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WORLD OF BOOKS

RICH POETRY.

"ENGLAND MY MOTHER, MAKER OF MEN.”

WOMEN'S TASTE.

WHAT AN INQUIRY

ed to scintillata through the whole of three hundred and add pages. Taking the generous bulk of this latest production there is a 'pleas- ing abundance of evidence that the author la still complete master of Do

• REVEALED.

women read the classic

[By Sir William Watson.] The "Selected Poems of Sir that voln of delightful whimsicality authors or prefer a new book in the William Watson" (Thornton, But which made his earlier books so modern manner? terworth, 108, Bd.), published to. popular.

Mr. Leacock has been making a competition arranged by Messrs. Judging from the entries in the day, is a book to be prized. This lucid, rich eloquence la blessedly study of the modern movements in Collins, the publishers, with the acceptable after the tanglad and everday life, which is none the less idea of arriving at the literary suspicious obscurities of so many profound because it is amused. The taste of to-day, there seems to be result of it is that he simply can some reason to suppose that women

modern poets.

Its beauty is instantly recogn-not help laughing at us. And most prefer the "latest" to the best." Isable, and its thoughts are clear, of the time we simply cannot help As women are great novel read- not because they are commonplace, laughing at him, Farody, travesty, ers, it was expected that they would but because the poet has the apice of gentle malice, and a lot send in the great majority of of good-natured log-pulling, with entries. So far, this has not hap artist's fastidiousness and economy In his choice of words. They al- the finished use of his varied case pened. More than half the com- ways produce the exact effect aim of instruments he treats our little petitors appear to be men. ed at. Hia manner is well flus-failings in the social current, in The most likely explanation trated by this reference to Russia sport, at school and in the train. seems to be that the competition is in the new prelude the He pokes great fun at the radio limited to authors who have be- and the cinema. And his recame classics, such as Dickens, searches into the modern trend in Dumas, Jane Austen, and George International relations and litera- Borrow. Apparently the woman of ture move him (and us) to mirth. to-day is not so interested as men "Sparks" is undoubtedly the right in writers who have a permanent word. Mr. Leacock can make them place on the bookshelf.

volume:

to

And from that region whose

waters roam

slow

grave

fly.

To land-locked acas, or wed the

Arctic foam÷÷ From that huge cradle and

of Czars, where rose The towers of tyranny o'er A

people's woes

Comes a hoarse sound upon the

east wind fung,

The voice of that strange child

whom Havoc bore,

But who from old Despairs is

likewise sprung:

Thoir baleful daughter, joyless,

yet how young!

MOUNT ATHOS.

The Station: Athos: Treasures and Men. By Robert Byron, (Duckworth. 188.)

+

may

Here is obviously a man's esti- mate of the 12 most popular classic authors:

Dickens. Dumas.

R. L.. Stevenson. Scott. Thackeray.

Jane Austen.

Charlotte Bronte.

Victor Hugo.

George Elliot.

Emily Bronte.

Wilkie Collins.. Mrs. Gaskell.

The Holy Mountain Athos, "station of a faith where all the years have stopped," is admirably described by Mr. Byron in his new book. The opening pages "The Man Who Saw." Watson's indignations and en- disconcert some sober readers; the thusiasms have always given his author is a little tog anxious to work an unusual personal inter- show that a serious student of est. His fervent love of England Byzantine art can be as flippant as What woman would place Stoven- "England my mother, Maker of any worldling when he chooses. son with his lack of "love men" finds many expressions. But once landed on the peninsula | Interest"-third in the Hat, and The war poem in which he extolled where twenty monasteries with would any

women put Wilkie Mr. Lloyd George as "the man all some five thousand monka' form a Collins even at the end?

Entries continue to reach the eye and hand, The man who saw, self-governing community. still as and grasped, and gripped, and they have done since the tenth cen- organisers at the rate of well over held," is here, though not the more tury, Mr. Byron settles down to an 100 a day from all parts of the celebrated lines to the "wornan entertaining narrative of his ex- country, and the result should be with the serpent's tongue." Some-periences, diversified by descriptive a thoroughly representative one, times his enthusiasm and indigna- passages of unusual charm and by The first prize of £100 will go to tion have, at different times, been humorous encounters with monks the competitor whose list for the same person. Thus Glad- and muleteers.

nearly corresponds with that ar- stone in 1885 is addressed as

Architects will be interested in rived at by the voles of the his apt remark that the new majority. architecture which emphasises

Lord of the golden tongue and

amiting eyes;

and on the next page (though actually eleven ars afterwards) the poet is asking-

who hath found Another man so shod with fire,

80 crowned

most

WRITERS AND READERS.

new

Great out of season and un-mass-e in Adelaide House or thel

timely wise,

Stockholm Town Hall-has fari earlier precedents in "the two mon- Mr. John Galsworthy's astic dominions that the earth story, "Swan Song," which is des- posscasca," namely, Athos with its cribed as "the climax of the For- vast monasteries spring up from syte novels," was to appear with and prolonging it precipitous cliffs, Heinemann on July 12. and the even larger monasteries in Another story by Dr. Lion Tibet, like the Potala at Lhasa, a Feuchtwanger, the author of "Jew photograph of which is reproduced | Suss," is to appear in English next from the late Mr. Perceval Lan- spring, with Martin Secker, under don'a well-known book.

the title "Success."

With thunder, and so armed

with wrath divinel

3

SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1928.

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,)

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forming dyes 36-Abbreviation for

Latin phreno "is not found" 37-Riddles

19.To permit 39-An oval

41-Ambassadors

(Persian variant)

18-Rude person

43-Goddess beloved by 14-Unrestrained

Jupiter

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(1799-1846) 45-Hopolesenaka 49-Agitate

49-Poetle form for

ward meaning "cavern"

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inguistio stock VERTICAL -Principal meal of

the day (pt.) 2-intransitive (abbr.) 3-Most bitter 4-Relating to the

ocean 5-Russian (utile.)

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mercurial 1-Diseace of cereal

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In law is laid

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(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle' will appear in Monday's issue along with a new, cross-word puzzle.)

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

WATER SUPPLY.

Level and Storage of water in. Re- servoirs on July 1, 1928:- CITY AND HILL DISTRICT WATER WORKS LEVEL.

Tytam

1927 1928 1'10" "B Tytom Byewash ... 8' 9'B 6' 10"B Tytam Intermediate Tytam Tuk

L.

Wang Nei Chung 2'8" 18" 10′′E Pokfulum

...................... B' 11′′B 14′ 10′′B [Note: B. denotes "Below Overflow": A. denotes "Above Overflow; L. de- notes "Level with Overflow."]

Storage in milliona and Decimals

Tylaru

of gallons.

Tytam Byewash

Tytam Intermediate

Total

1927

.1928

849,40 847,32

11.19

18.88

195.90 195.90

1,419.00 1,419.00

21.08 14.84 44.48

84.34

2,081.05 2,024.78

Kicks and Ha'pence. His ticks are more memorable than his ha'pence. The acid in his Mr. Byron, excited by the won- Major P. C. Wren completes the gibes fixes them in our minds. ders of late Byzantine art at Athos, | trilogy of his "Beau" novels about The, lines, "On # Too Prolific] went to Mistra in the Eurotas the Foreign Legion in a story en- Essayist," after referring to the valley in Peloponnesus and to titled "Beau Ideal," which John method of torture by dripping Crete to study the remains of Murrny will have ready soon. water, exclaim:—

earlier Byzantine work and of that) A sphinx-like philosopher of the Surely it were a torment like in Cretan school of artists which in-name of Epiphanov is the hero of

kind,

fluenced not merely the Eastern Mr. Stephen Graham's new novel, If in degree less maddening, Empire but also Siena and Flor- "The Lay Confessor," which Benn the Truth." In "The Stage Door" Tytam Tuk

to sit still

ence and thus helped to found the will publish in September.

we are given accounts of the Fokfulum

Wong Noi Chung Under the leakage of this good great Italian school,

Mr. Thornton Wilder, the author careers of some notable eighteenth- man's mind,

His book is so sincere and at- of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," century actresses Jike

Nance The eternal trickle of this tractive that it will further the re- has been putting together a volume Oldfield, Peg Woffington, Mrs. Consumption of water in the City

blameless quill.

vival of interest in the Byzantines of short stories, and we may ex- Siddons, Mary Robinson,

and and H District in millions and de With subtle scorn he throws this, as well as in the. remarkable rell-pect it in the autumn.

Harriot Mellon, who married cimals of gallons during the month of daring metaphor at "a publicist gious community which has sur- An unpublished collection of Thomas Coutts; millionaire

1927 1928 and sage" whose superficialityvived the storm and stress of ages lectures by Immanuel Kant is banker and then the ninth Duke Consumption

308.83 810.22 offends him"Full of fire A.S tomato's heart." Even in his notes future under the protection of Methuen with the title "Lectures the note of his own reminiscence Consumption per head

a and is now guaranteed a safe about to be issued in English by of St. Albans. Mr. Melville makes Estimated population 412,780 428,100

on the poems his caustic Humour Greece. The book is well illus-on Ethics.”

per day quite personal, and he has a fund breaks out. "The italics are my trated both with photographs and

Constant Supply in all Rider Mein "South Africa's Fast in Stone of anecdotage to communicate, il-Districts during June, 1927 and 1923. own-if anything is a man's own with drawings. It is a volume that and Paint," a book announced by lustrated by unpublished carica- nowadays," he says.

will bear reading again and again. the Cambridge University Press, fa tures of Max Beerbohm, Harry

KOWLOON WATER WORKS written by Mr. M. C. Burkitt, who Furniss, and other artists.

LEVEL.

1927 1928 undertook a tour through South

Kowloon Reservoir.

-I I Africa and Southern Rhodesia at

Shek Lal Pal Reser the invitation of the University of

voir .....

21 78 Do.

0' 11" Storage of millions and decimala

D

A SHELTERED STATE.

When he died, Mr. Perceval

the

LADY "DIZZY.”

June.

:.

244

244

1927 1928

Mr. John Freeman has also just assembled his work ("Collected Poems," Macmillan, 8s. 6d.). Be- ing a poet who can more easily be appreciated in the book than in the Landon had just completed a book Cape Town.

Many books have been written Reception Reservoir single poem, for his still mood of on that little-known Indian king- Schoolboy "howlers" are always about Lord Beaconsfield, but Lady

of gallons. tranquillity and meditation neededom, Nepal, and now Constable an- diverting reading, and Mr. H. C. Beaconsfield is only now, apparent- to be allowed to steal graduallynounces it. Nepal is the only sur-Hunt has made a full collection ly, having one to herself. It is by Kowloon Reservoir 952.50 852.50 ever one, this volume should win vivor of the closed lands of the of them for a volume which will Mr. James Sykes, and he has Shek Lal Pui Reservoir 90.45 118.10 him many new admirers.-H. T.world, for its Maharaja

Reception Reservoir .. has de-appear from Benn in time for the gathered much material concerning in "Evening Standard,"

liberately shut himself and his opening of the after-dinner speech the lady whom "Dizzy" married,

Total.9

422.95 499.33 people off from the outside. The making season.

and who became so important a Consumption of water in Kowloon Valley of Katmandu and the ardu-

figure in his later career. She was a millions and decimala of gallons

during the month of June. ous track leading to it may have ON AND OFF THE STAGE.

not a Florence Nightingale or a Madame Pompadour, but her in-Consumption

97.98 106.12 Mr. Lewis Melville has two fluence upon the character of her Estimated population 160,650 165,700

SHORT CIRCUITS.

By Stephen Leacock. (Bodley been trodden by 200 Europeans,

Head. 7s. 6d. net.)

but even to these the rest of this

80.78

1927 1908

20.3 - 21.8

The title being what it is the great State has been unknown, books coming along with the as husband gave her a definite place Consumption par head

per day thought of sparks is a natural one. Mr. Landon was allowed by the sociated firms of Hutchinson and `ameng the notable women of the Full Supply in all districts during And the word is not inappropriate. Maharaja of Nepal to go where Jarrold. One is entitled "The long. Victorian age," Good bio-June 1927 and 1928. True enough that there are occa- he liked and to write what he lik-Stage Door" (1700-1800), and the graphies of women are land-marks, The Government Analyst's reporty. alone when the spark seems to have' ed, and the result is

a book at other consists of personal reminis and, it will be interesting to see show that the quality of the water faded to a

satisfactory. mere flicker, but not once independent and authorita cences which are presented under this one of Lady "Dizzy," which Total rainfall to June 80, 1027, 53.46 oven Mr. Leacock could be expect tive.

the whimsical title, "Anything but Benn will publish.

Juno 80, 1928, 48.29.

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