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The Genius of Mr. Philip Guedalla
AloyBus Horn writes a foreword first paragraph- and Rosita Forbes a preface to this book, but It requires neither as it
such
feelings to be put on one side and
causes any
all through the three hundred odd has meat and literary form suffici- pages they recede further and fur- ent to allow it to, stand on its own ther into the background. lega. Trader Horn's note is in his ("The Missing Muse and Other usual direct conversational style,
There is certainly some justifica- Essays" by Philip Guedalla, somewhat maudlin at times, and is tion for such thoughts because, as - Hodder & Stoughton, 7/61
mercifully short; Mias Forbes's re- Lord Edward was financial adviser ["The Fortunate falands," by marks are those of one who finds to the Egyptian Government, statis- Amelia Defrica, Cecil Palmer, in the authoress a kindred spirit, ties and other equally uninteresting 7/6.]
one, who goes into the sort of things, such as politics might easily ["Tristan in Brittany," translat-country you couldn't take a man to be found.
ed by Dorothy Sayers, Benn, the Factic but in the Atlantic off of which Lord Kitchener is the aub The Fortunate Islands are not in the solitary exception of one portion, But, praise be, with 3/6.] "At the Close of Day," by the coast of Florida and constitute ject, the whole book is crammed
Britain's
oldest
colony-The with arausing anecdotes of Cairo Bahamas. Here is a little known life. [The Leisure of an Egyptian pleases and only a few decadent best description of a native servant, Paradise where every prospect
It opens with what must be the chapter contains succulent descripbeen written, and then gives us a Europeans
his faults and failings, that has ever tions as luscious as, or more so than, we have in Tennyson's "Lotus glimpse of the morning work of Eaters," also descriptions of hair one, in a high position interviewing raising adventures the authoress various types of people, went through on amali sailing boats in the hurricane season, also some native songs.
Richard King.
Stoughton, 6/-]
Hodder &
Official," by Lord Edward
Cecil, Hodder & Stoughton, 9/0.1
Lamb."
aro
vila. The first
A meeting of the government, a game of golf, a semi-official dinner, a ball and the inevitable supper to follow all are analysed in a peculiarly refreshing manner. The various grades of society in Caire, the regular influx of American Tourists provide the author with subjects for really witty remarks, and last but by no means least an account of the journey from Cairo to Calals via Port Sald and Marseilles
be read to be believed.
must
The first half of this volume is in Mr. Guedaila's best style. The book opens with a very humorous Imaginary conversation between the author and a caller who can not get in a word edgeways and who ultimately flees without the speaker noticing his absence. In
When Columbus landed there he this comical introduction we have found the Caribs leading an idyllic several typical Guedalliams. Thus life on these luxuriant islea, and in objecting to so many modern he gave a description of the flora essayists aping Lamb he says: and wonderful fish there. But "And what is more trying to the many of the trees have been wan- taste. than mutton dressed astonly destroyed by the "Civilized" men of Europe, and the soldiers of The first essay proper, the one His Most Catholle Majesty, King that gives its title to the book, Philip, carried off the simple Caribs is one of the author's best pieces to work in the death-producing of writing. It is a lament over mines. The present population is One can safely any that ""The the absence of literary art in our descended from Negro slaves and Leisure of an Egyptian Officia!" has modern historians. The only fault shows traces of European blood, not a dull page in it, and if read by we have to find with it is its doubtless the result of the amours anyone who has had dealings, in brevity-it conalats of about four of the companions of Morgan, an official capacity, with foreigners thousand words. In this trench- Blackbeard, and other buccaneers. in any part of the world, will syg- ant plece, which is worth re-read- The book contains sympathetic gest comparisons that prove there ing more than once, Mr. Guedalla and witty descriptions of the chil- is nothing new to be found any. is unusually serious, so much so dishness, laziness, morality, super- where. that he forgets to be flippant or who have never seen Africa, and is stitions, etc. of the those Africans smart. He condemns wholeheartenhanced by sixteen full page, edly the blighting influence of Lord Acton and the German school
excellent photographs. of exact historians for their dry and oyes open. as-dust productions, and shows that such imagination as Carlyle's
Miss Defries wrote with heart
"Allary Growing Up," by Stephen
King-Hall (Bean).]
the well-known "Letters to Hilary": Mr. Stephen King-Ball follows up
with a no less attractive and useful study of the business of life, de- and Gibbon's—an imagination by Library will not appeal to the man and systematically the needs of This latest volume of the Essex signed to explain clearly, simply, no means synonymous with inven. In the street nor to many who think human society, economic, political, tion-is an acquisition in a his-themselves too arudite for such and cultural, and how those reads torian. We agree.
classification. It is for the few
are met by the organisation of; who still find interest in the my-English society to-day. As the au- The other articles in this volume thical and somewhat wearisome ther says, "any intelligent person are very unequal. There is a tales of Arthur and his aplendid one on Lord Haldane Table! The lengthy and typical plained intelligently"; and he has
Round
can understand anything that is ex- who is called the Mandarin, a introduction by George Saintsbury, succeeded admirably in his treat sympathetic! оде about Mr. whom age does not seem to wither, ment of the difficult subject matter. Kipling's "Irish Guards," a witty will be appreciated by scholars who Parents who find that their chil-
on Experts and a brilliant have had to delve into the mustydren's questions are place in the best Guedallian style archives of Mediaeval French and
not easy to entitled Noel, Noel.
There are English Romance, and only by answer, children who have reached thirteen sane pages on the 1996 these. His criticism of the sordid the age when the stirrings of civic strike and a very restrained arato is very much to the point. responsibility are felt, and the or- ticle on Mr. Bellor, whom our au- Much of the original poem, sup-dinary layman too will enjoy these
One
men,
thor lots, off very lightly.
"The posed to have been written by a chapters which have in addition to Buccaneer," Mr. Churchill, is net rhymer named Thomas, (an Anglo-clarity and simplicity of arrange up to Mr. Guedalla's best stand-Norman of the twelfth century?) meat, a very distinct charm of style, ard, and in "Lady Astor," as in has been lost. There are to-day in lightened by frequent and happy his volume "Bonnet and Shawl," various libraries five manuscripts (often humorous) illustrations from we have a davitalised. Guedalia, and these are all fragmentary. For experiences familiar to us all. The He is much better at dissecting sixty odd pages we have the story book should be on the shelves of
told in prose. Then comes a trans-overy, school Hbrary. That brings us to page 157.lation of the Cambridge frag From there until the end of the ment; fifty-two lines. After that book, page 311, we have a steady more prose and translations. Yet decline with perhaps the excep in spite of the big loas lamented by tion of the three pages where he men of letters we have over three lays the ajambok on Mr. Michael thousand lines of Tamble Tetrame Arlen. "The Russian Fairy Tale" ters. should not have been written; it. is woefully weak.
Miss Sayers has done a difficult task well, but one is tempted to wonder whether the story is worth such an effort.
"The Brackenridge, Enigma," by
Lawrence Geoghegan
(Me- thuen).]
When Peter May, young, rich, and unoccupied, received from his friend Bousquet a wire saying "Will you come to-morrow;
up
dreadful trouble" he thought, it merely an appeal for money until his friend In the brilliant first part we,
Maurice Vale of the Intelligence get some of the author's, typical
took it more seriously and connected flashes. Thus "The historian is,
Like Mr. King'a other books, It with a paragraph in the papers when all is said, one cell in the "With Silent Friends." "One Quiet announcing the mysterious double world's memory of itself.""No Evening," "New Silent Friends," death of two brothers, one of whom one except the village cad etc. this volume is a series of cau- had married Bousquet's sister. criticises the village War Bories dealing with a variety There are plenty of clues, some Memorial "A garden once of subjects such move, character, misleading, shady episodes In the cheerful with the laughter, the religion, taboo, youth, virtue, dead brothers past, and all the happy flukes, the loud uncertain women, afc. Mr. King has a charm other Ingredients of a first-rate scoring of human tennis-playera,ng style and a coaxing per- mystery story, and through them is now the place of hard faced uasiveness. He might be called a runs unobtrusively but pleasantly, precision of those international one guide to everyday conduct in the romance of Peter and Osyth Fathletes who have destroyed a
the affairs of business and more Bousquet. This novel is recom- game and left us in its place a especially leisure. These vignettes mended to those who enjoy mere news item in the late edl-have a quiet charm and delicate, mysteries and Ingenious sleuth tions." The whole of page 84 is good natured flavour. In many ing typically Guedallian. On page 85 ways he reminds one of Worde we get "We are, it seems, an Age says so beautifully in his poem, worth, and what William Watson of Pleasure, a period in which Wordsworth's Grave," might truth freedom slowly broadens down fully be applied to Mr. Richard from stimulant to stimulant." "It King Thou hast, for weary feet, is the strange craving of the the gift of rest" and "peace whose Anglo Saxona to seem wickeder names are also rapture, power, clear than they are." There are some sight and love industrial purposes for which gen
reciated injudicious.
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