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OONER or later, I hope, a grateful com-
pany of novelists will set up a monument to Cllo, the muse of history, who for many years has been the most generous patron of the art of action. You want the best-plots?, Bho has them.
Witness the extraordinary case of Struensee, the late eighteenth century dictator who has inspired Robert Neumann's long now story, The Queen's Doctor (Gollancz, 8s. 6d.). Here was a man who, from the novelist's point of view, makes your' Hitlers and Mussolinis look as dull as deal boards.
He first swaggers towards us out of the mists of time, a young man practising medicine and maple in Altong. Just the fellow to diagnose the sickučss of the King of Denmark, Just the fellow to fall in love with the Queen-Consort, an English Princess in miser- able exile. Just the fellow to take one look at that crazy Scandinavian State and make up his mind to master it.
The
A few leverish months and he was dictalor of the Danes, Ministers were sacked right and left, nables and the clergy were shorn of their privileges. Land was parcelled out to the poor and bread to the hungry. And, since Struensee was a serious disciple of Rousseau, all men were declared equal. Always a stranger in a strange land. This energetic "upstart" established fotanding hospitals, abolished 1bo death penalty for theft, ami away with 3130 torture chamber and attacked "Backerism." which was the contem- potary name for the widesprend system of appgjolan rieh men's servants to Jurrative jasts, At the light of his sepime he jrsued over a thousand cabl act orders in less than ten months-- mire than three a day,
Then the reaction set 1. The ! hurlers lost a lot of money in one of hts anuncial experiments, and the Qumia-Mother's party, seizing their chauce, forced the mad King to siyo a paper giving fum full powers mid war- rants of arrest. Structsre was tried and executed, And his royal lover went into another exile.
A political Casanova, an astute and “VTECTOpulokas venter, a atatesman martyre beenuse he was born before 15 Ume-whichever, way you look at Kim, Starniee 15 A superbly sensa Tout prey for the historical novelist. Oddly enough, this tims Herr Neu- mani Inis to rise to the version.
The background glimpses of the book are convincing. But the pace is far tou slow and the characterisation a too atten mechanical, so that you feel things are happening according to plan and not according to Bilatory. And
Clive Brook played Struenseo
in the film "The Dictator."
This is how the "energetic
upstart" finished his reign.
Struensee himcelt remalos a fat por- trait. His genius Is thexplained.
Yet, to anyone with angination, The Queen's Doctor may barr- warding tale.
R
ECALLING that Jolin Erskine oute wrote The Private Life of Helen of Trou, you may expect his latest novel. Solomon, My Son (Michael Joseph, 78. 84.1, to be largely con- cerned with that monarch's be- wildering matrimonial affairs,
But you are warned at once The theme is the building of the temple. ... ... .... As the nuthor justly remarks, When Solomon built the temple he also had to pay for it. Or his people had to. "I invite you. Therefore, to meet hi
Tougn Guy's Progress.
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TUDS LONIGAN was tough. While his mother prayed that he might receive a call" to the priesthood, fourteen-year-old William battered bigger lads on the shler, spat tobacco across the sidewalk, played around with the gang on 35th Street and State.
From chewing to cheap gin slugs was easy. From 35th Street and State, on Chicago's South Side; to Charlie Cellerbatiom's pool room, Weary Reilley's parties, a parade of dames- that wan living. And Studs could take
He was tough.
*
That is the boy we meet in the early pages of James T. Farrell's stupendous Studs Lonigan (Constable, Bs. Ed.): a healthy husky, useful with his sta... mixing hard drinking with vague Idicas of athleticism-instinctively loyal to its family, wanting to do decent things, but Irresistibly distracted by “the gang ? and all that that means.
And so -youthful precoolly develops into habitual indiscipline, the vast changes of the War and post-War years breed new opportunities for flout-- ing conventions and forgetting ambi- tiona
The boy who was tough grows up to wenk-willed youth and irresponsible manhood. The decent, hard-working folk on South side yield to the invasign of the underworld. The coming of the depression brings new fissures into the already cracking social fabric. *.
Everything goes wrong and Stude goes wrong with everything else. For the story of this Williun Lonigan, boy, youth and man, of his famly and
U.S. Ironsides
Runtled States portrayed so u
EADERS who tire of the cellulo.
faithfully upon the screen wil And Ellen Glasgow's Vein of Iron (Cape, BK d.) a refreshingly honest record of home fe In-Amerien,
Here the last three decades are senta through the eyes of a struggling small. town Virginian family.
It is a grand, maddening, suddéning, of quietly happy bye-opening story. years before 1914, the grey war years. the high excitements of boom years and the building of fake prosperity, the bitter years of bread lines and bank erashes and the Flacastles facing good times and ill with a fine courage. They have more than courage. Blood ties and the spirit of family bird them in adversity. And from the gåunt old figure of Grandmother Fincastle to Ranny, the youngest of them, every que is in the round, a living thing.,
A moving book, touchel with beauty and written with restraint.
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friends, narial people with human frailties and hooligans vying with each other in sordid dissipation-all this i the story of contemporary America.
The gradual pitiless 'transformation of an eager adventurous boy, thrust at life, cheated and Anally ongulfed by it, Is depicted with masterly ense. Studs Lonigan is a living thing because Studs Lonigans are to be found on the South Side of any United States elty. And their disastrous attempts at living / are the outward and visible sign of the decay of middle-clars America.
So this book becomes more than a brillkur plece of fiction, a startlingly impressive. terrifying record of one life: it is the current history of a great slice of a great people. It loses nothing by comparison with An American Tragedy and Main Street, and it has ter drawing and sustained power all its qualities of lucld description, charac-
own.
James Farrell has written an unfor gettable book. Studs Lonigan is tough. but it earns all the superintives,
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the old story some friends of ours- tax, surbx and lacome tax, barler, ex- change and the adjustment of inter- national 'debts, over-production, imem- ployment and made work, the revolu. tury aberrations of the labourh cles and the counter-hope of the em- ployers to weed out the foreigner, keep the race pure and so prevent the generation of idens,
And if you think that sounds dull, with Jeroboam as a workers' kader. Bathsheba as a nuanaging mother and The Queen of Sheba as a beautiful, Koolish wild dangerous woman, you don't know your Mr. Erskino.
N England we spread our suburbs over miles of countryside: In Those United States they pile the small houses on top of one another, as Booth Tarkington shows you in his story of life in an apartment- house, The Lorenzo Bunch (Heine- mann, 75.. Gd.).
The American community which
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Mr. Turkington has made a brilliant and terrifying survey of these islancia Terrifying because you are nuly forced to realise that you are watch. ing people who are enjoying all the inaterial and educationin) advantages > moderu civilsation, yet this is the best they can do with their spare line...
They are kind-hearted enough: when tragedy stumbles in on the heels of the Bousin, they rush to the rescue in admirable style. They are loyal to their traditions. They keep the home flag flying. They are well-meaning and hospitable. But they have no social! conscience, no concern for the world beyond their door.
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REVIVAL of MARXISM
I is a curious thing that, while on the Continent Marxism is
Zoned or suppressed, in this coun- try it is enjoying a small reviva), 'at any rate among intellectuals.
Professor 1. J. Laski in easily the most important of recent converts, and his new book. The isn of European Liberalism (Allen and Unwin. 75, 68.), written with all his brilliant and easy. mastery, shows how much socini demo- cracy has lost is losing him.
DOW
· Hla neceptance of Marxism
· seems unqualified. Liberalism, he says, is the philosophical counterpart of "bourgcols Capitalism." Religious Lateralion came about because intoler ance was seen to be bad for business. HR. G. Greaves, in Reactionary England (The Acorn Press, 55.), also seems to have gone Marxist, at any rate to the point of being nervous about the possibility of Fascism in Britain.
This is an Interesting little book in
Wisdom Without Tears WELCOME to the cheap edition of Naomi Mitchison's popular Out- line for Boys and Giris (Gollancz. 53,),
This book, which ranges through every field of modern knowledge-his- tary, politics, blotology, science and the arts--caused a sensation when it first appeared some years ago. A thousand pages of wisdom without tears.
which the author sets forth such portant social facts as he can find to illustrate the prejudice of the police, the influence of wealth and birth in Parliament and the Foreign Ofee, and the political power of big bualucss.
It will seem to some readers that Mr. Greaves has not preserved a full sense of proportion in presenting his facts, with the result that he has come to much gloomier conclusions than the evidence justifies
R. F.
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