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STUDENT LIFE.

"A GIRL IN THE ART

CLASSES.

ODD NOTES.

Mr. Arnold Bennett has now be- come Associate editor of "The World To-day" and is to write a causerie on "Men and Events" for that periodical.

Sir Arthur Yapp, Director of Food Economy towards the end of the War, and now National Secre- tary of the Y.M.C.A., has written his reminiscences. Under the title, "In the Service of Youth," they are to be put out by Messrs. Nisbet.

Since Murger wrote his "Scones de la Vie de Bohemo," novels about student life in the Latin Quarter have been almost without number. Usually those stories have a great similarity, so it is pleasant indeed to come across one which is attrac- tivo by reason of its originality and the skill with which the author has drawn his characters, many of whom, one suspects, are taken from life. Raymonde Carpenter quar- rels with her father and step. mother, and having a little money in her own right, decides to come to Paris and continue there the art studies she has already begun at the Edals School in London. Ray monde's fellow-students at Jaaor Calo's, and the acquaintances she makes at the restaurants and War. cremeries where she has her meals,

Lord Shaw of Dunfermline, who

|BOOTH TARKINGTON.

BATTLES FURIOUSLY AGAINST TIME.

Booth Tarkington is threatened with the loss of his sight.**

Often called America's most re- presentative man of letters, he has. been undergoing treatment by his friend and physician, Dr. John Ray Newcomb, Indianapolis eye special- ist. And against this physician's, orders, he is working furiously' against time, trying to Anish. several works already begun before blindness can eatch up with him:

Sufferer 20 Years.

*

has been holidaying at Craigmyle, A sufferer from eye troubles for his Aberdeenshire estate, has writ-twenty years, Mr. Tarkington is ten a sequel to his "Letters to now threatened with the loss of one Isabel," entitled "The Other Bun- eye, it was learned. dle." The "Ianbel" is his daughter, strain on the other is removed im- Unless the Mrs. R. H. Vaughan Thompson, mediately he may become blind. whose husband was killed in the

To Tit-Bits Mr. George Bernard Shaw contributes sparkling article-"If I Were a Clerk Again." He recalls the days before he had "pulled off the Great, Man Stunt,” and in characteristic fashion passes to a vivid discussion of Trusts and Trade Uniontam.

The difficulties with his sight date back to college days, when, at Princeton, Tarkington formed the Balzacian habit of writing avery night until dawn, using up one lead pencil after another.

In spite of the strain on his eyes

use a typewriter or dictate to a stenographer. Like James Joyce in his Paris exile, he wrote the more intensely as his vision became more disturbed, sticking to his pencils. When last heard from Joyce, partly blind, was still at work doing a very little writing in very large characters.

are a delightful assembly of curi-Besides being one of the best-

At the oua types.

Restaurant known of modern Swise novelists, Leconte she shares a table with Mr. John Knittel, who has been Mille. Kofflikoff, a Russian, and her visiting London, is also the Swiss party, where a slight misunder-golf champion and an expert sheep-Tarkington has steadily rofused to standing arises when Raymonde farmer. addresses the little dog she has with her by ita pet name "Pucekin," which significs "little flea." Mlle. Koffkoff immediately flies into a tremendous passion: "Impertinent minx! How dare you christen your beastly brute in such away! I never heard a more gratuitous in- ault. I suppose you sneering' Eng- lish think you can laugh up your sleeve at all of us European nations. Poushkin indeed.... You with your holty-toity manners think that because you are English you can override all the world. How would you like it if I called my cat Shake- spearey, ch? Or Oscar Veal, hay? Or Berner-Shoy, par example.'" Raymonde replies that "shouldn't mind" "You you. wouldn't mind! Ah, you English have no souls. I threaten to call

she

my cat Bernar-Shov and she says that she would not mind. Oh, it is of a piece with your famous lack of sensibility. I put a disgusting in sult upon one of your greatest writers and you say 'I do not mind. Ah! Bah!" And so on, until the mistake is explained and peace re- stored.

A Love Affair.

Raymonds is successful in getting some of her black-and-white work accepted by the Salon of the Beaux Arts and she has two or three quite innocuous love affairs; but it is not until she meets Willlfam Arnold, a

Typewriter is "Mystery."

Tarkington has revealed his own A book of rentiniscences that pro-friend: live in bathrobes......I method of work in a letter to R mises well is "The Tramps of a

have a pencil machine and sharpen Scamp," by Edward Michael, a

about three dozen pencile every well-known figure in Bohemian

night; write on a dratfaman's circles, who, in his time, has en drawing board, tilted, a card table America, acted as manager to Mrs.typewriter as "a mystery to me." gineered a revolution in South at my elbow." He describes the Langtry, and founded a London

Tarkington has won almost all daily paper!

the public honours possible to a man of letters, including the Pulit- zer Prize on two different occasions in 1919 for "The Magnificent Ambersons," and in 1922 for "Alice Adams."

In his book, "From the Middle Temple to the South Seas," which is being published by Mr. John Murray, Mr. Justice Alexander writes of District Commissioner Bell, the news of whose murder in the Solomon Islands was recently reported.

His novels include the famous Watteauesque "Monsieur Bau- caire," "The Gentleman from In- diana," "The Turmoil," "The Mid- lander" and "Gentle Julia." He Immortalised the American boy in the "Penrod" and "Seventeen" col- Mr. J. W. N. Sullivan, whose tections of short stories. Number- "Beethoven" has just been published among his plays are "Clarence," ed by Jonathan Cape, is a mathema- "The Man from Home," in colla tician and a brilliant writer on boration with Harry Leon Wilson, scientific subjects. He is one of and "Põldekin," a satire on Bolshe- the shyest of literary men.

vism which dropped into quick ob- livion.

number

is one of his distinctions.

Prefers Indianapolis.

He prefers Indianapolis to New York as a home because there he can sit down at his club with mer- chants and doctors, while here he would have to "train with" writers and actors. All suggestion of the '. "literary" is abhorrent to him; he insists on "getting rid of the ink."

A sentimental realist in his early A nice compliment is paid to Bri- with the passing of

days, Mr. Tarkington grew satiric young English artist, that her heart tain in a recent issue of a well-though he has never lost the rich the years, is really touched. The two decide known German literary paper, "Die sympathy with his characters which to get married, pool their small Literarische Welt," which observes: resources and start an etching class. "It is astonishing what "William," says Raymonde, "could of really competent German trans- teach real etching, I would teach lators England possesses consider- colour-work. Why life was as sim-ing the proverbial inaptitude of the ple as anything." But the situation English for foreign languages." became complex with the arrival on the scene of Raymonde's father, who discovers his daughter and her

Christine Jope-Slade, whose new Intended busily engaged in making novel, "The Madonna of the Clutch- sketches from the nude. "Gooding Hands," was recently published, God, girl!" exclaims the horrified in the wife of Mr. Leslie Clark, a well-known figure in Fleet Street. Mr. Carpenter. "Mon Dieu, mon-

She has just left Home for a tour sieur," 'cried the model. "She

in the United States. caught up her clothes, for a model may be quite as shy of being seen by the uninitiated as in any Susan- nah. In her haste she missed her under garments, tangled her combinations hopelessly, and finally swore at her father. Fiche le camp, vieu satyr,' she snapped. 'Shut the door, at least. Would you have me

Miss Sylvia Thompson, exhibit

myself to

the whole author of "The Hounds of Spring," corridor?"" Further complications has written a new novel entitled ensue, notably the intrusion of "The Battle of the Horizons," and another art student, who is an ether in at work on a play. Her husband maniac, wearing a skull-decorated is Mr. Peter Luling, the etcher and overall; and ultimately Mr. Carpen-wood-cutter. ter refuses to have any further

doings with the inmates of what he

Mr. J. A. Spender, whose recol- lections were recently published, is at present on a three months' visit to the United States.

heard of the poet's marriage.

He dislikes conscious plotas: well as conscious style, "The characters make their own plot- all the plot there could be," he wrote in letter. "Hardy, Mere- dith. Daudet weren't inventive of plot."

and Maupassant

In 1920 Mr. Tarkington was elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters, limited to fifty. In polls taken to select the most representa- thetive or significant American authors by the Outlook, Publishers Weekly and other publications,, his name appeared on every list and headed many of them. For many years he was Vice-President of the Authors' League. And once upon a time he was in the Indiana Legislature..

is pleased to consider a madhouse, A publisher's circular states renounces his daughter, and returns that the author of 2 booki to England, All of which, however, just published "is a descendant of makes no difference at all to the Keats." This is the first we have arrangements already made by the happy pair. A cheerful, inconse- quent book, full of shrewd observa- tions of life, and containing a very serviceable philosophy in the fine art of living.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-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.)

10

It

V 02

13

15

16

122.

125

121

33

34

35 36

40

19

37

141

42

13

45

146

47

150

151

$2

53

154

155

56

58

59

'HORIZONTAL 1-N. Cen. State

(abbr.)

3-A sailor S-Strect (abbr.} 7-N. E. State

One who performs 12-Past participle of

verb "to be" 13-To supplicate 15-Work out

Faboriously 17-One who stops 19-A close friend 21-From what are

metale obtained? 23-To throw irregularly 24-Depend

25-To the inside of 27-Turt

28-Leading mals

J

160

©THE INTERNATIONAL BÝNDICATE.

HORIZONTAL (Cont) 46-Te impair 47-Talks incesantly 49-Posacative pronoun 50-A musical

Instrument

52-A consteliation 53-To invade with

violence

54-Approach

5 river in France

57-To attempt 58-Doctor

af Divinity (abbr.)

VERTICAL (Cont.) 15-Departed 18-The act of *** advancing 19-Prefix, meaning

Around 20-Suffix, meaning like 22-Unfruitful 24-Depending

26-A bay window 28-Elevations of earth 29-Help

30-Distress signal

31-A donkey

35-Binned

69-A mensura of length 32-A vapor. 60-A scuthern State

(abbr.)

VERTICAL

1-To solze suddenly 2-Conecs ilving 3-Degmas

· character in a play| 4-Knocked

31-Somewhat

29-Changes

83-Boisterously $4-Resiste boldly 37-Skids

40-To rotate onward 41-To take a sent 43-Pug

é

44-Precisely right

6-A pelestial body 6-Plaything

-Loosely woven

meshes

10-A and

11-Danger

14-A claw

15-Call to excite attention

30-A numeral 38-Double 39-Flawed back 41-An Insect 42-Put in ting |44-Suffix forming

abstract nouns 45-To Weav 46-**

48-In the manner 60-8poke

61-A chore

53-A color 05-Beam of light

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. 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.)'--

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. HONGKONG HEIGHTS

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Island.

Victoria Peak

CLASS Œ

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1823

45 0

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1734

Mountain Lodge

1725

The Eyric

1726

Peak Hotel

1305

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis

877

Bowen Rd. (filterbeds)

297

Mainland.

Tuimoshan

8124

Kowloon Peak

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