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THE ADVENTURES OF "BUNNY,"

["Chipstead of the Lone Hand" by Stoughton Ltd., London. 3/6 net.] "Horler for excitement" is a very true description of this Author's work. This particular book re lates some adventures of “Bunny" Chipstead, a man who very effec tively "dabbles" in the solving of crime, preferably working on his own, though often alded by, or alding the Police and Secret Ser- vice, DE England, France, or America.

The plot revolves round the mysterious kidnapping of the British Service Chief, Sir Robert Heddingly, (who is also incidentally the Heroine's Father) by a notorious gang of criminale headed by a mysterious personage known 35, "The Disguiser."

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M. Edouard Pelletan was well

The Man Who Knew, by Edgar | Wallace (3/5) Hodder & Stoughton. Donovan's Island, by C. H. Fowell (7/6) Hodder & Stoughton. Inspired when he put together Chipstead of the Lone Hand, by these scattered utterances of Sydney Horler (3/6) Hodder & Anatole France, and the firm of Stoughton.

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the Bodley Head did a real ser- vice both to the departed master and to the already great and fast. growing body of his English ad- mirers when it commissioned Mr. Lewis May to make this excellent To those who seek a prescrip- translation. In the country of his tion for their holiday literaturo, birth Anatole Franco has won to writes E. C. Osborns in the "Ob- something like his true place in server," I can but repeat the ad- the. hierarchy of Gallic genius. I vice of former years. If you wish His compatriots know him in his for an intellectual tonic, the equi- completeness, they have learned valent for the mind of a change of how to assimilate into one re air for the body, choose a book or cognisable personality the varying books which are quite outside your facets of a genius as multiform as customary range of reading. If it was vivid. In England and elso- you like solid, serious stuff-the where, as was naturel and inevit cold roast-beef of literature, so to able, understanding of him has apenk-procure a supply of the bean more slowly arrived at, and Many are the strange and excit light kickshaws which are purveyed is less complete. We are still too Ing adventures which befall those by the modern novelist whose sole apt to look upon him merely as a aim is to amuse or amaze you. If, dilettante, merely what Carlyle, searching for him. Chipstead, hin on the other hand, you are a con- with a most curious critical blind- self, as is often the case under stant consumer of the canned fie-ness, proclaimed Voltaire to be, a tion of to-day, why not make the master of peralflage and mockery, similar circumstances, is not only. hunting the enemy, but is being acquaintance of some of the Old an ignis fatuus, an erratic bril- Procure £ copy of liance without heat or guiding very much hunted by them, and has Masters.

even if value. We learned long ago the several very narrow escapes from "Clarissa Harlowe and, death and

a judgment capture. Through all you cannot appreciate the angelic shallowness of such remains cool-headed, though charm of the distressful heroine's of Voltaire, and came to see that often nearly forced to consider personality (she had to be killed his flippant outs and jeers and himself completely baffled by the-she could never have been happy eldritch laughter were at once the mystery, and his worry is increased save in the Seraphic Circle of vehicles and travesties of a human- by the fact that Sir Robert and he Heaven) or the author's Instinc-ity, as broad and tender as that of tive knowledge of women,. the Clarkson and Wilberforce, of a ure old pals.

ample, lucid flow of its language, moral indignation as fierce as that will put you pleasantly to sleep. of Swift and Juvenal.

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The scenes are laid in places familiar to many of us, chiefly in Bournemouth, on the South Coast of England, and also in Paris; and the Author has a good knowledge of the district of which he writes, several well-known thoroughfares and hotels being mentioned, so that one can picture the various scenes, as happening in our Time, and to people such as we might meet any

dny.

In spite of thrilling adventure, Chipstead is also the Hero of romance between himself, and Sir Roberts'e adopted daughter,. Susan who is shown in charming contrast with the ultra-modern girl. Al though Chipstead is very much occupied with his mystery solving,

despite its sub-compelling story; it It is a wondrously restful work, Championship of Dreyfus.

It would be absurd to claim is one of those "large still books" for France that he was the equal which Gladstone so greatly admir- of Voltaire in those graver

ed. The odds are that the book qualities. He could no more have| will become an obsession-as it written Voltaire's lines on the was with a valued correspondent Lisbon earthquake than he could of mine, who used to wander have written "Hamlet." There are about London long ago in Clarissa's passages in Voltaire's rehabilita footsteps, and made lists of all the tion of Calas as far beyond his churches and all the public-houses scope as the finest outpourings of mentioned in the story. If you Jeremiah and Isaiah, His interest succeed in finishing it, go on to lay mainly on the lighter side of the same author's "Famela" (a life. It is quite right to regard "real hoot," according to my him as primarily an artist and a favourite debutantel) and, when jester, and it is certainly as an that has been read, you will be at artist and a jester that he will home for ever in the real Eight be principally valued by posterity. centh Century..

Had his lot been cast in less troubled times he might have earn-

he is not quite happy till again The cure for lack of receptiv- with Susan, and as one would ity ("Lord, give us recipteovity," ed no other reputation but his expect, "as a reward for virtue,"prayed the wise preacher), in wholehearted championship of the closing page tells of their literary matters goes by contraries; Dreyfus, though expressed mainly engagement. One wonders whether homopathy only deepens the dis- through the lips of M. Bergeret, the Author will give us some more case. It is seldom, indeed, that breathed a noble and courageous of "Bunny's" adventures, or whether the lover of poetry seems to be humanity, and his letter to the he will be permitted to settle down catholic, in his tastes. Yet, I have "Figaro" on the "affaire," read by to life of married bliss: for some cured even the bigoted worshipper the cynical little schoolmaster to reasons we hope not, as we would of old Daddy Wordsworth, who be his friends under the statue of like to hear more of him.

lieved that English poetry ceased Marguerite d'Angouleme in tho This is the kind of book which with the death of his idol, by the Luxembourg garden throbs with a entertains and interests from cover timely gift of a volume of Georgian | generous admiration of the 'herolc to cover, and one does not like to verse. Most people thought it an Colonel Ploquart, and a stern con- leave it until the mystery has been incurable case. It is aslong, long tempt of the criminal elique who solved, particularly as we are kept rond, no doubt, from Tennyson to degraded in the eyes of the world guessing to the very end, as to the the three. Sitwells, who are still the army they claimed to be de- real identity of the mysterious regarded as a ravening Cerberus, fending. Such passages do not "Disguiser."

devouring all the poetic verities, stand, alone in France's "work. The style is good, and the Eng-by so many timid souls. But you It is the main value of the pre- lish excellent; these are two points can make the golden journay easily sent volume that it represents which can either make or mar even enough, if you will, and have solely the graver side of France's the best and most exciting plot. music all the way.

genius. It is composed of speeches) Most schoolboys are, ordered to addrested to audiences of different We can thoroughly recommend this book,

read some book as a holiday task social strata and of varying intel- during the long vacation, and an lectual distinction upon subjects examination paper is set on it of the moment. The glitter of when they return to the prison- wit and the sparkle of irony are house. The grown-ups would be perceptible in this volume, but, none the worse for a little dis- they are no longer its principal attributes. The spirit and essence of the book will be better express. ed by a brief excerpt from its final memory of what she was, nor page than by any laboured attempt her genius. May it and he to summarise the fifty speeches standing erect, her abrowa girt and letters of which it is compos- with the crowns of wild olive, ed. armed and clothed in justice and understanding, proud of the work of her hands, and fearful only of being outspeeded by one" or other of her sisters in the long and toilsome effort to gain the shining peaks of concord and of peace.-H. N. In "Sunday Times."

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