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BONE BY MAS, PEARL 8. RUCK. It is a strange picture of the political life of China that. Mrs Pearl S. Buck gives in Bone (Methuen, 7-8d-net), - n' sequel to that first novel of hers, "The Good
Earth, which displayed so many admirable qualities. In the furmer book we were never far from the simplicities of the peasant mind." In the present one we are given as exemplified in old Wang Lung's three sons, a diversity of character that gives far greater scope for the presentation of general condi- tions. The eldest son, Wang the Landlord, was a grose, self-indul gent creature of small intellect. The second, Wang the Merchant, was shrewd, grasping, and not too honest, but untempted by his bodi- ly desires. The third, Wang the Tiger, the central character of the story, was a soldier, ambitious, self-contained, strong-willed, but with a prevailing streak of. hu- maneness in him that was often a Abrious handicap in his rise to power. He began in a small way by deserting from the Southern Army with a hundred men whom ho had seduced from their allegi ance, and presently established himself as a lesser lord of war"
MRS. PEARL BUCK'S
NEW. NOVEL
Signy said loudly, I wish he speak true, and the wind go against you and blow you east, not west of Scotland, so that you come into England's sea and come to where Ivaris, and so
“Stalk” had collected, the more amiable qualities of all: the tries in which he has - sojour
ince was last heard from hir General Dunsterville" has' produc- ed more than one notable book, but this is the first in which the quali ty of his writing has been distino tivi. - Hà, leka "us-into, part of the secret, at any rate, when, hự •nd |
mita that he has discovered the fallacy of adjectives. This is a great principle. The adjective ought to be a reaction of the reader's, to the writer's verb. To forestall it is among the greatest blunders of authorship.
For the rest, there in little for a reviewer to say except that nearly
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amiability, and aseptic humour are not a commonplace of his experi- And sure enough to England, ence. Within the compass of the they come, after an exciting voy present narrative General Duns- age; but how they find Irar, and ferville has, like the Pears in whether after that he lives or Iolanthe," done nothing in not, I leave to the reader to find particular, and done it very well." out. It is quick, grim, powerful! But he has found that there need stuff, in the tradition of the heroio, be no day without its smile, and legenda; and there is humour as the demonstration of that Import- well as pathos in the contrast pro-ant fact will be a good a tonic as vided by Gank, whose resitations literature has in its pharmacy. and explanations go to show that not everybody was brave even on viking voyages,.
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Mr. Dark and -Mr. Derrick are THE BEST STORY EVER. Written by really capital fun. Having told F. Mandell Essington "per J. Angela all about Shakespeare- Stofer Clouston, 7x8, 311 And That Crush, they now proceed pp. Blackwood. 76, 8, n. to eram that innocent child's mind with some notions concerning the Extravaganza is a very good Universe, Which Includes Einstein- in one of the northern provinces. thing in its way, and Mr. Clous And That Crush. While Mr. Dark In the process be was never hinton has often proved what a very gallops gaily through the history dered by the interference of any good way that is and how compe- of scientific thought from Plato to central authority. His method was tent is his mastery over it. Here Einstein, Mr. Derrick is busy to attack and oust the large robber he has complicated his task by illustrating his preposterous re bands who held the district in sub-adding burlesque to extravaganza. marks with thumbuail sketches of mission, and then to maintain his Our old friend Mr. Francis Man irresistible absurdity. It is the army, which grew by degrees into dell Essington has taken to author: reductio ad absurdum of all those a very considerable forco, by the ship, hoping thereby to make ponderous tomes that tell every- levying of taxes, an impost that sono money for his niece who is body all about everything in a merchant and peasant like pre about to set out on a somewhat quarter of a million words. Don't, ferred to the haphazard pillage of strange matrimonial adventure. by the way, skip the Seeded In- the robbers. There was, it is true, He attempts, therefore, to write a
dex." "It is a joke in itself. a resident magistrate with a power detective story, which occupies a of appeal to higher authority; but large part of this book. Those who in practice that appeal was quite remember Mr. Essington will be useless, and before the coming of prepared for the result. The ac
The Cambridge University, Press Wang the Tiger, the soldier policetion of the main story proceeds on have just issued the first six when summoned proved as great an lines even more fantastic than titles in "The Cambridge Mis- evil as the forces they had come, those to which we are accustomed cellany," new pocket library, and failed, to destroy,
when meeting that, gentleman published price 3s. 6d. por volume. And Mr. Clouston, whether he is in size and general format the For the private life and desires speaking through the mouth of books are quite up to the standard of Wang, the Tiger we have no
for himself, of such well-established libraries space even in the briefest sum- Mr. Essington or
as the Phonix" and the "Travel- mary: Sons has the massive never allows his imagination to lers'. The first six volumes, are ness and something of the nature of a saga,. It is full of incident, flag, or to disappoint, the appetite reprints, but the publishers an nounce that it is not their inten- tion to include only reprints in the Miscellany,
it develops themes that present of his readers for topaytarvy many interesting aspects of mo- situations and wild surprises. dorn Chinese life; but every episo-İler
de, however romantic in its broad effect is based on the unchallenge- able influence of personal charac
ter and Mrs. Buck is never tempt
ed to exploit her dramatic sense af
the cost of probability.
The Cambridge Miscellany,
E-
Stalky in Mellow Mood.
The first titles are: Small STALKY SETTLES 'Down." By Talk at Wrerland," by Cecil Torr; Major General L. C. Dunster-"Marlborough and Other Poema," villa. (Jarrolds. 7. 8d.) by Charles Sorley; "A Small Boy One might have thought that in the Bixties," by George Sturt; only a Spaniard could have writ-Two Saints: St. Bernard and ten with the urbanity of spirit re- St. Francis," by G. G. Coulton; vealed in this book, and only a The Influence of Christ in the Frenchman achieved its lightness Ancient World," by T. R. Glover; THE MEN OF NESE by Eric Linkla of touch. For sheer power of plea-The Small Years" by Frank
ter -7/6.
santry it must be compared with Kendon. the memoirs of the elder Dumas,
MR. LINKLATER'S LATEST
Saga-prose (like Dada verse)
displayed is so unmistakably Eng lish, it would almost seem as if
tamed from Mesars. Kelly and (All of these books can be ob Walsh, Chater Road, Hong Kong.)
(Continued on, Pag. 11.)
Of interest
to every
is sa difficult to write because it and, although the temperament is so easy. You deal with plain, simple, primitive emotions: anger, greed, fear, boastfulness and last You describe plain, simple, primi- tive nets: A. hits B. very hard, B. kills C., D. gets drunk, E. laughs, F. begets children. And you say it all in plain, simple, primitive sentences. · Anybody could do it-and, just because any- body could do it. it takes somebody' who is somebody to make it toler able. Stripped of all adventitious aid, the story must have compal- ling power in itself: the writer must be able to put & spell upon the reader, to fores him into the appropriate mood, to compel his attention. In this immense feat, Mr. Linklater has, on the whole succeeded. It is true that the be ginning is slow; the assertions are too bare and obvious; but the reader should not be discour aged. For very soon characters. appear, and incidents are brišked up one finds fand this after all is the tast of narrative) that one -really-does- care, what is going. to happen next. The big event comes on-about-half-way through, when Koland Bkallagrim prepare for their viking voyage, which ends in' a way other than they plan
Thorlief said no more to them till the day came when they were to sail, and the two ships Jay together at Ness. It was still early in the year. - Then he said, Do not sail to-day, but wait till the weather grows better.
It was a clear day and ttold, "the sun was chining, and there was a fair breeze Skallagrim "said, "I see nothing wrong with
weather like thin.
Thorlier said, The wind come from the south-east. north-east. It will go into north, then towards the wen
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