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ALL ABOUT MR. ARNOLD BENNETT.

[By Eric Gilleti.] "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," was one of Dr. Johnson's great truths, would not accuse Mr. Arnold Ben- and the least perceptive of men nett of being a blockhead. Many things have been said and written son. about his writings.

Another splendid story by the author of the "Desert Thorough- bred," who has lost nothing of his art in the telling of this thrilling tale of the Californian backwoods. Random is a rather remarkable poet, possessing strength which surprises the Pathos enters the tale with Sheriff. Ord who knows that one day he must hunt his wild young When this son like a criminal. comes to pass there is excitement. It is a good story, full of action, with Nature

background. Really a book which should not be missed.

ash

greater since the days of Defoe, and Mr. Bennett's success is duc to his own intense and unflagging interest in life, whether it takes its course among the slag heaps of Staffordshire, or in the gilded salons of the Grand Babylon Hotel.

The alightest novel he has written will hold the attention, personages in it, but on account of not because of the actions of the the author's own pleasure in des- cribing the scenes through which His novels he takes them, the clothes which he buys for them, the legacies which he contrives for them to inherit.

of high life have caused sincere admirers and critics to wish that he would continue to exploit his happiest vein, and give us fur- ther studies of life in that roman- tie district, the Five Towns, and I am entirely serious when allude to the dingy neighbourhood as "romantic."

No Englishman writing to-day has such a zest for living, or such a power of expressing in words -S. Chis intense and romantic pre

occupation with manifestations of life, which, outwardly dreary and repellant, are really pulsating with their own tremendous inter- ests and activities.

["The One Girl is a Million," by Louis Tracy, Hodder, and Stoughton, London.]

"The Card"-a Fairy Story. "The Card" is one of the best

fairy tales in the English lan- Tguage. Denry Machin, the hero of it, is a young man from the Five Towns who does successful- ly all those things which the hob bledehoys of the provinces dream of doing, but he does them about a hundred times better, because there is Mr. Bennett at his elbow carefully guiding his anxious steps, resolved that this young friend of his shall really pull things off in the best possible Mr. Tracy has given us another Nor is his interest confined to way. Is it surprising then that Born in this is one of the most cheerful of of his brilliant books, and if it is the drab side of life. not as good as "The Park Lane North Staffordshire Mr. Bennett modern novels? One can read it abandoned his apprenticeship to and its successor, "The Regent," Mystery," it is certainly as inter- the law at the age of twenty-five happy in the knowledge that there esting and written with that skill in order to take up the post of will be no faltering, that Denry "Woman," Machin will add to his already fat which produces such wonderful assistant editor to characters in his stories. Knapp, which he edited from 1896 to banking account once more, and 1900, when he departed to Paris that some stuffy old buffers will the American milionaire, is cer-in order to devote himself entire probably be sent head over heels tainly an interesting study, with ly to writing. Since that time he into the bargain. At the end of his habit of quoting Shakespeare, has poured out a quality of books "The Card," a respectable old of all kinds, ranging from pocket Councillor is made to express his Typical of his quaint philosophy philosophies on such vital mat- indignation that Denry has been and strange ideas of Englishmen ters as "How to Live on Twenty-appointed Mayor (the youngest is his remark, "I think I know four Hours a Day," and "Literary Mayor, be it noted, that Bursley ever known): "What's he why all you Johnnie Bulls are so Taste," to "The Old Wives' Tale" had

and the "Clayhanger Trilogy," done?" demanded Councillor Bar- cock-sure of goin' to heaven when not to mention "The Card" and a low. "Has he ever done a day's you pass out. If a good-sized number of successful plays. work in his life? What great

cause is he identified with?" crowd of you got together in the other

freeze over!

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With his strange dress and mannerism and his up- guinly walk, he seems to step off the printed page and become a living thing, and when the last page is read there is a feeling of regret that there is not another book, perhaps even a little larger, all about Mr. Knapp.

Detective Furneaux himself is

The English people do not like to find that a writer is versatile, and one feels that they have never forgiven Mr. Bennett al- together for being the author, not only of "The Grand Babylon Hotel" but also of "Riceyman Steps." And yet, different as the two books are, they have one fea- them easily recognisable as the ture in common, which makes

work of one man; that is the tre

"He's identified," said the first speaker, "with the great cause of cheering us all up."

And really there is no more to be said about hun after that. The tribute is so entirely just. Mr. Bennett's own position is rather different. Some. times he is willing to cheer us up make full use of the faculties that but he is really anxious for us to are given to us. He wants us, in

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Knows His Own Mind. There is no argument with Mr.

a strange character but does not imendous zest for the pleasures of his own words, to live on twenty-Bennett on literary matters. He equal Knapp. It is a fine story life which shows itself again and four hours a day, and it is his knows his own mind so well, his

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worth while takes a certain own judgments are so clearly the amount of getting. What is more right ones that there is no more he offers to show us how he does to be said. He will tell you that it himself, and, in the bland tones in his opinion the two best modern writers of English prose are for us the processes of the trick ford." They are trenchant, un- in slow time, so that the most affected, and able to get to the stupid among us will have time to root of the matter with the ut grasp and appreciate how it is done.

One can

Take most economy of words. say without hesitation that Mr. Bennett's ex-

up one of Mr. Bennett's own planation is just as helpful as the books and you will find that he, Ho conjurer's. No more and no less, too, possesses these virtues.

practices what he preaches and Given Mr. Bennett's tempera-you cannot defeat him on his own HONG KONG HOTEL VISITORS. ment and his remarkable oppor: when he insists on carrying this ground, His weakness begins tunism, there is no doubt that one would do as he has done, but as overwhelming certainty into other we are not all born with powers of fields, and even here, one feels, observation that Sherlock Holmes there must be a sound commer- himself would envy, coupled with cial reason for his action which the ability to write prose that can is not obvious to one's own peor rear its head in any company, untrained eye. Like

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eternal mystery of a woman's One of the most fascinating of courage in the face of adversity, Gibbon's chapters is the one de- and little of the beauty and mag- voted to the greatest of all con-nificence of his theme have eluded querors, Genghis Khan.

Even him here. Alexander the Great's conquests pale before the rapidity and vast- ness of the Khan's deeds. As ridiculous woman seen for a few "Tragos" says in 'Current Litera- minutes in a. Paris restaurant ture," "It is salutary to recall that was directly responsible for the only seven hundred years ago a inspiration which made Mr. Ben- man nearly conquered the whole nett write one of his very best earth. He made better soldiers novels, "The Old Wives Tale" than Tamerlane, Alexander, As he watched her, he reflected: Hannibal, or Napoleon, a disciplin-"This woman was once young, ed army of invasion to which slim, perhaps beautiful: certainly we can only record our admiration Machin, he will probably achieve snows mountains, and morasses free from these ridiculous man- and continue on our own modest his purpose while one is still gaz- meant no obstacle, who were nerisms. Very probably she is line of life. In a less talented ing at him distrustfully,

Mr. Bennett's later novels Messrs. F. masters of their weapons-the unconscious of her singularities, writer one might call his bare- bow, the spear, and the sword, Her case is a tragedy. One ought faced exposure of his method a have made the critics rather Ferguson, Mr. gunpowder in firepots-and skill to be able to make a heart-rend- cold-blooded piece of conceit, but angry and bewildered. The old Francis ed in retreat and sudden attacking novel out of the history of a Mr. Bennett's

and scrupulous care and truth are not Messrs, R. Greenwood, R. Grim- industry on fresh horses, envelopment and woman such as she." And so he achievement and knowledge of to be found in the earlier pages show. destruction in rout; who led his embarked

Messrs. M. B. Hanafin, K. J. on that engrossing the literary market make him of "Lord Raingo" (fantastically soldiers like a God, this Genghis voyage of discovery which took safe from us.

named like so many other Ben-Hosa, A. F. Henry, 8. H. Hun, H. Khan, with not more than 250,000 him from the endless days of His unabashed enjoyment of nett characters) and in "The Hildebrandt, Capt. T. Horn, Mr. troops at any time. Conqueror youth through the unnoticed ad- his accomplishment invites us to Strange Vanguard," published, and Mrs. W. A. Hansick.. from Thibet to the Caspian, and vent of middle age and on to her rejoice with him, and this is just you will remember, just in time Messrs. H. L. Jackman, J. V. THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. from the Dnieper to the China death, due, as Mr. Bennett is where the frailty of human na for you to take it with you to the Jorge, Mr. and Mrs. A. Joyce,

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Mr. and Mrs. V. Langbank, Mr. Under a God! It is all in the ing pericarditis,

modesty has never, allowed us to of succeeding made Mr. Bennett book "Genghis Khan," by Harold This last touch is very char- contemplate self-satisfaction with an uncommonly good novelist,

Mesers. R. McKenzie, C. B. "THE CHINA MAIL," General Lamb. The tale of an empire con-acteristic of the author. He car- equanimity. We like our enter success has brought with it a ten- jured up out of nothing by a barries his zestful interest in the tainers to take themselves and dency to linger over the solid re-

Mr. J. 9. Nicholson, Mr. and Mrs. | things of this world to the various their audiences seriously. Anwarde of a remarkable career. Is

R. D. Nitschka, The recently reported discovery methods of quitting it, and he will thony Trollops was never forgiven it fair to grudge them to a hard

Miss V. E. Nitschka. of the tomb of the great Mongol give you a catalogue of symp-for his autobiography with Its at worker who has won his way from

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