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WIFE WRITES LIFE OF FAMOUS FLIER. Tells Of Sacrifice Of His Life.
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SPAIN'S WRITERS OF ANCIENT RACE.
Miguel de Unmuno Noted Example.
'THE BASQUE TONE.
To the race that boasts the dis- tinction of being the oldest in. Europe, and that produced Ignatius. de Loyola and Saint Francis Xavier, belong many of the present-
popularity of late.
It
and novels, is also of
new
The Convalescent.
The
main character, Pedro
Being of a serious turn of mind, Mr. E. M. Nicholson, the English naturalist, sets the amateur bird student a number of purposeful tasks in his book, "The Art of In a fine spirit of wifely lef Bird Watching." To Mr. Nichol-votion and of appreciation of her! son the popular pastime of re-husband's ability, success and good fognizing birds and compiling qualities, Mrs. Bennett sends forth lists is a futile pursuit. He re-this little biographical, memorial of whose untimely commends detailed study of their the famous dier habits and the accumulation of use-death four years ago was an 'incal-|
day writers of Spain. The moet ful information about them. For culable loss to American aviation.
eminent of these is the mystic and ornithology is subject that still She writes of him and his achieve-
London. ing out into the night or the sun- lacks data.
ments with restraint and dignity
For some unknown reason the set or eternity. In one of Chaplin's philosopher, Miguel de Unamuno, After two preliminary chapters and keeps herself and her emotions about the technique of studying in the backgrounds. But enough question of characters in fiction has films this device was supremely and who was born in the teaming indus
It is begin-trial city of Bilbao. One of the birds Mr. Nicholson settles down to of her feeling in the great, tense been attracting unusual attention pathetically comic.
|| lately. Arthur Wellings predicts ning to be so in the fletion of to-day most widely known of the coterie career shows detailed discussion of certain moments of his
that if the novelists? habit of put-as well, but in a rather different problems and objects in ornithol-through to give her narrative a
ting each other into novels persists sense. "It is reality," remarks of Basque writers is the versatile jogy-the practical use of the bird warmer human appeal and to es- census, the relation of species to tablish a closer sympathy between they will soon have to park their Hamilton Fyfe, "which alone gives Pio Baroja, who first saw that light It is well guns in the hotel cloakroom before life to novels. This is why Jane in San Sebastian, in the province of terrain. the continuous observation her and her readers. of nests and broods, the problems that she has written the biography, they can be admitted to the annual Austen's fame increases, while
that of Walter Scott declines," Guipuzcoa. A newer favourite is of courtship, the changing phe- for the story of Floyd Bennett's dinner of the Authors' Society.
essential part
. St. John Ervine asserts that Dorothy Sayers believes that, Felix Urabayen, a native of Fam- nomena and the significance of life work. is an
of the history of aviation in this every reader of a novel, if he is to for every instance, of reckless risk plona, the capital of Navarra,
murderer in fiction, is worthy of note that the novels" of enjoy it, must be capable of imagin- taken by a The Art of Bird Watching" is untry, and it was needed to coming Amself as any of the persons criminologist could adduce three this region produced by Basque au- an austere volume about a sin-plete the record.
If he is bored it is because taken from real life, so fantastic in thers possess a tone quite distinct gularly beguiling subject. Like Mrs. Bennett traces his boyhood in it.
of his inability to do this.. Mr their improbability that no de from those offered by American many of his countrymen, Mr. Nich- development briefly, but tells en Ervine aleo pleads for the return of tective author would dare to use writers who have enjoyed so much olson has the faculty of applying ough to show how bare and pinch- the here to fletion. cold intellect to a subject with ed it was, how far it fell short of
Why, he asks, cannot "we have a
And The Times."
Jose Maria Salaverria, who has which he is deeply in love. Here what should be the right of every play or novel about people who ara In his able and sympathetic por-published travel impesalon, criti- he takes the love for granted and child. But the privations of a better, not worse, than we are? It trait of "Edmund Ruffin," says The cal essays writes for bird students who have poverty-stricken farm in Northern is surely better for a novel-reader Times Literary Supplement, Pro-Basque Lineage and in his also matured. . To most of them New York, with the consequent this "practical guide to field ob- akimped and hard-working child-or a playgoer to be able to look up fessor Avery Craven has done more book, "La Virgen de Aranzazu," peculiar to the servation" should be continuously hood, seem merely to have given to character than to have to look than recall the figure of his sub characteristics
ject: he has, with great art, recreat Basques may be noted. down upon him.
The novel stimulating. It is bristling with him inspiration and courage and Stella Benson confirms this ed the proud spirit of the South is of a placid and uncomplicated ideas. It provides a programme|
to have developed the strength and
opinion of the unheroic quality of that became madness and destroyed type told in the form of letters, but fur a popular science that is notori- steadiness of character that were fiction characters nowadays when all that it most loved. The is an excellent depiction of certain ously lacking in system.
among his outstanding qualities she remarks that a very great deal Manchester Guardian gives high phases of Basque life, especially of He came to aviation by way of in-of literary popularity is simply a praise to Roberta T. Swartz's "Lord the mysticism so dominant in the terest in automobiles and their
matter of successful (though usual-Juggler and Other Poema." Its Basque nature. motors, followed by work as `a Landsman mechanic in the Unitedly unconscious) calculation of the author is a poet of ideas, but she
She in-never vanity of the majority.
lets her mind cramp her States Navy, in which he quickly stanices several recent novels" which, vision. Her imagery is fresh and advanced to instruction in flying directly or indirectly, make the vital, and her verse has a After the war he served on the reader
texture Orozco, pathimself
illness. on the and design, a movement and à U. S. S. Richmond, one of the back. The Daily Telegraph's com-music of its own, and a lyric life monastery American navy's first airplane car-plaint ia a different one namely, of its own... In a News Chroni Aranzazu in the mountains above The Faulkner story "Miss Zilphia riers, and after five years there that modern novelists are not cle review of Meade Minnigerode's the village of Onate, in Guipuzcoa, Gant is published with an introduc- be was selected to accompany Com- happy unless they can double the "The Magnificent Comedy," D. C. to which swarm credulous devotees. tion by Professor Henry Smith of mander Byrd in charge of the mystery, of creation. Southern Methodist University in naval unit on Macmillan's Arctic bear the notion that characters may immensely for about fifty pages, by an old man
They cannot Somervell says he enjoyed the book Pedro stops at a mountain inn kept and his daughter Dallas. Dr. Smith, who casts a expedition in 1925, which was re- be simpler, not profounder, than] and then. got "fed up."" The Teresa.
The girl enjoys a local beam of light on the terrible me called before it had made the final they seem..
characters in Ann Pinchot's fame that almost rivals the pree- chanisms that move most of the effort to reach the North Pole.
"Guardian" Criticism.
"Shrine of Fair Women" are de-tige of the Virgin in her shrine. people in the Faulkner novels by
Byrd's Assistant.
Among miscellaneous comments scribed by The Glasgow Herald as She is one of these women whose contrasting the author's methods On this thwarted trip Byrd laid on modern fiction is a criticism an immense gallery that is faintly hair is of the shade that Titian with those of Meredith and Henry the plans and asked Bennett's col from a Manchester Guardian re- reminiscent of Arnold Bennett's Chose to paint and whose attrac- James, does well by this particular laboration for the famous airplane viewer, who wonders why so many "Imperial Palace." It regrets that tion for men is as, irresistible as story when he says "*** Faulk- journey across the North Pole the novelists think a clear-cut ending Miss Pinchot should have marred the magnet for the steel. The pair ner felt the remnants of Europe next year. Mrs. Bennett tells at inartistic. It seems
the fashion a very meritorious piece of realism meet under the lofty beech trees in America as unreal." Certainly considerable length the story of now to close with some figure walk-with a sentimental' ending.
and a good analysis of the develop- the father, mother and daughter in the successful flight she quotes
ment of love is given Both Pedro the slight "Miss Zilphia Gant are from her husband's diary and so cut off from any sustaining tradi- makes public for the first time his tion.
own account of that achievement.
pure and undefiled, they dream of a bliss unmixed with earthy: emo- Mrs. Gant, who kills her husband The rest of the too brief tile is
tions. However, Teresa la tor- when he is unfaithful, has never quickly told the co-operation with
mented by finding herself desired been further from home than the Commander- Byrd in preparation county seat and has never seen a for the flight to Paris in which
of all men who lay eyes upon her; the shepherd who comes down from moving picture or read a magazine. Bennett was to share, the accident She simply acts in a primitive out of which he came with a pune-
the beights and spends the night A comprehensive collection of
The sale of the Chester Beatty leaning on his crook gazing at her fashion; then proceeds to ruin her tured lung, a fractured rib, a frac- quotations is presented by John W. collection of Western manuscripts balcony; the guests at the inn; even daughter's life by a pathological-in-tured skull and a broken leg, and Horme, numbering over 2,500, deal-
had an · inauspicious beginning. the priests who chant the responses sistence that the girl must be pro- necessity
and of being laid up for ing with about 400 subjects tected from, ali men.
The story many weeks in a hospital, prepara- quoted from more than that many The first portion sold at Sotheby' in the divine service. It is torture has a sort of bare horror, achieved tory work with Byrd for the South authors: The compiler, so it is last month brought the unexciting for her to realize that as soon
she came into this mountain retreat by Faulkner's unerring use of the Pole expedition, and then the fate explained in a brief preface, has total of £28,058. To this should!
an atmosphere of sensuality began. right words.
(Continued at foot of next Column been a diligent reader throughout be added the £8,500 for which were to disturb the lives of the men who
of work 40 years
as pastor, hartered privately the six leaves had gathered to ponder upon mystic preacher, editor, teacher, and it has been his habit through all that time from the eighteenth-century Eng-ideals, Teresa retains her purity despite all. The end of the story to note down as he found it any lish Paalter by W. de Brailes. On is beautiful and melancholy, true in thought, sentence, paragraph that the basis of the estimated value of its psychology to the sombre and seemed to him to hold the power these important treasures this must meditative nature of the Basque. of uplifting the human spirit. In the preface to his book, "The dition. For the past fifty years Out of the consequent collection be regarded as a dismal showing. Art of the Foil," Signor maitres d'armes and prevots of the he has made this book.
The ex- All sorts of explanations will Barbasetti is at pains to point out Fencers Club in New York have cerpts are classified according to suggest themselves to the resource- that after teaching at the Italian been Frenchmen, and instructors subject and a table of contents lists Fencing Masters School in Rome in the service academies and "uni- the themes alphabetically.
ful bookman, First, of course, the
HONN WITH
Powerful Language Swings Story.
Famous Master Writes
Of The Foil
On Art
•
Is convalescing" from an He makes a journey to the of the Virgin of
LARGE COLLECTION BEATTY COLLECTION and Teresa wish their love to be
OF QUOTATIONS.
A Valuable Work By A Reader.
SOLD AT AUCTION. Relatively Small Sum For Famous Books.
and the Austro-Hungarian Central versities have, with rare excep- There is also an index of authors conditione of the times would tend
sale of any infor
Fencing School in Vienna, he was tions, likewise been French or filling seven pages, arranged al- to make the sale of any kind of
Different Hilts,
•
as
Lewis Carroll
Given Honours
a private Instructor in Paris. He French traited phabetically. They range through iterary property to-day a major This is the Carroll year, which is implies that personal observation This is, then, a manual which the centuries from Zoroaster and risk.
A corollary deduction would sufficient Justification for all sorts and experience in countries with ignores fleuret practice, concen- Salon to William Lyon Phelps, from different psychological back trating rather on instruction In Saint Ambrose to Voltaire, from be that the market is at present in- of tributes in the way of reprints, special articles and exhibitions in grounds have enabled him to ex-the use of the spada.
Marcus Aurelius to Daniel Webster, capable of absorbing large quanti-honour of his accomplishments. pound an unbiased theory of his |
from Ovid to Benjamin Franklin. ties of expensive books and manu- Douglas Cleverdon, the Bristol art, Of course, one accepts. the The spada differs from its Almost all are in prose, but now implication with a grain
Then the nature of the bookseller, contributes a delightful of salt. French congener, the epee, chiefly and then a short stanza, or a few scripts. Barbasetti learned his profession in the form of the hilt: like the lines from a poem, has crept in, Beatty collection was such as to brochure, Two Letters to Marion of maitre d'armer in Rome. What epes, it has a bell guard, but the For those who like to use quotations appeal to very special interests from Lewis Carroll, a first edition ever else he learned in Paris and hilt has the characteristic Italian it will be a useful book, and it among public and private libraries of two of his characteristic whim Vienna produced
no "basic change crossbar and arches, assuring a will offer many fascinations for Early manuscript Bibles, missals, sical épistles. The title page re- in his essentially Italian style. firmer grip and considerably re- those who enjoy piecemeal reading, psalters and books of hours are the produces in facsimile two silhouettes Indeed, while saying, a kind word ducing the possibility of disarming As a reference volume it will have pursuit of the privileged few, and showing Carroll and the little girl for the Beuret (the French foil) as during an masanit..
when one speaks of currents in the "on bowing, terms, a recreation, a healthy sport, he
book market this feld of collecting This pamphlet is limited to 800 Fencers who use the apes denies its efficacy as training for spada (whether they be amateurs fui journey on which he rushed by is naturally about the last to be coples, of which 100 are for" sale:
or professional instructors) will airplane, to carry succour to the considered, shillings each. The Weapon. Too Heavy. find this concise manual with its fliers of the Bremen, and died of And yet by the same token we letters themselves are offered by When a fencer accustomed to the many line-cut illustrations a pneumonia in the hospital at have come to regard such exclusive Mr. Cleverdon together with a pre fleuret grasps the heavier and more practical guide to the fine points Quebec April 25, 1928. Many branches of the book game as more sentation copy of "Alice" (sixtieth businesslike spee. he finds himself as the general theory. Fleuret honours came to enim for his or less impervious to changing thousand, 1879) inscribed unable to handle it with the same fencers will find it almost equally achievements and more have been economic condition. Their value half-fitle, Marion from all. The Italian fencer, on the usefu
was believed to be in inverse pro- Author.
August for the technique of at- added to his memory.
The little book.
portion to their diminishingnum-flouri how a other hand, habituated to the use
fense and counter-attack:
deserved ther spada (save for
same.
serious combat.
button
much value.
or
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