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"The Forger." by Edgar Wallace (Hodder and Stoughton),
This is perhaps the most inter- esting of Edgar Wallace's recent novels. Full of mystery and excite ment to the very last chapter, it holds the interest from the first
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BRIDGE OF FATE.
"The Bridge of San Luis Rey,"
by Thornton Wilder. (Lon- don, Longman's),
A
"The Goldfish," by Robert Lynd (Y. Y.). London: Methuen, It is a very big achievement to
It is not likely that Mr. wilte one good essay a week that Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis will not only.conform to the high Rey" will ever be classed with standards of an English weekly the "best sellers." It is too fine review such as the "New States and polished a piece of work for man" but will also be equal to the that. The story begins with an dignity of cloth boards. It is all accident the collapse of an old the more difficult, as the essay native bridge at Cima, in which is a peculiarly English tradition-five people lost their lives. there is Montaigne, the French-priest, wondering why a just Who was the Clever One, who man and the greatest of all, but God should have chosen those agitated the bankers and baffled the that one swallow has not made a five out of all the folk of Peru, French summer of essayista yot for a sudden and violent end- police with his unauthorised hobby and the man who lightly takes up ing, began to investigate their of making banknotes? "He's the pen may well pause to remem- lives. He did this to such pur- never tackled English notes beber that Bacon, Lamb and Hazlitt, pose that his book and himself fore," said Rouper, who was a very Addison, Steel and Thackeray are were burnt in public and now conscientious. detective. But the looking over his shoulder to see if Mr. Wilder, taking up the story 'tory is not only about the Clover
he is worthy of them.
in a safer century, pictures the The great mission of the essayist characters and circumstances of One. There is Peter Clifton and is to bring back to us our lost sense the old tragedy, and shows how Jane, his wife, on their honeymoon of leisure and independent judg- each came to be on the bridge. at Longford Manor. They have ment; that old ability to get inside The result holds for those who many exciting adventures which in-subject and pace up and down it seek
it, & note of subtle clude midnight visitors, and after as we used to pace up and down the humour.
big rooms that are built no more! a very few hours Jane begins to for us; not blank idleness but that wonder if she has married the wise respite from Insignificant and Clever One. Then comes Donald often embittering activities In "Europe in the Nineteenth Cheyne Wells, the doctor, who would which tolerance is born. The Century,” by A. J. Grant make her believe that Peter is mad. round about, look at himself in the essayist must pace up and down and
and H. W. V. Temperley.! (London, Longman's). Certainly it looks as if he has some
In their study of Europe from mirrors, look, out at other people knowledge of the death of Basi! from his windows, touch his books, 1789 to 1914 Professors Grant, Hale who is found murdered in the poke up his fire, stand on his fender of Leeds, and Temperley, of grounds the morning after their and tell us charmingly what has Cambridge, have departed from quarrel.
Madame Untersohn, half mad, he fails to make us more tolerant of their predecessors, in
been distracting him. If after this the course followed by so many
thatj and obsessed with the idea that her of our fellows, more intimate with they paint on the broad canvass son is the true beir, is an inter- ourselves, more aware of the live of a continent rather than on the esting though pathetic character.
One might reasonably suspect world, he is no casayist.
liness and many-aidedness of the narrow panel of an island. The book is a study of international that Peter has committed the mur-
By all these standards Robert politics and policies on the Con- ders during a period of Insanity: Lynd must take a high place. In tinent and in Britain, the results, He is in doubt himself, and Donald The Goldfish"-the first and the wars, and the misunderstandings Wells has warned him that he is last essays are not his best; it is to the tragedy of 1914. With and worse-which brought us liable to these attacks. Indeed he in the intervening 25, we
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EUROPE AND THE LEAGUE.
tries very hard to convince every-mend-there are such titles as "The the League of Nations ever in one, but that's where Jane inter- Mad Martian," "The Promenade" mind, a good case has been made feres. She invites three prominent
of Genius," "Crabbed for it by these historians. doctors to tea, and Peter, though Age"-which is not at all crabbed- he doesn't know it, is observed The Uses of Disgust," Brutality,"
VISCOUNT, GREY AND THE very carefully, and pronounced
BIRDS. "In Praise of Temperance" and "The Nutritive Perhaps it is not the best of
Qualities of the this author's books, and is not put himself ingeniously into these sub-
Banana."
The Charm of Birds," by Vis- Mr. Lynd insinuates
count Grey, of Fallodon. together as well as most of them;jects and feels his way about them,
(London, Hodder & Stough- perhaps too, one could wish for asking questions here-oh, he does.
ton). little more explanation. But it, is not wait for an answer-asserting assures us, his bird book no Perhaps, as Viscount Grey an interesting story.
there, confessing, remembering a scientific value, and only bird- tale, letting slip an epigram, one lovers will care for it. It is, moment counsel for the defence, the however, a charming book. The next counsel for the prosecution.
author has made a study for The prevailing mood is kind- each month in the year of his liness, tipped with irony. He doea particular feathered pals in the not expect too much and is plea- woods of Fallodon. santly surprised at the good he what he sees, writes it well, and He writes finds. He is an agreeable moralist makes others-see it through his and confesses he thinks "the tem- pages. Those who like to curl porate Puritan" is the nearest ap-up in proach to the ideal man. But he is quiet, scholarly type of book will a big armchair with a more inclined to be grateful than find Viscount Grey's style to to reform. Of "A Man of Genius" their liking. he tells that he was an artist "in a constant energy of courage, open and secret kindnesses, and hap piness in the passing moment." In the "Mad Martian" the irony is From that moment things begin most telling. The Martiana look- to happen, and so rapidly that Missing out from their planet upon the
Brown Of X.Y.0.". by Phillips Oppenheim (Hodder & Stoughton).
Edith Brown gets lost in a fog. She wanders about trying to find her way back to her rooms in Shep herds Market. Finally, she sita down, exhausted, on some steps loading up to a house, to think the matter over. The door behind her opens, and a man, nearly fall ing over her in doing 30, comes down the steps, "I beg your par don," he said, "I didn't see that anyone was there."
Brown often wonders if she will
ever return to that old, uneventful, life. She finds herself suddenly in a world of mystery and danger, anarchists and revolution, and her Innging for romance is being eatia- fied.
Perhaps the strongest character
Earth "see Us shining in the heavens, and are convinced that we are living in the Golden Age in which their poets tell them that they too once lived."
is Paul, who makes his way brave-"WRITTEN IN DEPRESSION." ly through the story. A Russian, who works during the day as wait- "I speak of Africa," by William
Plomer. (London, Hogarth Press).
William Plomer certainly sees the dark side of African life. His preface indicates that he has a grievance against "colonial squeamlaliness" in that land where "a small white population is spread like a blight."
MARINES AT WAR.
"The Royal Naval Division," by Douglas Jerrold. (London, Hutchinson).
The adventure of the Royal Naval Division in the early days of the war was told some time ago by Mr. Douglas Jerrold, in an expensive book. This war story, with maps, and an intro- duction
Winston by Mr. Churchill. is now available in a cheap edition, which should bring it within the financial reach of everybody who would know the intimate detalls of that phase of the fighting in 1914. print is small but nothing has been lost.
AN EARL OF OXFORD,
The
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1928.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
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TOPSY-TURVY TALES.
The Wind that Wouldn't Blow," by Arthur Bowie Chrisman. (London, Dent),
Once upon a time there was in China, an old beggar, Sun Swee, who had an interview with the Emperor, Ha Sung, in which his Majesty failed to please. So Sun Swee handsomely apologised to the Emperor and then, haul- ing off, gave him a grievous punch on the jaw. That is a topsy-turvy way they are suppos- ed to have in the East. Mr. Chrisman, who is remembered for his charming book "Shen of the Sea," has given us another volume of tales. equally charm- ing: It is a book for children, but youngsters of three-score- and-ten who may wish to read it are not disqualified.
Much care has been given to the
portraits appearing in the new volume of Queen Victoria's "Let- ters." which John Murray will publish. One of them pre- senta the Queen as Von Angeli painted her at Windsor in 1885. Another shows Lord Beaconsfield in 1881, and is a Millais portrait in
"Through Jade Gate and Central Aaia," by Mildred Cable and Francesca French. (Lon- don, Constable).
pass from China into the "Outer Through the Gate of Jade you er in his father's restaurant and wearily steps through the night as
Dominions," the steppes and de a professional dancer in a hotel, he
serta from which the Mongols unselfishly supports his family and
once poured to conquer and to wishes he had enough money to
ravage, till, from the Pacific to marry the beautiful Frances. Miss
the confines of Poland, "no cock Brown herself is not an altogether
dared crow and no dog dared well-studied character. One notices
Edward de Vere, the seventeenth bark" without the leave of their this more because it is not a usual
Earl of Oxford, was one of the most great Khan. Through this gate fault of Mr. Oppenheim's. But one In the whole of the book, important figures of the Court went three women missionaries, la rather inclined to wonder if a cleverly enough written, and full of Queen Elizabeth, Mr. B. M. Ward of whom two tell a fascinating the possession of Viscount Hamble- girl who did not smoke, often scold- of interest as it is, there is not has written a book, to be published story of their adventures in den. There is also a Millais pic- ed Frances for the little flirtations one chaste woman-one fine man. by Murray, in which he depicts him Kansu and in Chinese Turkestan, ture of Gladstone as he WAB she indulged in, and was, on the Africa may have her share of as a soldier, a statesman, and a and of a daring journey across 1885, and his friend, the second whole, old-fashioned, would not also what he describes, but surely courtier. Oxford's friends includ- the Gobi Desert to Siberia and Earl of Granville, appears. In A object to cocktails and drinking there is, another side to the piced two generations of the. Cecila, so to the trans-Siberian railway drawing of about the same more wine than is usual for a young ture! It is the bitter vision of the third Earl of Sussex, and John, on their way to spend their leave The late Marquis of Salisbury and woman of the middle classes. a bitter man we find in these Lord Lumley, and his rivals were in England. They write simply Archbishop Taft, who was a valued The author has a big idea, and short stories spaced out with too Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Christopher and well of the 45 days' journey friend of Queen Victoria, figure in presents it in an interesting man- many chapter headings into Hatton, and Sir Walter Raleigh. across the Black Gobi, of walled portraits by George Richmond. ner. There is excitement, too, and, something a little pretentious. He has not, hitherto, made an cities which few Europeans have Two soldiers, the Duke of Con- the book holds the interest from The author needs a sense of agreeable figure in English history, seen since the days of Marco naught, and Lord Wolseley, appear the beginning,
humour and some of the milk but Mr. Ward says he has been con- Polo, and of the peoples of this in pictures by Sohn and Von -9. C. of human kindness.
demned unheard.
lost region in the heart of Asia, Angelf,
FATHER- DO COME HERE. I WANT YOU TO LOOK OUT THE
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BRINGING UP FATHER
ISN'T THAT, MR-CLANCY THAT. WE KNEW YEARS, AGO - THAT
WAS EMPLOYED IN THE CAS WORKS? SEE. HE IS ON
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HOW DID IT
HAPPEN?
HE WUZ CARRYIN' A BIG- IRON PIPE WHEN THE QUITTIN' WHISTLE BLEW AN' IT FELL ON HIS FOOT:
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