MONDAY, MAY 21, 1934.
LITERARY: NOTES
THE CHINA -MAIL.
GOERING ON
HIS DEVOTION
Faith In Leader's
TOWNS MAN'S VIEW OF COUNTRY.
With Soviet Castaways on Arctic Ice Eloe.
TO HITLER Ursula Bloom's Latest
Infallibility.
GERMANY'S AIR DEMAND.
Publication.
REPLY TO THE CRITICS.
Pastoral. By Ursula Bloom. Hut-
chinson, 7a. Gd.)
In a foreword the author tells us General Goering, Herr Hitler's of a critic who complained that she principal lieutenant, makes a knew nothing of the country. This striking declaration of loyalty to book is written to give the lie to the German Chancellor. in. Ger- that charge. "The first 17 years of many Reborn (Elkin Mathews my life were spent in just such a and Marrot. 2s. 6d.). an account village as Hurst." Miss Bloom ex- of the German Revolution which plains. "I love my country, though; he has written expressly for the I recognise it as a pitiless driving English-speaking world... .... force. a still cold pool in which
He writes:
courage ebbe and hearts stagnate."
For more than a decade l' have
The trouble is that the book isl stood at the Leader's side, and not, after all. a countryman's view every day I spend with him is a of the country. It tells the story! new and wonderful experience of Alan Drew, a townsman and the From the first moment that son of townsmen, who came to the saw and heard him I belonged to village of Hurst as parson when he; him body and soul.... 1 passion-was thirty years old.
ately pledged myself to his ser- True. the country defeated Alan, vice and have followed him un- and the grey stages of his defeat | awervingly. With the same un-are portrayed well enough. But be questioning loyalty I shall follow fore he went to the country he had him to the end.
already been defeated by the town.
But I know that towards me He was the art of man who is de the Leader is filled with the same feated by everything. He was sure, feeling of loyalty, and I know, for one thing, that he was going to and can proudly say, that I have write a great book. the unqualified confidence of my Leader.
Boundless Authority.
Every few years he pulled out the manuscript, getting mouldier and mouldier, and even at the end
General Goering refutes the he had got nowhere with it. Alan's suggestion that he wishes to play defeat sprang from something the principal role in the Third deeper than his environment. Reich, or that either he or the
And, anyway, this assemblage of
The first picture to reach Hong Kong of the party of Soviet castaways who
spent two montha drifting on an ice floe after their ship, Chelyuskin, had been crushed in Arctic ice. Dr. Otto Schmidt (right), leader of the party, is directing the work of pulling dories up on the floe,
of during The entire party of 102 was rescued from the flee off Northern Siberia by a series scroplane manoeuvres,
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GOOD WORK ON AN OLD THEME.
Life With A Music Hall Troupe.
"For us followers," declares The Dancers. By Marleon Shrager. General Goering, "it is axiomatic (Hutchinson, 78. Gd.) that the Leader must possess The will-o'-the-wisp life of the any quality attributed to him in music hall troupe has been a fruit the highest perfection.... We ful theme of late for the novelist. National-Socialists believe that and in this book Miss Shrager for us the Leader, is in all poli-makes as good use of it as any of
TRAGEDY OF THE WORKLESS.
MORE BEAUTY AND ENGLISHMAN
THE BEAST. Misleading Title For New Book.
REALISTIC DESCRIPTIONS.
The story of Beauty and the Beast will always have an appeal."} As it is retold by Louise Redfield A Peattie
Caliban" in "Wife to (Methuen, 78. 6d.) it is likely to charm all sorts of readers. The title is misleading. Callban, after!
the
of
VIEWS TREND
OF THOUGHT Insight To Modern Thinking.
MR. C. E MJACK'S STUDY.
Guide to Modern Thought, by C. E. M. Joad. New York. Frederick A Stokes Co. U.S. $1.75.
C. E. M. Joad is something more
all, was a monstrous body housing than Walter B. Pitkin and some- Bertrand Russell. dim beginninga
mind thing less than Crispin de Castro, though he had He writes in the excellent popular “a humped, back and sunken head," veln of the former, but with more had also "deep-seeing great grey grasp and insight; with the telling eyes like waste waters under an phrases and humour of the latter, arctic sky." He had "the elements but with less power and farsighted- of. God knows what saints
andness. beasts caged up together in him";
to
The English take their thought but Miss Peattle does no more than lightly before and after dinner: hint at the beasts. Crispin is the they do not sit down to great philo perfect knight, but with a body so sophical banquets of interminable
seriosity. disfigured that, also he had small
Mr. Jond's book is, nevertheless, hope of winning a fair lady.
essentially an
serious guide He married Eva Carey. She was modern thought, which brilliantly poverty-stricken,' ill in a London hospital, and the uncle on whose sets forth the most recent trends in physics, biology, psychology, and unwilling charity she depended sent their philosophical implications. along to the hospital- Crispin, whóm
The descriptive passages are 'ex- he had met on some business mat cellent. There is hardly a better ter. Crispin married Eva while she brief, clear interpretation of Freud still lay a-bed. "He intended never in the language. It is only in the Queer Mingling In
to ask for any touch but that of critical portions that the reviewer her eyes. He never wanted any finds a vital confusion. New Novel
woman to put generous lips to him The central preoccupation of the and taste the bitterness of his book is with paychology. The es This Promised Land. By Marviņ | body."
sential error of the author is In Sutton. (Cranley and Day, 75.
This chivalrous, devoted Crispin treating paychology as a philosophy. Gd.)
never becomes more than a beauti-Mr. Joad sets out to examine the ful idea. We cannot accept him as implications of paychology, confuses When all the world Publications. 38. 6d.)
ed by a great oil company, pushing
was young, a man, but he is most appealing as the implications with the sclence The subtitle is "Pive Centuries its business further and further Edward loved Agnes, daughter of an embodiment of courtesy, long-itself, and finally criticises the of Great Tales of Youth." The into the country parts of China. Bill the Cowman. down on the suffering and loving-kindness. He science as a philosophy, ales have been selected by Hugh
Now psychology is no The work in the head depot, in farm. Edward joined the arpy, is wealthy, and carries off Eva to Walpole and Wilfred Partington. the lonely sub-stations, in the re-served term, and was demobilised his fairy palace overlooking the philosophy than obstetrics. The a branch of From Chauzer to Sinclair Lewis, mote villages where sales have to into a workless world. In that Mediterranean. The atmosphere of subject is properly the skim the cream of hundreds be pushed up in
pen-northe, the world, unknown for a time to him, that place is so powerfully evoked medicine, and the sooner thinkers, of narratives.
pressure of the incorporeal monster Agnes had taken a shining place that you almost live there as you the general public and the psycho logists themselves recognize and ac There are over a thousand pages known as "the Company" driving She was "Flower," living under the read.
The house itself, the product of cept this view, the sooner we shall in the book, which makes a delight-the men on, demanding higher and dubious pretection of Mr. Rooth
generations of cultured taste, the be out of the present muddle aur- ful ante-room to the house of litera-yet higher, returns, aloof and god- man who was immensely.rich.
„adven= |gardens, the ture. The book aims primarily at like, recking nothing of danger or Edward's humillating
sea and the moun-rounding psychology, behaviourism
the psychoanalysis and the rest. catching the attention of children, death which came often enough to tures in queat of work, his encoun-tains: all these glow with and there are few wh
down-and-outs, with colour of Miss Peattic's writing, reading its servants: these all go into a lers these bits and pieces, will not want, broad coloured narrative, lively shady cards and confessed had the beautiful stage on which is set shrine without even an idol in it," here and there, to dip deeper into with adventure and humanity. lots, make up the most convincing the drama of Eva's struggle to and abe returned to Crispin, recog the work sampled.
admiration | nising the princely soul in the body The great "Western Part of the book. He gets his reconcile her mind's
of the beast and gladly accepted iden" thrusting itself upon a re- Agnes in the end-back on the and her body's repulsion. མ ག
When Denia Coult came with “his body and soul together. So, as á ROUSING STORY OF luctant contry in the face of famine farm but the two parts of the
and, pestilence, looting, flood, and book are a queer mingling of sugar grace and his blank bright smile good fairy-tale should, this one has HISTORY.
Miss Peattle war. The character drawing of Candy and bitter rue. Mr. Sutton and his frank eyes that revealed 4 happy ending. both white men and yellow men is seems to have staff in him, but he nothing" he introduced Eva to makes the telling a delight. She
will have to sort his material more few days of delight.
handles her words as lovingly as texcellent.
thoroughly if he is, to make any-{ She fled with Denis and learned Crispin handied the precious things thing of it.
(to see in him “a blank profanity, alin his house.
Competent Hero. In New Novel.
fier and other matters concern her fellow-writers. She tells of ing the national and social inter-Lydia Markove, the beautiful dan-}
of the Arts
people simply
cer who became Lady Masters; of; infallible."
how Lydia, trying hard to win the One of the tasks confided to esteem and affection of the vil his "most loyal lieutenant" by Ingers, shocked them instead by the Chancellor is the reorganisa-dancing in tights and ballet skirt tion of Germany's air fleet and at a local fete; of how Tala, the liberation of the German Lydia's daughter, inheriting her Jonathan Bishop. By Herbert Gor- "flying spirit" in air sports.
mother's love of dancing fought (Cargall, 78. Germ. General Goering states thi hard for expression, but did not Jonathan Bishop was a young Germany "does not possess event and if til Lydia broke away from American who was staying in Paris "single chaser machine or a the manor and fled back to the when, the debacle of Sedan swept
single caservation 'plane," and footlights.
Napoleon III. from the throne and urges that his country has at!
Thereafter the tale is Tata's. sent the Empress Eugenie into Jonathan was well-accredit. dancer exile.
You see
BOOKS THE NAZIS BURNED.
Plan To Found Library In London.
London may
London.
soon have
B
some
least the right to a defensive air Vladimir Pavloff, a young Aleof;
of genius, joined the troupe, and ed. His good standing with the library of books which have been The world must at last! the novel in concerned with Vladi-American Embassy kept him in burned by the Nazis. awaken to the fact, and the na-mir versus Philip Masters. Philip touch will all the foreign elements Such a library already exists tion be made to realise, that to had inherited the manor that, Tata's in Paris; his liaison with a French in Paris. It contains grant Germany a small army mother had thrown away,
waman provided attachments with 20,000 volumes as well as hun- and navy for her security is a
dreds of thousands of newspaper He wanted Tata without her art, the domestic situation. mere pekery so long as the which was herself. Vladimir, who He, was present on the battlefield (cuttings bearing on the subject. vertical Une is undefended and open to all attacks.
security.
had made her what she was the of Sedan; he personally conducted
The secretary of this library is
has
It is therefore my task to woman every other man desires the Empress to the coast when she Dr, Alfred Kantorowicz, who has go on exhorting and demand-wanted her in her entirety; woman fled to England. He returned to a come to London to help found a
similar library. here. ing until Germany has at last and artist in one. It is a well-told Paris in the agony of disruption.
Lady Oxford is one of these obtained true equality and tale. Mien Shrager conveys very Mr Gorman could hardly have
well the atmosphere of the stage, devised a here more competent to interested in it, and she General Goering describes his compounded of realism and illusion. report at all points on the happen-placed her house in Bloomsbury reorganisation of the Prussian
ings of those days. He has proat the disposal of the inaugural
meeting Reuter. police system and the State that he set fire to the Reichstag: vided a good rousing story that Secret Police Department, now I did not need any special threads its way through a series of
---THE TRUTH ABOUT event to enable me to proceed pictures all having an authentic
THE TRIAL
Dimitroff Writing His Memoirs.
under his direct control:
In Touch With Everything. By means of a network of cen- tres in the provinces with Berlin as the headquarters. I am kept dally, I might say almost hourly, informed of everything which happens in the vast Prussian State. The pet refuge of the Communista is known to us.
He accepts full responsibility for the measures taken to con- solidate the totalitarian State:
N
persuasion.
DIFFICULT BOOK TO READ.
Victorian Age Theme.
Dimitroff, the Bulgarian Com-
against Communists.... The firing of the Reichstag did not, as a matter of fact, at all fit in. with my plans, as I have al- ready pointed out in my evid- ence at the Reichstag fire trial. It forced me to act sooner than
munist, who attracted what is call- I had intended?
For me there is no doubt Yesterday's Daughter. By Frances ed "world-sympathy" in the Reich-** whatever that those who in Mocatta. (Jenkins, Teed.) stag trial, is writing his memoirs. stigated and planned the fire A long, grey/study of a girl, born: The rosouscript should be avail- were the Communist Party, in Victoria's reign, living lato our able this month, and, if all goes In one of my first big meet- and that there must have been post-war times, dominated by a well, the book, will be published, in ings in Dortmund Ledeclared several i persons who actually mother whose possessiveness block London by the beginning of June, before thousands of my fellow-did the deed.
ed all her paths,, robbed her of all I have seen a copy of the Countrymen, that every bullet Germany's policy, declares that life might bring. synopsis. The book will deal part- fired from the barrel of a General Goering, is pacific: plas It m'a difull book to read! The ly with the author's life as a police pistol, was my bullet. If Germany has In the future character-drawing and conversation Bulgarian revolutionary, but main- you call that murder, then I am
no desire to rob or humilate are of the kind we got from George Ly with his German experiences. the murderer. Everything has many other nation, but this B Sims and Mrs. Kimberley in Dimitrof will how he first heard been ordered by me, I stand: 16ame: Germany will not allow their prima,” for if and shall not be afraid any nation to rob or humlllate. to take the responsibility upon her. May the other peoples myself.
cerealise flistathe Leader-in Ger. ay many is, the first guarantor of}
European peace de salar This book, indispensable, to all derstand; the NEW
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Veteran Motorist
Memoirs.
Mr. S. F. Edge, the
the news of the fire. He will give his own explanation of the ridde of Van der Laubbe. He will describe his life, in prison, the, death of his?: wife, and the trial itself. There will be pan pictures of the lead wit- veteran nesses, includin General, Goering.
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