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BOOKS

EARLY KATHERINE MANSFIELD TALES.

["Something Childish and Other Stories," by Katherine Mansfield. London: Constable & Co. 08. net. I.

To the introhtory note to this volume we are told that, with one or two exceptions, the stories und skelches it contains were written in the years between the publication of Katherine Mansfield's first book, in a German Pension," in 1911, and the publication of her --second. "Bliss and Other Stories," is 1920. They are here arranged in chronological order; and it is interesting to watch the develop ment in method and power.

AN OLD THEME.

In Peter Gladwin's novel, "The Legacy from Nowhere" (John Long Ltd. we have an old thonio not largely touched upon, but with the somewhat new idea that a dead man's tainted money is more or less impossible to accept There is no heavy crisis in the whole. story, but it will provide a few hours' pleasant reading.

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The Legacy from Nowhere," Peter Gladwin, John Long, Tulon. . .]

scruns, in: "A Suburban Fairy Tale."

All the stories have in then something characteristic, memor Here and there she gives us the able because so humerous or so relaxation of pure humorous enjoy- pugnant and so findly said; yet one ment las ..]]]

delibe that Could wish--exquisite as is their monologus of the society lady in craftsmanship that two or three the motor hud but through the had not been inchided. They are greater number of the tales, along- wonderful, but cruel : she was cruel | side of their impishy laughter, there to herself in thinking them, and runs a note of something more than her couge did not soften the pity the tenderness which impression of their gliness is she Katherine Mansfield-never satis- wrote them down. The tale which fied with her own self-expression-- gives its title to the book 'Some felt for all obstructed, inarticulate, Thing Childish but Very Natural" | humun things, '

mightberchoup modern versionThe restless-people-whmin-shef of "Romert und Juliet" in its draws are all struggling to get beginnings if someone other than away Toons somethinur, or to get on -Katherine Munshield had, written to something else; they make it. When we have silenced our Iudicrous und futile efforts to get laughter or a shocked suprise out of doubt into certainy, out of sufficiently to understand, we find four into safety, out of hundrunn- that mich of this anique author's mess into romaner. Troublesome writing doos indved deal with quite children, stupil, lonely women, familiar themes; the things she infatuted lovers--she sets” them - "nivans"fave been said by-dilersee before us in all their, pitiful only they said them differently, absurdity ; and yet somehow, even "The, Deleterious Effects of Feras we look, we are awarG

that as un Element in Moral Upbring something quite, quite different is ing" is the true theme of a tile behind it all-if they but knew. she calls New Dresses, and Says the unwanted spinster in The Limitations of Human Tate at Night :" "Tin all, folded Instice?" might be the sub-title of; and shat away in the dark, and

"Ole Underwood." There is a nobody cares, "e" Funny, isut

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THE CHINA MALU,

That book collecting, which some perché šaty@is-nferely "n" hobby, can sometimes be made profitable is suffiolently evident from the result of the recent sale of nineteen books from the library of late Carysfool

amounted to THE HOUSE OF THES 1bout a quarter of the sum iɛrealised asosdeyə «Most é qf the "Treasure & went to Afferden, which

One falta, downs fääny book by is so largely responsible for the ↑ M. A E. W. Mascio confidgal tant greatly increased prices cotainable. for these treasures to-day whatever soft of story he is fons Messrs. Sotheby's the competition togell he will make the best of it was always manifest, and in most in the telling. The new

Sotheby's, when the ancient was the "American whose realised a total of £35,550, of which Ipe following tabulated state- the Mazarin Bible brought £9,500, ment will no doubt be interesting

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needless to say that it passes all the ordinary tests of the detective stoły: one may safely disbelieve the person who states either that he stopped reading It from any less cause than compulsion, or that he guessed the murderer before ME Mason meant that he should. And the proper elements areall there an old house in Dijon, 340 a mysterious. African poison, a published during the autumn. At on a postcard. But to do hini

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Dr. J. M. Bullock,, of Graphic." le preparing, in connec tion "with the centenary in December of George MacDonald, a bibliography of the works of the Scota novelist and post, to be

The forthcoming volume of stories by the late Katherine Mansfield consiste largely of tales and sketches written a good many years ago, and before the publica- tion of the author's first book, "In a German Pension," in 1911.. Entitled "Something Childish and Other Stories," it will have a short introduction by Mr. Middleton Murry, and be. pub lished by Messrs. Constable.

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rather stupid English lover (Ms. A centenary: dianer in November Mason still now and then rearranged for by the Aberdeen members the old tradition in which University Club, G. K Chesterton his earliest novels were conceived), is to be the principal speaker. two murders, one bloody and one mysterious, two very charming. young women, and, best of all, a French detective who de a real man as well aş a gal detective the oddest and most alluring mixture of a baby, a music-hall comediati, a bouti papa, and an avenging Fury, As from "The Villa Rose" so from "The House of the Arrow " ond gets the Impression that Mr. Mason wanted to do much more than fill a thrilling and baffling detective story, with more of many kinds of queer

"Second Selections from Modern knowledge of the world, its crimes and its means of crime, than most Poets," by Mr. J. C. Squire, and can forming a companion to his earlier writers

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included in Mr. command. He wanted to make it collection, is a story about read people; without Secker's autumn list. disturbing the correct atmosphere „of the detective story. And he has. ¿

succeeded so well us to leave one, almost uncomfortable. The circumstances, we sign with relief, are as yet strange to us.. But let the great detective Hanand be as flamboyant as he pleases, we feel that we have drunk coffee next to him more than once on a Paris pavement; while as for the others, including the chief criminal, soad mirable, so detestably perverted a nature, their names might well be in our private address book at this moment. Plot and character are often a badly matched pair in double harness: Mr. Mason handles them so that the drive is not

interest.

The lamented death of Joseph Conrad is called to mind by only exciting bu full of various this facsimile of part of his manuscript of "The Rover."

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Quiet Hours in the Temple a new book by Mr. Stephen Cole- ridge, is nearly ready for issue by Messrs. Mills and Boon.

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During the autumn Messrs. Methuen will publish vols. I. and II. of "A History of the University of Oxford." on which Sir Charles Edward Mallet, of Balliol College, Oxford, has for some time been engaged. Later Messrs. Methuen will issue the third and completing volume on "Oxford in Eighteenth and

the Nineteenth

We know too, that the later manuscripts of Sir Walter Scott, who to his earlier years wrote 2 very clear hand, were difficult to decipher

Bernard Shaw writes an almost Inconceivably small "fist..". He often gets several hundred words

jarice, his handwriting is-sur- prisingly clear. In fact, one is struck by the seeming care with which each letter is formed:

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Although almost as small as Mr. Shaw's, H. G. Well's writing is much more difficult to read. Some of his longer words resembl extracts from a shorthand primer...

Hall Cafneita a holy tefror when 3t comes to handwriting. Some have puzzled over a page or two of his writing for hours and then had to write and ask him what some of the words were. His "English". publishers used to retain special. compositors who had made a life long study of the novelist's hand writing because the ordinary printer couldn't or wouldn't handle

Forester has written, and Messrs... Methuen have nearly ready, number of new facts are brought to light, and the illustrations, for the greater part, are reproduced for the first time.

Sir Lionel Phillips has written": a volume of memories, recalling the Jameson Raid and other incidents in the history of modern South Africa, with personal im

and anecdotes of pressions Rhodes, Kruger, Jameson, and others. Mesars, Hutchinson will In his study of "Napóleon. | publish the work with the simple and His Court," which Mr. C. 8. title, "Some Reminiscences."

Centuries."

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Commencing TO-MORROW

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"KEAN.".

"MID-CHANNEL."

There are few persons who The British Channel-midway haven't read and do not hold in between Folkestone and Boulogne, sentimental regard Alexandre there lies an unexpected and Danius* strongest masterwork ongnons ridge-Mid-Channel. "Kean known the world over. So in marriage, after the first It is powerful dramatic tale. bright years, does there in mar relating the life and unhappy end-ringe lie, a stormy and treacherous ing of Edinund Kean, whom the period, which, if not staunchly | critics and public alike, hailed not weathered, leads to darkness and. Lonly as Britain's foremost actar of "disaster.

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Zoe, and Theo Blundell hive reached the mid-channel of their - marringe when they are striving together for success and achieve- ment they shared each other's joys

They met only to quarrel and these quarrels increased in violence. until they grow into the TRAGEDY OF | S

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At the end of 19th century, when He was at the height of his fane, Kean fell in love with the beautiful countess, Von Koefeld, the wife of and sonows, but with there things theDanish Ambassador to Engcomplished come a change. {ul Deft and magnetic in the portrayals of Shakespeare's heroes, he would mostly have attained new heights in his noble' art anil gained

Flow both Zoe and her husband more glory, had he not became a prisoner to his unfortunate passiou, sought desperately for happiness which finally drove him mad and they realized that those first made him die in miserable sur-close years were full of joy, and roundings, forgotten and abar. they both awoke to the knowledge doned ly all his former friends and of the real conse of their lost happi- adrairers, and hunted by his in ness, is a story that is so REAL, SO numerable creditors.

MAT TO THE HEARTS OF THE MEN AND WOMEN of to-day, that it will hold with gripping interest.

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