LITERARY NOTES
AUTHORS TO VISIT ENGLAND
Chris. Morley Expected This Summer.
Prospective visitors to England this June are the authors, Christo- pher Morley and Don Marquis.
Moricy, a Johnsonian fixare, as massive as he is benign, is founder and president of the American Three-Hour-For-Lunchcun Club." One of the rules Is that every member and every guest pays his share of the bill.
Morley's father, a Canbridge man, went to America 50 yeni ugo to take up a professional api- ment at Haverford. lie is still alive and still a British subject.
Marquis; who lives in California, is the author of "Archy and Mehitabel," the biggest single volume best-seller of poetry after Kipling's Barrnek Room Ballads."
Don Marquis Is been only once in Europe. He came to study of the at first band the methods professional card-sharpers against whose wiles passengers on trans- atlantic liners are warned by huge notices,
Marquis took five hundred dol inrs which he was prepared to sacrifice for the sake of "copy." He found what he was sure was a real gang on the first night. True a few to the tradition, he won dollars.
He went on winning a little until the last night when he confidently expected to be fleeced of his last vent.
He won 800 dollars.
As he landed at Southampton, he heard a voice behind him: "See that big American? He's profes sional card-sharper. I've played him."
SCOTTISH WINDS AND WITCHES Narrative Of A Car Journey.
The Sunset Shore. By lain F.
Anderson. (Jenkins. 78. 6d). This narrative of a trip from
bust makes a travel book of un- usual interest.
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 28, 1934.
Cuba Mourns Illustrious Ex-President
Havana, Cuba. This scene in the home of the late Dr. Alfredo Žayaz, one of Cuba's outstanding patriots and former President of the Island Republic, shows Dr. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Left cx-provisional President, and other Cuban statesmen, standing beside the beloved Zayas casket as the body rested in state prior to the impressive funeral ceremony. Zayas, who preceeded Machado. as President, was well-known as a historian and scholar. He died on April 11, at the age of 73, The son of a Spanish merchant, he received his start in political life with an appointment from the Spanish Government. Then in power in Cuba. His opposition to Spanish control resulted in his banishment to an African prison, where he was confined during the Spanish-American war. When Cuba won its freedom, Zayas returned and was active in politics until his retirement. He was elect-
ed President in 1920 and served four years.
Internment During The War
Grim Story Of Life In An Enemy Camp
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Lizarraga also drew attention to the fact that the Company's bank The wedding took place at the account was in credit for $31.10 Rosary Churchi, Kowloon, on Satur- when it was closed by the Bank, day of Mr. Helmut Heineman, son and that on that day they had had of Mr. and Mrs. R. Heinemann, to $1.300, which would have been Miss Rosario Valdivia Campos, paid in. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Campos: Concluding, he said that the pro- Ruedu, of 11, Hankow Road.
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The Rev. Father Rossi offelated. Mr. Ernest Muck was best man and Miss Josephine Campos, sister
Judge's Summing Up.
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The bride, who was given away jury at length, recounting the evi by her father, was dressed in adence against the accused. On white Satin crepe dress with a long the second and third defendant de- train and camelias of white velvet cling to make any address, His round the neck. A crown of Rus- Lordship proceeded to sum up the vian style with a depending veil setcase.
f her dress to advantage and His Lordship drew attention to matched the beautiful bouquet of the decidedly auspicious fact that white roses gathered in wide Chan in the godown in Connaught Road, tilli lace.
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His Lordship asked the jury to consider the case of the third de- Itead Ofice fendant with regard to the Oval-17 the Bund, tine. On each occasion on which
he had called at Messrs. Reiss Shanghai. Massey and Company, he had done |nothing but present a card, stating that his cmployers wished to know the price of Ovaltine, or to order] Ovaltine.
His Lordship charged the jury;
tral Asia. The story is presented The whole of the Yugoslavo consider that Levitsky might be with the utmost simplicity which Parliament-Deputies and Scha-n employee who had become in- "Black Monastery," by Aladur self God and the other His Propaet; aids rather than impedes the autors are expected to leave yolved in the transactions without
knowing their true nature. The Mull of Galway to Cape Wrathune Chatto and Windus, 108, sailors; rich men, poor men, beggarthur's ability to bring before our their country shortly.
The case is proceeding. eyes the scenes And the people Arrangements have been made. in an 8 h.p. ear and back again byd.), is a story of internment during men and tineves.
the war. The author died three How this strange discrepant as-jamong whom he dwelt.
for all members of both legisla. years ago. He was a Hungarian of sembly was welded by misfortune
The journey from Peking to Bui- tive bodies to travel by ship Mr. Jain Alderson and als wife Transylvania, which is now in Ru-into a community, how the gun Tal, in the heart of Mongolia, along the Dalmatian coast and bian dead are buried in the
on to Corfu.
ceremony is to take place there.] Look this holiday along the west-mania. He was a man deeply moved munity lived at Noirmoutier for two
was n difficult, pertinacious and Hundreds of thousands of Ser--Reuter. ern sea-bound coast of Scotland in by things of the spirit, and in the years, how, when shifted then to the herloc affair; and the efforts of culture of the French people he even more rigorous confinement of the party, once they were settled, curly spring. when BROW WAR on the hills and ice on the roads, bufound much that ministered to his the lle d'You, they maintained their to make the wilderness blossom School-teaching was solidarity; and how, after nearly are related with all the gusto of "The Sunset Shere" is no tale of deepent needs. grim endurance, Magnificent scen- his job, and during his holidays be five years, the broken remnant of the born pioneer. ery is captured by both word and delighted to read French poets and them crawled back to a fatherland
Farming and for-trading, the camera, and the snatches of folk drink French wine and listen to the that had foundered in the storm, is
the general theme of Mr. Kunca's daily conduct and special celebra- fore make the past almost as vivid speech of French men and women.
In 1914 he went to Brittony. Rejnok. The publishers call it "tions of the people, their religious as the present.
twenty-eight. During that classic of captivity." They are not views and superstitious fear, the In Ayrshire, many of the legends was
magic, queer workings of their are concerned with the Devil-holiday there happened what
|their, swift, äure way with borse] intimates calls "the world's gloomy change of
The reason for its being so much and gun: all these things are told Auld Clootie to his
lle was not fortunate better than any other book of its against a background which condi who was the general consultant scenery."
wit- enough to scramble out of the coun- sort lies in the author's attitude to tions all the action of the book. and adviser of all Ayrshire thes. Smuggling flourished right try in time. Suddenly, from being his experiences. Speaking of one of There were at times dìthcult en- along the coast, and Mr. Anderson welcome guest, he became some his fellow-prisoners, he says: "le counters with the Sovlet authori thing loathsome, contemptible, some never saw the Administrator us ties, and in time the difficulties be- records hiding places known this day as "brundy holes." Secret thing to be vaguely comprehended Conception, as we did, but as a man came too great to leave the small stills were established in most dis-within the word "Boche," which he with faults and weaknesses"; and it Danish community any hope of
much blood-firet heard muttered while he was is because Mr. Kunez saw
every-success with their experiment; but In on the way to Perigueux.
thing as a Conception that his the experiment was well worth Perigueux was the first station of moving slowly at first through com- while if only because it produced his detention. He and those who parative trivialities. quickens its this lively and readable book. were to be interned with him came pace and raises its pitch till it may
tricts and there was shed among raiding partics. one expanse of ben and glen the full moo was well-named "The Macfarlane Lantern."
STORY OF TRAGEDY AVOIDED.
he far wrong-
to the town tired and hungry. "A worthily be culled an epic in which
"There
vast clamour of shouting received not merely men but principles and cident and fine portraiture, us.......At the price of stone-verities, the casential Yea and Nay, is a grand story of how, when the throwing, blows and spitting we are pitted one agalust another. administrator of the prison threat- came through the greater part of You might say that in many ways ened to bayonet a black mongrel that " Sincere Writing In the crowd......One pretty girl ran the prisoners had little to complain the men loved, the fool's life swung panting crazily beside our column."Jof. Indeed, Mr. Kuner's description by a hair; a heart-breaking incident New Novel.
She shouted, "Don't give them any-of his room at Noirmoutier, a sec of the last parcels to come from thing to eat!" She spat at Mr. tion cut out of the well-shaft of one home"some ragged shirts, a few "Orchards of the Sun", opens
Kuncz
of the towers, reads like a picture worn-out half-pairs of shoes, a dirty, with the arrival of a young Eng-
They did not stay long at Perl- of a scholar's Ideal retreat. A wine-stained white waistcoat.” lish couple at the Hotel d'Or, in,
At first the men threw the things the Provincal village of Beauvoir. gueux. They were taken to the sea canopy kept out the dirt that would Presently they meat an Irishwa. coast and shipped to a small island have fallen through from the room) away in disgust, thinking some prac-}
Shelves held statuettes; tical joker was abroad, man who lives near by with her lying off Vendee. On the island was above.
the wall; truth reached them; they picked up nisce Helen, and the result is an the Black Monastery-Noirmoutier there were pictures on immediate and mutual attachment"a mighty, forbidding fortress there was a well-stored bookcase, the scattered stuff, "and the last men between Helen and the young Eng-ringed round with walis and a moat." lamp, at last even a stove.
to fake their parcels left the room The keep stood, four-square with aj World Within Walls'' lishment.
as though they were leaving a house Most of the men found améliora of mourning." A outlines with High tower at each corner. The Warren
some in genuine feeling the growth of this place had last been used as a prisonitions: some in skittles,
Decimated by madnesa and 'pes": especially when mention is made in 1870. It was running with moi-gaming, some in study, rausic, songal illence, the remnant at last act out passion, so that ope accepts the in-sture, dirty, not equipped with the and theatricals. There was a steady to see if there was left a home they most elementary aariltation... loutput and sale of wood-carvings could return to There was no- evitability of
ahead, tragedy
Discrepant Assembly Jand paintings. Social strata de- where the alightest demonstration of of a local legend about two frus-
Jere was interned the lover, of fined themselves. There were valets hostility. Rather only amazed nity. trated, lovers who jumped off ad-
France, whose transgression was and boggara, buyers and sellers, An old woman with a black head- jacent clie...
Mr.
it
Then the
Just when the reader is pre-that he had been holiday-making at sycophants and lordly givers, dreas kept on nodding her head and pared for this variant of the the wrong time. With him were It was a complete and rounded saying: Les pauvres! Les pauvres!"" "Ethan Frome climax the modern 240 others: a poor wretch who had world; but it was a world within The world had learned a bit since lovers are impelled to lose fateful been, on his way back from an Es walls, a world wherein itself became the atone-throwing at Perigueux. solution of their difficulties; he perante congress in Spain; are hell by reason of the compusion Go they came to Austria, where must go back to his life (which in markably large number of tanners which imposed it. The subtlety and it "became more and more sadly and cludes his wife and a job in a who had been working in France; truth of the book lie in the unerring insistently obvious that we werd gramophone #tudio) and Helen many walters: teachers who had certitude with which the author never again going to see the world must go back to herabeen holiday-making like Mr. Kunce; makes us feel those walls chafing we had loft, AVSLOVE
"Orchards of the Bud?, does not sculptors, and painters for whom spirits to madness, magullying the Kunes was not to see much niore quite achieve Importance as a Paris's pre-eminence in the arts, had inconsiderable, and in the long run of any world, but he lived long novel, but it is sincely written and bean an untimely and fatal lure: literally sending map after man enough to give us this record, which ha moments of lyrical freshness travelling schoolboys: a couple of across the borderline of sanity is hardly likely to be beaten In.3ta that do not bella its title,
'madmen, one of whom thought/bim-:- The book, is full of dramatic: in- own kindlate keni
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