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Exciting Books On Love And Crime
["The Medbury Fort Murder," by George Limnellus, (Ernest Ben, Ltd. 7/8).] Major Hugh Preece, Royal Army Medical Corps, happily married, is forcibly reminded of an indiscretion of youth by a Lieutenant Lepean, who having heard of and made enquiries re- garding it proceeds to blackmail his superior officer and also the lady concerned. The lady, to pro- tect herself, suggests murder to Major Preece, and, as the affair becomes more and more serious, he makes elaborate preparation to remove Lepean. Lepean is found murdered shortly after and during the investigation that followed his true character is revealed.
He was a man without morals, and as a roault of his sadistic tendencies three persons besides Preece are shown to have desir- ed his death. To Chief Inspector McMaster, and his assistant In- spector Paton, is given the task of finding out which of the four obtained his revenge, and during two hundred pages of most inter- esting reading the whole case is carefully explained. The climax ia definitely surprising and one feels pleased to find that Major Preece is innocent, if not for his own sake, for that Claire.
of his wife.
Lepcan deserved his fate and one has a real régret at the end,
that the person who removed such
 despicable character from society should have to
auffer.
Had the murdered man been an ordinary person however the plot |could not have been so effective.
This is a really good mystery and Mr. Limnelius is to be con gratulated upon the logical man-, ner in which he has worked itj ont.
["Pamela's Spring Song," by Cecil Roberts. (Hodder & Stough- ton. 7/6).]
"Why not spend spring in the Tyrol?" Such was the question that faced Pamela Kemp as she
assorted crimes recounted in this ( Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth volume, but it is impossible for and Essex
158. Od anyone to neglect the possibility Lowell Thomus. With of his being helped by luck: As Lawrence in Arablà........ 218. 08
The average cost of these volumea. was 21s. 6d. per copy, and to meet the normal needs of readers for a pepular book, at least four copies are necessary.
soon as he appears on the scene of a crime clues apparently "sit up and bog" to be noticed, and McLean alone has the power of seeing them.
That is the secret of his suc- CRAB, His powers as a naturalist or as a biologist are not serious ly tested, but during the course of episode five it is proved that he was but a fair chemist.
"Doubtless." he is made to re- mark, he lived long enough to inhale quite a quantity of carbon monoxide gas, and the smell of the stuff was enough to drown the
chloroform. Rather ingenious What?" Considering that the said gus has no well defined smell, the argument is ingenious.
However apart from quibbling over trifles the series of crimes re- lated, here are quite interesting and provide an evening's amuse- ment,
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Governor F. D. Sampeon of Ken- tucky, who with seven members of the State Textbook Commission was indies ed by the Franklyn County Grand Jury, on charges that he received gifts from publishers to Influence the award of orders for schoolbooks. No date hus
been set for trial and he is at liberty on a bond of $250.
During the year 577,793 works of fiction were issued, as against: 997,854 works of other classes. History, with 99,976 volumes, re- mained as in the past few years the leading single aubject. The Prin cipal issues in ather sections were: Travel
55,044 English literature and drama 37,587 Fine arts Biography Music..
Commercial subjects
26,864
18,726
13,571
12,520
Among the subjects upon which members of the staff were question- ed by readers were:
Coccidiosis in rabbits.
Date of the character allowing the Dutch to moor their cel boats In the Thames.
An obscure American sect call- ed the "Holy Rollers."
Towards the year's expenditure of £16,326 the Borough Fund con- tributed £15,101. The library rate is 24d. in the pound. The cost of library service per inhabitant work- ed out at 18. 244. per inhabitant, and the total cost of the library for the year at Is. 6d.
NEW GERMAN PLAYWRIGHT
WOMAN WHO SERVED BEHIND A COUNTER
Germany at present is hailing the advent of a new playwright, a wo
man of considerable talent and possessed of the knack of raising questions which embarrass the authorities. She is Marieluiso Fleissner and not very long ago she was serving behind the counter in 11 omali delicatessen shop in Bavaria. Her play, "Pioneers in Ingolstadt," has been produced in Berlin with outstanding success. The plot is not of great importance, but the picture of life in the pro- vinclal town is too telling for many, It is a drama of soldiers and servant girls. One girl is all heart and the other all head.
Sense and Sensibility. The men are crude and unlettered. The un- fortunate part of the whole play,
alighted from the tube one morn-WHY LIBRARIES ARE POPULAR in the eyes of the Chief of Police,
ing on her way to the office of Mesars, Truslove and Trimmers where she pounded a typewriter each week day. There were Bey. eral reasons why she couldn't each one good enough to prevent
her.
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RESPONSIBLE
is that the actors behave like real people. It has been necessary, therefore, to cut certain parts of the dialogue, but even now the "There is no doubt a definite Chief of Police shakes his head and growth in the use of public wonders if he has not been too libraries, due to the greater read tolerant. Usually the conversation ing habits of the people-which are of school boys and soldiers is not fostered by such agencies as wire-recorded verbatim, which fact is the less broadcaste-and also, in no small measure, to the difficulty of accommodating books in the aver- age modern house."
This statement appears in the an- nual report of the Croydon libraries, entitled "Reading in Croydon—An account, of a year, 1928-20,"
Fate takes a hand, and owing to the death of her grandmother she finds herself with suficient money-but only just sufficient to spend six weeks at Schloss Edelstein, Kitzburg. Tyrol, Aus- tria as a paying guest of the Count and Countess Edelstein.
During the journey to the castle she is warned that It is quite pos- During the year the total number sible that the Count and Countess of issues exceeded 1,600,000, repre- are impostors and after her ar-senting a record issue of seven rival the attempts at love-making by the Count seem to bear out this statement,
For six glorious weeks she real ly enjoys life and regrets having to leave the place. Naturally she does not leave but marries the Count who turns out to be a thorough gentleman and brother
to the Countess.
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cause of the trouble. But it is the militarlat aide of the play that causes most feeling; it is the be haviour of an irritated Sergeant- Major which rouses the audience to demonstration.
CORNHILL
That the modern public school) boy is more sophisticated, in many items per annum per head of the ways more candid and honest, but population, compared with 4.5 per possessing far more unsuppressed head in 1923-24. The cost of the curiosity than the youth of his own entire library service to the town day, is the contention of an old for the year was is. 6d. per kend. Scholar of Eton, who writes of his The steady increase in the use period there from 1891 to 1896 in of the libraries is shown in a table the September "Cornhill." The writ- giving figures for five-yearly Ings of Samuel Butler and Bernard| periods, beginning with 1893-94, Shaw, he considers, have cleared when the average issue per person away many cobwebs and have also was 2.8. It stood at 8.1 between | imbued the rising generation with a
certain freedom from snobbery and] 1903 and 1909.
discourtesy to inferiora.
It is a long time since a book with such a host of Interesting The later figures are:
Fer characters has been published.
Population. Issues. Person. Lady Prudence and Miss Bennett
178,094 564,529. 8.2 typically. English, Madame 1913-14 ...
186,917 606,625 3.2. Baker, the literary genius with 1918-19...
193,400 871,180 4.5 her shadow Signor Cavello, Mr. 1923-24 Crawley, a real novelist and last, 1928-29... 214,800 1,515,647 7.0 but by
Thus, in the past ten years, the no means least, Count Hugo, the villain of the piece, all work of the libraries has been near combine to make Pamela's Springy trebled. The year ended March [Song a joy to read and a romance
It would be a pity to mies.
31 last la described as the busiest on record. The development, it is stated, “is not confined to municipal libraries; it is general, and Indi ["McLean of Scotland Yard," by cates that the average citizen reads George Goodchild. (Hodder & far more books than he is able to Stoughton).]
buy."
Books on the East
argument
An interesting addition to the literature of the Risorgimento la re- presented here by extracts from a hitherto unpublished journal of E. C. M. Bowra, one of Garibaldi's British legion in the liberation campaign. The extracts have been edited by Professor Okey under the title "With Garibaldi in 1860."
Lieut-Colonel C. P. Hawkes, In "Tangler Smith," contributes a fragment of Colonial history in two continents. Smith was one of the leading figures in Charles II.'s bid to command the Straits from the African side.
Chief Inspector Robert McLean's thirst for knowledge was in- The
that public Womanly Fascination satiable. Apart from his duties libraries exist only to circulate in connection with Scotland Yard cheap fiction is strikingly contra- and personal attractiveness In man, he was the born naturalist, adicted in a paragraph of the report depend in no small degree upon good biologist, and a fair chemiet. dealing with the cost of books, the condition of the skin and of In view of these attainments It Among the most popular books of the breath: One of the commonest causes of facial eruption and of blotched and yellow akin is con Price. stipation. It is likewise respon- 424 Odaible for most ill-smelling breath.
is not at all surprising that he the year, it is declared,' were the had attained the rank of Chief In- following:: spector at the age of thirty.
That such swift promotion was justified- is proved by the facility with which he solved the sixteen
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