these but also of extracts from the diaries at the British Museum.
BRITISH BOOKS FOR TOKYO
London, May. 11.
Messrs John Lane, the pub lishers, said that they had publish- ed over a dozen detective novels Sir Austen Chamberlain yester- by Miss Haynes in the last 15 years. day handed to the Japanese Ambas
She was an invalid, living quiet sador in London a copy of the ly at her home in Radnor-place, Morriss Kelmscott Chaucer; this Hyde Park, She used to be wheel-perzonifies the British nation in the ed in a bath chair to Kensington replacement of books in Tokyo Uni- Gardens, where she wrote several of versity. Sixty thousand books are her books.
being replaced at a cost of £25,000.
PRICELESS ANCIENT TOMES
500,000 TREASURES IN
VATICAN LIBRARY
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building which now houses the collection was constructed in 1588. Through all of the years the ex- traordinarily wat Roman summers The Vatican possesses the most and the extraordinarily dry win- valuable library of ancient books
ters have exacled their toll: and manuscripts in the world. To preserve priceless manu- There are ponderous tomes print-cripts, in the library of the Vatican ed not so long after Gutenberg at Rome, an electric steam gen- inverted printing.
erator has been built This de-
There are
"The India-Rubber Men" by Edgar Wallace; Hodder and Stough-
other hand-illuminated books, vice emitting steam into the ton 7/6.] There was a sinister lodging executed painstakingly by monks library will keep the ancient books and valuable manuscripts from house on the banks of the Thames who devoted years of loving care
to their products. In all there cracking as a result of the exceg- by the Pool, in which lived. 'Mum'
are hundreds of thousands of sively dry air experienced in Rome Oaks, the landlady, a person whose
The reputation among the River Police books and manuscripts in this during the winter months. was far from good, her little brow library, which takes first rank steam will enter through a valve beaten husband Golly, who, in mo among the world's libraries in its operated by a humidistat, tous ments of stress quoted Greek and antiquity and in the wealth of making the installation complete- Latin poets, and her beautiful historical manuscripts it contains. ly automatic in operation. To young ward Lila Smith, whose The library was founded in 1447| guard against excessive humidity parentage was, apparently un-and has continued uninterrupted in the summer zeven air heating known
ly until the present day, The units are being used.
At a meeting of the British Association of Dairen held recently the following officers were appoint- ed for the ensuing year: -President Mr. W. B. Cunningham; Hon. Secretary Mr. F. W. A Hon, Treasurer Mr. D. Campbell.
Wilkie;
Brazal!—Japanese residents of Shanghai celebrated thebirthday of their. Emperor, among the celebrations oficial reception at the Japanese Consulate General shown above.—(Fhoto by All Four),
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