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WED SDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1931.
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WHAT DARE I THINK?
Julian Huxley. ·
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Chatto
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TWO NEW NOVELISTS,
AND THE HUXLEY BROTHERS.
drawn the black silk stockings with which Falition Bops so perversely and indecently clothed his pearly nudes or explaining that MTs Grundyism is not a normal pheno menon, or considering. the guessing games which are among the plea Aldous Huxley, Chatto and surel of ignorance, he remains in
Windus. 78. ed..
genious, alert and graceful..
MUSIC AT NIGHT.
MAKING CONVERSATION.
Christine Longford. Gollane.
17a, ed
KEEP THY WIFE.
A FIRST NOVEL.
In the early twenties. something in the air of Oxford led to the turning of a number of women Lady Flavia Giffard. Chapman students into interesting novelists.
and Hall 78 ed.
| A WHIP FOR THE WOMAN,
Ralph Straus, Chapman and
Hall. s. 6d.
THE LONG DAY'S TASK.
Sybil Campbell Lethbridge,
Methuus. 78. Od.
RUSSIA IN THE NAME OF
GOD.
Vladimir Brenner.
and Jackson.
rublia
Strand in whose front, i parlour! --Men Virdistinguishe
outoforuthan – tai disouss the Fourront drencial altuarion May ba, meaningless to those who have Chavon waited, like the present writ ong outside in the cab while the ro verad Kterary Agures who and nak ed her to lunch found out" from Mr R whether 18 would be Soho or phe Grand Babylon,
But wasn't it Mr. J. B. Priestley, and not an obscure schoolboy, who, fun being told that a good "selling" title for a novel, should be short, hint at sensation and aristocracy) and not be without sex appeal, divined the perfect example
The Naked Countess !!!
A FAMILY STORY.
Another sound story of a family written fluently in well trodden English, in Miss Sybil Chapbell A somewhat belated example of Lethbridge's The Long Day's this diversion of scholarship comes Tusk Here the wife of the head; in the Countess of Longford's of the family has without quite Longford was
Making Conversation." Lady knowing it, married her husband
Somerville and because she is in love with the bonu took Greats in 1922, but this is her tiful family seat," and "discovere first novel, and it is puzzling that that she can be really in Jovos with she should have stayed her hand for a man who lives in a horrid bunga, so long, a most people have a
Tow.. private theory that all the people. who can write novels do so on the earliest opportunity, or avan with out opportunity at a
And Lady Longford can write a Sidgwick novel.Making Conversation
HENRY OF NAVARRE.
George Blocombe. Toulmin. 11s,
Those who prowl round the action department of lending libraries and bookshops declaring that they want something exciting to road cannot mean,oxactly what they say, for to the normal man or woman, of whatever brow-height, the racket
ean really never give the sustained thrill of a work like Professor Julian Huxley's 14
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The consequent emotional storms and their clearance are described by the family old maid--the only. one of the Perivaler who is poor Her ineffectual attempt to oure her rich relatives of a habit of seed may be scrappy, but it is consistent-ing her poverty in a magical rosy ly entertaining, and is writtonight and considering her much too with that cool detachment which brave and independent to be given can be so much more moving than help of any kind give a spice to the syrupy hints at the author's sym- tale. pathy or direct onslaughts on our own. She can get a lot of percep tion into a linens, for example, in her description of a paying Clearer pictures of Russia are guast; She made a point of be- now emerging after the violence ing sensible. That was why she bad which could draw only bishop. to pay to be a guest."
boilers
on one hand, or peasant We have had in recent years a persecutors on the other." Russia good many heroines who went up in the Name of God" is a queer to Oxford and whose adventures but absorbing tale of an ambitious have been pored over with pathetic South Rusman who entors, the industry by those who having ar Church with the clear idea of be rived at maturity, are obsessed and coming powerful. "Es fights for the hindered by a passionate curiosity people against oppression, but with about the young Lady Longford's the Church against the domination down frem Somerville because of ation eventually disappearing when unfortunate Martha, who is sent of the jewlab element in the Revolu silly but harmless adventure with the prison into which he has been a comio American business man, is thrown is wrecked by bombs, ha is.
much more convincing, sample of supposed by the devout to buve.es the Modern Girl than the highly soaped miraculously, greedily amorous heroines of some the Buesian Church, but not in articulate, tremendously capable, The tale is written in support of Previous settings forth of the Ox-blindness to its faults: The des ford score. She and her friends are criptions of Archbishop Anasta
roping, ineffectual, and generally sius's wonderings about the vast apprehensive, a girls have always country and in and out of the been since the beginning of civilis-bouses of many sorts and conditions. edtime or even before.
of Russian people just before, the.
AN ATTRACTIVE FIGURE.
W
Actually these essays are a sum ming up, in language intelligible to any average person who has had an elementary school education, of the present convergence of ideas on science and religion. The intelles tually slothful may look brick with envy on the days when Professor Huxley's illustrious grandfather debated with Mr. Gladstone, and it seemed to have been settled for over that one was tidily either on the side of the angels or of the test tubes, but a very little exploration ehows that the state of thought of our own day is infinitely, more skirts, their unsatisfactory encoun- formation for which there is at the With their dreary coats and Revolution contain the sort of in inspiring, no matter whether one's tors, with the men andergraduates,moment an intenso eagerness. personal bias in religious or scien- their countless guilds and sooictiem tifc.,
and their bad diet, they aro ossier, "Science must recognise, says to believe in than their orchidaceous Professor. Huxley, "that theology predecessors. But this very pro- is not religion, but science, and, in mising new novelist has not been
In these days there is a pleasant. all its orthodox forms, extremely primarily concerned to reveal a biography of a great figure of the ly unaccustomed, Aavour about a poor science at that. And science dergraduate life Martha's child- must recognise that, while for some hood as the daughter of a widowpaat which is written in undisguis aspects of living, the scientific ap who takes 'polyglot paying guests is ed admiration, proach is best, for others the redrawn just as slyly and at as greatneid, in the modern manner, even It would be suite possible to be ligious approach is more import length as her college career. In the about Henry of Navarre, who, end Martha, in Prague, is about to striding into the seventeenth cen He points out the danger of accept the sudder proposal of a tury, brought to it something of science being to-day accepted as a Czech she has only seen twice, the warm splendour of the six- set framework for life as was deciding that the difficulty in makteenth, but Mr. George Slocombe orthodox religion in the past, or of ing conversation under which she has disregarded literary fashion in being accepted, now that its pro has always suffered may be dispell what he frankly calls a cesses are beyond the reach of every-ed when she learns new language ate history Henry of Navarre, day minds, as unintellectually s It is devoutly to be hoped that mangio and priesteraft were in the Lady Longford will go on writing ancient world. Especially valuable novels of this astringent,, amusing is a chapter on heredity. In this quality. is told the newly-discovered biolo- gical story of human reproduction that microscopić drama " which banishes for ever-a-whole- hoab-of distressing superstitions:-
ant."
passion-
and infinitely nearer than any of to the general reader, is more alive the Bourbons who followed him inta living memory.
He had the qualities that are ANOTHER NEW NOVELIST,
adored in Finga in any age or coun- Lady Masia Giffard is another courage, strength and meroy, and.
try-which is to say that he had now novelist who needs no help an appetite for all those hu "There is no generation of life from Debrett, though her badly man pleasures that the man in the by the masculine principle in a named. Keep Thy Wife in writ-street dreams he would enjoy if he mere soil provided by the female. ten in an old-fashioned way, and were king himself. Many of his. There is no breathing in of a whol aims to instruct rather than to sayings are common English cur- ly now life from supernatural or amuse. It concerns an Indian rency, and if they are misquoted or indeed any other agency. It is not Prince who, in spite of his Trish apceryphal this does not disprove the mother's blood which decides the mother and his education at Eton, that their hearty inspirations came temperament and capacities of the is reminded in English aristocratic from him. child, nor what sha, and still less circles that he is "native" and Mr. Slocombe says that the fami the father, has eaten, drunk, ex- cannot marry the highly-bred Eagliar Go hang yourself, brave perienced or thought about." lish girl he loves devotedly. If Orillon We fought at Arques and Yet it not so long since it was some young lady of Balham or you were not there is an inven possible for there to be a stir of Chowbent had described a peer tion-probably of Voltaire but he admiration even among educated shouting at Buckingham Palace to quotes an authentic letter written readers about a novel in which one his daughter, who had just been by Henry after Arques which, be- Sir Richard Galamdy was born presented: "I won't have my gins: Go hang yourself, brave without loga because his father's daughter dancing with natives.Crillon, for not having been at my had been amputated after a riding [: They oughtn't to be allowed side on Monday last; on the fairest adoident some months before Sir to wear European clothes we occasion man ever saw or perhaps. Richard was born.
might find it difficult to believe in will ever see again. such goings-on, but Lady Flavia was there herself and ought to know.
1
THE OTHER HUXLEY,
It should be explained that this
A SATIRICAL JOKE.",
The ache of Renaissance swagger, Think yourself glorious to have vanquished me," which he wrote to It is alarming to consider how
his mistress, Gabrielle d'Estrees, is much worse off we might have been is more than a love story with authentic, but Mr. Blocombe will had a measles epidemic somewhere hero in costume. The author has not vouch for the declaration that towards the end of the 19th century serious interest in the problem he wished every ploughman in swept away a certain pair or little of India's place in the Empire, and Trance to have the wherewithal to brothers. Here comes another there becomes almost blue-bookish.. put a chicken in the pot, though Huxley volume, which makes an In the oud her lovers renounce their the wish to exactly fite Henry's st chanting and not unprofitable play personal happiness to their patriotitude to France, you k time after the other Mr. Aldous tiem,
- Like wil finér soldiers, Henry hat- Huxley's Music at Night." "In-
od war and could be productively troduction of Mr. Huxley is no
anergetic in peace, and the fugitive longer pertinent. Those unaware of
youth during which he fought and him must be feeble-minded. ⠀ It | It is to Lady Flavin Giffard that wandered about France with his must be enough to say that here is Mr. Ralph Straus dedicates his band of ill-fed and ragged gentle. another collection of these essays A Whip for the Woman" and it men left no bitterness in him. As which have so exactly the nervous is packed with useful information king he would canter almost unit- spirit of our time. foed on the for, all beginners i novel writing teaded over his new bridge across Mr. Aldous Huxley is the least who have the wit to perceive which the Seine and winder About the compartmented of fine essayists are the bones of truth in this jovial then leafy and flowery Paris, bar- He is not above mentioning Mr.blague. It is not itself a novel, but gaining in the markete, and being Michael Arlen (will this give the satiric history of a hypothetical entertained by the rich citizens, trouble to commentators a few book, during which Mr. Straus So attractive a, Agure makes this generations hence, or not 1) or mak- good humouredly pillaries pub- new detailed history, which is ing fun of his own allusive style. Tishara, publicity-mongers, editors onloured and picturesque without Whether he is describing a. Siamese and reviewers in a chain of fun. weskaping into unreliable romanes, cat (Thoir forepaws are gloved To the genuine Flest-street review walcome fasst." Mr. Blógombe is almost to the shoulder like the longer actually with a place in the to be congras lated ou a fine pisos black kid arms of Yvette Guilbert sorum it comes as holiday, but of work which; he has evidently over their hind legs ara tightly how can it be known if the general enjoyed.
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