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THE WORLD OF BOOKS
CURRENT FICTION.
A TALE OF THE CHINA COAST..
To find in a publisher's: list, a volume dealing with a country well known, or a type of person with whom one has been asso clated, is always a pleasure, albeit the pleasure of anticipation is usually the sum total' as in- variably the book leaves a great deal to be desired if it is a work of fiction.
DARKEST LONDON.
BISHOP OF LONDON'S TRIBUTE.
Mrs. Cecil Chesterton's book "In Darkest London" (Stanley Paul), which was recommended by the Bishop of London in a sermon de ivered at St. Paul's on the 26th An aversary of his Enthronement, has passed into its third edition.
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MALAYA.
A NEWCOMER'S 'WONDER AND
INTEREST.
Books dealing with a particular country or locality may be of vastly great different types. We have standard works which have stood as authoritative volumes on certain. districts or countries during many yeurs. Sometimes such are purely iological; sometimes anthropology- It f plenging to note that as a direct reauit of Mrs. Chesterton's cal: sometimes geological: some work and the reception given it toth times they form brilliant social on by freas and pubtle, the "Women's sociological studies.
The present volume ga Malaya So it is with "The Lost Tri Pubile Lodging House Pund" has
been started with Mrs. Chesterton specialises in none of these direc bute" by R. J. Bakewell (Hodders Hon. Organizing Secretary. On tions. It is a chatty account of the and Stoughton 7/6), the scene of the recommendation of a distinlife, people, and aspects of the which is laid on the China Coast guished General Council including Country as it presents itself to un Englishman-a new comer to the during the period when the Chin-Robort Blatchford, Stacy Aumonier, ese Navy was officered by Bri-Sidney Dark. H. G. Wells, Join country. The effort is made and with a good deal of success-to Violet Hunt, F. tishers. It deals with a shipment Gawortny, of 14 tons of gold specie, con- Tennyson-esse. Sheila Kaye-Smith recover the freshness of the new and many others, premises near comer's wonder and interert. 01 signed from the southern Chinese Theobald a Rond have bean acquired sourse, there is a certain drawback provinces to Peking which never
for the first of the "Cecil Houses in this. A new-comer who has suffi reached its destination.
Her Majesty the Queen has sentient energy and enthusiasm to be loat in amazement and interest in 5100 n support of the scheme.
everything is nearly sure to lack that specific interest in one or two branches of study which a technical mastery of such subjects implies. As a consequence a book such as the present one will appeal more to the casual reader than to the student. And more to the English reader who wishes to know what the life of an The Chinese atmosphere" les weeks ago by Mere. Stanley Paul Englishman in Malaya is like than has already runched its frteenth to any man wishing to study in des thick and heavy about the tale, housand: The American and Nortait some aspect of the country. with villainous mandarins, smag-wegian rights have been sold, and Europeans in Malaya or in the Für glers and pirates, chief of whom oiland is negotiating.
East may be more critical, or may The success of this apocryphal is "Black" Sam Wong. Eventual-
to" "Blandiana' the treasure is found stowed in contribution
flecta,
enor- course, the. a watertank on board the pirate's
Miss LOGA' ship, where it has been stowed for moun popularity of
book. At the Stone tine, it 15 years unknown to the dark
is not surprising to note the pro- tinted Sam Good gracious! portion, of sales attributed to those It is not a story that will please who have never read the drip dal the fastidious reader, but might indeed, it is the experience of most
publishers that a elever skit ve have a reasonable measure of suc-erally enjoys a robust life quits in cess us a serial in-a boys' adven- dupendent of its parent. Lure weekly.
A dying survivor tells the hero of its supposed whereabouts and of the murder of the deck, hands of the treasure ship in our own Lyemun Pass, of all places, before picking up a new crew on the waterfront of Hong Kong. This is typical of the book..
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POPULAR SELLERS.
"Blondes Prefer Gentlemen" the amusing satire published a few
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Miss Madge Bellamy, the west A Mystery Story.
known fim wctress, will play the ending part in the screen version William Le Queux has written of "Suramer Bachelors, which wil so many good tales, that it seems shortly be shown in London. sacrilegious. to find fault with Flaming Youth by the same au anything that comes from ais pen, or achieved recently a very mark- but in "The Mystery of Made-ed success in the cinemas, with moiselle" (Hodder and Stoughton Moss Colleen Moore, who created the part of Fat Fentrims. Both the 7/6) his right hand would appear
books from which these films have to have lost its cunning or mele
been adapted are" published by tal cramp has set in......
Messrs. Stanley Fuul.
The plot is sound, composed of the usual ingredients of inter- national politics and crooks who specialise in the gentle arts of kidnapping and jewel robbery, with an occasional murder as a relief from boredom.
require something mcre searching and less discursive. But persons
Bving in England or those who only buy a visit to the Country will find Bere much to interest and attract. To them we can thoroughly recom- mond it. They will find the inter- jests, entertainments, and pursuits of the Country skilfully leak with And everything which is not given in this volume will be forthcoming in a successor which is shortly to. follow.
Malay, Land, by R.. J. H. Sidney, Cecil Palmer, London 15/-. ||
"THE CELEBRITY."
A NEW PLAY IN THREE ACTS.
John Parable, celebrated Social Reformer and Champion of weak and oppressed humanity suddenly awakens to a sense of dissatisfac- tion with his own life: While a
He forgets all
THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1927.
DAILY CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
(This rugs-word puzzle has been made by an expe but our readers are warned to look out for, occasional phonetic spellings; such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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20-Color of army:
uniform (abbe:), 21-Novell
22-Nickname: for,,
"Edward?
23-You 24-Wo
26-Energy (alang). 39-Tennis term
32-Centigram (abbr)
11
18
19.
THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE,
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* 33-Portaining, to horaes
|36-To breathe out [37-Higher
38-To nivel 39-Comparative auffix 140-Conjunction. ..
41-insignia 43-Command 44-Plenhure craft
VERTICAL
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18-Confederate Stats
Navy (abbr) 10-Electrical Engineer
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28-By means of
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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by ding in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. Thess will give you a clue to other words crossing thom, and they in: turu to still others. A letter belongs: In each white space, words starting at the sumbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new crossword puzzle.)
AWAKE
O to be up and doing, O Unfearing and unshamed to, goj
In all the uproar and the press About my human business {
My undissuaded heart I hear Whisper courage in my ear. "With voiceless calls, the ancient
earth
Sean O'Casey the "Irish dock large protest meeting at the Opera labourer, who wrote the new famous House patiently awaits its principal play "Juno and the Paycok," is Speaker, Parable is roaming in St. only one of many modern writers James Park with an attractive It is in the handling of the of distinction who have raised young woman whom he found sit- situations which arise, the poor themselves from humble circum-ting alone there. characterisation and the abso-stances. HG Wells, for instance, else in his new found pleasure and lutely commonplace platitudinous began life as an assistant to a linen the evening's adventure terminates conversations which are held be- draper: Edgar Wallace, the best in a fierce altercation and tween the various principals. If seller mystery novelist and play great fight with a former admirer the heads of Scotland Yard are wright, was turned out into the of the young woman. The police as pictured in this tale, it is no world at the age of 11 to earn his intervene and Parable gives a false thing less than a miracle that living as a London newsboy, and
name; that of his friend, Archibald London should have such excel W. W. Jacobs was at one time a
Quincey. Next morning Parable | POEMS. lent traffic police, for that task at Post Office assistant Bernard discovers the girl to be his own least needs men in full possession Shaw and Arnold Bennett bath, cook and many amusing complica of their faculties.
started life as clerks, to a solicitortions follow.
aube-
A diplomat ia kidnapped and land agent respectively; while Such in brief outline is the plot through the medium of a fascin-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle confeases of Jerome K. Jerome's new play ating actress who, loving him, has that during his early struggles as a The Celebrity." The play is short to carry out the orders of her sup-medical practitioner he used to pour and full of simple humour. Parable posed father. Said father, unable water on his silk hat in the fond is a lovable character with strange to bear the weight of his many hope that the resultant glass might whims and many eccentricities, and crimes, commits suicide and his inspire patients to come and seek in the last act defies the criticism "daughter" is thus freed, proving his advice.
of friends and public and marries to be a spotless white angel..
the cook whose sterling qualities have won his simple heart.
Mr. Le Queux should not do things like this, if he hopes to hold our affection with as strong ties as in the past.
Excellent Reading. Turning from the last two dis-
races, one of them Nordic and the other Mongolian,
The rescue party introduce the tenets of modern warfare to the relics of an early civilisation with great success, in that the release
appointments, it was extremely of the lost ones is effected and
["The Celebrity" by Jerome K. Jerome, London. Hodder Stoughton 5/-]
NEW PUBLISHING HOUSE.
refreshing to find in "The Voice peace is restored to the land with A new publishing house has just of Dashin," by "Ganpat" (Hodder the routing of the invading made its appearance in a quarter and Stoughton 7/6), a tale that
1 Mongolians,
repaid the time spent in perusing
long associated with literature.
The tale moves along with The firm is The Diamond Press, Ltd., with offices at 10, Adam Street,
The firm will shortly issue a
it. It is a romance of the wild sparkling rapidity and every page Adelphi, W.C.Z, where all enquiries mountains somewhere north of brings fresh pleasure, for it is India and the author, M. L. A. Gompertz is. I understand, an characters are real. The author's
very cleverly handled and the will be welcomed. officer of the Indian Army who style is impeccable, he has hum-powerful Chinese Secret Society knows the place and probably our and gentiment well balanced, novel, "The Jade Rabbit." by loves it.
and the narrative is never sub Adele Blood and Tam Marriott, A lost pass is discovered in the Jected to philosophical meander. with five illustrations in colour by mountains and the party making ing or the mental distortions of Charles Fouqueray, the well-known the trip, do so in an effort to find paycho-analytical reasoning, French artist, who, lived for 'many friends who have escaped to this No better yarn than this has years In China, and Intend follow. hinterland from Russia during been put on sale for a long time lag this up with the publication of the revolution. The wild lands and it is to be hoped that "Gan-other novels, general literature, are split between two opposing pat" will soon give us more. and children's books.
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