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"MAIL" REVIEWS.

LONELINESS,

"Loneliness and Other Essays" by

Larkeom Agnes J.

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BOOK NOTES.

ON AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS.

MASTER OF MUSIC.

mental pat-boiler-in marked con- trast to "The Spreading Dawn" which must rank as easily the best in the collection. Cornelis Van. derpyl is the type of American of the old school, whose friendships were limited to the Social Register|

Mr. Thornton Wilder, the Amerl- clever, a little unscrupulous, somewhat cynical but withal kind can writer, whose novel, "The In a new book entitled "Lonell-ly at heart, of clear motives, and Bridge of San Luis Rev," has been

$0 a worshipper of duty.' ́Mr. 'King successful, is working on ness and other Essays" Agnes J. reaches his highest art in the man- a successor, which will be called Larkcom fails to be really inter-ner in which he portrays her dy "The Woman of Andros." He has also been putting together a volume esting until we come to pieces ing hours and thoughts,

This not a book for those who] of short stories, but we shall hear which are not essays at all. These cannot bear the sound of the word more about both books in a month's are extracts from lectures deliver-death: nor will it appeal to those time, for Mr. Wilder is then coming ed at the Royal Academy of Music, who regard speculation regarding to England. He will stay until the the future life as morbid. It end of the summer, and after that London. Mrs. Larkcom is a pro- should however be appreciated by go South to the shores of the fessor of singing at the Academy, all who approach such matters with Egean Sea. so in The Dual Nature of the an open mind. Mr. King holds our Singer's Art," "Training. Disci-

interest without cheap excitement;

A famous singer and a well- he is serious but never morbid, and pline, and Interpretation," "A Song presents in a very palatable man-

known musical composer give in- of Shakespeare," and "A Song of ner a most cheerful theory concern-terest to two books which the Hut-

chinsons Wentzel," she knows what she is ing the life after death.

promise. "Wings of Song" tells the life-story of Enrico K. M.-E. writing about. The essays cover a

Caruso, as his wife and her sister, wide range of subjects, from that

Mrs. Torrance Goddard, have writ- which gives the book Its title to

ten It. It endeavours, they point "Clothey" and "Almshouses" and

out, to present the great tenor as "Inequality." The publisher's puff

he really was in professional and (Hodder and Stoughton).

private life. Mr. Isidore de Lara on the dust cover states that "in

has written his memories as "Many The author who conceals his Tales of Two Cities," meaning Lon- this volume of outspoken essaya" the author "expresses her consider "Ganpat" has

identity under the pseudonym of don and Paris. A procession of written a yarn princes, patricians and prima- ed views on many of the most Im- strangely reminiscent of the best donnas walks through his pages. portant toples of human life," but work of Sir Rider Haggard and of THE WINGS OF ROMANCE. it strikes us that her views are so Mr. John Buchan. He has succeed-

Sir Rider Haggard left among his considered and commonplace that ed in combining the mystery of papers a finished novel dealing with the description outspoken" is "She" and the Secret Service inter- Babylon, the Prophet Daniel, and hardly the correct one. However, est of "Greenmantle," while retain-the mysterious writing on the wall. no doubt the good lady derived a ing his own characteristic touches. It will be published during the sure- certain satisfaction in throwing her "Mirror of Dreams" is a story not mer, as "Belshazzar," by the Hut- thoughts on things in general be- to be read in a hurry, but to be chinsons, who also announce a fore the reading public. The style digested in a leisurely manner, story by Mr. Frank Swinnerton, “A is readable but does not attract, since the hasty reader will soon Brood of Ducklings." It deals with and the practice of making every lose himself in the intricacy of the the relations between a delicate and other sentence a paragraph does several plots which run simultane-sensitive father and his two daugh- not conform with the accepted ously through the book.

MYSTIC CULT.

"Mirror of Dreams" by "Ganpat"

canons of essay writing. The com- Tom Carruthers was essentially ters, attractive girls of a type monplace is distinctly struck in a dreamer of dreams in a some more modern than he can under- |descriptive passages. For instance what mystic manner, and yet a very stand. Mr. Herbert Asquith and in an essay on Cheung Chow the practical dreamer and A man of Mr. Anthony Gibbs have likewise author writes: "The village is a action. His friend Major John written new Hutchinson novels.. great centre for rope-making, and Oxley had been ordered to rest the rope-walks are very interest- from his Secret Service work, and ing." Still, there are, these days, essayists and essayists.

THE HEREAFTER.

H. C.

A PIRANDELLO NOVEL. Before the summer is much older

so joined him in an expedition into we are to have, from Chatto, an

Central Asia in search of a hill,

"L.B.W." IN CRICKET.

SATURDAY, JULY 14, 1928.

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A STUDY OF DARWIN.

Charles Darwin, but

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a monastery, and a mystery cult English translation of Pirandello's which Carruthers had seen so vivid- longest novel, "The Old and the ly in his dreams. We are prepar-Young." The novel is.on the grand ed for certain aspects of the story scale both as to length in words and by the conversation of Professor as to the aweep of its human por- "The Spreading Dawn," by Basil Waldenstein, whose acquaintance traiture. All types of mankind, all King (Hodder and Stoughton). they made on the boat, and who forms of society, and all variations passes out of the story too soon. of character are introduced to bring If Mr. Basil King did not write After their arrival in India, they home the frustrations and failures in ao very interesting a manner, are informed of Bolshevist acti- of good intentions and high ideals, wo would be strongly inclined to vities, and asked to look out for a the far-reaching effects of selfish dismiss his short stories as spiri- road over the mountains by which ness and the Impotence of hatred. tualistic propaganda. They are the propaganda la carried on. The story is laid in Sicily about far more than that: he presents Guided by Rinpoche, they arrive fifty years ago, but if contrives to to us a most acceptable doctrine at the City of Vision, where they introduce the first beginnings of study of the man, his life of action. of the Hereafter, comforting and find a high priest of extreme age Fascism. hopeful. It is true that he ad- who turns out to be an Englishmen, vances the old theory that Man and a very attractive white girl makes his own Heil, except that he who has lived there all her life. would have us believe that free-will Dhyanand, the brains of the Bol-

A book on English cricket by a progress of Darwin's theory is told exists in the world to come as it shevist movement is also there and member of the Lyttelton family, as part of the story of his life, and does in the present world; this is naturally is anxious to dispose of which has been so much identified reveals him not as merely one of a a point of view which may be at Carruthers and Oxley, and to take with the game, will have à particu-flock of evolutionists but as an orf- variance with the religious views Dhyan, the girl, for himself. Mat-lar interest." The Hon. Robert Hginal and profound thinker." Only of many readers, but as certainty ters are brought to a crisis by the Lyttelton has written a volume, less interesting than the full-length is impossible it is a view to be death of the high priest.

which Leagmans announces, on portrait of Darwin are the sketches ably, as well as to re-edit it, and respected and considered. In one There then follow several excel-"The Crisis in Cricket, or The Leg of his associates, Lyall, Hooker, annotate it, and this has been done respect Mr. King is no follower of lent chapters of absorbing interest, Before Rule." He points out the Huxley, Wallace, and Asa Gray. by Mr. Edward Hale Bierstadt. Some the ordinary spiritualist: he makes and crammed with Incident and ac- danger which, as he thinks, threat BORROW AS CRIMINOLOGIST. his departed characters

of the people who figure in strive tion, which the reader is unable to end cricket, because of the great in George Borrow started his career "Colebrated Trials and Remarkable earnestly to, communicate with the leave until he has solved the mya- crease in drawn matches, due to the in London by compiling and editing Cases." as Borrow called the book, living, but to

no extent do they tery. The story ends as all stories huge run-getting of the present day. a collection of criminal trials. succeed in materialising themselvea do with the defeat and death of the He suggests, as remedies, an altern- has for generations been out of of Somerset, Jack Shoppard, aud It are Walter Raleigh, the Countess. as speaking ghosts. They carry bad characters and the triumph and tion of the leg before wicket rule print and unobtainable, but now Jonathan Wild. John Thurtell, across their messages as intangible happiness of the good. It would be and some limitation upon, the arti-Jonathan Cape la, to re-issue the who was hanged for. murdor, had presences conveying a thought or, asking too much for a book of this ficial preparation of wickets. wish direct to the mind of the per- type to end otherwise.

Mr. work in two volumes. It has been taught George Borrow to box half a son for whom it is intended.

Lyttelton goes back to 1774, when necessary to abridge it consider- dozen years before. "Ganpat" certainly knows the the first Lb.w. rule was passed, It would have been interesting hill country of North India, and if Mr. Basil King had reprinted seems well versed in the more A GREAT FRENCHMAN. these stories in the order in which esoteric religious cults which

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