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Book Reviews.
["Nymphs and Satirea" by Rachel
Ferguson, (Benn) 7/6 net.]
THE CHINA MAIL.
In "Nymphs and Satires" Rachel Ferguson has great fun with the twentieth century and its person- alities. The volume consists of a collection of well-aimed hits at our theatres and playwrighta, novels and novellats, art and artista. critics and politicians, low courts and empor- luma-in fact no outstanding cole-
Gripping Story
War Prisoner
Of
Yeats-Brown Follows His "Best-Seller"
WITH BLOODY YEARS
NEW NOVEL BY
VICKI BAWM.
FAMOUS AUTHOR OF
GRAND HOTEL.”
Some Hints of Future Joy
Sir Rerinell Rodd says of Salan- dra, the Italian statesman, that he was of sterling character and well- An oddly old-fashioned flavour balanced mind," and that he led characterizes the current Vicki
Baum: novel,. "Secret Sentence," his country at a moment when derived from the story's preoccupa many hesitated. He says this in a tion with an ancient theme and from memoir which he contributes to the seeming remoteness of its peo Salandra's own account of Italy's ple-despite a post-war German
setting from contemporary times. action in regard to the Great War. The protagonist, Joachim, is a Ber-It is about to be published in Eng lin law student affiliated with a lish by Edward: Arnold, and it
Writing a sequel to a best-seller shend ride in triumph into the city secret political society that uses will contain many fresh war brity, feature or observance of the is probably almost as trying as of the Caliphs." Actually, as the violence to remove high-placed gov lights.
of a famous father. aeroplane in which he was a passen-ernment officials. Strongly in-
too eminent to ridicule.
►
There is a caricature on every page of "Nymphs and Satires," it is a lighthearted, high-spirited joke at the expense of our time.
J. P.
premises a packet of "Letters From: witty, as well as observant and wise, and Faber says that the drawings which accompany them are inimitable..
day escapes a leg-haul from this being the son
If the author repeats the devices ger touched the ground, he had fluenced by an elder member of the
Mr. Shaw's Life scintillating Biterary mimic.
used in the former book be will be eaten his "last meal as a free man society, the weak-willed Joachim Mr. Bernard Shaw's literary The analytical, psychological, mo accused of imitating himself; if he for two and a half years" The plans alone and carries out the friendship with his American blo- dern novel which expends a dozen does not repeat them some of his wing of the aeroplane splintered assassination of a benevolent grapher, Mr. Archibald Hender pages on the mental reactions of the readers may imagine that he has against a telegraph post, and a Cabinet Minister. The police are son, will, it is gathered, be fully re- principai character (we don't have sold thom his goods under false swarm of Arabs arrived with so at once on Joachim's trail and,flected in a coming work by the heroes and heroines nowadays) to a protences. In "Bloody Years" Mr. menacing a mien that Mr. Yeats-without funds or appointed refuge, latter on the former. It is quite trifling every-day occurrence is Yeats-Brown selected a point about Brown hopes that he will "never be ho fees the city, takes to the road apart from Dr. Henderson's well- burlesqued to perfection in the midway between the two horna of so extremely frightened again." and fast sinks to the level of tramp known life of Mr. Show, and will "Missing Link" chapter the phase the dilemma. The "Bengal Lancer"
Blood-Thirsty Turks.
and casual laborer.
contain much entirely new mater- for school-life "revelations and ex- was notable both for the speed and Taken to Bagdad, the observer
For years, sometimes barely ealal. Especially it will give us the posures" also receives the sparkling vividness of its narrative portions and his pilot were apat upon and caping capture, Joachim drifta from cream of a correspondence which attention of Miss Ferguson's pen-and for its touches of the mystic narrowly escaped being killed by a town to town, often starying, work- has taken place between the two and her skits on the Memoires of and occult. "Bloody Years" does snarling crowd which thirated for ing at this rude job or that, all the men for more than a quarter of Lady Oxford and Asquith and the not entirely ignore Yogi-ism, al- their blood. Afterward they learn while experiencing within himself a century. hot-blooded, stolen-moment, hour-of-though the references to it seem at ed that the Turks believed they had the dire punishment and purifying
Prague Author. love passages of Ellnor Glyn's times to have been dragged in by dropped bomba on the mosque of explation of his crime. Finally, effusions make stimulating and the hair of their heads. It in- Kazimain. From Bagdad they were after interminable wanderings, he ful volume of letters about Eng
Not long ago we had a delight- amusing reading.
cludes, as the former book did not, taken to Mosul, to a prison from settles down in a Baltic fishing villand by Mr. Karel Capek, the Fra The writer's humour is the more a considerable portion-about one whose windows they could see the lage, where, among the simple gue author. He has also set down aatisfactory because it is malicious! third of the volume-devoted to his mounds of Nineveh and the tomb of passant folk, he finds peace 'and without being spiteful and because torical events in which the author Jonah. It was a prison in which full redemption. The somber story
his impressions of Spain in the her darts are aimed at personalities had no part and the first person captive British soldiers were dying is effectively and convincingly told me way, and now, it is learned, he he harmed by is not used. Primarily it is a nor-like flies, "huddled together on the but fails to evoke a compelling in Hollans," They are amusing and
rative of adventure, and of adven-damp flagstones of a dark cellar, terest in the fate of the principal, a ture of an Intensely interesting sort. deprived of all fresh air and some flow which inevitably neutralizes
Graphic Writing. ·
times kept without food for days." the book's otherwise skillful work The story of the Turkish Empire Next they were marched to Aleppo, manahlp. from 1908 to 1915, with which Mr. where both fell ill of fevor, and Yeats-Brown begins his book, ia from there to Aflonkarahisaar, In graphically told, and with a good the heart of Anatolia, the treatment| many details which are certainly accorded them depending on the ["High Days and Holidays" by not familiar to the average reader. character of the Turkish officers The still blue dusk of winter
Eleanor Graham. (Benn) 6/- The pictures of Abdul Hamid, the into whose power they came. There Creeps along the quiet street,
concubine, Meste Alem, and the were other prisoners--an English- A row of poplars stand, The calendar is full of High Days members of the Sultan's council man who had been picked up at Like slim harps against the sky, and Holidays each with their own are dramatically drawn, and drama- Gallipoli for dead and built into a Awaiting the touch of the wind peculiar customs and superstitions,tic, too, is the account of the fall of Turkish trench, where he revived To set them into singing,
"good, kind old Father Hamid" and somewhat deafened because "his ear The long, cool fingers of the wind Eleanor Graham tells us all about! them in a simple and interesting the rise of the Young Turks; the had formed the base of a loopholes" To awaken music of an older fashion which cannot fail to appeal Balkan wars, the assassination at a boy of 19 who had been bayoneted to children. Her book abounda with Sarajevo, and the involvement of twenty-seven times, sailors from a useful suggestions for juvenile on-Turkey in the World War. But the submarine which had been caught Suddenly a child's laughter tertainment, and any mother would consuming, interest of Mr. Yeats for twenty-four hours in an do well to observe the way in which Brown's narrative begins on "a day obstruction in the Dardanelles. the Rose family celebrated Stin November, 1915, when an ob Valentine's Day and Hallowe'en and server in the Royal Flying Corps even Pay Day (any Saturday!) and came swooping down out of the akles how they spent an unusual Summer of Mesopotamia in an attempt to cut holiday and beguiled a convalescence a telegraph line leading to Bagdad." after mumps.
It was at this point that the ad- ventures of the "Bengal Lancer". "High Daya and Holidays" is a feast of quaint information palat ended and the adventures of Mr. ably prepared for the consummation of war in Turkey began. He had Yeats-Brown as a British. prisoner
of the young.
net.]
-J. P.
["Land and Labour in China" by
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"looked forward to seeing Town- WAR'S REALISM CAPTURED.
Striking Book On Given Praise.
quantity of facts and statistics put The tide of war-books is on the forth without embellishment, and its ebb, but for that reason it is the text is mainly an analysis of the more likely how to deposit on the economic and industrial problems of shore-and the bookshelf--some of the Chinese agriculturist, unem- the treasures of that deep experi- broidered by interest or incident. ence. I have just found one of them For the student in search of facts in "The Land-Locked Lake," writes and figures it is a useful complica a reviewer. In the opening pages I was deterred rather than enticed by the style, with its mixture of nar- rative forms and occasional strain- ing for effect. But as I penetrated farther I was amply repaid for the effort.
tion.
J. P.
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BRITAIN'S GREAT ARCHITECT.
London celebrated the 800th an niversary of the birth of Sir Chris topher Wren recently. Impressive services for the great architect are held in his own St. Paul's Cathe dral where, above his tomb, the legend reads you would see his monument, look around you.
He rébullt London after the 1668 fire.Palaces, hospitals and libraries he contrived, but the world knows him best for his churches in America
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Twice Yeats-Brown escaped and twice was, recaptured, and his ex- perience at these times make thrill ing reading.
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