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THE SECRET OF THE
GOLDEN FLOWER.
Translated by Richard Wilhelm, with a European commentary by C. G. Jun. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Ltd., 12/8)
CHINESE BOOK
OF LIFE
1931.
BRITONS AS SEEN BY A.
"GERMAN.
OUR GREY `FLANNEL ·
"BAGS."
When We are Happy.
On the subject of men's clothes the author has words of deep-wis dom
are the better.... tional garb,"
ARE YOU WATCHING THE ADVERTISEMENTS
mundis, most of whom are unfami washa por tool who was sentenced in an interesting book called John Har to the general roader The for donth for standing goods to the Bull at Home (Harrap, 85, d.). Mystery of Ireland's Eye" resen-value of some fifty shillings towards Discussing has he calls pro
About our lost spirit of ad- bles the Maybrick case in that the the close of the Eighteenth Century.vincialism in the metropolis, this venture, this appreciative critte da penalty of death was most illogicni-He was reprievad and the sentence observor ays. that the regulation of very sad and vary ingeniour A y reduced to penal servitude it was commuted to life imprisonment. traffic in London. is, based on met- variety of reasons have been ad- life, and it has other interesting but he only served four years of hods dating to the time of the vanced lately, but who would have aspects. But the most fascinating his sentence. A more microbe in hansom cab, and that congestion is suspected that the hire-purchase section deals with the amazing comparison with the gangsters of partly due to our domestic habitsystem is the true micence to our Dunecht affair, the theft from the to-day, but Mr. Roughead or Mr. English household dconomy, for country's powers of expansión : mortuary chapot in Aberdeenshire Logan could have made something instance, is not concerned with A result of the instalment: A of the body of the Earl of Craw of him, seeing that his experiences storing provisions. No one dreams system of payment, by means of AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CRIMINAL, Byford. I should appeal to all mem-included cannibali
of buying potatoes, in large quanti which he on acquire a little dir Henry Tufts Edited, with an bors, whether roadors or writers,
Lies, and oond is hardlyly ever stor.and his furniture, the young man is of the Clan Macabro." Introduction, by Edmund Pear
ed for wore than a fortnight. The obliged to remain chained to one son. Jarrolds. 18, no.
American Masterpieces, "
preparation for a simple Junch acts spot. Thus one of the main props Ave delivery vansin motion, all of
of the British Empire, the spirit of Murder is always with us,' Mr. Guy Logan's "chronicle Is
which deliver the needs for the day adventure, is undermined." observes Conrad in The Secret surprisingly up to date, it actual
in minute quantities.." Agent." It is almost an institu of Mrs. Julian Wallace in January ly includes the story of the murder tien." It sours in all classes of of this year. No doubt it must A "translation" of a translation Lambton shows, it is now very rare was the Arst case in which the the community. but, as Mr. Arthur rank as a "classic" in the chronic
Jea of crime; not only because it
He has parceived a phono- from the Chinese reminds one rather
London is the most moral expital' menon of contemporary English life among the aristocratic members of Court of Appeal felt it necessary in the whole world. of the classic insult: "illegitimats the community. Indeed, many a
which has gooc uncelebrated for boo to set aside a conviction, but also The Englishman, in any and avery long-our grey fancel" bngs. *!* son of an illegitimate child of a long year has passed by since tant of a cheas-player being con-anversion with as little ev as much in full evauing dress and other cere
because it was the only instancs ex-circumstance of life, spends. corporal, in the Moxioun army."
We may look at our best, he says, But that is all this edition of the murderer was able to claim, by demned to death. Mr. Logan pre-heartache as the German spends monial creations of English fashions T'ai I Chin Hun Tuang Chibvirtue of his blue blood, the pless sons work has a bignons werthy. There is more money in England happy and comfortable in grey fat.
sonts Boveral American murderers have maks (38)
for men, but we only feel really The late Dr. Wilhelming privilege of being hanged with of the Big Republic whore mass than in Germany, and the standard nel trousers! Hear him on the wrote a suficient number of books on Chinose subjecta to be considered silken rope. Indeed, Mr. Lamb-production killing is a civie com- of living is n trifle higher, but if we national garb of the English- a sinologue, but he is probably best ton has to go back to 1730 to find monplace, known for his delightful discovery, an instance of a Poor, Lord Ferrera.
Germans had the Englishman's man's No criminal ought over to write money we should live twice as well in the early part of his book "Die to wit, who was hanged for murder, his ownlife. That is the lesson one as he does.
"They are worn by millions, from Seele Chinas," that the Chinese was
the Prime Minister to the working also a human being. And, despite
His Lordship, handsomely attired, loarns from the autobiography of Those are some of the opinions man, generally in summer, but also Dr. Jung's charming "homma-ga,“
was driven to Tyburn in his own Henry Tufts, the first in a long expressed by Dr. Karl Silex. in winter. They harig round à it is this n pect of Dr. Wilhelm that landau, which was followed by series of made-in-America examples well-known Comman journalist whoman's legs like sacks, and may aven predominuten in the box undur re-ry other carriages and a strong of such books of confession: Ho has lived in London for six years, be a little grubby The older tacy
contingent of "horso grenadiers view. Not being one of" that small
He declared himself much upset by group of people who, in the opinion the King's decision that he must of the editor, understood the suffer at Tyburn, and not in the questions discussed" I have not Tower, whore his ancestor, Lord had the opportunity of comparing Essex-Queen Elizabeth's favourite the text with the translation Buthad been boheaded. inclegant prese of this work,чg- sents a painfully fiteral transla tion. with stacatio zentonces, clumsy compounds, parentheses und
ones."
amounts to
Mr. Lambton gives us pithy, yet picturesque, accounts of other early murders at home and abroad, but it is the cases which have occurred
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Poorly Produced.
.
Unsolved Problems.
which most interest him. As Co- founder of the Crimes Club and
and badly arranged. It is printel to much material which is nycud The book is also pourly produced ary Secretary, he has had access for twenty-eight years ita Honor-
horrible shining paper, with the rasch of the ordinary crimino thing at the top of the page to logist, and his stories are not only. help the reader and his way about, a inble of contents but no index (some of his sources being living well-documented curately and and merely a reference to rothe notes in the middle of the book to grim humour in the same mode is documente), but are marked by a confrm a belief, induced by the
De Quincey's saying that the worst style thereof, that the passages in
of murder was that it led on to smaller print aro a Chinese com-Sabbath-breaking. mentary on the original work. An- ather comment this suggests itself in: For whom is the book intended? 1 for the specialist, the Chinese characters should be given whenever
term is romanised and, ungrate ful wretch that I aff. Dr. Jung's commentary seems hardly necessary. bf for the man-in-the-stroet, Dr. Jung's commentary should be placed first and it should be explained that neither has the T'a: 1 Chia Hur Taung Chih had more than a slight effect on the mass of Chinese thought, nor does that school of Chinese thought represented in this work adequately represent the "wis dom of the East," as Dr. Jung' seems to imply.
Excellent Reading.
His accounts of such unsolved mysteries da the murder of Han- uah Dobba (queues assembled at Madame Tussaud's to, so the figy of the person acquitted in this case, which was set up just outside the Chamber of Heriors!), the Peasen. hall tragedy, and the killing of Thoma Weldon Anderson are par ticularly well worked out. It was the chisel of Orrock, which had the lettore "rock" scratched on which inspired the late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Study in Scarlet." In that thrilling tale Rache". was written in blood on a wall and Lestrade (or was it Gregson?) fatuously informed Sherlock Hoi- nes that it was the first five letters The team-
But the book is intensely interest of a woman's name. ing and excites one to read and play of our C.I.D. experts and re-rend it. It is full of healthy their capacity for taking infinita wisdom, the passage on laziness (P.paine (which is Buffon's definition 47) for instance, or that about the of genius) are duly praised in right means in the hands of the Mr. Lambton's fascinating studies. wrong men, kept doubly sane by Dr. Jung's admirable commentary with its passages such as: "It is Hio
therefore lamentable indeed when
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She welcomed life with open arms-love with a frusting heart.
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and imitates the East of "nflecta it in any way. He would have much greater possibilities if he would remain true to himself and develop out of his own nature all that the East has brought forth from its inner being in the course of centuries" and "It is not n matter of unconcern whether one calls something a** mania "
god.” To serve a mania is detent- able and undignified, but to servs god is full of meaning and rich in possibilities.
There i
too, much deep ani delightful sym. bolism in the book, and some beau- tiful passages. Many a reader will balf-envy the unfortunate who goes among the fox-spirits, where he
might also occupy himself in the famous mountains, enjoying the wind and the moon, the flowers und fruits, and taking his pleasure in coral trees and jewelled grass." And the intriguing, "mandalas " provide pictorial evidence support- ing the book when it says that, even in the renima of psychclogy. Chang Wai I Li" (Chinese and foreigners are much the same),
And as a fuel, and perhaps rather frivolous, coinment, why all this confusion of "bun " and 21
po," "animus" and "anima when Xavier de Maistre "has_ro- solved the problem so. admirably and gracefully in the sixth chapter of his Voyage autour de Climbre ". with his system - " de l'âme et de la bête"},
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