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terest of her book, "My Journey to Lhasa" (Heinemann, 218); but, in fact, her book surpassen its pro- misc. It belongs to the upper ten of travel books by reason of merits as well as advantages which few possess. The commonality of travellers do not get to the heart
of
VICTORIAN COURT,
MEMOIRS OF A MAID OF HONOUR.
G. K. CHESTERTON.
COMMENTS ON COLLECTED POEMS,
The collection of "The Letters The Collected Poems of G. K. Madame Alexandra David-Neel's title of the only white woman who Lady Augusta Stanley" Chesterton" (Palmer, 10s. 6d.) gathers, for the first time, all of has penetrated to the heart of Tibet, has been followed by another Mr. Chesterton's poetry Into one
odda and entered the forbidden city of volume which
appre volume, from his first book (1900) Lhasa promises well for the in- ciably to our understand-to the "Ballad of St. Barbara"! (1922). It includes, of course, his ing of Queen Victoria and long "Ballad of the White Horse" her Court. "Mary Ponsonby" is (1911), and his brilliant group of a memoir, edited by her daughter, There is added a large batch of songs from "The Flying Inn." of a lady who, as Miss Bary entirely new poems, all marked as Buiteel, was appointed in the early strongly ne ever with the author's fifties a maid of honour to the popular poet. The appeal of much Individuality. Mr Chesterton is a Queen and after spending eight of his work is striking and imme diate. We may apply, the words alike of a country and of its people years in that capacity married Lowell used of a great eighteenth Sir Henry Ponsonby, Her century satirist he has a surpris- as Madame Alexandra David-Neel Majesty's private secretary. Lady ing extemporary vigour of mind, has done. Before the journey here Ponsonby died in 1916 at the age and his phrase carries great weight| described she had spent years in of 84, and her letters and journal, of blow. This muscular part of his studying in and around Tibet the which supply most of the material work will not outlast the passion for this volume, record her im-of- the moment, though for the mo- language and habits of the Tibe-pressions of people and events ment it has all the greater force; tana. Then, accompanied only by over a long period. She reveals but there is still much of his poetry the young "red" lama who is her herself as of a more critical tem- independent of the hour only, born adopted son, she set out disguised perament than Lady Augusta from a profounder inspiration, a as a poor pilgrim to defy discovery Stanley. She evidently had more permanent though not neces and reach the closely-guarded
sarily deeper emotion, and fired in по very high opinion of capital. She succeeded not only in the
a more enduring furnace. Prince Consort, for entering Lhasa but also in living
instance. She complains of his way of treating the house
there for two months, during which she witnessed the New Year feat hold" (L.e., the equerries, maids of strange antitheses serve simple
vities.
* Insight and Sympathy. The charm of the book lies as much in the insight and sympathy shown in the lives of the peasants as in the excitement of attaining so difficult a goal. For eight months the author and her companion jour neyed through a country much of which is unknown and unmapped. There plenty of information for geographers here. There are also adventures with robbers, perils of the route itself, of the weather, and of starvation. But, despite in numerable hardships this remark- able lady never loses her zest or intensity of observation.
"Is not everything a fairy tale in this ex- traordinary country," she exclaims even to the name it gives itself. that of Khang Yul, the land of snows?" Her opinion of the work- ing of British influence on the government of Tibet is by no means uniformly favourable; she is of French birth and with no partiality for British official methods. Yet her evident king for English people as individuals is the least of the reasons for congratulating our- selves that she has chosen to write this notable record in English.
MR. H. G. WELLS.
STRIKE NOVEL
PUBLISHED.
His Chief Poetic Virtue. Mr. Chesterton's habit of making honour and so on) as "not very purposes is not Iiralted to his poetry.. Spontaneity is his chief civil" and "rather too like a mas- ter of a house scolding servants poetic virtue and the cause of most of his defecta. It is a case, so to be pleasant to those, who were often, where art must give way to bound to listen in silence."
He nature.
Another phase of his failed, we are told, to make a thought is shown in the mystical single great friend among the significance that may be developed Ministers or even among the from a common object, so ordinary household As for his sense of perhaps, that the man in the street Social fun, which had been so much talk will pass it by unnoticed. ed of, Lady Ponsonby could never injustice stirs its hot indignation, discover it. He went into im- but man's neglect wakens his sor- Against political moderate fits of laughter at any rowful anger. practical joke, and his own jokes lows: but for his finest satire we misdeeds he delivers stinging were "heavy and lumbering."
turn to the terrific trony of "The Wild Knight."
It is when he
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This crass-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
135
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1-A river of Germany
4-Ventured
B-To pack 12-Grassy field 14-To shut in 16-Exist
17-A great Nile dam 19-9moke-pipo 20-70 demand the
return of 23-Having four legves
to the sheet 25-A fans
20-A compres point
(abbr.) 29-Sooner than 31-Within 33-Capable of being
adapted
84-On a higher plate 35-A nolay blow 35-To reflove 37-Conjunction 38-The act of ruining 41-Exch (abbr.) 42-A kitchen utensil 43-A color
45-A vegetable
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 50-Tropical fruit (pl.) 63-Mantrain 65-Turning like a
wheel
57-Destiny
55-Kapt out of sight 60-Girl's name Bi-Paradies
62-Buataina |69–Monkeya
VERTICAL 1-impetusue rush 2-French for "the" B-A woman's dress-
wakst 5-Interjection 6-Having actual-
existence
·7-A type moReurs
-To Intertwine confusedly
| 10-Crude, metal
11-Having physica!
health 13-8poiled |15-To pound
18-Snare
19-Exaresalon of
disapproval
VERTICAL (Cont.) [21-Comrade
22-Pertaining to the ' lost continent Atlantia
|24-A word farmed by⋅
transposing the
Istters of a
different word |25-8mosthed with the
beak 27-Toll
(30–To utter, as worde
|32-A product of coal |24-Maka a practice of
39-Incompetent 40-Devotional prayer 48-Well-bred
|44-To leave suddenly |48~Te (Scot.)
43-To obstruct
40-Capable 51-One of the
continents
52-8tsin
84-Pola
jáb-ń ros (8cot.) [80-Personal pronoun
180-A physician's titla
(xbbr.)
(The solution of the have cross-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue away with a new cross-word puzzle.)
There is a pathetic picture here of the loneliness of the Empress "shakes his spear at all. the stars" Frederick when cooped up in the that his rhetoric rises to the thun- Palace at Berlin and spied upon der of splendid lines. There le al- by the servants so that she "could ways colour and a swinging music not help sitting down to cry." In In his verse; but only when his a letter dated 1899, the Empress vigour is concentrated does he writes to Lady Ponsonby: The brighten to the rare perfection of continued abuse showered on "The Nativity" and a few kindred everything English every day poems. In such, Mr. Chesterton is makes me so savage that I long of the lineage of Francis, Thomp
Lord Jolcey, in making a plea to be a man sometimes and knock son; while, in his lighter phates, someone down." It appears from his place is with Byron and H. D. for rigid economy and thrift, in the correspondence printed in Traill, not with Macaulay or Kipl-order to improve Britain's indus-
Ing. this volume that Lady. Ponsonby was in touch with George Ellot, A. C. Benson, Sir Edmund Gosse, and other notabilities of the liter- ary world. At one time she was much under the influence of John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer --rather a surprising fact to be recorded of a member of the Royal entourage.
EMERSON'S POETRY.
It is very hard to speak of Mr. Emerson's poetry; not to do it in- justice, still more to do it justice. It aceme to me like the robe of a New England housewife. The royal tint and stuff are unmis- Mr. H. G. Wells's long expected
From Page to Ambassador. takable, but here and there the gray strike novel, entitled "Meanwhile." Court life figures also in the re- worsted from the darning-needle has been published at Home. It miniscences of Sir Arthur Hard-crosses and akes out the Tyrian suggests that the Government de-inge, for he started as page to purple. Few poets who have writ Ilberately fostered the strike in Queen Victoria. The pages at ten so little in verse have dropped order to win the general election, that time, so he tells us, "were so many of those "jewele five words and that it tried to persuade sometimes inclined to over-eat soldiers and sailors to club and
shoot down the strikers.
The hero, Philip Rylands, voices adious insinuations against every- one who does not hold with Mr. Wells's social, political and econo mic opinions. Following a con- ference with Mr. Baldwin, Rylands, in a typical outburst, says: "If there does happen to be R last judgment, Master Stanley will be put through it hard and good. Put that pipe down, sir, a great flaming angel will say, 'we want to see your face.""
long" which fall from their setting themselves at the ball suppers and only to be more choicely treasured. to drink more champagne than familiar to our ears
E pluribus unum is scarcely more than "He was good for them, so that they builded better than he knew," and Were not always quite sober or Keats's "thing of beauty" is little steady when they had to walk better known than Emerson's back in the procession in the "beauty is its own excuse for be charge of Her Majesty's train. ing." One may not like to read But the book, as its title suggests Emerson's poetry because it in "A Diplomat in Europe"-is sometimes careless, almost as if mainly occupied by its author's carefully so, though never undigni- career in the diplomatic service, fied even when slipshod; spotted which took him to Spain (twice), with quaint archaisms and strange Russia, Roumania, Belgium, and expressions that sound like the Portugal. He reveals no scan affectation of negligence, or with Rylands describes Mr. Winston dalous secrets, but he relates plain, homely phrases such as the Churchill as "gone clean off his head. He has not been as happy One of the funniest is his story of poetry he will be sure to love it; entertaining anecdotes, Relf-made scholar is always afraid of. But if one likes Emerson's since be crawled on his belly and helped snipe in Sidney Street." the bewilderment of the Russian if he loves it, its phrases will cling Rylands goes on "Winston probably secret police, who had stolen a to him as hardly any others do. It would be certifiable, but no doctor British colleague's learned at may not be for the multitude, dust tempts to construct paradigms and penetrates to the consciousness can get near him."
"An owl-like jix" is a pleasant of Finnish irregular verbs under it is to fertilise and bring to reference to the Home Secretary the impression that the incompre-flower and fruit-From one of (Sir W. Joynsen-Hicks),
hensible manuscript contained | Holmes's Addresses. Mr. Wella's hero is not content to the secret cypher of the Foreign i · rate the Government. He also can- Office, Sir Arthur Hardinge was tigates the leaders of the Labour a contemporary of Sir Rennell Party who are described as having Rodd at Balliol in Jewett's time, "neither the grit to prevent a and this book, reminds us of the general strike nor the grit to keep latter's "Social and Diplomatic
on with it."
Incidentally the novel includes a violent attack on Mussolini and the Fascists. "Castor oil cads with loaded canes" is his description of
the Black Shirts.
YES. I GUESS YOU WOULDI
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