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BOOKS and READERS THE IRISH SITUATION
THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS
DAVID GARNETT'S SELECTION
The publishing season is like a never-ending party at which new
comers
BOOKS FOR THE HOT WEATHER!
SOME NEW NOVELS
BOOKS FROM MESSRS. HODDER AND STOUGHTON
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|England's Anger af Oath
Repudiation
NO VIOLENCE EXPECTED
London, May 4. According to an American view of the matter: "A swift show. down between Great Britain and the Irish Free State appeared un- avoidable to-day as there is a wave of,, resentment at its neighbour's de recision to refuse further fealty to
the British crowd.
by
Below are given some brief views of books recently received
fron Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton:
US are constantly appearing.
Net since the memorable Easter of 1016, when Ireland rose in opeu Shy or brazen, they troop in with
HUNTRESS OF DEATH: By Sydney rebellion against the crown and 'n sinil on their characterless young faces and drift away and become Horler (Hodder and Stoughton) proclaimed herself an independent merged in the crowd, forgotten be-3/8d. This book by Sydney Horler republic, have affairs between the fore they have been given a single is typical of the works of this au- two nations reached a crisis of such introduction, dropped before they thor-intriguing and mystifying, gravity, have been taken up. At such a but the denopement could rapidly The British cabinet was expected party the most beautiful people are at the end and proves as exciting to meet at an early moment and those whom one has seen and reas the earlier part of the book is completely reshapo its Irish policy, cognised, to whom one has spoken entertaining No detective or probably along sterner lines. An | Scotland Yard officer-figures in glo-Irish relations, grown more bit- or with whom one has danced.
The last great book I found was this story, where a young journal ter than ever since the recent re-
publican Buccasses at Christmas; and I cannot recom- ist fills the role of the hern
in the Free mend Au Bout de la Nuit, by Louis!
The story is one of blackmail. State, moved dangerously toward Ferdinand Celine to everyone. But The wife of a well-known barrister the breaking point as British put- if you can follow everything the is the victim, Unable to face ex- lis opinion rose in angry, protest inxi-drivers in Réné Clair's last, posure of her "past" she suffers a against the Dail Fireann's abou film would have said to each other mental collapse. Her sister takes tion of the allegiance oath. in real life, well then don't wait up the blackmailer's challenge, is for the translation. It is a terrible involved in a murder and leaves book; it contains everything that alone for the Cantineat. She has has sprung out of the war-the one purpose in her mind-to un- work of a middle-aged French doc mask the crook who had been the tor who has seen and noted every cause of all her, troubles! How she horros that human beings inflict on accomplishes this and redeems her one another in their helpless stupid- good name is related in the vivid ity. It is the first work of the manner characteristic of Sydney author and it has made an enormous Horler. A thoroughly enjoyable
book! Mensation in France.
THE ARAP
S. H.
Six WERE Tó DIE: By James But of the books genuinely pub- lished during the year, the one Ronald (Hodder and Stoughton) which interested me most was The 3/ed. An extremely clever novel Independent Arab, by Major Bir in which a police surgeon pits his Hubert Young (John Murray, 166.) knowledge of chemistry and human This was partly, but not entirely, fiature against the perverted brains because I am a fanatical admires of a man seeking revenge.
Seven financiers, who had been of Lawrence of Arabia, and here.
we have picture of "Prince Dyna-guilty of certain illegal practices.
contrives
Knowing the nature of his six colleagues, the seventh man, on completing his sentence to get all the six of them under one roof, and there, he murders them, one by one, telling each the precise hour of his death.
700 Years', Feud:
The feud that has gone on for more than 700 years, taking lives, in untold thousands and defeating the efforts of the greatest statesmen and peacemakers, again has cast its ancient shadow across the Irish Sea. But although the nations are embroiled in an
economic war, there appeared no real reason to fear that the present crisis might develop a more violent phase.
The issue that Eamon de Valera's 5overament has forced upon Bri- tain is whether the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 has been affected by abolition of the allegiance path. It is an issue that places Britain in a difficult position, it is generally admitted, but which can no longer
be avoided now.
Until now Britain has contended
by the treaty, which defines the empire and gives it the same do- Free State's position in the British
minion status as Canada's. Mr. J. H. Thomas, Secretary for the Dominions, hes said repeatedly. that abolition of the oath would amount to repudiation of the treaty.
De Valera's Contention
mite" at work. But Sir Hubert find themselves up against the po: that the oath was made mandatory Young is more than a mere witness lice. To save themselves, six of to the events
which Lawience them decided to put the whole described in The Seven Tillars of blame on the seventh, who went to Wisdom, he played a great part prison for a long term. in Arabia himself, he writes vividly and well and remembers the pains and the disappointments, even bet ter than the glamour of those days Yet there is a good deal of glamour
To tura from one Lawrence to another. The last volume of D. H Lawrence's work is a collection of stories called The Lovely Lady (Secker, 7s. ed.), which shows him at his least characteristic, but 1 think at his best. Lawrence was a preacher as well as a great artist, and often ruined a book trying to make the reader listen to his preach ing which was always the same glorification of instinct expressed in the same wearisome set of im ages. But there are no messages in these stories. The Man who loved Islands" is one of the most beauti ful things Lawrence over wrote, while The Rocking Horse Win ner." which was written for a col lection of ghost stories, is Intense ly moving.
SHORT STORIES
De Valera's government insists that it has merely amended the MAGIC, TELLUR By Free State's constitution by delet PENNY (Hodder and Stoughton) ing Article 17. It insists the mat- 7/6d. The scene of this story is ter is merely a domestic one, not laid in the jangles South India, affecting the treaty nor the Free It has been said of Mira Penny that State's empire status. no contemporary novelist writes It is up to Britain, therefore, to with more knowledge and under decide whether the treaty has been standing of her subject than she repudiated. If the cabinet does. so, does, and indeed in the present supporting Thomae sesertion, na novel ale has enhanced her reputational prestige will demand that it
take action of some sort British.; tion.
The characters in the story are observers feel. Britain might de few, but the most interesting one clare that the Free State had for- is that of Govind, a seer, a son of feited its dominion status and re- the forests, who understands the verted to its old one, soms say, but language of birds and benets, and the Free State undoubtedly would who, in the story, is able to invoke refuse to recognize such a ruling. the aid of unseen powers on various Arbitration of the treaty might occasions, good and bad. Govind be an alternative if the League of commands the respect of the an-Nations or the Hague tribunal tives and enjoys the trust and con- fidences of the Europeans,
Another volume of short stories which are on a level with the best of Lawrence's is Better Think Twice About it, by Pirandello (Lane, 7.
Mra. Penny has cleverly woven fd.). They are not in the least ex into this story just that touch of perimental like his plays, but deal romance which makes it entertain with eternal themes and would fiting reading from beginning to end. easily into the "Decameron." A blend of romance and mystery of them, about a Sicilian rustic who is always acceptable but when a mended & broken olive oil jar with story is written with a view to patent cement and rivets from the bringing to the notice of the world, neide, and could then only get the existence of such people as his head out of the neck-to argue Govind. it becomes alt the more the legal aspect of his position with
fascinating. the owner of the jur-is the funniet story I have read for a long time.
TOM'S A.COLD
S., H.
could be the arbiter. Britain, how- ever, will not let an outside body arbitrate empire disputes, and de Valera's government refuses to sub- mit to an all-empire tribunal.
Brital's Probable Action,
with the Free State, British circles.
As for negotiating a new treaty feel they could not honorably do so. on the heels of what they regard as repudiation of the present ene..
The only remaining course, it ap peared, would be for Britain simp- ly to ignore the Dail Eireann's action and let the matter dritt un- til de Valera's government meets a downfall hoping redress might be made by hie successor..
But aside from the threat prestige involved in such acquies cence, observers pointed out that the present Free State government
years barring unforeseen events."
Tart of Oath.
My moet strenuous bit of read- ing this winter has been Light in August by the American, William Faulkner. (Chatto and Windus, 88. ed). It is the story of the murder The "future may hold dangers of an elderly New England woman worse than gunmen and gangsters and the lynching of her partly in store for fe, and in Tom's & cold negro lover, in a Southern State, (Macmillan, 78. ed.) Mr. John Cole strong enough to rule for five and it is very full of gore and lier, has taken the scaremongers at horror. A good deal to my surprise their word and pictures England! It was coandered doubtful," "more- I thought it was most frightfully in the nineteen nineties, forty or good and so had to embark on read fifty years after the collapse of over, that any Free State govern ing all the earlier Faulkners to see civilisation War plague, and ment would ever replace the path, whether I liked them. That is a famine have done their worst, and once it is abolished. labour I do not recommend to any England is inhabited by a few one. Light in August is quite long mutually hostile clans. Some few enough for any normal appetite, have sheep, some bave pigs, bu and I think it is much the best cattle and horses have disappeared. thing Faulkner has done. It is the The setting is very convincing, but kind of book which takes you com- the characters talked too much "Ido solemnly swear, true faith pletely outside yourself and keeps about each other's motives and are and allegiance to the constitution you living faverishly in a world you a painfully ignoble set. From such of the Irish Free State as by law never could have imagined every vision of the future, it is delight established and that I will be faithful to His Majesty King thing dancing in a haze of heat, ful to go back to the recent past, while there is the sweetish taste of The Lame Dog by R H Mottram George V his heirs and successors raw corn whiskey in your mouth (Chatto and Windus, 78. Bd.) by law in virtue of the common Limey an Englishman joins the a chronicle of the Laglish country citizenship of Ireland with Great gange, by James Spenser (Long as it has changed in my lifetime. Britain and her adherence to and mans, 106 Bd), a book of no liter-It is the story of a small, pab.membership of the group of nations ary pretensions, is the smugly self-kept by a tough old horsecoper. It forming the British, commonwealth satisfied autobiography of a brutal in vory East Anglian and the cour
Dablin. The oath of allegiance to the British crown, which the Dail Fireann voted today to abolish, reads as follows:
of nations."-
young English burglar who, finding, try people are real, not faken. If The members of the Dail Fireann his native land uncomfortably hot, you want to take refuge still fur. Are not actually sworn in They went out and joiffed a small gang ther from the modern world, whereign a register in one of the gov
ernment offices containing of garmen in Brooklyn, and after never a whiff of petrol will reach, Wards bolted from there, going out you, I recommend The Garden, Book at. to Hollywood where he renderen of Sir Thomas Hanmer (Gerald valunbis: services, to the keeper of a Howe, 216.). He was a friend or gambling saloon and brothel,It Charles II, and this the moment, I shall road with more attention is exciting and well worth reading, of the year to take him out with than any literary masterpie
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