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Englishmen who like to see themselves na foreigners, sometimes, are them should Bolshevik read "My Adventures in Russia," by Odette Keun (The Bodley Head). The author is a Dutch lady with a considerable grievance against the Brit ish Military Police in Constantinople by whom she was rounded up with Russian undesirables and handed over to the Soviet representatives for treatment and subs Formosa Channel
Ons can feel an quent imprisonment, certain amount of sympathy with the lady who was roughly handled, but what she has written about the Briton abroad is rather calculated to raise one's ire. Sho says amongst other sweeping, condening- tions, that "the fashion in which British Military authorities get themselves loarbel in occupied' countries, borders ou the fantastic." And again; "They caut get beyond their own cunception of what is right or wrong, fitting or indecent, order- I or untidy. Born without the gift of sympathy, they en totally unable to acquire it, nul hand-in-hand with their honest desire to rgani happily the iu- ferior populations of which they have charge, go a perfect disregard of the mentality, the sensibility and the customs Lor the conquerel race. Ignoraut they all are, and persuaded that their class is above all laws and when to these fundamental and unvarying qualities are added, as in the ey
of most of the officers of the new army, Tatuousness, stupidity, and brutality, one can understand how unlermined the magnificent old British pratige is to-lay,!? So now we know!
The most valuable part of Odette Keun's book, however, is her graphic description of modern Russian life and mismanag
bluit ment. One
forgive her cДa criticisms of Englishmen in reading her vivid pictures of Unholy Rusia under the Red Flag. It makes one realise what a nice, clean, comfortable land England is, after pil!
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HONGKONG TIDE TABLE
From August 17th to Sept. 2nd, 1923,
HIGH WATER.
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Height.
Mon. 27 m
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3
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This is another romantic story by Mr. Le Queux (Ward Lock). The springs of this anther's ingenuity never seem to dry up, and the story surrounding the house with the Brine Face is told with all his Ther. accustomed guste. It never does to en- quire too closely into the probabilities of any circumstances Mr. Lo Queux invents; he fulfils the prime office of the novelist, which is to tell a story.
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Here we have an epidemic of suicides of people in high plus, and the reason for them seems inexplicable until we are intro duced to the House with the Brunze Face which is i private enquiry agency that up- scrupulously hunts with the hounds and run, with the hare, finding out all about
wealthy clientele and then levying)
upon than from other sourers, Mr. Le Queux pitches his scenes in London Kociety, with visits to Flenley, and the gambling rooms at Dieppe in the height. of the season. I do not think Mr. T Queux is quite up to his best form in this Hovel, though it make, a readable stors if you like this soft of thing. Hut-one might enquire of Mr. Le Queux what the Lendou police would have been doing all the time? They seem to have been över. looked:
A NEW LEACOCK,”
Some readers may be disappointed to find that the new ik by Stephea Lea enck, "Over the Footlights" (The Bodley Head), is not quite so rich in humour an some of Lentuck's previs books have been, The major portion of the book is devoted to travestion of the varit forms of dramatic arted to burlesque or he has und either. Lencock's humouris
But for for the moment lost his form. all that, Leancork is always word reading.. if only for the sound basis of commonsense that undorfies all his work, __ There is often something very serious under his sugar- coating of tomfoolery. In "Over the Footlights. However, there are MOIS Occasional fashor of the old. Tencock brilli! ance, as, for instance, when he puts into the mouth of Lincoln, in the chapter on The Historic Drama, the following parody. Lincoln (standing up from the table to his full height and speaking as ung who looks into the future): "Gentlemen," I am prepared to sacrifice muy part of this Constitution to save the whole of it, or to sacrifice the whole of it to save uny part of it, but what I will not do isto scrifice all of it to save none of it,” The theatrical burlesque ocupy only half the book, and the other half contains
dozen essays that are more truly wa cockias in form and humour.
THE FORTY SKULLA,
One of the golden rules of authorship is: When in doubt turn. to the mysterious island, with treasure buried, a secret code, and all manner of ruffians in quest of it. The theme, well worn and highly tried as it is, is always sibject capable of treatment variety of fashions. There is not much novelty in Mr. Len Walmsley's
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"The Lure of Thunder Island (Herbert Jenkins), but the author has managed to pack plenty of adventures into his yarn:
In this story the quest is for a ense ban taining
kulls forty
great antiquarian. interest. They are claimed by Flint
hind
also by Patricia Hayward, who acquired them by legacy; the third party in the search is a rascally Egyptian, and when the three parties mest. at Thunder Island dramatic events' begin to move swiftly. What the skulls con- tained must be loft, for the author to reveal in his own way. The novel makes an in- teresting companion, and is relieved by many touches of omedy,
Linut. Col Hilder, giving evidenco be, fore, the Committen of Inquiry into the domestic service problem on June 28th, suggested the formation of an order for domestic servion on the lines of the Red Cross, with established standards and such distinctive marks of grade, na diplomas, badges, stars, and bars.
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