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"CELIA-BOUND.",
In "Cella-Bound"Miss Winifred Carter has added to her list of successful novely another "charmer" Especially to readers of romantic fiction, this intensely gripping human-drama, of love, suffering and self-sacrifice should have an uncommon appeal.
The story opens with a pathetic sketch of Celia Beckett, the heroine
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THE PEOPLE OF CH'U.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The "first move made in the department of history was nothing less than to rewrite the whole of the chronicles of the T'ang dynasty. The usual scheme had already been carried out by Liu Hea (897-946), a learned scholar of the later Chin dynasty, but on many grounds the result was pronounced un- satisfactory, and steps were taken to supersede it. The execution of this project was ontrusted to Qu-Yang Heiu and Sung C'hi, both of whom were leading men in the world of letters. Ou-Yang Haju dent and Kismet plays him into (1007-1072) had been brought up the hands of Celia, who though in poverty, his mother teaching unable to warn him in time to him to write with a reed. By the avert the disaster that has be-time he was fifteen his great fallen him, manages ultimately to save his life by speedily despatch- ing him to hospital where he lingers at death's door for weeks. Taking pity on him, gt his re- quest, she visits him in hospital, and Barry Broughton wealthy, young victim of circum- stances falls deeply in love. On finding out that she suffers from poverty and blighted love, in leave her all his money by marry order, to help her, he plans to ing her shortly before he is ex- In carrying out pected to die. this scheme both the doctor and métron take part. Believing that
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abilities began to attract atten- tion, and later on he came out first on the list of candidates for the third or highest degree. His public life was a chequered one, owing to the bold positions he took up in defence of what he believed to be right, regardless of Besides the personal interest. dynastic history, he wrote on all kinds of subjects, grave and gay, Book of Poetry, a work on ancient including an exposition of the inscriptions, anecdotes of men of his day, an elaborate treatise on the peony, poetry and essays. without end. The following is a
by Clement subject to no Interruption, but miniscences, continue alway. Burden-carriers Shorter William Blake His ang their way along the road, Philosophy and Symbols," by S. travellers rest awhile under the Toater. Damon Tendencies in trees, shouts from one, responses Modern English Drama," by front another, old people hobbling A. E Morgan; and The History along, children in arms. children of the Northumberland Hussars, dragged along by hand, back by Howard Pease. Words and forwards all day long without a break, these are the people of Ch'u.
Ou-Yang Hsiu, -
(Eleventh Century) Translated by Herbert A. Giles..
BOOK NOTES.
Two volumes are being added by Messrs. Lane to their series of "Bodley Head Quartos next week The Tragicall, Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke" (1608), being a reprint of the first quarto of Shakespeare's play; and "The Wonderfull Yeare" (1608), by Thomas Dekker, showing "A pieture of London lying sicke of the Plague."
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In the leisure of his retirement Sir Charles Darling-created Baron among the New Year Hon- ours has been preparing a new edition of his small volume of verse, entitled "The Oxford Cir-
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 05 % 19845
LA BODEGA.
(T. Fisher Uriwin, 78. 6d. net.)
CICERO THE ORATOR
There were famous oratore be-" fore Cicero Cato the Censor,. Tiberius and Gatus Gracchus, This novel, by Vincente Blasco Antonius and Crassus, Horten Ibanez, was written in 1908. It sius. Of all there Cicero came followed "La Catedral, which into direct competition only with attacked the influence of the Hortensius, and then his victory Ewas complete and decisive. It is probably true that Hortensius had seen his best days as a speaker by the time of the trial of Verrea; it is not unlikely too
rather than on hard work and that he depended on brilliance that it was in great part Cicero's legal acumen and his careful pre- paration which gave him the vic- tory. Cicero's own early speeches fell far short of those of his later some estimate of the general lovel life, and it has been said that of the earlien oratory may be formed from Cicero's first efforts. of these Tacitus anys: "They. are not free from the old-fashion- ed blemishes. He is tedious in his introductions, long-winded in, his narrative parts, and weari- some in his digressions. He is slow to rouse himself and seldom
Next month Messrs, Chapman Catholic Church, and and Hall will publish "Georgian, Intruso," which attacked the Storien, 1924, including a num-Jesuits. In this book also we ber of tales by authors not yet represented in this series, the first have, in a sense, a novel with a volume of which ran through purpose, but, as Dr. Issac Gold. three editions last year. The berg reminds us in the introduce authors represented are Stacy, tlon to his spirited and well Aumonier, J. D. Beresford, Alger- sustained translation, there is non Blackwood, Phyllis Bottome, something more in. "La Bodega" a thesis novel against Ernest Bramah, A. E. Coppard, then St. John Ervine, Cyril Falls, alcoholism, Spain herself lives in Aldous Huxley, Mrs. Bello: these pages, and the passionately Lowndes, St. John Lucas, Denis Spanish attitude of Ibanez's Mackall, Orle Williams, and P. G. earliest work as opposed to the almost cosmopolitan attitude. of Wodehouse.
his later books-lives again in all its first freshness. The first complete. account of For all that, as the drama un the life of Jose Rizal, one of the folds itself in Jerez de la Fron- greatest men the Malay race has tiera-the city which gave its produced, will be published by name to sherry it is wine that Mesara. Allen and Unwin, under dominates the action. What, the
there do you find a sentence that the title "The Hero of the Fili- shadow of the cathedral is to the warms to his work; only here and pincs," by Charles Edward Rus-community in the earlier novel has a rhythmical cadence and a sell and E. B. Rodriguez, Poet, the shadow of the Duponts vast has on at the fight scientist, and sculptor, as well as wine vaults is to the characters of both Quintilian and Tacitus de- Patriot, Rizal, distinguished him- "La Bodega. It is wine that clare that Cicero eventually re- put in many ways before he was makes Lola, the Marquesita, revolutionized thero eventually re-
that makes Luis Dupont work out the tragedy of Maria de la Luz Finally, it is through wine that Luls falls a victim to the 'just vengeance of the girl's brother, And, it is against wine that Fernando Salvatierre, the revolu- tionary
thunders
nineteen-years-old compelled to vacate her grand- beauty of ancient lihenge, who is father's house upon his demise in favour of a male cousin of dis- reputable character. Being left ently been made, in desperation, she will make the dying man specimen of his lighter. .work, cuit, and other Poems," which put to death by the Spanish turn again and again to the hog-both in style and in manner. The unprovided as no will had appar- ahe wires to Roger Morley, a happy by so doing Celia unwit- greatly-admired for the beauty of originally published in the sum Government in his thirty-sixth dealer who flogs her. It is wine latter says "Cicero was the first
handsome but selfish, shallow and tingly plunges into matrimony. shifty youth whom sho deeply Strangely coincidental, on the loves and to whom she has be- day of the marriage, Roger re- come engaged and who is earning appears. The contrast between his living in America, hoping that the common blond beauty of he will come to her aid. This Betty's and the alluring Brunette attempt, however, proves fruit- attractions of Celia opens his 'less, Not wishing to encroach eyes to his folly and prompts him permanently on the hospitality of to court the latter again. Excite a pensioned old nurse with whom ment is raised to its highest pitch she is forced to stay, she, though when Barry, inspired by Celid's with some reluctance, accepts a tender nursing and care mira- post as secretary, to Betty Hey- culously gets well and stands be- nolds; the empty-headed society-tween her and Roger's happiness. butterfly daughter of a profiteer. With the fire of love once more
its style, and diligently read by all students of composition. The theme, as the reader will perceive is the historian himself.
"The district of Cho is entirely surrounded by hills, and the peaks to the southwest are clothed with a dense and beautiful growth of trees, over which the eye wanders in rapture away to the confines of Shantung...
mer of 1909, ran to a second edition almost immediately. The third edition will contain not only all the old poems but also a nearly equal number of new ones.
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"The Persecution by Nero," "The Alleged Persecution by Domi- tian, The Rescript of Hadrian," and "Some External Aspects of the Church in the Fourth Cen- tury."
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Mesars. Macmillan's forthcom ing books include a collection of "Essays in Early Christian His. tory," by Elmer Truesdell Merrill, Professor of Latin in the Univer- aity of Chicago. Among the sub- Messrs. Constable head their jects discussed are:-"The Atti- list of announcements in general tude of Ancient Rome towards literature with two new plays Religion and Religious Culta "St. Joan," by Bernard Shaw, and Christopher Marlowe" by "The sun's rays peeping at Ernest Millon. They also have in dawn through the trees, by and preparation:-"The Secret of the by to be obscured behind gather Coup d'Etat," containing hitherto ing cloude, leaving naught but unpublished correspondence be gloom around, give to the spot tween 1848 and 1852, of. Prince In the latter's home she discovers kindled in even grenier fervour, that her fiancee has returned to Celia realizes the almost utter the alternations of morning and Louis Napoleon, the Comte de
Professor 0. H. Prior, with the Englund and instead of immedi- impossibility of battling it down. night. The wild-flowers exhaling Flahault, and others, edited with ately going to her, has been But subsequently her sense of their perfume from the darkness an introduction by Lord Kerry, assistance of Miss J. P. Strachey, spending his time in London honour and duty assert them- of some shady.dell, the luxuriant and a prefatory essay by Philip Principal of Newnham College where he has been making Betty selves triumphantly over the selfoliage of the dense forest of Guedalla, who is also represented and the Rev. H. J. Chaytor, has beautiful trees, the clear fronty by a separate volume of essays edited a volume of "Cambridge the object of his attentions. Feel- fish desire.
wind; and the named boulders of entitled "A Gallery"; "Byron: Anglo-Norman Texts," which will ing sorely neglected, she has to
the lessening torrent, these are The Last Journey April, 1823- be published early in the coming conclude that since not having
the indications of spring, sum 1824)," by Harold Nicolson; "Re-season by the Cambridge Univer inherited property, he no longer
mer, autumn, and winter. Morn-ligious Life in Ancient Egypt," aity Press. Another forthcoming wants her. At this stage, deli-
ing is the time to go-thither, re- by Sir Flinders Petrie, uniform book from the same press is a cately treated, the story takes a
turning with the shades of night, with his "Social Life in Ancient study of "The Agrarian Revolu- new turn. We are now given the
and although the place presents a Egypt": "India: a Bird's-Eye tion in Roumania," by Mr. I. L. picture of an ill-fated motorist!
different aspect with the changes View," by Lord Ronaldshay; Evans, who traces the history of who has met with a serious acci-
of the seasons, its charms are "Twenty-five Happy Years: Re his subject from its earliest days,
How greater happiness crowns her efforts in the end, and how the other characters did their exits is told in such a grand style. and masterly skill that it cannot but command our admiration.
["Celia Bound." Winifred Carter. Heath Cranton, 7/6.]
THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHT
11
PARTS
ARABIAN TALES
A PHOTOPLAY
SPECTACLE
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A SPICY TALE OF THE SCANDAL OF AN ORIENTAL
COURT and THE ROMANCE OF A PRINCE AND A PRINCESS,
STUPENDOUS GLITTERING-MAGNIFICENT
Coming Soon!
SCREENLAND.
- JANE NOVAK
in
"DIVORCE."
Drab days of struggle, when. the wife fought off grim adversity shoulder to shoulder with her hus band. Then prosperity, affluence," luxury and dissatisfaction. Just when the home is made secure,
the wider viatas of the social world call, disintegrating in- fluences beckon the divorce court looms..
Such is the story of countless thousands who once were happy and a few hundreds who mended the rift and are happier than ever, for the lessons taught them.
But how many have the broad vision to profit, by such experi ence, the prescience to forsee the shoals toward which their matti monial barque is drifting ?
An absorbing photoplay with a, real mission has just reached the screen, It comes as if in answer to the perplexities of married folk who face a schism in their rela tions. Its title is the all-inclusive", ane,of "Divorce," and it strikes at the very root of the evil See how, Jane Parker, as played by Jane Novak, met the crisis of her. married life at the World Theatra next week You will discover a fly in the fireside ointment and go home to make up,
- Sean în support of Miss Novak
in this production, which has
boan directed by the capable Chester Bennett,
Bowergy
Chapman, Adargaret.
and Master Phil
John
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reformer,
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to give the proper finish to oratorical style. He was the first to adopt a method of selection in the use of words, and to cultivate an artistic arrangement; further he tried his hand at some flowery passages and was the author of some pointed sayings, at any rate. through all his wanderings, in the speeches, which he wrote Fermia Montenegro, the hero and when well on in years and toward the justiciar of the novel, is him the close of his career, that is to self an employee of the famous say, when his powers were well wine dealers, and it is to him developed, and he had learned by that most of the exalted praise of experience and practice wine is addressed. Pages, indeed, qualities of the best type of of the book read like one long oratory." Barrett Wendell, in his advertisement for sherry. Traditions of European Litera- Ibanez, one need scarcely say, 15 ture, writes of Cicero's oratory: much too ironical an artist merely "Hia orations, whether legal or to preach against alcoholism. His political, could have been pro- thesis is substantiated not by a duced by nothing less than assidu- series of lectures but by sceneous and life-long study, under the after scene of orgies, painted most skilful teachers, of an extra- with realistic force. And through ordinarily adroit and subtle art." these scenes he takes us into the Whether, under any circum. national life of Spain.
stances, oratory has quite so much though alcohol is the octopus" of practical value, as we are apt to the story, the characters of the assume is beside the point; Cicero book are man and women, drawn could do at will whatever can be to the life and not compressed and done with it. distorted to the scale of a set thesis..
LAST CHANCE TO SEE
..THE
For,
--John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., în "Cicero and. His Influence."
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