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BOOKS

THE NEW REPUBLIC.

man-but in that, hard and verifi- able fact, that the man can build houses and cotton-milla, whereas the highest monkey can scarcely make the rudeat approach to 4 hut."

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SATURDAY APRIL 12 1924

catch through the fire and the service in the stalls, but, as ho untamed creature with em- smoke one single glimpse of the could not be heard, he goes on to browned limba native to the sunlit miles beyond." A hush the stage to preach. The curtain followed, hush broken by Mr. was observed to twitch and trem-

air and the sea; the other marble white and swan-soft, Rose. To me," he said, raising ble; two or three abortive pulls couched delicately on cushions his eyebrows wearily and sending were made, and at last Faust and "But can you tell me," Mr. Her- hia voice floating down the table the young witch rolled up and dis-

before a mirror, and watching her bort intervened "supposing men in a languid monotone, "Mr. Her covered, first the feet and legs,

supple reflection, some day come to a state in which bort's whole metaphor seems mis. and then the entire person of Dr.

gleaming in the depths of it. no more of this progress is pos- lending. I rather look upon life Jonkinson, standing in the middle

On the one is the sunshine and sible, what will they do then?"

the sea. spray. us a chamber which we decorate, et a gorge of the Indian Caucasus

The wind of "Mr. Mill, whom in almost all as we would decorate the chamber the remains of a presentation of

heaven and her unbound hair things I reverence as a supreme of the woman that we love, tint-Prometheus Bound.

Are playmates. The light of the authority," said Mr. Saunders ing the walls of it with sym- "And now," said the Doctor,

skies is in her eyes; on her lips "asked himself that very question. phonies of subdued colour and bringing his sermon to a close, “I

is a free laughter. We look at But the answer he gave himself filling it with works of fair form will ask you to conclude this morn-

her and we know that she is was one of the fow things in and

happy. We know it, mark me; with flowers, and with ing's service by doing, what I' but she knows it not. which I venture to, dissent from strange scents and with instru- trust I have shown that all here

Turn, (Matthew Arnal), Mr. Saunders him. For, when all the greater ments of music. And this can be may sincerely and honestly do, I

however, to the other and all is (Professor Kingdom Clifford), ills of life shall have been rámov done now as well-better rather mean, I will ask you to recite after

changed. Outwardly there is Mr. Rose (Walter Pater), Leslied, he thinks that the human race than in former time,--since we

no gladness there. Her dark me the Apostle's Creed." (Hardinge), Lady, Grace (Mrs. is to find its chief enjoyment in

gleaming eyes open depth with The generation which counts Sinclair (Violet Fane

know that so many of the old simu ¦ Jenkinson began; Lady Ambrose the reading Wordsworth's poetry."

in depth upon us, like the circles now does not read the New Reauthoress, to whom the book is

were false, and so cease to be dis- I followed him audibly and prompt- "Indeed," said Mr. Herbert, tracted by them. We know they; Miss Prattle followed Lady

of a new inferno. There is a public, You ny search for the delicated). On Sunday afternoon "And did Mill come to any conclu" weariness of creeds and know that Ambrose; Lady Violet Gresham

clear shadow of pallor on her book in vain on the book shelves tea was ready in the garden and sion as sane as that?"

cheek, Only her lips are scarlet. of the render of lo-day. You naye. Luke was reminding Mr.

for us the grave has no secrets. who was busy with one of her · "I, on the contrary believe," Mr. We have learned that the aim of sleeve links followed Miss Prattle;

There is a sadness-a languor, ask fruitlessly for it in new and Stockton with some unction how Saunders went on. "that as long life la life, and what does success-air. Stockton, repented the first

even in the grave tendrils of her second-hand book-shops. When impossible it was to value pro- as the human race lasts, it willful life consist in? Simply," said clause in a loud voice and then

heavy hair and in each chang- the New Republic appeared, theperty, "that earious mixture of still have some belief in God left Mr. Rose, spedking vary slowly relapsed into a marked silence;

ing curve of her bosom, as she Athenaeum described il tus

breathes or sighs." 4:3 trumpery and devotion-thein it, and that the eradication of und with a solemn solemnity in Mr. Luke only opened his lips to clever a book, despite its faults,Apocalypse of John"-untess you this will afford an unending the consciousness of exquisite sigh out audibly in the middle aia," said Lady Ambrose in a loud "What a very odd man Mr. Rose that it deserves criticism of the compared it with a very kindred employment to all enlightened | living-in the making of our own disconcolate "Heigh-ho"; admonitory rather thank the work, the Pastor of Hermas, when ¦ minds,"

Mr. whisper "he always seems to talk each highest thrill of joy that the Storks blew his nose with singular of every body, as if they had no objurgatory kind." That Was suddenly there appeared Dr.

moment offers us-be it some vigour through the whole pro- clothes on." enough to kill most things. but

touch of colour on the sen or on ceeding.. the New Rojullie lived vigorously

the mountains, the early dew in for many years. It was repil

the crimson shadows of a rose, the tished in 1908 and when it dies, it

shining, of a woman's limbs in will leave the world the sadder.

clear water or ~~,"

(Spesial Review.)

Seydon (Dr. Pusey), the viene of the parish. It was he said Lawrence to Miss Merton, who some years ago prevented Dr. Jenkinson from being made a There is said to be nothing hew bishop, which he said, though it under the sun. At any rate it is might be a compliment to learn interesting to notice that muching, would be a grievous insult to the same topics as those which | Göd. stirred to eloquence Otho Law- The guests arrive and dinner is renee's guests, are still discussed served. On the table there is a at episcaped gatherings in Chiou bill not only of fare but of con-up at and in the Hongkong press. But verstition also. The "Aim of Life" on either side there is far legs is the topic with the soup. heat. Perhaps this is, because, if spite of our protestations to the contrary, we are all of us now-a- day's in fundamental cord with Dr. Jenkinson's conviction, that the present, as it is, is the highest state of things conceivable.

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"All this is very poor stuff, very joor stuff," murmured Dr. Jenkin- OR, whose face had become gradually the very picture of crossness.

KINGFISHER BLUE.

domestic that one cannot credit it An idylle so pastoral and

having the same source as. "Red o' the Feud."

Four characters, one of whom unfolds the tale in a series of apostrophes to the other three. The narrator, a modern Damon, and Pythias have the base of their ideal friendship shaken by the advent of the inevitable woman as wife to the sport-loving and unromantic Pythius.

'Her appeal to Damon to be accepted as additional comrade is resented by him and he falls back on the fourth person in the book, a spinster aunt of fine character and understanding, Disregard- ing, in masculine, fashion, the aunt's sound advice to grasp his nettle, he vanishes from the scene for a year's pursuit of big game, returning to the mental revelation that he would only too gladly be Pythias.

It is then that the sterling worth.

shewn in her tacit handling of a of the fully conscious wife is

very delicate problem. In this hor efforts, are seconded by the reciprocal action of the aunt. -

And these two glorious women separately set the not unwilling feet of Damon on the quest of the Holy Grail consonant with modern conditions.

Shocking. Leslie looked at Lady Ambrnge, expecting to see her shille. On the contrary she was very grave

The New Republic. and said "I think that this is

discussing the

Sunday afternoon is spent in shoeking." "Well," said Lawronce

new Republic. in a soothing tone to her, "it is

They dine, on a wonderful English Here unfortunately

"Sh" only the way of these young nun broke softly from several mouths.roses round it. Even Mr. Storks Dr. Jenkinson and Lady Ambrose out is original and excellent, | summer night, in a pavilion with Monday morning comes at last. The apostrophic style through- in times of change like ours. Mr. Rose was slightly disconcert- was less severe than usual, and, as are to leave together. "I am incident and action being rather Besides he is very young-he hised, and a pause which would have he raised his champagne to his quite ready, Lady Ambrose, if you suggested than described. only just left. Oxford." "If these been a little awkward seemed im- lips, he woukl at times look very are," said Dr. Jenkinson briskly;

響 irreligious views are to be picked minent. Lawrence, to prevent this, nearly conversational,

A book in novel form, which Mr. Her and now, Lawrence" he said, even a scholar would find well Oxford, said. Lady did the first thing that occurred bert wanted to know, apostrophis-"I've had a most pleasant visit. worth reading. Ambrose, "I shall be obliged to to him and hastily asked Dr. Fing the gifted men and women of But as to your Utopia, your idenl

-W. F. Bradshaw. send my little boy, when he grows Jenkinson, what his view of the the nineteenth century "what sort of the future he added con-

Blue,

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Hallwell up, to Cambridge."

matter was. The Doctor's answer of things does your taste teach fidentially, it has been said Sutcliffe. John Long. 2/6 net.] ^ came in the very sharpest voice. you to reach out towarıla? foolishly enough that God was the "Do any of us know what life what actions and aims, in what Brocken-phanton self projected is?" he said. "Hadn't we better affections and emotions, would find that out, first?" "Life," con-you place your happiness? This

on the mists of the non-ego. Well tinued Mr. Rose who had now recovered himself, "is a series of moments and emotions," "And a series of absurdities took, very often," said Dr. Jenkinsan.

The aim of life," said. Mr. Storks adjusting his spectacles The talk develops, "The whole "is progress."' "What is pro human race," says Mr. Herbert in gress?" interrupted Dr. Jenkin measured melancholy accents, "is son. Mr. Saunders thought that now wandering in an accurser progress, like poetry, had been wilderness, which not only shows found hard to define, but claimed us no hill top, whence the pro- A Quiet Sunday.

that he bad discovered-a definition | mised land may be seen, but which Towards the close of a certain which would meet with general to most of the wanderers seems a July, whom the Landon sean acceptance... "Progress, he declar-promised land itself." And they was fast dying of the dust" Othe[ed. "is such improvement, as ený have a God of their own too who Lawrence had invited "a select be verified by statistics, just as engages now to lead them out of circle of friends" to spend a quiet education is such knowledge, as it with a pillar of cloud by day and Sunday with him at hs cool villa can be tested by examination.” pillar of fire by night the cloud by, the sen. The select circle | "For just let us," he said. "com- being the black smoke of their included Mr. Storks (Professor pare a man with a gorilla and see factory chimneys and the fire the Huxley). Mr. Stockton (Professor in what the man's superiority lias, red flare of their blast furnaces. Tyndall), Mr. Herbert (Ruskin). It is evidently not in the man's And so effectual are these modern Donald Gordon (Thomas Carlyle), ideas of God and so forth--for in divine guides, that, if we were Dr. Jenkinson (Dr. Jowett, the his presumable freedom from standing on the brink of Jordan Master of Balliol)Mr. Luke these the gorilla is the superior of itself, we should be unable to

A' Service. There is a service on Sunday morning, held in a miniature theatre attached to the house, The curtain was down, and bril- liantly. illuminated as it was, it displayed before the eyes of the congregation "Faust on the Brocken, dancing with the young witch who could bonst no costume at all." Dr. Jenkinson starts the

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what I want to hear the practi-phantom of the present, projected

your Utopia was the Brocken-NO JOKE FOR THE AUTHORS. cal manifestations of this culture." on the mists of the impracticable.

This gives Mr. Rose his chance. He tells how, when he goes to ugly houses, he often takes à scrap of some artistic cretenne with him. as a kind of aesthetic smelling salts. He finds that in the world's life, just as in the life of a man, there are certain periods of eager and all absorbing action, and that these are followed by periods of

By an unfortunate circum- [The New Republic or Culture, stance, what the printer gave him memory and reflection:—

Faith and Philosophy in an Eng proved disastrous to his inten- "I often figure myself an un-lish Country House," by W. It.tions: ...conacious period and a conscious Mallock, London, Chutto and "Authors Who Ought To Be

one, as two women-one an Windus, 1908.]

14 Selling Butter!"

It was simply the present with its A well-known London book- homelier details left out. Good-seller, hoping to call the attention bye!"

of his customers to the works of "Then in that case," said Law, authors whose sales were not up rence, us he bade adieu to the to what his expectations had been Doctor, "it is a comfort to know compiled a list for his Catalogue, is, is the highest state of things ought to be selling better!" from you, that the present, as it He headed it; Authors who

conceivable."

TO-DAY ONLY

WORLD

TO-DAY ONLY

STIRRING DRAMA OF MEN WHO PLOTTED AND A WOMAN WHO LOVED

MAY ALLISON & ROBERT ELLIS

in

THE WOMAN

WOMAN WHO

FOOLED HERSELF"

Husband and wife make first screen appearance

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SEE HOW THIS WOMAN WHO TRIED TO FOOL OTHERS SUCCEEDED IN FOOLING ONLY HERSELF 1

Commencing Sunday 13th.

HERE'S A CLUE TO A WHALE OF A

GOOD TIME!

SEE

HERBERT

RAWLINSON

in

"HIS MYSTERY GIRL

Real_thrills, real laughs, real entertainment, with Herbert Rawson in one of the most amusing and fascinating of all his gentleman-adventurer 10les for which he is so famous!

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SCREENLAND

FACT AND FICTION BLENDED MOVIE STAR WOULDN'T GO CLEVER DOG EARNS $500

In Film Of America in 1871.

FAKE FIGHT.

For the first time in his history as a star, Herbert Rawlinson has

The word theatre" means, to most of us, entertainment pure and simple and the added attrac tions of the words "motion pic-"faked” a fight, ture serial" in connection with the

former word spells to the car ofin "faking", it he went through And yet the odd part of it is that the twentieth century audience thrills, excitement and suspense,

a harder siege of battle than if "With Stanley In Africa," the the fight were real. For if the Universal serial, Epis. 1, 2 and 3 fight were the real thing he'd which started at the World

Theatre yesterday at 2.30 and simply go in and fight harder and 7.16 p.m. shows only assures its whip a combatant equal in size spectators of all this plus a liberal and weight. cilutation in history.

Never have fiction and net been

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The picture in which the "fake"

WEEKLY,

As Star In Motion Pictures,

Highly trained dog, featured in many pictures, is a product of the Great War.

Five hundred dollars a week!

That is the sum a police, dog down in Hollywood brings in to his master every week, as a result of his brilliant work in the movies. intelligence is said to be uncanny, Rintiutin, the police dog, whose and who can do anything any other dog can, and many others into the bargain, is the lucky dog whose earning capacity far ex- ceeds that of roost men and women.

nothing; on the contrary, some of He doesn't earn this for doing

so perfectly blended in a motion was pulled was "Ilis Mystery pieture production as it sa inGirl," Universal's feature offering this famous epoch of history, theat the World Theatre, to-morrow. theme of which fairly throbs with The reason why it was done was romance of the days of 1871 when that the plot demanded a "fake" the most dnrng feats yet filmed Henry M. Stanley, was on his famous expedition to find Dr. David Livingstone, the well-known missionary, who, for five years was lost to civilization in the heart of the Dark Continent.

screen is the result of this dog's and transferred to the silver

daring. If you are skeptical the proof of this is in "Where the North Begins," his latest featur- ing vehicle, a romance of the for north, in which Rintintin is the pivot of a vital drama.

The author, Marion Orth, was responsible, with the connivance of William Wing, scenario writer, and Robert F. Hill, the director. Its_educational value is un- The story is about a young man paralleled, for it takes this famous who is a "business bug" and not expedition from the time of its inclined to stop work for the formation to the end of the his trivial pleasure" of life.

This police dog, who is the This world's champlon dog jumper, is torical event, and assures its suc-. cess by wearing a thread of results in his becoming the object production of the late World

War. romance through the dates and of a lot of worried plans on the names of history which makes it part of his friends. They crave little fracas over in Europe, Just During the early part of the Fan unusually attractive and enter-

taining feature:

to reform him and make him when the Germans had started Universal has been striving human.

bombing activities a little town With the motto, "Be near Paris was bombed by Ger especially hard lately to produce yourself," they start something man planes. All the inhabitants fell victima, save two lovers,

Monte Blue and Mary Alden in

The TENTS OF AALLAH

Encore Retures

A PRICE ON, HIS HEAD

and TENDERNESS IN HIS EYES

Travelling in Morocco, a beautiful end independent American girl innocently-becomes-the centre of hostilities between the Sultan and a tribe af feared and fearless bandits.

The handsome young outlow swears to protect her but can she place her trust in the mau hits awa tribe, fears, the Sultan hates, and her own Country wants-dead or alive?

ROMANCE, ADVENTURE, INTRIGUE AS YOU like li In the year's Advancement in Pictorial Dramatic Art.

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At the age of two months, the Johnny Walker; with Guy Bates

certain features which tend to moving which moves a lot faster Rintintin and his sweetheart pups were turned over to, one Post in The Masquerader," "Tho":

appeal educationnily and feel that their efforts have been repaid in thing they expected.

six reala,

Nanette. Seeing them unhurt the master instead of the myriad of Man from Hell's River," "When the "With 'Stanley In Africa" There are many fights in the French thought their lives must soldiers. That man was Lee Romance Rides," "Wildfire," and serial of which there are thirty-story, but they aren't melodra-be charmed; straight way the Duncan, and they with him were various Snub Pollard comedies.

dramatic, rough-and-tumble commercial people took advantage associated with the 185th Aero. His latest appearance is in a George Walsh, the feature ghts. They have to be faked" of this belief and manufactured Squadron. In France they served Warner Brothers classic of screen, player, la supported by such cap- so that they can look funny. But small dolls representing the two under fire. Then they were "Where the North Begina, o able and popular players as Loulee Rawlinson, not used to pulling lovers. If carried by a soldier, it bundled with their master to story of the far north, of ele Lorraine, who plays the feminine his punches and forcing fights, was supposed to be sure protection Bordeaux, then being shipped to mental passion waged between lead; Charles Mason, William got hit about five times by a against shot and shell. When two America. Welch and Gordon Sackville.

two men for a woman, out of the would-be heavyweight,, tripped Shepherd dogs, male and female, Edward Kull, one of the best and, had a bad fall once and were captured from the Germans tin became a highly trained dog right. In addition to Rintintin, Arriving in California, Rintin reach of law, where night in known serial directors in the pro altogether got plenty In the near Metz and gave to them pair under Duncan's direction. Some the cast consists of Claire Adams, fession, directed the filming of way of punishment. He swore off of puppies the soilers Shed of the pictures in which he Walter McGrail, Pat Hartiran. this chapter play for Universal. fake fights"

No them Rintintin and Nanette appeared were "My Dedith Myrtle Owen, Charles Steven Cry