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MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1933.
LITERARY NOTES
PRE-WAR
MEMORIES
Glancing Back By William O'Mal-
HOWARD SPRING'S
GUIDE TO THE NEW BOOKS.
THE CHINA MAIL
LONDON
NIGHTS
Twice Round the London Clock and More-London Nights · Ey Ste-
BULGARIA: WHERE EAST IS WEST.
A Fascinating Travel- Book.
*For My Children." By Kitty Shan- Spain for background. A good tale
lof its sort. non. (Hutchinson, 185.).
phen Graham (Benn. 128. 64). Where East is West. By Henrietta Under The Fog. Kitty Shannon is the daughter of
Those who enjoyed "London Leslie. (Jarrolds. 215.). ley. (Wright and Brown. 128 J. J. Shannon, the artist, who died "For" By Elizabeth Ford (Chap Nights" will find this volume great- 6d.).
To give a really useful portrait man and Hall, 78. Ed.). -
ly to their liking. In the course of of a country, without writing either There is a spate of Parliamen- ten years ago. She has written
In the prologue Felicity laments a dozen sketches Mr. Graham deft a guide-book or a historico-geogra this book in order that her children tary memories at present, and any
tion.
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child.
Even nearer Heaven. Even the lunatic
The author's warm sympathies
amount of contemporary moralis may know something of her father that nothing happens in her village. ly traces throughout twenty-four phical (and duly unreadable): trea-| ing, but nobody seems to have not-jand mother and of the sort of life Then fog.comes down, and thingbours the many and varied. phases tise is no easy task; · The brilliance ed how much the Irish Nationalists che herself lived when she was a begin to happen with a vengeance of metropolitan. activity, ranging of Henrietta Leslie's account" |
In Mr. Somerset Maugham's story from early morning bathing in the Bulgaris must be judged, not by the have been missed at Westminster, The "Jacker" says that the book the rain brought out all that was Serpentine to the less enchanting if only from the standpoints of en- tertainment and personal associa will make those of us who are worst in people: but fog, as Miss but typical "Late Studio Party amount of information which she young realise with something of a Ford sees it might be a muffe of Among the further score devoted has managed to cram into her One of the most popular figures shock that our parents had just as angel's wings. It purifies every" to "More London Nights" the sket-Pages, but by the exceedingly un of the group was the author of this gay and good a time then as we one it envelops; and before the ches descriptive of East-end life Pretentions and cheerful way, in book, brother-in-law of the late have now. Those of us who are fog-curtain rises for the epilogue readily surpass the less spontan which it is all imparted.
Very few people in England are so young will wonder why to be spoken everybody has done eous treatment of sophisticated interested in Bulgaria-one of the "T. P." and many years member not
there should be any shock about it. his good deed and is a day's march pursuits nearer Piccadilly..... tiresome Balkans, which behaved for Connemara.
Until he retired to his native As "good a time," ladeed} soll, he had many links with Lon-so naive a book as the present one who got loose and is realistically for the great city are delightfully very improperly during the war, a don journalism and business life, makes it clear that there was a se described stabbing person after revealed in two concluding sections country of peasants, bandits, bar- and it is mainly around these three renity about those days that nothing person with a carving-knife on Twenty Years in Scho" and barism, and dreary politics.
found to have been only imagining The London that, I Love." Illus country brimful of romance and "Where East is West presents a Interests politics, Flect-street, now compensates for.
that he was doing those things. All trations by Mr. Rick Elmes contr history, modera co-operative move This is, necessarily, a partial pic-he did was to knock the stuffing out bute to the rarely fagging enter ments, semi-mystical folk rites, vo and commerce--that bis recollec tions hang.
ture, life from a narrow angle, but |
of some cushions.
tainment of Mr. Graham's studies, Jubility, good humour and intense One of his best stories relates to it hints of very lovely things and And that, I fear, in what Miss
Others besides experts in train the late King Edward's visit to the recreates many of the amusing and Ford has accomplished, too,
national spirit. lore are likely to appreciate the west of Ireland, when at Letterfrack distinguished people who were in
Occasionally in the book ́oze pen-picture of the morning "rueh three cheers were raised for the Shannon's set,
hour" at London's principal termini,gar's affinity with "Uncle Ivan,” as
comes across evidence of the, Bul King and heartily given.
The Artist Talks.
tor MacClure. (Harrap, though the vigilant reader may aug Russia is still called. “Artists at Work."
6d.). Edited by
gest that passengers from New
Could anything be more dellc- Archie Burford is the sort of nice Southgate should arrive at King lously Chehovian than the young Stanley Casson. (Harap, 58.) This is a series of dialogues con-young man of the "officer class" cross, not Liverpool-street! Mr. Lord Carson told the author of an incident that occured at a Ham- ducted between Mr. Casson and whom Lord Trenchard is anxious Graham captures perfectly the to- man who stopped the tourists at go to introduce to the police force. He lerant spirit of Hyde Park on Sun-the road side. "Could you," he re- quested in a low, anxious voice, burg hotel years ago, when an el- some artists. "How do you
no less than the derly stranger came and addressed about it? What are your difficul-has appeared in others of Mr. Mac-day afternoon,
ties? What are you trying to get Clure's novel; and it would be ples epic cheerfulness which unassum morning I was in the hills, and I give me a tablet of aspirn? This
Elm.
at? Tell me, a one who knows sant to think that Lord Trenchard ingly investa "visiting time" at a ""Pardon me," said the gentle-
had read all about him and was so famous hospital. man. 'I heard someone mention very little about it,"
That is Mr. Casson's role. For impressed that he said "that's the of Carson, and I amj
we want Certainly it is wondering if you are the son of sculpture, Mr. Frank Dobson pro- stuff
the stuff fiction-renders want. the answers: for painting. old Carson, the Solicitor-Genex-vides
Before they died out a woman in the crowd shouted, "and three cheers, too, for Mrs. King"
the name
al."
Scotland Yard Stuff, "Death Behind the Door." By Vic
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Mr. Albert Rutherston; for por Burford is negligent as a poodle, No, I am not, was the reply, trait painting, Mr. Edward Halli-keen as a hound, tenacious as a
PLEASANT ROMANCE.
but I am old Carson himself." day; for etching and engaving. Mr. bulldog, each as circumstances dic- Grey Sheep. By Ralph Rodd. (Cas The author leaves us in no doubt Henry Rushbury. It makes a sti-tate; and in this latest appearance concerning his views regarding the mulating little book that leaves he has a pretty tangle to consider. ominous fate of Ireland unless she us wiser than it found us. soon comes to her senses.
AN AMERICAN ROMANCE.
"Second - Hand Wife.
Mrs. Norris always writes plea santly, and her stories, though sea timental, give one an idea of how ordinary Americans live thir lives. In "Second Hand Wife" the first: wife of Carter Cavendish 18
Salad of Memories.
("Heyday"," By C. P. Hawkes.
(Methuen, 12s. 6d.):
about at the time.
order.
Dutch Translation.
saw a bear. I've had a dreadful headache ever since. I should be (much obliged for a tablet of aspir-
THE
1933
Literature and the arts are stifl," lowing to the poverty of the coun- (try, struggling for recognition, though ruang English writers are sell. 7. 6d.).
popular among the intelligentsia. There is an old-fashioned touch There is one conspicuous omission. Mr. Burford is rapidly earning at of romance about, this story which Bernard Shaw has never been for honourable place in that gallery of leaves a pleasant impression in the given by the Bulgars for "Arma paper detectives who now outnum- mind. It concerns the love of a and the Man." ber the official forces of law and maid for a man who confessed to
Interweaving many pleasant le- her at the point of death his comreads and amusing little incidents, Mr. Hawkes calls his book u "xa-]
plicity in an injustice. Of course, the author conducts one from Sofia lad of memories and impressions."The Life of Admiral de Ruyter." he did not die, and equally. of to Ploodiv, Rilo, Samokov, Pernik, He has travelled fur in time and
By Professor P. Blok, translat-course, the injustice did not end the famous Valley of Roses, and space,
ed from the Dutch by G. J. Be there. All the world knows what Varna without once being dull or He begins with his undergrad- nler, Benn, 216).
happened when the devil got verbose. This is a very fascinat uate days at Cambridge. The Bar, De Ruyter, who served under the well."
ing travel-book acting, and art all at different great Tromp and at last supersed- But the maid got her man, times claimed his attention. Heled him, was in command of the money, lands, and all for, having has travelled and soldiered; and Dutch fleet which made the memor Imagined the Injustice, Mr. Rodd wherever he has happened to be he able raid to the mouth of the Med-just as ingeniously contrives Its "God in the Slums" has sold 20} 15" has had the knack of meeting the way.
removal. Most of the people in the editions in a little over two years. most interesting people who were The telling of his story has per-book are happy ever after, and the The twentieth edition completes
mitted Professor Blok to spread reader is grateful for an hour quita 20,000 coples. The book is packed with stories. fine panorama of the middle years pleasantly spent. There is a good one about the pre-of the 17th century. The life of parently typical of many American posterous Oscar Browning intro- the Dutch, afloat and ashore, is
nothing women, who care
ducing himself to Tennyson. "I'm palated in as a vital background to
and' attitude to life, had more than
Dennis Gwynn's "De Valera" is a of Jarrolds book. a touch of Oliver Cromwell.
Certain facts Two other biographies worth at Mr. de Valera's life, the Loudon: Foran (Rutchinson, 188.). įtention are. "A Very Gallant Gen-"Observer" says, such as that his Major Foran has been a big-tleman," the life of Captain Oates, father was Spanish, that he was Physically, they were all alike, game hunter for thirty years, and of the Antarctic expedition, by L. born in New York, and that he was starved into one mould of beauty, in this book he tells of some of his C. Bernacch! (Thornton Butter-imprisoned three times in eight them werth, 8s. 6d.); z 1d "Charles Par-years, are common knowledge. Mr. flatbreasted, carefully curled of experiences and illustrates
sons," the famour engineer, by Rol-Gwynn also describes; policy in dạ hair, carefully rouged, painted with good photographs.
'tail Such energy
It is clear that life has offered to lo Appleyard (Constable, 15s-), and clipped. their sports, gymnasium work, Major Foran more breathless mo- and card games left them was for mente than come to most of us; other men than their husbands and if he could have it all over The bloom had left the legitimate again, he tells us, he would make relationship years before; they only one little change. discussed their affaire marital, take a camera instead of a ride. and otherwise, quite frankly, de
about!
their money. can supply. Most of Browning" Tennyson looked at him the bluff sailor who, in appearance. the women in Mrs. Cavendish's set coldly and said: "You are not." .were like herself, caring for nothing
Big. Game Book. and nobody but themselves.
Mrs. Norris gives the following unpleasant picture of their activi
tives:--
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whether a divorc or another child
would best accomplish the desired
end of travel, more clothes, more; allowance.
"Kill or Be Killed By W. Robert
He would
The Dance Hostess,
Cartland.
64.).
"DE VALERA".
THE ANNALS OF NEWGATE
18.).
bating between bridge hands "Just Off Piccadilly," By Barbara The Old Bailey. By Albert Crew. Criminal Court the name of the (Hutchinson, 178.j (Ivor Nicholson and Watson. Dean of the Arches (Sir Lewis-Dib din), appears Immediately after The story of Peggy, a "dance The story of the Old Bailey might those of the High Court Judges and hostess" who lived on the fringes almost be regarded as the story of before the Alderman. It will pre- Carter Cavendish himself longed of London's luxury life and finally criminal jurisprudence in this bably be news to most people that for some affection, and gradually entered in through its front door. country. There was a gaol at Now it should appear there it all, fell in love with a beautiful girl in Barbara Cartland knows the gate in 1193. Through the succeed though reflection on the part the his 'office,
night-club, the restaurant, the gaie-ing centuries high tragedy has Church once played in our judicial
His wife eventually divorced him,jty and the glitter of London walked hand in hand with tardy system suggests a reason.
Mr. Crew is very happy in hie and the "second-hand" wife reigned through and through, and they are prison reform and a judical system in her stead. A much kinder, more 'presented here in all their hideous developing slowly. The handsome minute sketches of many past and sympathetle woman, the one inadequacy. The men and women building which stands in the Old present personalities of the court; scrumpled rose-leaf in their happi- in the book are little more than Bailey. now-it was new in 1907 very biting in his scorn at the ness was the loss of their child, and puppets to implement the fable. An typifies the changes from ancient ghoolish type of women who crowd the fact that the first Mrs. austerer writer would hardly have usage. No longer are trials do-the building for certain classes of Cavendish refused to give up her ended Peggy's Odyssey by giv-minated by the atmosphere of the cases; very enlightening and lueld chiki, Patsy, not because she cared ing her, for reward, the entree to a gaol, for the gaol has disappeared, la his out-lines of, and reflections for her particularly, but because she world which she had learned so Wa have a judicial system as near on, some famous modern trials. hoped to exploit, "her as a musical thoroughly to distrust."
perfection as it is humanly possible There can be few people to whom genius.
his book will fail to be intensely to make it It is a curious story, showing up "The Figure 'on the Terrace.” By A. Mr. Crew has devoted a warm en-informative and interesting. certain not too pleasant aspects of American marriage.
A
INDIFFERENCE TO WORLD CRISIS,
Complaint In Daily Herald.
· --' · Old Fashioned Novel:
"POETS IN BRIEF"
R. and R. K. Weekes. (Ward thusiasm for his subject, and an Lock, 7. Gd.)Y KUNYA Immense industry, to this review of Charles was a sort of Valentino, the history of the successive courts,
Grabbe was the subject of one 50 damnably good-looking that his of the people who were famous in thought him too handsome to be secretary of the Bar Mess, presum- looks were bis tragedly. People them, if the trials notorious, As of the late George Salatsbury's delightful articles in "Macmillan”. good. In reality, he was almost tos ably he had access to many ex-long ago, and Professor Saints good to be true.*
clusive sources of information, and bury's criticism, though the Eng- Seving that he was quarrelling he has made the very best of them ish, was sometimes Involved Was with his rich uncle when the shat Gisly Reading, neser negligible. Crabbe is one of was heard, and the revolver found The result in a sometimes grim, two new posts in "Poets in
Broth on the terrace was his, what more ly fascinating book, packed with in- Roger Pippett, in The Daily natural than that he should be sus- formation much of which is of an Herald, joins his valce with those pected of the murder? He got unexpected kind. Büch, for^ In- "LETTERS FROM-ENGLAND. who have been accusing, our con- away with it. and then the ques- stance, as the fact that the re temporary, novelists of utter in-tion arose: "Whons was the my building of Newgala Gaol in 1428 Karel, Capela difference to a world in crisis, sterious figure seen on the terrace was paid for entirely eat of money land" and "Letters from Spain" We have seen more of the great when the revolver was firad?". The left by Richard Whittington to be are popular books. "Letters from slump, he says, in a single reel of authors make a good old-fashioned devoted to charity for the good of England" sold well in England last a second-rate American film than novel of it, complicated with tenne his soul And that in the table Christmas. "Letters from Holland" we have glimpsed in 5,000 tales. knots, and having England and of Commissioners of the Centrál is one of Faber's book
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