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the south, yet Lady Anne belonged always to the wild mors and ********mountains, the swirling streams of It wne Mr. Mauris Howlet's the north country. proposal that there should · be a "published edition of "Pag Diary of Judy And Clifford (London: Heinemam. 78, fil, No burzus dous project this, but or certain of rich recompense, « Far from at! crinkled, zeljowed pages, covered with the frin, planting clracters "of soraeone who made a later trans. cript of the original diary, aber

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THE CHINA MAIL.

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REVIEW OF A RHYMER.

onslaught of the modernists, certain lecturer. holds one of the hallmarks of impressionist verse to bo its illusive quality. He chal- longed his audience quote from meniory

a single line of Miss Lowell or of any modern poet. There was silence, acute and ouse. Then a woim rose and solemnly uttered the words;

One cab went by, And then another enl And the another.

As I Hear Tell," By G. 1.

Wilham. Hodder and Sloughton, a

nine what is Love?

We dare not say we have quoted | her correctly. But such is ony best recollection of three lines which, we assume, should be credited to Miss Lowell,

I will these to:

Ti" Gaith The (poen""Fongt" and

Well,

Where pleasure and repentance |-

dwell,

is perinips the sunsing* bell' That rings all in so Heaven and

Hell.

And this is love, and this is love, Ashen tell.“.

It all depends what you are look. ing for when you take up Michael Minaban's "Heinrich Heine." whether go will knd gratification What of mur take? or disappojatement. 11 night large-

"Tis of Enghind whet inden hoped that a character so Indeed, her passion for them was the slominating purse of herplex, and a career so blent of H. King George the Second

diverse clements.ns Hint of feine No proper king was reckoned her father's quests, erlain galetes hitherto unknown lights and für this na base-surrender; There was confusion ever would take i pew colour and dis- ty verian)" Englishmen.. rehitives lying claim to that is when seen though an believed was hers by right of an

Westmoreland which Lady An frisht gins. But there springs dis- For the the Young Pretender,

approaíntament. For the sul book The witte cockande, the heathless lier derd. She and her muttern wind Me Moman reviews da waged tirelesso" war water their

life.

ad terama.

Hanes

A FOET OF ASPIRATION.

ont

SATURDAY

costs

JULY 19 1921

NEW BOOKS. IMMORTALITY. Edited by "Sir James Marchant. (Putnam, 7. Ga.) A collection of ossays by sininent living writers upon religions, philosophic, and scientifia idens of immortality, beginning, with ancient Egyp tian and Greek conceptions. Lord Erla contributes an in- troduction which, describing. the scope of the book sys "No cogent proof can bu affered either of the truth or of the falsity of the hope in im- mortality. But the centrul point on which the essays con- verge is that it is not only a possible truth, but the object of, „" Miss LANN.

a reasonable faith."

expectancy, about the problems of the age.

He had There are few names In this learned already that loyalty to century which have had, for young and wherever it lends is

truth, whatever it

the ment, especially, greater attractive power than that of Arthur Hughly basis of a life of intel- Clough. This power has never

lectual integrity. At Rugby he "been widely, but in many cases it left one of the largest, Treest, wa has been deeply. Tels. It has its most progressive.ninds of a gen. source more in the nature of the ration rich in men of commanding man and in the conditions of his ability at Oxford he met those life than in his work, although the paranasive subple, and eloquent latter is full of the elevation, the teachers who were to lead the aspiratlen, and the beauty of a

greatest reactionary movement of the time. sery noble mind. But it is not as

Jolin Henry Newman, luminous finished artist, as a singer whose message is eleur aid whose note is in thought, fervent in spirit, win- is rather as a child of his time, asing away from modern life to the resonant, that Clough attenets; iting in speech, was steadily draw. one in whom the stir and change epose und authority of the Middle of the gently were most listiny the stir of a conflier which drow Ages. The very uir throbbed with reflected. There was an intense

all Senshive minds within the: sympathy with his age in the heart de of its agitation, mil the of Chough, asensitiveness to the tida) influences of thought and tager expertaney which filled the emotion, which made his impres-

hearts of the leaders seemned to pro- sionable datore, for a time at least, a pry to agitation and turmoil ș unit there is no nord delicate gistry of the tempestuous weather of the second quarter of

in his work.

and

is a new day of spiritumf impulse- erclesüstical splendour. Then, if ever, was rentised that. beautiful vision of Oxford which Dr. Arnold's son has given to the

her gardens to the amsilight, and whispering From her towers, the last enchantments of the middle age."

nirely lasilian frets of Heine's 1+1 yang Charles Edward. Good rentary then tur which, is found | World, whom she lay spreading

Malan

luve

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p

su-

Ning" James..

Presnays Stek Tary

energes in high relief the refunds, aut latex Lady Anne mirabled ear, and essays a new little leuitable Taidy

ined her solitary rights, or critical appreciation, of his purtry Thanks to her diligence, Weusiy first bustand, Lord" Durnet, a over look on at the unfolding t

and prosa, leaves, then reader witla") die innermost thoughts offer to anke lis wife sign' away her reach for the purple pten than spendthrift always, was powerless

10 grenter seus of the author's Tamill, aburp, vigorosivanind," as

To wenve a spell? Blie recorded them from London uuded, he cajolett, he even this subject. In other words, Mr.

lands. He threatened, he per- with any added appřelsension of fail it as so wondrous, well frimm the garden åt Kadle, !!!n

ASL dare tells bled for by depriving her of the perturbing Caps betweeis "entries,

(*hild. Your land," he loquintly, sometimes with

praises, sometimes Biiss Sarsaille-West's Fascinating wine to her, "transports you be pleasant exaggeration, but be doesausing hell" is the same as

-BW. profacil baños adequalit

youd yourself and makes you hat interpret.

After all, he leívese devoid of all reason." Tady Annes further in the outsule thun we The for prefe, then is no being much at Court, a friend to

with. be Tequently Jost delecable spreading duor the Anne of Dennisick and to Lady! diana propieTM Miss Sackville West Arubella Stuart,

gelde, with even the King make dy Ante, Intriguingh took dat bringing her for insture, where the port bots we shall aut he more explivio..........!!

Bouk of Songsi sint, I convincing. We son, her as

All to m avail. And, revealed himself in terus which be you imagine that we rend detective child, whom father was the' Eliza time, she was actually parted! {nos bethun Tad Cumberbalut,

with longer from bey properly. In later as understand.

stories at east, we shall not proveut bis personal beauty, his golden life, she spent all her fillas in the

you, thur isl elmsgges with the armour, bis pointed dinond ring, north: she made triumpbal pre- We wonder how, plenstrahlevarühe condition of wind and and flag Queen's glove in his cup." gresses from one of her castles to task is that which has fallen to most glitterig and swaggering of anger commanding her leurs Miss Ruth Level-Miss tereh wave and sky. Just as adventurers, in an age when titled to act as escort; she improved and being the new, nautical, bookseller sunshine and shifting any fog gentleme fitted on their ownplained and built; she was hard:with______slaup houd quickly ran and rear within the He4s for dos capture," of foreign but entirely just with her people. "Samarit," now on a world cruise hour; só out literary tastes up merchanton and the plundering Once, so the stryges, in order to Of course, my the face of it, Horse began the imagining, of foreign' tests. His visits to his for a tenant to pay his yearly is an entrancing and golden out still, we have never fade a world family were infrequent. "Whore ran it a hơn, Lady" Anne spent | look. Bub, judging drons die ow he did meet 4400 ft law and, when she and labils i su my mother sid

we are prone to cruiss. Perhaps, when we do, we wrote Louis une "their counter won her suit, invites the tent to think that rean reading is an une shall contrive to detacho, gaze andid, the dislike they had dine with her off the" "dispute?" certain siness at best. We from the roll of the wives and of one mother, yet he would speak { bird."!

discover in ourself monécoutable fasten them upor estigmble books to me in a slight 'fashion and give

„fancies and prejudicos; our read- į me his blessing." Though she Now aid then it is refreshing to ing ut seu bears practically in re- and her macher were sometimes in tave someone rebel against the lation trou reading on laid. No.

of travel.

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I was in November, 1836, that Clough, hay of seventeen, "van changed school life at Rugby for college life" at Oxford, He had always been in advance of bis op portunities: he had led vuele forin sortessively; he was the best swinner and the first runner in The school: Te was sit only, Bonine and wholly lovable, that when he left for Oxford every-day in the school waited to shake lands with him; his scholarly, prominegen Was so marked that in his last year! Dr. Arnold broke the silored which awarding prizes, and publicly.com. ise invariably had preserved in

gratulated him on having secured every prize and won every fondur which Rugby offered, and crowned his achievements by gritting the Balliol scholarship, then and new- the highest honour own to the English-school-boy

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With such a record of fidelity

and ability bebind him. Clough tered upon his career at Oxford.

not won the rear end. enjoyed the teaching Arnold without some comprehension of the lurgeness of thought and the mobile, intellecta synpathy which made

bis master the ideal tencher of his tine: his mind was abrady jlny- ing, with a boy's eager and buoy-

Say to the struggle nought

uvalleth,

L

The inbour and the wounds are:

Vain;

"The enemy fuinis Bot.

faileth,

no:

And as things have been ther

remain.

Ir hopes were dupes, Tears mat

be liars:

It may be, in you stupke con-

Your comrades class in now

the fliers.

And but for you possess the field. |

For, while the fired Waves,.

rainly breaking,

Scem here no jainïul illudtoda

gain,

Tar buck through recks and

inleta making. Coues silent, Blooding in, the

Bniu.

And not by eastone windows

carly,

When daylight conïès-comes-in-

the light:

I front the sun climbs low.

how slowly,

By Douglas Gold- ring. (Chapman and Hall, 78. 6d.) Miss Tim is a sort of morul vampire. She obtains complete domination over Sally Thylour, the child to whom sho is governess, much in the same way us a bon constrictor is "said to fascinuté its victims. Oc- cultism and Bohemianism are mixed up to give the book an 'exotic interest. Mr.. Goldring undoubtedly is full of clever- nass, but a trifle too facile. Nevertheless, in Miss Linh ber has created quite an unusua character.

"I S." By John Blunt. (Patridge, 18) This is a selec- tion of the well-known urticles that appear every morning in The Daily Mail under the sigautare of Jobi Blunt. Thousands who value them for the commonsense point of view they adopt towards topics of the day will be glad of the opportunity to possess these: articles in durable form. Coin- mon sense is a commodity that never becomes out-of-date. PROZES GOLD.

By Austin Small' Seamark"). (Heinemann, 7s. 6d.) A vigorously told story of action and adventure in a gold buut in tasta, in which E- dersley, the June. the thrilling

their, task is

prospector, and heroine, undergo experiences before finished. Mr. Small has given us a book that is difficult to put down until the Jast page has been read.

But westward took the land is...

"bright.

-ArtBan Huan Clonen,

THE WIFE DANCED

AND THE HUSBAND

PAID THE PIPER

BUT IT LED TO

A GREATER

HAPPINESS

THAN THEY

HAD EVER

KNOWN

DON'T

"FORGIVE

AND

FORGET"

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HISTORY OF MANKIND."

The Part That Letters Haye Played.

Somebody once made a remark to the effect that "Speech is Silver, but Silence is Golden,"

He was a wise man-but not wise enough, for he neglected one very

important valuation that which should be put upon letters. Upon them and their consequences and effects one would have to ronder long before venturing an pinion as to what they are worth, but there is no doubt that beside them both words and silence fade into insignificance as factors in the course of the world's history and progress.

and America,, and were, in effect, the final straw that precipitated the great conflict.

Important among the letters of the world are the messages which the President of the United States sends .to Congress letters in which the important affairs of state are taken up in detail and which have a tremendous effect upon the laws and lives of the American citizen. Not only is their effect felt in America but throughout the world, when foreign affairs are treated in them. In these the President sets forth without reser- vation his opinions, ideas, and suggestions for remedies and changes.

In other phases of life, no less than in world affairs letters have

JOHNNE WALKER.

WILLIAM DESMOND.

"Breathless Moment" At The World.

a hero he'd probably have remained If William Desmond hadn't been

a crook, and spoiled the best story he has given the screen in "many years. The answer to this puzzle may be found in "The Breathless Moment," his new Universal attrac tion, coming to the World Theatre to-morrow.

Johnnie Walker, who is the Brian O'brien of "The Fourth Musketeer," is also the hero of the screen plays "My Dad," and "Captain Fly-by-Night." He made his stage debut in "Rags to Riches" when only twelve years of age. Walker was born and educated in New York. After completing a course at Fordham University, be began a film career with the old Biograph Company. He later join ed the Edison Company, where he was leading man for Viola Dana, and others. He later played in Gertrude McCoy, Mabelle Trunelle

Universal production, after which

Desmond, plays a bunko game of a high order, almost with he returned to the stage. When war broke out Walker enlisted in impunity, until he rescues a wo the Navy. Later he directed a man and child from a fire and

"Forgive and. Forget," the sen played and always will play an series of pictures for Hallmark. explosion. This sets him on thei

important part.,

He played a leading role in Over

rational new C. B. C. photodrama at the 'World Theatre, does much

In the world of literature theyThe Hill." and other Fox produc- right imack and he faces a year of to bring to mind the importance have won a supreme place. What Emory Johnson for " In The Name either that or jail. The reason it's tions. He then was signed, by reform in a small town. It is that letters have played throughout

booklover does not know Steven Of The Law" and "The Third not jail is because he rescued the the age. For a major part of the son's letters, collected in priceless Alarm." His life should serve as action of this excellent production volumes and prized in libraries an inspiration to the young men child and wife of the detective on centres around a packet of letters, Beatrice have become a model for who find it hard sledding when his trail. The detective, who was

everywhere! Dante's letters to written, innocently enough, as so

they enter 00 many are while they remain in lovers the world over to model

their careers. quite human, gaye him a chance to the right hands. The point of this their own amatory epistles upon and sandwiched in an avocation of make good, provided he would

Johnnie tried several vocations, particular story is that they fall Shakespeare's expressions of un-two, before he found his niche and leave town for that length of time- into the hands of an unscrupulous dylag love to his Dark Lady of, man who decides to turn their the Sonnets- are quoted far and contents to his own gain. By so wide,

He takes over the management

struck his stride. First he wanted a college education, and because of a department store in the little he could not pay for it outright, he town he's sentenced to and leads doing he drags into the mire of As an important factor in family played summer dramatic, stock an honest life. Business problems unhappiness and shame a woman life aad love, letters are of engagements between terms and are many, and her husband.

The store is on the paramount importance. Theodore so was enabled to graduate from verge of bankruptcy when he takes In affairs of empire, affairs of Roosevelt's letters to his soas Fordham College. Then, as an it over. Business problems prove business, affairs of state, and last, reach heights of beauty, and, action in the theatre, a singer, a fully as interesting as those of but by no means least, in affairs even more than that, of expresfilm sales-man, a sailor, a finger safo-robbing. One of his old cr of the heart, letters have played a sions of that fine American family print expert and a motion picture nies, a crook, comes to "Clean up major part and been the factor relationship so in keeping with his director, he felt his way, amass the town bank. most to be reckoned with. They character. George Washington's ed confidence, grew in artistic faces his greatest problem. Shall Then Desmond have made fortunes and lost thenr; letters to his mother were one of stature and in understanding of it be the old life or the now? won loves and cast them aside; the biggest things in both their the world and to-day has achieved There's a changed the maps of the world; lives.

a position as one of the Ave lead daughter of his partner-and- pretty girl--the written in bold script across the Affairs of the heart, breach-of-juveniles of the screen. His well, Desmond does what any pages of history,

promise suits and scandals of all latest screen success, The Fourth other man in love with a pretty It was the series of letters be- kinds have as their prime factors

Musketeers," is due here soon. girl would do, tween the mother country, Eng-letters that have been written from land, and the American cologies one of the parties to the other. that paved the way to the Revolu. Many a rich old man could estab-innocence, all through letters. tion and led to the establishment Hish ad alibi were it not for the fact

of these United States, and the that the young lady who is suing And then, of course, among the

overthrow of tyranny.

him for breach of promise has termost important of all fetters are The sodes of letters that passed ters in her possession and many a letters of credit as many a person between President Wilson and the sulf for divorce, for alienation of who travels abroad knows!" Kaiser of Germany before the affections, even attempts to break Verlly, the old saying anent World War was probably the wills or to make new oaos bave speech and allence might have a most important ever written. binged upon letters. Murderers postscript, to wit: This correspondence brought to a have been traced and innocent head the issues between Germany persons have established their

"Do right and fear no man- don't write and fear nobody"

an

There are tense moments in the gripplog play, the battle of wits between the crook and the woman and child from dotective, the thrilling rescue of a explosion, the remarkable conflet between the old lifa-and-new- Hill's direction is splendid and the cast supporting Desmond is one of special note, including Robert Homan's, Charlotte Merriam, Albert Hart, Margaret Collington and Alfred Fisher,

JOHNNIE

WALKER

In a superb picturisation

of the remarkably brilliant and powerfully dramatic Cosmopolitan

Magazine story,

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