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THE CHINA MATL.
THE WORLD OF BOOKS
MAIL REVIEWS.
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The Collection of Autographs
SHAKESPEARE IN OPERA.
famous champion of liberty who defled the time-servers of George the Third. The career and charac- It may be regarded as an axiom ter of Wilkes were alike extra- that the great poets, whether musi- ordinary; and, white our author cal themselves or not, always led does not condone his offences to great music. If a poet arise, în against the moral law, he proves any age or nation, who is dear to [“An Autograph Collection and the that instead of being a Communist the people, there is certain to fol- or demagogue, as many to-day low a tone-poet who will set-munic Making of It". Lady Chara-imagine him to be, Wilkes was a to the words that have exerted wood; Ernest Bern, Ltd., 15/-] great champion, a lover of peace, such power, and thus bring them To the average person the colfand the man mainly responsible still closer to the popular heart. lection of Autographs means for much of to-day's freedom of the "Thus Goethe led to Shakespeare, obtaining the signature of some Press and the right to sit in Par. and Heine found his fullest glory famous man, woman, or child and Hament when elected.
in the works of Schumann, and nothing more, either by meeting
Robert Franž. the person or by writing and ask- ing for the signature. With the exception of a very few cases such signatures are valueless in a true collection, and are merely indica-
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Few men have lived such a' varied life and triumphed no signal-
In the case of Shakespeare the ly over cumulative disasters
influence was more far-reaching John Wilkes. To have been out-and was exerted upon, composers laved by the Chief Justice and then of three centuries and of all the to come back to London and be It is not too much to say that no
AIRLIE HOTEL civilized countries of the earth. come Lordi Mayor-"the best Lord Mayor for a hundred years"
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tions of enthusiasm or per- severance. The true collector will spurn a bare signature if it is is surely a unique performance, possible to obtain either by in Wilkes was a friend of Pitt, who fluence or payment a complets denounced and then espoused him, letter or collection of letters writ-of Johnston, "Junius" and other ten by some famous celebrity. Lady celebrities, a great journalist and Charnwood preaches this gospel in Taconteur," a fearless her latest book, and she is qualified duellist, a rapscallion and loose to speak seeing that she is in the liver, true to his friends and forefront of autograph collectors. principles, unfaithful to his wife, She gives seven good reasons
and devoted to his daughter, proving that a series of letters instead of a single signature is the object to be attained and probably the most important of these is There is the obvious fact that the more we learn about the great ones
man, outside of the art, ever fuspir-
ed
80 much, or one-quarter as much, music as Shakespeare has done. Goethe's Faust has brought forth very much music, but Shakespeare's musical influence- has not been confined to `a`single play, for each of his plays has inspired its own especial music.
Barrett Wendell, in his charming essay on Shakespeare, "dwells con- dozen different stantly (in a
Much contemporary history and gossip appear in these pages, and places) on the musical quality of we get interesting glimpacs of them to be the half-way house on Shakespeare's plays, and belleves Chatham, Horace Walpole, etc. the road to opera, He compares The trouble with the New England (P. 78. et seq.) "Henry VI" to States. and Wilkes's strenuous
serioua opera, "Love's Labour's'
whose letters we collect the more efforts on behalf of the Colonista Lost" to opera comique; and calis. knowledge we shall obtain of the are clearly described, thus making (p. 122) the quartette of lamenta history of their time and the actors. Sherrard's three hundred pages tion over Juliet "fugue like." in it, and the more literary, in-the 'as interesting to Americans as to true sense of the word, we become." Britons,
Lady Charnwood first tells BS An enjoyable and informative how to colieet and illustrates her book! arguments with examples taken from her own experience. She'sug-
Д
gests methods of starting, of group. ing, of filing and of indexing collection, and also, gives us an idea of the comparative value of various types of letters.
Mercutio's "Queen Mab" he likens to our interpolated song in modern comedy, and he gives many other instances of poetry and music cam- ing into closest kinship in SMITH'S "LEGAL FORMS FOR works of Shakespeare.
COMMON USE."
the
It may be pardoned us, if in the presentation of this branch of our topic, we become in some degree This well-known work, first writ-catalogic. "The Tempest to begin ten a long ago as. 1864 by the late with, has been set fourteen times In Chapter VII Lady Charnwood James Walter Smith, LL.D., is now as an opera, the Germans having says that she begins the hardest issued to a revised form for the been especially attracted to thir part of her task, the endeavour ninth time, the present editor being subject. Since Dr. Ame's first set- to justify her faith in her system Mr. J. D. Casawell, M.A., Barrister ting (and we do not count Pereelly { of grouping her letters. She shows at-Law (Effingham Wilson, 128. setting of Shadwell's arrangement us her groups and the various let-6d.). Additions and amendments of the play in the above list), ters in them. From the late Stuart have been made, as rendered neces- French, Russians, and Italians, as period they run in chronological sary by recent Parliamentary and well as Germans, have turned the order to modern times, each era judicial legislation, including the subject'into opera. John K. Paine, having sub-groups for writers, Companies Act, 1929, the result eminent of American composers, poets, historians, artists, etc." being as useful to readers, legat has built a symphonic poem apon, A chapter on foreign letters and and non-legal alike, as its predeces- the theme, and Ambroise Thomas Anal talk about habitations sors have been. The forms given has turned it into a bullet-Louis memorica completes a book that, comprise about 300 precedents, C. Elson, in "Shakespeare in being the first
authoritative with' introductions and notes ar- Music." publication by a first class collec-ranged under the following heads; tor on the subject must become a Negotiable instruments, securities, necessary part of an autograph receipts and acknowledgments, collector's library.
partnership, master and servant,. landlord and tenant, arbitration, county court forms, conveyances, marriage articles and settlements, wills, and miscellaneous forms, with a chapter on stamps.
Apart from its technical value the letters printed in it will be of more than passing interest to any
one who reads them.
The Illustrations are good, and {the whole edition is one that en- hances the reputation of Ernest Bonn, Ltd, as publishers of nothing but what is first class.
CATTLE RUSTLING.
Wistful
ATLAS MAGIC.
because I never saw strange lands,
I pore above my atlas with regret. " But soon its magic takes me, and I
set.
to far, enchanted
["The Deputy Sheriff," by Clarence
Mulford; Hodder and Stough-Romantic Bail ton, 7/6.]
strands: The world is mine! Now I join
pilgrim bands
Bob Corson, owner of the JC ranch, is also Sheriff of the dia- trict and decides to make Willow Springs his headquarters, since it is, from that place that he can best deal with the epidemic of cattle rustling that is prevalent. He realises that it will be impossible to cope with it himself because he la too well known and arranges with his right hand man, Nueces, to act as a Deputy Sheriff and to remain unknown at Willow Springs.
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The cattle stealing is being put to the credit of a Mexican, El Toro, but Corson who knows the man, realises that the culprit is to be found in Willow Springs. Nucces descends upon Willow Springs like- a punitive expedition and the round up of the rustlers proceeds space.
Although it would be hard to say. |that this is Mr: Mulford's best book, it brings with it the memory of all his old heroes, Hopalong Cassidy, Buck Peters, Red Connors, and that quick shooting hunch of Bar 201. There is leas violent actión in this book but, nevertheless, it is good.
CHAMPION OF LIBERTY.
["Life Of John Wilkes", by O. A. Sherrard; "Allen & Urwin, 10/0]
This is an excellent book, and should do much to vindicate the
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For Mecca; turn from mosque and
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Where, miles awAY,
Lies stretching to my dazzled
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