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of my mind, till, by the timeing, honest hero, wicked noble- the enormous day was over, it man, and venal villian type. If had been filled by most of the Mr. Marshall had made a failure widely-known Theories of Ex with his earlier novels thera istence, and then emptied of might be the usual, highly com prehensible reason for "writing down" to a larger public. He has, on the contrary, succeeded. He has even been described as a successor to Anthony Trollope. which indicates that he can do better work than this.
An impotent creed? Perhaps; A CAUSTIC HUMORIST.
bat Mr. Pearsall Smith's wit and There are humorists and bum-cynicism and fastidiousness make orists, frolicsome "Elia" and mor- delightful reading. These thumb Cant Swift and many other sorts. nail sketches of the bumao soul Mr. Pearsal Smith belongs to the en deshabille have truth as well as How many of us cynical brand. Fortunately, his diablerie. cynicism has a saving quality of cannot sympathize with the bero geniality. He has just given the of the incident entitled. The public a further sample of his Ear-Trumpet": wares in "More Trivia"Constabla 6. Mr. Pearsall Smith is the saspshotter in literature. He is the chiel among us taking notes in the deadlier fashion it is bis bob- by to catch us si a disadvantage. If ever we feel a touch of com. placence, of satisfaction, of no- bility, "click" goes his camera. and you get something like this:-
There was once a young mao who thought he saw Life as it really is, who prided himself an looking at it grimly in the face without illasions. And he went on looking at it grimly, as he thought, for a good many years. This was his notion of himself: but one day, meeting some very young people, he saw, refected as it were in their eyes, a bland old gentleman with a white waist-coat and
Victorian whiskers, a lover of souls and subsets, and noble solutions for all problem
These were talking of people I did not know. "How do they spend their time there ?" some one asked.
my
Miss Dorothy Canfield had con-. siderable success in America with "The Beat Twig," which is now republished by Constable (75.Ed.). The book deserves to be popular, for the people in it are all full of interes, and there is a couple of Then I who had bee1 parents who live in one's memory sitting too long sileat, raised as a genuinely beautiful study of voice. "Ah, that's what two parents might be. They mysterious question what you are the ideal complement of one think of it. how people another, the wife being the pre- spend their time. We only see dominating influence. Not often them after all in glimpses; but does a character in, fiction reach what, I often wonder, do they the beauty of that mother, and do in their bushed and shrouded Miss Canfield may feel justly bours-io all the mysterious in- proud of having created her. The teratices of their lives?
book is mainly about a pretty American girl whose vanity and social ambitions are for ever
"In the what?"
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In the times. I mean, when
no one sees them. In the in-fighting her ionate purity of tervals."
heart and aim inherited and But isn't that the word you cultivated in her delightful home. used?"
That she should feal the wildest "It's the same thing-the in- revulsion from the strenuously high standard of her bringing up terstices
Of course, there was a desfis perhaps natural; so is the lady present. What did you eventual victory of that standard say?" she inquired, holding out when she comes into contact her ear trumpet for my answer. with baser ideals. There is an The author has an inquisitive immenee amount written of these torn and an observant eye, yield people--the book, in fact, is the Yet his part is not the udrocatus" ing a collection of entertaining "good long read" desired of the library-subscriber and that we diaboli; it is rather the Remem-ancedotes.
never tire until the end is a brancer, who suggests to us not
tribute to the author, who will probably extend her success.
That was what he saw in the eyes of those atrocious young
men.
...
ODLY the transience, but the Here is Baroness Orczy with childishness, of mundane glories. another Scarlet Pimpernel story Like a new Diogenes with bis(Hodder and Stoughton (s. 6d.). lantern, be peers into every secret Scarlet is a colour that is apt cranny of the personality, not so to fade under the suns of years. much to find honesty as to expose and we thrill, alas no longer to dishonesty. No "noble solutions" the marrow on reading of the for him! He is doubt and carios-fabulous escapes and airy im- ity incarnate. He feels himself, podences of the delectable Sir like so macy sensitive souls, an Percy. This volume of his doings alien in alien world, whose may possibly "elaga" as well as problems. so far from inspiring "The Scarlet Pimpernel did only baffle and perplex bira. The audience will get much Sometimes it is the humour of it amusement out of making up its that strikes him :--
CHINA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM.
at the
Vernacular Organ's Plea. The revision of the Customs tariff and the abolition of extra- territorialty, discussed Washington Conference, are two mind as to which individual questions that should be regarded People often seem to take the two doubles is on the boards as of equal importaces to on the me for someone else; they talk before it. In actuality the plot Chinese), is the opinion of the to me as if I was a person of is a shade, too incredible for in- Shunpao. Dar Government bas earnest views and unalterable terest. For one thing it presumes paid prompt attention only to the convictions. What is your that Robsepierre, tile execat question of tariff revision by opinion of Democracy?" theying every other suspect Frac which the Customs revenue can ask. "Are you in favour of the tically at sight, would have al- be increased. The abolition of Channel Tunnel?" "Do you loved permanently at large extraterritoriality, must be pre- believe in
who man
was generally ceded by an improvement in our Deatb
known to help bis most dangerous judicial system, which it requires I assume thoughtful enemy. There are many touches fonds to effect end this question attitude, and by means of grave of the old ingencity, and the has therefore been shelved by our looks and evasive answers always fascinating Theresia Ca-Goverment. Did we only aim conceal-or at least I hope barras cores in to some effect. at securing a few tens of millious I conceal my discreditable Still, however ungrateful it may of Customs revenue when we seem in the saving, the red flower claimed the fall exercise of our secret
is now a little faded. and putting rights at the Washington Confer it into a row vase with fresh Lence? Could our country attain water cannot hide the fact.
s position of equality in the comity of nations by, virtus of this increase in Customs revenue? If our judicial system is not in-
existence
after the
Sometimes it is a sort of plaintive wonderment:-
I got up with Stoic fortitude of mind in the cold this morn- ing; but afterwards, in my hot
...
Mr. Archibald Marsball is bath, I joined the school of hardly seen at his best in "Big Epicarus. I was a Materialist Peter" (Collins, 7s. 6d.). The proved, full judicial power will at breakfast after it an Jinalist, author, bas small excuse for not be returned to. us and wa as I smoked my first cigarette writing a novel that reads like a cannot enjoy a position inter and, turned the world to third-rate feuilleton and has no nationally equal to that of other transcendental vapour. But ngle character, episode, or sen- Powers.
when I began to read "The tence in it of either originality or Times" Lhid to doubt of the Primiretion of any kindy! The camo existence of an external world) it depends upon prepostarotin So all the morning and all the coincideicone its plements-ste afternoon opinions kept flowing |
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