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MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1933.
MR. HUGH WALPOLE'S "HANSARD"
CHRONICLE OF HERRIES FAMILY ENDS
NEW BOOKS OF THE MONTH
(By Howard Spring.)
On page 136 of "The Snows of genealogical table puta them all un Helicon." by H. M. Tomlinson parade, and it is almost as impres-
when the tattoo ends at Aldershot. Before he was 20 be left his na- (Hinemann, 78. Ed.). Bert Byles,e as the final muster in the arena
to Mr.
"Write an account of a family or tive city of Las Ramblas, in the the bo'sun, speaks thus province of Cordova, to find oc-Travers, the architect: "What did a county and find out where the cupation on a Madrid paper 08 ro-
you know of mep and women? crises of the human spirit he," says porter. Ultimately he became
one of the characters in "Vanessa." editor. In 1907 he founded, with Nothing. Not enough to count your the late Blasco Ibanez, a Republi- change at a coffee stall.”
beaten, is victorious, encounters its can paper called "El Pals," and And firmly but respectfully we two chief enemies, greed and feur, was frequently arrested and im-repeat those words to Mr. Tomlinson 18 encouraged to extend into some- prisoned for sedition.
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That is the kind of history Mr. Walpole has set himself to write in these four big volumes. This last one is marred for me by a consider.
to
than He is now 73, and the oldest sur. himself. So far as his novels have thing wider, grander, nobler
itself. Shakespeare knew that that vivor of the Spanish Republican shown us-and so far as this novel was the only kind of history." movement of last century.
in particular shows us-Mr. Tomlin- be 1 Bon was never intended to novelist: he knows, in his work nothing of men and women.. Men able flaw. and women, after all, are the novel- It concerns the love of Vanessa iist's bedrock.
may be and Benjie, who knew they were on born for each other. Vanessa's re- built up. if it is not founded
lative Ellis wanted her marry these, is not a novel.
Having said that, let me add that him; but the marriage with Benjie there is no writer to whom I would is arranged. Then Benjie, who is A motorist was held up in D
to Mr.. represented as a young heil-hound country lane by a farm wagon jailow larger liberties than
Tomlinson. This vague adumbra-who had raked the depths of dark loaded with a fine lot of cabbages.
After hooling in vain, he leaned tion of a story, held together by experience all over the world, allows over the side of the car and shout-symbols rather than persons, hus ahimself as meekly as you please to grandeur that the most triumphant be trapped into marriage by a fifth- ed:
"I say there, driver, pull into the novelist might fail to achieve, and raté designing minx for whom
of utterance didn't care a hoot. side of the road and let me pass" occasionally a power
"I dunne that I'm in a hurry," that archangels might envy,
How Mr. Quirke, who, at one mo. said the farmer.
"But you seemed to be in a hur- ment is a Liverpool florist, comes in seclusion invaded by an insistentry to let that horge and trap go by the next to be darkly implicated, in with Ellis seems a piece of manu- International finance: why Mr. But though there is this crack beli to which courtesy or despera- just now," said the motorist an-New York, in doubtful schemes of factured gloom.
Travers, so passionately loving his right across the face of the picture, successfully and the detail is as lively as in the other wife, should so
outside volumes. The social scene is there needlessly remain always the sphere of her seeking: what the the books and plays and pictures, marvellously-described attack on the balls and great occasions. We South American train and the sub-meet Mr. Oscar Wilde and hear of
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But the grily.
"That's because hie horse WAB saving of time in dealings with
exling my cabbages," replied the and con- farmer; there ain't no danger of venience
touch getting inte friends and the nequisi- The British Postmaster-General with has a good thing to sell in the Lion of means of rapid communica- telephone service, and like a good tion in case of emergency will per-Problem.
the man and woman of salesman he is eager to popolarize suade
you eating them, Fm thinking."
Very "English" Record
be
One simply refuses to believe it, and Vanessa's disastrous marriage
It was stated that a ingamist had sequent wunderings of Bo'nun Bert Mr. Arthur Henderson, the young two adjoining streets, and Mr. Travers have to do with man who has just got in for Bar-
remain Д Bocial habits homes in
nard Castle. We go through Mafe- his wares He has nothing to learn normal domestic and
total intellectual eclipse out of king Night and Armistice Day and from competitors, for he has none; of the utility of the telephone if But what is home without another? anything at all: these
which shoot corona-like the lovely all that was in between. but there are others in the same the price is made as attractive as
Facts You Did Not
flames of Mr. Tomlinson's faith and: It is a sort of Onnsard of the Know.
the sparky beauty of his expres-upper-class English scene, an honest Jolon.
whose the service itself. The next appeal buriness line of
abroad
Oficial of the telephone is evidently going methods are worth study. delegations have in the past sought to be and ought to be in that direc-i
special ser- Jout the secrets of success that other tion. There are also
countries
attained in the vices which, no doubt, the British
have
The invention of a Cleveland phy
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and rellable report, with here I suppose even the most celestially-Herries and there a Herrics shout-
of raising a mild interruption. voiced persuasions can be reduced ing "Hear, hear!" or "Question!" or to some simple terms for ears
It is a very English record, as
aight.
means of oral communication; and Post Office would be prepared to sician, a new device transforms the less formally. but with a keen eye provides in Sweden--at a price, curves of & profile into sound waves,
to be that Mr. Travers, hating the patient and fecund as our fields, and to his Governmental business, Sir Business firms that wish to be call revealing the artistic qualities or de-clay; and what it all comes to seems
and not by number fects of human features.
uglification of the world, yet rei, at least, am glad that Mr. Walpole Kingsley Wood has paid a visit to ed by name
cognising that it had validity for has made it before the things he Sweden. Like everyone else who would have to pay rather highly for
Two German motorists who re those who made it, determined that writes of crumble from our minds has made the acquaintance of the the privilege, but some might con- cheap and efficient telephone service sider the advertisement worth the cently drove from Bambay to Ber-he, at any rate, must not surrender as already they are doing from our
If To Englishmen it is novel tolin, a distance of 8,000 miles, in 35 his own vision of loveliness. for which Sweden is deservedly re-cost.
But Shakespeare's kind of his- nowed. Sir Kingsley Wood has re-think of the telephone service act-days, were the first persons to cross ultimately, you boil it all down to
Hardly, an information bureau for the Persian desert in an automobile. (Tennyson's trite conviction that we tory?
Mr. Walpole has turned with pruises and, what Ising as
needs must love the highest when forgotten his Pyms and Falstaffs, more, with intentions to introduce the doctor when on holiday, telling Into Britain's own telephone sys- the caller of his whereabouts and ried forward and kept for use dur. we see it, you will not be far wrong: his Doll Tearsheets and Mistress tem, if he can, some of the services also the whereabouts of his locuming the periods at which they must but you will be a good way out in Quicklys. The very breadth of the keeping a record of be idle. Unfortunately no way in your calculations if you think the chuvaa shouts that this is only half which he has found in use there. tenena, or
of storing electricity, as highest is increasingly easy to sec. It is necessary to insert the proviso business man's telephone callers known
A Whirl of Dooms "if he can." because even the most during his absence from the office auch, economically on a large scale, energetic and enterprising of Post- and Informing him upon his return, and therefore the only hope lies in Another writer of intensely per- "The Gowk Storm," by N. Brys- masters-General cannot make people But evidently the resources of the the adoption of some indirect sonal conviction is Mr. Francis son Morrison (Collins. 7s. 6d.), tells
for from method. talk to each other if they do not telephone system
The solution of the pro Stuart, whose new novel "Glory" the story of three adolescent girls and exhausted. The
They might want ío.
Committee comes from Gollancz (7s. 6d.). He in a Scottish manse. blom favoured by the which benefit of the telephone can, how-
recently reported
the
has a hold on humanity that Mr.han the Bronte sisters. The youngest Severn barrage scheme depends on Tomlinson is denied. Every one of (Continued on Papa 11). ever, bo made availabic to new classes of customers. Sir Kingsley
the storage of water. They would the people in this book is alert and Wood has one class specially in
1180 some of the power from the alive, speaking with the moving ac-
mind.
convenience
are
Storing Electricity.
a picture.
A Trio of Sisters
DRIVE
"Six-Year-Plan” Now Under Way.
RECOVERY PROGRAMME
Mexico, City,
It comprises ап immense A fundamental difficulty encoun- main tidal turbines to pump water cent of mortality; and yet and number of people who do not re-tered in any scheme to use the tides up into an elevated reservoir, and here. I think, is Mr. Stuart's most MEXICO'S ECONOMIC quire to use the telephone much but for the production of electricity or this water would be released and subtle gift-each of them is also a would find it an asset if available any other form of power is that allowed to flow through a subsidiary lucid symbol for the expression of for a definite number of calls a continous yield cannot be obtained. set of turbines to generate power something that lles over and beyond month for private and domentie Water turbines placed in a dam during the periods at which the the tale that is told. purposes. The telephone has long across a tidal river can be made to main turbines were out of action. The tale itself has a wild beauty been indispensable in business and, generate power when the rising tide so that continuity of supply would and headlong pace: the tale of how except perhaps among the smaller is flowing through them to all the be assured. This plan has suggest into the quiet of the Irish country- class of tradesmen, is probably al-empty reservoir above the dam, and ed to Mr. J. W. Menres, who was side came the aerodrome of a com- moet as widely distributed there as also on the falling tide, when the formerly Chief Engineer of the pany whose airports stretched across it is ever likely to be, although Sir impounded water is running back to Hydro-electric Survey of India, the world, and of how Mairend, an
The mobilization of Mexico's re- Kingsley Wood has discovered some the sea; but there are periods when that the principle of storing elec-Irish girl, becoming a pilot, was new services that may perhaps be they are necessarily inactive be- tricity by means of water might be snatched up into a great conspiracy sources for rehabilitation of her offered to business men,
economic life through a six-year But any cause the water level above and advantageously applied without any that shook creation. large extension of the system must below the dam is so nearly equal barrage. His idea is to fill an Mr. Stuart Hike Mr. Tomlinson, programme has begun under the depend upon attracting new classes that there is insufficient head to elevated reservoir, with water pump stands aghast before the threat of command of General Plutarco Elias of users. Sir Kingsley Wood has work them.. If these periods of in-ed up, not by power obtained from civilication that "is going to become Calles, the "Iron Man" and former his eye upon a multitude of possible activity coincided with the times at tidal turbines, but by what he more and more standardised, more president of Mexico. small users and he wants to catch which the consumption of electricity terma "by-product", power derived and more benevolent an
* large One point involved in the plans their ear. He has given no more than is least the difficulty would be lesa from the existing steam stations of material scale. But cold and ruth- concerns the possibility of a trafis a hint of what is in his thoughts, serious, since steam stations work-the "grid." The plan lacks the less to those who outrage its con-agreement with the United States but he seems to contemplate a flat-ing at full capicity, and therefore glamour that attaches to the idea ventions. To those who threaten in preparation for what Gen. Calles rate service entitling the subscriber under the most economical condi- of utilizing the enormous forces of its order and organisation? predlets will be an "economic war- to a fixed number of calls. He has tions, could be used to supply the the tides; but, on the other hand, if
Mr. Stuart raises his voice fare between continents.? been impressed” – by the wide minimum or average load and the the premises on which it is founded against the Moloch of the machines Gen, Calles, upon his return re diffusion of the telephone in tidal turbines could be brought into can be substantiated, it would yield with the lyric power of a Hebrew cently from a four months' holiday Sweden. It is found in the homes action to supplement the supply a large supply of electricity at a prophet. My state of mind after in Lower California, told 10,000 of the weekly wage-carnore-build- when the demand was higher, Na- capital expenditure much less than reading the book was like that which workmen gathered before his home Ing labourers, tramway men, engine ture, however, has not ordered would be entailed by the construe comes of a stoeping in Isaiahs that the "failure" of the World drivers, chauffeurs. A really popu-matters in so convenient a fashion, tion of a barrage across the Severn, whirl of dooms and destinies, of Economic Conference had brought lar service must, of course, be and the times of high and low tide while incidentally it would rellege grandeurs half-apprehended and the world to one of its worst crises cheap. That is the baslo reason move forward roughly thres the porta lower down the Bristol cloudy majesties troubling poet's and that, in the event of economic warfare, Mexico would co-operate for the extensive use of the tele-quarters of an hour a day, quits Channel from the fear that they brain.
fully with other American nations; phone in such a country as Sweden. regardless of the country's require might be injuriously affected by Swan Song of the Herries.
Katy The recovery programme': has When the Postmaster-General, can manta of electricity for lighting and consequent alterations in the regime offer a cheaper service be will no power. In these circumstances, if of the river. Moreover it is not After theas two wwift, polgnant been widened in scope by Prasident. doubt widen ita range. Evidently use is to be made of the tides, some local to the Severn, since, it proved books. It is sedative to take up Rodrigues, so that its cardinal Macmillan, 10% ed.), points Include Improvement in his desire is to make the telephone method of storage is needed, so that feasible it could be put into effect
a social as well as a commercial part of the power generated by the at any point in the country, where wherein Hugh Walpole brings to an education, communications, - sari. necessity. There are still those who turbines at the periods during sites, suitable for réservoirs could end the long chronicle of the Her culture and workers' condi
1 family. "At the end of the book| Reuter. will refuse to allow the Yortifications which they can work may be car be found.