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A PIRATE, A ROYAL RAKE AND AN EXPLORER.
SOVIET FINNISH TENSION.
RUSSIAN PLANES TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS.
#ARMY MANOEUVRES ON
FRONTIER.
The Helsingfors correspondent of
CHARLES II OF ENGLAND. The presentation of the story is equally well contrived: we have
Copenhagen, May 26.-Serious ROYAL CHARLES RULER AND RAKE all the rapidity of movement and
By: David Lath... London: variety of character necessary for trouble between Finland and Soviet George Routledge and Sons. Auch a story without any confus Russia was threatening to-day, ac- Pp. 344, 15s, net.
Ing multiplicity of persons. The cording to despatches sent to This is quito an entertaining ac people described for us are few but Copenhagen by the Helsingfors cor- count of Charles II.'s life and cod-typical without being merepondent of the Ehstra Bladet. reign-with, as indeed might be ex-
types. And the adventures of Sir pected from the title, most om Rafe Gardiner before he finally phasis on la sie scandaleus, there marries Captain Kidd's, step is, therefore, no lack of material.
daughter are manifold without te Yet occasionally we could desire a little variety, for it is part of theing too many. In fact, our chief situation arose after seven Russian
Warships recently quarrel with Mr. Hueffer is that rule for this kind of writing that has made his story too brief Helsingfors. all chapters must end on the same topic: thus,, the Restoration con- cludes with He gave hasty thanks
-
the Copenhagen newspaper cables that the situation between Finland
and Suviet Russia is tense. The
Russia.
cruised near
have
ho tantalising y luis at Bit Rafe'sAlso, two fussian aeroplanes
rice with the Great Mogul and flown over the Finlandic Islands, then refuses to satisfy our curio Latest advices assert that. Soviet aity, se engor, is ho to get back to Russia has planned to conduct army the rehabilitation of Captain Kidd anouvres on May 18 on the fron True, there is a hint that these tier botwoon Finland and Soviet annarrated adventures will get some day be told, and with this half-promise we must for a while be content. But we hope the au thor will not fail us, for this specimen of his skui whots our ap petite for more.
WALKING ACROSS. AFRICA,
ACROSS AFRICA ON FOOT" By Ronald A. Monson. Elkin Mathews. 188.
リ
to the Lord.
and sought his royal couch, which he shared that night with Barbara Palmer;" the story of the Fire of London
Alleged Treaty Violation. is summed up by "While the Dutch guns were booming and English
Stockholm, May 28-Despatched battleships burning and Landon,
from Helsingfors claim that the made nervous by recent diensters,
tension existing between Finland trembled, Charles had been very Bay in Lady Castiomaine's com-
and the Soviet Union in conse quence of the Finnish protest pany" Charles himself did not
against the alleged deportation of believe in monotony or monogamy.
Ingrian peasants of Finnish origin," Ho had certain advantages cver his
has been aggravated by warlike de rivals which facilitated change; ho
monstrations on the part of the wanted to enjoy himself; bo was
Sariet. It is alleged in these re- quite without scruple, and he was
ports that during the past few days seldom troubled by affection. Yet
saveral such demonstrations, pipar- with he was generous to a fault
The number of books on Africa ently meant to intimidate Finland, those whose charms he honoured, which has been published recently were carried out. Thus on Monday eren though it was at the nation's maker one feel that even the darka Soviet military plane is said to expense. He rewarded the fifteen continent in getting overcrowded. have flown across the Finnish bor sons and daughters he acknow Aeroplanes sweep backwards and der, over Helsingfors and along the ledged with titles or noble marri-forwards above it, and distinguish Finnish coast, taking picture of the ages; constant only in his inconed scientists, approaching from op islands which, the Soviets claim, stancy, he demanded respect for his posite ends excange a polite have been fortified in violation of barren wife and devoted more of handshake at the Equator.
the Soviet-Finnish treaty, an alliga his time two of the other ladies None the less, it is a magnificent tion which is emphatically donicu than to her and all the others and unique adventure which is de-by the Helsingfors-government
At the same time a squadron of put together. Above all, a wit scribed in the account by Mri himself, he enjoyed wit-"I believe Ronald A. Mcnson, a young Aus-even Soviet warships was, it is elaimed, acon maneuvring near the thou art the wretchedest dog in tralian, of his walk from Capetown Finnish coast. The Finnish For- England, my Lord," he once told to Cairo-in the company of aeign Office intends taking steps, Shaftesbury. May it please your friend. Like man modern explor. Majesty," he retorted, "of a sub-ers, he and his crmrade were out ject I bolieva I am."
to create a new record. But it is Considerable attention is given clear from the resulting book that to Charlee's character and nets at they were more interested in what aking The account is coherent they saw than in what they did: and intelligible, a.though we think For the reader at home it is not his ability is a little overemphasis-asy to picture the immense loneli ed and his influence exaggeratedness which must have been, endured The style is agreeable, although by these two men as they marched one ease accuracy has been sacri
across deserts, struggled through ficed for the picturesque:
swamps and made their way into gloomy forests.
The terrible splendour, of St. Paul's all ablaze, the molten lead 1. the roof running down in fiery streams, the glorious dome rising like a torch from a sea of fire made by ten thousand houses urning all
at once;
dome.
CAPTAIN KIDD.
Into the excitement of their escapes from violent death, it is less difficult for the imagination to follow then
One reads, with a sympathetic shudder, of the terrible Mamba nake slithering through the grass, and the charging, "lephant, stayed
Old St. Paul's was cruciform, with a square cential tower two storeys' higher than tho roof of the nave and quite innocent of ain its advance by a battered hol niet. At other times, wo wo only herd of zebra, with the sunlight on their conts, or a shy gazelle bounding away into be distance." The author of the narrative is, a singularly truthful man. Where he failed to climb a mountain or. slicot a rhino, such failure is faith- Mr. Masefield has frequently shown. us what able writing can fully recorded. It is this integrity make cut of the most, blood-and-which makes his story so fascing thundery themes: Mr. Hudffer inting, and leaves even the untravell this novel follows. the same tradi-
Br, Whosz AurnotiTY1-By Oliver
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OTHER PEOPLE'S FAULTS,
tion with perhaps even greater suced with the conv etion of the nu geas. The main character in the thor that in the pathless deserts, book, though technically not the there is a pleasure indefinable, but horo, is the famous, or notorious, Captain Kidd-which alone. Is enough, to, guarantee a sufficiency- of both blood and thunder. But it is his fame rather than his no- toriety, which the author particular, ly desires to emphasise. Some historians have tried to prove that Drake was a pirate rather then a Queen's officer: Mr. Huoffer at-Miss Paddy Bylvanus has id tempts to perform the reverse office troduced us to company: "¿f
TOO SAUCY WITH THE GODS.” By Paddy Sylvanus. Hodder and Stoughton, 76, 69
to a
for Captain Kidd, and, whatever thoughtfully devised character. warrant of history he may have for his assumptions, be at any rate And without constructing con makes a very dramatic story out ventional, plot, the author shows us of them. And he has avoided also incidents in the liver of these peo the two most frequent blunders of plo, ne they acme into touch with the historical novelist, for there is one another. The method is spe no trhoe in his story either of cessful; and the author loads pe in pellantry or of pseudo historical growing anticipation from a live atmosphere. The style and languagey German pension, to an aristocra are as near to contemporary Engic home, in Somerset, on
shi au la compatible with lacidity tawdry house in Chelyen, and so to
disreputablo studio an Hamp -in fact, in reading it, one is Blend, faullipu somewhat incongruquely reminded of Pepy, however alien the theme might have been to his demestic garrulity. But so well has the an thor: cast himself back into past time that he has contrived to main tain the convention without either. Hapsing into modernums or making
his narrative appear artificial
There is acidity in this story. For, although the author can make her pleasant characters charming enough, abo can portray petty meancesses, pride, and evil, very vividly. And mest of" na can get satisfaction from reading of the faults of others.
against these demonstrations as soon as it has received authentis proof of those provocative actions. The indignation was further increased by the report that the lled Army is planning grand-scale mancuvrca near the Finnish border as from May 28. Bo far it has been im possible to get a confirmation of these reports which however are in themselves indicative of the exist ing tension between the two coun
trics.
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