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FIFTH YEAR."

THE "CHINA JOURNAL" FOR JANUARY.

IMPORTANT ARTICLES.

The December number of Draw. Most attractively got up, the De- | With the January issue the China of Commercial Journaly begins its difth year of Ing and Design" is worth keeping cembar number.

Art" is both instructivo and enter publication. That this magazine, by both the artist and the layman...

Published monthly at 1 by Thetaining. It should prove useful to has met with marked success Studio" Ltd. at No. 44. Lolcester all business people.

This special Christmas number and this in spite of the adverse conditions which have prevailed in Square London, this magazine is beginning to ell a want--the wants by no means a trade journal It China during the last few years of these who always have a hanker is also a work of real art. The Ing to take up drawing, sketching chapter on the comparative value of unquestioned, since it fills a need things Chinese to the Western or painting but foel either that they modes of publicity should be kept in the Orient for an interpreter of

handy de a useful guide.. "have not the natural ability" or

world. The curront number gives Inck "the time for it."

an account of how and why the Journal was founded and also con- tains interesting accounts of those Suitably and prettily Illustrated responsible for ita coming into We learn that similar throughout, each chapter is a brief being lecture in itself. The reader is in-biographical sketches of contribu- tiated into the mysteries of Christ-tore will form a feature of the Printed on art paper and inter-mas shopping in London and then magazine from now on and we look spaced with technical and general old what to do about toys.

forward, to forthcoming issues aines llustrations, each chapter ought to Pride of place is given to "Photo-most of the contributors to the be carafully studied.

gravure and the reproduction of Journal are specialists in their ne and it is always interesting to Commercial Illustrations."

Under "Making the Empire Come read about people who do things.

The Journal features a number Alive" W. S. Crawford deals in

interesting detail with the series of posters of

and important. Fiaaued by the Empire Marketing articles this month. George Kin .contribution "Chinese Board. A great deal has been anid Leung'a about the polters and the reproduc- Drama"

will appeal to many tions of the set, te be found in this

Other articles are ... “Å. Unification of the Units of Measurements in the United States, the British Empire and in China," and an addition to Mr. A. M. Tracey Woodward's i "Notes on Minted Coins of China" which appear in the Journal from time to time.

Art, students will and much that is helpful, but those not actively engaged in art work will also glean much useful information:

ko Some of the chapters. "Anatomy and Construction" by are intended for Vernon Blake,

But those who take up drawing. informative and authoritative grea- tises on Modern English Artists d. London Exhibitions are more

general in treatment.

NEW BOOKS.

NOVELS THROUGH LONDON PUBLISHERS..

received books Among recent from London publishers are the fol- lowing:-

"It Happened in Peking," by Louise Jordan Mine (Hodder and Stoughton) deals with the Peking of 1909 and the adventures of an PLAN English Duchess, a Chicago of the up and doing" type. she widow of an American millionaire and a charming English girl-all caught, like rats in a trap, during the Boxer rebellion. One of the most absorbing features of the book is the intimate description of the Empress Dowager, u Hsi," the regnant Empress of China and the acknowledged ruler of the Chinese Empire.

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readers.

number, are alone worth the price. Note on the

"Commercial art" is fasued menthly at n. 44, Leicester Square, at one shilling,

A copy of the First Mainz Cicero, 1486, made up entirely from sheets of the original edition without any admixture of those of the following year; realised £700 at Mesars. Sotheby's.

"

Dr. Ernest Carroll Faust'a timely "Fresh-Water Fish as a Source of Human Parasitic Infretion" is of great value and will be read with careful consideration by residents: of the Far East who realise the precautions necessary to avoid in- fection from improper food,

The pletures "of Formosa in the ||

immediately to learn what Mr. J. A. Jackson has to any of his walking tour of Taiwan, or, as it is known to most people, Formosa.

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Planter of the Tree." by Ruby Mtravel section will lead the render Ayres.

JOHN LONG'S PUBLICATIONS.

The following have been received from John Long Etdi:

"It Came To Pass," by Countess

The Shooting and Plahing sec ton of the Journal has become very popular with sportsmen. If one may judge from the interesting

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cold reason, but who puts a mystery yarn under the analytical micro- scope? Its mission is to please. thrill and give cause for speculation

Cathcart concerns a young fascinating married woman of good birth and the vicissitudes ahe en- counters before she attains her heart's desire. "Countess Cathcart's correspondence published from time to time in the magazine. This Arst novel ("The Woman Tempted"); created for her not only a big Brionth there are notes regarding to why, who and how committed shooting to be had in the neighbour the horrible deeds described. And tish reading public buta arge head of Shanghai, and also regard. Mr. Wallace is a master of the art. American audience. In this, her|

And This, like all his tales, is thoroughly second book, she has indeed made ang game in Manchuria, notable advance upon her previous speaking of Manchuria, there is readable.

another story by Mr. V. de Franck achievement.

"Second Sight" by Temple Lane,In this number telling how he the author further enhances his re-stalked a capercalais. The reader's putation among the leading novel interest will be captured imme ists of the day. It unfolds the story diately so graphic is the author's an of a hard-headed and self-made man description of the early morning

encountered circumstances hunt.

which would not bend; who was The other departments of the brought to a pause by forces at magazine contain notes of Interest which he scoffed; and who, with on Science, Education, The Keanel, others, after playing their parts and The Garden, and a book review against the background of three section. countries. finally faced their test and crisis of their lives in the soll- tude of Nature's fastnesses.

"The Smugglers' Cave," by George Birmingham: (Hodder and Stoughton), opening with the visit to a remote village of an elderly gentleman in search of local colour for a novel, develops, through the activities, of an energetic lady with a taste for theatricals, and inkeeper civil to everyone and anxi-1 whe ous to be obliging to all possible patrons into a pageant which excit. ed England from end to end, set every club in London gossiping, inspired a spate of articles in the daily papers, gravely affected the reputation of oldest and moat honoured families and went near to wreck the prospects of one of "The Slapped Woman." by Fred- our historical political parties. orick Brock is the story of Wilfreda

Fendulum," The

by Mrs Arland who takes a violent dislike to Burnett-Smith (Hodder and Stough. A man who has spent much of his ton) is an intimate and considered time in the wilder places of the

In these days of high priced study of the growth, development earth and who finally masters her

not before she has received punish novels, John Long Limited are serv- and extraordinary phases of expori-

lling a definite public need in produce dividuals, and families had to pass judged step was followed by events ing good fiction at a popular price. ence through which so many in- ment at his hande. How an

of the utmost consequence to her. Surely no reader will cavil at giv-|

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author has turned out a mystery hint of tragedy, to well endowed tale which is baffling from the first with Emmeline Morrison's charac

"Storm" is not. perhaps. Halliwell Sutcliffe in his happlest voin. He has given us much better novels than this, particularly "Under the White Cockade"

and "Shameless Wayne." In this latest, he is back

in his familiar environment of Eng- and before there were railway trains and Criminal Investigation, Departments and the story revolves about an age long feud between an ancient house and a settlement of toll taking ruffians.

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Comes a pedlar and his daughter to the manor seeking shelter and they become mixed with the affairs of their benefactor and there fol lows much fighting, burning and cattle thieving. Through it all moves the sinister figure of a gipsy girl who has played fast and loose with the hero and sets. about his

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"The Garden of Allah," with a girl as the central figura, breaking away from a life with a straightlaced re- igious sect, to spend an almost limitless income among the leisurely and indolent of the fashionable world.

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She is in fact the Anal cog. In a machine of vengeance perfected by a Zulu queen, who thus squares ac- counts for the betrayal of her daughter by a white man,

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Mary certainly has many loves during the most testing yourself and to two other girls, one of ing 2/- for 200 pages of first class destruction, for "Hell hath no fury

and in a conventional world, she British history. The "Pendulum"

like a woman scorned." draws a relentless and arresting whorn is her dearest friend, is un- matter from the pene of such 10-

If there is any fault to find, it is would have been either "Faat" or picture of the conflict between the folded in a tensely dramatic man-

thors as Edgar Wallace, Army

losing her things which can be choren

"Fruits of Desire" is a new novel J. Baker, Halliwell Sutcliffe, Charles in the titling of the tale for Storm "Loose." Without- the things which remain. It pre- sents a vivid, pathetic and finished in the best E. W. Savi manner. The Garvice, d, J. Bell' and Curtis Yorke, le a renegade sheep-dog, who only charm, character, or sweet simpll- picture of modern conditions, pre-plot is unravelled with a free and The three most recent volumes to appears aufficiently long to make city, she gives herself in succession sented from the woman's point of fearless hand and may be regarded neach us, are by the Arst mentioned one wonder why he is in the story to a number of men and then obey- as one of the author's most uncon-trio of writers, who have won a de- at all. That he gives his life in preing the psychle injunctions of the ventional tales, the moral of which "Master Vorst," by "Seamark" is that peopic make their own hell served place on the shelves of the tecting his master and lady matters Zulu queen, casts them aside. Mary (Hodder and Stoughton) bears the

on earth. Every character is real circulating libraries. Edgar Walnot at all. They might well have Anishes in a convent, which serves stamp of an author who knows how and every episode convincing, lace's contribution is "The Face in bodh rescued in a more reasonable her right.

It happens to be quite a good tale to shock and thrill his hearers Into- There Lived a Lady," although the Night" and true to form, the manner and dog Storm cut out all

and explains at great length that together. The not without pathos and

The book is easy smooth reading white people living in South Africa. and the love of the writer for the have nothing else to do but play teristic touches of humour. The Rage to the last chapter..

Northumberland and Yorkshire tennis, dance and go riding all It is possible to think of) peenis too story," which is one of intense Unsolvable murders occur, there spaces is evident. The spirit fe night. But the authoress has to be live and real to be altogether com-

power, concerns the exiling of A are knockings on the wall in the caught and the reader's interest thanked also for Introducing a real- fortable, particularly when we are husband who has deliberately con- middle of the night; surreptitious hold, not only by the characters, batiy novel character, who in quite a informed that he has cultivated tracted a loveless marriage and de-comings and goings: a beautiful the atmosphere, which is at times swest way says such things as "You enough sudden death in his germ tails in an interesting manner how farm to wipe out London in a night the wheels of destiny move to their lady in the meshes of a criminal overstressed, even reducing the dream something mude and it's peycho-analysis; you change your and all Britain in a week

appointed and through the medium gang, detectives, crooks and illicit county feud to second place. of a girl who innocently helps to diamond buyers in à fantastic med-

About Mary of Many Loves" by mind and it's dual personality; you bring husband and wife together. loy, which will rob the bedtime Amy J. Baker, it is difficult to form, love your dogs, and it's thwarted

Other books received from John reader of many hours of rest.

an opinion, although here again we maternity; you let a man kiss you' Long Ltd include "Written In

In such an atmosphere as this, have a writer revelling it a country and it's sex appeal. Well I suppose, Sand," by Helen V Savile: The

well known and layed. This time it: it is." in South Africa.

a state of panicky fright. Death Maker (presiding genius at a germ-farm crawling alive with all the most hideous disease cultures

Other books received from Hoddar and Stoughton include The Northern Tramp," by Edgar Wallace; "Jim Brent," by Supper: The Actor In Dickens," by J. B. Van Merongen; "The Red Ledger." Devastating Man," by Arthur one does not look for plausibility by Frank L. Paekard; "The Deep Appiin: The Stronger Hand, by and in fact, certain of the happen Ings will not bear the light of sane Seam," by Jack Bethos; "The John Goodwin,

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