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"The Flutes of Shanghal." By Louise Jordan Milne. Hodder and Stoughton.]

their gentle poverty instead of gat THE SWORD OF STATE ting out and "bringing home the dough." No doubt, among the older generation there are still many women who prefer to sit at home in

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WELLINGTON AFTER WATERLOO

[By Susan Buchan] „A study of the later years of the

Duke of Wellington, by his great-

their "ladylike atmosphere” rather than buck the world and make An honest living that will bring in three squares a day. Thank good- A very unreal story of life in ness those days for women have Shanghai, showing the author to be almost passed! When Mrs. Bryce great niece, Mrs. John Buchan, utterly ignorant of English people accidentally discovers the

which Hodder & Stoughton will and their ways. A book likely to which her husband had stolen, and The Sword of State," goes back to publish shortly under the title of mislead the reader in fordign coun- cached away, and when her social childhood recollections for its in- tries who knows nothing of the ambitiens are thereby given now spiration: memories of hours spent East. it misrepresents Shanghai life, there's a fine bunch of trouble with her grandmother, who told her society to such an extent that it is for all concerned except the lady about her great-great uncle, the only the frequent repetition of local names of hotels etc., which reminds herself, and she thereby lands man who beat Boney," but telling one where, the plot is laid. It is

almost all her family in the "clink" her, not of his military conquests unlike any of the previous work of

as receivers of stolen property. The or of the great place he held in the Mrs. Milne, who has, written some story ends well however, as all good world, but of the kindest of uncies excellent books, one of which, and and fascinating stories must do, and and of his goodness to her children.t perhaps the best known, i "In a the climax brings in not a few So it is not surprising that Mrs. Shantung Garden." This lateat thrills and unexpected situations. I Buchan in her turn should have in- story is as unilke that beautifull recommend this book because of its herited a lamp of understanding, tale as it is possible for two books distinctly human and readable quall- and sympathy, which, casting its by the same author to be. Is not ties.

beams on his troubled later life, the reference to Hing Mee-Yin's

reveals 'much of the real nature of the man which larger searchlights "apricot" skin a trifle absurd?

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Anyone who has lived among the "The Murmansk Venture," by!

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Mayer-General Sir Maynard.]

Charles;

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Chinese for a number of years knows that the

do nat have "apricot" skin. Chinese have! much nicer and better cared for

An account of the Murmansk The success Sydney Horler has skin than most of the European Expedition, written by its Com achieved with his startlingly excit women who come out East. An-mander-in-Chief, Major-General Sir ing novela has drawn to him the other absurdity is the manner in Charles Maynard; is to be published attention of theatrical managers. which "the Flutes" travelled. The immediately by Hodder and He has recently received offers to robes and the palanquin described Stoughton, under the title of "The write two plays, and it is possible jare not the likely equipage of Murmansk Venture." It is no mere he will do these when time permits. Chinese flute players who would military treatise, and will claim A drama of swift action, as apart have very little money and in any the interest of the general reader from the ordinary and common- case would need every cent they and of the sceker after adventure, place "crook" play with which the had in their hard fight for exist- quite as much as that of the student stage has recently been littered, is once for in the modern China there of war. It is the story of a cam- always sure of a success if com- for the wandering paign that was in many ways petently done. Popular novelists and that necessitated often receive peculiar requests. For a badly written unique not represent the makeshifts undreamt of by the instance, Mr. Sydney Horler re- Chinese truthfully or lay enough barrack-square soldier. Ita scone cently found on his breakfast table stress on their many beautiful cus-}

is lald within the Arctic Circle; then letter from the Governor of a big, toms and manners as such a book nine nationalities, and the author wished for permission to translate The writer fighting forces included units of prison in Holland. should. To one who knows and shows how the nondescript force one of Mr. Horler's books, which he loves China it will

collected in North Russia played a intended to read to his "patients.”. ridiculous. The book may be had part in the ultimate overthrow of As. Horler deals in crime

of a at Kally and Walsh's.

the Central Powers out of all pro- sensational type, the listeners · were portion to its meagre strength. probably made to feel quite at

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