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"SHARESPEARE AND THE

MANY OTHERS.

-"SCRUTATOR."

SYMPATHY.

"Christ at the Round Table."

L. Stanley Jones (Hodder Stoughton 57- net).

discerning eye. We hope Mr. uncanny type,-in which China is Allen writes no more books on so rich; and to outline, as briefly borrowing. If he does we shall and clearly as possible, the beliefs take care to avoid them.

which appear to underlie them." For our liking these outlines are too brief, all the more so because we feel that Mr. Meade could offer "Shakespeare, Jonson, And Wilkins,

us many interesting and thought-| Borrowers." By Percy Allen.

provoking theories if only he would (Cecil Palmer: 7/6 net).

By let himself go. Conjectural deduc- determined When we, after a

&tions by a learned author are al- ways welcome even when the read- struggle, managed to wade through

er flatly disagrees with them. this book we thought it a great

All who read that remarkable That is the reason for much of the pity that there is not a law pro book "The Christ of the Indian popularity of Shaw and Wells. In hibiting such publications. Of the

Road" will welcome Mr. Stanley "Chinese Ghouls and Goblins" thousands of books written about

Jones's latest publication, In there are far too many stories Shakespeare and his contempor- "Christ at the Round Table" the half would have been ample-and aries this is surely one of the most futile. Frankly, it gave as a pain. author pursues the method which far too little of the book is the one has proved so effective in his earlier entitled "One Touch of Nature," The title, with the mysterious name

contacts. He comes down from the and that is because it containe of Wilkins, intrigued us and we platform and takes his place at the fewer stories and also because oponed this small (but, as it prov- Round Table as a fellow learner there the author comes out of his ed, far too large) volume optimis- with the leaders of Religious shell. If only he had done the tically in hopes of tasting some thought In India. It must have same in the disappointingly short thing of an unusual literary

been given to few men to sit down final chapter, "Concluding Re- flavour. We certainly did taste something new, but we didn't like to discussion on the vital questions marks," where he merely pokes his have left a it. At times we blinked hard and of religion with such representa-head out, he would

tive men.

much deeper impression on the nipped ourselves to make certain

One teat, he says, was applied to reader. Reading ghost story after that we were not experiencing a most ridiculous dream. In the in- every claim put forward and that ghost-story, no matter how inter- troduction Mr. Cowl says: "Mr. tcat-searching enough in all con esting and well-told each may be, science-was what he calls "Ex-is exhausting: consequently this is Allen has laboured in a feld of

a book to be taken in small doses investigation in which he has had perience of God."

The fruits of these discussions if full value is to be obtained. few precursors." We hope for the sake of the British reading, public are given in full. They make in- We close "Chinese Ghouls and structive reading, at once depress- Goblins" with a large repertoire of Depressing eerle stories but with all too little Mr. Allen has a bee in his bonnet:ing and encouraging.

that India can an idea of the mentality to those who say

of. Mr. it seems to us that he is obsessed work out her own spiritual Salva-Mende. But perhaps that to just with the idea that any Elizabethan tion. Encouraging to those who what the author intended we should who wrote anything unusually bright after the year 1600 A.D. must have consciously

or uncon- sciously copied from or рагд- phrased Shakespeare. Such is the impression this book made on us.j The first chapter in which the

J. L. Marison (Hodder & author tries to show that

Stoughton 16/- net), Shakespeare draw the main plot of well, let those who read draw "Peace hath her victories no less A Midsummer Night's Dream from

their own conclusions,

renowned than war" would be a Tita Andronicus warns one not to

There is a good deal else, atting sub-title to this most inter- expect a masterly treatment. The written with the ardour of the true esting book. "The greatest heroes next chapter, in which an attempt prophet, and ranging over a wide are seldom mentioned in histories," is made to show that Shakespeare field of subjects, national and in-and "It is more difficult to hold drew from Arden of Feversham certernational. "This book," says the than to acquire an empire" are tain ideas for Henry IV. and

that he will have no imitators.

bolieve that Christ alone can raise do. her to her rightful place among the nations.

It has been said of "Mother! India" that the author lacked sym- pathy with the people of whom she wrote. No such accusation can be levelled against this book; and yet

"SCRUTATOR."

"The Eighth Earl of Elgin."

By

make bold to

Macbeth is more convincing and is, author, "has written itself." We two spothegms we indeed, the least bad in the book, might add "and it reads itself." coin after reading this book on It is certainly hard to put down Lord Elgin: How the heterogene- The remaining chapters are irritat-

unfinished, ing, especially the last one which,

By G. Willoughby (Constable 24/- net).

&

Alexander and Attila con

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ous British Empire manages to hold together is a conundrum that i in our opinion and the opinion of

has puzzled not only Von others to whom we showed it, la "Chinese Ghouls And Goblins." Bernhardi, and why it did not fall balderdash. In the penultimate

Meade asunder during the Indian Mutiny chapter we are asked to believe

or the Great War, is a mystery to that a certain Mr. Wilkins who had

"The longer I stay in China the many more. This volume partly written a novel on Pericies fa the legs do I understand the Chinese" explains the reason of this cohe author of the Shakespearian play is the ridiculous statement one slon. of that name. The bold bad

hears mouthed, ad nauseam, by quered vast tracts of land but their the Canadian helm and atecred Wilking not only lifted lines and

would-be wise acres in an endca- empires died with them. Unlike wholesale passages

from other Shakespearian plays but had the your to impress one (usually a these mushroom empires the Bri-that ship of state through the stormiest seas and most dangerous audacity to publish it under the newcomer) with their mental pro-tish Commonwealth, ever since it shoals ahe has yet encountered, name of William Shakespeare. It fundity. What they ought to say took to heart the salutary lesson and at the same time by his tact would seem that the rightful own- is, "The longer I stay in China the administered by the New England er of that name had just retired to more do I realise that Chinese State, has continued to take root Stratford and could not be bother-ways and outlooks are not ours," and spread, and what the Clives, ed objecting. No, Mr. Allen, there or "the more. the Chinese surprise Wolfes. Wellesleys, Napiers, and valuable work in China and Japan, are limits to our credulity. The me." Unfortunately these oracles Kitcheners gained, the Benticks, last chapter is pathetic. How are, as a rule, content to remain Dalhousies, and Elging consolidat while in India he ranks with readers know that when ignorant of things Chinese, chiefly ed. Yet how few are the English Bentick, Dalhousie, and Lawrence. many

throof through "Maskee," for after a man men, even in the ranks of the most is not a biography that has been Milton was in the

biased, who Paradise Lost, Book IV and lacked passes thirty he fights shy, ea- Imperialistically

written by Theodore Walrond-but the East, of mental know of those great diplomats and inspiration about his terrifle lost pecially in angels he went for inspiration to effort, more so if it means spade-governors, those heroes behind the series of political studies on a great governor and diplomat: whose vocation separates Shakespeare Puck, Oberon, and work in a new field. Yet what is scenes Company? Herewith one of Mr. more interesting or éducative than them from the common life of Bri- Every Hong Kong Cadet should

the study of great people? tain without conferring on them have this book in his library. Allen's many proofs.

Among the best mirrors of alan abiding home in the lands "It was a rock people's mentality are its Drama, which they govern. These citizens

conscquent proper topo- graphical atmosphere, and an un- Of alabaster piled up to the clouds its History, and its Folk-lore. Ta of the Empire, doomed by their

very usefulness to a kind of "Man's Chief End." By Edward ostentatious mastery of langu- Conspicuous far, winding with one anyone desirous of obtaining

Albert (Cassell 7/6 net), smattering of Chinese Mythology eternal home-sickness, have little

age. Mr. Albert wields a 'very ascent

confidently recommend share in the social distinctions of

This is one of the greatest Scot. subtle pen. Any exile who knows Accessible from earth, one entrance "Chinese Ghouls and Goblins." This the Empire's hub. The central

high:

handsomely-bound and well-illus- administration gets much of the tish novels, if not the greatest, to Edinburgh will feel himself tran- since George Douglas sported back to that most fascinat- The rest was craggy cliff that over-trated volume contatas ex- credit of their most notable deci- appear

of the ing city while perusing "Man's hung

traordinary selection of old slons

and diplomatic triumphs, startled the dove-cotes

sordid Chief End" just as elderly and Still as it rose, impossible to climb Chinese stories about good and while all too often the man in the "Kailyáirders" with his

wizards, Betwixt these rocky pillara Gabriel bad spirits,

dragons, street knows of thent mainly "House With the Green Shutters." backsliding Calvinists on reading Bat,

monsters, magic, vampires, ances through the Press sensational and Mr. Albert had already given liter the first few chapters will be sur- Chief of the angelic guards, await- tor-worship, geomancy, foreign magnified versions of their occa-ury promise of a high order in his prised to find how much of the

ing night,

devils, and spiritualism; and as sional raistakes. Yet these mon, more two historical novels "Kirk O' Shorter Catechism lies dormant in About him exercised heroic games, these form part of the very fibre than any others, make the

Field" and "Born To Be King:" in their sub-conscious memory. The unarmed youth of Heaven." of the Chinese character the en- tinuation of the Empire possible. "Man's Chief End" he proves. in centre of the setting is Edinburgh manner that he is during the years 1906-20. Much }^

quirer will find this book a mine To this small select band belong.no uncertain This typically Miltonic passage of

useful spook information, ed the Earl of Elgin. A canny now out of his literary apprentice of the book is the result of actus! was inspired-so Mr. Allen saysHowever we must regretfully ad- Scot who did brilliantly at Eton ship and entitled to serious con- experience and first hand informa by the following.

mit that outside the stories them and Oxford, he was one of the sideration as an expositor of Scat- tion (Mr. Albert is an Edinburgh do not learn much. greatest of the 19th Century peace-tish life and conditions to-day, man) with the result that one "A mermaid on a dolphin's back selves we Uttering such dulcet and harmont-Why does not the author give us makers, and poured oil on troubl- Although it sparkles with incident reads the book with confidence in more of his own ideas and conclu-,ed waters wherever he went. Be excellently told-e.g. the vivid and the author's accuracy, The gradual convincing description of development of Mr. Albert's modent untheatrical hero, Peter Bions? We neither, desire nor de-tween 1842 and 1863 it was the most mand dogmatic assertions: these, policy of British Premiers, whether Dublin's Black Easter Sunday, and we know, are impossible in such Tory or Whig, to send Lord Elgin 1916 this novel makes. no pre- Dowrie, in spite of his backward- A vast terra incognita as Chinese to any part of the world where tence to be a shocker or even a ness and depressing surroundings Mythology and Folk-lore. The au- tact and war-averting were want thriller. It is more akin to Jew is narrated with great skill and thor says in the Preface: "This ed. Jamaica was in a ferment Suss and the Arnold Bennet type sympathy. There is an unmistak-

a akilful novel. We unblushingly admit we fail book is an attempt to interest the when he went there: he left it of novel where we get a careful able quality of

road to prosper- portrayal of character, to see the parallel between these general reader In some of the folk calm and on the

with geography two passages: probably we lack the tales-particularly those of the ity. From 1847 to 1854 he was at use

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