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THE CHINA MAIL,

THE WORLD OF BOOKS

“MAIL”. REVIEWS

NEW NOVELS

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"Macfall was born in 1880, the "only interest" in China is trade, son of Madame Sarah Grand, the¦ For at heart we do care, quite novelist, and ex-Mayoress of Bath, disinterestedly, that China should by ber marriage with the late have peace and prograss for her

sake. Lieutenant-Colonel D. Chambers own

Mr. Woo thinks ("The Six Proud Walkers, Francia Macfall. Educated at Norwich Russia is the sole nation that Beeding, (Hodder and Stough- Grammar School, he passed wants China to be strong. Ho ton 7/6)]

through Sandhurst and WAS even accuses America of ulterior Mystery and thrills in home with gazetted to the Second Battalion of motives when she baks for two young Englishmen and a young the West India Regiment, serving "Open Door." English girl in the thick of them. in Jamaica and West Africa.

Mrs. J. G. Cormack has made a Geoffrey Carrol, jealous of the at-retired with the rank of Heutenant tentions that are baing paid to his In 1892, but rejoined the Army in fascinating study of Chinese cer- fiancée, by one Blatchet, spends the the European War, acting first as emonies in har book on "Chinese day at a small village just outside captain in the Essex Regiment, and Birthday, Wedding, Funeral, and Rome, and walking back during the afterwards as major second In Other Customa." It will rejalce evening is stopped by an apparent command-of the, Sherwood Fore- the heart of the foreigner in China, madman, who says that he is one sters, Though he painted a few for now he will know the mean- of the Six Proud Walkers. Thence portraits, his work as an artist, Ing of many things hidden from onward he becomes entangled in a was mainly decorative-in con-him before, and will understand mesh of mystory together with nection with book production-and | what he must, and must not do on Diano, his fiancée and a colonel he had a pronounced interest in certain occasions, and why, Granby. They are naturally trium- the theatre. Iphant over their antagon- ists at the end, but have what can be called "a pretty thin time" be- fore that triumph is achieved.

Colonel Granby resembles In more than way the famous Bulldog Drummond created by Sapper and the arch fiend, Caramac is little inferior to Carl Peterson except that he lacks an Irma...

one

A good story written in an inter- esting manner.

["As a Thief in the Night." R. Austen Freeman (Hodder and Stoughton. 7/0.)]

This, the latest Dr. Thorndyke- mystery describes the death and avenging of one, Rupert Monkhouse. He, a confirmed invalid dies, but jowing to some suspicion on the part of his brother, the funeral is stop- ped, and an enquiry made. A quantity of arsenic is found in the body and so the case becomes an- other arsenical poison mystery.

HONG KONG HEIGHTS

Dr. Thorndyke becomes involved and in his usual manner is respon- sible for finding out the manner in which the polson was administered and by whom. The murderer does not suffer the fate of murderers but commits suicide before arrest.

THE WORLD'S VIEWS ON CHINA

"The Soul of China." By Richard Wilhelm. Translated by John Holroyd Reece. Poema by Arthur Waley. (Cape.

168.)] ["Chinese Birthday, Wedding, Fun

eral, and Other Customs." By (Luzac. Mrs. J. G. Cormack.

88. 6d.)]

["Within the Walls of Nanking." By Mrs. Alice Tisdale Hobart Proem by Mrs. Florence Ays cough. (Cape. 6s.)]

[By Lady Hosie] That the world at large is inter- ested in China may be jüdged by the fact that of the above three books recently published, one is by a German, another by an Eng- lishwoman, and a third by an American' with a preface by a Canadian. Dr. Wilhelm, the author of "The Soul of China," is professor of Chinese at Frankfurt. His book has been well translated by Mr. Reece, though there are a fow misprints in Chinese names. Like many other stories of the Dr. Wilhelm writes throughout same type it is rather uninteresting with humanity, and sympathy. Of in parts and the inquest is a long the coolie class he says he found drawn out affair and also Dr.that they were fathers, brothers, Thorndyke's clever explanations are and sons who were attached to their apt to become rather tedious.

relations who frequently earn Waddingford, secretary to Ruperted and saved money in the face of Monkhouse, is a character in the book which cannot be given any definite place in the story.

Although this cannot be discrlb- ed as Dr. Freeman's best it is cer tainly diverting and thus a good book to read.

MAJOR' HALDANE MACFALL

We much regret to learn that Major C. Haldane Macfall died at Millbank Hospital, after an opera-

tion.

His death occurred on the eve of the publication of his "Aubrey Beardsley: The Man and His

Work.'

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the greatest self-sacrifice, in order to nourish their aged parents, and they did it all cheerfully and in- nocently..

.. and showed much patience and long auffering. This discovery opened for me the road to the heart of the Chinese people."

But Dr. Wilhelm's chief in- bimacies were with the men who

stood midway between Old China and New, filled with "almost anguished hunger for all that came from the West.”. With good rea.. son he believes that the Chinese will never again assent to a monarchy. It is a footnote on current history that Liang Ch'l the reformer, whose an obituary Ch'ao, notice, the "Times" says of him, character he draws attractively, 18 "Warm-hearted enthusiastic, gen- at this moment under sentence of erous ..... Haldane Macfall had attainder by the Nationalist Go- qualities which led

journ-vernment in Nanking. The author friend to describe him, traces the growth of the spirit appreciative rather than of criticism in recent Chinese derisive intention, as the Marie philisophy and of individuallem In

In the course of

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a

Corelli of art riticism."

the new social stricture. The most charming chapter is per haps, on "The Old Men of Taing- lao," with whom he used to meet to converse and dine. He has a trenchant wit; and the story of his first ride on a Chinese horse, and his accounts of the impetuos- ities of Ku Hung Ming, the re-

His imagination, vitality, and force of expression made him a valuable agent in the popularization of art. He himself, though he produced lit tle, was a talented artist, but when all has been said about his paint- ing and writing it is as the gener ous friend of artists that he will be beat rentembered. Two artists volutionary, are very droll: He is, in particular, Mr. Frank Brang-perhapa, somewhat kinder in his wyn, R.A., and the late Claud Lovat sympathies towards the East than Fraser, owed a great deal of their the West. His thrusts at any cort reputation with the wider public of "blood and fron" policy are. to his championship. He may sturdy, and he is as severe on Ger- almost be said to have discovered. man instigators of such methods as

Lovat Fraser. To at least one

on other nationalities. He feels

are He

in common that both have lately overthrown dynasties and young, struggling republics, was besieged in Taingtao during the War; so speaking of Boxer times, his comment

critic who was a stranger to him, that China and Germany, have it Macfall wrote urging him to go to a certain studio where a young artist was producing works of genius. For with Macfall it was always all or nothing; the mân was either a genius or else he was a complete humbug.

"The Chinese at that time were brand-marked as the objects of abhorrence of the entire human race just as Germans were during the War."

But

it will also be read with lively interest by all who like to know the strange customs and the folklore of other nations: and who does not? The Chinese peasant, and many others of his nation, bellave firmly in ghosts. Their proverb runs, "A spirit is flying four inches above your head." I will just mention that the fast

chapter is headed "Spectres-and How to Deal With Them!"

of !

"City of Long Sand" Mrs. Hobart, who presented ing her "City of Long Sand" an un-" life of an American trader's house- usual and engaging picture of the hold in China, has given us now in "Within the Walls of Nanking” a moving story of her household during days of despair. I wept over it. The condition of mind of the servants, the men in the fields, the small traders, and the long- established merchents, as they saw the tides of destruction mounting round them, with the approach of the Nationalist armies ostensibly out to "save" them, shows a rare understanding of the people China Of her hand servant she writes, "Never once in the next twenty-four hours did he show fear;" and the next twenty-four hours are the climax of the book, when the catastrophe broke, and the ttle party of American re- fugees took shelter in her house on the famous Socany Hill In Nanking. The story of how her husband stood below in the hall with the American consul and joked and parried with a Chinese soldier who Into pressed a rifle at full cock his ribs for the better part of two hours, and thus saved the lives of the refugees, is a miracle of mingled wifely pride and modesty. It is a heroic book: and there is never a word save that of sympathy American business houses are for- for Chinese people. British and tunate at having ouch men agents.

"Of Macfall's published works, "The Splendid Wayfaring," pub lished in 1918, is the most import ant, not so much for the intrinsic value of its matter as because It He la not quite fair to Dr. John contained his whole philosophy R. Mott, that sane, capable of life and art--a gospel of joy Christian, who must not be held if ever there was: one. He rasponsible for all the missionary. published many other books on methods of his.compatriots. Or art-an eight-volume "History of course, the "Soul of China," of Painting," in 1910, and mono- which he writes so interestingly, Beardsley among them-but; be But he presents it in a liberal and graphs on Whistler, Boucher, and is purely the masculine soul. cause they dealt with facts and thoughtful manner; and it is. a. For the information, of visitors considered reputations they were true picture. the following list of some of the less impressive than the outpour

"China and England" highest points on the Island and

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any intelligent person, opinions contained in "The desirous of knowing the actual Splendid: `Wayfaring." Maofall'e facts, and not fallacies, I would writings were not limited to art; } recommend heartily. Professor he published at least one novel, Soothill's latest book, “China and "The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer," England” (Oxford University an elaboration of the Rubaiyať... | Press, 7a. 6d,). In it, he points. under the title of "The Three out that to a certain extent the Students”—and, In collaboration British nation haa fmself “to blame with Count Charlos de Souza, an if misunderstood. We have been

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Chinese Mirror," and whose trans- Mrs. Ayscough, whose book, “A lations of Chinese poems,

"Fir done Into French, writes the Proem Flower Tablets," have just bean

to Mrs. Hobart's story, and in It pleads for the restoration of the old system of Chinese Civil Ser-

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