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LURE OF THE UNKNOWN.
BOOKS
TALES OF HEARSAY.
JOSEPH CONRAD'S LAST BOOK,
Special Review.
war story, though perhaps a little more self-conscious than the Courad that we love. Sincerity-frank- ness--passion-thres words of your TUBTs,
A NEW ADVENTURE BOOK
THE CHINA MAIL.
The jungle and the forest exer. cise na grout a sway over the imagination of the reader in a well told story as one is led to believe they do over the explorers who are urged on to probe their depths. Particularly is this so when the plot of the story hangs upon some bazardous quest and when the des
riptive power of the author is such
CREEPY" STORIES.
NEW BOOK OF PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE!
PHANTOMS OF THE DAWN."
Paychic phenomena of many kinds are dealt with in this latest novel from the pen of the writer of "Ghosts I have Seen" and although it would appear from the preface and those chapters in which the authoress passes from to enable him to present the the description of specific in- adventurers to the render us living stances to generalties that her characters whose feelings and ex-intention in writing the book was periences it is possible to enter and share.
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to reassure the public, some may feel they have readers "grounds for alleging that she has distinct leanings towards senst-
Such a book is "Tiger River."" tale of the adventures of gold Don't I know them seekers in the wilds of the Andes intionalism herself. interjects the auditor of the talo, the following of which to n success- and there can be little doubt thut the ful conclusion the reader is intro This, posthumous Couard bust-unthor is applying them to himself, theed to the Jeveros, who shrink ness is somewhat building, First There could not be a better epitome heads to the size of an orange we have Heller rushing is almost of the Conrad spirit than this short order that they may the more con- before ang body is cold and slow-sentence. This Pule beurs truces veniently adorn their persons, i, as it Were a the dissecting cable of its war-ting composition, notably white Indians with their relics of bis ex fly the work of collabora the assumption that the blockade the Spanish Inquisition... __and]
is done, who puts in which running neutral is a person wholly Almagoca who work slaves to death punctuation marks and whose jokes morcenary and devoid of any hon-in-gold mines the treasures of which are which And how there in this curable motives. But the atmos have lured many white men to their coitation of long short stories, with phero is wonderful and the telling doom.. 01 moying ecstatic profuce skilful. What could be better than It may be predicted with "con- by Mr. Canningbune Graham the description of the robust fidence that this book will take its who likes his idol alternately to Northman, bearded, and in the place among, the foremost of its B afterglow on the white course force of his age who thrusts his find it is worth of Bider Baggard of 1.3 Bunz and to the constellations into the pockets of his at his best. Book Mopor He wisely puts the story leather jacket as though. que heck of than four stories last in fafruit of them being seized either in The Tiger River," By Arthir the four. be true di The friendship or hostility (Curious. Friel: John Long Ltd, Norris Back Mare" was written in 1881. ly enough that delightful expression Street Haymarket, it must be burly clear why Cornid in the force of his age" appears 776A,] The ot dai, net have! it printed also in the 188-1 Pa story is in the W. W. Jacobs Mate," Can my Conradian say and Sexton Blake. As an exer- A withou the Jaths whether it by fallow all those cise ir criticism let anyone core Kerols. This mate of a' ship keeps (years 2) +
Git sentence with the suri-thunder hi youth by myns of a wonderful The remaining two stories in the of the opening sentences of "The Buddy The quintessential Butale Book are Polish. Prince Roman Rover, gri - sha-Bedi in 'n storth at sen, and fis, apparently largely autobio- but grades on the supersti- {graphical; sad in a Slavonic way, trees of its skipper by pretending But a"good enough tale with graphic bh his sudes greyriss, is due to touches. The Warrior's Soul on a pernatural visivation. Amusing the other hand strikes me eragh, "but ank. The way the janglodramatic and feeble, When conversation keeps arming" round four pretatory elniast
Black
says to glunds is que in the Peter (“nothing that 1 kdow of in any of Husse puder, though, as I say, his shorter stories equals the drama Juods would have done it better. tie ending of The Warrior's Po pompare this story, as is done Soul this is enough to place in the prefers to the contemporary him as a critic. And to talk of it a swan song in the same "Abodyer's Folly,“ one of Contadas Dest acteriskie and most arrests [breuili as "The Rover" is absurd, ing is absurd. Teamnot help one were asked in a General thinking But The Black Mate must haves on's accidentuly esenped the fate of the dye-battle, and that Bao qirip of Conend's must go hot cand cold if he knows of its exhuma
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Knowledge par to guess, the author of the following sentence - He was perlaps n well-meaning glup, but not so nice as he might have bern, land, he been less rough manner and less cride in his * Tale" on the other hand is perceptions," I think the betting: * well-constructed, and"; well-told I would be about equal on Nat Goold
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that the living. {EI#EL,+4 Conred was the best judge of what deserved puhtivation, and to his great fute as an excuse for fuisting on a public which loves to take it literary opinions pre- digested, these tales which heap- parently prepared to louve in manu- script seems to me a desecration The best that can be hoped is that they will not turn anyone against the Nigger of the Narcissus and bite Chinese coulies in the typhoon and the Gerin hotel-keepers and the handsone Malays and the hard bitten French seafarers, and the equatorial smells of Sourabaya and all the other persons, places and things that are so deserving of devotion.
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Tales of Hearsay, Joseph Conrad, T. Fisher Unwin, 6/1
NOVELS OF THE SUSSEX WEALD:
To the company of Hardy, Gals worthy, and Maurice Hewlett must be added Sheila Kaye-Smith, What they lave done for the rural folk of Dorset, Devon, and Wilte, lie has done for the farming folk of Sussex...
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will gather and carefully make
my frionda Or the men of the Sussex
Weald; ...
In a series of novela which began in 1008, and now numbers twelve volumes, Miss Kaye-Smith has por- trayed the Sussex folk of the past and the present. The inspiration of locality provides the stimulus for her work; and while the majority of her contemporaries depend upon po close study and observa- instinct and emotion, she deponds
tion.....
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925.
MY PILGRIMAGE,
SOME GOOD STORIES.
MR. KIPLING'S POPULARITY,.
"That over two and a half... million copies of Mr. Kipling's Judge Webb was much worried prose works have been sold by Messrs. Macmillan la evidence of by a persistent solicitor whose hair his assured popularity, a popu was streaked with groy, On oaslarity which shows no sign of occasion the Court was wholly decreasing, for booksellers are against him when he was first always compelled to keep D robuke, he persiste in repeating their shelves," says the "Morning heard notwithstanding severe reserve supply of his books on
hituself for a second, and then a Post third time. When he sat down at last, the Judge merely quoted the line, Thrice the brindled cat bath mowed!"
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"From the Macmillan sales it is interesting to judge the order of popularity of Mr. Kipling's stories. The Jungle Book comes. "After 1 had learned the difficult (an easy first, though the second art of holding my tongue on the volume is some way behind. "Kin Bench, I was trying an Admiralty follows the first Jungle book, with Just So Stories & very close third. The Day's Work is fourth, The Light that Failed fifth, and the upon its heels, though rivalled by second Jungle book follows close
Plain Tales from the Hills. The next in order are Stalky and Co., Puck of Pook's Hill, Life's Handz cap, Many Inventions, Rowards and Fairies, Soldiers Three and other Stories, and Captains Courageous,"
One of the ship's officers, who had been long under exinanini tion, was leaving the Court when less man may have got tired of
did you get on? said his friend The grey lady and the head
he met his mate going in. "How
their age-long perambulations, as
"Very well was the reply. claimed by Mrs. Tweedale, but it
She has inade, the county of "What is the Old Beak saying is extremely doubtful whether the Sussex wha Thomas Hardy made about the caso? He is sitting Wessex up there like a blinking idol, and public will be willing to concede of the kingdom of their supercession by such fearful special preserve which she has not letting a word out of him."
A Judge is often pután a difficult Apparitions as she more than cultivated with great skill aard hints at the existence of; ussiduity. She is in common position when he is obliged to uscer- the wraiths and bogeys with Hardy, that imaginative tuin if a young witness realise the one is led to believe sympathy which finds kinship with nature of an oath. A little girl are out of date would be infinite- primitivé isan. Her yeomen and was asked the usual question: did ly less disagreeable to meet on the her peasants are simple and un-ahe know what, would happen to stop him! The Doctor has gone stairs than the "astral nothings" spoiled, not yet caught in that her if she swore what was untrue? out without his trouser's!
Dr. Mahaffy was a great wit and to which the reader is introduced. comic whirl which is called pro- and answered thus: Yes, me
As to the purpose of the book, gress. They are simple in nature Lord, I would not be given any a brilliant talker. When, at an if the writer is sincere in her and monotonous in speech... Miss witnesses" expiuses."
Lentrance examination, after examin I was one morning reading a booking a candidate in Greek, he asked claim that it is to instil into the Kaye-Smith is criticized sometimes readers' minds the beauties of for a perhaps too faithful reprodue in bad in an hotel, where all the lim what he was to put down as spiritualism why does she get out tion of that monotonous speech;
roons were exactly similar in every to his religious denomination. of her way to drug in gruesome but that speech is an essential part respect. Suddenly the door of my Agnostic was the reply. "Well, stories like that of the circum- of her people, and without it her room opened, and a majestic lady, you certainly are air aguostic in stances attending the abduction people could never be faithfully clad in a dressing-gown, and carry Greek," said the Professor. by undisputedly material agencies presented. Her realism is that of ing sponge, entered, evidently Once, Father Healy had a little of the twenty-fifth Earl of Craw temperamental afinity presented returning from her bath, walked quarrel with Judge Keogh, who ford and eighth Earl of Balcarres with romantic glamour. Irish novel-over to the looking-glass opposite said: 'I have a crow to pluck with from the family vault at Dunecht, ists could have no better model than the door, and begun the contempla you Make it a turkey!" said “ Aberdeenshire?
Sheila Kaye-Smith. The Irish tion of her perfections. Fearing to Father Healy, "and I'll be with you Mrs. Tweedale,, as the represen-farmer still awaits the writer who cough, or make any noise whatever, for seven o'clock dinner." The tative of the Society for Psychic will present lim, and make him remained motionless, waiting for Judge (mollified): "Well, all the Research in South Devon, is the vol, to the world. The Sussex the time when her gaze would turn same, I have a crow to pluck with repository of all the extraordin- folk were silent and unknown until to the bed behind the door, and its you." The Priest: Then it must
At last this be a crow without cows ?*** ary personal experiences that Miss Kaye-Smith began to interpret unhappy occupant.
them. Now the reading public happened, and, anticipating a She gives in- take place there. stances of the "queer things that knows them intimately. Andrew shriek, without lifting my eyes from happen to the most unlikely per- F. Malone, in The Irish Statesman. the book, I quietly said:
you please bring my tea, and bread- and-butter, at once. Supposing had mistaken her for the house maid, she was able to make dignified and orderly retreat with out speaking,'
sons" and considers them mile- stones in the spiritual develop- ment of all who experience them more than hinting at a divinity which shapes our ends." She is more convincing in her descrip- tion of these than when she pulls out the horrible" stop, enters the arena of politics or gives vent to her passionate anti-vivisection gentiment.
There is much readable in the book, not the least interesting being the praface contributed by
Sir A. Conan Doyle, but a mis take has been made in attempting to give the reader more excite- ment than it is possible for him to assimilate in the time taken to acan its pages.
-E. R. P.
leave unprotected
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On one occasion, beforo a Judge who shall be nameless, a Counsel "Will who had long struggled against ad- verse interruption from the Court, exclaimed finally: "If your Lord- ship refuses to give us any remedy, you between the Crown and the Lord of the Manor, that is, between the The deep sea and the Devil." Judge, unperturbed, replied: "T have no hesitation in directing you to go to the latter alternative, and with costs."
Dr. Salmon, Provost of Trinity College, was the most absent minded of men; it is said that on one occasion he put on an unwonted ["Phantoms of the Dawn," pair of trousers, neglecting those Violet Tweedale, John Long, that had been left out for him. Ltd., Norris Street, London-is valet was heard rushing to the 7s. 6d.]
half-door, shouting: "Stop him, 188.]
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