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WINSTON CHURCHILL'S STORY

OF 1914-1918.

MR. NEWMAN FLOWER.

FAMOUS PUBLISHING FIRM PURCHASED.

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Cassell's

A WELLS NOVEL.

THE STRIKE AND ITS CAUSES,

new novel, "Meanwhile," in which Mr. H. G. Wells has written a he has attempted to do for the coal dispute and the general strike what, in "Mr. Britling," he did for the war.

"I believe," said Mr. Victor Gollancz, managing director Ernest Benn, Ltd, who are to be the publishers, in an interview with

representative of "The Observer," "that this novel will create discussion and controversy. even greater than that aroused by William Clissold' last autumn.

THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1927. DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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What happened, why it happen- directly connected with the produc Many people besides those ed and how it happened? These are the questions, apropes of the ion of booke, will be interested in great war, which Mr. Winston the announcement that Mr. New Churchill set himself to answer man Flower has purchased the when writing the story of the famous publishing house of Cas- world crisis of 1914-18. With the acll'e, and the prominence given in origins of the conflict which raged the Press to the transaction is in over these fateful four years, and dicative of the general interest. with the initial stages of that Mr. Flower, though still a

com titanic struggle, the author dealt in paratively, young man, has been

associated with two massive volumes which, nearly

for two years ago, were reviewed in twenty-one years, and that the im- these columna His later work, print of that firm on a book carries which now lies before us, covers a sure guarantee that, to whatever the happenings of the more critical department of literature it belongs,

"The criticisms in William Clis- years 1916-18, from the date when it will deserve and command atten- sold which caused so much com- all the combatants in both combination is largely due to him, for he ment were, after all. mainly in- tions were gripped in a vice, from has maintained this tradition dur eldental; but the very centre of this! which, it seemed, no single State ink recent years.

Mr. Flower is himself a man of theism of the Conservative Govern-

novel is an absolutely ruthless cri-| when "the mighty framework of letters, and, moreover, possesses a

ernment, and particularly of Mr. German Imperial Power shiverede literary judgment and rare Baldwin and Mr. Churchill, for

Many of suddenly into a thousand indivi- discrimination.

the their conduct of the coal dispute. dually disintegrating fragmenta." greatest writers of recent years The picture Mr. Wells draws of the The narrative is one of engrossing and there can be no question that is a brilliant one. Many will agree have been discovered by Cassell's,

course and causes of that dispute interest. It is not, however, a nar-

under the new regime the search with it; more will violently dis- rative related by one "above the battle." but by one of the principal for new talent and the quick re- agree. That it will cause

wide- cognition of it will be as marked a spread discussion is certain. actors on the stage.

feature of the house as ever.

could extricate itself to the moment

Mr. Churchill does not occupy' that position of Impartial detach. ment, which one looks for in the authentic historian. He is besides, too obviously concerned to justify his own administrative acts, as well As every piece of counsel which. whether in or out of office, in sea- son or out of season, he tendered so freely respecting the conduct of the war by land and sea, not only to the Government and High Com mands of his own country but to those of the Allies. for his version

A GERMAN NOVEL.

already

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"The upheaval is seen through the eyes of Philip, who is drawn as ignorant and idealistic, but active The minded and honest, and Mr. Wells pictures him as appalled at finding, out where his money comes from and how his colleagues have be- haved.

"The general conclusion is that people like the Rylands must pull themselves together, conse to live in social and political responsibilities. comfort in Italy, and tackle their)

at home.

"The leading character is Philip Rylands, a young and an enormous- ly rich conlowner, who has brought his wife to a villa at Ventimiglia, and has surrounded her with crowd who talk most amusingly. After an episode between Philip and Before May is very old Mr. a woman known as Puppy Clarges, which is followed by the reconcilia- Martin Secker hopes to publish an English translation of "The tion of Philip and his

wife. Magic Mountain," a new story by Cynthia. Phillip goes to England Herr Thomas Mann, now perhaps to inquire into the causes of the the most popular novelist in Ger- impending coal strike, and to see many. It has had a larger auc-bearing in it.

what part the family business of events and of the causes lead-cess there, following his "Budden-: ing up to them, to be accented brooks"

done throughout as gospel. To any this. however, is not to detract from the English, than any German nove! value of the author's work regard-published since the war. ed for what it really is. namely, a Magic Mountain" is very long, comprehensive view of the mighty for the English edition will run panorama as he saw it and as the to 1,000 pages, divided over two presentment of a selection of what, volumes. It seeks to be regarded to him, were its dominating fea- as a philosophy of life and death, turés. Although Mr. Churchill has as a satire, as an exhaustive study no claim to speak. ns an inspired of disease and mentality, and Oracle, the successive important above all as an inclusive descrip- roles for which he was cast in the tion of the world since 1914. great drama furnished him with opportunities, which hardly any other man can have so fully shared, of seeing and knowing what was going on in the political and mili- development, for tank development, tary spheres of the altled nations. and for gas development, and, so Moreover, (anys a reviewer in the far as these objectives were attain "West Australian") if exception be able by, his department, they were made of the few towering figures attained. The requests of the Bri- such as President Wilson, Lloyd tish High Command in the first George, Clemenceau, Fisher, Foch three years of the war were never and Haik, there was, possibly, no se urgent for men as for guns and one on the Allies side whose in- munitions. "As regards material" fluence on events, counted for more. wrote, Sir Douglas Haig in his final Hia war record was indeed unique despatch, "it was not until 1916 and not undistinguished. As First that the artillery situation became Lord of the Admiralty to him even approximately adequate to the mainly did the Empire owe it that conduct of major operations. the British Navy was not demo- Throughout the Somme battle the bilised when war was declared and expenditure of artillery ammunition that the German High Seas Fleet had to be watched with the greatest was 30 effectively bottled up. care. During the battles of 1917 That service alone must stand for ammunition was plentiful, but the all time as a set off for whatever gun situation was a source of con- mistakes of judgment the author of stant anxiety. Only in 1918 was it "The World Crisis" may subse possible to conduct artillery opera- quently have committed, and may tions independently of any limiting be urged in palliation of his considerations other than trans- offence against good taste in port." With pardonable pride the publishing his magnum opus-a author of "The World Crisis," book so provocative of controversy dwells on the magnificent out-turn while holding high Ministerial of guna, tanks and ammunition and

office.

"I do not want to give the impres- sion that the interest in this novel: said, it is full of witty conversation, is exclusively political. As I have

and there are many exciting episodesas, for instance, when a distinguished Italian politician escapes from a Fascist attack and Cynthia disguises him as her nurse, and smuggles him into France. But the strongest impression left on my mind is that of the enormous vivacity of the political pictures, and the brilliant satire of Mr. Wells's denunciation of a certain type of mind.

"I believe this novel will cause more discussion than any book pub- lished in recent years, and, more- over that everyone will read it."

"When, will it be published?" Mr Gollancz was asked.

"Early in September."

WRITERS AND READERS.

I

Theodore Roosevelt is hero to

Mr. Arthur Lambton has a series of reminiscences, mostly of sporting-and dramatic subjects, coming out with Hutchinson.

The Routledges announce

a

la unstinted in his praise both of his valet, James, Amos, in s Next to the great service which the official heads of his department volume which will shortly appear. Mr. Churchill rendered his country and of the workers whose labours in 1914. when the disposition of made such an achievement possible. the Navy was in his keeping, was Mr. Churchill's account of how that which he rendered the Allies Britain conquered the U boats, his generally as British. Minister of descriptions of all the major offen- Munitions in 1917 and 1918. This sives and counter offensives not department was created by Mr. only on the Western front, but on study of Professor Patrick Lloyd George and the enormous all fronts, are characterised by Geddes, the "man and his gospel," national factories which he had such a meticulous regard for every by Miss Amelia Defries, called into existence were just be tretical detail and the movements ginning to function. It was left of the contending armies in action to the new minister, who had been are reflected in his pages by such called from the camp to the Senate vivid word pictures as might be -he had been serving with his re- supposed only possible to an eye novel, Mr. H. G. Wells has a Besides "Meanwhile," a full giment at the front to organise witness. Never is he more in-

to

II.

announces a

the supreme effort for which there teresting than when criticising volume of short stories appearing was now an imperative need and favourably, or unfavourably, either in the autumn.

this effort Mr. Churchill's the strategy or stratagems of the talents were splendidly and success-war lords or the conflicting policies novel by Lady Charnwood, en-

Sir Ernest Benn fully devoted. The Ministry of of the allied and enemy politicians, titled "Without Capitulation," Munitions was the dyname which He is not ungenerous to America, and he is re-issuing a story which was to generate the forces that "If." he says, "the physical power ultimately broke the German front, of the United States was not in fact Lord Charnwood wrote, "Tracks Its ministerial head had never applied in any serious degree, to in the Snow." lacked initiative and he had once the beating down of Germany: if, Mr. Ernest Hemingway, who again succeeded to an office where for instance, only a few score thou made a hit with a volume of Initiative was at a premium, and sand Germane fell by American stories, "In Our Time," has a supplied it. He contended for hands, the moral consequences of novel nearly ready with Jonathan artillery preponderance, for air the United States intervention was Cape, "Fiesta." eupremacy, for railway or mechani- Indeed the deciding course in the

cal mobility, for trench mortar conflict."

J. M.

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75-interjection (The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

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