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AT MONTE CARLO..

vincing and the translators, Edgar to any scheme for transfer to and Codar Paul, are to be com- their empty acres of the popula») plimented on their performance. tion which must be secured if the The rest of the book may Inter opportunity is to be exploited. It ast many but it will convince few. la a form of moral obligation upon to accommodate- In ["Sisters in Name," by Gwen A. D. This is not surprising for it is the Australians

work of a Jew who le writing their great country every suitable Ashwell, (Arthur H. Stock-

about a person in whose divinity Briton desirous of settling there. well, Ltd London).]

he does not believe, and for people Events of the next few years must This is story of 39 pages deal-who regard the subject of his pen convince those who govern Aus- ing almost entirely with Hong as the Son of God. The result is tralia that if the position in the Kong life. It gives an outsider a that one gets the impression that Pacific is to be maintained, plans very vivid idea of the shallowness all the time he was writing this more far-reaching than the exist of life In this Colony, and the book, which has probably brought ing ones must be formulated."

Those pregnant sentences ara Home conditions under which some its author much money, Horr of the snobs have lived before ar- Ludwig's tongue was in his cheek. typical of most of this bold and It is a volume riving in Hong Kong. Undoubted- When he comes across any diffi- Interesting book.

by mer- ly, this Colony must seem a verlt-culty such as, the miracles he that should be studied able paradise to such classes of avoids it. The story of the wed- chants and those interested in people. The yarn lacks any sem-ding wine at Cana la explained as Pacifle problems. blance of a plot, in fact it is a plece of hypnotism. through a fidently recommend it. puerile in style and reminds, one wall-the water was not really of a five cent weekly story of love changed into wine: the people only such as

The defection is read eagerly by the thought so.

who doubts younger generation of girls. The Judas, the financier author has evidently lived in Hong the sanity of his master, Is clover- the cruci- Kong, but your reviewer would not ly portrayed whereas imagine that she has lived there fixion and the subsequent disap- long. Her romanized Cantonese pearance of the Body are weakly expressions might he more exact. represented.

The story opens by introducing The book might be described as the Hero, Dennis Reay, a journal To be classed with other cheap stories of the "Magical Perfume an up-to-date Jesus romance with ist from Fleet-street, on holiday of the East" "The Mystical East" no theology' or 'diacordant note of at Monte Carlo, where he looked etc. class which will probably be doubt, written for novel readers upon life and those around him swallowed wholesale with gaping who do not care for heavy stuff with a somewhat cynical mouths by the romantic maiden at and suitable for kinematic repro-pect.

duction. If the reader wants a Home,"

He encounters adventure at the life of Jesus backed by weight of Casino, and in the second ard scholarship, reasonable feeling for third chapters meets the other critical problems, and refined main characters of the story. gravity of critical survey he had Exeltements and mysteries fol- batter stick to Renan: if he de-low one another, but Reay is re sires a copious scientific and his called suddenly to Fleet-street, toriographical though somewhat and according to his own idea, to dryasdust study he can wade work and forgetfulness. through Warschauer, Klausner and Buetmann.

BRIGHTLY SAID.

"Premature Epitaphs" by Kensal Green. (Cecil Palmer, Lon- don).]

very snappy little One of n series of books, including "Man ARE

Are- Pigs," "Women

д (for "Cockadoodledont"

Tittle (girl), etc. Bright, "readable" reading just the thing to slip in the pocket for reading on tram or ferry, "Premature Epitaphs" be gins with Lady Astor, of whom it is written "Here England' buries her grudge against Columbus." Lord Balfour, Lord Beaverbrook. Mr. Baldwin, The Bishop of Lon- don, Charlie Chaplin, Henry Ford, President Coolidge, Pussyfoot Johnson and Lord Dewar are but a few whose epitaphs have been skilfully prepared by the author, who completes the book with his own "Konsal Green, his skin to save. Here takes refuge in his grave." If you like to laugh, read

this.

"SAPPER" IN FORM.

"The Female of the Spec" by "Sapper" (H. C. McNeile). (Hodder,and Stoughton, Lon- don).]

the male.

beat. Enough said.

-STRATIICONA.

Herr Ludwig's "pot-boiler" reads easily (the translation seems to have been well done) and the book is enhanced by the reproduction of eight excellent etchings Rembrandt.

THE PACIFIC: A FORECAST.

("Full Passionate Mood," by Nollie

Tom Gallon, The Savoy! Library, The Diamond Press, Ltd., London. 3/6, nett.]

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The story quickly returns to ex- citement and mystery, for though the title does not suggest it, this! is essentially a mystery story.

All the characters Reny met at Monte Carlo are in turn brought by into the scene. and one is puzzi-! ed as to whether they play a sinister. or passive part in the story which follows.

By P. T. Etherton and H. H. Tillmann (Ernest Benn, Ltd.) 12/6.3

Reay, himself, regards Christine Etheridge, the heroine, as an ad. venturess who has infatuated his wealthy and elderly cousin, and warns him against her, and the climax of the plot occurs when In this most fascinating and Reay's cousin is found shot dead, The closing chapters deal with "meaty" volume Colonel Etherton and Mr. Tiltman endeavour to the straightening up of the mys examine the Pacific world in all tery, the proving of the murder its bearings in a spirit of impar- to be an accident, and the open- tiality free from sentiment anding of the hero's eyes, so that he bias, and to turn the searchlight realises his love for Christine. of investigation on to its many We are led to presume that' problems. Not the least of these "they live happily ever after," but are the future of China with its the, other characters are disposed vaat storehouse of unexplored raw of rather too conveniently to be materials, and the adjustment of interesting, though one realises clashing interests in the develop that they all play their part in the ment of this, the largest undeve-plot successfully, loped market in the world.

This book is very light reading,Į

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Three hundred and twelve pages In chapter one an interesting and holds ones interest, being erammed full of excitement. Bull survey of the history of the Paci- suficiently a mystery story with-

having dog Drummond at his best, and his fic since the appearance there of out

too-involved coolest, humming the Froth Blow Magellan is given. This is follow- plot, ao cun be recommended to ers Anthem and quietly quaffing his ed by a very clear account of the those to whom this type of litera- very necessary beer whilst right rise of Japan to a first class power ture appeals. under his nose his enemies are and her relations with Britain and seeking his life and have kidnap America. The writers have some! ped his wife. Carl Peterson was interesting, daring, and trechant] THE GRAECO-ROMAN LEGACY. dead and the account between him things to say about Australia's and Bulldog Drummond appeared empty spaces. and Japan's dense We are apt to speak of civilisa- settled out but an important factor population, and make the daring tons of Greece and Rome. as wae missing from the balance prediction that Canberra may one though they differed from our own. sheet-Irma Petersen's lovely day be the capital of the British While it is true that their empires mistress and helpmate! Irma's de Empire. The Singapore Naval crumbled into dust, yet their civili- sire for vengeance bordered on Base is discussed the friction be-astion was the foundation of the of Europe. present civilisation madness and her, wits were sharp, tween America and Japan is ex- but no -crude methods would plained, the future industrialisa- Upon their art and science, and letters: and philosophy, were satisfy her. A treasure hunt with tion of China is envianged, and o

This volume pur- founded ours. wife Phyllis, the

of Bulldog realistic description of an imagin- Drummond as the treasure that ary war between Japan and the porta to show in a simple manner, was her campaign. When Bulldog U.S.A. ja cleverly portrayed, the Graeco-Roman legacy to Euro- Drummond and Irma met then in Every now and then the authors, paan thought and organisation, and deed did he realize that the female who seem to have consulted a at the same time, to present a of the specias le more deadly than great number of standard books short history of these two empires The final scene holds on various subjects, branch off of antiquity. It is a book which one breathless. One of Sapper's into descriptions of modern air may be commended to students of planes, searchlights, how chemists history, as it gives a finer idea of are working to get oil from coal social and cultural tendencies in otc. They even give a short ac the old Mediterranean civilisation count of the Bounty mutiny., The than most of the smaller histories. result is that the book is as in- It is profusely illustrated; and has triguing as any romance, and if 14 maps, which help to elucidate the reader does not agree with the changing boundaries. some of the daring conjectures and The Story of Greece and Rome," by JC. Robertson, M.A., and This is an age of Biography, forecasts, that only makes the

Vic- H. G. Robertson, Ph.D. and right in the forefront or volume more thought provoking.

toria College, University of rather the limelight of those who Some of the excerpts are arrest-

Toronto. London, Dent.] are loading. library shelves withing: thus after touring Australia "lives of great men" is the Ger- in 1914 the. Chinese Consul de- man Jew, Herr Ludwig. He might clared: "I saw more trees than be described as the Edgar Wallace men. The Almighty gave Austra- of biographers. Herr Emil Ludwig lia to the Australians, and they having rapidly (and no doubt could not use it, so he took it (profitably) portrayed Bismark, away from them, and gave it to If the English do the English. Napoleon, and the ex-Kaiser now chooses what he calls his greatest not use .It He will doubtless take subject. The result can scarcely it away from them." In a discus- Aus- be cailed a great book. It is des- sion as to whether cribed as the story of Jesus the train can remain "White" with man. This latest Jesus book is so many Japanese and Chin- FROM GLOOM TO SUNSHINE.

16oking at her empty. A woman may not be beautiful, HONG-KONG-HEIGHTS not-a-learned-disquisition, for the ene

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YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION:

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