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The Four Roads.
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A Briton on the Americans
C.
The chief characters, Allan Marsh and the gloomy Police Ser- geant, are not quite convincing.
JAPAN TO-DAY
The sergeant is gloomy only be An Indispensable Guide
cause he is said to be; he acts and speaks in much the same manner as any policeman of intelligence. The most interesting character is Mr. Beaman, a humorist who says but little and is only referred to twice or thrice in the whole 286 pages.
As a thriller the book falls a little short, but it invites the at- tention of the reader to the pos- sible existence of two evils which, if at all prevalent, constitute a grave danger to any unwary mem- ber of the community, and, for this reason at least, the book is well worth reading.
"The Courts of the Morning," by
for Foreigners
Present-Day Japán, the annual English supplement of the Osaka and Tokyo Asahi, which first saw the light in 1925, is gradually gain-i ing an important position among publications treating of things Japanese as one of the most valu able guides to foreign students of the Japanese Empire.
Present-Day Japan for 1929 bears the subtitle, "Overseas Trade Num. ber". This title is due to the fact that in the economic section of the
supplement considerable space is devoted this year to present condi- tions in the oversons trade of Japan, This work, in our opinion, is a very useful source of information on de- tails of the conditions of Japan's oversens trade.
I
[["The American Illusion," by Owen; Ernest Benn, 10/6.3 Here we have yet another Briton's impressions of the United States. This book is rather mere foutspoken than the works of other British writers but not nearly so damning towards the U.S.A. as are the books of several American authors. Mr. Owen seems to have had a very good three months in America where he was entertained and shown round by the "Taipans", We doubt greatly whether that qualifies one to describe a nation of one hundred and twenty millions inhabiting three million square miles of diversified territory. How-
John Buchan, Hodder and ever, Mr. Owen seems to have
Stoughton, 7/6d. net.] heard a lot, read a lot, and kept his
After reading this enthralling eyes open: and the result is that romance by Mr. Buchan, one may
The journal contains nearly 150 we are presented with some be led to wonder why it is that he
pages of letterpress besides four teresting descriptions, a host of has not a greater place in modern superb.coloured platea. The tenor facts and figures, some pungent re-
letters. He has a charming and of the articles may be judged from marks, and a little theorising. an easy style, and a descriptive
some of the following headings: Perhaps the most powerful thing touch that has few rivals among
"Commerce: a Guarantee of Peace"; about this uneven book is its his contemporaries; his character "Duke of Gloucester as the Garter description and analysis of the studies, too, are neatly and econo-Envey": "The Cherry Blossom": alarming amount of crime prevalent mically sketched into a background"The Osaka Asahi and Its Jubilee in the United States. Such a state that is always alive with colour and Celebration":
"Political and of affairs is a terrible disgrace to
Social"; "International"; "Art any country, and until the annual
Music, and Literature"; "Sports number of its murders decrease by
and Recreations"; and "Intimate: 95 per cent. America can hardly be }
Japan". There is also a valuable taken seriously when she preaches
"Economic and Financial Section" sloppy idealism. A country with
replete with information, over ten thousand murders a year, where squeeze and municipal cor- ruption are rife, where citizens are unsafe in side streets and public parks after dusk, should stop spending money in sending mission- aries to China and India, should stop laying down the law to Cuba, Haiti, and small republice until she' cleans up her own Augean stables. fit seems to us that America'a apaches are a much greater menace than her negroes,
Mr. Owen is amusing but scarce- ly original on the question of "pro- hibition," and he spoils his effects by harping too much on that string. On the question of "Who won the War" he is hysterical and school ist, scored the "new moderra" who are Ethot Mannin, popular British novel boyish. That is now (or should be) constantly searching for the uncon ancient history. In any case, Itventional. After a time, she assorts, was never more than a figment of so many women do the unconventional Imagination on the part of small that it becomes conventional. minds both insido and outside | America.
If Mr. Owen were to reside in America for a year away from plutocrats and not try to be clever
he would probably produce a good
book.
["Ur of the Chaldees", by C. Leonard Woolley: Ernest Bena Ltd. 7/6.]
Like the word Mesopotamia, Ur of the Chaldees is to many Bible readers a blessed expression. Yet to 99 out of 100 it is a mere name signifying something vague and far away. To those, and to all interest- ed in early history of archaeology, this small volume should prove full of interest. It gives a simple ac count of the romantic and histori- cally Important discoveries on the site of the city from which Abra- ham is supposed to have started his wanderings.
action. Yet one would hesitate to
the annals of 19th Century fiction say that his name will go down in
as one of our representative writ- ers. In preparing a long list of
In the famillar, park-like scenery of the Border country, but moves swiftly to the arid wastes or mountainous jungles of the South Americas, where the author proves himself to be equally at home.
The chief figures are Sandy Arbuthnot, now Lord Clanroyden, and Mr. John S. Blenkiran, both of whom
appear in "Green- mantle." The scene is laid in a South American republic which is brought by accident into inter- national politics. The story tells how the ambition of a great man, which might havé played havoC with the peace of the world, is frustrated by a sew kind of war. Many of Mr. Buchan's
familiar characters appear, and Intar- woven with the scheme of adven- ture is Sandy's love story.
mines of the Gran Seco, the The description of the copper "poison
country" beyond tho Golden Gate, the vast sens of un-
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Away
A NOVELIST
but the sickness of his early life turned to an incurable disease, and, in spite of all the loving care my father gave him, he became feebler POISONS A DYING LAD TO END and feebler and at last bed-ridden.
HIS SUFFERING
PEASANT BOY GENIUS
Gobernador of tha Province, recently.
and
P
All his days and nights, and Anally all his minutes, were one protract- ed agony that not even the most powerful drugs. could assuage.
Finally the time came when it was only a question of days before
Stevenson to Thomas Hardy and include the name of Mr. Buchan.ting them run; he has a daring Sheila Kaye-Smith, one would not And yet,, apart from being the pen that, wielded by others, might author of two of the best booka be in danger of running of the century-Witch Wood" with itself. and "Huntingtower," he is also re-
One grows to love, cognised (oven by that chary
the country and the British ad- nation) as being one of the most borders in one
venturers who succeed within its of the strangest graceful and poetic writers
guerilla conquests in history. A remarkable manuscript of deep Scotland.
The secret of his failure to at tale is his explanation
The weak point in Mr. Buchan's human interest--the disclosure of a
(or lack dramatic incident in the life of the end and such days. Such tain popularity outside a loyal of explanation) of the Inter-famous novelist-came circle ot "Buchanites"..may
into theacons of pain, such helpless, shriek- be national designs of Cantor, the possession of the "Daily Express" ing agony, that my father could that the Scottish character and
hardly bear to stand by the bod- scanery по longer captivate whom a charming, but unpreten.
It is from the pen of Miss Dora side. Southern hearts as they did in the tious young Englishwoman changes Christie-Murray, daughter of the Finally one day he turned to the days of the Walter Scott phase.
from a Napoleon to a wistful sentiate David Christie-Murray, and it doctor, almost frantic with his in- The author, Mr. G. L. Woolley,
Whatever the reason, it is im- mentalist. Castor's grand dream that the writer had been inspired "For God's sake, man, do seme- was accompanied by the statement ability to do anything and said has done his work well. What moat possible (at least to the reviewer) (which is really the crux of the scientists would have made dull to read any one of his books with whole tale) is vague and unintel-to place the facts on record after thing! I cannot bear to see this with technicalities he has made s* out a twinge of indignation that ligible, and renders the war wag of Richard Corbett for the murder
reading the accounts of the trial going on any longer." interesting 68 many & novel. this is so. One defect, if it be a
ed by respectable members of of his mother, whom he killed, hely for a moment, then picked up a The doctor looked at him strange- Through the medium of newspapers defect, is his seeming tuability to English society a little ridiculous said because she suffered from an small bottle which he handed him. and magazines most people have rise above the tune of the novel-
and incredible, in spite of all the incurable disease. heard of the excavations going on ist and sing in a cadence that paraphernalia
"When I am gone, monsieur," he at Ur, but few know the detalls of touches the affairs of common modern
tactics of
Miss Christie-Murray states that, said, "and the pain becomes very The the difficult and delicate nature of life: His characters are always "dust up" is a well-written piece the son of a Belgian peasant, and drops of this medicine-just three many years ago, her father adopted bbate, `you may give Henri thres the work. In this book we have a delightful people even the villain of military fiction and the "cam deliberately poisoned him when he drops, remember; more would racy resume of the more important aus ones, but they never possess paign" displayed both strategy lay in shrieking agony a few days fatal." results achieved up to date. enough vitality of their own to and skill. Of course, when
We begin with the discovery spring out of the pages and en- novelist wages war, the geography
before his inevitable end. made last winter of material tertain our imaginations long of the country shapes itself to man, travelling in
"When my father was a young My father said: "You mean-?" evidence of a great flyod, probably after the book has been laid his ends, and he is always sure Ardennes he came across a cottage fatal" repeated the doctor.
the Belgian "Three drops only; more would be the flood that gave rise to the Bible aside.
of the result. But there is good tucked away from civilization, in- story, when a considerable parlion
fun to be had from the reading habited by an old couple and their the doctor left the room.
"Thank you," said my father, and of Southern Mesopotamia was in
of this book, which is by no means son," the manuscript says. undated and thousands of the serfä
the least successful product of Mr. inhabiting the low lying regions
Buchan's genius. perished. Then come most interest- ing descriptions of the remains of a civilisation greatly antedating that cataclysm-Royal Tombs, etc., the treasures of which have revolu tionised our' ideas concerning the origin of Western civilisation, and seem to prove that the Sumerians were a cultured people when the Egyptians were emerging from the Neolithic Age. The finds bring us down to the relatively recent days of Belshazzar and Cyrus the For sian. Then, the rest is allance
| Zoroastrianism and the shifting of the river bed spelt. the end of Ur, the oldest known 'city on earth.
Few excavations have produced There are four roads through In so short a time so continuous a which the poisons "generated in record of civilisation: and for some the human body escape the periode the only evidenco we broath, parapication, Eldneya and possess comes from the ruins of Ur. Intestines. Constipation closes This book, which is well illus the greatest of these roads, throws trated, is marvellous value for 7/8. the poisons back into the system, and trouble follows.
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[The Unexpected
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A mystery story of 286 pabes opens rather haltingly but im
oves as the tale unfolds.
murder ocdura, and, also, að Til, the hero is suspected by the
In his latest novel "The Courts of the Morning," Mr. Buchan again gives us a story of pure adventure of the same type as his "Prester John." The book opens
warfare.
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be
As he turned to where the boy
"The parents were of typical was lying, exhausted after his last | peasant class-heavy and loutish, paroxysm of pain, Henri opened his their backs bowed with work, eyes and said faintly: "I can't bear neither expecting nor hoping for it, sir. Help me?" anything beyond their lives of daily My father, gentle as a woman, toil. But the sixteen-year-old son, want down on his knees and lifted a bright; flame-like spirit, was àthe boy's hend in his arms. · changeling to their dull eyes. .."My boy," he said "you have only
A Rural Genius
a few more days to live, and they “Without any book-learning he will be full of pain and agony. I was a genius. Untutored, he had have something here that might the knowledge with which ́ all, help to relieve the pain a little, and artista are born and above all he if I give it to you, you will go to had, the great, sorrowful gift of sleep and never wake up again. music N
Will you take it
"I'll take anything from your hands," said the boy,
"But all his beauty of soul was imprisoned in a sickly body that found work, of even the lightest Bo, with hands that never falt- kind, impossible. The parents, ered, my father poured out the Irritated by his helplessness and overdose and held it to the boy's frightened by his allen ways, found lips, and the boy drank it trustfully, him a burden, a caeless clog on then settled down with a smile of their own dull, stupid. lives, and i soutterable peace and Just whisper. the boy in turn was bewildered by ed, "God bless you, siz.” his parents' lack of understanding And so fell asleep, and sleeping, and sympathy. UN
| ““My father naturally attracted
by the boy, approached the parents with a view to adopting him, and was met with open armed en thusiasm. To cut a long story short he dually took the boy aWAY, Tesor that his artistry should and its own leveli sottov
Incurable Dimaso The boy-let us call him Hans
died,
Drive & Trusty “TRIUMPH