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MABEL GRUNDY'S "THREE PEOPLE."

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This pruss-word puzzle has been made by an exper but, our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)

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The moon and stare and the soft night have set the stage; the of gondola with sign,murmurs. sound moves between the lifting

Of the "Three Pucple" by Mabel On the Trail of Ancient Man: A walls luminous with lighted, win-

Grundy, (Hodder dow and pillar. The low, full Barnes narrative of the fold Work of stuecute of the gondollor spoken Stoughton one is left in doubt as to which is the third of the trio the Central Asiatic Expedi-word melts into the high, swaut

tenor of the song he sings in rhy until some few of the chapters have tiena by Rey Chapman

thm to the sway of his body. Un-been enjoyed. Andrews, G. P. Putnam'a

#case The author atates Inboured motion and untrammelled! Sons. 25/-%

melody trail the dark waters where-brotherly and staterly devotion, as Here at last we have the beginin are reflected the gleam of a thou-opposed to the love of a maid for

sand lights.

ka min. The sick brother's obses nings of what may grow to an hisy Past storeyed piles of ancient masion proves a bar which seems n Lorient narrative by

Garvan facades, scenesurmountable, but the climax, a!!! sclentine 30nry, authorities of the stratum of truth yon, through history in a multi though not too surprising, is well coloured thread of events. Venice worked out and extremely satisfy. underlying the myths: at the begin at night is at its kindest. To the

Ing.' ing of the Génesis. The great wayfarer from the western world it in as if he moves in a dream. The palaeontologist. Dr. Daborn, had streets teeming with buying come to the conclusion from his pedestrians, swift, honking auto mobiles, clacking tran cury- studies that the original home of

streets awake and resonant with the mammals of the world probably the energy, enterprise and high

"The Avenger.". lay in Asia somewhere near the hopes of his own United States seem

Imagine "The Avenger created remote indeed. It is as if the yea- Mongolin defert: from there, too,terday of long ago became to-day by Edgar Wallace (John Long, man, the most recent and moat in and swept the delighted and be Ltd.), to be a man of homicidal who decapitaten hla, porsant of the great mammals most guiled traveller into a period oftendencies

his own high fancies.

victims without apparent session or These probably also originated.

Venice, plucking the mandolinmotive, and returns the head to the prophecies helped to lend and guitar within its okden walls; Police with instructions as to where Chapman, Andrews to plan and Venice, with an element of romance the body will be found, and you wrought through even its work-R will appreciate the task the author on its tackles, undertake the great expeditions the day life: Venice, afloat

The secret service man engaged fascinating account of which to winding canals, replete with the

charm and beauty that time has on the unravelling of the mystery given In this book.

not yet destroyed.

becomes involved in the activities The wayfarer gathers the sweets of a moving picture concern and of the hour with a grateful sense of

The Garden of Eden.

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The characters gre well drawn, and the life of a Swiss clinique, with its little personal wars and affectations of the patients, forms an excellent background to a story which is interesting throughout

The great basin of cretaceous having experienced them; yet, afthere meets his sentimental fate. deposits round the Flaming Cliff brief time later, he shakes himself There is much movie wisdom and may be taken as the Garden of free of its sort of wizardry with antire in this part of the book, but- Eden. It was here the dinosaur's warm, inflowing appreciation ofthe tale proceeds with sustained eggs were discovered, and here ened desire to reach

his native land and a newly awak interest.

again its evidently in creincequs and later shores swiftly and soon. times dinosaurs, itanotheres. nnd many other of the boasts of the Aek! played. No leenge sooms to have disturbed their plensyrus,

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CONDITIONS..

The book is, in fact, a thriller frohr start to Anish and makes no pretence of being anything else. The elucidation of the problem: moves to be something entirely reader devent from what the would expect..

There is a number of novelistle red herrings drawn across the trail and in spite of the fact that there are at times too obviously shy the tale has much to com- mend it. Mr. Wallace has again given his followers a that is fully up to his reputation along his own inimitable lines.

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60-Negative 62-Exofamation

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES Start out by filling in the words, of which you feel reasonably sura. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn: to still others A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered: 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 cross-word puzzle.)

this very readable book which we

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"The Undying Race" by René- Milan International Library." 2/6, net.)

I have named, among many This of course was long prior to rivers that make music in my the appearance of man. But the memory, that dirty Water of place had evidently all the glow Leith. Often and often I desire and charm of Eden about it., Evento look upon it again; and the now after the millions of years of choice of a point of view is easy It should be at a certain decay that have occurred since to me. then, "the men said that against the water-door, embowered in shrub sunset glow it surpassed anything beng. The river is there dammed back for the service of the flour. of its kind that they had ever

It ia impossible not to go against mill just below, so that it lies seen" (p.179) What it must have deep and darkling, and the sand the title of "Judge Not" by Cecil been like in those far away distant slopes into brown. obscurity with a. Bullivant (John Leng, Ltd.), for eras we must leave it to the pen glint of gold; and it has but new-the machinery of plot and counter- of the scientist to pletare. "The ly been recruited by the borrow- plot creaks badly all the way

through. "fertility of Central Asia during the ings of the shuff-mill just above, A ticket of leave man, freed after of Mammals and especially and these, tumbling merrily in, punishment for a crime he did not "during Upper Oligocene time wher shake the pool to its black heart,commit, lays his hands on a cool "the giant rhinoceroses just des-fill it with drowsy eddies, and set million pounds in bank notes; the the curded froth of many other results of years of undiscovered! "scribed roamed over the country tells solemnly steering to and crime by the gang who were res- "made this by far the most genial gro upen the surface. Or so it ponsible for his indictment.

The money is never banked, "but

"The Memories of Halide Edib "and astractive centre of life on "the earth. It was a veritable was when I was young; for

is the autobiography of one of the whereafter "Garden of Eden. It was probably change and the masons, and the la carted about the country by hand, "not many thousand feet above sen- pruning-knife have been busy weeks. submarine operations, and very few. Turkish women whoge "level plateau country with low and if I could hope to repeat a the blowing up of country houses names are publicly known either "gradients traversed by meandering cherished experience, it must be

by dynamite subsequent to exten-outside or in their own country. "river courses." (p.200).

on many and impossible condi- sive tunnelling, none of these The volume reveals in vivid pictures Adam: or the earliest man:

tions. I must choose, as well as events appearing to disturb the the Turkish world during the last 40 years; and makes a special ap- Such a scene might naturally be the point of view, a certain mo- Police to any appreciable extent.

The most interesting part of thepeal at the present time to all who looked upon as the cradle of our ment in my growth, so that the ancestry. "In the forests we shall scale may be exaggerated, and tale and something really new in have sought for a clue to the inner! "And insectivores, bats and nurser the trees on the steep opposite fiction, is the finale, which 3nds the history of Turkey since the Turk "ous rodents, and on the border

to be published by Mfr. "lines between the forests and the may seem to climb to heaven, and lovers united, the bad men eliminat.Party has risen into the notice. "savannana we may leck for the the sand by the water-door, whered, and the inoney safe. This is The book in wall illustrated and is Primates, discovering among them, I am standing, seem as low as deserving of better treatment than shortly "we hope, some of the anthropoid Styx. And I must choose the the preceding 25 chapters give it. Murray. "apes related to the human ances season also, so that the valley is readable, however, but not may be brimmed like a cup with sunshine and the songs of birds:

"tral stem:"

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What they actually did find were the artifacts of the Dune dwellers -fint implements of a palaeolithic people of about the Azilian culture stage. These people may havE been the auceators of some of the :forms of palaeolithic man m Europe. No bones, however, were found-not even Adam's wisdom. tooth..

The Hunting of Big Game.

much more..

there... ensues.

THE UNDYING RACE,

train

and the year of grace, so that when I turn to leave the riverside Messrs. Stanley Paul have con- may find the old manse and its ferred a boon on the English read- inhabitants uncharged, Robert ing public by offering them, at a Louis Stevenson, in "Memories very reasonable price, excellently translated volumes of many of the and Portraits.'

world's masterpieces of fiction. The Undying Race" by René Milan ia no ordinary novel: indeed Novel, In the accepted sense of the word; is hardly the correct designation for this work seeing that it has no hero,, no heroine, no plan, and no centrul neident. It is an Outline

bably not have enjoyed it for ever. As one of the great objects of It seems to have been destined the expedition was the supply of through climatic and other condi big game for the American museum tions of fate to be left to a dwind of Natural History a great amounting Mongol population terrorised by of time was spent in obtaining good bandits and the off scourings" of of History in miniature, resembling specimens of the less easily obtain-Soviet Russia-the symbols of the in some ways John Buchan's "Path of a King" In the first page the ed animals. The account of the flaming sword. hunting of these is very well told, Everybody interested in the ad-reader finds himself in Eastern He seen the and seems certainly to have been vance of science, In palaeontology, Tartary 500 B.C. very exciting. Competitions be in zoology, or the early history of Chinese Court then, and in later. tween gazelles and an up-to-date man will find this book fascinatingly chapters views, the grandeur of Dodge car were the order of the interesting. It is well written and Rome, the fall of Jarusalem, Attila

·day. The gazelle seems generally full of life. There is perhaps a-the Scourge of God (the finest to have won, Dodge Brothers little too much of the 100 per cent. part of the book), the Moors in might name their newest and most American' about it--the Stara and Spain, the Crusades, the Evils of perfect car Gazella gutturosa. Stripes on the foremost camel or the Feudal System, the Hundred It seems a pity that man Was on the 10-million-year-old dinosaur Years' War, the French Revolution, driven out of this hunter's paradise, egg. But this may be overlooked and the Dawn of Democracy. An But the members of this expedition for pardoned when the whole under-immense amount of delving into the tomes and manuscripts of great found the conditions at times so taking and the success of the ex-

libraries was necessary to produce trying that even they would propeditions are considered.

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