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Nans In Jeopardy, by Martin Boyd (Dent, 7s. 6d.). A hand- being business mon and his atory ful of nuns and sailors are ship MR. Upton Sinclair has taken gains strength and balance from wrecked on a Paradise of an
Raserve Liability of Proprietors endless trouble to make his that fact. The fiery donuncia- jaland for longer than is good for epic on the years 1913 to 1919 tions of earlier novels are entire them. The conventions of civill-
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possible, absent from "World's End."
His characters survive or fall by sation must burst before long. "World's End" is history as well their own words and actions. Will they hold out until the in- es fiction and, as he tells us him- Even the Peace Conference, with evitable rescue ship arrives? It' self in an introduction, he is all its warring interests, is left is an exciting mes, expertly sure that there are no important to find its own level. The many described. mistakes, and that he has tried chapters devoted to its progress to play fair. Many of the char- are among the best in the book. "World's End," though far actors appearing in this book are from being typical "Upton Sin real people, and there is a magni- clair," is a magnificent epic of ficent picture of the Peace Con- the beginning of an era which is ference as seen from the Hotel still with us. "They sowed tho Crillon, which housed the Ameri- wind" and now can delegates. The principal characters are American, for the author is modest enough to think that he is not qualified to write a novel about Europeans, but most of his Americans live in Europe and have a varied and eclectic collection of European friends.
Lanny, the young boy around whom the story is written, is liv- ing with his young and beauti- ful mother, Beauty," the divorced wife of an American munitions magnate, near Can nes, but the pair are often visit ed by his father, who has re- mained on good terms with them both. Through Lanny's father the reader gets close to the whole world-wide munitions racket. The enigmatic Zaharoff moves in and out of the atory, and dominates it whenever he appears, "Beauty's" complicated love history is enacted against
a war-weary
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And No Man's Wit, by Rose Macaulay (Collins, 8s. 6d.). An Englishwoman takes her family. to help find her son, missing since the end of the Spanish war. Is this a highly-skilled world is reaping the whirlwind, writer's report on Franco Spain, and the end is not yet. "World's or a successful novel? Read it End" well deserves the honour and take your choico. But read of having been chosen by the It Literary Guild as the Book of The Hundredth Year, by Philip the Month. The author claims Guedalin. (Butterworth, 125. that whatever he has, of spirit, of knowledge of the human heart, of the world we live in, or of the future we are all help ing to make, he has put into this book. The field is enormous, and he ran away from it as long as possible, but the book insisted on being written and goes out to the citizens of a world on fire, What the outcome of it all will be is beyond human prediction, remains that but the fact "World's End" is an exciting and thrilling novel..
Writing for the vast Ameri- can public which knows little of European conditions and cares less, it is inevitable that some parts of the book should read. like some- "Child's Guide to Knowledge" of European affairs and modes of living, but these interludes need not detract from the interest or value of the book a whole. Conviction and background of impending as war and heedless futile inter- vitality, not style, have ever been Upton Sinclair's strong national society.
suits in the game of novel writ ing, and "World's End" is a worthy successor to "Oil" and "The Wet Parade."
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Upton Sinclair uses great re straint. when dealing with his heedless butterflies and schem-
Here 1930 is cust for the leading role. in the drama of Our Times. Looking back, you may agree. But even if you don't you will not deny the author's stylish workmanship,
Rich Uncle, by Jack Single (Mạc- This first novel in- millan, 74. Od.). troduces a goy and skilful humorist. He, in turn, Introduces some grand characters to put over what is unfor- tunately a well-worn plat. But it is good fun. Get this book, if only to enjoy a demonstration of expert story telling.
Embezzled Heaven, by Franz Wer-
80. fel (Hamish Hamilton, Bd.). Sacrificing every comfort in life to train her nephew for the Church, a peasant woman reaches old age to find she has been tricked. A story of rare and fascinating charm
Cottage Pic, by Marjorie Hessell Tiltman (Hodder and Stoughton, Us. This sensitively-written month- d.). try provides a welcome escape from by-month diary of a year in the coun- the grim realities of to-day.
The Voice of the Nazl, by W. A. Sinclair (Collins. 6d.) lifts the vell from the mind of the Nazt. It shows what a powerful ally Hitler has mado the lies and false premises poured out It warns you that of propaganda. by Goebbels' machine have only one object to weaken your will to resist, An excellent gas-mask against pro- pagunda poison.
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