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MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1933.
BOOK REVIEW
IVAN THE TERRIBLE.
[By Stephen Graham. (Benn 18/-).
We do not recommend this book or to to those with weak nerves
"A STUDY IN CREATIVE HISTORY."
THE CHINA MAIL.
IN HONOUR OF HAUPTMANN.
State Stipend For Creative Writers.
Berlin.
The Gerhart Hauptmann celebra- tions attending the poet's seven-
["The interaction of Eastern and ftieth birthday found their climax in Western Peoples to 500 B.C." the announcement that the Prus by O. E. Burton M.A. (NZ)sian State has decided to award an (pub. George Allen and Unwin
annual Gerhart Hauptmann stipend Ltd., 10/6).]
to one or more literary men whose
In the Preface and Foreword of
.
BAILEY'S THRILLER ON MARKET.
Complication of Plot Skilful.
The Red Castle, by H. G. Bailey, has just been published.
Mr. Bailey's name as an accop- table writer of detective fiction has
come
to be associated with that prince of detectives, the chubby, faced Mr. Fortune, and the lover of that class of literature might be in-.. clined to regret the fact that Mr.
"The Arnative to Communism," praises the best form of govern-1
by G. Pape. At Cecil ment: the Self-Government. Finally Palmr; price 2/6. 126 pages.]the essentials of the N.P.F. are This if a new Crusade-declares recapitulated in 7 points and fol- the authr. Crusade against the lowed by a "call to all Wise three benemies of civilisation: Patriots," to join the Fellowship,- unemplement, war and communiam."such will get on with the job." In order to defeat this three-headed dragon Mr. Pope suggests the
this admirable book the author struggle to live through the period Fortune is missing from this latest foundation of a New Political Fel lowship (non party), any member
anys:
of their creative work should be novel. He need have no fear. Su- of thi N.P.F. offering "his own
"The writer has aimed at pro-lightened at least for the period of perintendent Bell, Mr. Fortune's persand labour of Head, Heart and
ducing a work which will enable the twelve months.
coadjutor, is here, and with him Hand, so that with others of like mind, fe shall be organised, locally, persons who suffer from nightmare,erious reader to get a reasonably. These awards will only be made Mr. Clunk, that hymn-singing lover nationaly and Internationally... for Mr. Graham spares the reader clear comprehension of the main
they with the consent of Hauptmann of sweetmeats and defender of the this dividual assent being an few horrors as he tells his tale of movements of thought as
Private circles have al-criminal classes, who in his pre- antidote to unemployment, war and murder, rape, torture and gigantic emerge cleanly into history. No himself.
of vious appearance in Mr. Bailey's communism.
massacres. Yet shocking as the attempt has been made to deal with ready subscribed the amount One this organisation realised, recital is, we are not told the worst any thinking that cannot be demon fifty thousand marks (£2,500 at pages proved himself quite as able a detector of the criminal as ever Istrated by reference to authenticat- humar civilisation: Education, Art as the author. more than once, as if
par). Hauptmann expressed him was Mr. Fortune. ed source manuscripts.. and Music will develop and their himself sickened, informs us that he
"In the opinion of the writer the self as more than delighted with To tell the plot of a detective development will produce "active leaves the rest to be imagined. outstanding developments prior to this birthday gift, more even than story is but poor service to the au- race Harmony." A vast co-operation Ivan IV, later surnamed the Ter-1600 B.C. were the emergence of the
thor, and it must suffice to say that is needed to carry out this utopia rible, was born in 1630 when Russia Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda-by the award of the official gold in this book Mr. Bailey has lost of a happier and more beautiful was beginning to emerge from bar-iam in Persia, of Brahminism and, madel for services rendered to the none of his skill in complications, future of humanity.
bariam.. Some students of history subsequently, Buddhism In India, state, which militarist Prussia has while that pretty humour "which The first step to take is a re- will say the emergence is not yet and of Confucianiam in China... awarded to art er letters only once enjoyment and boredom in the thril- makes all the difference between organisation of our educational sys- completed. Bred in an atmosphere "Throughout, the attempt has tem; the schools must become of suspicion, tyranny, superstition been made to select such themes as before. This first recipient was ler is here in full measure. "international, co-educational, self-and cruelty, Ivan, as a youth, show-Jare of importance to subsequent Max Liebermann, the eighty-year- governing." We are in need of aled that he could out-tartar the interaction.... The writer believes old painter.
healthy and happy new generation, Tartars in the refinement and scale that at about 500 B.C. the stage The trag!-comedy: of the present always willing to help his neighbour of his cruelties, and at the age of was set for international action dual government in Prussia has in the spirit of the N.P.F.
eighteen we find him applying oilWhat has happened since and what
Citizenship."to relate, restrained his blood-lust
Besides the essays of Mr. A. G. and netting fire, to the heads and is happening to-day is largely con never been as clearly revealed as Pape, "The Alternative to Com-long beards of an embassy. Then ditiofied by the philosophies of life in the fact that both the man in muniam" contains a Symposium, on came a change. He married the that had been worked out by that actual power, Dr. Bracht, sot up as the general subject "Constructive saint-like Anastasia who, marvellous date.
Commissioner by Herr von Papen and Co-operative
"This book aints, above every-in the name of the central govern- The articles are written
by for thirteen years. After her death thing else, at setting out in clear Nicholna Murray Butler, Preal- Ivan seems to have gone mad, cut-form the ideas formulated by an-ment of the Reich, and Otto Braun, of Columbia University doing Nero, Caligula and Helio-cient schools of thought which are Premier of the deposed, but legally (Wanted: a Man with a Pian), by gabalun in his megalomanica! ex-either of definite influence on men still existing government; together Miss Esson Maule (The Political; cesses Ile suspected everyone, and affairs to-day, or which have with his Minister of Culture; sent Evolution of Women), by the Rt. slaughtered and tortured wholesale, profoundly influenced other major Hon. George Lansbury M.P., fur- and, as in the exs of Novgorad, philosophies that have emerged Hauptmann the official parchment ther: The Need for Parliamentary massacred. over fifty thousand in- since 600 B.C."
document announcing the award of Reform by Arthur Kitson, who nacert citizens and gloated over
dent
requires a certain qualification for their agonies for no better reason This most interesting book comes the state medal. But the state scal future M.P.a. stating that "piloting than a groundless suspicion. Yet from New Zealand. It is said that, was upon that signed by Dr. Bracht the Ship of State is surely a far he was not wholly mad. Between with no bombast nor any silly talk only. This was also accompanied more important and more difficult his fits of cruelty and religion he of "hundred per cent. he-men," the
to become by the medal. The Otto Braun tic liner." Mr. Kitson also pre- and by conquering Kazan began the the white race of the future. They government expressed its feelings tends that the present political long process of Russianising the made a fine start by achieving by attending the Hauptmann play leaders failed because of their Casplan region and driving the Mo- the lowest infantile death rate in
at the People's Theatre instead of education in old and out-of-date hammedans from Eurons. Though the world. Now intelligent people doctrines of orthodox and pre-war not quite so successful in securing with sturdy bodies are worth de that at the State Theatre on the Hauptmann him- schools. Lord Tavistock writes a Baltic port for Europe he pre-, veloping, but unless there is some birthday night.
task than that of steering an Atlan-was a cold, calculating statesman, New Zealanders intend
about the "Essentials of a Sound pared the way, here as in other di-thing more, something greater, self tactfully divided his time bo- Economical Policy," Brig General rections, for Peter the Great. ⚫some touch with the past they cani
R. B. D. Blakeney, D.S.O. requires This volume. which should be only degenerate into self-conscious tween both performances.
a "Resultant Practical Policy" and read along with and before the "uplift" and disastrous sentiment-
C. Jinarajadasa explains bia ideas same author's "Peter the Great," is allty,
about "God's Party."
a psychological aludy revealing If "A study in Creature History" "The Alternative to Communism": Russian fatalism and the why and is a fair sample of New Zealand's is concluded by some final deduc- wherefore of much that seems per-scholarship and of the spirit behind tions of Mr. Pape; he explains the plexing in Muscovite history. But, New Zealand's development, we of right attitude of the idea! member as we remarked before, it is not a the Old Country need not worry of the New Political Fellowship and tome for the squeamish to open. The torch passes into capable hands.
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