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FOR ACCION Including an">Out?" Tine for „Beginners and Illus Thegrative Hands from the Cul
|bertson-Lehz. Match. By Ely Culbertson English Edition. Edited by Hubert Phillips 7 by 5 188 pp. Faber and Fabere 65. 1
Elipor
| Salutation," which, with,
Barley," is one of the two Janger stories, is also dexterous and, han charm;' and 'in,all the stories, from time to time, one pauses over some
The IAN AND FELICITY (Hodder mutual liking, as intimated in a
This edition of Mr. Culbertson's and Stoughton, s. 6d. net) of Mr. typical week of their lives, is the beauty of speech at mountains, Denis Mackail's new novel are the whole story. And, as it is a typi- for instance, which rose, up but book is intended not only for Auc Ian and Felicity who ten yearscal week of a husband with a mo- of a continent, with time wander- tion players who are faking up ago were a young honeymoon cou-
derately paid post in the City and ing scross their slopes like a slight Contract, but also to show how the -ple in "Greenery Street." The P-with-a-corresponding clond." And there is a delightful system of bidding generally asso have now moved to "Puninsun household to care for, nothing in souvenir of Emily Bronte, surpris- clated with the hame of Culbertson Place"; they had to as the result the smallest degree sensational hay-ingly handled.
of the birth first of Anne and then
of Michael; but as the new house pens in the course of it. Mr. Mac-
is but half a mile from their first kail is quite fair about it all, and he warns us that it is not in this
has
1548.
their circle remains much what it story that the lady responds to the
The impute which prompted Mr. Mackail is to be mysterious telephone mesjage and found in a quotation from the ear disappears in the taxi driven by Ilier book:
the humpbacked Chinaman. After some adventuring in his youth he FELICITY." Perhaps it is differ appear to have satisfied Himself jent when you've been married ton that "C'est sortir de l'humanité
years."
que de sortir du milieu." Aritimu bence balance of parts; and it is from that, and not from any in- decision in grasp, that Mr. Mac kail derives his lightness of touch. It is with him throughout this new novel:
FIRST CONTACTS OF FAR
EAST AND WEST
can be used by those who prefer ¡the older game The aim is to prove also that Contract is not the = cumplicated and “difion game many people imagine, and other in order to become succesful Contratt players it is only necessary i för those who are well grounded in tæer THE MERCHANT VENTURERS OF Approach principles of Auojan LONDON: A Recospu Fan bidding to apply the same inethods EASTERN TRADE ANDA PIRACY to the more exacting requirements DURING THE 17TH CENTURY," By of Contract bidding. After a com- Charles Grey. Edited, with mendably brief summary of his preface, by Lieut-General Sir system, Mr. Culbertson proceeds to George MacMunn, (Whitherby, show where Auction and Contract 129.6d.)
are similar and where they differ, This is a record, taken largely out in parallel columns the differ
He does this effectively by setting And it is not-except that Mr.
if we ask how he from original documents, of the ant requirements for the forms Macknil, a writer who takes his managed to keep us interested for hazards, misadventures, and mis- of the game, and follows with own line, is concerned with a do four pages in Felicity's blotting deeds of our early merchant adven number of hands showing the cor mratic universe, that is not expand bank the ing in the fashion of the day it through its trial spellings and a sea trade were like most begin- Contract., kad
nswer may be that turer. The beginnings of our over-reat bidding at Avotionlod at concentrating Hia Tan sums it forth be was telling us what sort nings, crude and tentative, and de when Mr. Mackall supplies words of a wife that adorable creature pended it nearly equal parts on for his thoughts:
IAN (after thinking this over), "I'd rather it wasn't."
FELICITY. "Well, perhaps
;"
it
Just for these few short years we really are a family; I really think I have made something worth keeping and defending I really can feel that it's all there when I' bolt the front doar at night...
is.
SWEET SEVENTEEN,
INVITATION TO THE WALTZ By Ro- somand Lehmann. 7 by51, '302 PF.
Chatto and Windu Te. Od. m. 708. Miss Lehmann has so recaptured
1
courage and kuavery. There were rivals in the field, already estab fished; and Dutch and French and Portuguese had on their side no scruple about methods of opposi tion. These reached their height.in the dreadful affair of Amboyna, when a crew of Englishmen were forced, under torture, to confess to falue charges of conspiracy and were afterwards, executed. Clear
is the story of William Hawkins
from Messrs. Kally and Walsh, (These Books, may be zohjaineti chater Road, Hong Kong,).
THE WORLD CRISIS
IS CAPITALISM DOOMED ? THE TWELFTH HOUR OF CAPITALISM. By Kuno Renatus, translated (London: - by: E. Wg Wickes,"
George Allen, and Unwin, Ltd.,
·7/6.)
Economists are apt to be pedan-
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A serious fellow, then, this Mr. Mackail? Ultimately, yes; but not so that you need nolice it.
We come to know what married life means to the unintrospective Iun. not because he talks as he muses the outlook of seventeen years old ful reading, compared with that, bus because be makes such a fuss that every feminine. render must go and the Grand Mogul, a. broczy if his conscientious wife insists on back in thought to her own first patentate who openly disregarded tio and, as a rule they make but the need for maintaining social re- dance, the anticipation, the new the Mohammedan rules of diet and dull reading. On top of this, one Iations--for having people to din- dress, the disappointments, the un- "when any scrupulous person of of the few pointe on which all ner-when would prefer to be expected itriumphs, and the feeling his own nation happened to be pre-economists agree is the fundamental at his case with her behind the that life is now really perhaps be sent, ordered him to break his flaw in economic reasoning-namely bolted front door; and we come to ginning. It all started on Olivia's fast, or he would throw him to the the treating of man as a rational know what it means to Felicity,eventeenth birthday when her pa lions, a brace of whom wore al being. harassed though she is, by the rents gave her n dress length of ways chained beneath the window." apathy of the cook and the enter, flare-coloured silk. How she had This Hawkins, a nephew of Birman in his endeavours to earn
Yet Economics, which treats of prise of the builder, from her com. it made up by the village dress John, had started his career with living, is so vita a subject that menting on the people who were maker, the awful moment when is an expedition to find. the North most conscientious citizens plough always baying cocktail parties or looked all wrong and Olivia would West Passage. the captain' com despairingly through books on the dashing over to Deauville that they have given up the ball in despair mission permitting him to take science in the Pope of learning only did it because
their hus if her kind sister Kate had not all ships that should oppose him something about it. How relieved bands were rich or because they discovered that it was on back to south of the equinoctial line"; so such people will be on picking up. didn't really like them," Ian and front, the mortifying episode of ambiguous were the frontiers be The Twelfth Hour of Capitalism, Felicity like one another. That the lace coller; all these led up to (ween trade and piracy. In this for it is a readable book on a moat
the dance itself, where nothing par latter business even the most res important subject. - ticular happens, but-Miss Lehmann pectable people, engaged, and we can describe it very well. She has find the Seahome starting from The object of this book is to shew! created a gallery of entertaining Plymouth in 1630 commissioned by how the present, regrettably cbvious portraits drawn
in a few pen the King to "range the seas the World Crisis, of unexampled sever- strokes. There is Mrs. Curtis who world over for the purpose of takity and duration, with its daily was, in her daughters" opinion, far ing prizes." too kind: "Ask him because he.
shrinkage of the total of world- trade, arose.. hasn't got a tail-cost is roughly! We renew acquaintance in these. The author starts off by describ her motto "nbout dances." There pages with Will Adams, whose is Peter Jenkins who was worried twenty years in Japan is commem- ing the crisis, then proceeds to dis by his "dear old Oedipus pom- orated in the name of a street in of that have already been put for
cuss the various explanations there." plex: "My mother Simply Yedu; and Francis Day, that accept the fact that she's ruined stout knave" who by sort of ward, showing en passant that one's life My father I merely accident, and in a whirlwind of many facts that have been suggested. dislike: Or rather despise. There recriminations, founded. Madras: as causes, are but eymptoms of the are two provincial satyrs (in a and Captain Andrew Shilling, who crisis. And from the Strakosch and mind and respectable way) to fought the Portuguese in the Per Dalberg theories the author pro whom Olivia is kind and regrets sian Gulf and other doughty crisis is due to the enormous public ceeds to his own; namely, that the it the happy irresponsible Mari pioneers. It is not all. pleasant
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gold who lightly calls people in reading, but it is all spirited and debts still outstanding as a result conspicuous," or "lascivorous." If muscular and rough-and-tumble, as of the recent was. The world is; we had to choose among her clever befits days when the ses had more as it were, over-capitalized.
ly characters, we should choose salt in it than we know.
James. Here is a short hut pene-1 trating study of a little boy, part Artist, part philosopher, sufficient to himself and wholly natural, Ex cept for the rather morbid present. ment of Mies Robinson the dress- maker, there is nothing in the book that is not shrewdly observed, and amusingly told,
THE SALUTATION
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Mies Sylvia Townsend Warner is
in danger of thinking, it seerns, that her literary reputation may be nourished by fantasy and quaintness. And this is a pity; for by the evidence of one story, "Elinor Barley," in her new col lection of short stories, THE SALU
· TATION (Chatto and Windus, 78. Ød.. net), she reaches a point of great- er excellence along straight roads than by the pursuit of curiosities. She is also a too willing victim of an excess of her own merits--for example, the frivolousness that. may be in good writing, in sentän, ces too well dressed for their pur- pose. Moreover, one had imagined she would be too good an artist to be tempted by 'the ridiculous clever- ness; especially of endings, which is the treacherous vice of the shirt- atory medium. In "The Bon”, she Stella of a man who has been; de- frauded of happiness by a power: ful mother, and who returns, an Eged solitary, to their house (all most movingly related); but then-- using the irritating symbolism of the accomplished technician-Mig Warner makes him stash bis-mo- ther's portrait with a poker and walk out into the night.
It is necessary to refer to these unrealities in the book for the es - "pecial reason that when she withes, when usha yan. Berions - Rade, simple, Miss Warner writes mem with the distinct outline:
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