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popular preacher of his day: 1 his nonsense suits their suppose ["Serutinies." By Various Writ-nonsense." It is strange to think

by a

BOOKS

A NEW ZEALAND PUBLICATION.

era. Collected by Edgell what pain human beings succeed Messrs. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd, Rickwood. (Wishart, 78. 6d.); in extracting from thoir very plen have forwarded to us a copy of "Reconsiderations." By E. E. sures. Possibly enough. Mr. the "Auckland Weekly News," Kellett. (Cambridge Univer- Lawrence's own novels will outlive which contains a number of well- sity Press. Es; Gd.).]

his rival'a; but few readers of this written and admirably illustrated pitiful plees of scurrility would not articles of interest in connection rather be its object than its zu with aport in New Zealand. The

publication, like thor.

of the most "weeklies" · from Australasia, · Is

[By F. L. Lucas.]

themselves in some cases pute. If a dozen. modern archi-

our men of letters.

its authors.

But

Anglo-Saxon poetry in lines like

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highly creditable

DEATH OF A WOMAN NOVELIST.

The first of these is a strange production. In it an attempt to dynamite the reputations of Д

It is a curious contrast to pass huge compared with the general number of living writers is made from this papery wasp's nest to run of weekly journals, and is in

number of other writers, the modest honey-comb of the in-every way

Its contents should redustrious Mr. Kellett. His is not newspaper.

all interested in a book for the noisy

world at appeal alike to

New Zealand affairs, particularly tects suddenly clubbed, together to large; he would be the last to denigrate a

those related to sport. dozen of their col claim that,

or to wish it. leagues as jerry-building vandale; those who care to listen to the or if a dozen living actors collabor-uiet talk of a man, learned with- ated to expose a dozen of their

out arrogance and enthusiastic rivals as prostitutes of their ur without fanaticism; who prefer we might wonder whether there

one curious fact to a hundred heat- The death has taken place of| were not something a little excessed pages of opinion; who do not Mrs. Arthur D. Lewis, who, as G. sive in suck zeal for the honour mind wandering from Pomfret's Gasquoine Hartley, was well known of the public taste. But it is not "Choice" to Conrad's bad gram-B A novelist and a writer on manners, apparently, that make mar, from Selden with his atrie- questions particularly affecting her tures on the Authorised Version to sex. Her father, the Rev. R. G. Denn Burgon who, like a figure Hartley, was one of the pioneer The result is not very entertain-out of Trollope, "went to his grave missionaries to Madagascar, and [Ing. It includes one piece of with the proud conviction that he his daughter was born at An- genuine criticism, by Mr. Edwin had killed the Revised" these will tananarivo in 1869. Her firet oc- Muir on Arnold Bennett; and one find a pleasant evening's entertain-cupation was teaching, and at the piece of amusing satire, by Mr.ment here. They may reckon at age of 26 she established a school Robert Graves on Kipling; the rest times a little differently from their at Eltham, which she carried on of the book will damage no one but host; some of them may admit that successfully until 1902. On relin- These persons have their appetite is more limited than quishing teaching the entered the discovered (would it be believed?) bis for the barbaric strength of profession of literature, and that Barrie is sentimental, and

eventually made her mark In art Chesterton childish, and Shaw a

Then was sorely troubled, criticism, educational psychology. puritan. Do they imagine that the

Sorely wrought the whale-mere. and the novel. only class of persons likely to rend

Wallowed there the horn-fish, Becoming interested in Spain. their books will thrill at such re-

Glode the great deep through, and seeing the need for a wider velations? And how many, per-

and the grey-backed gull exposition of its art, she wrote a sons of any class do they serious-

series of works which included Slaughter-greedy wheeled, ly suppose to read Chesterton as a

Cathedrals of Southern may suspect, that Mr. "The sage, or Shaw for his views on Kellett finds so much that is Spain," and culminated in "The morality? Where, on the other medieval in Milton. because he Record of Spanish Painting." hand, their charges are less hack-wished to find it, and raise an eye-"Things Seen in Spain" was a re- neyed and more relevant, the re-brow at his regret that Chaucer vealing analysis of that country. sult is hardly happier. Mr.

was not more like "Beowulf." But She knew Spain intimately as only Douglas Garman, for example, dis- what of that? They will be only a Bohemian traveller with misses with contempt the work of the readier to agree with the con- gifta of sympathy and insight could

Marc, because its auclusion of his closing essay on know it. thor is interested in children and "Critical Certainties"--that there Idiots (as were Blake and Words- аге поле. "A Cowley takes the worth); because he shuns reality world by storm: 庭 (like Coleridge); because he passes, and Pope asks, "Who now writes of magic without literally reads Cowley? Pape himself be [By Olive Wadsley, (Cassell. 38. believing in it (as if Keats had comes the ne plus ultra of genius,

#d. net).] believed in vampires or Shelley in and the "Essay on Man" is the Here the glamour of first love) Zeus); because (oh horrible!) he height of the sublime. Half a con- is decidedly all on one side. The uses inversions; and because, liko tury after his death it is seriously novel deals primarily with the sil- almost every poet from Homer on- debated whether he is a poot at ence of Lila at a time when a man's wards, he employs archaiams, all Byron's Cain,' said Scott in fate depends upon her. "If Robin "which inevitably destroy the 1821, "certainly matches Milton on hangs," one of the characters tells virility of a language" (witness his own ground; in 1860 people her, "it'll be you who will tighten the effeminacy of Aeschyllus and did not stop to consider such a the rope!" But Lila has accepted Milton!). Finally, in his descrip- judgment; they smiled at it and as her life motto that old challenge tions, the different facets do not passed on. Edgar Allen Poe ex- to the insults of destiny, "Notre conspire together to give solidity pressed the deliberate opinion that peau avant tout." She is a study because they are not chosen to Tennyson was the greatest poet-in this author's best. manner of satisfy a fundamental sensuous that ever lived; where is Tonnyson experienced vivacity of selfishness need, but are selected for their now?" 18 there then nothing cer-raised to the nth power. Still, derivative or face-value." Clearly, tain? No, a few things. We can she gets her deserts so far as de- Mr. de la Mare cannot do right see now that Pope is ut all events tion can reasonably supply them. thus it was that the wolf dealt not negligible; we can see also Without any serious effort in the with the lamb, except that the that we owe our few critical cor- wolf had a rather more lucid com- tainties not to critics, but to Time mand of language than Mr. and the common reader. Garman. For the real crime is

Walter de

They

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generation

that Mr. de la Mare belongs to an All this has been said before, earlier generation, and Mr. Garman doubtless; but never did it more to les jeunes (who 'And, by the need saying. Religious fanaticism way, some rather middle-aged re-is dead; but in its place art, once presentatives in this book); adapt a verse of his victim's:

Very old are the young.

Ah, no man knows Through what wild centuries

Goes back the pose.

"FIRST LOVE.”

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direction of the more exact realism Miss Wadsley has dealt faithfully with Lila, and has certainly pro- duced a novel that should appeal to her large public.

FANTASY.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

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paintor

|42-What is a receptacle 6-What is the

for keeping coffee

principal river of Alaska?

-A tres

10-A musica!

Instrument

11-What Amarican

philanthropist founded a university at Ithaca, N. Y. 13-Jovial

13-A blow

16-A girl's nama ·

19-No (Seat) 19-Killed

21-The Greek long E 22-What noted

watering place is In 8. W. Prússla 23-To admit to be true] 26-A river of N. Italy 27-To trample

29-To pucker 32-Note of the scale 33-Earlier than

- 34-Tip:

26-A characteristic appearance

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family name of the first English child born in the New Wya

hot called?

49-To divida

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46-What anolent

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Fooma on one floor? 12-A inophole 14-Mechanical

gentrivance for - Palsing water 17-Natty

country was on the 20-Heavy affilction

Persian Gulf!

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(western. U. 8.)

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children's Saint?

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impressionistic painter

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portrait-painter

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truth

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fuld (pl)

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difficulty

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S. W. Arizona

mentioned in "Aa You Like It"!

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edlar year over the twaive lunar monthe

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mental means of attack 48-n-constellation

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

FRENCH STORY-TELLER.

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STAGEY,

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It is not often that we find the classics of another tongue translat- ed by an acknowledged master of our own. This thing has come to pass in the case of five tales from Gautier, which are very beautiful- ly translated by no less a writer than Lafcadio Hearn.

These tales are all touched with fantasy, a quality in which Gautler excelled, and which was #good deal the fashion in his day. Such a tale as "La Morte Amoureuse," with its demonism and Its Intense atmosphere of horror or "Le Pied, de Momle," with its humour, sre akin in the art of good story-tell- ing. A feature which will excite admiration, too, is the convincing picture, based, no doubt, upon re- search, that the author shows of the life of the ancients.

"Tales from Gautier," with a pre- face by George Saintsbury. London, Nash and Grayson.]

DETECTION BY GUESSWORK.

That marvellous scientifle rub;

To the child of religion, tends to be Read the old story of Cinderella erected into a religion in its turn, in a new form. This time the with a anered college of critics as little girl is found in a London peevish and as pompous as any boarding-house, and an old profes- All the stage properties of the priesthood of the past, as full of sor, in the part of fairy godmother, conventional mystery play are used Mr. Scott's novel. windy mystifications, as ready to takes her to Nice, where she meets over again in excommunicate those of a differ-Prince Charming, a gilded youth, His great detective Disher is an

of

person. But the most peculiar thing of ent persuasion, and to damn in who has crashed to the position of unconvincing

There is There seems to be no valid reason all about this collection is neither perpetuity those who doubt the check-clerk in a hotel. its general idea nor its general divinity of their calling. They good comedy in the book, but it is for him coming into the yarn`at lack of ideas, but the tone of fury would write none the worse criti-aadly marred by incongruities. all, but for that matter the reason which pervades it. This frenzy cism, most of them, if they had For instance, Cindera in the begin might be good enough, as all too reaches its climax in Mr. D. H. the honesty to smile like Cicero's ning le a well-drawn Cockney much is left to the reader's Ima- berneck Galt appears in Mr. Lawrence's criticism of Mr. augurs when they passed one an-skivvy; yet in a few chapters we gination. For instance, one man. Gollomb's new book, "The Portrait Galsworthy, whose love scenes are other in the street. Yet I have find her putting on a new manner apparently strangles another and Invisible." He is a detective of a compared to the behaviour of known a professional critic to be of speech with her new, fashion conceals the body behind a secret new type. His method le simple "dogs on the heat" with a great as enraged at the suggestion that able clothes, and before the brief panel; then the strangler in found enough-he merely sita in a room deal of veterinary detail, which his business was, after all, to be action is over she talks like one unconscious on the carpet, and the once occupied by the suspect, reads readers of Mr. Lawrence's other amusing, as a professional foot of the elect. A very wonderful strangled one is found shot on the a book, looks at the decorations, works had best supply from their ball-player at the idea that what, transition, but hardly fair to the road quite a distance away, and his and forms a mental plcture of the pal, who has been the man who lay person responsible for it all. A THE HONG KONG OPTICAL CO. imaginations, for it is certainly un- he played was after all only a cockney skivvy.

quotable. And why these amen- gume; to hear some people one "Cinders." By Fred Wright and unconscious on the carpet shoots good definition for this method ities?

the man whom he had strangled at would be "detection by guesswork," Because a certain writer would think that the Last Judg- Margot Folliott.]

a place far from the scene of the and judging from many efforts having set out to express himself ment was to be conducted by

strangling, steals to the house in under old systems, it is as good a and give the world a certain plea- literary experts and that cup-ties sure, has, monstrous to relate, were played for the Holy Grail. largely a comedy of errors; that search of revenge-but why try to method as any. Galt wins, of succeeded; down with the enemy It is ironic that an age of acep- their profession has done little de- untangle it? After all, it is hard-course, but the reader is kept The characters of the of society! And yet... was it felam should fall into this sacer- monstrable good to Hterature, and ly worth while knowing how the guessing.

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