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THREE NEW NOVELS.
and a certain simplicity in the author has retained such a musty
old muscura cliché'na identification, by birthmark! Concerned with the struggle between the Cossacks of the Don and the Turks for Azov in the days of the first Romanoff, its lines are not all laid down in
A CALAMITY FOR "AUSTRALIA.
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Owing to pressure on our space we had to hold over the conclusion of Professor Forster's lecture Studies in China. In it the Pro- the New Curriculum and the Old
most interesting
Sydney,' March 21.-Oversca and inter-State shipowners, announce that if the Federal Government's proposed regulations for the confessor gives a
ANNIVERSARY OF
PLEBISCITE.·
Berlin, March 22-The ringing
of church bella throughout Germany
Instructions
to-day reminded the nation thatHE Undersigned havo received ten years ago, thanks to the dovo-
TO SALL BY tion of the German population of
PUBLIC AUCTION Upper Silesia, the plebiscito re- turns came out overwhelmingly in lavour of Germany and overthrow that entire territory to Poland. the preconceived intention to award
Chancellor Bruening attended the main celebration of this historic event in Upper Silesia's principal town, Beuthon, when he expressed the German Government's grateful appreciation of the staunch loyalty of the population in a time of bit-
black and white. The grey mist trol of waterside labour are carried account of the new schools in Can- of human disillusionment and fruit-out, "it will open the door to great. ton and the curriculam which is being, taught. Continuing his ad. ed by inclination to her English tration gathers about the preson anarchy in industry and pro-dress Professor Forster said: lover, Niel Vynor. Of all the ages, making them more familiar duce one of the most enfamitous breathless episodes that follow fast to our modern souls. If Dumas is upon each other from first to last behind, so also is Tolstoy. The page of this gripping story of love young hero gives his youth, offers and adventure it were unfair to up his life a hundred times, yet tell here. Some secret airplane Vasilisan, his heart's desire, is not engine designs have to be conveyed won. But defeat. we are naked to from America to England by believe, is never final. For the Vynor, The bont on which he and effort of men's spirit their is no Nancy are travelling is torpedoed death. by a German submarine, command- ed by the music-loving von Reinach, who anves Nancy from the wreck. This is but the prelude to adven- ture, since Vynor has given tho watch in which the plans are hid ten to Nancy in the hopes of say-Russian. The excess of description, ing them.
But much happens be the insistent record of pageantry, fore the plans come safely to port of barbarous brilliance of colour and Nancy and, Vynor are re- and pattern, what are they all hero united. It is a spirited and swift for but to breed discontent with moving story, and the staily of von the drab dreariness of the Russia
The New Way. · Such thon are the general prin tras in the history of Australia.
At Canberra yesterday the Senate eiples lot us see how they are beter distress. rejected these regulations; The ing applied concretely in Canton, Federal Government thes immedi- to which city the Education Society ately called a meeting of the Execu. paid a visit during Chinese New Year. It was significant that the tive Council, which officially enact-schools were open the whole of that cd and subsequently gazetted the re There is more in the tale thangulations. They anust, however, be meets the eye on a hasty reading. Inid on the tablo. of Parliament Krassnoff; the patriotic Cossack of our days, is not only glorifying his Cossack ancestors. The burden of the book is not Cossack, but
when the Senate will have another
opportunity of rejecting them.
The Federal Government is also determined to push on with various ensures designed to restore pros perity in Australia, despite attacks against these measures in the House of Hepresentatives and threatened
week and that the work was being carried on as though Chinese Now Year: did not exist. That was one tion, but it was no whit wider than definito broach with the old tradi- |
the departure from the traditional nothods of teaching handed down from the past.
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Amid the manifestations of deep. emotion by all present the Chancel. for went on to say: "We all know through what facts and events this great patriotic deed was
for us robbed of its full suceras and how it was just those people who have ever shouted most loudly about the
nations that this expression of that right of self-determination of all
self-determination was disregarded. The Government at that time lody- ed A formal protest against
which used to greet the visitor, the plebiscite was disregarded in a
Instead of the chorus of shouting Geneva's decision by which the THE Undersigned have received characters are now learned quietly large degree. The League of Na while the teacher gives appropriate tions Council however rejected our explanations and uses blackboard protest. But the Chancellor of that illustrations to impress the meaning in the session of the German ing. In the youngest class the Federal Council of November 7, children were playing a most use, 1921, took note of the fact that the Stateful game, on approved Montessori- reply of the League's Council did an lines. One child was blindfold- not eliminate from the world of ed, while a member of the dias realities the answer of the German left the room, and several others people nor the protest of its govern changed their seats. With his eyes ment. What was true then is tres now free he had to name the also to-day. ono who was missing. The usual kindergarten apparatus was present held them in his power. And lo!
i had awakened and had Arbitration Bill, which the Council in other forms, and the methods
were exactly, what we should ex taken unto herself the matto 'Vir- han shelved, and the Bill to reduce
is interest, which the Council is expect in a western school.
pected to reject..
Reinach is a pleasant contrast to j of to-day as it appears to the exile's While he records the rise many "Kun" portraits in its gent-souli ler features and the soul-struggle of a new era in days long past | between his duty and personal in- he is whispering his conviction 'that there is another yet to come. clination.
"Nothing could have been baser And more sycophantic cowardly than the Russian people during the troubled times
BRISK TALE.
Miss Hueston here continues the
"
obstruction by the Senate,
Labour Party Split, The New South Wales Cabinet meets on Monday to dis cues whether it shall make another, effort to appoint sufficient now members to the Legielative Council
adventures of her lowan berping the devil had seized their souls and to ensure the passing of the new
who since we last mot her has fallen into changed circumstances through her father's second marriage, this time to a lady with a fortune. Winning the favour of her step. mother, Ginger Ella enjoys the uso of more money than she knows what to do with, and among her pleasant escapades is the forming of a Junior Club among all the
tuto
supero.'
"What
Russia f' thought Kostia, 'Is she in truth the Phoenix.r Having burnt, she has arisen in new and untold beauty." All this to the glory of the Romanoffs? Hardly. There is something better
Meanwhile, another indication that a critical struggle is develop ing in the Labour Party between the followers of Mr. J. H. Scully,
bright young people in the neigh-than that in the hope of the exilele Federal Premier, and Mr. J. F.
who wrote "Kostia."
FANTASTIC FLORIDA.
hourhood. This vonture attracts many láme doga also ta itaclf, in- cluding an artist, Bard, whom she is destined to wed. But before that Ginger has got herself kidnapped by an Italian scalawag singer, Benito, and there are thrills and sensations, and even detective sur- Mr. Weigall has written a prisca, before the lovers are remarkably bright and lively ac united. It is a guy and rollicking count of what he says
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IN FLORIDA, By T Weigall. Bodley Hend. ed, net.
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was tho
wildest and the largest rush" in
the whole of American history. The Florida land boom, to which 1925 gives a central date, was`L brief dream that has collapsed, but was real enough while it lasted.
Lang, the Premier of New South Wales, is that the 'delegates from the other states to All-Australian Conference here next week will probably support Mr. Scullin, but it is unlikely that New South Wales will be represented at all.
Land began to become scarce and to command high prices.. It brought in Miami at one time more por square foot than land in the most
Algebra and Arithmetic, geo- graphy, and hygiene proceeded on the same liner, and there was a
familiar note about the physical drill which was taking place in the basket-ball court.
The strains of the Marseillaise were issuing from & classroom, next to which a building was in course of erection as headquarters for the Girl Guides.
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elusive attention to the means whereby. she can be enriched, in the same way as America has beon. For the first time in her history it seems that China has come up againat forces which she cannot tamo or absorb into her system, bus to which she must entirely sur render, so seductive are the pro-
In the government school for boys the same curriculum was fol-mises which the lowed except that, in this co85,
now education. makes. But perhaps the move-
physics, chemistry and woodwork' ment is not so entastrophic as it appears on the surface. It may
were a prominent feature and the that in China as elsewhere the open spaces for games were more ald is always dying and the new being born, but that there is no numerous, because there was gron-breach of continuity. The new ter demand. Confucius and Men- could not be horn except of the cius in this schemo play a minor old and the old gives evidence of life, not of death by being trans- part in the earlier stages, and nat
formed into the new. a very prominent one in the Inter Only auch passages as are clear
The author had a share in it. His expensive districts of New York and simple are given in the form
Miss Mary Grigs follows up her ware the somewhat eccentric ad. first novel, "Bid Her Awake," with ventures of a foreigner compara this other, "The Almond Tree," tively, unaffected by the mania, yet which is distinguished by the same ho owns to having been possessed quiet and sensitive quality. The by its magic, and to looking back history of the artist, Robert Grint upon those months as entirely de ing, and his wife, Alice, in the tached from anything that has hap house, once an inn, on the Bork-pened to him before or since. He shire downs is narrated with great believes that to most of those who sincerity and freshness, and his wore in Florida then they have relations with Kitty are described become, as to himself, a page of with a wise perception. It is a vivid memories that have somehow sad tale, told with a wistful beau- no relation to the prosaic figures ty, and decorated with the sym of the calendar. bolism that tho almond tree spread- ing its branches under the windows of the old house sup
supplies,
י.
The discovery of Florida came It had at a favourable moment. been anticiated years before by far seeing speculators, who cleared its RUSSIA PAST AND TO COME, swamps and constructed hotels and pleasure resorts, though without, KOSTIA THE COSRACE. By P. N. however, remotely visualising its Krasanoff. Translated by possibilities. Florida had a hotter Vitali and N. Taytoviteb, Lon- don: Allen and Unwin. Up. climate than California, was with viii, 508, 12s. 6d. not.
in easy reach of New York, and After the fashion, of yesterday- was, moreover, the nearest State nay, of a long day before, a tale in the Union to non-prohibition of crude and cruel things past and areas, like Cuba. As soon as the War began, when Americans had sible judgment of General Krass more money to burn than they had noff'a "Kostia." "But for this ever possessed before, there com cord of audacious exploits, red menced the Bouthern drift. The slaughter, death at its worst defied boom was advertised, as nothing or accepted as the common lot of else ever was, and was indirectly all save the meanest of men, the due to the definitely and system old grand manner which is adopted atically abandoning all other con justifies itself and lives again—siderations in favour of attrketing though the story le not free from wealthy visitors from the North some of the dffects of its qualition, Fontinued or foot of next column.)
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It had the glamour of an absolute ly untested intrinsic value. Nehody knew what Florida land was worth.
Except then for the difference in apart from the boom conditions; language the visitor to the modern nobody knows even to this day. Chinese school to-day whether in But everybody dealt in it. A sort the Kindergarten or in the Middle of mania was in the air. Money School finds exactly the same sort and begun to mean netually noth-of thing that he would find in a ing. Mr. Weigall gives of his own foreign school. knowledge instances of rapid ap- preciation of values in a
a few hours
Officially Required,
'It would be absurd, to say that in 1925, and tells of one lot in this curriculum is available in all Fegler-street, Miami, that in that schools, but it is the curriculum year changed hands at one million which the Chiness government off- and a half dollars, or exactly one cially requires and is the system thousand times what it was bought | that would be universally establish- for fifteen years bofore.
ex If there were no obstacles auch Mr. Waigal's persona) adventures as absence of modern teachers and in the months before the bubble lack of other resources for there is burst make entertaining reading. a kind of religious fervour amount- Ho landed in Miami in the auming almost to fanaticism. in the mer of 1928 with a fow dollars in movement to realize this ideal of his pocket, and had to labour with a modernised Ching through wes- negroes at the docks for a living,, torn education. Young Chiba has but soon he had joined up with not only thrown down the walls of the news department of Coral Gab the cities and cut straight through les (which ho still regards as unique the narrow tortuous streets of the in the whole history of the world's old towns, but it has also cut right building), and a few weeks later through the old hoary traditions he was a representative gusat on and customs and exposed the nai a Cuban battleship in an official tion to the quickening breeze of visit to Havana Florida natural- the western scientific method. Na ly during the boom attracted to tional salvation Jigs through this itself every conceivable type of knowledge which alone gives power, humanity, and our author's pen- and material wealth." The old sys- portraits of some of its conspicu- tem which made culture the aus personalities are extremely primary aim is subordinated to an lively,
(Continued.antzi Golumn.)
Old things need not be therefore
trite
O brother men, nor yet the new Ah still awhile the old retain And yet consider it again.
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