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THE SUBMARINE,
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1918. By, R. H. Gibson and Maurice Prendergast. London: Constable and Co. Pp. xx. 105, net,
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leet a great variety of information about vessels and commanders, and the index-fifty pages of carefully evidency of their wide ope of arranged headings-in itself in
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DIFFICULTIES OF EVOLUTION,
DIFFICULTER OF THE EVOLUTION
THEORY. By Douglas. Dewar," London: Edward Arnald. Pp. viii, 402. 12s. 6d, net.
At the meeting of the British Association at Oxford in 1804 Huxley declared that evolution must no longer be considered to he a theory but a fact. This state- ment sumed to meet with the un- animous approval of the very large assembly, of men of seines in the Sheldonian Theatre,
The first page of this important history is given up to ʼn remark of Earl St Vincent made in 1804, when an inventor offered sub- marine to the Admiralty"Don't touch it. If we take it up, other nations will;" and it will be the greatest blow to our son supremacy that can be imagined." The pro- sent volume shows how, over a cen- tury later, the submarine looked like dommating naval strategy when the Grand Firet, finding Scapa Flow unsafe, was for a time com polled to seek a harbourage far ther west, Earl Jellico, indeed,
But Mr. Dewar is an Author in his interesting foreword men whope scientific work demands our tions that a year of war elapsed interest and respect, who still be before a sufficient screen of destroy, flieves that evolution is not only a ers shielded the Battle Fleet, and theory but a bad theory. Every another your lefore the cruisers naturalist must know that there had like protection. The book sur are many difficulties in explain veys fully the disputés in Germaning the facts of living things as official quarters over the policy of
we see them now, and of living adopting "unrestricted" submarine things of the past as revealed by warfare, and sois forth the grim the evidence of the rocks. We can story of flestruction of merchant nut trace with accuracy the fami- men, culminating in the terrible] ly tree of any group of animals or April of 1917 with its toll of lives, plants, nor can we explain the and 600,000 tons of shipping, origin in evolution of many organs What we are witnessing," said that are of essential importance to the American Ambassador, is those that possess them. It is well, the defeat of Britain" The German therefore, that we should have these Admiralty nd sinked all on the difficulties put before us by one hope that six similar months who has a thorough disbelief in the would end the war. But the April theory of evolution. This Mr. De figures were the climax, and the war does with a wide knowledge of invaluable work of the Anti-sub his subject, with good judgment, marine Department of the Admiral and evidently with aime restraint. ty at Inst bore fruit in a long and In his chapter on vestigial struc
teady monhtly decrease in casual tures he admits that evolution may ties. Among the numerous means explain the degeneration of struc- of defenting the submarine the au- tures that have become useless, and thors rank highest the convoy sys it is difficult to understand his tem and the depth charge: the conclusion that this is not incon- hydrophone, besides, was robbing sistent with the view that every the submarine of secrety of move main organic type has been speci- ment.. Altogether they trace the ally created. It is a pity that he Jon of 178 German submarines has not furnished us with a chap- that 170 were surrendered intact ter on the doctrine of creation, or, was due, they remark, to the Al- as he calls it (p. 5), "abrupt Jics threat to occupy Heligoland origin. As it is we are left with if the proposal to settle the vessels no alternative hypothesis to the were carried ont. The authors col
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A. SINGAPORE, SETTING,
THE MURDER AT LINPARA By Hol- loway Horn. Collina. 78. ed.
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Mr. Holloway Horn tolls his tale in a properly direct fashion. It concerns the adventure of a young English doctor, Tim Wharton, actti- ed in Bildno, near Singapore, of which the local colour is laid on with a prudent hand. The Eura- sian wife of a Greek rubber mag- intrigue, and. Failing seeks to In rate attempts to fores him into an
husband, who in turn had assailed volve him in the murder of her
the virtud, of a drunken plantor's
wife, In due course, the mystery surrounding the tragic affair is 'solved; the story's merit is ita ro- asonableness, in, incident and char- acterisation, which inclines the ronder to believe in it.
ISLAND IDYLL.
MINUSETTE By H. K.
LORD HAILSHAM'S WARNING.
POUND MIGHT FOLLOW THE MARK.
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At the moment, he said, the country was passing through dan gers as great as any faced during the worst days of the war.. Unless incasures were speedily taken to meet the perils which confronted Werkes.us, there was a real prospect of our going so fur down that we could not retrieve our position.
Long, 78, 6d, net. This story is laid in the unusual this paradise gu Kit, the artting of the Balearic Isles. To
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PIRATE LEADERS EXECUTED.
END OF NOTORIOUS CRIMINALS.
Hau Tien Hsiung, alias, Tai Pro Ak Shu, the notorious Taihu pirate leader who was arrested in alleyway off Dalny and Ward Roads, on April 3 and later handed over to the Kiangsu Provincial Water Police by the Shanghai Special District Court, was decapitated last week, together with Tsu Loo Ab Mei, or "Young Pig Sister," his second-in-command, and Ilsa Fao. Sung, his younger brother, at Changyen, Chingshan. Death sen tences were passed by the Ching- shan District Magistrate and con- firmed by the Kiangsu Provincial
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sinco made his home in the Island. It were unfair to tell the dramatica events that grow out of this holi day, sinon Miss Weekes has woven therefrom a very readable novet for those who like romance and plenty of quick-moving incident Her characters are engaging and unaffectedly drawn, and, though the denouement is perhaps a little protracted, the reader will not cavil, since it prolongs the suspense quite pleasurably.
THREE CRIMES IN FICTION.
!! MALICE
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nelius. Bles. 7 d. "FOUND DROWNED." By Eden Philpotta. Hutchinson, 7a. 6d.
The title of "Malice Afore thought" is in every way justified. With malicious forethought Mr. Ilew has collected one of the most disagreeable groups of characters in criminal fiction: with malice (Continued at foot of next column.),
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pretty gloomy pic- tare," said Lord Hailshamn, "but it is no good ignoring facts, and these are facts."
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Referring to the Agricultural (Land Utilisation) Bill, Lord Hait aham said, That bill is now in the House of Lords, and I would not like to tell you what it will be when it comes out, but it will not
and, in order to ensure that nothing untoward happened at the execution, every precaution was taken and two steamers fully load- ed with members of the Kiangsu Water Police were despatched from Minghong to Changyen to maintain order. Mr. Hsu Pu Cheng, Com-
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"We have got to retrench; we have got to cut down, and though it is unpopluar it is the only patrio tic thing to be done."
The Socialist. Ministers, knowing the facts as they must, have got the courage to tell people the truth, They looked helplessly on while they watched the ship of State going faster and faster towards the calarnets.
and forethought the sensual and unpleasant Dr. Birkleigh deter mines to, and dares and does, mur- der his tyrannical and unpleasant wife. "A cominonplace crime,” but no doubt Hell je commonplace,
A Dangerous Story.
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stories which might be called dan gerous, for it is one of the few in which the desires and dislikes of such commonplace people ourselves are the causes and motives of crime and of evil. The horror. that is to say, is in our own souls; Mr. Des provides us with the thrill with which we recognise, horror in action. It is true that the murder- er, being a doctor, has advantages denied to most of us; but Mr. Iles (the jacket tells us) has planned a series I await with terrified ar dour the volume in which he des cribes a publisher's clerk or a poet committing murder.
A Bullet After Breakfast.
The people in "Tell No Tales" are "county" Perhaps it is this which sets them a little further off than Mr. Iles's group; one sees rather than touches the unpleasant wriggling mass. But one of them, all just risen from breakfast on the morning of the meet, puts n' bullet into tho young officer can. tering over to join them.
They move through the rooms and the grounds, sensuous, well-to-do, re- pulsive; the Chief Constable, how- ever, who is as repulsive as AS.. is also uncommonly attractive. The end is extremely sadden--and not quite fair; there should have been a hint or two. But a good book criminally horrid, if not spiritu. Rlly.
Mr. Philipotts' Unorthodox Murderer.
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Mr. Eden Phillpotta needs praise-it is real respect, which prevents the reader here from add- ing "fortunately." For he breaks one of the oldest rules-he makes the murderer confess.
On the other hand, he has set. his medical aleuth the hardest pos sible task-to discover the identity of an unknown body, dressed in the dothes of a living man, and declared, as that living man, to have been "found drowned." Mr. Phillpolts, with his own pleasant literary accent, simply compels. Providence to hand out a coincid- one or two; and his police inspeo.. tor sets privato faith, above public policy. Pluck, I call it{_Mr. Charles Williams in The News Chronicle.
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