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ONE THAT CANNOT BE WRITTEN.
THE IMPOSSIBLE OLYMPIAN.
Why there should be a sudden, simultaneous flowering of the same mood in different parts of a coun- try, in different social and intel- lectual strata of lis people, and on both sides of an ocean, I shall not attempt to discuss; but it is a fact that at the moment a new interest In imaginative, War books is assert
"THE FOUR-POST.
BED."
passionately recounting what he BITS FROM BOOKS. saw; and it is by the power of these moments that we know how great is the book that has never been written and naver will be. These moments are all (as I can only style them) "diary moments;" the savour of the notebook, and the trench after the fight, and the indelible pencil from a tunic pocket. Such are, for instance, the central chapters of Ewart's "Way of Revelation" in any war novel-do you re- --probably the greatest chapters member "Ypres lay behind us like a city that could suffer no more?" the central chapters of the purely journalistic parts of Frankau's "Peter Jackson;" and
"If that old furniture-dealer happens to call for my four-poster while I'm out, that's all right; he can take it for what it is worth.
"He hoped he would be out when he wanted to get rid of it, after all the man came to fetch it. Though it was like the passing of some old favourite one does not like to be hunter, the putting down of aume present when the knacker arrives; neither did he want to be present when bit by bit the old four-poster came downstairs.
"What, selling the bed as you
you do surprise me..
Ing itself in all reading clasece, Sir Philip Gibbs's "Middle of the were born on, Mr. Armine? Well,
both here and over the Atlantic (writes Ernest Raymond in the "Sunday Times".) The readers of the "Sunday Times" may not have noticed that a correspondence, al most parallel to their own, has re- cently figured in a newspaper which ministers to a quite different public. And articles on the same subject are appearing in the specifically literary Press, and comments on the resuecitation of the War novel in
Road" and yet, alas! all three of these books, when they withdraw from the miracle-working field of the War,, degenerate into mere sofa romances, and thus all three And here, let me say-else will of them are fine books manqués. somebody say it most righteously in next week's "Sunday Times" that if there is one book more open than another to this indict- ment of the "emotional escape," it is my own "Tell England." Perhaps that is why I write on the subject feelingly.
If Only.
the book-trade journals. The trade journals of America tell the same story. And the War film is all-
Two books occur to me that ap- conquering "Mons," Alm with-
proach the ideal standard because out a story and, worse, without a heroine, probably broke records,
they have the unity of mood and the steady vision, Mottram's After mating the lists of books "Spanish Farm Trilogy" and recommended by the correspondents Sheila Kaye-Smith's "Little Eng of these papers, I have been moved land"; but they are both rather to play my memory so earnestly local and limited, and want, I over these novels that it is now in think, something of the fire of the danger of delivering up to me three battle chapters mentioned above. suspect things: a generalisation, No, the book that maintains the prediction, and a philosophy. The generalisation is that there are no really satisfying War novels; the prediction, that there never will be: and the philosophy (for what it is worth) shall be stated at the close of this essay.
All War Books "Tendentia)."
level of Ewart's central moments can never be written-because our young writers cannot again pencil their chapters in dug-out, trench, tent, and ship, whence alone came the flashes of literature worthy of the War. If only-if only one of them, in the days when he was a highly sensitised instrument for Though there are some very fine recording the intolerable pageant War books, there are no completely his first word to his last fearless- before him, had been able to keep satisfying ones, because they are all ly, remorselessly, unangrily, and tendential is there such a word? unsorrowvingly! There would have My dictionary knows nothing of it, been no need for him passionately and Mr. H. W. Fowler, has yet to to seck out the beauty; all the speak. Anyhow, it serves my mean- overtones of beauty would have ing, which is just this: that all the been there. Because the War was War books of these lists are vitiat-at once the most awful and the ed, some only faintly, some quite most beautiful pageant any of us fatally, by a tendency of their au-have seen; the whole dark field thors to draw from the terrible was phosphorescent with a beauty deeds they rentarse either this les- we shall not look upon again, son or that one must cry his goapel
Explain this statement I can
of consolation or hope, another pro-not; it is one of the things one claim-explicitly or implicitly-his resentment and des,air, and a third just knows but can never analyse nor, understand. But it is the set forth his vision of a future, hap
basis of the philosophy I mention- pier world.
The writers of these books were ed in the beginning. If a light of necessarily young and sensitive, beauty hangs over all pain, young, because, with a few excep- brightening as the pain darkens, tions, the only War books worth till alone in the completeness of considering are those written by tragedy is the completest beauty men who experienced the heat and forefront of the battle; and sensi-seen, then I understand why the tive, because it is only a sensitive seers of this world have never young man who is rash enough sought escape, but have accepted to write a book at all, And it in quietness that all things, willy- seems as if these young, sensitive nilly. are under the ascendancy of men, hurt beyond endurance by the good. completeness the tragedy, sim- ply had to escape either into dim hopes or into fervid resentments. Whether this intolerabla hurt the inevitable escape were ever con- scious I doubt, but in one form or another the symptoms of it are in every War book. And it is not with a nervously shifting gaze that so supreme a tragedy should have been viewed; its very perfection demand ed perfectly steady and perfectly quiet eyes.
and
TROUBLOUS TIMES.
Present-day conditions are unusually trying. The business man finds himaelf harassed and worried to a degree. Such-times as those call. for maximum
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fashioned one, and to save further:
Yes; I'm going to buy a now- comment he had the audacity to announce: "Miss Anne never cured about that bed, so I'm after a new.
one."
That
of it, I have heard Miss Anne say Well, now you come to speak as how she could not abide them hangings and that there canopy: didn't deem-it healthy-like. do seem a pity, though, an old family thing like that to go... After all, you can get beautiful brass testers, with spring mai- tresses as is all the go nowadays.*** The end of the four-poster is the final surrender in a pretty love story of country life told by Charles Fielding Marsh in "The Four-Post Bed" (Cassell, 78. 6d. net).
Middle Age.
again
"She was going to meet Ralph Jeffry, and she wondered ther he would find her much chang- ed. She was forty-one, and she would not let herself forget it.
what he would think of her-whe-
"Up to twenty-five, a woman takes. her good looks for granted. From twenty-five to thirty-five she is careful of them, fusses, over them.
From thirty-five onwards, if she is a woman of sense, she is philoso- phic about them, having learnt that: intensify beauty she will make little whatever she may do to preserve or difference to it; and while she may meet people who still admire, she will equally meet those who do not, Helen, as a rule, where her looks
ferent. In a moment of weakness, were concerned, was a philosopher. "This evening things were dif- of which she ashamed, she searched the mirror Was afterwards for lines and grey hairs..
Would
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he still think her beautiful? Her glass gave her back a slim and richly descriptive pen, supported by sweet-faced woman, with soft, dark a keen insight into the life and at- eyes, still humorous and tender, mosphere of the Italian underworld, untouched by time. The bloom of the reader, who experiences alike luxuriant dark hair, and features the author succeeds in captivating
knew, could replace it. In her. mo-soul-destroying effects of opium. youth was gone, and nothing, she both the shadowy delights and the
ments of sense she would not have been without the few lines that aor row and experience of life had graven on forehead and cheek; to Was impatient with
night she them."
to middle age is described in this Helen Cheaney, whose approach passage, is the chief Sure in Happy Medium," by Vera Wheat loy (Methuen, 78. 6d. net), a clever study of the clash of ideas between two generations.
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For home or office use there is no fine stories, escapes into a anvage the system, that Invigorates in a natural indignation; no does Dos Passos in way, and does not merely stimulate better or handier littic all-round re- hie "Three Soldiers"; and Mr. Wells only to leave one more depressed than ference book the "Conciee Pocket escapes with Mr. Britling into an ever when its effect has worn off.
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A cleverly conceived novelis | these writers and in many far aches and file which affiict the gentler Beamish entitled Smoke," and will of you. As a specific for the coming from the pen of Mr. de Vic smaller ones! 'Not a book in sex they are world-famous, these lists but has its moments To be had of all chemists, or post be published in early course. bj moments when the author was 3,00. from The Dr. Williams Medicine Smoke" is a series of thrille and free, at $1.50 per bottle, & bottles for A. M. Alexander at 7a. 6d. net. not averting his eyes but die Co., 60 Klangse Road, Shanghai. shudders, for which a vivid and
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